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happen, Adam Mossley. On Christmas
Day it was Saint Nicholas Batoum and the

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Clippers going into Denver and winning one
twenty one to one oh eight over the

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Nuggets. Welcome into Clippers Talk.
I'm Adam Oslin's eight sixty six ninety eight

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Twitter. Coming up, you'll hear from

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head coach Tehran lou You also hear
from Nicholas Batoum, who I thought in

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some ways was the player of the
game. He didn't lead them in scoring,

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he did lead them in rebounding with
ten, but it's what he did

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across the board. When you look
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it's this multi talented Swiss army knife
ola Draymond Green that he brings to

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this Clippers team. He feels like
that glue guy that makes you appreciate him

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more than just what you see on
the box score, because he's gotten this

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offense into rhythm to start off the
last two games him in the starting lineup

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with obviously Marcus Morris out. So
far we haven't seen him. He was

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out the three preseason games, he's
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regular season. Nicholas Batoum has been
a godsend for this team, and he

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was the last player they picked up
in free agency, and I believe he's

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on a veterans minimum, probably the
most underrated signing of the offseason, and

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right now. He had thirteen points, ten rebounds, and four assists,

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and he was a huge part especially
early on. The Clippers offense did stall

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the first two minutes, but then
it got in sync quick and it was

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Nicholas Patoun finding open guys and getting
hockey assists as well and hitting a couple

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of three pointers in this game.
He's only a year removed from shooting thirty

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nine percent from beyond the arc with
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that. If he can get close
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of a weapon, especially when he's
coming off the bench. He's someone who

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can keep your offense in rhythm.
Guys like that are invaluable. They're way

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bigger than the numbers, unless you
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to do. His plus minus in
the game, he was a plus thirteen

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only but only a player better than
that was Paul George, who was a

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plus fourteen. He led them in
scoring with twenty three points, had a

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crucial twenty two point long mid range
jumper. I guess that's not the mid

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long jumper late in the fourth quarter. And Paul George, by the way,

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I believe his first shot of this
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right side. You know what that
shot might have meant for him, considering

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it's the same area he was granted
in the bubble in Orlando. But as

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the shot, people have talked about
a lot where it hit off the side

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of the backboard. In Game seven
against the Denver Nuggets. He took that

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same shot against Denver on their home
court and made it, maybe exorcizing some

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demons there. But he's five of
nine from three or he went five of

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nine from three in the game.
He's been as efficient as anyone so far

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in this young season, played thirty
seven minutes. Now part of the story,

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of course, is the last six
minutes of this game. At the

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six minute mark, Kawhi Leonard left
the game. He took an inadvertent elbow

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from Sir Jebaka friendly fire. They
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were both playing hard, and Kawhi
Leonard would not return. And we just

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learned that he had to get eight
stitches for a laceration in his mouth.

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I got that text from your Voice
of the Clippers, Noah Eagle. We

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don't know his status yet for Sunday, when the Clippers are back at Staples

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Center against the Dallas Mavericks. But
now in their first two games, while

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the Clippers have had big leads.
They were up by twenty two against the

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Lakers Tuesday night, they were up
by as many as twenty four against the

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Denver Nuggets tonight, and multiple times
in that fourth quarter thanks to Jamal Murray

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getting ridiculously hot, where he only
had ten points the entire for thirty six

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minutes of the ball game to start
things off and then he had ten points

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in a couple minutes at the start
of the fourth quarter. You can only

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hold him down for so long,
and it was just an eleven point lead

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for the Clippers. So once again, just like Tuesday against the Lakers,

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the Clippers faced some adversity and they
were able to overcome it again. And

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peep are only remembering what happened when
they were up three games to one against

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the Denver Nuggets in that series and
letting go of the rope and somehow losing

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that. But the truth is there
was a pattern of blown leads throughout the

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regular season two and obviously in that
game four against Luca don Jets in the

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first round against the Dallas Mavericks where
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go of the rope in that game. There was a game during the regular

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season. I remember they were in
Atlanta last season and they were up twenty

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at the half and Trey Young wasn't
even playing in that game. Granted a

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lot of Clippers were out too,
but they were up twenty and somehow they

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ended up losing that game. It
was a trend. So for people who

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really paid attention last season, what
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into the playoffs, while I'm hoping
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where the Clippers take that punch and
fire right back. That's what we've seen

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in the first two games, and
it was the three point shooting in this

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one that really saved them. Lived
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It's not so much that anymore with
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Now you can say, yes,
the Houston Rockets did miss twenty seventh straight

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at one point in that faithful game
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a couple of years ago. Yes, I think that was, you know,

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just unbelievable. Never tell me the
odds Han Solo moment of that happening.

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It was an asteroid field that they
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Warriors with Houston missing that many three
pointers. But overall, this is the

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movement in the NBA. Everyone's taking
more threes, and now so are the

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Clippers. They attempted forty opening night. They attempted thirty eight in this one

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and hit nineteen of them. They
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the game. Why because they have
a lot of good three points shooting on

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this team. They had it last
year, but I never felt like they

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made a big enough emphasis on attempting
more threes. And Tehran Lou that's something

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we've seen already with them. The
ball movement and the three point shooting has

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been night and day different than what
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players a credit executing his game plan
as well, because you heard Kawhi Leonard

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in the preseason say we played too
much ISO ball last year. He wants

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to play differently. Well. He
had seven assists in his thirty minutes tonight.

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Paul George had nine. Your two
superstars led them in assists, where

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thirty two of their forty one makes
in the game were assisted. That's unheard

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of. I can't remember a game
last season where the ratio of assist to

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made shot made shots was that good
for the Clippers. I can maybe try

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to find that for you later.
But overall, the offense is humming and

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defensively they've done enough. Even though
yes it was just an eleven point lead

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in the fourth quarter, Denver's gonna
make their run. You know why the

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cliche of basketball is a game of
runs is a cliche is set all the

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time. Well, it's true,
but think about it. If these runs

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didn't happen as often when a team
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if that kept going, you'd see
more forty point wins in the league

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all the time. And that's simply
rare. Yeah, I know, the

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Golden State Warriors have had forty point
losses so far this season. I'm not

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laughing. I'm saying, yes,
it does happen, but it's rare because

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eventually a team is going to fight
back. The question is what do you

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do at that point? And the
Clippers struggled and they didn't have an answer

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for it last season. So far
in this young season, they've absorbed that

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blow from the opponent and they've fired
right back. That serge of Bacca three

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right after Kawhi left the game of
the six minute mark was huge, and

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then he assisted lou Will Williams for
a three pointer, and then Patrick Beverlely

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hit one. All those three pointers
pretty much throughout the entire game, they

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stemmed the tide. They stopped runs
from the Denver Nuggets over and over again,

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and those were the shots that they
didn't get against the Denver Nuggets last

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time, and Sir Jebaca had fifteen
points in just twenty one minutes. Again,

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same thing he did Tuesday night,
fifteen points in twenty one minutes,

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but made both of his three pointers. Patrick Beverley hit, as I already

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mentioned, a big three down the
stretch. Luke Konnard was a little bit

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more aggressive. He had eight points
in this game. Took the same amount

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of shots as he did last time, did go two or four from distance,

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did have six rebounds. But Nicholas
Batoum, I'm telling you guys,

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those ten boards he had, four
of them were offensive rebounds, right place,

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right time, Johnny on the spot
that st Nicholas Batoum. He was

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everywhere. He was involved in every
very perfectly executed play. It felt like

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for the Clippers in this game,
he was just one of the hubs for

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them offensively. All right, Before
we get out of here, we will

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take a phone call eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy Bill in

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Irvine, Bill, what's up?
You're on Clippers stock without Amoslin. Yeah,

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call, Yes, this team.
You can already tell there's more depth.

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For instance, in Game one this
season, they were able to withstand

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a eighteen point run. You know, then at the end of that game,

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a nine point run and I'm still
hot in the tenth to win.

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This shows you, Oh, you
know, I appreciate the phone call,

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Bill, but you were a little
bit underwater there, Eggnog, I couldn't

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hear you very well. But in
speaking to the depth, yes, they're

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playing without Marcus Morrise, Nicholas Beatuma
is starting when he's coming off the bench

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with a Vita zoo u Bots.
Now who I think is going to be

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able to make a case for six
Man of the Year by the time this

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season is over. This regular season, I know it's way too early to

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be talking about that, but think
about it. We know what a Viza

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Zubots can do as a starter for
an entire season if he's playing more minutes

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and he only had to play nineteen
in this game, and he wasn't foul

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trouble, as were the Clippers.
The only blemish, the lone blemish in

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this game was that they had trouble
at times defending without fouling. But if

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a Viza Zubots is getting twelve and
eight off the bench, I know he's

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not gonna lead all the six men
in scoring, but you're gonna have to

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look at some of the advanced numbers
and just how he good he is as

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a defender, and I do think
he'll be in the running. He's too

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good. Most people were surprised that
he is coming off the bench, but

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Serge Ibaka has proven to be a
great starting center and gives the Clippers that

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added element to play five out and
five out means a lot of shooting,

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and the Clippers did that, hitting
nineteen of their thirty eight three pointers.

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All right, coming up, we'll
get back to your phone calls eight six

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sixty nine, eight seven two five
seventy, and you'll hear from tronlu after

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he gets his second win as the
head coach of the Clippers. They win

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one twenty one to one oho eight
in their first road game in Denver over

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the Nuggets. The revenge tour has
been very sweet so far. They get

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back after it against the Dallas Mavericks, who are probably looking for revenge against

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the Clippers after losing to them in
the first round last season. But that

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game is on Sunday. More Clipper
stock coming up next. You also hear

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from Nicholas Batoum Saint Nicholas batoum.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Clipper Nation,

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You're two and oho more Clipper stock
coming up next right here on AM

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five seventy LA Sports. This is
the official home of your LA Clippers Spasa,

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sup Bots, Dens on the rim
and home but the Clippers. Los

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Angeles Clippers gave you one more gift
to unwrap with a one twenty one to

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one h eight victory in Denver over
the Nuggets. Welcome back in the Clippers

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Talk. I'm Adam Oslin to get
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or here at eight sixty six nine
eight seven two five seventy and I don't

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want to make a scrooge out of
this guy, so I'm gonna get to

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him quick. Jeff in Tarzana,
we had some phone issues last show.

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Jeff, You're on Clippers Talk.
Yes, she did. How you doing,

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Adam? And happy Merry Christmas?
Yea, yes, Adam. You

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know, the only thing I worry
about with the Clippers are injuries, and

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somehow or another they don't have the
killer instinct. Maybe they's a petition the

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NBA to only have three quarter games. Yeah, that way they would never

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lose. Are you talking about even
this season. Yeah, I mean,

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like they had a twenty two point
lead against the Lakers, they had a

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twenty four point lead against them.
I don't know what it is, but

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some teams just do not have the
killer instinct. And I was watching like

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the Brooklyn game against Boston the day
and they were playing at Boston. Even

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when they got ahead, they didn't
let down. It's just seems like some

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teams do that. I mean,
I'm very happy with what they got.

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I'm kind of mad at Harold for
leaving the Clippers to go to the Lakers.

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I will never like that team again. But I'm really good. But

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the only thing I'm worried about is
the thing at point guard. They still

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don't have a true point guard,
and I was wondering, if you think

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before the trade deadline they will pick
up somebody like Kyle Laurie or something that's

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possible. Jeff, thank you for
the phone call. You never know.

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With this stealth, fly by night
front office of the Clippers, they always

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got something cooking. But when you've
are called in on a night where they

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had thirty two assists on their forty
one made shots, I mean, it's

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a little bit nitpicking to talk about
not having a point guard, a true

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traditional prototypical point guard. Yes,
they do it by committee, but that's

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not a bad thing when you have
so many talented passers. They may not

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have an elite point guard like passer, they may not have a John Stockton

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out there directing everything. But in
a game of pace and space, when

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you have to continue to move the
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playing today, he would have to
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would have to shoot more three pointers
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not in his hands. That's the
way the game has changed. Everybody has

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to be a willing passer out there, and the Clippers do have a lot

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of them, indicative by those thirty
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All right, let's hear from Tyron
lou getting his second win as the head

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coach of the Clippers. After they
go into Denver and win one twenty one

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to one h eight here on Christmas
Day. Why has this team show you

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through two games in terms of its
I guess, mental toughness, just being

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resilient, you know, Like I
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team. They went to the Western
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some really good players, so they're
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I thought we just kept up composure, you know that second year they

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brought in, started trapping a little
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more good into our handle and stuff
like that. So we just got to

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do a better job just taking care
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thought we did a great job of
sharing the basketball, you know, having

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thirty two assists. We went to
Kawai and PG when they have one on

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one match up, they went to
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did a good job of sharing the
basketball. So that's the way we want

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to play. You know, we
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come and double, we want to
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driving kick, make another pass for
somebody has to get a shot. Thanks,

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say thank you. Next up Justin
Rousso, Hey, coach. Good

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evening and happy holidays, Yes sir, Happy holidays. Thank you, sir.

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Can you speak about the good minutes
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the bench? I thought he did
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to hear you rave about him for
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You know, he's phenomenal last year
and they called him stay ready,

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you know, and our coaches called
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he came in and play some five, he played some four. He's able

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to mix it up and knows all
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always ready. And that's a valuable
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you know, no matter what,
he's always gonna stay ready and be ready

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to play. I mean, he
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schemes, and it's just great to
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that understands and knows the game and
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happy holidays time, happy holidays.
Hey. Could you speak about the experience

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and knowledge of the game that Nick
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Those guys just seem to do a
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in the stats, that just provide
solid basketball play for you. Couldn't you

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elaborate on what they bring just great
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ability, it put puts fives insteaders
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because he can pop and then you
try to get back to him. He

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can put it on the floor and
then if you're up too high, he

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can roll and finish at the basket. Or he can make plays and you

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see hit he hit and loop for
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the end of the game. They
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his IQ, his defensive presence,
his talking on the defensive end is really

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good. And Nick just all around, you know, all around great player.

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You know, he can handle the
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he can post, he can pass, and he can defend. You know,

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he can play multiple positions on the
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and also on the offensive and he
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So he's very valuable. And also
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Yes, sir, thanks to a
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we'll go to till mayor head.
Congrats on the wind. I'm just curious

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you guys have put four two pretty
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teams in the West. I guess
just how far along are you in terms

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of where you want to be as
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of work to do. Like I
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the first couple of months, just
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to pick up the offense. You
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coaches said no, but I just
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able to take advantage of mismatches.
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a really good team, very versable
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and better defensively, but you know, offensively, just keep picking up what

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we're doing, keep sharing the basketball. Then that first half, you know,

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the ball was hopping, and then
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Coach Malone decided to play a little
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kaw I got going a little bit. So you know, we want to

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be able to play both ways.
You know, we want to play through

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our best players, and when they
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to basketball and share it and get
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Thank you, time for one more
question. Far back, go ahead,

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congratu lations on the winning, Happy
holidays. I just want to ask,

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you know, there's a scary moment. It's turned to eleven point game.

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Kawai goes down to Jabal Burry's like
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to keep their composure? What was
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have been a real turner of a
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You know, we just you know, next man up, and you

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know, we know Kauwhai there's a
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the you know, demand said that
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everybody has to be able to step
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You know, Pat Belly made a
big shot of course PG. You

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know, I thought Nick and Nick
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when they came back and they you
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up, pressing and double cheatment and
they just trying to spark some energy and

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they did that. But we was
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quiet the storm about just execute when
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made some big players down the stretch. There was head coach Tyron Lou after

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the Clippers win one twenty one to
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regular season in Denver over the Nuggets. I thought the operative appropriate word that

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he used right off the bat was
resilient. That's who the Clippers were.

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That's who they've been the first two
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to take that punch and respond.
When you're playing good teams, they are

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going to make a run Eventually.
I thought a key played down the stretch

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when Kawhi Leonard was out of the
game. Was Nicholas Batum taking that offensive

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foul on Jamal Murray That was big
to take him out of rhythm. He

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had twelve of his twenty three points
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before from Jamal Murray. Of course, inside the bubble. Nikolaokis twenty four

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points, tennis sists, nine boards. Considering the game he was coming off

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of, and I know they lost
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up for those numbers. And a
Visa's Zoobots had a brilliant play. I

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think it was near the end of
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fourth quarter where he baited and kind
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and played some really good defense on
Nikola Yokich. That turned into a turnover

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for Yokich and the Denver Nuggets.
Those little plays too stimy runs to stop

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the opposition to take a guy out
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about what tyrone Lu said there is
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You could see because he says,
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We don't take advantage of as many
mismatches as we could on a night or

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they put up one hundred and twenty
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The best is yet to come.
Enjoy this process, Clipper Nation, all

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right. Coming back on the other
side, you'll hear from Saint Nicholas Batoum

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after he has his best game as
a Clipper. The best is yet to

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come for him too. But he
played thirty six minutes, thirteen points,

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ten boards, four assists, four
offensive rebounds, doing the little things,

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a gritty, gutty performance down the
stretch where they had to pull this game

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out on the road without Kawhi Leonard. We're hoping for a speedy recovery for

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the claw. All right, coming
up next, more of a phone calls

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eight sixty six ninety seven, two
five seventy And like I said, Nicholas

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Batum postgame audio, this is Clippers
Talk. I'm Adam Moslin and you're listening

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to AM five seventy yellow sports letter. There he erased it at the rim

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by never had a Chams. This
is LA Clippers Basketball on the official home

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of your LA Clippers Christmas. Just
like last Christmas, you're Los Angeles.

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Clippers were victorious here on Christmas Day. They win in Denver one twenty one

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to one oh eight over the Nuggets, exacting some revenge. More to come

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on Sunday against the Dallas Mavericks from
Staples Center. But we've talked a lot

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about Nicholas Batoum. He had thirteen
points, ten boards, four assists.

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The Clippers as a team hit nineteen
three pointers, most made threes on Christmas

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in franchise history, second most points
with one hundred and twenty one in franchise

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history in a Christmas game, and
those nineteen three pointers, they're tied for

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the third most threes on Christmas Day
in NBA history. And while we have

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a moment, let's pause ten seconds
for station identification. Here on A five

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seventy l A Sports this is LA
Clippers Basketball, A five seventy KLAC Los

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Angeles, seven KYSR HD two Los
Angeles and iHeart Radio station SAMs has saving

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me there. Clippers come through in
the last six minutes without their leader in

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Kawhi Leonard, who left the game
had to get eight stitches, had a

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laceration in his mouth because well some
friendly fire with Sergebaca and he going for

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a rebound at the six minute mark
of the fourth quarter. Clippers were only

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up eleven at that point. They
hold on that resiliency that's Haron Lewi has

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talked about. They're showing that this
team looks different poise under noise, and

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they do it against the team that
came back on them last season when they

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were up three games to one.
Here was Nicholas Batum, someone who wasn't

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on this roster last season, with
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I'm feeling I'm feeling great. You
know, I just played basketball and all

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those guys very amazing. Coaching staff
is great. I just have to go

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out there and play my game.
Now. I don't know what you said

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to shoot because graviny so many scoring
these team, So I just try to

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beat the group guy offense and defense, take coppering shots and just play basketball.

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Hey, Nicholas, it's Mike for
Tello. Congratulations, Thank you.

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I watched you coming out of the
huddle at the end of the game there,

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and I saw you with a lot
of input as to what was being

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said to your teammates. So it
seems like the coaching staff is promoting amongst

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you people to talk to yourselves,
work things out, straighten things out.

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And then if you see something.
I saw you pulled George talking about something

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down the stretch. That's a good
side to a coach. Yeah, because

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we didn't we have we have a
couple of bat shots, so total guys

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just to run the players just to
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on side, they get back on
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And we had a good shot take
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three. Bye bye Pat, Pat
bet and uh we got a good win

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for us for today. They tell
me the difference between the preseason and now,

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because obviously it wasn't great for you
guys in the preseason. This is

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a different team. This is absolutely
a one eighty and yet there are still

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many things for you guys to improve
on, but two very impressive wins to

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start the year. I agree.
Now, preseason, this preseason, now

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we know we are trying to get
our with them back. No, we

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have a couple of you guys,
myself, Search and Luke. So you

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know, now we got two good
wins again, two big teams. Now

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we got two men tone overs again
some deep chairs. But you know now

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we've been there together for like two
or three weeks holidays on it, so

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we might be okay. There was
Nicholas Batzun post game on Fox Sports Prime

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Ticket with our friends Mike Rotello and
Brian Semen. He helped him get off

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to a good start. He helped
him close this game out in Denver.

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He's that super glue guy. He's
holding this team together without Marcus Moris right

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now. He's been in the starting
lineup and I don't know if you could

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ask for more. He's been absolutely
brilliant, just doing the little things,

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being that savvy vet out there.
Clippers win one twenty one to one h

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eight in Denver over the Nuggets.
They're two and ozer to start off this

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revenge tour. More to come on
Sunday. They'll be back at Staples Center

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twelve thirty tip is what it will
be against the Dallas Mavericks. We'll have

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your Clippers campdown show starting at eleven
thirty Before we get out of here,

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

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Ralph Waller. Back here in Burbank, we had the fantastic Sam Zea.

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Sam, thank you so much for
doing this on Christmas. No less,

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I'll get back to your little ones. I think they got bikes and you

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got yourself at PS five. Way
to Go Clipper Nation, you won Christmas

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as well. More to come enjoy
this process right now with this team as

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they continue to get better even after
this great start. We'll talk to you

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at eleven thirty with Clippers Countdown on
Sunday,