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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 Kawhi Leonard is
so smooth in the mid range. This

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

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your hope for LA Clippers basketball.
And now your host, You sir,

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are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers dropped a seven and six on

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the season as they lose by fifteen
to the Brooklyn Nets. Welcome into your

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postgame show. This is well coming
up off Clippers stock for you. This

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is your network post game show.
We'll have second half highlights, your postgame

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box scoring. You'll hear from coach
Lou and the players after this one.

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But first, back to downtown Los
Angeles and back to her voice of the

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Clippers well combining third quarter and fourth
quarter droughts in the second half, Noah

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Eagle, the Clippers almost went eleven
minutes without a field goal. Tough to

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beat the Brooklyn team doing that.
Yeah, and look they were still right

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there in it. That's the craziest
part and a credit to their defense for

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the way they played for the majority
of this game. But looks at Curry

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got hot and if Seth Curry gets
hot, there's only so much you can

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do. Because he was hitting some
contested shots by the time, they let

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him get into some rhythm, and
I think that that's really what sealed this

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game. Durant was great through the
first three but he only scored two points

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in the fourth quarter because he didn't
have to, because Seth had fourteen fourth

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quarter points in twenty two. Overall, went four of eight from three,

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but all four of them coming in
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just that type of game to the
Clippers, and I don't think they should

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feel all that bad about the way
they played. For the most part,

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it was just the finish and to
your point, the Wolls and that's where

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you got to be aggressive and try
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line because they were doing such a
great job of it and it was allowing

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them to take breath, set their
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they fall behind and they just it's
an insurmountable lead when it was all

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said and done. Late in that
fourth quarter, they just could not find

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that rhythm that they needed to yew
Paul George has his first bad game in

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a couple of weeks. Now what
the Clippers had. Hey, it wasn't

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five of six coming into this game
PG thirteen, just five of twenty one

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from the field. On a positive
side, though, it beats the Zubots

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was sixteen in fifteen. Big Zoo
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there. Yeah, his second fifteen
fifteen game of the season. That's more

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than he had all of last year
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And that should just tell you the
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He's getting more minutes, but he
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that type of production. Now,
he did get in foul trouble four or

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six on the free throw line six
of eight. Overall, he and Claxton

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were battling. Both had monster double
doubles. But I thought Zubots was great

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and has been all season. And
when they're getting this level of production out

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of him, you could tell they
were trying to feature him. It was

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easier said than done. Brooklyn was
doing a good job of swarming once they

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got the ball to him. But
overall, this is a very stellar performance

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from Zubots. Another step in that
development, and we'll see if they can

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use whatever momentum he has into a
game against Houston where Shane Goon was great

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in that matchup last time, but
man Zubots always seems to have great games

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against the Rockets. Yeah, Clippers
doing a little Texas two step back to

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back Monday and Tuesday's starting in Houston
Monday night than in Dallas. Tuesday night

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tip off in Houston will be at
five. We'll have Clippers countdown for you

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starting at four. Noah Eagle,
great call as always. We'll talk to

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you from Htown on Monday. Ady
can't wait coming up next? Second half

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highlights. Clippers fall one ten to
ninety five to the Brooklyn Nets and downtown

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Los Angeles. You're listening to the
Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network. Oh,

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Paul George LA Clippers Basketball continue fis
in his pains as he carries the three

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on the home of your LA Clippers's
downble. Clippers lose one ten to ninety

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five to Kevin durand the Brooklyn Nets
and Downtown Los Angeles. Welcome back into

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your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin. Still to come on a m five

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seventy LA Sports. We'll have Clippers
stock for you eight six, six,

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nine, eight seven two five seventy
eight six six nine eight seven two five

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seventy is the phone number. Let's
dig into this post game box score.

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Clippers ear must for the kids.
They shoot forty percent from the field,

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go eleven of thirty two from the
outside, and started the fourth quarter one

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of seven from three while well the
other Curry seth Curry was going off.

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He had all four of his three
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with twenty two points. Clippers high
was seventeen from Paul George on five of

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twenty one shooting. All good things
must come to an end. The Western

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Conference player of the Week last week. It was his first time that he

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had struggled really in his last seven
games now, but it finally happened.

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He went one of six from the
outside and the Clippers went ice cold into

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the third quarter for about six and
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fourth for about four and a half
minutes, where in neither of those time

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periods did they make a field goal, and they fall to Kevin Durant,

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who had twenty seven on ten of
sixteen shooting in the Brooklyn nets one ten

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to ninety five coming up while a
postgame audio from Coach Low and the players.

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Clippers dropped to seven and six on
the season, Brooklyn improves to six

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and seven. You're listening to the
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Clippers Talk. Here's a new sheriff
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deny it. You're going to go
to the NBA Finals. I believe in

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my heart this is the best team
in the history of the franchise. I

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am all about the Clipper Nation.
This is Clippers Talk. They're trying to

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win the whole thing. A postgame
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your host of Clippers Talk. Here's
Adam Ousley. Oh that was Seth Curry

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and Kevin Durant. A different splash
brother this time. Clippers lose one ten

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to ninety five to the Brooklyn Nets. Welcome in to Clippers Talk. I'm

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out of Oslin to eight six six
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the show, we're looking for post
game audio from coach lou and the players.

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And what was a frustrating loss similar
to what we saw in their last

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loss to the Utah Jazz, where
the Clippers just went ice cold near the

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end of the game. And it
wasn't even just the fourth quarter where they

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went into a shooting slump. It
started into the third where they went almost

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six and a half minutes without a
made field goal until that Norman Powell dunk

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with point five seconds left to end
the period. Clippers offense just stalling out,

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and then in the fourth to start
things off, they were one of

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seven from three. And meanwhile Seth
Curry, who started the game Oha four

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from the outside, goes four of
four from three in the fourth quarter and

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just buried the Clippers with those three
pointers. Clippers lose by fifteen and what

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was a much closer game, a
back and fourth, third quarter, back

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and fourth, early fourth quarter.
John Wall scored or generated eleven straight at

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one point in the fourth quarter for
the Clippers, finished with fourteen, but

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Paul George he was due for a
bad game. Five at twenty one seventeen

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points. Just struggled after in his
last six averaging over thirty on fifty five

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percent shooting from the field and forty
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the outside shooting was what failed the
Clippers again on the season, they have

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not shot the basketball very well.
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weeks, and their offense has been
much better overall, but they just petered

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out and limped across the finish line
late. They got two of eight total

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in the fourth quarter, but really
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guards rich time, how every want
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of the three pointer made by Norman
Powell with two minutes left after the Clippers

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were already down by twelve, and
while they were missing, the nets were

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hidden. Even with Kevin Durant just
getting two of his twenty seven points in

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the fourth doesn't matter when Seth Curry
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Clippers didn't have an answer on the
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many three pointers in what was a
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Hence the frustration Clippers had opportunities.
They were right there. They weren't playing

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well, and they had it to
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They weren't playing well and had it
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they couldn't get over the hump,
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and they ended up shooting forty percent
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from the outside. But again,
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fourth quarter just went ice cold.
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six to forty one. They were
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He was my player to watch for
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small. Didn't play as usual thirty
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sixteen and fifteen. Marcus Morris got
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playing just twenty eight minutes himself and
finished with thirteen points. They had flashes

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here and there, but the production
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from Terrence Man, from Norman Powell
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finished with six points, just two
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shots he knocked down. You could
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he still had sixteen. Some of
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the game, and John Wall had
his moments too, and he went two

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a four from distance. But Terrence
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had been having the last three games, where he was a plus sixteen and

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their victory Wednesday night tied for a
team high against the Lakers, and had

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been shooting the ball very well back
coming into this game. He was shooting

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sixty two percent from the field,
a staid in Moses Brown and all those

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dunks. He had the second highest
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goes one for five in eighteen minutes. Just didn't have the juice, wasn't

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able to get it going. And
Paul George when he struggles like this,

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yeah, typically without Kawhi Leonard.
Right now, if nobody else is going

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to get above twenty points, it's
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against a Brooklyn team that all of
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If you want to say the Clippers
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wrong time, you could, because
the Nets the last six games have been

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given up less than ninety six a
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all of a sudden, without Kyrie
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one when they started off the season
two and six with him. Defensively,

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they've been the best team in the
NBA the last couple of weeks, and

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they showed it. But I thought
the Clippers they played into their hand a

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little bit, just settling for too
many shots from the outside when in fourth

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quarters. This season, they especially
have struggled from three, shooting twenty nine

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percent coming into this one. In
close games during clutch time last five minutes

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within five points, they were shooting
twenty eight percent from three. But they

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had a good net rating and clutch
time they had been winning a lot of

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those close games. They were top
ten in net rating, but the three

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point shooting failed them. Maybe it
was tired legs law of averages, not

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that they started off that hot from
the outside. But this is a team

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capable of much more. And once
again Nick Batoum, who did have two

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emphatic blocks, one on Joe Harris
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block went five o three. The
shooting struggles from the outside continue for Batum.

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Not sure what it is, just
early season funk, I think,

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but they didn't have enough support to
lift up a bad game from Paul George

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shooting wise, although he was still
spectacular defensively. That block on Claxton at

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the rim who looked to have an
easy one. But if Paul George struggles

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like this and I'm still glad he
got up twenty one shots, don't get

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me wrong, the aggressiveness was there. You're just gonna have nights like these.

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Somebody else has got to be a
lot more efficient and catch fire to

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help support the offense against a good
defensive Brooklyn Nets team all of a sudden,

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really good because Kevin Durant had that
efficient twenty seven on just sixteen shots,

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and Sumner got off to a quick
start. Royce O'Neill he hit three

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three pointers, but then Seth not
Steph with a separate list like performance on

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the fourth quarter four three pointers,
four a four shooting while the Clippers were

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ice cold and went without a field
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in the fourth. That's the story
of the ball game. Plus sixteen turnovers

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from the Clippers. They had five
of them in the first quarter. That

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continues to be a problem. They
were much better the last five games.

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They were only turning it over just
under fourteen a game. They looked to

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have that back in line, but
not good enough down the stretch, not

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good enough in the second half.
What do you have? Let's see about

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eleven minutes in the second half where
the Clippers went without a field goal.

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All right, let's start with John. Is he leaving the game? Is

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that? What it is? At? John leaving the game? John?

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What's up here on Clippers stock?
Hey? John? Say what's it good?

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John was at the game and I
basically my observation has been well,

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in this particular game and even the
last few games that I've been watching,

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there's not a lot of ball movement. It's a lot of hero ball from

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John Wall. It's a lot of
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type of basketball. If you look
at the Brooklyn's offense, how they you

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know they move the ball? Oh
flows every time you know they want to.

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The Clippers want to shoot it up
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not even looking for a good shot. I think that there's a lot of

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coaching to be done, a lot
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when I'm seeing this is not going
to win into win to a championship,

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Well, John, there's something to
that. I think the ball movement could

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improve. The Clippers still had twenty
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they're twenty seventh, just averaging twenty
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sparked by Paul George and his play, But he was due for a bad

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then who's going to pick up the
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and twenty six minutes, but he's
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somebody who was averaging nineteen in his
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that's next to Dame, next to
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much closer game till the Clippers went
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your phone calls, let's pause ten
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need to what do you mean we
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for it. It's on AM five
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I wrong? All right? Maybe
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Am I wrong? No? You
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Let me look here, man,
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just connecting me at last time,
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personal brouh Letty, do I not
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That's not disconnecting me off right.
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see what the other listeners think.
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listen, So let me let me
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right now, let's be honest.
The Clippers the toughest team they've beaten was

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Cleveland, and they beat them on
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Clippers are on a back to back
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They played Houston, right, because
you're right, back to back,

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back to back. But they were
at home. Come on, they were

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at home. Don't take don't take
that away from him. Don't take that

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away from him. You're right you're
right, You're right, You're right,

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But I'm just saying that was the
that was the best when years so far,

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which I can graduate Paul George Hapson
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uh, you know, I really
like the job Wall brings, but

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let's be honest. As of right
now, he couldn't hit a parking lot

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from a second four a balcony.
His outside shot is not there. He's

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got great speed, great distribution.
I'm hoping it comes there. I just

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don't remember him his his his his
shooting mopen. I just thought he had

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better uh shooting, the ability when
using DC. So maybe it's just a

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timing thing, but usually a shot
a shooters can shoot. But I just

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see problems with our point guard situation. And I don't think Kauhi is gonna

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come back and six anything. No
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just this team is gonna go from
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and like I just I there's some
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the front office and some people look
confhysic because I I just don't see it

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there right now. We can't.
We gotta have a point guard in the

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West coast that can stick the open
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we need outside shooting from the point
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that is that is a key position. I'm hoping TYLERU, well, Tyler

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is. You know, he's still
one of the best coaches. But I

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just see some problems. Man,
I don't see us beating good teams right

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now. And it's just the now, you know, ball don't lie.

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It's just I mean, who we
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right back to back up, Okay, back to back, so you know,

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we'll see what happens against Dallas.
But Dallas is is another really good

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team, another good test for us, and you know it's gonna come.

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It's gonna be real evident here in
in two weeks where we got because that

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that'll be right about the time.
But I think, Kuhi when I'm with

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everything I'm reading and here, and
he's probably gonna, you know, maybe

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getting itself back into some sort of
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into the holiday season, man,
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something's got to be done or it's
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I appreciate the phone call. Did
I Did I give you a fair time?

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Yeah? I appreciate you all right. Look, john Wall has struggled

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from the outside so far this season, shooting twenty one percent from three.

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for his three point shooting. It
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as a Clipper isn't dependent on whether
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It's depending on whether or not he's
pushing the pace. He's getting others

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easier shots too, and I think
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Definitely, he had to kick out
to Marcus Morris. I mentioned in

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that fourth quarter at one point he
generated eleven points either with his scoring or

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with his passing ability. And actually
on the sea. He's having the highest

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two point percentage of his career at
fifty three percent, so is effective field

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goal percentage overall? Has him been
bad? Even though he's missing far too

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many free throws right now, he
knows it. He called himself out.

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He's shooting him like Shack. He
was better in that area. I think

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he went three of four two or
three from the free throw line in this

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one. Yeah, he's got to
be better there, because if you're drawing

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as many fouls as he is,
he's got to be able to stick the

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free beast hasn't been doing it so
far. I don't think it's necessary for

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the Clippers to have a point guard
that's a great shooter. They have so

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many great shooters around him. You
just had to find those guys, find

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Luke Kennard who did go two or
four from the outside. The Clippers have

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a lot of good three point shooters
that just aren't shooting it well enough so

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far this season, and especially in
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in general, in the year they've
been at their worst pretty much. Some

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of those shots, just law of
average, are going to turn back in

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their favor. They will, because
right now, after shooting thirty seven percent

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from three last season, after getting
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shooting it at thirty three percent so
far this year. Two years ago they

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were at forty one percent from the
outside. And you can't put it all

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on Kawhi and say he's just gonna
fix everything for this team. I agree

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with that, but is he going
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their offense, the efficiency offensively,
where they've been a bottom three offense while

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being a top three defense. Yeah, I think so. I don't think

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it's gonna take that long because the
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They were just outside being a top
ten offense the last five games coming

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into this one. But Brooklyn,
all of a sudden, has been a

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juggernaut on the defensive end, and
the Clippers have lost five of their last

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six to the Nets, and in
the nets last five games, they've held

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opponents to just ninety one points per
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twenty five plus in all thirteen games
this season. Nobody else has been scoring

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at that high of eclip and Clason
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the Nets, I don't know if
they're peaking, but they're playing some of

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their best basketball right now, and
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the Clippers may have just seen a
team at the wrong time, but Paul

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George him going five to twenty one
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that's an outlier that'll change. Clippers
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the Brooklyn Nets coming up next.
More Clippers stock. We're looking for pro

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Dagastino or satistician to the stars,
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counted from distance, the odds on
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and it doesn't matter. On the
home of your LA Clippers. It

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was eighty nine eighty eight. Brooklyn
was six forty three left after a John

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Wall jumper. Clippers were within one. The next bucket they would get would

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be at the two oh one mark
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down one oh four to ninety one. Now they lose one, ten to

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ninety five to the Brooklyn Nets in
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for four from three in the fourth. Kevin Durant finished with twenty seven in

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the victory for Brooklyn. They send
your LA Clippers to seven and six on

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the season. Welcome back into Clippers
talk. I'm atam oslin to eight sixty

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Kenny in Cyprus, Kenny, what's up

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here on Clippers talk? All right? I was wondering what your take is

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on how well they're moving the ball. They're not so much. I think

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some if I can tell that somebody's
going to pound the ball and then skunk

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up at three, are competition?
Sure they can, right, Sure that's

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fair, Kenny. Look, I
point out the numbers earlier. They're a

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bottom team when it comes to assist
per game. That's twenty one and a

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half per game. They were just
above that with twenty two in this game

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and a lot of that though so
far the season. You know, they

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only get the assist if guys making
a shot, and the Clippers have missed

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far too many open looks so far. They shoot thirty four percent from three

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in this game. They're shooting thirty
three percent from three on the season.

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With virtually the same roster plus even
more help from the outside, they should

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be better. I think by the
end of the year they'll be close to

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thirty eight percent from distance. So
some progressions in the mean will happen as

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long as they stick to those principles
of drive, kicks, swing, penetrate

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the paint, kick it back out, spray the basketball out and make the

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extra pass and find the open shooter. Luke Kennard getting up five shots in

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twenty three minutes, not enough at
a nice drive to the basket for anand

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one, but him starting. This
was the first game they lost. I

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believe they are now four and one
with Luke Kennard in the starting lineup.

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He has been good because, yeah, you can make the argument even when

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he's not shooting, a lot of
attention is going his way and other guys

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are finding driving lanes because Luke Kennard
simply has that gravity from the outside.

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He'll pull the defense his way.
He'll stretch the floor and make things easier

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for other guys. But not easy
enough in the fourth quarter for the Clippers.

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They struggled. They finished with twenty
four points in the fourth, but

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they did most of that damage in
the first six minutes and then the wheels

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just fell off and they scored seven
points in the last six and a half

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minutes of the fourth Just tough shooting
drafts in the second half for the Clippers

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six and a half minutes without him, made field goal in the third quarter

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almost and then four and a half
in the fourth quarter. That that will

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do you in against the Brooklyn Nets
team that's playing really well. And as

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though I don't know, one of
the top scores in NBA histories and say

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he's the greatest scorer of all time
and Kevin Durant and he had an easy

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light work twenty seven on sixteen shots. Mitching New Jersey, Mitch, what's

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up? You're not gonna brag about
the Brooklyn Nets? Sorry, because you're

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from New Jersey. From start?
Now, how are you doing this?

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Thanks? Taken the core? What's
up down in Virginia? Now? All

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right? Did you want to get
the want I get a clip as on

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TV? I'm not around. I'm
not around my necklar Woods? What do

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you think of the game? But
I wish John wo would start? I

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mean, you know, hey,
I kid, the way he fishes gets

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rebounds. Bet Bennie Jackson, I
want to see I'm Dynasty's pressing moll and

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Moses Brown. I want you to
use when is quite a coming back?

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This is it's it's unbelievable. The
injury, how bare it was, his

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injury, It's believable. Mitch,
he tore his ACL. It's not a

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boo boo, it's not he didn't
jam his finger. He tore his ACL.

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He's been out. He was out
all of the last season. You're

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right, Mitch, and he comes
into this season. He plays a couple

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of games, he feels some stiffness
in his right knee. And they're not

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going to push things this early in
the year. Okay, okay, I'm

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glad they're being smart about not like
some of the doctors with the charges.

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You know, well, that's how
Justin Herby was pushing to the staunch.

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If ever you remember, Yeah,
all right, miss, thank you for

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the phone call. Morrison, Long
Beach. You're on clever Stock withoutam Oslin.

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Morris followed that. I tell you, he's just like the preacher always

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says it is a make miss league. And I know that sounds like the

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choir, but it truly is.
Nobody none of our guys got hot in

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the fourth. Your boy Curry,
we're gonna have to drug test him now.

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He got off in the fourth.
But none of our guys gotten hot

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up from the arc. And that's
why they always is amaze, make miss.

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I remember the one where pauls went
all the way, have down and

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came out a couple of times.
I mean, and you know, just

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to make miss League. And then
Clippers didn't have it at one time they

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would shin out of thirty. You're
not gonna beat nobody with that, especially

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a team that you know coming together
like the Nets. And you got your

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boy Kevin Durman over there, a
very efficient night. So it was a

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tough loss, but still a make
miss League. And that's what it came

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down to. I'll talk to you
later, all right, Morris. I

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like it. Too many misses and
coming down the stretch for the Clippers in

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this case where we've seen this before. It happened against Utah. They missed

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their last sixteen threes in that game. They missed eleven in the fourth quarter.

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They started off this fourth quarter against
Brooklyn one for seven. So some

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of it, yeah, maybe they
could have generated better looks. Some of

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it is they gotta knocked down some
shots. It's part of their offense,

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all right. When those shots go
down, some of them are looking the

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exact same way. To Morris's point, they just didn't drop in the fourth

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quarter of this one. And Paul
George he can get a lot to fall

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outside the third quarter where he had
eight of his seventeen. Just look to

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have one of those nights or one
of those days they happen. He wasn't

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going to shoot fifty five percent and
forty three percent from the field and from

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three forever, but it was a
heck of a run from him. And

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they'll look to pick up the pieces
and come together in Houston for a little

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Texas two steps Monday and Tuesday is
starting against the Rockets and then the Dallas

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Mavericks and Luca Donchage. More on
that coming up next year. On Clippers

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Stalk eight six six ninety eight seven
two five seventy eight six six ninety eight

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seven two five seventy he'll listen to
the AM five seventy LA Sports. Oh,

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Paul George La Clippers Basketball, continue
pace in his pains as he carries

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the three on the home of your
LA Clippers. Well, the Brooklyn Nets

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went on a big eighteen to two
run in the last four minutes fourth quarter.

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Here in the middle of the fourth
quarter, I should say so,

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first fall to seven and six.
They lose one, ten to ninety five

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to Kevin Durant, Seth Curry and
the Nets. Welcome back in the Clippers

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stock. I'm out of Oslin to
eight to sixty six nine eight seven two

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five seven two to five seventy.
Marty or Morty. I prefer to be

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Morty in New York? Is it
Marty? Yes, Morty, thank you.

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So I was curious we have any
more info on Kauai's injury and the

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extent of it, or just any
time timetable or there's any news on it.

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Honestly, I don't see much.
Did you see the report yesterday,

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Morty? He was engaging in five
on five activities for the first time since

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they took him out. I got
it. So there's no timetable when he's

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gonna be back, though, No, that has been par for the course.

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No timetable. They're hoping sooner than
later, of course. All right,

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Well, let's get that champion and
let's go clip. I'm with that.

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You're talking about a two time Finals
MVP, two time Defensive Player of

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the Year. Kawhi Leonard is an
absolute superstar, a game changer for this

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squad. And as bad as the
Clippers have looked offensively at times and in

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spurts today, all right, he
can cure a lot of that very quickly.

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It will be a breath of fresh
air to see him and Paul George

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back out on the court together again. They played less than one hundred games

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together as Clippers, but they've been
really good when they've been out there.

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Just gotta get guys healthy, and
Kawhi is returning from a major injury.

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You have to take that into account. Greg and Newport Beach. You're on

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Clippers stock without Aim Awesome. What's
up, Adam? What's up? Greg?

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Hey man, listen, I didn't
see the game to day, bro,

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how will that work? But I've
been listening to a Clipper thought right

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now. So but you know,
I'm giving you a couple of observations over

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the last couple of weeks. I'm
not tripping. It's still early. It's

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still early, so people need to
calm down. It's still early. Listen

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at him. I know when Kawhii
hurt his knee. Do you remember to

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play against the Lakers in the first
game where he pumps faked a d and

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ad came down hard on his back, but he landed on Kawhi's back first,

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m I know Kawhi went to the
ground a few different times in that

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game. Yeah, but that was
a I was watching that play right there,

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and when he pumped fake and Adi
went up and Abe came down,

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he put a lot of weight on
Kauai's right knee, and I thought,

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I thought to myself. Then when
that happened, I said, Wow,

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that was a test right there to
see where that knee is at. And

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then shortly after that, that's when
Kawhi went out. Well, but he

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played against Phoenix. He played again
after that. I don't think that was

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an issue. No, Phoenix was
the first game of the season at Staples

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Center, right, No, that
was that was the Lakers. The Lakers

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was the first game. Come on, Greg, don't no, no,

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wait, okay, I know the
Lakers was the first game, but I'm

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saying the first time we played it
was their home opener. But it was

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a couple of days after the Lakers
game. So if you're inferring that it

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occurred with the ad play, then
why was he playing a couple of days

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later? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, but but but at him Listen to

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me, man, listen. Okay. So I was at the Phoenis game

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and I was watching Kawhi in that
game, and he was laboring. Man,

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I'm telling you, I was watching
him going up and down the court,

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and he wasn't playing like he normally
played. So I really do believe.

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I'm not saying for sure did that
play re injured him, but I'm

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thinking that that play did reinjure him
though. Man, But that's not even

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why I thought. I was just
saying that because people keep asking you when

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it was kauhar coming back and blah
blah blah, like he had a minor

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injury. When we know where then
a CEO is usually that's the year to

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a year and a half. He'll
come back when he's healthy, right,

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Greg, He'll come back when he
feels good enough to play when he feels

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right. And look, he was
the one who wanted to play when he

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felt that stiffness in his knee before
game one of the back to back in

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Okay. See, he wanted to
play. The team want to be overly

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cautious and hold him out. So
Kauai has been chomping at the bit to

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be back out there. This is
somebody who I've never seen him smile and

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engage and be more vocal on the
court than he was during the preseason with

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his team, and in those two
games he played in so far, he

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has been so excited to be back
to playing basketball. He talked about it,

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how much he missed the game and
how much you can't take it for

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granted. Yeah, exactly, And
I missed seeing him out there, man.

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But what I wanted to ask you, and I'm gonna let you go,

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Adam Okay, man, So you
know, Vegas had us as one

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of the teams coming out of the
West to make it to the comp me

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to the finals. Now what I've
seen so far, and it is still

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early, do you tell me what
do you think? Do you think that

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the Clippers are an elite team that
can possibly come out of the West to

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represent the West in the finals.
And that's it. That's my last question,

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man, all right, Greg,
of course, a fully healthy Clippers

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team is an elite team. They're
already an elite defense right now, and

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they haven't had that two time defensive
Player of the Year outside of twenty minutes

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in two games. I mean,
look at look at the West Golden States

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at five and seven right now,
they're the champs. They've had issues if

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they lost five in a row.
At one point, they're four and six,

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in their last ten games. Teams
are still trying to figure things out.

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As good as Utah is at the
top of the Western Conference at ten

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and three, I don't expect them
to end up there at the end of

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the year. The Clippers, We've
talked about it a lot be a top

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three seed. Find a way to
be a top three seed. We've talked

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about how much depth they have on
this team. They should be able to

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absorb injuries and missing superstars here and
there better than anyone else. Really.

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Now. They had their own issues, a four game skid early on,

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but they've still won five of their
last seven. Today was a winnable game,

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no doubt. They had their opportunities. If Paul George is on his

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game like he had been the last
week and a half or so, yeah,

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they likely win. But it wasn't
to be against the Brooklyn Nets team

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that's playing that well defensively. Now
they go on the road for two.

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Got to at least get the split. Tough back to back because Luca Dontae

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and the Dallas Mavericks. They've lost
a couple in a row. But Luca,

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I think it's between he and Steph
Curry right now, Your points leaders

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on the season. He's just putting
up astronomical numbers, just ridiculous stuff,

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even more so than usual. Going
for that MVP this year? Can he

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take it away from Nicola Yokich.
We'll see. That'll be on Tuesday.

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But Monday, Clippers taken on a
familiar squad, Hindi Houston Rockets. They've

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already seen them twice. Tip time
for that one from h Town is at

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five. We'll have Clippers countdown your
pregame show starting at four. This guy

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get healthy, alright. We've been
saying it for a while, but you're

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as good as the players you have
available. We're hoping for the best with

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Kauwai'd be great to see if he
can come back in a couple of weeks.

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Now, all right, before we
get out of here, I do

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want to thank the Clippers organization.
Noah Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Waller,

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00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:30.679
big brother, Jake Horner out in
downtown Los Angeles working double duty.

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The same was Zach oh Caldy.
I'm Zach, you're hot about the idea

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earlier Zach's working double duty two until
Monday night with their pregame show starting at

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four. Right back here, I'm
at a Moslin. We'll talk to you

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then. This has been Clippers Talk, a postgame conversation about your LA Clippers

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