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Welcome in. It's a Clips and
Dip episode fifty five of season two.

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I'm out of Maslin. We've got
Chuck Mockler and Will Updike in a big

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show for you guys coming up.
We're gonna have a rousing speech to try

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to light a fire under this Clippers
team. Did you hear Jimmy Johnson during

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that playoff game with the Dallas Mavericks
during the halftime show? That was special

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stuff. I think Chuck's gonna do
the same thing for the Clippers in this

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one. But we'll also preview the
Lakers game coming up on Wednesday. But

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let's start things off with this,
Chuck, since I brought you up first.

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How you doing. I'm doing great. The Clippers unveiled their new logo

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in Jersey today, which I think
they completely knocked out of the park.

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I'm feeling good. It's raining in
Los Angeles. I was looking at Spencer

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Dinwiddie's last couple games, which has
to be a little worried about what might

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happen uhaint against the Lakers on Wednesday, But overall feeling good. It's New

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Jersey Day, right like, it's
fun big Will You're feeling good about the

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rebrand. Oh I'm loving it.
I'm loving it. It's uh. I'm

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actually pretty surprised how well they were
able to keep this whole thing under wraps.

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We got a little inside information,
but to be honest with you,

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was not until last night, and
sure enough, everyone in the stadium got

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the same information as we got maybe
an hour or two later. So this

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one, the way they kept it
all under wraps, I thought was really

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really interesting. But I love the
look, I love the colors. I

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love going back to colors in general. I think, and this was my

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opinion. I really wasn't a fan
of the City edition jerseys this year,

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like the Blossom ones, the ones
that look like they say chips. I

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really wasn't even came out, which
is so crazy. Yeah, yeah,

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I mean that's what I was saying. We normally get a lot of we

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get a lot of rollout for these
things, like when they first debuted,

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like what they called the San Andreas
ones, even with the Brave stuff,

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we got a lot of lead up
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this was completely different, completely unexpected, and I'm really liking it. I

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love I love that they're leading into
the nautical thing, like we talk about

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you know, with this team on
court so much like what's their identity?

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Do they have an identity? But
I think as a franchise they've added a

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larger thing of like what is Clippers
basketball? Who are the Clippers? What

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is a Clipper? And they're they're
taking some steps to address that while still

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you know, staying true to Los
Angeles. So I loved it. I'm

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I'm a big fan. If you
guys are watching this on the YouTube,

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if you're a new listener, thanks
for checking in here on Clips and Dip.

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We do have kind of a slideshow
going up as we just show the

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web page from NBA dot com.
You missed new jersey the unveiling if you're

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listening, Yeah, you missed the
classics. Something you can something you can

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come to expect if you're watching the
show and you could. Could we throw

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it back up? Because I just
like looking at these things, right,

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Can you go ahead and enhance on
this the pulsive Clipper nation that I've been

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looking at and checking in on today
just from Twitter, a couple of polls

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I saw out there, Uh,
the jerseys are, without a doubt,

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a slam dunk, so to speak. Hit everybody wanted the red jersey back.

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Everybody wanted the Clippers cursive font back. That lettering is beautiful, it's

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classy, it looks good. I
was somebody who was saying, for a

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while, you know, I just
wish they made the San Andreas black and

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white ones. They're home and away
jerseys. But I understand now when you

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see the colors popping like this and
that color scheme with the navy blue also,

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they look great. I am all
for it. Uh. The logo

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has been a little bit mixed with
some of the response, but I think

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overall and personally for me, the
more I see it, the more I

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like it. I think it just
takes a little bit of time to get

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used to and almost kind of reconfigure
your vision with and what you're focusing in

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on, because there's a lot going
on there with the thought they put into

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it. And some people were saying, oh, it looks kind of like

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a cruise ship when you focusing on
the three flags for the ship like that

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kind of makes it a little bit
more distinct, and I see it pop

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out. It's almost like you know
that famous picture of I think it's called

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Vanity or something like that. Off
you're looking at a skull or are you

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looking at a beautiful woman looking at
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of that optical illusion title from yesterday. Once you see it's an illusion,

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Michael, Once you see the flags
on the ship, like, it stands

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out as being a clipper ship to
me. So I like it. I

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like it the more I see it. I want wear of those hats immediately.

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I want to be gray LA sweater. That Gray LA script is also

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that you talk about a logo that's
difficult to tackle and make your own.

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In the Los Angeles LA we saw
the Chargers try and do it and they

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got flamed so hard on Twitter that
they had to completely scrap that logo.

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I don't you guys remember that from
a couple of years ago. It's a

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difficult. You have the Dodgers,
who are obviously the most iconic LA logo.

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I'm not saying I'm not comparing it
to that, but their own take

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on this script on the LA script
is really good. I really liked it.

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I ordered a sweater already, and
I also love will. We were

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talking about the rollout a little bit, the way they kind of teased it

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with like Kawhi PG Terrence and Harden
all wearing the merch yesterday was really cool.

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They knocked us out of the park. And someone pointed out the font

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is the old school font on jerseys
from back in the day, kind of

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like that's that Sarah font and like
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This jersey's not all the way,
but yeah, they absolutely crushed it.

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Do we have the page where it
just shows all the different variations of the

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different logos, where it's the l
A, where it's the sea, where

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it's the sea with the ship in
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what I mean? Let me share
this screen. Sorry we didn't uh talk

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about this earlier or anything like that, but now I'm excited. It's it's

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good. Use of our l is
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one is beautiful. That's classic.
That feels like a throwback to the traditional

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jerseys that everybody were calling for.
And the Clips one's nice too. I

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like it all really and I like
how just how much thought they put in

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to making it a compass, to
making the north part of the compass touch

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the N on Los Angeles. That's
really cool. So yeah, Clippers marketing,

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and I hear the argument for like
looking like a cruise ship or whatever.

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In my mind though, like there
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right, Like there was like kind
of exaggerated pirate ship, which I would

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have loved. But I think you
you have to keep in mind that this

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has to be a copyrightable thing that
doesn't look like anything else, you know

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what I mean? And how many
like one tone you know, like ships

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have been done before, right,
Like you see so many different of those

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ships other logos. Yeah, so
you have to be aware of that kind

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of thing. So and it's also
just that's kind of I would say,

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like they Steve Bomber wants this team
to have a certain kind of sheen and

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like modernity that I don't necessarily like, I don't necessarily love all the time.

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But I think this is a nice
happy medium where it was really well

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done. Honestly, the only way
it could have been better is if they

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just would have used the old mascot
as say as well, yeah as a

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little character on in lieu of a
logo for those of you who do not

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know who that is. We're gonna
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gonna last forever. Didn't he used
to be our background. He did for

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a while. Yeah, we've been
this exact pose, which if you're if

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you're only listening, if you're not
watching this on YouTube, the George Costanza

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on the couch. Yeah, it's
a grizzly old sailor man making a very

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very very sexual pose. Uh not
not sexual, not sexualized, sensual,

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artful, yes, tasteful, And
he's wearing a Clippers hat. That's the

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only way these are great. Bring
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look, though of the Clipper ship. To be honest, what Will just

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said an outline so beautifully that that
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looking too much like so many other
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in various sporting league. And now
for the beat switch, we have to

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talk about how old the Clippers look. Uh sorry to put it that bluntly,

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but that is the other topic.
If the Jerseys weren't to come out

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today, the whole episode would have
been a little more rough, I think,

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but we got some jerseys to appease
us after. I don't know.

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The game was summed up perfectly by
Tyler's quote when they asked him what went

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wrong? He said everything to be
fair, the jerseys were coming out whether

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or not they won or loss last
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Adam, you and I talked on
the radio a little bit about what happened.

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Will now that you you were running
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that you've had some time to cool
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little bit for the show, because
you're so upset. Uh what did you?

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Where are you at now that we've
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to a good Kings team. I
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and a good Kings team that has
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competition as well. It's yeah,
it's again it's like I always say,

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like you play the team, not
their record. That being said, this

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just was an ugly game for the
Clippers, and it was just more of

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the same unfocused defensively, un Like
I hate to bring back unserious, which

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is what we said all the time
last season, but like that defensively was

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an un serious performance. Uh.
And it's just not gonna get it done.

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And I know that rotation wise,
Tyler Lou's hand was super forced.

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It was super forced. You know, with with no PG there's only so

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much you can do. And I
really do think especially with I don't know

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what the hell is going on with
Mason Plumley and Daniel Tice. I really

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have no idea. What did those
guys forget how to play basketball? I

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got no idea. I got no
answers for you right there. But I

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think that this stretch has been really
like illuminating and terrifying about what this Clipper's

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depth actually is, which is a
lot more than I had given it credit

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for, which was you know I
I I mean, Charles we on this

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very podcast talked about what this this
center rotation could be up up there with

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some of the best in the league, and that is just not that is

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just not what this team is.
And I right now wasn't that was there

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for that episode or I've said that
multiple times. I'd been like this,

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this center rotation is so good.
Hey, I've said Mason Plumbley should be

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the second best backup big in the
league to nas Reed where to go and

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like and maybe the answer was just
keeping with what consistency you've had this season

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and just going with the mirror and
the starting lineup. We we got next

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to nothing production wise from the bench. Obviously, with with Powell in the

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starting unit, which is to be
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lot of offense there and there hasn't
been defense there. That hasn't been a

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thing all season long for this bench. So I you're in a losing situation.

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I've got a question for you,
guys. Charles and I have been

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talking about this a little bit.
What is going on with these first quarter

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stints for James Harden? I haven't, I don't. I haven't run down

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the numbers yet, So I promise
I'll try to look into this more.

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It's just vihic. You just promised
I'll try. I said, I promise,

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I'll try. This is a real
divorce dad kind of a promise.

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I promise, I'll try to look
up the numbers compared to other starting lineups.

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But at the six minute mark,
like clockwork, James Harden is getting

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taken out for Russell Westbrook. Starting
five is shifted. How many starting fives

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in this league aren't good for eight
nine minutes? And how much of James

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Harden's sort of issues getting getting going
early, especially to create his own offense,

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have to be due to not a
lot of room to shoot things out,

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not a lot of time to work
things out, to adjust to a

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defense, Like, why are we
doing this same thing like clockwork when I'm

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so sorry we're having a downgrade of
talent on the floor, We're making the

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spacing worse on the floor, and
ultimately we're making Kawhi and Paul George have

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to do more on the floor.
I just don't get the unnecessary burden that

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we're putting on these guys when they're
already playing the most games they've played in

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years, and we're hoping to keep
them mouthy for the playoffs. I just

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don't get it. Where do you
guys stand, Well, let's say you

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at following at follow out of ay, you guys can find me there if

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you don't know. So, they
are twenty third in net rating in first

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quarters in February. I believe we're
talking about twelve games something like that,

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because they were playing much better ten
games. They were playing much better early

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on. That was something that looked
like they put behind them those slow first

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quarter starts. But in February that's
dipped. They're a minus two point six

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plus minus and first quarter, which
is almost bottom five in February. I'm

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not sure exactly other than Okay,
if they're an older, slower team,

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does it make sense that that's probably
the worst time for them to try to

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get it going because they're just old
legs, tired legs, they're warming up.

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If we're looking at a team that
we're saying it's older and slower,

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isn't that gonna affect that most in
first quarters? Like it takes. We're

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looking for anything right now. But
to your point of, you know,

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why are they taking him out so
early? Why don't they stick with him

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longer? I don't know, Because
if you're starting off slow and you're getting

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out scored by five points right off
the bat in the first five minutes,

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there is also logic to put it
in Russell Westbrook and saying, Okay,

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this guy's energy, he has intensity, and maybe the game can turn around.

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It hasn't worked like that very often. In fact, his worst stint

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yesterday was in the first half by
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half. Yes, but I think
they're searching right now. I think there's

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so many things going wrong. You
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they have struggled. Mason Plumley hasn't
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Daniel Tice hasn't looked great, although
had his moments last night where I

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thought he was better and I was
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Mason Plummy has been that bad,
and then that matchup against the Kings,

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I think it made sense to play
Daniel Tye more. But when there are

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that many lapses defensively, and you
have two guys that look to be average

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right now with their defense and rim
protection, one just being undersized, the

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other one being out of position in
Mason Plumbley, they get exposed more those

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flaws that they have when nobody else
is picking up the slack or keeping guys

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in front of them all on the
perimeter, All of a sudden, they

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look much worse. They can't count
for everything, they can't make up for

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things. The way of EATSA Zubats
has for this Clippers team with back line

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defense. So if you just look
at it and dumb it down, just

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look at how many guys are in
a funk right now, Just how many

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guys are playing bad or regressing.
While Terrence Man the last couple of games

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offensively is turning things around great a
mere coffee his last three games hasn't looked

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like the same guy coming out of
the All Star break. And I'm not

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going to, you know, slander
him too much. He's was playing above

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his head. He was playing at
a level that was unsustainable because of the

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most six That amount of play is
the thing too, right, that's new

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for his body in terms of sure
regularstball. But eight points against Okay,

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see two against Memphis and twenty five
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when they needed somebody else to pick
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start. H He hasn't been good
obviously. PG thirteen has been in a

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funk for the last month. James
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the two backup bigs, Russell Westbrook
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not playing well right now. So
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it kind of makes sense. When
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five offense and defense in their last
seven games post Grammy road trip, that's

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it, and it's it seems like
it's chocked up to you. So Tylu

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said, which I think all of
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night at the pregame before the game, Tyler said they're practicing today and tomorrow

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before the Lakers game on Wednesday,
which is a lot of practice just in

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general, which is good. But
at the post game he mentioned that it

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was gonna be about getting mentally focused
again. So I'm wondering. I don't

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think these practices are gonna be super
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Adam, everyone's kind of playing poorly, which does maybe suggest more of

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a broader focus issue versus everyone is
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time. Wouldn't it be nice if
it's more about mental fatigue though than physical

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fatigue. It's not just old legs
out there. It's guys that got up

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for that Grammy trip. They went
six and one. It was beautiful.

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It's some of the best basketball we've
seen this team play ever in franchise history.

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They've had the best run they've ever
had the Clippers, and it was

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highlighted that was the pinnacle of it, going six and one on that Grammy

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road trip. But you have a
letdown after that. It feels like,

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I don't know, the fan base
certainly rode that pretty high. Did the

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players right that road trip too?
High too, when Okay, guys,

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that's that's great and all, but
it's not the championship. It's not the

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playoffs. They're still March. The
season is not over. It was a

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great accomplishment and now you have to
get back up and just that emotional drain

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of finding a way to beat Boston
like that on a back to back,

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finding a way to win those last
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Miami and then in Atlanta. I
think it's had a compounding effect on this

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team. There's been an after effects. Yeah, it's not fun right now,

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especially they're brutal offensively. Last night's
game looked similar to what we saw

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when they were working out the kinks. Initially with James Harden, it looked

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like the Denver game. Just give
it to Kawhi, hope he creates something.

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They weren't getting good looks at all. James Harden with bailout grenade three

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pointers at the end of the shock
clock because other guys were passing up open

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three pointers at times this offense.
That's what's most shocking to me that the

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offensive, the passing up open three
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easy, where it's like Okay,
guys, just gotta not hesitate that one

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seems fixable. The utter lack of
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It's still baffling to me. I
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there can be four guys standing weakside, fucking staring at Kawhi and these are

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professional basketball players, mind you,
and not have the foresight or the wherewithal

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to go strong side, try to
get open, try to do anything to

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help out a teammate who has three
bodies on him, like one of you

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is open. How do you go
from three months straight of being second offensively

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to then have a seven game stretch
where you are twenty third on offense.

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With the talent the Clippers have out
there, I could see this coming defensively

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where I think they're twenty six defensively
in the last seven games where they're three

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to four. Now I can see
that, No, make it twenty fourth,

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twenty fourth, but twenty third on
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historic stuff offensively. How is it
grinded to a halt that much like,

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okay, maybe it falls to twelfth
or fifteenth. They've fallen completely out of

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the top ten they're almost bottom five. They're kissing the bottom five. Some

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would say some people kissing the bottom. Yeah. The the PG getting rest

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was good. I think we all
agree that was good. Hopefully he looks

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good against the Lakers on Wednesday,
which is gonna be both teams look bad.

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Right now? Should he play?
Actually, let's we got to take

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a quick Can he play? Can
he play? We got to take a

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quick break. If you're listening,
the ads have been loud, go ahead

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and turn it down. They've been
loud for some people. And if you

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make fun of me for saying that, the next time you listen to the

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pod, you're gonna get your ear
drums blown out. I have multiple receipts

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of people saying that, Uh so
we got we're talking about the Lakers.

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Same after these ads and three two
one, all right, welcome back into

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clips and Dip talked about the good
stuff, little rebrand. We talked about

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the bad stuff team everything like that, like a hot pile of ass.

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Uh, let's look ahead to the
Lakers. A right, how y'all feel

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on this? What run us down? Chuck? What do we need to

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know? Adam was asking if he
thinks he was asking if we think if

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PG should play, and the answer
is yes, we need Like now we're

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at a time where I'm like,
we need to win. Dude, it's

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been four days. Get the rest. If he's right, Like, I

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don't know, we need to win
this game. The only reason I brought

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that up is because they have Washington
afterwards, and there's an opportunity there for

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you to get him an entire week
off, and that is the quick fix.

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Paul George comes back and is one, well, I mean, that

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would turn things around instantly. I
think if Paul George was just right for

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this team, and I'm not trying
to put everything on him, but they

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have been mediocre defensively for a long
time and have gotten by anyways because they've

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been so fantastic on offense. So
if they could just get back to that,

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they'd be in good shape. So
you saying sid him if he doesn't

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feel right, if he's not healthy, they can beat the Lakers without him.

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I'm not saying that's a given.
I think it's gonna be a really

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tough game, especially because they're getting
beat on offensive boards the way they are.

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What's gonna happen against the Lakers.
Look, I don't know what the

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answer is. We talked about how
difficult Tylu has it rotation wise, But

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if Paul George is not at seventy
five eighty percent of what we know he

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can be, I say, just
sit him, man, because what we

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saw out there, I think you
just got to ask more from the role

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players and ask more people to step
up until he's in that spot. Because

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it's clear he doesn't have full trust
in his body. He's dealing with some

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soreness or pain or whatever. I
say, just maybe go back to the

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a mirror plan and against the for
sure, get a mirror in the starting

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lineup over norms. Yeah, and
you know, let these role players and

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guys know, I mean, you
know, they this team is used to

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this, right, They're used to
stepping up when when one A two one

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three or both A two one three
is down and this is nothing new to

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them. So I think, yeah, I think if the options are you

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know, a tentative Paul George or
no Paul George, I think I'm gonna

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go know Paul George, and if
that if that's a loss, I mean,

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then that's a loss. And that's
it sucks, especially with the standings

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and the way things are. But
I just don't see the point of running

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out the version of Paul George that
we were seeing, especially if he's not

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gonna even make it the full game, right, if he was out the

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last game, then you have some
disaster where it's like, oh, you

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know, he's done after half or
something like that. And how often how

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often do we do we or you
know, just people in media and general

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like criticize, you know, teams
when when guys are coming back to action

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way too soon and then something just
way worse happens. You know, the

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athlete is always going to say they're
fine and they're always going to play through

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it. And you know, I
admire that about Paul George. I I

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probably can't. I probably couldn't physically, Like I couldn't physically go through the

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pain that he is probably playing with
without you know, crumpling into you know,

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a tiny pile of dust. So
you know, it's like I'm not

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getting down on him here. I'm
just it's just like it's not worth it

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to me, Like no seed is
worth it to me, Nothing is worth

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it to me. If we can't
get one one healthy playoff run with Kawhi

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and Paul and James Harden like truly, nothing else matters. Everything means nothing.

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Everything means the first Elliott Smith reference
on the one of my favorites.

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Uh, could could I point out
that this isn't a new knee injury and

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maybe that's a positive takeaway? Cannot
point that out? No, it's it's

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true. Your point's been withdrawn,
right, I yield to. So he

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was in a locker room session with
Law Murray three weeks or a month ago,

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maybe it was after the Pistons game
where he played really well at home,

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and he talked about it then that
he was dealing with a knee injury

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injury thing and just kind of shotted
it up to being, you know,

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wear and tear of the season.
It happens. So I'm hopeful that that

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is all he's dealing with with that
left knee soreness right now, and it's

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not something more drastic and maybe like
what we saw with Kawhi Leonard missing that

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game against the Golden State Warriors recently, he looks to be recharged. I'm

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not that worried about Kawhi once again, no reason to talk about Kawhi on

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this show. He's still been good, but there has been one issue with

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Kawhi recently. As spry as he
has looked, he is low key been

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missing some three pointers. You know
he was shooting during this historic stretch.

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It's something like last thirty five games
he's almost a fighty percent from the outside.

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But the last now, let's see
about five games, he is something

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like three for fifteen from distance.
It's something to monitor because when you do

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have tired legs, it tends to
show up on long jumpers like that.

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So I what will said last show
and we posted this as the teas there's

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concern that they're riding Kawhi Leonard too
much, that they're putting too much on

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his plate, that that's gonna have
a cumulative effect. And so you're trying

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to compensate for one guy being out, you put more of a workload on

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Kawhi. But then if it wears
him down, now somebody's got to pick

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him up, and nobody can really
do that on this team. There's just

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it's a lot of moving targets.
It's it's a whack a mole right now

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with the problems arising with this Clippers
team at the wrong time. By the

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way, March is still coming right
Chuck right. Yeah, we're maybe gonna

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talk about that later. We'll see. But with this Lake, So I

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mentioned this before the break, Both
these teams look off right now. They're

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both wanting to Neither fan base really
knows what each team's gonna look like on

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any night. Right now, kind
of after the All Star Break, Lakers

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are leading the season series two to
one. I believe this is the final

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matchup. It into it though,
of Clippers Lakers in the regular season mean

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crypto, crypto, Yeah whatever,
I hate all these sponsors. Clippers won

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the last game. There was no
Lebron or Zoo, so there's not a

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bunch to take away from that.
But if you look at the defense from

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last time, Kawhi was on Lebron
for five minutes. Per the weird wonky

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NBA data, he went over to
Ad went five for nine on Zoo.

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Ad had a pretty nice game the
last time he played Zoo. So I'm

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worried about the defense. I hope
it's a mere coffee will like kind of

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you talked about, because the bench
is gonna be weird in this one.

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The Lakers play like seven guys right
now, so we need something from um.

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That's where I mean, obviously it'll
be hard because they're like bigger and

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more physical. But I see,
like those minutes where you don't have one

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of Lebron or a D on the
floor, that offense for the Lakers really

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slowing down. Where you I mean, you're not You're gonna try to get

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stops, but I think your best
opportunity is to really showcase some of what

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we know they can do from a
scoring perspective against those units. Isn't the

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answer. The simple answer to this
from at least half the fan base is

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well, you got Russell Westbrook coming
off the bench, so you should be

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good to go. But Russ hasn't
played well. He's playing the Lakers but

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and as a former team, and
he has gotten up for them, but

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he's also looked out of control at
times. He missed three more layups last

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night. At least, there are
so many guys right now that need to

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catch a rhythm. And I actually
think the Lakers. I've been watching them

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a lot the last month. They've
been playing much better. In February.

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They have the fourth best offense in
the league, and that's usually their bugaboo.

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There's seventeenth defensively over that stretch.
They easily still could have came back

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down twenty in the first quarters of
the Phoenix Suns in that game yesterday.

408
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I thought they were going to one
point because the Suns are known for blowing

409
00:30:17,079 --> 00:30:22,119
leads. But they only got eight
free throws. Big concern there. They're

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complaining about free throws while heading into
this game against the Clippers. I'm a

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00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,359
little bit worried about that. I
said it in my NBA report earlier at

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follow out of May on X's where
you can hear that, and I was

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like, I'd hate to be the
team that plays the Lakers next after they're

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complaining about calls. And then I
said, oh shit, it's the Clippers.

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But I believed it because radio.
Another thing that I mentioned off top

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talking about coming into this game not
feeling good about Spencer Dinwidy eight points in

417
00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:52,359
his last three games combined, not
averaged combined. He's a streaky guy.

418
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,519
He's due for I'm I hope the
defense looks good when it's you know,

419
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James and Kawhi and some of the
bench guys, because something tells me that

420
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he might have a big game.
And they're starting d Lo too, so

421
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Zoo's gonna be put into actions real
quick. He's looked phenomenal lately, so

422
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I'm less upset about what level.
If they were going to get from him

423
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:18,000
individually, how about they give him
the damn ball. When Zoo is five

424
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:23,119
of six at the half, he
started three of three, you're struggling offensively

425
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,839
to generate anything. He can be
a cheat code. At times, I

426
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,920
feel like they've forgotten how good he
was before he got injured. In that

427
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,680
pick and roll with James Harden,
what happens to you run that sixty times?

428
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,920
You get fifty five good shots just
running, just spamming the pick and

429
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,640
roll when things aren't working, why
not just go to that with a Viza

430
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,559
zu Bots. He only took three
more shots in the second half after starting

431
00:31:45,599 --> 00:31:48,319
five of six, and one of
them I think was an offensive rebound in

432
00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:52,319
a putback, So we had to
generate his own offense. They still weren't

433
00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:56,000
looking for him. I've said this
multiple times this season. Sometimes there's an

434
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,759
easier path to victory, and it's
playing through a vitza Zoo. He has

435
00:32:00,799 --> 00:32:04,839
played well against the Bonus throughout his
entire career. So Bonus started one for

436
00:32:05,039 --> 00:32:08,079
eighty and most of that was all
of each of Zoobos. Now eventually you

437
00:32:08,119 --> 00:32:10,599
got it going, but he still
finished seven of seventeen. He had a

438
00:32:10,599 --> 00:32:14,039
triple double, he did a lot
of other stuff, and he had the

439
00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:16,079
big dunk on Zoo. He owed
him one because Zoo has had the two

440
00:32:16,119 --> 00:32:21,160
biggest dunks of his career. On
Demanta's a bonus, I almost said our

441
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,200
vetus there. But I would just
love for him to get featured a little

442
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:30,440
bit more as on offense as a
primary scorer sometimes when they're not running anything

443
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,359
else, run pick and roll with
the beat of zoo bots. Please,

444
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,960
because last time out against Anthony Davis, you mentioned that game. Didn't you

445
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,440
have twenty and nineteen? Didn't it
beat to Zubos pretty much outplay Anthony Davis

446
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,160
in that game, Like he gets
up for the Lakers games too. That's

447
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:49,920
his former team. All these guys, it's gonna be telling Wednesday because if

448
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,680
there's one team that this Clippers team
in the regular season always gets up for,

449
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,400
no matter what their record is,
no matter what the Lakers record is,

450
00:32:58,759 --> 00:33:01,480
it's the Los Angeles Lakers. They
have always found a way to show

451
00:33:01,519 --> 00:33:07,079
that intensity and urgency against them.
If they don't have that pop against the

452
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,640
Lakers, then I'm really worried,
like they're just they don't have any gas

453
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:16,200
left in the take. And I
wanted to bring this up, but what

454
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:20,880
do you guys think about this?
You know, are we seeing the other

455
00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:25,839
side right now of going so hard
in the regular season because we've always complained

456
00:33:25,839 --> 00:33:29,640
about, well, you got to
take the regular season more seriously, and

457
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,519
they do and it has worked so
far this season. And I don't think

458
00:33:31,519 --> 00:33:37,759
there's any regrets there. But is
there a natural side effect where you hit

459
00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:42,640
walls like this at times because guys
have been playing so many minutes have been

460
00:33:42,759 --> 00:33:45,400
so much more available. Kawhi hasn't
hit a wall, but James Harden doesn't

461
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:50,240
look like right like right now,
and he hasn't missed a game so far

462
00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:54,720
as a Clipper or us hasn't missed
a game all season long. I'm just

463
00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:58,759
wondering, like, why not ride
some of the young guys right now a

464
00:33:58,759 --> 00:34:00,200
little bit more? In Terrence's man, who's on a bit of a heater

465
00:34:00,559 --> 00:34:07,680
for his standard and it beats Zoobots. I do think that there is You're

466
00:34:07,759 --> 00:34:10,000
right, there is kind of a
this is the side effect of having an

467
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,800
older team and going for it one
hundred percent in the regular season. This

468
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,719
is kind of to be expected,
right, Like, you're not gonna be

469
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:19,280
the number one team the whole time
unless you're the Celtics, I guess in

470
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,559
that conference. But like with this
Clippers team, with how old they are,

471
00:34:22,599 --> 00:34:25,559
the it makes sense to hit a
wall. We got to make sure

472
00:34:25,559 --> 00:34:31,599
it's right before April twentieth. But
hopefully the dip, hopefully they're upswinging at

473
00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:35,760
the right time. Everything's kind of
happened good time or lucky timing wise for

474
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,119
the Clippers this season. I hope
this is a lucky time to have a

475
00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:43,639
rough go of it and it starts
coming back up. Terrence is gonna be

476
00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:45,440
huge tomorrow too. He's gonna get
that de Lo assignment right off top.

477
00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:50,719
So I hope they Leian in too, Terrence hopefully into Zoo and let's get

478
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,320
some bone broth going right, Like, let's let's maybe try the young guard

479
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:58,920
off the bench who could score.
I don't know, will you can answer

480
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:08,440
Adams question? Sorry, I concur
astute. I don't want to say it's

481
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,719
to be careful what you wish for, monkey pause situation or anything like that.

482
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,280
Because they have gotten to this point
where they were the number one seed

483
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:20,400
at times where they've been a top
three seed until losing that game last night

484
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,679
in Denver, winning last night where
they've been a top three seed for the

485
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:28,440
majority of the season. So you'll
take it. I'm just saying, is

486
00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:32,920
it natural to see something like this
and you know the Calvary isn't on the

487
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:38,079
way, The reinforcements aren't showing up. There's nobody that they picked up at

488
00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:42,960
the trade deadline. They haven't picked
up anybody off the waiver wire. It's

489
00:35:43,079 --> 00:35:47,440
going to get worse scheduling wise.
The next couple of weeks. They got

490
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:52,079
Minnesota twice, they got the Milwaukee
Bucks twice, and the Lakers have found

491
00:35:52,519 --> 00:35:58,639
their starting lineup finally. I have
no idea whyatt took Darbnham so long to

492
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,440
put Ruya hachimour Ne d Lo next
to Austin Reeves, next to Lebron next

493
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,960
to a d It seemed obvious.
I know they had some injury stuff,

494
00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:09,599
but they look They look pretty good. They look much more potent offensively.

495
00:36:10,199 --> 00:36:14,599
So now this is the most important
part. Will you might have figure out

496
00:36:14,599 --> 00:36:15,559
of here before the next segment starts, But I want to give you a

497
00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:22,039
chance for your Kawhi Leonard Player of
the Game pick versus the Lakers. Kawhi

498
00:36:22,199 --> 00:36:24,719
Leonard Player of the Game versus the
Lakers. I'm gonna go Terrence Man.

499
00:36:25,159 --> 00:36:28,800
I like the way he really relishes
in this lineup. I think that we

500
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,480
will need him defensively and man,
he is never afraid to go at a

501
00:36:32,559 --> 00:36:37,480
bigger team around the rim. Some
of some of the most iconic Terrence moments

502
00:36:37,519 --> 00:36:40,880
have been going against the guy that
he probably had no business going against and

503
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,880
still coming out on top. So
I'm gonna go Terrence Man. And especially

504
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,280
if PG is gone, we're gonna
need him to have another great game.

505
00:36:50,519 --> 00:36:54,119
I think he's he's hitting that point
where he's been really consistent. Adam,

506
00:36:54,199 --> 00:36:58,400
you're Kawhi Leonard Player of the Game. I'm gonna go with Russell Westbrook.

507
00:36:58,559 --> 00:37:01,679
This is part of the reason I
try to have him as an innings eater

508
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:06,800
during moments like this during the regular
season where guys don't have it and Russ

509
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,159
always has energy. I want to
see Russell Westbrook burn his former team,

510
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:15,960
turn down some of those three pointers, throw down a couple of dumps instead

511
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:21,239
of trying to lay it up and
just help them get up with the level

512
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,760
of energy and intensity that they're gonna
need because the Lakers are bigger and more

513
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,159
physical. We've talked about even before
the first game this season. It looks

514
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,360
like on paper they have a much
better roster to match up against the Clippers,

515
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,119
like they have built a team to
try to build to try to beat

516
00:37:35,159 --> 00:37:38,440
the Clippers. Because you lose eleven
straight, naturally, that's going to happen.

517
00:37:39,159 --> 00:37:44,480
And you know they may have holes
otherwhere or otherwise against some other teams,

518
00:37:45,039 --> 00:37:51,199
but against the Clippers they've looked pretty
good. I'm going Zoo. Zoo

519
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,679
has been phenomenal lately. He's going
up against a much different center in Anthony

520
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:59,159
Davis than first Demanto Sabonis, so
I think the offense is gonna be a

521
00:37:59,159 --> 00:38:01,960
little bit more difficult. He's locked
in defensively, but Zoo being able to

522
00:38:02,119 --> 00:38:07,119
somewhat contain ad I'm not saying shut
down or anything like that to mitigate some

523
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,679
of that threat is gonna be huge. We're gonna need him to be at

524
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,320
maybe the best he's been all season. His passing has been great. It's

525
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:15,840
the physical team that makes the pick
and roll hard too, so he's gonna

526
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,320
have to be good in the short
role. A lot is on zoos shoulders

527
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,840
last night or on Wednesday night,
And of course Kahi Leonard, as we

528
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:28,119
all know, needs to be plea. They're not gonna have Christian Wood,

529
00:38:28,199 --> 00:38:30,039
which does make a difference. He's
been good against the Clippers, and it

530
00:38:30,039 --> 00:38:35,079
has been good in his role at
times for the Lakers, But even Jackson

531
00:38:35,159 --> 00:38:37,639
Hayes has given them really good minutes
at times. If you watch the last

532
00:38:37,679 --> 00:38:40,760
game against Denver, they lost it
close once again in the fourth quarter to

533
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,760
the Nugets. The Lakers, but
Jackson Hayes has kind of been on the

534
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,199
rise for them. So I agree
with your big zoo, huge game,

535
00:38:47,519 --> 00:38:51,960
huge game. All right, coming
up, we're gonna do We're gonna try

536
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,800
and project some of the Clippers seating
marches on the way. Everyone stressed out

537
00:38:55,800 --> 00:39:00,159
about it, no one more so
than myself. But before we get to

538
00:39:00,199 --> 00:39:01,920
that, will do you have to
leave before the next segment? Would you

539
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:12,159
like to say anything to the fans? You're muted. Got my voice back

540
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:19,000
only to mute my damn self.
Look, it's it's gonna be better.

541
00:39:19,119 --> 00:39:22,880
We're gonna figure it out. I'm
happy once they once they pop these new

542
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:27,719
these new threads on their body.
What's what's the old saying, Chuck,

543
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,960
you look good, you feel good, you play good, and that's something

544
00:39:30,119 --> 00:39:35,239
you can take to the bank.
Okay next year. But hey, they

545
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,159
got new sweaters at them. They
were right. You're right, and I

546
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:42,079
will now that the sabotage is over, it will we will see you next

547
00:39:42,159 --> 00:39:45,079
time. Adam and I are going
to be back after these maybe very loud

548
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,239
loud ads for those of you listening
that's been the case. Go ahead and

549
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,840
turn it down. We're talking seating
projection and then, you know, maybe

550
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:59,920
a little bit of an upswing talk. Uh in three two one welcome back

551
00:40:00,119 --> 00:40:05,440
in Clips and Dip episode fifty five. Season two had a nice clips and

552
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,519
double dip last night with Chuck Mockler
after a tough Clippers loss to the Sacramento

553
00:40:09,599 --> 00:40:13,599
Kings, who were just four games
back of them. Currently, they would

554
00:40:13,639 --> 00:40:17,119
be locked up against the Kings in
a first round matchup, which I know

555
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:22,960
some people matchup wise you might not
hate that, but Sacramento can also wear

556
00:40:22,039 --> 00:40:25,960
you down with how fast they can
play at times, and just trying to

557
00:40:27,039 --> 00:40:31,039
guard Dearren Fox and bottle him up
is tough, Chuck, I know.

558
00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:34,519
On the rundown. Here we're going
to talk about some of the standings some

559
00:40:34,639 --> 00:40:37,800
more and where the Clippers could end
up. We've been talking about the last

560
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:42,280
couple of weeks, just in anticipation
of March and the importance of getting a

561
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,039
top three seed. On the last
show on that Saturday Live, we had

562
00:40:45,119 --> 00:40:49,440
someone comment about, how what about
getting the four spot. We said,

563
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,039
well, if you're in the four, that means there's a good chance you're

564
00:40:52,039 --> 00:40:58,199
gonna have to play Minnesota and Denver
along the way just to get out of

565
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,440
the Western Conference, two teams that
certainly have had the Clippers number. So

566
00:41:01,559 --> 00:41:07,199
that's not great. And aside from
that, what have we been saying forever?

567
00:41:07,599 --> 00:41:10,639
There's one team that has won the
championship the last fifty years that was

568
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:14,320
not a top three seed, and
they just happened to be the team that

569
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,880
had won it the year before.
So it's not even a fair parallel with

570
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:22,199
the ninety five Houston Rockets and anyone
else. But yeah, it is important

571
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:27,000
for this team to get victories.
Even while we say maybe Paul George would

572
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,119
sit a ball game against the Los
Angeles Lakers, like right, like how

573
00:41:30,159 --> 00:41:34,519
do you balance it? They have
like stack these wins, while also very

574
00:41:34,639 --> 00:41:38,920
badly needing these wins. It's kind
of desperate. Desperation sounds like more of

575
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,800
a negative connotation on the team itself, But I don't mean it like that.

576
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,480
But the schedule is a desperation.
Part of the schedule. This upcoming

577
00:41:45,559 --> 00:41:52,159
month is gonna be insane. Law
Murray put some projections out also shout out

578
00:41:52,159 --> 00:41:54,360
to La Murray's been with the team
so much this year. He was at

579
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:59,559
the Grove today he said, here's
what I think LAC records should be.

580
00:41:59,679 --> 00:42:04,320
If they are targeting a seed with
twenty six games left to be the number

581
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,519
one seed, he's projecting twenty two
and four. It's the same for the

582
00:42:07,599 --> 00:42:10,400
number two seeds. So twenty two
and four probably gets you the one or

583
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:15,440
two seed remaining for the Clippers.
In LA Murray's mind, I don't think

584
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,920
he's far off with these at all. Number three, nineteen and seven,

585
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:28,039
stay at four, twelve, and
fourteen. Which of these sounds the most

586
00:42:28,119 --> 00:42:37,280
realistic or feels the most I I'm
going to timestamp myself on Monday, February

587
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:43,400
twenty sixth, six forty nine pm
Pacific time. I do not see the

588
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:47,480
Clippers going twenty two and four to
end the season. That would be wonderful.

589
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:52,360
I would love a Joseph I Award
to ask streak. Honestly, even

590
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,400
if they didn't weren't in this rut
right now, it would be hard to

591
00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:00,679
predict twenty two or if they were
still on that high and crushing the number

592
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,320
makes sense, that number makes sense
to get the one seed. That's not

593
00:43:04,679 --> 00:43:07,400
what we're trying to say at all, but the likelihood of that happening difficult.

594
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:14,519
Nineteen and seven it still convinced me. You could convince me. I'm

595
00:43:14,599 --> 00:43:19,719
on board with nineteen and seven.
Twelve and fourteen also, I could see

596
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,599
happening. I hope. I think
they'll be better than twelve and fourteen,

597
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:27,960
but I think it's going to be
somewhere between. I think nineteen and seven

598
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,840
and twelve and fourteen is kind of
the ceiling floor for these last games.

599
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,920
Maybe twelve and fourteen is a lot
harsh. It makes you feel like,

600
00:43:36,039 --> 00:43:38,079
Okay, if they can go twelve
and fourteen, there's still the four seed.

601
00:43:38,119 --> 00:43:43,000
They're pretty secure then where they are
right now positioning wise in the West,

602
00:43:43,039 --> 00:43:47,639
and there's a very small chance they
fall below four. But there's still

603
00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:52,119
a chance, especially the way they've
been playing recently, it has to turn

604
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:58,760
around or else they're just going to
continue to keep bleeding out here because March

605
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:00,639
is going to be as taxing as
anything we've seen the two and three era

606
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:05,400
in the regular season. And Chuck
has been on top of this before any

607
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:12,199
of you, sons of bitches.
This guy started. Hey, take it

608
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,239
all, man, this was you. You were ahead of this before anyone.

609
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:16,719
What happened to Thanksgiving? And I
walk in, I see Chuck on

610
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:22,679
the couch. I'm like, what's
up? Man? Yeah, I don't

611
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:23,639
know. If I don't, I
don't. I think you're giving too much

612
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:29,119
credit for my anxiety over this period
of the schedule. But if you're surprised

613
00:44:29,159 --> 00:44:30,400
by it, I do not.
I do not know what to tell you.

614
00:44:30,559 --> 00:44:35,800
If you're surprised by the clippers upcoming
schedule, you must be a new

615
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,639
fan, which welcome, love to
have you. But if you're a listener

616
00:44:37,679 --> 00:44:40,519
of this pod or an avid follower
of the Clippers, you know that this

617
00:44:40,679 --> 00:44:46,559
is going to be a hellish month. It starts with winning these next two

618
00:44:46,639 --> 00:44:52,199
games, right, there is a
good opportunity that they can win the next

619
00:44:52,519 --> 00:44:59,800
two start to write the ship a
little bit because then you have those b

620
00:45:00,519 --> 00:45:07,039
those Minnesota games. It's a back
to back Sunday Monday in Minnesota and then

621
00:45:07,199 --> 00:45:09,760
in Milwaukee. That might be the
toughest back to back any team is played

622
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:15,199
this season, especially because Milwaukee's gonna
pull out of this this funk they've been

623
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:19,760
in, this tail spin that they've
been in. It's probably the wrong time

624
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,119
to catch this Dock Rivers led Milwaukee
Bucks team. And don't we play.

625
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:27,719
We play again. We play the
Bucks and the Timberlves close to after that

626
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,239
back to back, and I'm pretty
sure that might be in like a some

627
00:45:30,639 --> 00:45:34,679
three and five or some horrible period
of the schedule too. Yeah, after

628
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,840
that. So they take on the
Bucks in Milwaukee on Monday, March fourth,

629
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:45,079
Then they're in Houston the sixth,
so a day off. Then they

630
00:45:45,159 --> 00:45:49,480
get a couple of days off.
March ninth, they have a home matinee

631
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:53,679
afternoon start against the Chicago Bulls.
Is that the last matinee of the Clippers

632
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:58,679
era? Hmm, there's a good
question here. It looks like it from

633
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:00,920
what I'm seeing. No, they
at the seventy six ers are March twenty

634
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:06,840
fourth at home at a twelve thirty
start, But right the very next day,

635
00:46:07,039 --> 00:46:10,239
they have Milwaukee Bucks at home,
like horrible, Okay, a matinee

636
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:15,480
back to back at home, and
then they're in Minnesota. No, then

637
00:46:15,519 --> 00:46:20,119
it's the Minnesota Timberwolves at home the
next night. So you almost get a

638
00:46:20,159 --> 00:46:22,559
day and a half off. It's
not it's not the worst back to back.

639
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:27,440
One game starts at twelve, one
game starts at seven. Yeah,

640
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:31,360
it's it's gonna be weird. I
don't know. Oh, I'm sorry that

641
00:46:31,679 --> 00:46:36,280
that. That's March twelfth, so
they do have a day off in between,

642
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,880
so it's Sunday and then Tuesday.
Okay, well that's good. Hey,

643
00:46:39,199 --> 00:46:45,599
only one of the Bucks Minnesota games
are a back to back situation.

644
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,159
Okay, well I take it back. Then they're gonna go like twelve and

645
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,320
they're gonna go twelve and five in
March. Then that changes everything. Should

646
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:58,840
we put out some March predictions?
I don't know, man, is it

647
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,559
not enough? Can we talk to
Let's do it after the Lakers game.

648
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:07,719
Okay, let's see how they look
after they're doing some more mentally focused practices,

649
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:12,480
because right now, I don't know
what I would I wouldn't feel exceptionally

650
00:47:12,519 --> 00:47:15,639
good about it, but do you
believe it's more mental than physical at this

651
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:21,440
point. I don't know, man, I think for some guys, maybe

652
00:47:22,519 --> 00:47:28,800
I have no idea what's happening with
Tyson Plumley. They were very serviceable to

653
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:34,519
good not that long ago, like
and like right like. Maybe it has

654
00:47:34,559 --> 00:47:38,920
to do with James Harden getting I
mean, James Harden controls a fair percentage

655
00:47:39,159 --> 00:47:44,199
of how good the centers can be
when he shares the floor with them.

656
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,400
You know, he's directing everything,
and they love the pick and roll.

657
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,960
But I don't know what's going on
with those two guys. And let we

658
00:47:52,199 --> 00:47:54,480
just I think it was the lot
of the jam. The pod was tweeting

659
00:47:54,519 --> 00:48:00,079
this, how many full right now? With guys going through stuff? How

660
00:48:00,159 --> 00:48:05,239
long is the rotation of guys who
can effectively, like positively affect a playoff

661
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:10,000
game. It's the starters, it's
norm, it's a mirror. It has

662
00:48:10,079 --> 00:48:14,199
to be Russ. Russ is going
to get chances. But that's a crap

663
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:19,199
shoot. Every everything after a mirror
is a crap shoot for guys who get

664
00:48:19,199 --> 00:48:22,320
actual time right now for the Clippers. That makes it tough. Brought up

665
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:29,280
sure, let's actually yeah, PJ
got five minutes he got one stint,

666
00:48:29,519 --> 00:48:31,400
did not see the floor again.
Well, hey, we might see him

667
00:48:31,519 --> 00:48:36,519
Wednesday, right, this is a
big He played the first game against the

668
00:48:36,599 --> 00:48:39,280
Lakers that back to second night,
back to back, right after the trade

669
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:45,079
deadline. He was available, but
James Harden wasn't. Yeah, so great,

670
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:50,119
We'll see PJ on Wednesday. The
one thing I'll say, Okay,

671
00:48:50,199 --> 00:48:55,840
he had a deflection yesterday, and
he had he had an amazing defensive possession

672
00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:00,440
against Aaron Fox where it looked like
I was about to put all caps.

673
00:49:01,079 --> 00:49:06,159
Fox got clamped by PJ Tucker at
follow out of May, but then he

674
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,400
hit a circus shot over the top
of him. Anyways, but I was

675
00:49:08,519 --> 00:49:19,079
impressed. I was impressed with the
lateral movement and sticking with him. Honestly,

676
00:49:19,199 --> 00:49:22,760
I watched it close. It wasn't
just me. Carlo Jimenez was on

677
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:27,440
the call. He highlighted the fact
that PJ. Tucker was one on one

678
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,320
with Tiaron Fox and more than held
his own. Fox is just that good.

679
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:35,559
He can hit a shot over the
top of you. But the position

680
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:39,400
he's been put in right now is
not advantageous for him or the Clippers like

681
00:49:39,599 --> 00:49:45,519
him playing next for Daniel Tice Well, the only way that PJ. Tucker

682
00:49:45,199 --> 00:49:51,159
is going to have a real shot
of being a positive for this team is

683
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:58,400
at the small ball five with four
shooters, four not three four guys.

684
00:49:58,559 --> 00:50:01,039
If it's smart actual Yeah, but
Russ can't be out there. Yeah,

685
00:50:01,559 --> 00:50:07,679
that's what I'm saying. Kawhi,
pg Harden or Norm or mir or man,

686
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,800
Who's I mean, he's almost fifty
percent from three in the new year

687
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:17,000
that that can work. I do
think there's something there. Him playing the

688
00:50:17,159 --> 00:50:22,679
four is not going to work.
And I was listening to Lucas Hahn earlier,

689
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:28,559
our boss, and he had a
great line about how the Clippers are

690
00:50:28,599 --> 00:50:31,320
going to be in the shit in
March. It was like, I gotta

691
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,960
say that to Chuck. I mean, hey, smart guy, he hired

692
00:50:35,039 --> 00:50:39,039
us, but he brought it up. How Yeah, you're not going to

693
00:50:39,079 --> 00:50:43,360
be able to get by with him
at the four. And maybe the only

694
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,199
reason they're doing that right now in
the regular season is just to get him

695
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:52,119
reps while still getting Daniel Tice touches, still getting made some plumbley touches out

696
00:50:52,159 --> 00:50:54,559
there, and just trying to keep
guys in the flow so when you do

697
00:50:54,760 --> 00:51:00,760
need them later on, they are
not ice cold like Thelippers are to start

698
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:05,960
off first quarters right now, right, there is reason so I put this

699
00:51:06,119 --> 00:51:08,679
in here. You feel a little
down when the Pods started, I said

700
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:13,719
in the in the rundown, glimpse
a little behind the curtain. For those

701
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,800
of you, there is a rundown
sometimes every time sharing sometimes it's red.

702
00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:21,199
I will not share it, not
a share doc. Three people have access

703
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:22,920
to this. It's really thorough and
well done. Guys. I gotta say

704
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,000
the note says the team looks bad
right now, but there is reason to

705
00:51:30,079 --> 00:51:34,920
believe things can get on the upswing
before the playoffs start on four to twenty.

706
00:51:35,199 --> 00:51:38,039
Right, there is wulliep We've seen
this team it that's when they start.

707
00:51:38,159 --> 00:51:40,760
Okay, I didn't make the schedule. No, Well, it seems

708
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:44,800
like how was my look towards Adam
Silver, don't you? Yeah? Adam

709
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:49,320
Silver just roasting bones, just laughing
his ass off, making the playoffs starting.

710
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:52,880
Fortune Now I'm thinking David Stern water
bottle gift like hearing that the playoffs

711
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:58,599
start on FO twenty. This team
has been in a funk before. Paul

712
00:51:58,639 --> 00:52:01,599
George has been in a funk before. We've seen them play fantastic basketball.

713
00:52:01,639 --> 00:52:06,840
We've seen them play some of the
best basketball that the team has ever played

714
00:52:07,159 --> 00:52:13,360
in this era or as a franchise. It wasn't super long ago, but

715
00:52:13,599 --> 00:52:16,679
it feels long ago with how the
time off and the Clippers kind of performing

716
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:22,239
this way. But like, the
pieces are there this team has. Again,

717
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,599
I know it's tough right now.
This team has the roster to win

718
00:52:25,639 --> 00:52:30,639
a championship. They really do.
They have the coach win the championship.

719
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:35,119
It does not feel like it as
of right now. I'm not gonna sit

720
00:52:35,199 --> 00:52:38,920
here and pretend like it's all rosy, but there is. The pendulum is

721
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:43,239
gonna swing the other way. This
is an old team that's gonna have to

722
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,760
play a bunch and have to be
in the shit together. And there's also

723
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:52,000
we've heard about sacrifice. There's gonna
be sacrificed when the playoffs come. Will

724
00:52:52,079 --> 00:52:54,800
could not be here for this segment, but I think the James Harden thing

725
00:52:54,920 --> 00:53:00,719
changes in the playoffs. There's no
way for the majority of the time that

726
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:05,559
we're gonna be putting Russell Westbrook halfway
into the game right when it starts in

727
00:53:05,639 --> 00:53:12,639
the playoffs. That seems crazy to
me. Maybe maybe three minutes left,

728
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,039
maybe something like that. But it's
not gonna be a full first quarter.

729
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:17,679
There's gonna be changes to be made. I think Tyler's gonna be able to

730
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:21,719
He's gotten these guys up this year, you know what I mean. Already

731
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,440
There's been some turmoil, right,
It's not like we started the season with

732
00:53:24,559 --> 00:53:28,079
James Harden. Guys had to change
their roles. It's been difficult. But

733
00:53:29,079 --> 00:53:31,760
I just if they win on Wednesday'm
gonna feel so much better about this little

734
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:37,639
mini ramp. But there there is
reason to believe. Counterpoint, Adam,

735
00:53:37,679 --> 00:53:38,559
Why do you think they're gonna lose
every game from here on? That?

736
00:53:42,199 --> 00:53:47,719
Because March? Hey, all right, March is coming in March. You

737
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:53,599
fear it post March, you still
are scared. No, I I'll say

738
00:53:53,679 --> 00:53:58,559
this, No, I think there
are. I think this is the reason

739
00:53:58,639 --> 00:54:01,079
why you don't get up too high, you don't get down too low.

740
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:06,440
Not too high, not too low. You stay even keel sometimes. Because

741
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,000
Brian Semen has been talking about this
during the broadcast, they're going to hit

742
00:54:10,039 --> 00:54:14,119
a rough spot again. They're going
to face adversity again, and they're back

743
00:54:14,199 --> 00:54:15,679
in it. This is the most
adversity they have faced since they went on

744
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:20,119
to six oh and to five.
To start things off with James Harden.

745
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,880
What I was talking about with Carlo
last night was, you know, when

746
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:31,159
we attribute so much of the success
to James Harden and running the offense and

747
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:37,320
being a system, I think part
of the problem right now is the system

748
00:54:37,559 --> 00:54:40,639
just has a cog in the machine, like he's not at his best,

749
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:45,719
and therefore it affects everything else.
That's the other side of when James Harden

750
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:52,559
is not playing well and he is
still you know, is very necessary and

751
00:54:52,679 --> 00:54:55,320
playing more than well enough to be
out there for thirty plus minutes a night.

752
00:54:55,679 --> 00:55:00,719
Absolutely he has earned all of that, and they need him and they

753
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,960
are a huge He has the best
net rating on the team on the season,

754
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:08,960
Like they fall from an offensive rating
of like one twenty two to one

755
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:15,039
oh nine when he's off the floor, Like he is the guy. So

756
00:55:15,199 --> 00:55:19,519
they need him to come out of
this. They're gonna need Mason Plumbley eventually.

757
00:55:20,039 --> 00:55:24,199
He's your other seven foot You can't
teach height. They have to keep

758
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:29,400
going to him and give him opportunities. As much as he has struggled to

759
00:55:29,519 --> 00:55:32,480
come out of this, I'm not
very worried about a mere coffee. It's

760
00:55:32,519 --> 00:55:37,119
been three games and there was going
to be some regression. Kawhi still looks

761
00:55:37,159 --> 00:55:42,679
good. He's had some bad turnovers
recently. That kind of speaks to a

762
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:46,679
little bit of fatigue sometimes. But
this team just has to sharpen things up.

763
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:52,280
And if there's one team they always
get up for is Los Angeles Lakers.

764
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:58,559
There we go. Yeah. I've
also, I think I don't think

765
00:55:58,559 --> 00:56:00,480
if you're gonna worry about the Clippers, which is totally fine. I worry

766
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:06,639
about the Clippers constantly. Worry about
what's in front of us, not about

767
00:56:06,679 --> 00:56:10,079
the trade deadline, not about anything
like that. We're here. If you

768
00:56:10,119 --> 00:56:13,840
want to make yourself mad, think
about what could have been. If you

769
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:15,880
want to make yourself just a little
stressed out, think about what might happen.

770
00:56:17,079 --> 00:56:22,239
I shouldn't have lost that game too, But hey, we're you know,

771
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:25,000
we're going to be back with you
on Wednesday. After the game.

772
00:56:25,159 --> 00:56:29,119
There's gonna be a double dip.
It might be even a live after the

773
00:56:29,159 --> 00:56:32,599
game. Who knows, maybe both. Maybe Adam is doing the live from

774
00:56:32,679 --> 00:56:37,840
the stadium. It's been done before, It's been done before. You're the

775
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:45,119
magic of radio and podcasting features Now
on stream, you can find this podcast.

776
00:56:45,519 --> 00:56:50,239
Where can they find this podcast?
iTunes, Spotify, deezer. They

777
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:52,599
can review this podcast. We'd love
to read it on air if it's a

778
00:56:52,599 --> 00:56:55,199
good time. No word yet on
if the YouTube viewer has gotten their bibble

779
00:56:55,280 --> 00:57:00,840
head. I assume they have.
Hey, I literally have a receipt for

780
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:06,440
it right now. Don't make me
pup and that I will say. I

781
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:12,000
wish the receipt was inside. But
if you got the bottle head, let

782
00:57:12,119 --> 00:57:16,840
us know. Is the receipt in
the room. I hope. Congratulations to

783
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:22,679
Clippers Marketing for a wonderful rebrand.
The jerseys are so great. The merch

784
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:25,079
is awesome. I haven't wanted a
jersey in a long time. I've gotten

785
00:57:25,119 --> 00:57:29,000
to in my life where I feel
too old to wear a jersey. This

786
00:57:29,159 --> 00:57:31,800
is the first time in a long
time where I'm like, damn, I

787
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:35,800
like that blue one. I want
to get. Yeah, I'd like one

788
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:37,559
to get to assigned, one to
put in a glass case. I'm never

789
00:57:37,639 --> 00:57:40,800
gonna wear it. I'm not gonna
wear a jersey. I'm a pasty man,

790
00:57:42,159 --> 00:57:45,360
and no one needs to see me
wear a basketball jersey unless it's for

791
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:50,639
a charity event, which case sure. But yeah, great, great,

792
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,679
uh great, event. Hope,
I hope everyone went to the grove had

793
00:57:52,719 --> 00:57:55,679
a good time. The grove sucks, but Terrence Man was there with the

794
00:57:55,719 --> 00:58:00,320
new Clippers gear, so that's awesome
today. It did not suck today.

795
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:06,079
From three to six or whatever,
he was there. Like we said,

796
00:58:06,079 --> 00:58:10,039
we'll have the Double Dip for you
on Wednesday. Full episode out on Thursday,

797
00:58:10,199 --> 00:58:15,039
most likely the reviews help, Adam, do you have one more positive

798
00:58:15,079 --> 00:58:20,159
thing before we sign off? They
got two days off. It's kind of

799
00:58:20,199 --> 00:58:24,519
a big deal if they needed that
second All Star break. This has to

800
00:58:24,639 --> 00:58:30,079
count as it two days off before
the Los Angeles Lakers. And it's not

801
00:58:30,239 --> 00:58:34,679
just two days off, it's you
played at home, you stay at home.

802
00:58:35,079 --> 00:58:38,800
You're getting that home cooking, you're
getting you know, good rest.

803
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:45,079
And I can't wait to see how
this team looks against Los Angeles Lakers,

804
00:58:45,119 --> 00:58:47,800
because this is the barometer. This
is a true test of where they're at,

805
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,400
not just because you know the Lakers
are playing better, but just it's

806
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:54,920
still more about the Clippers, the
talent disparities in their favor. I just

807
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:59,320
want to see them look like they
have the energy and play and can play

808
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:01,840
a complete game. We haven't just
we haven't seen that it's so long,

809
00:59:02,079 --> 00:59:05,480
and I think if there's one team
that can bring it out of them,

810
00:59:05,559 --> 00:59:08,159
it's the Lakers. It's the Lakers. We will see you Wednesday, hopefully

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after a Clippers victory. I hope
everyone has the good rest of your rainy

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Monday evening, and as always,
let's go Clips.