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Every Clipper game all season long.
They didn't stop playing hard. You're listening

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to the LA Clippers Audio Network streaming
on the iHeartRadio app. Clippers losing.

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Milwaukee won thirteen to one oh six. They had a fifteen point lead in

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the third, They had a thirteen
point lead, was just forty seconds left

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in that third quarter, ends up
being just an eight point lead hanging into

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the fourth. They miss free throws, they miss shots. The Bucks got

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whatever they wanted on the other end
as the Clippers went small, and somehow,

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some way they let go of what
looked to be a two to zero

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start to this big time road trip
in March. Welcome into Clippers Stock.

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I'm out a Moslin. Speaking of
March, we got a little clips in

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double Dip for you with Chuck mar
Mackler, the proprietor of March Madness,

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the Clippers version of it. Chuck, where was this game lost? I

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mean, there's a cup of things
that kind of point to with this one.

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Do we can talk about the free
throws? The Clippers on the second

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nine of a back to back had
nine minutes of bonus time, which is

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something that I'm fairly sure has never
happened before for the Clippers. But that's

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something you can't throw away on the
second nde of a back to back,

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right that that really got me just
settling for shots, just jacking up shots

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that were short. You saw that, you saw the fatigue. Sure,

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it was the second nd of a
back to back. I don't really care

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if the other team is missing two
of their best three players, one of

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them being their their best player.
I guess I gotta go with just it

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was lost by poor decision making in
the fourth quarter, is what it seems.

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How much do you put on coach
lu in that small ball lineup that

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was inept again to Bobby Port,
it's a lot. I put a lot.

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I don't know if I haven't been
a coach who apologist or anything.

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I think he's a coach. I
love Coach Lou, no doubt. I

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don't really know who would coach the
Clippers better. But right now we're seeing

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some small ball situations that are losing
the Clippers' games right we s when I

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think he had to play PJ.
Tucker for those couple of games just to

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show everyone else on the team that
this isn't it. But I think tonight

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like it. It just wasn't working. We were watching it not work right.

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We were all watching mommy Portis do
his thing against the small ball lineup,

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and they were fouling like crazy with
that small ball lineup. Sometimes the

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hands in the passing lanes work,
but they were not there tonight. It

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was just it was tough. It
was a tough on a mere and norm

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we're pretty brutal in this one.
Obviously it's not all on them, but

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they didn't get a lot from the
bench, and it's just it was,

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Yeah, I put a fair amount
on Tyler. I mean, they were

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fouling like crazy basically in the second
half. The Milwaukee Bucks had fourteen free

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throws attempted in that third quarter alone. But then, to just compound the

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pain here, the Clippers got into
the bonus early in the fourth quarter,

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and they didn't take advantage of it
because even when they got to the free

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throw line, even when they could
have exploited that over and over again and

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ended this game cleanly, they missed
five free throws in the fourth quarter.

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Paul George missed three of them,
hardened with one. Even Kawhi Leonard missed

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one. It's just inexcusable. I
get tired legs, but three free throws

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missed by a ninety percent free throw
shooter in Paul George. It's just there's

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no way to rationalize that. Yeah, there was some bad luck in this

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game. That is also partly how
you lose this game. You know,

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we can't pretend that some anomaies didn't
happen. Paul George was frustrated to night,

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but I think some of the some
of the fans are maybe on the

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second night of a back to back
when it comes to fatigue as well,

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and we're upset to watch them,
you know, kind of throw it away

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post figuratively and literally in the fourth. But we all wanted to split on

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this back to back. They won
the conference game. I'm not trying to

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sugarcoat it. This is the second
time in five days we've had to watch

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this team completely. I can't say
what I want to say or really on

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the radio, but they did it
to themselves. If you can connect the

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dots from there, we've seen that
two times in five days. They were

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thirty one in one or something like
that when leading. So in the fourth

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quarter, it just is gross basketball. It favored the Bucks. Yeah,

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I think we're going to get more
of the same. Maybe you know from

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tylu pregame on wednesdayainst the Rockets are
staying mentally focused because that I mean,

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he's not wrong about that, right
like that. That's where we've been losing

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things. Is kind of the mental
game. We've seen these mistakes. So

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they got to clean it up.
And if you really want a positive split

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on it, they have a lot
of chances to clean it up in March

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they do. They still have what
are we looking at fourteen more games here

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in March. They're two to one
so far during March Madness seventeen games and

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third one days for the Clippers.
This was just, I mean, the

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situation begged for a victory without Jannis
and Denikoupo and Chris Middleton, everything was

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lining up. The Clippers only were
missing Russell Westbrook in this game after yes,

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a tough one in Minnesota that they
pulled off by one. So you

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just want to get greedy this time
of the year is I think where I

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fall. It's just a missed opportunity
where the Clippers could have gotten back into

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competing for maybe even a top two
seed, which is going to be very

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difficult to do considering they have the
toughest schedule of the three teams above them

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in the Western Conference. Right now, I guess you could say they shot

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the basketball better than they did yesterday. Paul George and James Harden responded in

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that area. For the most part. PG had a couple of inconsequential threes

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late that were meaningless after somehow they
were down by ten after going into the

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quarter up by eight. But you
know, I'm just wondering, are there

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any other guys you would have played
late that could have had fresher legs out

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there? Did coach lou just have
his hand tiede? I think he kind

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of has his hand tied, right. You know, you look at the

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norm minutes and Bones only got ten
in this one. He it's tough to

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play Bones against his Bucks team.
I thought he made a couple of good

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plays, but he's still getting back
to actual meaningful basketball, you know,

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physically and all that stuff. Maybe
Mason, I guess you maybe try and

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do Mason there. But but Tyson
was playing well, right, like he

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only played fifteen Daniel Tye right,
very true. But you look, you

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know, Brandon Boston Junior is not
doing anything against that Bucks team. I

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love Xavier Moon, but he's not
doing anything and we know, we know

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what the PJ. Tucker would not
shoot. So I think part of it

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is uh tie his hand being tied
by just some lack of other options at

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the big four position. I'm not
trying to say that if they would have

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had auto porters they would have won
this game. But these are the problems

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you're gonna run into, and sometimes
it is just as simple as needing your

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guys to be better than the other
guys. We almost had it tonight,

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right, Our big view was pretty
solid, but Kawhi couldn't quite you know,

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get the percentages we wanted from the
floor. But we shouldn't need all

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three guys to be on it against
the team again playing a zone without their

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two best defenders. Do you have
any big picture concerns about this team in

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the clutch because clutch rating wise,
they were the best in the league entering

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this game. I think when it
came to net rating, it looks like

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they're falling down to sixth now after
this ballgame. Maybe if I just go

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from December first on, But are
you seeing a pattern here that is more

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concerning? Considering as you mentioned,
the Lakers game was just five days ago.

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I think I'm gonna give it maybe
another week or so before I fully

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hit the panic button. It is
after the break. It's an old team.

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It's going to take some motion to
get them in motion, if that

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makes sense. So talk to me
in two more blown leads in the fourth

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quarter. I don't want to second
bleep. I hope that doesn't happen.

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But not fully there yet. We
still have to see how the kind of

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de facto backup point guard Bones Island's
going to look. So not a big

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picture, but I would say a
medium picture right now. It's definitely in

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the back of my mind. The
burner is warm, I would say,

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yeah. And I thought Bones had
some good moments in his eleven minutes knockdown

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a three pointer after he had missed
fifteen straight this season, got off the

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snide. There also that ridiculous Okie
Dokee wraparound pass to Daniel Tye, second

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wrap around pass to Tye in the
last couple of games. Maybe they're developing

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some chemistry. However, the skeleton
key is not enough to comfort me after

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this lost by the Clippers. They
lose one to thirteen to one oh six

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in Milwaukee to the Bucks. But
they'll get back after it on Wednesday in

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Houston. And hey, this team
for the most part this season. What

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they've lost back to back games twice
the last two or three months or something

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like that, Chuck, so expect
a big response, and they do have

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a day off tomorrow, no long
after play three games in a row like

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the ninety nine lockout. Chuck,
thanks for coming on a little clips in

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double dip here on Clipperstock, my
friend. We'll talk to you on the

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YouTube tomorrow. Oh, thanks for
having me, Chuck Clip. Oh wait,

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let's get out. Let's get out
that second keyword. We don't have

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to give out the first one again. That's for people to go back and

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find if they didn't hear it the
first time. But the second keyword to

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win that Russell Westbrook bobblehead, Chuck, the floor is yours. Give it

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out. Frustration. We're gonna go
with frustration for the second keyword. You're

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asking me on this night, of
all night, so we have to go

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with frustration. Fair enough, it's
appropriate, all right, Charles, We'll

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talk to you tomorrow, my friend. Sounds good, Scoll Clips