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This is a Clippers follow first basketball. The game is over if you're gonna

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get clippered down and no one but
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This is Clippers Talk with your host

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This is what they have been building
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Now, your host Adam Oslin,
them there nuggets ain't no fool's gold

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and the Clippers lose game two,
one eleven to one oh one. Welcome

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into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin. Eight seven seven five two zero eleven

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eleven fifty is the phone number, or

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This was a frustrating game, to
say the least, I'm sure for

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Clipper Nation because they had an opportunity
to steal a game when they had no

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business even being back in it.
Once they were down by as many as

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twenty one in that first quarter.
The Clippers were down by nineteen headed into

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the second. The problem was they
dug themselves too deep of a hole to

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climb out of, and it takes
too much energy to get back into a

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game and have that sustained run,
and they couldn't find it. We thought,

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down five with eight thirty six left
in the fourth quarter, the Clippers

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were going to do what they do
best and have another Clippers come back,

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but they just couldn't put it together
on both sides of the basketball at the

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same time. They couldn't have one
complete quarter. Were in the first quarter,

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it was their defense that was atrocious, giving up forty four points.

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The second they were better offensively,
you could say, and defensively, holding

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Denver to just twenty eight. And
then in that third quarter, this is

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where they really could have taken control
of the game, but they didn't take

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advantage of how good they played defensively, holding Denver to just seventeen points,

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but they only scored twenty one Offensively. They couldn't get into gear. If

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it wasn't one thing going wrong,
it was another for them. They couldn't

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get their offense and their defense on
the same page for enough time. In

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that second quarter two, when they
were down by as many as twenty three,

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Denver went four minutes scoreless. Clippers
had it to within eleven, but

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then Denver extended the lead back up
to sixteen before the first half was over,

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and then just down five with about
eight minutes left in the fourth quarter.

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Well two minutes later, Denver's hot
shooting and Gary Harris's hot night from

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beyond the arc that kind of put
the Clippers away. He hit three three

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pointers in the fourth quarter of the
game and hit big ones because when the

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Clippers were down just five, then
all of a sudden he hit a couple

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of three pointers. Nikola Yokich hit
a ridiculous shot, I think his only

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make of the second half, but
they would still hold on thanks to the

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long ball. It started in that
first quarter. Denver was seven of eleven

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from distance, ridiculous, But I
mentioned Gary Harris there, going four of

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seven. He was two for eleven
in the four games or three games he

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had played in previously so far in
the postseason for the Denver Nuggets, and

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he goes four of seven tonight.
They stifled every run the Clippers made.

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They had momentum repellent they just figured
out a way to hit a big shot

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to stop the Clippers momentum over and
over again. And the Clippers didn't do

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themselves any favors. When you have
seventeen turnovers, twelve of those came in

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the first half. They weren't taking
care of the basketball well enough. They

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were careless on offense, and they
were leaving guys open on defense in the

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first half. First half, it
was defense. Second half, they didn't

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have enough offensively, and Kawhi Leonard
finally struggled in a playoff game. Hadn't

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happened yet. Remember, he had
scored twenty nine or more and seven straight

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games to start off this playoff run. Only Michael Jordan back in the eighty

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seven eighty eight season had done such
a ridiculous thing on offense before. But

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Kawhi tonight four of seventeen thirteen points
couldn't get it going. And this is

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unusual. And I expect a huge
bounce back game from him, because that's

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that's who he is and that's what
he does. That won't be an issue.

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But we were looking for someone else
to step up, as he has

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carried this team so much during the
season and obviously during the playoffs, averaging

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over thirty points per games shooting.
I think it was fifty six percent coming

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into this one in the first seven
games in the playoffs. Else had to

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pick up the slack, but too
many other guys were cold, and when

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you combine the turnovers with the free
throw shooting where they were twenty of twenty

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nine, it's just one of those
nights they couldn't get it going. Paul

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George was pretty good. He had
twenty two points, probably needed thirty plus

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to pull off this victory, but
he did have those big five points early

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in the fourth quarter to bring it
within five. Had fourteen points in the

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first half, had eight points in
the second half. Patrick Beverly though,

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oho of one from distance, and
this was another unsightly part of the box

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score to look at for the Clippers, nine of thirty two from three in

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the first half. They were five
or thirteen. They were okay, but

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nobody was getting hot from beyond the
yark. I was wondering, as Landry

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Shammitt gonna be that guy to step
up right now and you know, go

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crazy radioactive. We've seen it so
many times before. Sweet Low Williams had

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his moments, but he was only
all of six or he was z of

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six from three thirteen points total.
He had a little bit of momentum going

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with five points near the end of
the third quarter, but time and time

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again, Denver would hit a big
shot when they needed it, and the

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degree of difficulty and some of the
shots they were able to make, especially

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from Nikola Yokitch and of course Jamal
Murray, but yokis with a Visa Zubots

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draped all over him. He hit
this ridiculous rainbow shot in the third quarter

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where he's only ten feet away from
the basket and he's throwing it up ten

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feet in the air to get there. The ark on his shot is Dirk

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Nevinsky esque, but from within fifteen
feet. But that's what he does,

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and that's what he had to do. Big Zoo was playing good defense for

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the most part, but great offense
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was one of the positives in this
game. He had fifteen points, was

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six of eight from thee and the
Clippers were really looking for him. Early

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in the third quarter. He was
the only one getting buckets. He had

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almost half their points. Midway through
the third they were running the offense through

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big Zoo. We don't normally see
that, but I didn't mind it.

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The problem was they couldn't get hot
enough, and every time they made that

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run, Denver was too good.
Gary Harris hitting big shots. I mean

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Jamal Murray and Nikola Yokis in Game
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In the first quarter of Game two, they had twenty six points combined

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at the half. I believe Jamal
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four, which means they only combined
for ten points the rest of the game.

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And they still did enough offensively to
hold the Clippers back, who really

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shot the ball poorly in the second
half. They just couldn't get that complete

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game put together. It was It
was frustrating to watch at times, I'm

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sure as a viewer, and you
could see the frustration from Kawhi Leonard.

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It was an abnormal night shooting wise
for the Clippers. They had some shots,

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they had some opportunities to get right
back into the game and put together

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one solid run for ten minutes,
and that's all it would have taken to

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steal this game. Two eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty. Eight

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seven seven five two zero eleven fifty
is the phone number. Clippers lose one

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eleven to one oh one to the
Denver Nuggets. We'll get to your phone

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calls coming up. You'll hear from
Doc Rivers post game as well. This

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series is tied up at a game
apiece. The Clippers had plenty of chances,

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plenty of opportunities. They just never
really gotten sync enough offensively in the

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second half. And credit the Denver
Nuggets for holding on and really responding to

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every run the Clippers made and responding
after a really bad performance in Game one,

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Mike Malone had them focused. They
put up forty four points in that

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first quarter. That can't happen.
The Clippers can't start that slow against a

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team that good. All right,
coming up, more Clipper Stock postgame audio

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and your phone calls at eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty. Clippers

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lose by ten in Game two.
You're listening to Clippers Stock on the Patriot

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AM eleven fifty. I'm ata Moslin
will be back after this. I'll reminisce

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s for U spell the chell I
say, you think back in twenty two

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of me? Is it going to
keep it or attractive listening to Clippers Stock

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here on the Patriot Am eleven fifty
after they lose one eleven to one on

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one in Game two to the Denver
Nuggets. A series is tied up at

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a game apiece. Game three is
Monday night coming up. We'll talk to

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tomair Azari from Clutch Points and you'll
hear from Doc Rivers this segment. But

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let's go to Morris in Long Beach. Morris, what's up here on Clippers

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stock? Give me some positivity.
It was gone and that have done that.

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Don't get mad at me, But
I really did look for no sweeps.

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Okay, I mean I am entertained
to the max, and no two

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games ain't no two games gonna be
like. And I'll tell you I would

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not want to be guarded in Kwaiet
Leonard. Game three have to you know,

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the way the things went today,
we're gonna have to give a Adam.

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We're gonna have to give Denver some
credit. That first quarter was off

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the hook, but they had a
perfect storm tonight going for him. They

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being Denver missing the easy ones around
the rim. You saw it at forty

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four points on the board. Then
the Clippers get into the third quarters,

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seventeen did Denver score, right,
So that shows you what's in these guys.

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So again, I know everybody wants
to just get it over with,

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but I mean, I'm just entertained
to the max and every game is different,

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and I'm gonna tell you this,
and I'm gonna let you go.

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The Denver will lose back to back
games before the Clippers will. Okay,

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thanks, I like that nice prediction
there, Morris, a positive spin.

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But you're right, it's still the
playoffs and you're taking on an opponent this

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good that came back down three one
to the Utah Jazz. Give them credit.

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They were on fire and the law
of averages was on their side after

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what happened in Game one, where
they were miserable from the field and especially

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from three. And I'm expecting the
same thing to happen for the Clippers in

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game three because after starting five for
thirteen from distance in the first half thirty

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eight percent, they went four of
nineteen from three in the second half.

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They could not get shots to fall
when they needed them most. They cannot

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string enough buckets together to take the
lead, and Denver led this one wire

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to wire. Noah Eagle brought up
a great point. It was reminiscent of

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Game two against the Dallas Mavericks.
That series was tied up at one one.

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Clippers came back in won Game three. Paul George, I do want

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to talk about him for a little
bit, because he started this one oh

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for five, finished seven for nineteen, so would hit seven of his next

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fourteen shots, would go fifty percent
the rest of the way, four of

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ten from distance. What was interesting
was he was oh for four in all

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four misses in the first quarter right
away, where within five feet of the

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rim three feet of the rim he
was missing easy. Once his first make

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was from distance, and then he
would make a couple more. He got

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going with the three ball and had
five points early in the fourth quarter that

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were critical to get the Clippers in
a position where they could start to believe

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they could overcome being down twenty three
points at most in this game. That

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was in the second quarter. They
had a chance. They really did,

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and PG thirteen was a big part
of that. He had twenty two points.

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But Kawhi Leonard also with what Morrish
just said, Yeah, I would

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not want to be guarding the claw
batman to Nikola Yokich's joker in Game three.

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You just know he's gonna have a
huge bounce back. You're not averaging

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over thirty points, ten boards,
and five assists through seven games of the

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playoffs for no reason. He's been
really the most consistent player. They call

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him mister Reliable. It's what Paul
George says all the time post game.

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He's ridiculously consistent and makes tough shots, and he was frustrated, and you

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can even see it defensively. Jamal
Murray hit a shot in the fourth quarter

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where Kawhi was on him. It
was good defense. Jamal Murray step back.

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He's that good. You knew he
and Nikolayokits were gonna bounce back and

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have better performances. Doc Rivers said
it pregame with Noah Eagle. They knew

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this was coming. But the onslot
that happened in that first quarter with forty

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four points being scored by Denver,
Oh, that was a little much,

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all right. Speaking of Doc Rivers, let's hear from him post game after

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the Clippers lose Game two one eleven
to one on one, Doc, you

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guys won basically three the final three
quarters, but they really hit you guys

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in the mouth, and that first
quarter, why was it so hard to

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counter that? Well, we did
kind of comerad, but I honestly,

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I thought they just played more aggressive. They got it into us the entire

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game. I thought, offensively,
we just refused to move the ball and

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make simple plays as as beautiful as
we moved the ball in game one,

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we were the exact opposite in Game
two. So the first quarter was defense.

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The next three quarters is a bad
offense. Next rue to Dan,

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Doc, there was Yokich from three
made four. You guys were a little

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slow to contest. Yeah, on
the first one, on the first three,

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Yeah, how critical was that?
I think it seemed like the Rim

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just kept looking bigger and bigger than
them, especially earlier it should have when

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Yokich had like thirty seconds the shoot
tooks first three three. So I mean,

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he's he's a good player to begin
with. We'll we gift him nine

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points. Uh, he's just gonna
get more confident. I thought, you

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know, Murray was dominant, and
I thought Yogi was just as dominant in

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the first quarter, own and go
ahead, Doc, who was the biggest

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adjustment Denver did to kind of keep
Kauai from getting to his spots and just

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basically showing him resistance every time he
was inside. I thought they just switched

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a lot and you know that's it. They stayed in front of the ball.

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I thought our spacing could have been
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downhill attacks, which I thought hurners
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may the telecast showed you talking about
the ball popping at halftime. Is that

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a symbolism for teamwork or being crisp
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teamwork for sure. And you know
what happens though, Each guy comes

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in and he thinks he's gonna win
the game for you, and what happens

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is it becomes an individual game.
And you know, we had seventeen turnovers

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and twenty assists. The seventeen turnover
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I just wanted to get your thoughts
on kind of a Knights to Night kind

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of when the bench didn't really get
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they do. How how much does
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struggles as well as kind of with
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well I thought the starters put themselves
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starters are one just got us down. We look at the plus minus.

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Our starters are minus sixteen nineteen eighteen. So the bench came in in a

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tough game when they walked in.
Sometimes the starters have to set the table,

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and that didn't happen tonight. Next
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Doc, Jamaicael had a you know, a pretty impactful twenty six minutes

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tonight. There were some times when
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starting four and they limited really what
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a reaction to putting pressure on Yo
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Yeah, we just put him out
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was very good at the five.
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the only one that showed Yoki jinny
physicality. Everybody else Yokis got whatever he

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then on the other end he stretches
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well. And we'll go back to
Dan back to in terms of defending Yoki,

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is that going to be something obviously
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Is that gonna be something that you
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bunch of different ways. Yeah,
he's a great player. I mean great

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players are great because they're very difficult
to defend. And so he's definitely too

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smart to give one look, that's
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we have for right now. Doc. There was Doc Rivers post game after

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the Clippers fall one eleven to one
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Nuggets. Coming up next, we'll
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and I don't want to hear from
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old takes exposed because I say,
Kawhi Leonard is ninety six m day he

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has one bad game. Oh yeah, Mjay didn't have any of those.

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and ninety three in the Eastern Conference
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not go down two games to Ozho, the Bulls could still win, and

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they did because they didn't. I
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everything. It's also a big boy
three point line now, not like it

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was for three years in the nineties
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eleven to one oh one. More
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the Patriot Amlem fifty. Your LA
Clippers lose Game two by a score of

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one eleven to one oh one to
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back to your phone calls at eight
seven, seven, five, two zero

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eleven fifty. But I do want
to bring in my friend Tomair Azarli who

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covers the Clippers for clutch points.
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y Tomair. Was this one of those

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situations where the Clippers, and this
does have people don't want to believe it,

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but you can lose a game in
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that's kind of what happens tonight.
Yeah, I mean, and I was

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asking my question for for doc PG
and CAWI just want to know why was

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it so hard to counter the Nuggets
run. I mean, you had to

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know that they were gonna, you
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mouth start the game, and that's
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I think that's scorned by eighteen nineteen
points in that first quarter, and from

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there it was just really hard.
You know, the Clippers did a great

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job defensively the rest of the way, but you know, scoring was was

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stuck in that first quarter and basically
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I thought, I thought the Clippers
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know, they had a couple of
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allowed Nicole yoke As Jamal Merge just
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and around the rim, and you
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haven't been fatigued, that's exactly what
you need. You just need to see

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the ball going the hoop, and
that really ignited them from there. It's

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tilmaa azarely joining me here on Clippers
stock after the Clipper lose Game two and

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this series is tied up at a
game apiece against the Denver Nuggets Tolmara without

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Kawhi Leonard playing well for once,
it happens four or seventeen, just thirteen

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points, still had ten boards and
eight assists. But were you looking for

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more from somebody else to step up
and pick him up as he has done

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so many times before? And who
would that guy have been? I don't

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know if they can be just one
guy. I mean, Marcus Moore struggled

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for most of the game. He
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with a couple of three pointers late. Yeah, he didn't hit a shot

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till the fourth quarter. It didn't
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Denver did a great job with you
know, collapsing whenever Kawhi Leonard drove into

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the paint, you know, making
you know, throwing two three guys around

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him, making it really hard to
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the painted area of the non restricted
area of the paint is where he's been

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dominating. And they thrown multiple looks
at him. They doubled linked, they

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doubled him. So I thought they
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honestly, I thought, you know, Montres Harroll could have had a

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better offensive game. I don't think
he got as many calls and as when

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he looks as he wanted. Lou
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but six or sixteen from the field, oh six from three though, those

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those were a couple of backbreakers.
I know, when the Clippers got it

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to about five or seven, he
took a three and that kind of missed

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and the Nats scored on the other
end. So, you know, Paul

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George seven of nineteen twenty two points
and not great, but you know,

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you expect a bit more from him
than the game like this. Just I

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think it was a team effort scoring
wise, you know, like I tweeted

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out earlier, this is the third
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and the worst since Games six against
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Kawhi Leonard has been a really steady, consistent player since then. And you

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know, you're not going to be
a forty five fifty percent shooter the entire

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time. You're gonna have nights like
this, And I thought the Clippers just

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couldn't as a team. They couldn't
find the rim. They had a couple

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of shots that you know, usually
the go in. Did they get the

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nice bounce in today pg Zoo Tres
Kawai. They just couldn't get the bounce

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all of them. It's kind of
rare that you see an entire team not

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get the bounce like that, but
it happens. You know, they still

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off by nine, and they shot
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So I think there's a reason to
be optimistic moving forward. As hot

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as it was out here in southern
California, it was that cold for the

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Clippers team tonight, especially from distance. They only had four players hit three

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pointers. Kawhi Leonard didn't hit a
three, Marcus Moors did, but it

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didn't happen until the fourth quarter.
Patrick Beverley Oh for one. You see

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Lou Williams O for six, as
you mentioned Landry sham At oh for one

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nine of thirty two as a team
from distance against a hot shooting team,

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as Denver was in the first quarter. Sometimes that can do you in.

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You can lose a game early like
that. But I thought of Visas Zubots,

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even though I know his plus minus
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did hit some ridiculous shots on him. I think Yokis didn't he just have

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two or four points in the second
half, and I Visa Zubats only ended

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up playing twenty minutes, and I
know there is a part of Clipper Nation

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that wants him to be playing more. Did they need more out of a

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Visa zu Bots in this game?
Did they need more than they got from

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Zoo? I don't think you can
say that the more minutes, but defensively

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yet more minutes, yes, Look
defensively, I think you know Zoo was

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highly critical of himself after the games, saying that you know, I wasn't

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physical with him like I was supposed
to be. Overall, I didn't do

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a good job defensively. I'm gonna
watch the film see where I can get

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better and bring it next game.
So I like that those comments from him

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really, you know, taking accountability
towards poor start. But like you said,

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Jokis had just two points in the
second half. He had twenty four

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a half time, and you know
his only bucket came when the Clippers trimmed

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it down to five eighty six.
So they really did a solid job defensively

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on him, making him take tough
shots zubotsh Look, it's a tough balancing

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act that Duc Rivers has to has
to play with here because Tres against the

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Nugget second unit can play really well. They don't have a shop locker there.

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He can be the more physical guy, you know, and really man

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handle his way around the rim.
But as we saw tonight, it beat

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the Zoo Bots was just you know, outside of that first quarter was a

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force. It was just anytime he
got the bottom of the rim, he

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was dunking it. He was making
it difficult for Nuggets depender Nugget shooters around

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the room as well, which is
what he's been doing all postseasons. So

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you know, I don't envy Doc's
job. He has a lot of balance,

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He actually do here with Zoo and
Trez. But you know, I

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thought Zoo probably could have played more
than just the twenty minutes that he did.

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Coming into this, I thought Zu
should probably be averaging around twenty five

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to twenty seven minutes the game.
Now, I didn't think Doc would actually

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do that because Trees it's a more
favorable match up for Tress. But yeah,

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I don't think it's it's unfair to
say we could have expected more from

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Zoo in terms of minutes as well. And Monster Trez he had ten points

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in eighteen minutes, did have a
huge throw down where Denver just let the

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Sea's part for him to go down
the lane for an easy two handed dunk,

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which was good to see for these
six Man of the Year The newly

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crowned six Man of the Year winner
Telmara, I know, I believe you

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were on the call yesterday with the
media during that press conference, But what

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can you say about the growth and
just the development of Monster Tres since he

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has come to LA. I mean, this is the guy who you know,

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while he was in Houston wasn't really
playing that much. He was only

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playing as a backup to Clint Cappella
and just you know, it couldn't really

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find time. I know he was
in the G League, up and down

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in the G League and asked to
go down there to get some playing time,

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to get some burn. And he
said yesterday on the call that we

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were on. You know, all
he wanted was an opportunity, that's all

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he really wanted, Just an opportunity
to prove that he can play in this

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league and help his team and help
the team wins. His teams win,

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and that's exactly what he's done.
You know, when he came in,

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I think a lot of people just
thought he was sort of an energy guy.

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I know that Doc Rivers when when
he first came in Tres that is

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Doc said that, you know,
they were kind of surprised. They were

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like, hey, we might have
something here in Mandres. Who you know,

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we thought he was just an energy, energy guy. But you know,

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he's able to score around the rim, He's got a good feel for

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the game, good handle, can
rebollyball, can push, and transitions and

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and Docus sort of just unleashed him
in the last couple of years. And

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uh, you know, I think
Lou Williams called it at the beginning of

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the year. You know, he
said, if anyone was going to take

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the six Men of the Year award
from me, it was gonna be Treads.

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And I think it was only fitting
that, you know, Lou,

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who has been a terrific, terrific
mentor for Treasure over these last couple of

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years, dating back to their Houston
days, Because only fitting that Lou was

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the guy who gave Treads the award
yesterday, a much deserved award. And

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you know, I think I think
there's still much more to comfort Treads.

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We forget that he's only twenty five
years old, you know, just hasn't

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really had a team on his own, So I think there's a lot more

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to come from Tread. Forget that
he also missed five months being away from

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the team and the death of his
grandmother Rest in peace. So you know,

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once Treads really gets back in the
flow of things, you know,

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he could really really be a weapon
for the Clippers again, like like we

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saw throughout the regular season. Yeah, that was a cool moment where he

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literally took the six Man of the
Year trophy from Lou Williams, passing of

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the tours the baton maybe, but
without sweet Lou Williams. I don't know

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where Monster Trez would be. That
is the best two man duo off the

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bench in NBA history, And I
think that progression that you talk about with

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Monster Trez and the differences between him
this year and last year, he can

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create for himself more. He's not
nearly as dependent on Sweet Lou Williams setting

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him up for rim runners and just
being a finisher out there. He's so

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much more than that. He can
bring the ball up the court. Now.

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I love that work ethic from Monster
Trez. It is truly inspiring.

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His play out there on and off
the court, and what his message was.

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If you guys have not heard that
press conference where he officially was named

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the NBA six Men of the Year. Finding it on YouTube, I believe

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it's on the Clippers account. Check
it out. It's about twenty minutes.

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It's great, it's powerful, and
somebody was cutting onions when I was watching

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it. Telmair, thanks so much
for doing this tonight. I appreciate it,

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my friend. Of course, of
course, thank you. Hopefully next

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time it's after a win, but
thank you, no doubt at Tolmair Azarrely

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on Twitter at t O m E
r A z A r l Y Coming

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up next, you'll hear from PG
thirteen Paul George. He led the Clippers

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with twenty two points, but too
little, too late. They ran out

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of gas when it was just a
five point game with eight minutes and thirty

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six seconds left. But then two
minutes later, then verse three point shooting

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and one more shot from Nikola Yok
it's the only shot he hit in the

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second half. That would be the
Clippers undoing. They lose game two,

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we'll talk about game three. We'll
get to your phone calls eight seven seven

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five two zero eleven fifty, and
you'll hear from Paul George next right here

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on Clipper stock on the Patriot,
A'm eleven fifty. It's frustrated Incorporated's to

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night for the Clippers. They lose
game two, one eleven to one oh

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one. It hurts my soul.
But the Clippers were their own worst enemy.

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That's what was so frustrating. They
had six turnovers in the first quarters,

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six turnovers in the second quarter.
They couldn't get out of their own

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way. You heard from Doc Rivers
earlier talking about twenty assists to seventeen turnovers.

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That's not the ratio you want,
and guys were really forcing things.

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They were trying so hard to get
back into the game. Noah Eagle and

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I talked about it, but it
reminded me of the old John Wooden quote,

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be quick, but don't hurry,
don't rush too much. You gotta

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take care of the basketball as well
if you're gonna come back down twenty three.

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They had it within five, and
we thought for a second this was

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going to be another miraculous Clippers playoff
come back. Paul George had twenty two

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points and before we get to him
eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty

439
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eight seven seven five two zero eleven
fifty Jeff and Tarzana Jeff, what's up?

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You're on Clipper stock, Adam.
I hope you don't go around keep

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saying that Kwhi Leonard's the best player
in the NBA because he's not, because

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he has one bad game. You
want me to start pulling up Michael Jordan

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playoff games where he was bad,
He's the second best player in the NBA.

444
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To who the other guy that plays
in the LA is the best player?

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Even though I hate that team,
that guy is the best player at

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thirty five years old. To do
what he does. I mean, they

447
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took a fat al yesterday. Yeah
he did. But you know what,

448
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they lost the first game against Portland
and one. Right. Yeah, let

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me tell you something. Houston is
not Portland. Houston actually plays defense.

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Okay, but we remember Portland was
played Portland with playing without the big men

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in that series two. Yeah,
they didn't have Zach Collins. I understand,

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but the Houston Rockets have been the
best defense so far inside the bubble.

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But I'm not here to harp on
what happened with the Lakers yesterday.

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Who cares. Let's worry about the
Clippers here. Okay, here's the thing

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though, do you know what I
don't understand. The Zuboff is getting better,

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but he's not a real great defensive
player. Why couldn't they stick Noih

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in for like five minutes and guard
and guard you know, their center and

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the other thing? Jeff, you're
killing me tonight. Aviza Zubots has been

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the second best defensive center within six
feet of the rim all season long.

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But they're shooting from outside, Adam, from outside, You're talking about a

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one of a kind player. If
he stays healthy, he's likely a future

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Hall of Famer in Nikola Yokich.
I mean, he can do that against

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him anyone. He's a terrible defensive
player. And they don't get enough points

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from the paint. The Clippers.
Did you notice that they couldn't shoot from

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outside? They should be Jeff.
They had forty eight points in the paint

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compared to thirty six for the Denver
Nuggets. Right, because Denver is shooting

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all these shots from outside. Okay, but forty eight points in the paint,

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you're saying they're not good in that
area. They are? Well,

469
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wait a minute, they could they
couldn't hit They should they had sixty or

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seventy because there's three point shooting was
terrible tonight, But they're also one of

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the best three point shooting teams.
I mean, eventually you thought those shots

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were going to four. They weren't
night, they weren't. Jeff, You're

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right, that is an accurate statement. And you know how much I love

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the Clippers, But I don't think
Doc coached the real good games tonight.

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All right, Jeff, I appreciate
after Monday, all right, hopefully after

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a win, Jeff, Clippers lose
by ten with the final score of one

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eleven to one on one of Visa
zubass is not a good defender. Brain

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exploding, All right, let's move
on. I want to hear from PG

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thirteen post game, he scored twenty
two points. He led the Clippers and

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led them early in the fourth quarter
when it was just a five point game.

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Here was Paul George Hey, Paul
Document mentioned that he felt like after

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that first quarter when they scored forty
four, the defense was was pretty good

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that you guys put out there,
but it was the offense. I guess

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what do you feel like the offensive
trouble with the last three quarters? Was

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that more kind of stuff they were
thrown at you guys, or just miscommunication

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00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:32.960
miss execution by you guys. I
think a little bit of everything. Definitely

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miscommunication on our part, and I
think, you know, getting credit for

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the defense they were throwing at us. I mean, I think I know,

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and we're aware of how to attack
it now just based off of us

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talking. But you know, they
did a good job of just swarming us,

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and we gotta be better. Oh
well, from game one to game

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two, did they surprise you with
anything they did defensively as far as maybe

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the timing of the double teams or
the way the double teams clean because they

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think they held you and Kawai took
a mind six baskets inside the paint.

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00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:17.960
This playoffs, you know, it's
this, this playoffs game of adjustments.

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At this point. They made the
adjustments from game one. It's no surprise.

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We just you know, we we
we weren't aware that they were going

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to do that tonight. But it
comes no surprise that they're going to make

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the adjustment. You know, we
we just gotta be better going into game

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three. Timerican go ahead. The
first of all, it looked like you

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hyper extended your knee at some point. Were you okay after that play?

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00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:47.880
I know you played through it.
Yeah, yeah, I did, but

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I was able to play through it. I was fine once I got moving

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00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:54.960
again. And then Doc said that, you know, they really punch you

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guys in the mouth in that first
quarter. I'm just wondering. Obviously you

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had to expect that they would come
like that, but why was it so

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hard to counter there there big run
to start. I don't think it was

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00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:09.000
hard. I think we missed.
We missed some shots. You know,

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we just couldn't find a basket in
the first quarter. That was, you

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know, really the game you know, us not playing defense and allowing him

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rhythm and shots in the first quarter
and us not making shots. It was

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a big swing in that first quarter. I think mirriam being good. Hi,

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Paul. Obviously the last three quarters
we're better than the first. There

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you guys kind of got close to
seven. You're in there, and did

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00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:37.679
it feel like you guys my kid
over the hump? There where the moments

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00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:42.960
where it seemed like it could be
in your grass? Yeah? Absolutely absolutely.

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We never gave up the fight.
We never quitted on each other.

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Like I said, we just gotta
be better figuring out you know where that

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00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:53.079
double was coming, when that double
is coming, and sharing the ball.

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I think that's just where we gotta
be better. Myself person I got to

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00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:05.800
just be a better playmaker in those
situations, candying go ahead, Hey Paul,

522
00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:09.159
seemed like you guys had a lack
of energy or they had more energy

523
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:14.719
coming out to start the game with. But that sense of urgency, how

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00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:20.159
do you change that going into game
three? We just gotta come ready.

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00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:22.400
That's it. Uh, there's no
blueprints. We just gotta come ready,

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you know. That's that's that's on
us. Uh, But we will we

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00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:34.719
will be better for game three.
There's no PEP talks for it the playoffs,

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So uh, we got we gotta
be ready, we gotta come out

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a lot stronger, and we'll be
up for the fight and challenge game three,

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and we have time for one more. We go to Thomas H.

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Paul. Uh. You know,
near the end of the game, I

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00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:52.000
noticed Street guarding Jamal Murray a little
bit more. Do you say that that's

533
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:53.440
gonna kind of have to be one
of those challenges that you're gonna have to

534
00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:58.159
take on, kind of guarding him
later in games? Uh? I mean,

535
00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:02.000
we we got multiple guys that can
do the job. You know,

536
00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:09.679
for us, it's just whoever is
closer, whoever's around. Everybody's comfortable matching

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up with whoever. What so great
about this team is the versatility with our

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00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:22.199
defenders. So you know, everybody's
gonna have different matchups. I was just

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00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:27.960
on them tonight towards the end,
but you know, everybody's gonna have that

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matchup. There was PG thirteen Paul
George. He did lead the Clippers with

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twenty two points, and what I
liked about his night was he was seven

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of nineteen, but he started oh
for five, So he goes fifty percent

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the rest of the way, and
he was an attack mode. He was

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00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:51.039
being more aggressive than he was in
Game one where he had just nineteen points.

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And Noah Eagle brought up this stat
pre game, and I thought it

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was appropriate because a lot of people
have been getting on Paul George a little

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bit, even though he had the
thirty five point huge game in Game five

548
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against the Dallas Mavericks, when really
his back was against the wall in some

549
00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:13.199
ways legacy wise, with people talking
about playoff p and all that, and

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he responded in a big way.
But Noah Eagle talked about playing next to

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Kawhi Leonard in the playoffs and what
happened last season for Pascal Siakam with the

552
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Toronto Raptors, who are now tied
with the Boston Celtics in their second round

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00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:37.639
series at two games apiece. But
Pascal averaged nineteen points per game during that

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00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:43.519
playoff run playing next to Kawhi Leonard. Paul George, he was averaging eighteen

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coming into this one, So I'm
gonna say it's at nineteen now. So

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when you're playing robin next to Kawhi
Leonard, there's gonna be times where Kawhi

557
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:55.800
is taken over and you got to
do everything else to help the team.

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You may not get as many looks, and when you do, you gotta

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find a way to knock him down. And I thought PG thirteen did a

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00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:07.119
pretty good job of that tonight.
He did his part four of ten from

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distance. He had them in this
game. I was looking for somebody else

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00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:15.800
to step up from three and start
to knock them down and catch fire.

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And I think that would have been
the difference. Let's say Landry Shammitt or

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Sweet Lou Williams and gets high from
distance. That's all it would have took.

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But the Clippers had a chance to
sneak away with a win. Unfortunately,

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they lose by ten in Game two. Game three is coming up on

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Monday. You know the Clippers are
gonna come out focused. You know,

568
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I've been watching a lot of that
show Cobra Kai. I just finished season

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two on Netflix. Good Show.
Didn't realize how good it was. Thought

570
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:49.960
it was just like a YouTube parody
joke Clan. Nope, it's better than

571
00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:53.719
that. But Johnny and Lawrence and
Cobra Kai, that's who the Clippers are

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00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:58.079
gonna have to be. In that
first quarter of Game three, strike first,

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strike hard, no mercy. I
want to see them put up a

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00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:06.719
forty spot in a quarter. You
know they're capable. Clippers lose one eleven

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to one oh one in Game two. Before we get out of here,

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I do want to thank the Clippers
organization, the great Noah Eagle, Brian

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00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:22.239
Seaman, Ralph Wahler, and back
here in the Bank Burbank, we had

578
00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:27.920
the fantastic Sam, Zia and Zach
attack until Game three with your pregame show

579
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starting at five pm on the Clippers
Radio network, but also we'll be on

580
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:37.440
AM five seventy LA Sports for that
contest first playoff game I think on five

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seventy so five o'clock Monday, Game
three. I'm at a Moslin. We

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will talk to you then