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

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reaction has just be got Kawhi Leonard
is so smooth in the mid range.

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

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on your home for LA Clippers basketball
at now your host, You, sir,

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are a bad man, Adam Osley
Clippers falling downtown Los Angeles one ten

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to one hundred to the Miami Heat. Welcome into your post game show coming

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up second half highlights and you'll hear
from the head coach Toron Low and the

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players after this one disappointing loss for
the Clippers as they come back home after

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going two and three on their five
game road trip. Noah Eagle and in

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a game where they were down by
twenty one, they led by two heading

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into that fourth quarter, but once
again just couldn't get the comeback or couldn't

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complete the comeback and get it across
the finish line. Yeah, look at

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him. These are always tough because
for the last now six games, so

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include the five road games in this
one, I think there's a very valid

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argument doing made that the Clippers should
be six and oz. There's instead they're

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two and four right in these six
games, and they've lost three in a

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row. But to me, when
you look at how the games went,

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the flow of the games, they
should be six and oh. And so

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that's a tough pill to swallow for
a team that has championship aspirations, for

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a team that's fighting for playoff position
in the Western Conference and right now is

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only half a game in front of
the ninth place in the Western Conference.

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And so again, this is a
process. It's a marathon and not a

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sprint, and I think there's still
a lot of positives to take away overall.

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But the Clippers are going to have
to find out why every time they

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make their their move back right,
they find their way back into a game,

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they take a lead in the fourth
quarter, why can't they finish it?

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Because they have been able to do
that in the last couple of years,

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In the last three years, they've
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at doing that. In fact,
so where did that go? Where's that

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spirit? And they still have it
in them. It's just a matter of

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either finding the right rotations in there, getting the right combination of players in

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there, or executing at a higher
level. Look the turnovers. That that's

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the first step. Fifteen more turnovers
tonight lead to twenty Miami points. Miamily

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only turns it over eleven times for
thirteen Clipper points, so there's a seven

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point difference right there. Then we
talked about second chance points eighteen of them

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for the heat in this game for
a team in Miami that only average twelve

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per game in over the course of
this regular season their first thirty seven games,

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so six more than their season average, but the Clippers only had four

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second chance points. That's a fourteen
point difference. We talked about just fuel

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goal attempts. Have a field goals
made ten more field goals made on eighteen

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more attempts for Miami in this game. It's the little things, and Miami

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did it tonight and the Clippers did
not. That's why Miami's playing good basketball

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at the moment and the Clippers in
their last three have not found way.

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Because again it's not like they're getting
blown out. They were getting blown out

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in this game and they came back
and took a lead, so they're not

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getting blown out. They're there every
single night. It's the little things,

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and they're not even playing close to
their best basketball yet, which is a

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good thing because you don't want to
be playing your best basketball right now.

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You want to be saving that for
late in the season. But now,

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thirty nine games in, the Clippers
are almost at the midway point of this

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season. And I look again at
Boston from last year twenty one and twenty

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one, they finish fifty one and
twenty six. It's possible it's been done

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before, but a couple of things
need to happen. One, the continuity

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guy's got to stay on the floor. And look, there's only so much

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you can do Kawhi Leonard non COVID
illness today. But that hurts obviously when

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you've been doing something for several weeks
one way and then you have to play

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a completely different way. And we
saw the Clippers do it for extended periods,

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but that's difficult. Eventually, it
just wears on you eventually, and

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then you have to toggle back and
forth between what's my role on this night,

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what's my role on this night?
Are Those are tough things to figure

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out from a player's perspective on the
fly, and so you've got to do

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all of that. Combine that with
the fact that while you're looking for that

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nuity. You're also looking for and
striving for perfection and limiting your mistakes.

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So I think they go hand in
hand in a lot of ways. But

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I'm not overly down. I just
think that the Clippers know what they have

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to do, Now you got to
go do it. It's one of those

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things where when you're a kid,
you know when you did something wrong,

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now you gotta go fix it.
You can't keep you can't make the same

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mistake again, or else your parents
are gonna keep getting upset. I think

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that's where the Clippers are at right
now, where they just can't keep making

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the same mistakes to shoot themselves on
the foot, and what it's doing is

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it's putting them behind the eight ball
a lot of time left. But I

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guess it's metaphorically speaking, the perfect
way to do it, because they comeback.

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Clips in overall season would make sense
too. It's just not the ideal

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situation of where you want to be. And I think the Clippers know that

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they can still turn it on.
Most certainly do that, and they hope

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they will, but it's going to
take some real effort and concentration from everybody

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involved. Yeah, it feels like
there has to start to be that sense

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of urgency as we're now in twenty
twenty three, and you can only do

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so much with it. Injuries obviously, but this team just being out of

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sorts, whether it's on offense or
on defense. You know, in that

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first quarter they put up twenty eight
points, that's not bad, but they

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give up thirty four, and they
didn't come out with that focus on the

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defensive end after having a really tough
trip defensively in those five games where they

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didn't look like themselves. Third quarter
defense, who was outstanding from the Clippers.

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They only give up the fourteen points. They were forcing turnovers, they

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were grabbing rebounds, they were forcing
missus. They did everything right in that

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third quarter. But outside of that, thirty four, thirty three, twenty

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nine, twenty nine, fine,
not ideal, but fine. The Clippers

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for most of the season had been
holding opponents were there was that stretch where

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they held what was it four or
five straight halves under fifty Yeah, I

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mean that's the Clippers defense that we
have been expecting to see this season and

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it just hasn't happened these last six
or so games. And so again,

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you know what's in there they're correctable
issues. But I liked what you said,

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Sense of Urgencies' twenty twenty three.
The seasons almost midway through. Now

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it's the time to turn it on. Now, it's the time to start

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figuring out what you are and who
you are and what you're about, how

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you go about your business, because
time's gonna run out eventually. You don't

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have an unlimited runway here. Eventually
the season runs out, time runs out.

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You gotta go do it. Dallas
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I'm gonna look it up right now, Adam, of what they started last

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year and then what they finished.
Yeah, I remember they got off to

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that slow star where eleven and eleven
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Phoenix got off to a slow start. Eventually won over sixty games, lost

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miserably in the playoffs, obviously to
the Dallas Mavericks in that game seven.

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But they turn things around certainly,
and we're one of the best teams in

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the league heading into the playoffs.
So Dallas started the season last year sixteen

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and eighteen. They were sixteen and
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They finished fifty two and thirty and
got to the Western convers final to the

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Western Conference Finals. So it's been
done last year just alone. Actually I

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could go even further than that,
Adam. They started twenty nine and twenty

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three, the six games over five
hundred, but that was now what fifty

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two games into the season, and
finished fifty two and thirty, so they

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had seven losses for the final thirty
games. They went twenty three and seven

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down the stretch. That's the type
of heats you have to catch in the

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NBA. We see it all the
time in sports in general. NFL think

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about some I remember the Giants winning
the Super Bowls with Eli Manning. They

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just caught fire. Green Bay Packers
caught fire when Aaron Rodgers won the Super

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Bowl. We can go there.
There's many of those examples. It's true

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in baseball, the hottest teams usually
the team that's gonna win. Right,

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the Phillies got to the World Series. They were hot. They were just

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hot. And so if the Clippers
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And Dallas was the fourth seed in
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seed two years ago when they made
the conference finals. That's not the end

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of the world. I'm not looking
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I'm looking at. Are you forming
good habits while trying to get there?

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And right now it feels like the
Clippers are not quite where they want to

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be. They're a little bit off
of where they want to be. Again,

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a lot of time left, not
even at the midway point of the

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season, but the time is now
to start trying to push it a little

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bit and turn it on down the
stretch time will definitely be on Thursday as

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well. Yeah, stiff test for
the Clippers in Denver taking on the Nuggets.

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Tip time is at seven. We'll
have Clippers countdown for you starting at

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six. That will be a great
measuring stick opportunity for this Clippers team in

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a way to kind of write the
ship. You get a big victory over

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Nikola Yogis in the Denver, Now
get your feeling much better about yourself,

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especially on the road, Adam,
that's a tough place to play coming up

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next. No, a great calls
always save travels to Denver. By the

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way, and happy New Year.
I mean, you really just weren't even

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to give me an opportunity to tell
you that. I can't wait. I

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was gonna see how you're gonna get
that in you know, a different order

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this time. But there's a will, there's a way, oh yeah,

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or there's a no oh. There's
an eagle coming up next. Second half

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highlights with Noah Eagle. Clippers come
back down twenty one, but they can't

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complete it. They lose by ten
one. Ten to one hundred is your

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final score, Miami being the victor. Here in downtown Los Angeles, you're

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listening to the Angels Clippers. Lady
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on the walk to the spot,
Pika ba Bill Hendy got it, count

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it from distance, the odds on
favorite to hoist the Larry O'Brien heavily can

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test it and it doesn't matter on
the whole of your LA Clippers. So

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clicking the ticket, let's you can
seat belt fast and trunk rattling by two

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minutes and the seat brastling speaker box
vibrate the tame make a sound like the

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Campers lose one sets to one hundred
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Angeles. I'm out of Boslin.
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Still to come on AM five seventy
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as twenty one. We're down at
the half sixty seven to forty nine,

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but in that third quarter Pg.
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screen from zoo box, but picks
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the head patch to the far side. He gets right back from Jackson,

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stepp into a right wing three,
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Bullseye from team and the Clips were
within seven seventy five sixty eight. Leave

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it for George and the big court
logo screen to his right Zubos George stepping

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on another right wing three bottom Pg. Thirteen A trade to bring it tore

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thin one at a time out Miami
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five to shoot screen you his right
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straight away three, Oh, Paul, George funny first lead since fourteen to

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twelve A fourteen all Rod and the
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with eighteen in a blake. Paul
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Clippers led by two heading into the
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It was eighty three eighty one Clippers, but they simply seemed to run out

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of gas lately in fourth quarters when
they try to make these comebacks. In

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this fourth quarter, they were outscored
twenty nine to seventeen. Paul George didn't

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return until the about the six minute
mark of the fourth. Clippers had some

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critical turnovers late that would come back
to bite them, and they lose one

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ten to one hundred to the Miami
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up next, looking for postgame audio
from coach Lou and you'll hear from hopefully

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PG thirteen and some of the players
after this one. Clippers now two and

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four last six games. As Noah
Eagle mentioned all Verry Winnabowl Ball games,

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you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers
radio network, the same Henny got It,

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count it from distance, the odds
on favorite to hoist the Larry o'bright

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heavily can test it and a doesn't
matter on the home of your LA Clippers

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Cross Clippers come back home, get
down by twenty one, led by two

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heading into the fourth quarter, just
to lose by ten to the Miami Heat.

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As they win both games this season
against your Los Angeles Clippers, Miami

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won ten, Clippers one hundred.
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to back on the road, starting
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Minnesota. Tip time Thursday against Nikolayokis
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We are leaving you until then,
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This has been Clippers locker room.
Oh both eye for Paul George.

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The conclusion to another game of exciting
LA Clippers basketball. Don't miss any of

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the action all season long on your
home for the l A Clippers. Welcome

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into Clippers Talk. Here's a new
sheriff from town. You won't be able

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to deny it. You're going to
go to the NBA Finals. I believe

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in my horror, this is the
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Now your host of Clippers Talk.
Here's Adam Osling. Clippers now two

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and four in their last six contests. Home was not a safe haven for

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them. They returned after going two
and three on the road, and they

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lose one ten to one hundred to
the Miami Heat. After battling back down

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twenty one, they had a two
point lead heading into the fourth quarter.

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They lose the fourth quarter twenty nine
to seventeen. Welcome in to Clipper Stock.

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I'm out a Maslin live from downtown
Los Angeles eight six six nine eight

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seven two five seventy. Eight six
six ninety eight seven two five seventy is

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the phone number taking you till about
the top of the hour. Coming up,

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we'll have audio from coach Lou and
the players. Charles Mockler will be

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here from Clips and Dip, and
of course we'll be getting to your phone

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calls at eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy. I can see

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a few that called in before we
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be one of those nights, and
it was one of those games in the

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first half of the Clippers. The
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How much longer are we going to
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they have that sense of urgency and
flip the switch and build up some consistency

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and continuity. Now it's not easy. We learned about an hour before the

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game that Kawhi Leonard wasn't going to
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And he's played i want to say
they're eleven and four, eleven and

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five with him and played about fifteen
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That's it, and the Clippers now
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dangerously close to the midway point.
And you want to see some of these

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things they've been working on come to
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while granted getting better offensively, although
tonight wouldn't tell you that. But before

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this game, on that road trip, in those five games, they had

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the third best offense in the league
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twenty sixth best offense on the season. Problem was their defense slipped. They

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had the twenty eighth best defense after
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and now overall they're outside the top
five defensively. Now, giving up

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one hundred and ten points isn't a
ton, but the Miami Heat had thirty

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four in the first quarter and the
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They shot fifty percent from the field
in the first quarter. They look

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good. There were three or six
from the outside. But where was the

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defense and where was that sense of
urgency and the defensive intensity you have to

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start off games with. Especially you
come back home, you think, okay,

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little home cooking, had a day
off, feeling better, long road

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trip and We're gonna come out and
set a tone and let Miami know it's

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not going to be the same like
it was recently for them. They won

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seven or three, but they just
had a big game winning shot by Tyler

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Hero running three pointer in Utah the
other night. I said it turned the

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faucet off. They flooded the place. Thirty four points given up in the

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first quarter, thirty three in the
second they win. I want to say

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five straight quarters given up thirty points
or more going back the last couple of

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games now and they're down twenty one
in the first half. Just a brutal

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showing because in the second quarter the
offense didn't continue. They went six and

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a half minutes at one point from
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to the two thirty mark of the
second and scorgeous four points one bucket by

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Beats the Zoobots and a couple of
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Clippers just haven't looked consistent enough on
either end recently, and it was six

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straight quarters where they allowed thirty points
or more, because they allowed thirty in

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every quarter to the Indiana Pacers on
Saturday. That game just looked like,

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oh, a layup contest, back
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had a handshake agreement that we're not
going to play much defense today. Let's

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see who can outscore the other.
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and Kawhi Leonard was there for that
game. Harry's Haliburton was there in that

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fourth quarter though, and put one
on the Clippers. So you thought,

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okay, bounce back opportunity before they
head back out on the road for some

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tough games Thursday night in Denver taking
on Nikilokich, a team that's surging right

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now. They just beat Boston.
Clippers weren't able to do that on the

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road. So we're almost at the
midway point and we're still waiting for the

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Clippers to round the corner. I
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It is, but they've had a
little bit of good health of good

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luck. I hope that continues because
I know a lot of people saw Paul

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George grabbing at the right hamstring.
I took note of it too, same

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hamstring that kept him out seven games
in November. Looked like he was in

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the locker room, came out in
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the ball game till the six minute
mark. That's struggling, saw him holding

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it a little bit and after he
hit a jumper, did his best out

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there. But the Clippers generated just
seventeen points in the fourth. But Denver

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right now is at the top of
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them and enter the lions Den Thursday
night. That all of a sudden looks

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like a huge game. I would
have been anyways, but right now,

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the Clippers gotta stop the hemorrhaging.
They could really use a top level victory

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against one of the elite teams in
the league for the last couple of years,

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against the back to back reigning MVP
in Nikolok. They got to build

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up some consistency fast and get back
to their foundation, their identity, which

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was being a good defensive team regardless
of what was happening on offense, because

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that's the reason they've had a winning
record this season. The defense has carried

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them. Otherwise they'd be under five
hundred easily because they've been on bottom five

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offense. But the offense is coming
around now that Kawhi Leonard's back, or

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was, and then the defense slips
that can't happen. You gotta get both

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those things on the same page,
point in the right direction. So Clippers

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in a precarious position, and it
feels like a critical point of the year

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where you gotta see some growth.
Who's the team going to be because typically

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championship teams top ten defense and offense, and the Clippers just aren't there yet.

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They lose tonight after coming back down
twenty one to have a two point

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lead entering the fourth quarter. And
this is a trend. They've been dominating

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third quarters and then losing fourth quarters. Noah Eagle brought it up during the

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game, the Clippers all of a
sudden aren't completing these comebacks. Yes,

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they had the one in Detroit.
They were also led that game by fifteen.

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But against Dallas, they win that
third quarter thirty seven to twenty six,

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they lose the fourth thirty one twenty
seven. At Boston, they win

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the third quarter thirty six twenty four, they lose the fourth thirty two to

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twenty five. A game they came
back in looked like they were gonna win

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it. Look click, there's gonna
be a classic Clippers comeback. Couldn't be

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Boston. That time against Indiana,
they won the third quarter thirty eight thirty

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one. They lost the fourth thirty
eight to thirty seven, and they win

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their quarter by twenty tonight and then
lose the fourth by twelve. So the

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last three third quarters heading into tonight, they had won by an average of

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ten points, and then they went
in tonight by twenty to take a two

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point lead, just to get beat
up in that fourth quarter, mostly by

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bam Adebayo, who was getting whatever
he wanted. He had I want to

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say, nine of his thirty one
in the fourth and I think every make

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was a two handed rim rocker or
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At twenty five, he's just getting
better and better, and the Clippers

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didn't have an answer, And at
times Zubots wasn't out there because he got

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into foul trouble. He took two
brutal fouls and a sequence. First got

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called for the offensive foul, and
then it looked like verticality rule should have

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been in place, but he didn't
get the call there either. Defending the

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rim, I called for the blocking
foul. In the other end, Clippers

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also had a couple of brutal turnovers
in the fourth quarter. What's been the

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theme all season. Turnovers. They
finished with fifteen of them. That's just

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about what they've been averaging fifteen point
six I think per game. But they

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had back to back turnovers. It
was Norman Powell off a pass from Paul

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George who just wasn't looking, and
then John Wall went into the teeth of

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the defense and lost it in the
restricted area the very next time down eight

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sixty six nine eight seven two five
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five seventies and the phone number.
We'll come back. We'll get to all

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your phone calls. Clippers come back
just to lose by ten one ten one

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hundred was your final score here in
downtown Los Angeles. Miami's now won eight

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of elevenies. Clippers losers of two
of their last or four of their last

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six. They listened to Clipper stock
here in Amp five seventy sports. Don't

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say, she don't don't save,
she don't want to be Henny got it?

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Count it from distance. The odds
on favorite to hoist the Larry O'Brien

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heavily contest it, and it doesn't
matter on the home of your La Clippers.

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Clippers lose one ten to one hundred. Smith, it's not yet.

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I don't know who what. Somebody's
playing some tunes here in downtown Los Angeles.

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That's how you know we're live.
Clippers now won just two of their

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last six contests, and his Noah
Egle brought up during the game pregame post

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game, these have all been very
winnable games for the Clippers, going back

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to the start of the road trip, when they're up twenty against Philly,

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they come back against Boston, losing
by one against Indiana, and then tonight

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they led by two heading into the
fourth quarter. Let's go to Ken and

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Fontana. Ken start things off.
You're on Clippers stock on a five seventy

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a sports Ken Drop. We got
Damien in La. I feel like he's

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gonna be online. Damien. What's
good? What's good? Bro man?

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Another tough love? Thanks for having
me on. I'll get right to it.

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Brother. I had a little problem
with, uh, you know,

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the continuity of the of the of
the of the bench guys coming into the

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fourth quarter. You know, it
just kind of felt like its fell apart

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a little offensively, defensively. It
was really weird because they seemed like they

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were still on the rope on a
string. But then offensively, I just

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couldn't seem to get back into the
flow. I'm kind of had a loss

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right there, Adam. Yeah,
the start of that fourth quarter was a

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problem for the Clippers. They didn't
score the first two and a half minutes,

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didn't get their first field goal made
till the eight fifty five mark,

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a Nick Batoum lay up who else
he always comes through and it was off

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a great pass from John Wall,
I must say, But they were out

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of rhythm and out of sorts after
having that great third man. I thought,

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I thought what Luca Nard did in
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I'm a little, you know,
kind of head scratching a little bit

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because it didn't seem like him and
John Wall could really get on the same

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page. I don't know how it
seemed to you like, it just seemed

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like John Wall really had a hard
time finding the flow of the game.

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he had played better, but he
ends up still a minus eleven,

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not the worst minus plus minus category
for the Clippers tonight, But that turnover

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he had or he went into attack
mode at the basket, which you do

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like to see. But he was
looking to draw the foul and I think

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not much else or not much else
of a plan going on there, and

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they ripped it from him. And
it was right after the critical turnover from

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PG trying to find Norman Powell.
And that's a perfect example of just missing

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that familiarity and continuity out there.
You know, those guys haven't played together

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much at all, and Norman Powell
wasn't looking for that pass from Paul George

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and those back to back turnovers I
thought were backbreaking and eventually led to this

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loss. Anything else or damon you
know again? You know, I think

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it's just a little thing in the
loss, little idio secrecies, stuff that's

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gonna come with building our chemistry.
I'm not discouraged by the losing right now.

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I'd rather do our losing right now
and be ready for the postseason without

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really tipping our hand too much.
So I think it's all gonna pay off

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in the end. And I would
just tell Clicker Nation to hold on,

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be patient, and don't take too
much from a loss. In January,

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Damien, with some good perspective there, Damian Ice, to meet you tonight.

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At the game as well. My
friend, Hey, he's gone,

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thank you. You know, there's
something I want to bring up because I

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remember, and this somewhat parallels where
the Clippers are right now, and I

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know where Clipper Nation is right now. But remember two years ago during the

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twenty twenty one season, the Clippers
couldn't close games out late. They had

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one of the worst clutch time ratings
in the NBA. And they worked on

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it, and they figured it out, and they showed up big when the

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moment was the biggest in the playoffs. In those scenarios during clutch time,

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last five minutes of a game within
five points, Coach Lew eventually always figures

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it out with this squad. I
have all the faith in the world that

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he'll do the same this season.
Let's go to Ken and Fontana. Who's

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back now? Ken? What's up
here at Clippers stype without a Moss?

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Hey, Adam, how you doing, dude? Okay? All, I

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think there's like a prayer going on
the arena. And I don't know if

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this is disrespectful, but the show
must go on right long time call it

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first, I mean low time living
the first time. Call it. I

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just want to say that I'm coming
from a point of passion and that right

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now in years and it looks like
this has been brought on all season,

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that the Clippers aren't closing out the
halves the end of the first half.

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It's costing them and all the effort
that they put in in the third quarter,

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it's lost to go to the three
guard line up. I don't believe

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that the three guard lineup is successful
at that time. And as she's spoken

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about before, I think Roko needs
to get into the game. Yeah,

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Ken, I don't disagree with much
of what you're saying. Just off the

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eyeball test and with the advanced analytics, the three three guard lineup hasn't been

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very successful for this team. And
I appreciate the phone call. We went

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into this season with the expectations of
seeing wing stop, five guys out there

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on the floor that could I'll shoot, that could all switch, could all

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defend, and we've hardly seen it. Now. It could be coach lewis

411
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waiting to play that card for when
he has to, and they'll surprise teams

412
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and they'll get the jump on him
because of it. But and we'll hear

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from coach lew coming up We gotta
be honest, we haven't seen it in

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the three guard and four guard lineups
at times haven't proven to work for this

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squad. Unfortunately, another phone call
here so I can meet my mic and

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meet him. Oh we got Terrence
Mann audio coming up, Tagus and Walnut

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days. You're on Clipper Stock withoutam
Oslinda Happy New Year. Wanted to say

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two things. One, it just
seemed today offensively, it was just too

419
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much perimeter passing around the three point
line. There was not enough tech inside.

420
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And it doesn't do like people like
players like Luke Kennard any favors.

421
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:06.480
If you're just passing on the printer, guys are just cheating on him anyways.

422
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And I think I don't know if
it's just because Kawhi was missing today

423
00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:15.079
they forgot how to post up or
do anything. But there's a lot of

424
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perimeter passing. That was the first
point. What did you think about that?

425
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.079
Yeah, there's something to that.
Although you know, when they weren't

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turning the basketball over, they shot
the three ball very well. They were

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twelve of twenty nine. That's I
looked at the first half, and they

428
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only got up twelve threes. They
hit six of them. And they only

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got up twelve three pointers. If
anything, they probably should have taken a

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few more. Okay, okay,
I would like to see a little bit

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more of the attacking. But well, it doesn't mean they don't attack,

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drive, kick, swing. The
most open shots they get on the perimeter

433
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usually come from them breaking down the
defense on the interior. First. Yeah,

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and the third quarter at work,
fourth quarter, maybe it was a

435
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line up. It didn't seem to
work well, and it was maybe it's

436
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a rotation. But the other thing
that I know, we're always talking about

437
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the small ball lineup, and I
just wanted to give my two cents when

438
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when like let's say Zubach gets in
fell trouble, we always go to the

439
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:23.759
small ball lineup with Nick Patoum at
the five, and we have a stretch

440
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five. And I liked the small
ball lineup, like you say, it

441
00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:30.119
worked against Utah a few years ago
and all that, but I would like,

442
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you know, a little bit more
parody sometimes bring in their traditional five

443
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because I think it's it gives the
other opposing defense a different look. I

444
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mean, the opposing team another look. Where if you look at the top

445
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:50.319
three teams right now, and the
Pelicans they got Zion and Jonas fell in

446
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:58.680
Tunis, and then Denver they got
Eric Gordon and Kit and then Memphis got

447
00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:05.480
Jaren Jackson and Steven Adams. All
of them are big guys inside and they're

448
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:08.559
going to get all those offensive rebounds, and it's kind of been our kryptonite

449
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:13.799
this year, or giving up offensive
rebounds. So I like the small ball

450
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:16.160
lineup when it's working and if guys
are hitting shots. But if it's not

451
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working or you want to give a
different look, I would like to see

452
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a traditional big come in for some
minutes and see how the game goes.

453
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I think it will take a lot
of pressure off the other guys, especially

454
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:34.039
Paul George having to play the five
tageous I hear you, want to hear

455
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:38.000
you. They don't have I think
a reliable backup big right now, So

456
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at a night like tonight. And
I like Moses Brown and I think he

457
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:47.160
has played great in spots this season
for the Clippers, But Isaiah Hartenstein is

458
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:53.160
in New York now and Musadiabat is
in the G League, and Coach Low

459
00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:57.880
does love to go small, but
the difference is, and he's talked about

460
00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:01.759
this a lot, they go with
a big small sometimes sounds like an oxy

461
00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:06.759
moron, but because if you have
Kauai and Paul George out there, and

462
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:13.039
Marcus and Roco or Terrence Mann and
Nicholas Patum, you know you're small,

463
00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:15.079
but you've got guys that can grab
boards, and you have a two time

464
00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:19.920
Defensive Player of the Year, you
have Paul George who was third and defensive

465
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:22.880
Player of the Year voting a few
years back. You can get by when

466
00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:25.800
those two guys are out there with
the right combination of wings. But we

467
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:30.719
haven't seen as much as that so
far this season. It's it's a little

468
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:32.639
bit curious to me. It certainly
is. All right, well, take

469
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:35.960
a quick time out, we'll come
back. More of your phone calls eight

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six six nine eight seven two five
seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two

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five seventy as the phone number,
And to be fair, I think they

472
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:45.480
would a stick with zubots. But
he got into foul trouble. Eventually came

473
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:49.039
back with about two minutes left,
but had those two fouls he picked up

474
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:53.000
in the fourth quarter. Those also
were crippling for the Clippers. It just

475
00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:58.440
seems like whatever can go wrong,
how's gone wrong. He's going wrong.

476
00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:01.440
Murphy's at all kinds of things going
bad for the Clippers right now. But

477
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:08.079
there's still above five hundred and they're
still in a good possession position in the

478
00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:13.000
Western Conference. But Thursday is a
huge game against the Denver Nuggets, who

479
00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.400
are at the top of the West. Right now, we're on that more

480
00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:20.159
phone calls plus coach Lou and Charles
Mockler from Clips and Dip. That's all

481
00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:29.880
next Aaron Clipperstock on Amp five seventy
Sports Happen. That's always full day.

482
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:34.480
But Benny got it, count it
from distance. The odds on favorite to

483
00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:37.840
hoist the Larry O'Brien heavily contested,
and it doesn't matter on the whole of

484
00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:47.280
your LA Clippers last time downtown Los
Angeles to the Miami Heat. Welcome back

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00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:52.039
into your post game show. I'm
not a mom eight six six nine eight

486
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seven two five seventy eight six sixty
nine eight seven two five seventy at the

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00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:58.880
phone number. We will get back
to your phone calls coming up. Veer

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00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:04.400
Michael greg hold on, We'll get
to you, but first we go out

489
00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:08.280
to the super secret Guest hotline where
Charles Mockler joins us from Clips and Dip

490
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:13.360
a podcast with myself, he and
William Updyke. Charles, good to have

491
00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:15.719
you on. Don't have a lot
of time. Let's get right into it.

492
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Where was this game lost in your
opinion for the Clippers? Charles?

493
00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:28.000
Ooh, where was there? I
got you? Now? Where was the

494
00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:30.599
game lost tonight? In your opinion? I think we gotta go with the

495
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:34.880
lineups in this one. I mean
the third quarter was great. Obviously,

496
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:38.239
you get to the fourth quarter and
you start off on a seven oh run

497
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:42.039
because you got a three guard lineup
and that's not doing what it needs to

498
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:45.000
do on the defensive vent Norm Powell
played all of the fourth he was minus

499
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:50.199
twelve. He goes, oh four
from the floor. We just saw the

500
00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:52.039
same things that have been frustrating Clippers
fans for a while now, which is

501
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:57.039
three guards, you know, maybe
four sometimes and then not a center,

502
00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:00.800
not closing with the big just giving
up the middle of the the floor on

503
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:05.000
the offensive, excusing on the defensive
end. And yeah, just kind of

504
00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:07.039
more of the same, I guess
after what was I mean, probably the

505
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:13.199
best third quarter of the Clip season. Between that and they've been dominating third

506
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:19.360
quarters recently. They've won the last
four third quarters handling. But they've lost

507
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:24.880
all those fourth quarters, and they've
lost three of those four games. They

508
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:32.079
just haven't looked right or haven't been
consistent enough with sometimes their effort on defense,

509
00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:36.559
with their shot making. There's only
so much you can do about that.

510
00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:40.400
But they just aren't completing these comebacks
anymore. And maybe getting down in

511
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:44.559
the first half. And you can
say they lost that game to Indiana by

512
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:45.840
the way they played in the first
half of that one. You could say

513
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:49.920
the same for this one. When
you're down twenty one, you can lose

514
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:52.239
a game early on because you run
out of gas. You have to expend

515
00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:55.039
all that energy to get back into
it. And I think that's part of

516
00:37:55.119 --> 00:38:00.719
what happened tonight. Yeah, And
I mean, you know, you know,

517
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:02.440
Norm played the entire fourth, but
we had our main, you know,

518
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:06.280
our starters playing the whole third because
we needed it. You know,

519
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:10.039
to your point, it's hard to
dig yourself out of a twenty point the

520
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:15.519
whole on a consistent basis. And
you know, just to add insult to

521
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:20.119
the injury, we got the PG
thigh cape and then he kind of grabbed

522
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:22.639
at a running back on defense to
I'll hope or some because of from that

523
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:24.880
in the next couple of days.
But yeah, I mean, you know,

524
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:29.320
we're an older team. It feels
like all the guards are kind of

525
00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:32.159
regressing a tad at the same time. And yeah, it's just digging ourselves

526
00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:37.119
bigger holes to get out of.
Earlier in games, Clippers lose one ten

527
00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:40.039
to one hundred here in downtown Los
Angeles to the Miami Heat. Charles Mockler

528
00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:45.519
from Clips and Dip is our guest
here on Clippers Talk. So we heard

529
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:51.360
coach lou come out post game after
their lost Saturday. Some quotes came out

530
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:55.039
from Andrew Grive talking about still in
the tinkering mode, still where they're trying

531
00:38:55.079 --> 00:39:00.119
to figure out rotations. We're almost
at the midway point. And I've said

532
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:05.519
this before, but Coach lu likes
those big sample sizes. He likes to

533
00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:09.159
give guys a chance ten game sample
size in a certain position or a certain

534
00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:15.280
slot in the rotation, or twenty
game sample size. And we're about to

535
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:20.440
hit another twenty game sample size.
I wonder if that's when things really start

536
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:23.400
to change more drastically with lineups.
Do you think there's anything too that,

537
00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:28.119
Charles, Yeah, I mean,
you know, there's evidence of that for

538
00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:30.719
sure. So I think that's something
that people who are frustrated kind of look

539
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:35.480
at and I would tell themselves myself
kind of included like, well, this

540
00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:39.639
should be changing coming up right because
it's not working. It's not like there's

541
00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:44.760
even ups and downs right now.
It's mostly just downs with these specific kind

542
00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:50.280
of three guard lineups that we're running. So I hope it changes. You

543
00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:52.360
know, a lot of this also
depends on you know, it's tough missing

544
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:55.800
Kauai, but when you're missing Kawai
and you still have a healthy rest of

545
00:39:55.840 --> 00:40:00.239
the roster, maybe it's time to
give guys like a Mirror a little more

546
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:04.400
run with some bigger lineups or Robert
Cummington who did used to play for the

547
00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:08.920
Clippers sometimes. So yeah, I
mean, here's two it changing because this

548
00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:13.039
three guard byn up stuff is not
getting get done, and you know,

549
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.039
there might be some personnel changes to
give them the backup. Big situation.

550
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:20.039
I know a lot of people want
the Clippers to close small or excuse me,

551
00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.239
close big when Zoo is playing well
and you know, helping clog up

552
00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:25.280
the middle, So maybe we can
get some reinforcements to help him save a

553
00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:29.800
little bit of himself for later in
the games if Tie chooses to use him.

554
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:31.559
I mean, it seemed like one
of those games where they could use

555
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:36.800
a second big to throw at Bam
out of Bio who was just destroying them

556
00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:42.639
in the paint, particularly in that
fourth quarter. Now, we're hoping Paul

557
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:46.960
George is okay, We're hoping Kawhi
Leonard is okay non COVID related illness and

558
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:52.400
is back and ready to go Thursday
night against the Denver Nuggets. But all

559
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:57.800
of a sudden, that feels like
one of those pivotal, magnified games of

560
00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:00.320
the season. And I'm not saying
it wouldn't have been any ways, but

561
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with the Clippers coming into the game
not playing great basketball, if they could

562
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:08.840
somehow get a victory there, all
of a sudden, the trajectory or the

563
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:13.199
momentum is back in their favor.
Does does it feel like that to you?

564
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:17.000
It just feels like a huge contest
coming up on Thursday. Yeah,

565
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:20.800
I'm gonna be honest, I'd just
take a split of the back to back.

566
00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:25.960
Missnesota got back on track a huge
game, Anthony Edwards just now,

567
00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:30.599
and i mean, yeah, beating
the one seed in Denver would be fantastic

568
00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:37.480
against Yoki, who's having somehow yet
another absurdly you know, elite season.

569
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:38.920
That would be huge, but given
you know, we're not going to know

570
00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:43.000
any Paul George News he said he
was gonna wait to see how it's hamstring

571
00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:47.880
response tomorrow in terms of you know, missing time, I just take the

572
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:52.800
split if I'm being honest right now. Yeah, stuff to get greedy right

573
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:57.880
now with the way the Clippers have
been dropping games recently. He is Charles

574
00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:01.920
Mockler. He covers the Clippers for
Clips and Dip with myself and William Updyke.

575
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:06.199
We'll have a new episode out for
you guys with a tripod soon.

576
00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:08.920
I know that, Charles, thanks
for doing the Clips and Double Dip experience

577
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:13.559
to night here on Clipper Stock.
Yeah. Absolutely, good luck with the

578
00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:17.960
callers speaking up, we got some
more coming up next eight six six nine,

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eight seven two five seventy eight six
six nine at seven two five seventy

580
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Clippers lose one ten to one hundred
here in downtown Los Angeles to the Miami

581
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Heat and you're listening to a five
seventy sports Now, look at this madness.

582
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:36.360
The magnet keeps intecting me me hen
he got it count it from distance.

583
00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:39.679
The odds on favorite to hoist the
Larry o'bright heavily contest it, and

584
00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:45.280
it doesn't matter. On the home
of your La Clippers Street. I had

585
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:50.280
one ten to one hundred here in
downtown LA to the Miami Heat. Welcome

586
00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:52.440
back into Clipper Stock. I'm at
a maslin. Let's go to Greg in

587
00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:57.639
Newport. Greg, you're on Clipper
Stock. What's up? Hey? What's

588
00:42:57.679 --> 00:43:00.960
that battam? I told you last
week? Man, I wasn't gonna tell

589
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:02.920
you Happy New Year, but happy
New Year, bro, Happy New Year.

590
00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:07.880
Great? Hey man, I'll tell
you what them hot dogs outside of

591
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:17.519
Stickle Center was smelling real good tonight. Man. Oh yeah, hey,

592
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:23.079
man, listen, I am old
for four when I go to the games

593
00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:28.280
in person this year. I haven't
seen the Clippers winning game yet at home,

594
00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:34.639
and I'm you know, I'm I'm
I'm very positive when it comes to

595
00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:37.880
the Clippers. But man, I'm
starting to get frustrated at the way we're

596
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:43.719
playing. I don't like these lineups
to Tylo's running out there, We're getting

597
00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:49.719
out rebound, We're not getting no
offensive rebounds. We're letting the other team

598
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:54.480
get offensive rebounds. A second and
third shot that's the basket. I'm disappointed

599
00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:59.639
that Kauai decided not to play tonight. I haven't seen him play in person

600
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:06.599
yet, and I'm just wondering.
Man, it looks like John Wall is

601
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:10.199
just a shell of himself. Man. It seems like when he comes in

602
00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:15.599
the game, he doesn't know what
he's doing, or it appears that he

603
00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:20.000
looks like he doesn't know what he's
doing. When he does decide to penetrate,

604
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:22.519
he's basically just running into three people
and turning the ball over and fall

605
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:27.840
into the ground. I mean,
to be fair, he's been up and

606
00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:32.679
down, not just between games but
quarters. In between quarters, he's just

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been very erratic with his play.
Because you mentioned the turnover. Well,

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he had a really nice fee to
Nicholas Patum in a backdoor cut for an

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easy one in the fourth quarter.
Two. Yeah. I mean, I'm

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not gonna take away what he did
positive, but I'm just saying at him.

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I've been watching him for the last
four five games that he comes in

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and plays, and he just looks
like he's out of sorts. Man.

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He doesn't. He doesn't look like
the John Wall I'm used to seeing running

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up and down the court. You
know, scoring lay up a whill and

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getting past the defense. Man.
So I don't know, man, Like

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I said, I'm just really getting
and you know, getting behind in these

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games and having to come back take
so much energy from you man. And

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he was talking about how the Clippers
have been winning the third quarters and losing

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the fourth quarters this because they're taking
so much energy in the third quarters.

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I'm with you. I'm with you, my friend. I appreciate it.

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We're up against it though here,
and I want to get some other callers

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in. Let's go to Mac and
appreciate you. Greg. Hopefully we'll talk

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to you next time on Thursday night. Mac and lagun Niguel quickly thirty seconds,

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thirty seconds. I had a little
epiphany there, dude, how many

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how many playoff games have the Clippers
wanted? And he's gone, Mac,

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I'm sorry all the epiphany? Was
it gonna be the revelation? Okay?

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Finally Michael nla Michael closed things out
tonight. Thirty seconds. Hey, Adam,

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I gotta say. Everybody keeps talking
about, oh, well, we're

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gonna do this and get ready for
the playoffs. It's all about the playoffs.

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The regular season doesn't matter. I'm
concerned about this team actually making the

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playoffs or not making the playoffs.
I should say it just I mean,

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you know, I know the West
hasn't been as good as you know,

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everyone talks about how the West is
the mediocre or whatever, But I mean

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this just you know me, games
are adding up. Yeah, Michael,

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I hear you. I appreciate the
phone call. Look, there needs to

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be more of a sense of urgency
right now from this Clippers team. I

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think it's fair to say as we
approached the midway point of the season,

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because well they're just four games back
a first place, they're only two games

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up on the Utah Jazz, who
are in the tenth spot in the Western

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Commerce. All right, before we
get out of here, I do want

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to thank the Clippers organization. Noah
Ego, Brian Seeman, Ralph Waller,

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Dennis Degastino's that Assisian to the stars, big brother, Jay Warner head engineer

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here and everywhere, and Katie Newton
in the bank, the callers, the

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listeners. I'm Adam Ozen will talk
to you on Thursday when the Clippers are

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taken on the Denver Nuggets. Six
pm. Will be your Clippers Countdown show.

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Talk to you that. This has
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