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The game is over, Paul George
money in the pain, but the postgame

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reaction has just begot Cohi Leonard is
so smooth in the mid range. This

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is Clippers locker Row, a recap
of today's game and a look ahead on

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your home for LA Clippers basketball.
And now your host, you, sir,

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are a bad man, Adam Osley
Clippers Paul one twenty to one sin

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here at home to the Philadelphia seventy
six ers. Welcome into your postgame show

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coming up. We'll get your post
game box score and you'll hear from the

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head coach in Tron Lou and the
players after this one. But first we

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go back to your voice of the
Clippers, Noah Eagle Noah, a one

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point game heading into that fourth quarter, and things completely unraveled for the Clippers

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down the stretch. Yeah, I
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and just didn't bring that same energy. First and foremost defensively, things just

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kind of fell apart. You end
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after they gave up just twenty seven, which I say just twenty seven compare

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it to the other three quarters.
That was the best they did in that

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third quarter. But we said it
coming in, the key to beating this

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Philadelphia seventy six ers team was going
to be holding them to one tenor below.

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It hadn't been held to that in
fourteen straight games. Coming in.

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Well, Clippers didn't really come all
that close. Philly puts up one twenty

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in this one and ends up running
away within in the final minutes. This

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is a tough loss because again you
felt like you had reasons to believe you

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should have could have won this game. You move on, You've got a

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game tomorrow and you've got to get
right back on the saddle and do it

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in the right manner. It felt
like in that third quarter, you know,

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we saw the real Clippers stand up. This is what we had been

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hoping to see. They haven't been
able to string enough or together enough of

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these quarters so far this season.
But no Kawai to start the fourth quarter.

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Paul George is just coming off the
hamstring injury. It just looked like

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he was a little bit tentative out
there. He didn't have the same level

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of aggressiveness that we've seen. He
was great in the first quarter. I

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thought I thought he came out with
a mindset to go out there, score

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the basketball, get his teammates involved, and then we've seen this far too

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often with him, where he almost
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he tries to turn it on when
they need him the most. That's great,

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and he's done a great job of
doing everything he can. But the

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best thing he could do is keep
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every minute, every second he has. I think that he learns every time

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he seems to adjust. Every time
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little bit more of a vengeance.
So we'll see if he's capable tomorrow night.

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I don't know if he's gonna be
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injury for a back to back,
but either way, some positive signs,

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some not so positive signs. The
big thing you mentioned is consistency in terms

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of the quarters. I think Nick
Botoon was talking about it at shoot around

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when he was asked about the team
getting healthier and what it's been like having

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to figure it out without it,
and he basically said, you've seen it

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when the team has been as healthy
as we have been at points this season,

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You've seen what we can look like
we're at our peak. But now

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it's about being at the peak all
the time. It's about getting to that

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level all the time. It's still
aways away, and so they're working every

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single day one percent better as best
you can. If you can do chunks

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at a time, even better.
But it's gonna be a little bit of

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a process for the Clippers here as
they still work through some things. One

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of the positives tonight and long term
was just the stellar play from Kawhi Leonard

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that third quarter. He had fourteen
of his twenty seven. Looked about as

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good as we have seen him since
the a c L injury. Yeah,

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I think he was great. I
mean getting to his spots again, fifty

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percent from the floor. You can't
get get on anything about his efficiency,

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sure, or his three point shooting
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bit struggling, just a tad there, but overall both ends of the floor,

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I thought he was stupendous. I
really thought Terrence Mann played another really

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good game as well. He's embraced
this starting role as a starter this year,

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is averaging a shade over twelve points
per game and shooting forty three percent

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from three. Well, what did
he do today? Twelve points? Knocks

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down a couple of threes, plays, some stellar defense. I thought he

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was overall very good, and even
in a loss of ten, he was

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only a minus three. Marcus Morris
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you had some performances in there that
still were pretty redeeming. And so if

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we'll see if Terrence Man can follow
it up with something tomorrow against the team

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he loves playing against. Clippers have
a chance to bounce back. They're in

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Utah taking on the Jazz. Tip
time for that one is at six pm

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tomorrow night. We'll have Clippers count
down your pregame show starting at five.

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Noah Ego, great call. As
always, we'll talk to you tomorrow.

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My friend Adam can't wait. Mount
Process coming up next. But he got

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your post game box score. You'll
hear from the head coach. It's Iron

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Low and the players after they fall
by ten here at home to the Philadelphia

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seventy six ers. Clippers lose by
a final score of one twenty to one

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ten. And you're listening to the
Los Angeles Clippers right right? What I

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live? If I'm nice to the
fall just like the Dean, it was

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blocked by George This this LA Clippers
basketball he is a one man king crawl

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and defensive man on the home of
your La Clippers. But I just can't

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remember right. I'm whing my dodding
my Clippers here at home to the Philadelphia

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seventy six ers and Joel Mbiad,
who finished with forty one down from was

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forty four the last time against the
Clippers. But it's been an unreal run

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for him really the last two months, averaging about thirty five and ten per

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game, and the Clippers didn't have
many answers. We talked about it in

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the pregame show, but Clippers had
to find ways to defend without fouling,

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whether it was him or James Harden
who, for his standards just one of

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six six points got to the free
throw line, went four four, But

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Joel Embiid a pretty little standard there
for James Hardener below his Joel Embiad was

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fifteen of eighteen from the free throw
line. At one point had the same

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amount free throws as the Clippers.
They finished attempting twenty were sixteen of twenty.

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Clippers just had no way to contain
him. And then offensively, Clippers

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had their moments in that third quarter, especially putting up a thirty seventh spot.

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Down by eleven at the half,
but then after Kawhi hit a technical

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free throw and the Clips were up
eighty five to eighty one late in the

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third, they would be outscored the
remainder of the game, thirty nine to

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twenty five. Kauhi, of course
brilliant in that third quarter, had fourteen

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of his twenty seven points, and
the Clippers had it too within one heading

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into the fourth. But Tyres Maxie
scored fifteen straight spanning the end of the

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third into the fourth quarter, and
unbelievable, performing some tough shots to Nicholas

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Batuman a hand in his face did
not matter, hit big three pointers and

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Philadelphia went thirteen of thirty one from
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four. Really, after a miserable
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They started two of thirteen from distance. So Kawhi, Leonard your game

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higher. Clippers high with twenty seven, I should say, if eats the

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Zubos finished with twenty seven and nine. Paul George PG thirteen with thirteen in

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his return, but did have five
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It just wasn't as aggressive he was
five to eleven. That wasn't a

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bad number, but the eleven is
the problem. Wasn't a bad percentage,

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I should say, but only taking
eleven shots that is a little bit curious,

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especially after he started with seven points
in that first quarter. Clippers lose

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one twenty to one ten at home
to the seventy six ers. Coming up

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next, we'll preview tomorrow night's game, the rest for the weary Clippers going

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to Utah taking on the Jazz.
Tip time at six, the countdown at

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five here listening to the Los Angeles
Clippers approve a point kicking as ever that

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one then, but mostly after joint
smoked because he had no boot with him.

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Blowed by Oh Paul George LA Clippers
Basketball continue. It is fains as

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he carried the three on the home
of your LA Clippers. Don't Clippers lose

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one twenty to one ten to the
Philadelphia seventy six ers, who sweeps the

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season series against Los Angeles Clippers.
Welcome back into your postgame show. I'm

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Adam Oslin. Coming up on M
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Sometimes that's a good thing. They're
in Utah tomorrow six pm tip,

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five pm pregame show, A tough
place to play a tough team. No,

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they're not at the top of the
Western Conference anymore, but Laury marking

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in. They still have had a
heck of a year and have exceeded everyone's

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expectations. I think after making trades. But three you go bear being shifted

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out along with spide at Donovan Mitchell
could be another tough test for the Clippers

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after they lose by ten here at
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So outside of Los Angeles, we
are leaving you until tomorrow five pm is

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your pregame show in LA, though, do not go anywhere. We got

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Clipper stock next. I don't know
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been Clippers locker room. Oh both
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another game of exciting LA Clippers basketball. Don't miss any of the action all

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season long on your home for the
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There's a new sheriff from town.
You won't be able to deny it.

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You're going to go to the NBA
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heart. This is the best team
in the history of the franchise. I

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am all about the Clipper Nation.
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your host of Clippers Talk. Here's
Adam as Oh. I didn't see the

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Philadelphia seventy six ers bringing a chiefe
stakes and certainly no brotherly love as they

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sweep the season series over your Los
Angeles Clippers, winning one twenty to one.

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Ten tonight here in downtown Los Angeles, Welcome in the Clippers Talk.

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I'm Adam Oslin. Eight six six
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on the show, you'll hear from
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and Dip will be here for some
Clips and Double Dip. But this was

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a tough loss. I know there's
still thirty six games left for the Clippers,

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but it looked like they were in
control at the end of that third

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quarter, down by one, they
had all the momentum, but one of

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the patterns in the game was just
not being able to defend without fouling,

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and they ended up doing that fouling
at the end of the third And it

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was Tyree's Maxie who went to the
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And there were a couple things that
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all at the end of the third
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Maxie there drawing the foul, him
getting going where he had fifteen straight spanning

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the end of the third quarter into
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But then also there was something else
right afterwards that kind of raised an eyebrow

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for me. The Clippers still had
two point two seconds left. Paul George

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re enters the game for Moses Brown
and ends up passing the basketball when he

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had a look I'm not saying it
was a great look would have been about

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a twenty seven footer on the right
wing. Rose released it and got a

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three off at least. Instead he
passed it up. He passed it to

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Norman Powell, ball was deflected.
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threw it out a bounce on the
inbounds pass from Nicholas Patoon. But just

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a passive Paul George through the last
three quarters, I'd say overall tonight.

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And I know it's his first game
back, and I'm not going to be

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overly tough on him, and he's
his own worst critic and he'll bounce back.

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But it has been a trend at
times just inexplicably Paul George. It's

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just less aggressive and doesn't take enough
shots. In twenty eight minutes. I'm

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guessing thirty minutes was his minutes restriction
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It's missed about two weeks. He
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is the number that I have a
problem with. He only took eleven shots

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after getting off to a quick start
in that first quarter where Paul George had

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seven of his eventual thirteen points and
it was three or four. It just

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seemed like he was too passive out
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aggressive. And I know Kawhi Leonard
was on a heater in that third quarter,

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but there has to be some balance
between the two superstars. Now you

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can ride it off as okay,
he's coming back off the hamstring injury.

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Timing's coming back just didn't look quite
right. But it has been a noticeable

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pattern with him at times during the
two one three connection era where he passes

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down shots unless it's wide open sometimes. And this is somebody that can go

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at certainly single coverage. He can
go at double teams too and get good

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looks because of his height. And
there was one a shot just screaming at

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him to take third quarters ending.
He had two guys that were playing off

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him a little bit and he could
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didn't, and it said pasted it. It was just a microcosm of things,

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Maxie getting to the free throw line, him getting hot, Paul George

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not taking shots, turning down too
many shots, and the Clippers are down

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by one heading into the fourth and
you still felt like, Okay, they

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got a great shot at home to
get a lead over Philadelphia while Joel Embiid

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is on the bench, but they
lost the non Embiid minutes. I want

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to say they were a minus ten
during the non Mbiad minutes tonight, at

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least significant minutes. He was out
late in the game inconsequence time or extended

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garbage time, as the Great Iron
Eagle would say, who was doing the

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game for T and T with Jim
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it was the start of the second
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you can say continuity stuff, Clippers
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there's thirty six games left in the
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a tough back to back, not
a home back to back. They're going

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to Utah tonight to take on the
Jazz tomorrow. Who knows who will be

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available. So it was a missed
opportunity because they played some of their best

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basketball in that third quarter, certainly
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coming off the ACL injury, where
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and looked unstoppable no matter what defenders
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Kauai his old Superman powers. The
hands in his face were just translucent.

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He was seeing right through them and
getting up tough mid range shots and he

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had a block on Joe lm Beat
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Kauai was really engaged tonight and more
active with his movement. He's getting closer

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and closer to where he was.
That's a huge positive for this team long

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term. When it comes down to
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a chance to win a championship,
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top five player in the NBA level, top three, whatever you want to

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call it. He was playing better
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before he went down. Kevin Durant
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argument for at that time, and
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Maybe I'm biased, but that first
round series where he was putting up

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shack numbers while shooting it from ten
feet further out, like shack numbers from

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the two thousand NBA Finals. So
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the absurd percent percentages that Kawhi was
putting up that was just unmatched and he

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really didn't have an equal on the
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quarter he was that good. But
Embiid still finished with forty one and Kawhi

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didn't score again when he came back
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did go six minutes and twenty six
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the eight minute mark of the fourth
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offensively, Now, they've had a
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they were great against Houston outscored him
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Denver and against the Atlanta Hawks,
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a complete game of forty eight minutes
of very good basketball. And against this

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Maxie hitting those tough shots early in
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own fifteen point run against the Clippers, like this is a very good basketball

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team. Different ball game than what
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and the Clippers had to be on
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to have everything lined up for them, and they just weren't good enough in

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the second quarter, down by eleven, as Joel Embiid hits that shot to

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end the second end of the first
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up that ground. It takes an
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You wonder how much that took out
of him and the third to get them

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back in it, because he doesn't
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getting down to the nitty gritty,
and wins are at a premium. It's

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not just about good process here and
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half, even when the Clippers struggled
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hit seven of their next thirteen because
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looks in the first half and in
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the ball game. The ball movement
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Another trend this season. They reared
their ugly head. They had eight

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of them in the second quarter,
and those eight led to thirteen points for

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the seventy six ers. They don't
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You don't need to make it that
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So we saw a lot of the
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then a glimpse of what we hope
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from this team with the way they
played in that third quarter winning it by

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ten and Kawhi going off and them
just looking in sync, and they got

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a lot of guys involved there.
Terrence Man had six of his twelve points

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in the third, went at Joel
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also got blocked by mount Processes.
Noah Eagle called himbead, but I

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thought of Beatsa. Zubos had his
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in that matchup so they can make
Joel Embiid work defensively. Zoo had a

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nasty play where he shoved him out
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off, had a couple against Embiad. He finished with twelve and nine.

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But as I've said, this team
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can't start putting together forty eight minutes
of good basketball. You can't have an

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identity, he can't have that character
of who you're gonna be and what you're

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gonna rely on and fall back on
when times are tough, and they certainly

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are right now. So this Clippers
team needs to find themselves quick and I'm

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hoping these bad habits that they seemingly
have developed all season long, with the

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turnovers and the lulls offensively and the
inconsistent effort defensively and just not having that

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connectivity, eventually they have to overcome
it. And it really has to start

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tomorrow. Night saw good things in
the third quarter, saw some good things

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even in the first half, but
the turnovers are gonna hold you back from

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being a championship contender. Clippers had
been much better in that area. You

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look at it, and over their
last six games, they had turned the

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ball over just eleven point three times
on average per game. Tonight Night team,

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eight of those came in the second
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quarter when things just fell apart eight
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seventy Jose and Downey your first up on

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Clippers stock tonight, Jose what's up? And he dropped and Morse, you

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know what, We'll save Morris.
I know he's got positivity coming up.

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I'm sorry, Katie, Let's go
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you're on Clippers stock. I think
Lawrence frank seat needs to be hoped,

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needs to be hot. I mean, this is you know what, what

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is the the the second most expensive
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NBA, you know, next to
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And you know this is what you
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I mean, I know the Warriors
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year, but you know they were
at the White Mike, I'm sure you've

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heard this before, but the best
ability is availability. You can say what

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you want about the salaries and the
salary cap and where they stack up there,

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But if guys aren't actually out there
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superstars are missing as many games as
they have, I'm not sure I can

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put that on Lawrence Frank, who
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couple of years ago. But Ben
needs but but but Adam, the help

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you know I heard you would say, you know, the help needs to

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be part of the sample size.
The help needs to be taken into account.

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You know, you assemble a team
that is, so he shouldn't have

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signed Kawhi Leonard after they trade for
Paul George. You don't think they should

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have done that, That's basically what
you're saying. Well, I think,

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Look, I think I don't think
that was a move that took great So

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you can't vould him for that,
right, you can't. Anybody would have

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made the exact same move, right, what anybody would have made the exact

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same move if they could, as
the Clippers did there, right, No,

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I agree with Look, why are
you running from it? Mike?

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Why are you running from it?
Anybody would have made that exact same move,

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right, Yeah, So how are
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They've been unlucky with bad health,
with poor health, with their two

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most important guys. I mean,
you know, but even without that,

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you know, even without that,
that's everything. It's a players league if

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you can't get those guys on the
floor. Mike, I appreciate the phone

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call. Give me a call back
Tomorrowland got so much time and I still

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have to take an idea here,
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appearances from their superstars to a point, still had a winning season last year.

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They were in the play in somehow. But you can only do so

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much and your ceiling is only going
to be so high. When role players

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have to take upon starring roles,
When contributors all of a sudden have to

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step up and play way above their
heads for too long, that can be

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a problem. I think the team
on paper is there. They gotta get

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them together enough. It hasn't happened. And if you want to say that's

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what accounts for this inconsistency, I'll
buy it. It makes sense. Hopefully

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they get a good run of clean
health and they can put it together because

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the schedule is more favorable, not
necessarily with matchups, but with days off

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after January. All right, eight
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We'll get back to your phone calls
looking for coach Lou Audio. You know

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what, though, while we have
a moment, I'm not gonna forget.

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eight six six to nine eight seven two

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five seventy eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy. Clippers have lost

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eight of ten. Last time they
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So yes, things are getting more
dire. With thirty six games left

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in the season, they become more
magnified. When you're taking on Doc Rivers,

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Tobias Harris, and Montrez Harold,
and you're seeing some old friends out

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there, you feel like it means
a little bit more and it hurts a

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little bit more when the Clippers loose
to the seventy six ers again a team

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they lost a game where they were
up by twenty in Philly on that same

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road trip. Were the last time
they won two and a row was first

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coming back on the Pistons fourteen points
three minutes left, and then winning in

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Toronto. I was the last time. They just have been consistently inconsistent.

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And I'm consistent with that phrase regarding
this team right now. Gotta be honest

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about it. Quarter to quarters,
sometimes possession to possession. You don't know

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what you're gonna get with this Clippers
team. Can they put it all together?

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Yes? I still believe that the
talent is there, but we saw

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from Kawhi Leonard tonight that is there. It's all there, right, He's

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getting closer and closer to where he
was before he tore the acl that third

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quarter was special, but the Clippers
old problems from early this season continue to

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haunt them with turnovers, in consistent
offense, and now really a defense that

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just doesn't look the same as they
did through the first quarter of the year.

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I'd say they just haven't been They've
been in middle of the pack defense

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since basically December, when before that
they were top three at times, top

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two, top five. They got
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And it starts in the first quarter. This is when Noah says, what

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is doc or whatever? Throw back? What does coach Lee always say?

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I think Doc said it too defensive
mindset, and the Clippers gave up thirty

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four points in the first quarter to
Philly again not coming out what that defensive

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mindset, that same intensity you need
for forty eight minutes if you're going to

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be known as a very good defensive
team that can catch fire here and there

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offensively and has superstars. But it's
just not manifesting itself right now. And

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I know it's frustrating Clipper Nation.
Howie in the eight one eight, Howie,

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what's up? You're on? Clippers
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mean, the Lake Clippers lost,
but It was great to see Kawain a

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third quarter at some he was popping, he was dancing. It was really

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good. The one thing I wanted
to ask you about is how do you

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feel about coach Lew's rotations? Like
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Reggie was in there and they started
coming back and Reggie was going to the

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hoop and he's making some nice shots. Here's doing some nice things, and

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then like he he pulled him like
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It's kind of fast, and it
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pooped out. You know, he
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it seems like he's not given enough
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Regie had some back tightness. We
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there's one reason. I know,
obviously you didn't know that calling in.

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How didn't If you're talking big picture
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part, you know, we saw
some wingstop tonight. I thought there was

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a sense of urgency early in that
fourth quarter to get Terrence Man back in

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to get a beat, the Zoobots
back in when things weren't working with Moses

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Brown and Coach Low It is a
brutal job to have to juggle this much

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talent and figure out how to guys
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piece because I love brit Man.
Team Man's doing some tea Man is doing

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some great stuff. I love,
I love Team Man. He's doing He's

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really a He's a good piece for
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PG thirteen was Uh, he looked
kind of rusty tonight, which I

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can accept that. And you know, the seventy six ers are an elite

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team, so uh, having PG
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But it was a great third quarter
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know that's really they really played good
in the third quarters. They can do

406
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:34.319
that for four quarters. We got
something going. You know. That is

407
00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:37.240
key. That is the hope.
Thank you for the phone call. How

408
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:41.000
I appreciate it. Okay, thank
you? All right? How about this

409
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:44.119
quote from Paul George postgame. This
just came out. I'm seeing it from

410
00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:48.680
Law Murray here on Twitter. Paul
George quote, I mean, we've just

411
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.160
been behind the Baul just in terms
of injuries and lineups and guys in and

412
00:31:52.200 --> 00:32:00.480
out urgency starts. Now, Okay, let's see if they and flip that

413
00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:06.240
switch have some consistency here, Eddie
and Whittier. Eddie, you're on Clippers

414
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:09.400
stop without aim? Awesome? What's
up? Okay? What's up at him?

415
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:13.240
Uh? I just wanted to call
out some of the things I noticed

416
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.960
tonight. Maxey killed us Man,
he had a couple of threes that really

417
00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:21.079
just put them ahead. I liked
seeing Reggie's consistency, like he's back,

418
00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:24.559
He's playing some smarter basketball. I
still dislike Zo, man, he just

419
00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:29.759
should not be closing any games.
Just clumsy, big fellow. Question on

420
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:32.480
the turnovers. I know you said
eleven before and today it looked like it

421
00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:36.920
was eighteen. How many of those
were Paul George's turnovers? Because man,

422
00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:40.599
those are some ugly turnovers. And
then I'm gonna fire some shots. Just

423
00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:45.160
did he just went after big Zoo
like that? And I don't understand it

424
00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:50.440
in the league, dude, No, no, no, I got more.

425
00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:52.839
Man. What about Jason Powell,
that head trainer. Dude, we've

426
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:55.160
had him way too long and you
guys are always hurt, always hurt.

427
00:32:55.200 --> 00:33:01.720
Man. Appreciate the phone call,
Eddie, like they've been snake bit.

428
00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:08.039
There's no doubt and hopefully, as
I mentioned earlier, they can get together

429
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:14.279
with a run of good health heading
in to the playoffs. And if you're

430
00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:19.839
being realistic, nothing's guaranteed right now. Playoffs play in. I don't want

431
00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:22.839
to go Jim moraw with it playoffs. I heard it in my own voice

432
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:28.000
there for a second. They have
to get victories. As good as that

433
00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:31.839
third quarter was, there's not a
lot of silver linings. Yes, Kawhi

434
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:37.559
Leonard and the way he played that
is meaningful, That is long reaching because

435
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.400
he's got to play at that high
of a level if they're gonna have a

436
00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:43.599
chance of winning a championship. So
it looks like they have that trending in

437
00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:46.880
the right direction, but they gotta
get wins to get there to have a

438
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:52.200
chance. And the West is tough, and teams are climbing over one another.

439
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:58.240
And one of those teams they're going
to see tomorrow in the Utah Jazz

440
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:04.200
Lenny in Inglewood, Lenny here on
Clippers Style that as Adam, let's up

441
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:08.840
about him. Mom, you're right. The one thing that we can take

442
00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:14.239
from this is that Kauai is one
hundred percent back. I mean, he's

443
00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:19.039
just he's moving well, he's playing. I mean, it's not just offensively,

444
00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:22.119
he's back to his two ways.
I don't think it will know for

445
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:28.920
sure that he's one hundred one back
until we see him in a playoff setting,

446
00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:34.639
because you know, Kauhi has always
had that extra gear. That's true,

447
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:40.360
that's true. But he looks great. I'm glad to hear that the

448
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:47.440
front office is not done and you
know, I just don't know presently constructed,

449
00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:52.400
if this is the team that's going
to get us there. You know,

450
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:59.840
we we we definitely need some still
help with the you know, I'm

451
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:05.679
on court and I know I know
they're worked in, but you know what

452
00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:08.639
can we say, Man, this
is our team. We gotta we still

453
00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:10.840
got to stick it out with him, and I'm hoping they can. I'm

454
00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:16.719
hoping Luke Canar can finally get back
and stay back because it's all hands on

455
00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:21.000
deck. I'm like I said,
dude, that's a big loss. Lenny.

456
00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:23.320
I appreciate the phone call, and
I appreciate you bringing up that point.

457
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:28.599
Just not having Luke Kennard right now. Best three point shooter in the

458
00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:32.199
league last season was I think around
forty five percent before he got hurt.

459
00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:37.840
He was flirting with shooting fifty percent
from three at one point. That's tough.

460
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:43.800
And we do have an update Paul
George All he's out tomorrow in Utah.

461
00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:47.760
It's also tough. I kind of
expected that he was on a man's

462
00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:52.639
restriction. They just got him back
and you can't push it. I mean,

463
00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:57.119
did he try to play against the
Denver Nuggets exacerbated the injury, it

464
00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:04.199
sounds like, and then he missed
a handful of more games. So hopefully

465
00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:09.760
again the hope is back to backs. Aside, the Clippers can have a

466
00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:15.639
good run of health because they're coming
up their next eleven games. They're in

467
00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:21.000
nine cities and four time zones.
The end of January is what I always

468
00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:24.320
identified when I looked at the schedule
before the season as maybe the toughest part

469
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:29.440
the teeth of the schedule. So, yeah, they're gonna need guys back,

470
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:31.960
They're gonna need guys playing at a
high level. They're gonna need chemistry,

471
00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:37.199
continuity out there, and consistency.
It's the word. You're hearing a

472
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:43.199
lot okay uh Damien and Los Angeles
Damian and you're on Clippers stock without hm

473
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:52.519
Awsome triple ay man, it's tough
lot tough lot, bro I I'm still

474
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:55.639
trying to figure out in my mind
what happened in the in the fourth quarter,

475
00:36:55.760 --> 00:36:59.440
you know, because it seemed like
we were on the right track.

476
00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:04.199
It seemed like we had everything going. I would have liked to see Tyler

477
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:08.119
pulls the trigger on a substitution when
it wasn't working with Moses Brown. I

478
00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:13.719
know he started out with some energy, but you know, he started to

479
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:15.280
struggle there, and we kept him
in there maybe a little too long.

480
00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:20.920
I don't know, what are your
thoughts about that. I'm trying to look

481
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:24.239
up when he was taking out of
the ball game. I want to say

482
00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:28.880
it was around the eight minute mark, no nine minute mark. I mean

483
00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:31.719
he gave him three minutes. He
gave him less than three minutes and took

484
00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:37.519
him out. I think that's that's
a pretty quick trigger there. I think

485
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:40.079
that's fair. I suppose, you
know, like I don't know, man,

486
00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:44.920
it just maybe just because I was
there and it looked like it just

487
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:47.719
went downhill so fast. Well,
he had the offensive foul. It was

488
00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:52.360
a rough play, and turnovers really
did them in. And you know,

489
00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:58.719
they were able to once again be
their own worst enemies. And as much

490
00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:01.440
as they had pulled moment them away
and looked like they were in control in

491
00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:08.199
the third quarter between Maxie getting hot
the way he was and the Clippers turnovers,

492
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:13.119
they're just killers and they've been on
like that all season long. They

493
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:15.760
just even when they don't have big
turnover games sometimes and they have twelve,

494
00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:22.960
they have them at inopportune times.
Right, Yeah, yeah, that's very

495
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:24.400
true. You know, I want
to go next level with you because we

496
00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:28.280
do that sometimes, and I want
to talk about, you know, and

497
00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:31.280
just play a little bit about what
you were talking about, which is a

498
00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:38.079
championship mentality, which requires this focus
for four quarters that we really haven't seen

499
00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:43.960
from the team on a consistent basis, except you know, like you said,

500
00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:47.039
they've been very inconsistent. And you
know, that's one thing that I

501
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:50.639
worry about. You got a lot
of guys who talked about it before.

502
00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:57.400
You got an amalgamation of dudes that
are are not the guys. You know,

503
00:38:57.480 --> 00:38:59.920
for the most part, you've had
a lot of guys that have been

504
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:05.039
uber two number three guys that are
not used to being front runners. That's

505
00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:07.679
not really even our DNA because we've
been talking about being blue collar guys and

506
00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:13.960
being the underdogs just so long.
I worry that these guys are getting maybe

507
00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:19.679
a little bit too much in their
head about the end result of even games.

508
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:22.840
And so it's not getting the fourth
quarter production that we need. You

509
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:25.920
know, we got we got to
play the fourth quarters. We gotta take

510
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:29.760
at one quarter at a time,
one possession at a time, whatever it

511
00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:31.800
is that we need to do.
We need to break it down to the

512
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:37.960
idio secrecies that you know are necessary
in order for us to get the wins

513
00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:43.079
on a consistent basis. Just feel
like, but I hear what you're saying.

514
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:45.599
One thing I will point out,
and it's hard to put your finger

515
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:52.280
on why they come out so lacks
a daisical or lethargic sometimes, and sometimes

516
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:58.199
you can mistake, you know,
a team with low energy for not giving

517
00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:01.960
effort. Sometimes though you look at
it and say it's an older team,

518
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:08.280
it is overall, especially at key
positions. And I do think this team

519
00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:14.800
is built more for the playoffs than
the long, eighty two game regular season.

520
00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:19.000
And maybe that's a fault of theirs
that they have one eye on the

521
00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:23.960
postseason already. I don't know,
But older teams you do see this.

522
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:29.159
You used to see it at times
with the Spurs with Greg Pavovic, even

523
00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:32.760
when they had a young Kawhi Leonard
there, some of the older guys would

524
00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:37.800
get them off the soil starts.
What's the lowest seed you would like to

525
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:43.519
see the clickers going into the playoffs? Like? What would be your baseline

526
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:45.920
bottom line? Like, I don't
want to see them below fifth seed?

527
00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:49.760
What will that be for you?
Because I'm thinking like, I don't want

528
00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:52.199
to see him in the fourth or
fifth, but it's looking like the fourth

529
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.079
or fifth for me. I wouldn't
want to see them lower than four,

530
00:40:57.159 --> 00:41:00.239
if I'm being honest about it.
No team lower than three has won since

531
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:05.719
the ninety five Houston Rockets, But
the game has changed so much the way

532
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:10.400
teams manage players during the regular season. Regular season records now can be so

533
00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:15.000
injury influenced or load managed that they're
not as telling as to how good a

534
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:19.440
squad is or how elite they might
be. Damian, I appreciate the phone

535
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:21.960
call as always, my friend,
I gotta take a quick time out here.

536
00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:24.679
Eight six six ninety eight seven two
five seventy eight six six ninety seven,

537
00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:29.440
two five seventy is the phone number, and right now Clippers are three

538
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:34.679
games back of the four seed at
twenty three and twenty three. Sacramento Kings

539
00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:38.159
in that four spot at twenty four
and eighteen. Coming up next, we'll

540
00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:43.039
have Charles macklron from Clips and Dip. We'll get back to your phone calls.

541
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:49.719
Lamm's on old tagus Morris. If
Jose calls back, we'll get to

542
00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:55.880
you all right here on Clippers stock
unning at five seventy four would have added

543
00:41:55.920 --> 00:42:05.480
to a value LA Clippers basketball.
Continue pis in his pains as he carries

544
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:13.239
the three on the home of your
LA Clippers. Last time that chains on

545
00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:21.599
my name home sixers the Clippers coming
up back to your phone, calls Jose

546
00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:28.880
Morris, Hold on, we'll get
to you at eight six six nine eight

547
00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:32.400
seven two five seventy eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy Right now

548
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:37.519
joining the show from Clips and Dip
for some Clips and double dip as Charles

549
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:42.320
Mockler, Charles, let's jump right
into it here. Where was this game

550
00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:47.239
lost in your opinion for the Clippers? Oh? Man, I mean it's

551
00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:51.400
so tough because we you know,
we saw three quarters of good basketball,

552
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:54.079
but that doesn't really mean anything in
the NBA if you can't play the fourth

553
00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:59.840
quarter at all. So it was
I don't know. I want to say

554
00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:04.519
the beginning of the fourth, I
want to say when Maxi decided to do

555
00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:08.639
his best prime lou Will impression,
it just felt like it kind of unraveled

556
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:14.000
so quickly once there was a little
bit of slippage late in the third carrying

557
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:19.360
over the fourth quarter for the Clippers. Yeah, Maxi hit some incredibly difficult

558
00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:22.039
shots, got to the free throw
line, as did the entire team for

559
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.480
Philly, And you could say with
the Clippers being in the penalty with I

560
00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:30.320
think eight minutes left in the fourth
quarter, that was huge because then there's

561
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:35.760
just no margin for air, a
tough team to defend already, and you're

562
00:43:35.800 --> 00:43:37.840
just giving up shots at the charity
stripe. I want to say they took

563
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:43.079
about ten there in the fourth.
Joe l Embiid was impressive, but he

564
00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:45.960
only needed I think five of his
forty one for them to close this thing

565
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.840
out. In that final period,
Clippers looked like they ran out of gas.

566
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:52.400
But there's something else we were talking
about getting off to slow starts.

567
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:55.559
We've talked about it at a Ton
coach coach Lewis talked about it a lot

568
00:43:55.840 --> 00:44:00.760
for good reason. They give up
thirty four points in that first quarter.

569
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:06.039
That defensive mindset, that intensity from
the jump, it just hasn't been there,

570
00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:09.679
and it's hard to pinpoint why.
Some could say it's a lack of

571
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:15.320
focus. You could throw out and
I did that. It's an older team

572
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:17.760
and sometimes it just takes them a
little bit to get their second win and

573
00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:22.440
get going. I don't know what
are you seeing out there, Charles with

574
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:28.039
the Clippers lack of quick starts.
I think part of you know, I'd

575
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:31.079
love seeing Terence Man in the in
the starting lineup because we get a little

576
00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:36.039
more you know, juice from that
point guard position. You know, the

577
00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:39.360
size can bang around and flash and
things like that compared to Reggie. But

578
00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:43.039
I think one of the biggest issues
with this team right now is there's no

579
00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:47.119
real identity, right like, are
we a team that plays really scrappy defense?

580
00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:51.800
Not really lately? You know,
are we the hot shooting team from

581
00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:55.519
outside like we were last year?
Not really lately. And it feels like

582
00:44:55.559 --> 00:45:00.679
it's almost Game six or something like
that in terms of this team still figure

583
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:04.000
out who it is. So I
think when you're not able to hang your

584
00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:07.360
hat. I'm kind of a default, you know, we do this well,

585
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:10.480
let's kind of tap into this early
or something that you know, lets

586
00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:15.440
you kind of feel a little bit
of good momentum early. It's just really

587
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:17.960
hard to kind of conjure that out
of thin air. Plus, you know,

588
00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:22.559
the lack of community starting lineup.
So yeah, I think the lack

589
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:24.639
of identity is really hurting the Clippers
right now. I don't know what they

590
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:28.480
need to get that fixed. I
don't know what Tyler can do, but

591
00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:31.239
part of me thinks it starts on
the defensive side of the ball. Maybe

592
00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:36.679
there's a swap coming in with Morris
and the starting lineup, But I don't

593
00:45:36.679 --> 00:45:38.559
know. There's just nothing that you
can point to right now and say the

594
00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:43.679
Clippers do this well, they should
do it, you know, earlier in

595
00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:47.400
the game consistently and with Moore's back
in the starting lineup with Terrence Man.

596
00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:52.920
Now, this was the seventeenth different
starting lineup through forty six games so far

597
00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:58.239
this season for the Clippers. Okay, bright spots, there were some.

598
00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:05.159
Kawhi Letterard in that third quarter looked
as good as he has since the injury,

599
00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:07.519
because it wasn't even you know,
he wasn't dunking in or anything like

600
00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:13.360
that. It was just him quickly
getting to his spots and getting those tough,

601
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:16.960
mid range, unguardable shots up,
those high degree of difficulty shots up,

602
00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:20.920
and just cooking PJ. Tucker for
the most part. It was so

603
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:24.000
impressive to watch. Yeah, he
had him just I think over or close

604
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:27.519
to half his place from that third
quarter, and that is where it felt

605
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.119
like the Clippers, maybe because of
really made some noise, had some other

606
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:34.119
you know, things gone their way. But it is grace. See Kwai

607
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:37.360
learned playing at this level right now
kind of rough that, you know,

608
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:40.800
a performance like this one. I'm
not sure if we're gonna see him play

609
00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:44.639
tomorrow against the Jazz, which if
Paul George's on the Master Stix, I

610
00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:46.679
don't think he'll played tomorrow either,
So he's out. We got him try

611
00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:51.719
and know that. Yeah, he's
out. So if Kawai doesn't play,

612
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:53.280
it's gonna be tough to try and
split this back to back, but it

613
00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:58.199
is gonna see Kwai playing well.
I love that quote he had I think

614
00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:00.440
two games ago about how you know
he's not coming in to try and jack

615
00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:02.760
up shots when he's kind of on
this ramp up period. He's trying to

616
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:07.519
play good team basketball, and he
played good team basketball. Would have been

617
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:08.800
nice to see Paul George take over
a little bit more. You only had

618
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:13.840
eleven shots to Kawai's twenty, and
I know Kawhi was playing really well.

619
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.960
But you know, we'll get this
balance figured out hopefully soon. But yeah,

620
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:20.719
all credits are Kauai, who is
you know, playing some of the

621
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best basketball right now. It's funny
and you could just say, oh,

622
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well, he's coming back. He
hasn't played in about a couple of weeks.

623
00:47:27.159 --> 00:47:30.360
He's got the hamstring injury, and
maybe that's why he's tentative out there.

624
00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:34.559
But it's not like this is the
first time we've seen this from Paul

625
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:38.320
George where he almost gets lost in
the sauce watching Kawhi Leonard go off like

626
00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:43.199
that. But you gotta have both
of them be in rhythm. And when

627
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:45.239
Kauhai is not there to start the
fourth and it's Paul George out there and

628
00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:51.480
he's cold and deferring. It's just
been a trend that I've noticed, especially

629
00:47:51.519 --> 00:47:54.719
this season, from him at times
here and there. It's got to change.

630
00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:59.320
He's got to be more aggressive Yeah, it's a bit up and down.

631
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:01.320
I feel that it's not kind of
permeating the other Clippers. You know,

632
00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:06.559
we got to see Terrace Ban was
aggressive from the three point line today.

633
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:09.400
No thirty three percent, which isn't
you know, totally gonna kill it.

634
00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:12.480
But he did hit some two clutch
ones when we needed to kind of

635
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.840
get through a bet him going.
But you're totally right. The field goal

636
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:22.039
attempts for Paul George have been weird
kind of all season. We're still kind

637
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of, like I said, finding
that balance where both these guys can dominate

638
00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:28.599
right now. It took a minute
to find it, you know, the

639
00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:30.480
season and we were going to the
Western Conference finals. We saw a little

640
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:34.639
bit there, but now they've been
super consistent the entire ten years. So

641
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I'm with you. I hope as
he gets this minute restriction, you know,

642
00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:40.280
I guess further into we can feel
more confident. Because he started off

643
00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:44.119
so well in this one. He
had seven points in the first quarter,

644
00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:46.159
and then it just, you know, like you said, he just kind

645
00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:50.480
of deferred a little bit and he
wasn't visible out there. So I mean,

646
00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:52.719
maybe they need to draw some more
stuff up. Maybe we need to

647
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:54.800
stagger Kway and PG to try and
get, you know, an effective game

648
00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:58.800
from both of them at once,
but that that might mess with the playoff

649
00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:05.360
rotation. So still kind of a
terrifying him out to figure out forty six

650
00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:08.639
or so games for the Clippers.
I think Paul George and his feast or

651
00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:15.000
famine ways with his shot just exemplifies
how consistently inconsistent the team has been.

652
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:19.760
And if that's your identity, that's
a problem. He is. Charles Mockler

653
00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:23.559
from Clips and Dip. Charles,
thanks for doing this tonight post game man.

654
00:49:23.599 --> 00:49:28.599
I appreciate it. We'll do a
podcast to Tripods soon with ourselves and

655
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:34.119
William Updyke. No doubt absolutely we
will coming up next. Back to your

656
00:49:34.119 --> 00:49:37.639
phone calls, we'll get to him
eight six six nine eight seven two five

657
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seventy eight six six ninety eight seven
two five seventy. After the Clippers lose

658
00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:45.079
one twenty two one ten at home
to the Philadelphia seventy six ers in playing

659
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:49.800
in Utah tomorrow, we already know
no Paul George. If Kawhi does play,

660
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:52.440
that would be the first back to
back he's played both games, and

661
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:54.519
we shall see looking for an update
on that as well, you're on AM

662
00:49:54.559 --> 00:50:07.599
five seventy Well Sports and it was
blocked by George. This this LA Clippers

663
00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:12.639
basketball. He is a one man
ricket crawl and defends a man on the

664
00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:15.480
home of your LA Clippers. Not
over think in my life, not always

665
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:20.639
wanted to rent if I'm a likable
person as someone who's doing as they dropped

666
00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:22.880
another one tonight, guest time to
the seventy six ers one twenty two,

667
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:28.000
one ten and they were just down
by one nswering the fourth quarter. Welcome

668
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:31.480
back in the Clipper Stock. I'm
out of Oslin. Back your calls Sean

669
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:37.119
and Hawthorne mean Sean, what's up
here a Clipper stock? Hey Adam,

670
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:42.599
how are you doing? Hi?
Sean Hight Basically you caught me in line

671
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.760
at the grocery store. But I'll
be brief. Can you get me some

672
00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:50.000
of those frosted Mother's cookies? I
love those things, the pink, the

673
00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:53.280
white oak crackers. You got it
cooled up just like they would a burger

674
00:50:53.480 --> 00:51:00.639
order when I was in Houston.
Okay, listen, uh look, Tyler

675
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:02.519
needs to do a better job.
I don't care what you say about this

676
00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:07.199
guy's night. End that guy's night. End. He lost about four games

677
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:10.719
on that road strip in the last
minute a close game. When you lose

678
00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:15.639
close games, it's a coach to
get blown own just to play okay.

679
00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:20.519
And we need a power forward.
We can't have a starting power forward that's

680
00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:23.679
everything less than five rebounds a game. We need a six ten, six

681
00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:28.440
to eleven power forward. And Tyler
was such a great coach now, so

682
00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:31.400
he would put Brown in and Zoombak
in at the same time. Instead of

683
00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:36.639
letting him be go for eighty points
in two games against them, We're already

684
00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:39.440
going. I'm sure that wouldn't lead
to more three pointers for the Philadelphia seventy

685
00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:44.039
six ers or anything. Let him
shoot three pointers. They got to hit

686
00:51:44.119 --> 00:51:49.079
him, and they did. They
shot forty two percent from there. I

687
00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:52.960
don't know if Moses Brown guarding guys
in the perimeter. Is it? As

688
00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:57.000
the kids say, Sean, I
appreciate the phone call. I know you

689
00:51:57.159 --> 00:52:01.280
like the big man old school basketball. Uh lamar in Pasadena, as we

690
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:06.679
gotta go rapid fire here he's going, uh adam, just a couple of

691
00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:09.400
quick points. I agree with the
last call. The couple last three or

692
00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:14.400
four games has come down to tyrone
move and the coaching decisions. I mean

693
00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:20.599
he's riding Norman Powell, who's not
giving him anything. John Wallas comings been

694
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:23.199
not giving anything. He's been one
of their best players the last month.

695
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:29.639
How if you if you look at
the key turnovers he haves and miss shots

696
00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:34.119
open opportunities. I mean it comes
down to how does your how did your

697
00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:37.760
your blender keeping the game? You
have our own opinions, but not our

698
00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:42.679
own facts. I mean, Nora
Powell has been averaging over the last month

699
00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:49.440
eighteen points while shooting forty eight percent
from the field and over forty percent from

700
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:53.599
three. I don't think Pal's the
problem. Well, he definitely has maken

701
00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:58.840
some mistakes like tonight, Okay,
sold a lot of guys and he had

702
00:52:58.880 --> 00:53:01.760
a bad night tonight. Yeah,
it seems like more bad than good.

703
00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:05.360
But I mean, aside from that
coach side round Loup. But Maxie,

704
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:07.880
I mean, would he have to
Sports twenty before you start stepping up on

705
00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:09.920
the screens then the big gun out. It's just it's just small, small

706
00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:14.719
things that have you know, continued
to snowball and it's bigger things and they

707
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:17.480
do need a big to help out, and they're shooting has been Terlor Mars

708
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:22.400
who's been horrible, and it's been
just Paul George when Kwai is not deable,

709
00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:25.360
When Kwaie's then Paul George gets lost. So they need to figure it

710
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:29.920
out. As far as the continuity
and getting to set good eight players that

711
00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:31.400
are going to play instead of every
other night, you don't know who's going

712
00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:36.800
to be out there. I appreciate
the phone call, and I agree with

713
00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:40.559
some of that. At the end, rotations have been shortened and they need

714
00:53:40.559 --> 00:53:45.880
more continuity and guys probably at this
point of the season need to be more

715
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:50.960
familiar with what's expected of them in
their roles. But I'm not putting it

716
00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:54.199
on coach Lou. I think there's
a lot of issues right now going on

717
00:53:54.280 --> 00:54:00.639
with this team. So just point
that one guy or one player that's missing.

718
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:04.039
It's bigger than that. When you're
at five hundred and forty six games

719
00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:08.039
in, Jose is back, Jose
and Downey, what's up? Hey?

720
00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:10.800
How you doing? Man? I'm
sorry for the in and out. Man's

721
00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:17.639
pretty good Burgers. I was at
the game, and some things that stuck

722
00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:22.880
out is Zoo and Moses Brown not
running out there to cover the three.

723
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:28.519
Those were some big shots that they
hit on us. The other thing too,

724
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:30.960
I think you were talking about the
players knowing their assignments, that we're

725
00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:35.480
gonna be switching so much on defense. There was a couple times in that

726
00:54:35.559 --> 00:54:39.360
fourth when Maxi and I think it
was Nieyang hit the threes in those first

727
00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:45.119
four minutes of the fourth, two
players running away from the ball not knowing

728
00:54:45.119 --> 00:54:47.320
their assignments, and then those shots
were hit. Yeah, Niang hit a

729
00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:51.920
couple of backbreaking three porters. He
hit a couple on the third quarter to

730
00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:53.800
keep it, you know, when
the Clippers were making their big push to

731
00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:59.119
keep it close enough when they were
out scored by ten Philly Clippers in that

732
00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:04.039
third. But in the previous cause, I mean, it's easy to probably

733
00:55:04.039 --> 00:55:09.159
point fingers at coach Loop with the
inconsistency of who's gonna be in and who

734
00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:15.000
who's out today, and it's hard
to do that. But those assignments from

735
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:19.559
the assignments are really hurtin us.
Yeah. Now I appreciate the phone call,

736
00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:22.760
Jose. I'm glad you uh persevered
and got on with us to close

737
00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:35.159
things out. Morris Morrison log bitch
on Clipper sauda night no no no,

738
00:55:35.159 --> 00:55:38.280
no, no, no. Welcome
from the Clippers. We got another game.

739
00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:43.519
Never give a thought about who we
play. The Lakers go to stay.

740
00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:47.599
If you buy tickets, you got
to bring the noise. Ain't nobody's

741
00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:52.400
sitting down watching the game. Everybody's
standing up with the voice a jungle Clippers

742
00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:57.960
gonna rumble. Got me so excited. One two Clippers got to get to

743
00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:00.440
rebounding. Then they got to do
the down those guards. I've got to

744
00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:06.599
get the ball out and start dead
break. All right, let's walk Axel

745
00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:10.760
Rosie's your heart out. Thank you, Morris, appreciate it. That'll close

746
00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:19.800
things out. It's a positivity within
the song. I'm just someone wanting to

747
00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:22.840
sing a song itself. After the
Clippers lose by ten, and I've lost

748
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:28.400
eight of ten. But tomorrow night
in Utah, Big Ball game six pm.

749
00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:31.159
Tip's five pm pregame show with Clippers
countdown before you get out of here.

750
00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:35.599
I do want to thank the Clippers
organization. Noah Eagle, I ain't

751
00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:38.440
Eagle. Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawlor, big brother, Jake Warner, our

752
00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:44.400
head engineer here in downtown Los Angeles, Katie Newton, our producer back in

753
00:56:44.519 --> 00:56:50.760
burbank, Patton Calvin until tomorrow with
Clippers countdown starting at five. I'm at

754
00:56:50.760 --> 00:57:00.559
Amslin. We will talk to you. This has been Clippers Talk, a

755
00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:06.920
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00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:21.280
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