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Last time. It was the Sacramento
Kings. Here at Crypto dot com Arena

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Slippers, winners of five straight.
It's ten of the last thirteen just coming

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together. It's all happened, and
madam oslind welcome back into Clippers talk.

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We got a little clips in double
dip action. You hear the music Will

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Updyke of Courses on tonight because the
Clippers won big. I think that's what's

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in his contract. They can't just
win. It's gotta be a big victory,

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right Will, Yeah, it's gotta
be a stomping And it was.

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This was to me, will their
most impressive front to back four quarter victory

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of the season given the opponent tonight. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. To

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be able to come out and dominate
like that and then stick with it,

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I mean really putting this game away
for I mean, not a full four

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quarters, but we'll give them benefit
of the doubt that they could have done

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it four fourth quarters. But I
was really impressed by the way that they

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came out on the second night of
a back to back because I thought something

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that they did really effectively was use
a little bit of pace, be able

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to kind of change things up a
little bit on this Kings team and really

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flip flip the script on a team
that likes to use pace against the Clippers,

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and when they were able to get
into sets. I thought those were

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some of the few times we saw
some defensive breakdown, but overall, just

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a great win. Kawhi Leonard.
I was watching him closely when they were

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up by thirty in the third quarter. He got on Norman Powell and I

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think Terrence Man had some miscommunication on
a play where they gave up an easy

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bucket. Mind you, they are
up thirty and Kawhi wasn't having it.

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He demands perfection. He knows there's
bigger things in play. He's looking at

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the long game, long term wise. He wants this Clippers team to be

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focused. And there's Jason perfection and
I just love that from him. And

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defensively, when he had that rip
away near the end of the third quarter

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that almost ended it up dunk he
ended up getting fouled, went to the

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free throw line. That was spurs
Kawhi defense. That was just nasty.

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The octopus defense where it feels like
the guy is guarding you with eight arms.

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Yeah, I'm not sure what like
Kawhi is hitting just an insane stride

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right now. And I don't know
what fully is clicking, But I mean,

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I know you keep having a bit
where you're talking about is he okay

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though? But physically he is?
Like what is going on? Like I

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haven't seen him at this level so
early in the season, And I don't

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know if it's just I think that, you know, maybe it's just the

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time on court with like actual time
to gel. We hear all the time

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that this team just due to the
schedule and and and everything, that they

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don't get a lot of time to
practice, that they have to work out

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a lot of these things on court. Is that what we're seen here is

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just it's just this extended run of
play for Kwis. Does it just have

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him in this form this early in
the season, Like, what what are

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we witnessing? Hit? Yeah,
I mean it's the first time since the

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twenty sixteen to twenty seventeen regular season
where he's played this many games straight.

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So it's kind of uncharted territory over
about a six year period now. Or

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maybe he's finding things out about how
he feels now at the age of thirty

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two playing all these games, what
works, what doesn't? He's obviously caught

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a rhythm. There was that adjustment
period at first bringing in James Harden and

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just where he fit in and how
he was going to get up his usual

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amount of shots. It's all come
together now. But Will, what's your

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level of concern with the Paul George
injury. It sounds like it's best case

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scenario at least where if it was
a playoff game, if it was a

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closer game, even during the regular
season, he might have been able to

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play in the second half. Yeah. I just wonder too, what the

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calculation was with it. I mean, the second night of a back to

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back. I think you know,
level of concern is still relatively low for

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me, but we'll see obviously,
I mean ending the streak of his availability.

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Does you know it raises an eyebrow. I don't know that it goes

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to like full level sweating concern yet, but it is something to consider it.

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And he did look. The think
about it is too, is like

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he didn't look. He looked a
little out of sorts. I thought on

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the court tonight as well. The
last couple of games forty one minutes yesterday,

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thirty seven minutes against Utah, thirty
eight against Denver, thirty eight against

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Golden State, thirty seven against Golden
State, forty against Sacramento in the win

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up North, He's been h taking
a heavy burden when it comes to minutes

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and up until this point, I
would say tonight is the night that Kawhi

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really took the torch from Paul George
from being the best player to start off

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this season. But over the last
two weeks, I think Kawhi has been

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the guy again. He's the number
one option and I'm not saying there's any

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issue there between those two and a
pecking order. We know how Paul George

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feels about it, but it's good
to see that. Okay, Paul George

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not quite shooting the same way he
was to start off the year, but

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now Kawhi hits the ignition and he
starts to get it going. But somebody

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else who I don't think he's gotten
enough credit for how he's playing in terms

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of his passing. James Harden,
to me, has sacrificed shots to make

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this team better by just being a
facilitator out there, and I'm not sure

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enough people were familiar enough with that
part of his game will and just how

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elite he is in that area.
Oh. I mean, if you're not

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familiar with that part of his game, I think you gotta pull the rock

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up over top of where you're living
or whatever. Because this has been like

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the I feel like this is the
cliche thing of the James Harden experience is

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too a new team, everybody is
excited and then they're like, oh wow,

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he can pass, and it's like, yeah, no, that's actually

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why he was an m VP.
That's that's that's why, that's why those

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rackets teams made Western Conference finals.
That's uh why the seventy sixers were as

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good as they were. That's part
of the reason Joel indeed one MVP.

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Yes, the man is is a
very gifted passer, and I like how

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much more aggressive that he's getting offensively, but within the flow of the offense,

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right, He's not looking to take
away from that part of his game.

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He's not. He's still reading the
court looking to get his teammates involved.

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But we see him a lot more
aggressively going to the rint. We

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see him a lot more aggressively shaking
off the defender, just creating more space.

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And I think that that has been
huge and it's allow him to be

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even more games. Harden right to
continue to pass that way, and and

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and to set things up on ball
is will Updyke fallow him at Will Updyke

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on X of clips and dip fame. I think we got a YouTube coming

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tomorrow, will Up against the Clock
tonight. Wish we could do this for

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a little bit longer, but I
gotta take a break, my friend.

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We'll talk to you tomorrow. All
right, all righty, sound good?

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