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Hey, what's going on? Clippers
fans, Clippers people, Clippers folks.

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It is me William Upjack Year,
Clips and Bit. This is season two,

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episode twenty five. You don't know
We are Clips and DiPT, your

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favorite Los Angeles Clippers podcast. Join, as always by my two fabulous co

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hosts or one really good co host, one okay co host. I'll let

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you make your own decisions. Charles
Mocker. How's it going, guys.

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I'm doing good. I guess Clippers
one. Went to see The Killer in

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theaters that was awesome, got a
new pair of shoes today, had a

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late brunch. I'm feeling great after
what we saw from the starter, specifically

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last night. So I'm doing good. Adam, how are you I?

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I'm doing okay. I had to
watch The Killer at home because I wasn't

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invited to the theater with these guys
or anything. It takes you forever to

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be We had to make a tight
ten thirty showing guys, there's midnight showings

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out there on a Friday night.
You couldn't. Netflix really limits those release

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things. Releases, you guys are
killing me. I was a little underwhelmed

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by the ending, by the way
I liked it. I thought it was

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good, but I think the ending
was We're gonna finish off. We're gonna

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finish off. We're gonna finish up
with my thoughts on the Killers, be

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sure to stay tuned for that.
But we are talking about the Clippers.

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They're back in the win column.
Meati win over the Rockets. We're gonna

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talk about that, what we liked
from the starters as well as some of

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the sloppiness from the offense. Uh. And then we in the second segment,

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we got to talk about what is
going on with this bench. They

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continue to hemorrhage points. It was
on full display in that game, albeit

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a win. And we'll also have
a little preview for you of the Spurs

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game coming up. Clippers got a
Texas double header. I don't know,

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I don't know what you call that. The too long, too long,

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I don't know any missionary two step
is when I'm calling it, all right,

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that's fantastic. Actually, yeah,
let's let's get right into it,

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because I think as clunky as the
offense looked at times from the Clippers,

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for me, one of the most
encouraging or one of the most positive takeaways

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was we did get three great individual
performances from three of our top guys.

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I'll let you Adam jump in.
Where do you want to jump in on

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what you saw from the starters.
Pick your poison. You go with Hard

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and you can go with PG.
You you can go with Westbrook if you

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want not a starter, but hey, I know you like to go off

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the rails on this show. Who
me? I'm going with James Harden because

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this was somewhat of a playoff template
for how things could go. The intensity

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in this game and late in the
fourth quarter, the desperation you saw really

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from both teams, because the Rockets
wanted to keep their winning streak going the

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Clippers wanted to end their losing streak. It was impressive, It was ratcheted

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up. There were big moves made
late, but I was getting frustrated with

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the amount of hero ball by Kawhi
and Paul George being the only guys taking

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shots for a while. There was
about a four minute stretch from the six

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minute mark to about the two minute
mark where the Clippers didn't make a field

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goal, and I said, look, he brought in James Harden to run

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the offense through him. And what
happened after that? He finds of each

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Zubots for a couple of easy ones. Zubots has a block on Sengoon and

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then dunks on him on the other
end. Paul George to be I mean

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so far that Zubots is best done
to the season and might end that that

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might end up being the best don
of the season for Zoo. He had

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too, They were pretty similar in
the last two minutes. I think he

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had all six of his points in
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and it was all due to the
thread of the pick and roll with James

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Harden and also Zoo just being fierce, just being a beast out there.

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And I guess postgame coach Lou came
out and said that I guess I listened

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to it, but he said de
Visa Zubats was dealing with some of those

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back spasms in the first half,
he didn't have the same bounds. Well,

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it was there in the fourth quarter
when they needed it most. That

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was his best stint of the season
by far, one of the best of

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his careers, because you can make
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them in the fourth quarter. Now, he was dependent on James Harden setting

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him up, but the way he
was finishing with authority, and the block

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on Sengoon, who he played beautifully
all night Defensively, the Rockets they won

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six games in a row for a
reason. I know a lot of people

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still it's not it's hard to wrap
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were playing that well. I guess
it just doesn't really compute because they've been

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down for so long. Yeah,
but the truth is they were playing very

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good basketball and the Clippers made them
look pretty average for the most part.

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Guys who were playing great in Sengoon
also Jalen Green getting blocked like that by

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Paul George and then Paul George getting
the layup on the other end off a

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pass from Kawhi Leonard in transition that
block from PG thirteen after he had just

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missed a three, like he was
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Then Kawhi ripped it from a Jalen
Green and got a steal steel one

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of them in the fourth quarter from
Kawhi. This was that fourth quarter last

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season against Memphis to also break their
losing streak after they had lost their first

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five with Russell Westbrook, after they
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and looked like it was all falling
apart, and then the Clippers said enough,

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we have to win this game,
and they did. That's what it

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looked like out there. But James
Harden coming through with that clutch shot,

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that's what he can do. Oh
my god. For everyone questioning the move

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and Russell Westbrook going to the bench
or them deciding to play through James Harden,

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it's like, how do you not
see the vision? Guys? I

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posted what I said in show when
I said, look, I think the

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biggest reason to do this is so
us is coming off the bench where he's

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better suited, where he can run
the second unit, and he did not

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have a very good game early in
that fourth quarter. Yeah, but this

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was James Harden having the ball in
his hands more than he ever had,

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and guess what, he looked the
most comfortable he's ever had so far in

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a Clippers uniform. And it's just
ramping up. You could see it from

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the Denver game. He's slowly getting
better and better, more downhill attacks at

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the basket. The step back three, though, was just a thing of

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perfection. We've seen that go against
the Clippers, go against the entire league

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for so long, and finally the
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gets fouled on an and one step
back three pointer and converse the four point

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play to win it. There couldn't
be a more poetic way for the Clippers

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to end the losing streak than James
Harden doing that against his former team in

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the Rockets. Yes, we were
talking about kind of the big three individual

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performances and I put this down on
the breakdown, but this game felt like

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a worse scenario offense win for the
Clippers. And what I mean like,

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it's not bad, right like,
we still have it's a new starting lineup.

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There wasn't cohesion. We talked about
this a lot of people were talking

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about on Twitter during the game,
where yeah, we got we got the

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individual beforeances we need, which is
great, but this is what the worst

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case is, right like once the
offense really gets humming and you know,

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the starters, the starting line up, which we'll talk about the net rating.

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It was great. It was so
nice to see what we've been told,

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you know, if things break down, we have these guys to still

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get it done, and we got
it done against a team that had the

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sixth best defensive rating, Like this
was exactly the kind of win other than

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a blowout, which wasn't gonna happen
against this Rockets team. This is exactly

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the kind of win. No,
I disagree, it really could have,

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but we can get into that a
bit. But it didn't. But this

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is what we loved from the Big
three, Like we got I mean,

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Kahi started slow. He took what
two field goal attempts in the first quarter.

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I thought he was I thought he
was kind of invisible in the first

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through no fault of his own,
it's totally it's one damn yeah. But

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he made it. It was a
three his first he made. He was

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started three. I was telling you, I was like, in the Terrence

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Man starting era, Kawhi has one
hundred percent field goal percentage. But anyway,

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he it seemed like he was deferring
a lot. I at one point

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had to like look up at the
jumble trying to be like, why still

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on the floor right, Like I
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So they're they're very still They're very
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they're trying to feel each other out. No one's trying to step on anyone's

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toes. But Charles, sorry,
I defer back to you. I couldn't

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all good. And then PG he
started hot, really rough stretch on the

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third, but who was there to
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like this was this is everything we
were sold. It was a small dose

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of it. But comforting whin Yeah, sure, someone say on micro does

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Uh. I don't know if comforting
win is the right word, but it's

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a really like, oh, this
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And anyway, after a six game
losy, you're not gonna go ahead

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and go on record and say as
a comforting win. Okay, yeah,

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it was a necessary win, right, like not a must win, No,

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it was a must win. Well, if you want to say,

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like that feeling of you have to
have it type of game. It's early

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in the season, but you're right, it's as close at least as you

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can get without being in a playoff
situation and needing an early season victory to

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start to turn your season around.
Yeah, and then the starters were plus

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twenty and sixteen minutes we talked about
Zoo. Terrence Man had a very Patrick

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Beverly like stat line twenty one minutes, one point six boards, three assists,

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one steal, one block plus fifteen
What did we think we're working?

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Like a knee knock there or something
too Yeah, which before he shot the

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free throws which for his one point, he made one which would be his

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one point, he took it.
He was grabbing his knee there after a

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play and it seemed like he was
he was being a little tentative to put

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wait on it. He did not
go back to the tunnel though, I

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was watching that in stadium, and
he did stay on the bench, So

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hopefully that is nothing too serious.
What did we think of Terrence was a

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starter? Adham? How did you
feel on his perfect It's exactly what I've

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been wanting for. This was the
starting lineup When we talked about who do

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you want starting like? This was
the starting lineup I said I wanted from

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the get go, once, once
the straight like. To the front office's

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credit and to Tyler's credit, this
is the bill of goods that we were

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sold. It's not like this came
out of nowhere. This is the bill

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of goods that we were sold coming
into the season. I definitely think it's

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what the front office has wanted.
But having that versatility out there and switch

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ability with James Harden, who you
can just sick on whoever the best offensive

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player is on the other team for
a few possessions. So Kawhi and Paul

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George don't get tired or worn out
guarding those guys. To their credit,

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they were spectacular late with their defense. But maybe it's because they had a

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little bit more in the tail because
they got sixteen minutes with that starting five

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and Terrence Man doing a lot of
the dirty work. And I think he

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had a play where he had a
nice offensive rebound that looked like Patrick Beverley

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to your point, Chuck, and
I'm trying to see here. Yeah,

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he did have one offensive rebound and
I believe he kicked it out for a

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three pointer, Like just making those
little plays like that. By the way

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of EATSA Zubats, that kickout he
had. It was on the short roll

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in the fourth quarter. I tok
the into Zubats, then to Paul George.

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He misses the three pointer, and
then Zubots bats it into the hands

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of Norman Pale who knocks the three
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I just can't say enough about it. Eatsa zubats in that fourth quarter.

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He was amazing. But more about
normal we talk about the bench, but

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sorry. Yeah, with Terrence Man, I thought was a was a very

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natural fit. It's just easy,
it's just seamless. It just he's never

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a negative. It never ever feels
like Terrence Man has a bad game,

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regardless of the shooting stats. Yes, I and he's he's not the Avery

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Bradley unstatable, but he is an
unstatable that seems to contribute more to winning.

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Yeah, yeah, unstatable. It
contributes to winning. I think is

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a great way to describe it.
There were a couple of times earlier early

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in the game. I think it
was the first two uh opportunities for this

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where Harden passed up a catch and
shoot three and you kind of heard the

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crowd on the second one kind of
be like like what are you doing?

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Like a little like eh. But
that felt like it evened out a little

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bit and they kind of figured out
that maybe Terence should maybe be taking those

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catch and shoot threes or something like
that. So we saw kinks being worked

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out in real time for the first
time with James Harden, which hey,

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it took some time. No real
shocker there, But it felt like we

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were seeing guys iron things out as
the game went on, which we hadn't

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with the other starting lineup. We
just were running our head into the same

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wall every single possession. In this
it was like shots were falling, which

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was great from our three stars,
which makes things easier always, but like

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they were figuring it out in real
time. Terrence and James had kind of

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a defensive discussion after a blown coverage. I can't remember who got the easy

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layup, but someone on the Rockets
did and they had a spirited discussion and

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it didn't affect anything. So like, that's also what you like to see

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too, is guys can figure things
out together on the court without any weird

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miss being prevalent. In the midst
of a sixth game of Sixth Street,

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James also had it wasn't counted as
a steal for him because he got the

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deflection, somebody else came up with
the basketball. It was in the fourth

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quarter. It was big. It
was like, oh, yeah, by

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the way, when I need to
in the post, I can play defense.

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It all kind of went into that
just feeling of urgency that I felt

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like they had in the fourth quarter
already everybody was doing a little bit more

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to help this team win well,
and James Harden too. I feel like

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that's the thing, Like, even
when he was at the peak of his

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career, like when he won the
MVP and when he was in those conversations,

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the big thing, like I feel
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always defense, his defense. He's
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especially for his size, and at
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Uh. And I thought he had
some really he rebounds in this game,

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Like I you know, like that
came up in some clutch minutes that you

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know that that were really important towards
winning this game. He led them with

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nine boards. Yeah, you're right, he led with nine I thought it

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was Like I thought the rebounding was
incredible, And obviously that's a group effort,

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you know, that's a that's zoo
boxing now, but there's a lot

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of things that go into it.
But I thought him like being like aggressive

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on the boards is very helpful.
Now he's the guy we want the ball

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in his hands if he gets it
off the boards. More rebounds of PJ.

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Tucker an actual center. We're gonna
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second segment for sure, No,
this was I think this was as well

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as the starting five could have gone
against this Rockets team. I did want

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to say, like this is like
a positive segment because these were good and

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hey, we can be negative.
We don't have to be. I do

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want to say. The thing that
has to get ironed out is all three

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are very hesitant on the on the
catch and shoot three. It's like it's

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so slow. Every single one of
them is like taking an extra dribble,

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taking an extra thought. We've seen
this with Kawhi before in the past,

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we've seen this with but now I
feel like we've even seen it with Paul

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George. Like it's that's just one
of those things like when when they get

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faster to release on those wide open
shots, even if they're not making them,

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it just makes the offense home a
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lot more dangerous. I mean,
in a game where they shot sixty six

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percent the starting lineup and almost put
up fifty points in just sixteen minutes,

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I agree with you. They can
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but they had an offensive rating of
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seventy the starting They were great for
that to happen in Game one where Russ

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comes off the bench and Man to
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speaks a lot to Man and just
smoothing out the kinks in the offense and

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also just being in tune defensively together. What was cool too, was just

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like ty Lou before the game,
he was asked about pace and he was

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just like, I don't care about
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kind of like I think Adam,
we were there. It was very funny

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how he responded to this question.
But I think he met like, pace

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doesn't mean we're just sprinting up and
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what we talked about with like what
will what you were saying. Once they

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figure out to shoot these threes a
little quicker, the offense looks quicker,

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right like, and then Harden getting
these boards that helps the pace more too,

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because it's just it's pace within the
game itself. It just doesn't mean

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sprinting up and down the court.
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hundred percent. And I think when
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teams like rip, roaring and transition
and like it would be great I could

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get some of those easy buckets.
That's just not really been their game.

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It's never really been their game.
There are different ways to improve the pace,

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and I just think even you know, having the ball be less stagnant

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in a possession and not having that
hesitancy to shoot when there is an open

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shot there, like not looking because
we've seen this too, even when the

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Clippers offense was humming a lot better, right like one maybe two extra passes,

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like you know, like people being
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that's even you know, before adding
James Harden. So it's just one of

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those things like pace, pace to
mean is it's important, but it's it's

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not only one thing, you know, it's it's not just it's not just

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running all the time, because that's
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be. I think there was sorry
could go, no, no, no,

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you go. There was an example
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where the Clippers are down two at
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so they were a quick plus six
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there was a play where Kawhi Leonard
had it on the left wing. It

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was knocked away from him. He
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it, and Coach Slew said enough
time out at the eight forty two mark

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or the third corps just because they
started playing slow again, like within the

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half court set. There was no
more movement. It was isoball and I

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think that's why he called that time
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Their offense was already starting to fall
into those bad habits. Yeah, ty

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no on when to call that.
Tie's time out management was a little interesting

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last night, but that was a
great time out on his part. He

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also came in that press conference he
did not seem to be in the highest

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of spirits, which I don't know
who would be during a six game losing

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streak. So it's I'm very happy
for Tyler as well to get this win

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after everything that had been talked about
during the insanity of the six game losing

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streak. Yeah, people laid off
your shoulders, especially with two days off

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afterwards you lose again, seven game
losing the streak, more of the same

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questions. That's what I was worried
about. If they would have lost this

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game and then two days off before
playing the Spurs, like it just would

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have been. You know, the
national media pays attention to the Cliffers now

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when they're losing. Usually, if
they're playing good, they say, we

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don't want to trust him yet,
and if they're playing bad, they say

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yeah, they say, this is
his teammate, so happy. They easily

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could have lost this game. They
were down six late. I thought when

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Jabari as they were knotted up at
ninety four or three minutes left, and

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then Jabari Smith Junior hits that three
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because nobody could score that, it
was like a twenty point lead. Just

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just going up by three. That's
how it felt. And then the offense

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ran through James Harden and they go
on a twelve to one run to finish

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out the ball game. It was
good stuff, it was. And also

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before we go to the second segment
in season tournament fun like the vibe It

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was fun on last night. I
mean something to say right like, was

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this more? I don't know that
this was more like the intensity was because

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it was in season tournament game so
much as it was one team with a

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great winning streak and one team with
blue court. Blue court made it more

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fun. I'm not giving the n
season much credit for the intensity. I

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think the Clippers knew they need to
win. I'm cashing my check from Adams,

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my seventy five dollars check from Adam
Silver for mentioning how good it was

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right now, so you guys can
feel free to hop on, get you

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extra seventy five bucks or not.
Come it up. We do. We've

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loved the starters. We talked about
how good they were, but we have

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but we have to talk about the
bench, which was not ideal. If

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you're wondering what we were just laughing
at if you can't see us, it's

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Adam's very funny name on our video
version of this podcast. You tube.

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Hey the YouTube go to YouTube dot
com slash at Cliverer's podcast. You can

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see all the funny name. Subscribe, like and subscribe. Yeah, that'd

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be great. But coming up,
we're gonna be talking what's up with the

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bench. Daniel Tice had his debut. I mean, I don't I don't

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know how you can judge his debut, but we're gonna talk about what happened

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because he certainly did try and block
a couple of dunks. The ads have

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been allowed for some people. If
that's been the case, where you go

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ahead and turn it down. We
got bench talk, come it up in

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three two one. Welcome back in
Cliffs and Dip season two. Good to

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be here. I'm out of MASLM. We've got Chef Mockler and William Updyke.

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If you're watching on the YouTube,
my current name is not giving the

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un season tournament much credit. I'm
not sticking with it for now. Coming

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up will preview the Texas two step
happening in San Antonio where they're staying.

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So it's like a stationary two step
whatever. They're just they're just moving around

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in a circle. They're just hanging
out, hovering holding pattern. Yeah,

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a holding pattern is where they'll be
in San Antonio. But they do have

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a day off in between Monday and
Wednesday or those games. So let's talk

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about the bench, which I think
there's real concerns here. To put it

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lightly, and for me it comes
down to uh one pairing that has not

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worked well at all. Well.
Avitza Zubats next to PJ. Tucker at

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the four has been really tough.
Yeah, really a struggle in the Clippers

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so far. So any center for
sure, but those two in particular have

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played in seven games now in thirty
four minutes of play, they are a

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net minus forty seven point two.
The Clippers are shooting twenty seven percent from

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the floor when those two are out
there together, and last night they combined

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to be a minus eighteen as they
went two for thirteen from the floor.

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The Clippers did when those two were
out there, and guys, the eye

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test matches it. I was,
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hanging out in the far side corner. The defense pays him no mind,

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They crowd the paint, Paul George
is on the floor. There's no space

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to operate whatsoever with PJ. Tucker
and A beats the Zubats there. And

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what was baffling to me was Terrence
Man comes out at about the four and

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a half minute mark of the first
cour and I'm thinking, Oh, they're

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still gonna run that same second quarter
lineup that has been successful with the Vitza

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Zoo bots, which means Zoo Terrence, Paul George, Norman Powell. And

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who am I missing here that they
threw in? Was it PJ Tucker,

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Zoo Terrence Norman Powell, PJ Tucker. Maybe PJ Tucker was the one out

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there with him no, because he
and Zoo would be in the same matchup.

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All right, I'm having trouble figuring
out exactly what I'm out there right

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now. Terrence, it was Norm, it was Paul Russ. I'm missing

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Russ. That's who it was.
That five man group of Russell Westbrook next

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to Paul George, Norm Palll,
Terrence Man, and Viza Zobots was doing

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damage to start off second quarters.
That was a nice adjustment that was made.

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So Terrence Man comes out with about
four and a half minutes left in

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the first and I'm like, oh, it's because he's gonna come out to

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start the second. The only difference
to start off that second quarter in the

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five man lineup was PJ. Tucker
was in for Terrence Man, next to

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Russ, next to Paul George,
next to Norman Powell, and unfortunately next

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to a beat to Zubots. And
they got crushed. And it happened again

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to start the fourth quarter, and
they got crushed. And that's why I'm

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saying they could have easily won this
game by fifteen points if they just didn't

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do that. Sary. It was
that detrimental and it has been so far

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and it's it's just the spacing.
It's not going to work. They don't

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respect PJ Tucker as a shooter.
Zuobots is not a shooter. The court

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is absolutely congested out there. Well, I felt like even worse is we

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saw three guard lineups somehow with three
non shooters, like we saw lineups with

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uh Russ and Harden and Norm and
PJ and Zoo. So you're not stopping

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a you're not stopping anything, and
you're also not scoring because you have three

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non shooters on the floor from I
believe, defensively, they're giving up like

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one hundred and thirty points per one
hundred possessions with Zoobots and PJ Tucker out

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there in those minutes so far this
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It makes zero sense. It's not
working on the entire point of doing

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that is for boards and defense.
You're giving up something offensively, but you're

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gonna be better defensively. Well,
that has not worked at all so far.

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How can you be good offensively?
I just don't get how you can

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be good offensively in the modern NBA
with three non shooters on the floor,

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like even against a second unit,
how are you scoring. It seems like

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they're just trying to find minutes for
guys in PJ. Tucker because pregame said

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coach Will, Coach Lou said,
where else do you put him? No?

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No, no no, they thought
no, no, no, Coach

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Lou said, in regarding to who
was coming in to be that fifth guy

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with Russ coming off the bench,
Terrence Man or PJ. Tucker, he

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thought about PJ. Tucker in the
starting five, like that is this is

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a little bit concerning. Yeah,
I think my thing is is, like

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I know that I'm insane for saying
this, but if PJ. Tucker has

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to play fifteen minutes a game for
some reason, which just he does,

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you just don't have enough front there
is not true. That's not true.

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Affee only played twenty one minutes.
My point is they took him out early

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in the first quarter. They could
have put him right back in to start

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the second with that second unit that
had been working, and they didn't.

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He only played twenty one minutes.
Guys like he easily could have filled those

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minutes that PJ. Tucker was out
there, or a mere coffee some or

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Kobe Brown or Moose of the yabatsa
there are there are other options that are

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not going to bleed points and not
get you any to the degree that we've

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seen so far with PJ. Tucker
next to Viata Zubos And again I like

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to minus twenty four in just under
fifteen minutes. I'm support recorded not a

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single stat other than three personal fouls
the Tony Snell catline. It was as

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bad as the box score looks.
It was that bad. Now again,

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I think at the five there's utility
there against certain teams, like against Denver.

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and it beats a zoobots matched up

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together. It's just it's bad.
Or Tyson. I also think Tyson doesn't

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make sense. Yeah, him and
can't be together. He's played together.

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I don't think that makes sense.
I really, I just don't, especially

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if Russell Westbrook is on the floor
at any point, I just don't.

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How is that ever gonna work?
Do we think that this that's not even

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a knock on rust. It's just
like you need to like you need to

407
00:27:59,599 --> 00:28:03,319
make life that are catered to what
you're you know, like what your players

408
00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:06,880
are good at. And having Russ
with two non shooters on the floor,

409
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,319
Like I just don't really understand how
it's beneficial for him. The I want

410
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:11,960
to talk about the Amir thing really
quick, because La Murray was on Twitter

411
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:18,200
today also singing the praises of a
mirror who moves better than PJ Tucker.

412
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:23,920
PJ Tucker cannot switch between like multiple
like he can switch between the four and

413
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:29,200
the five on guarding guys. He
can't defend on the perimeter. He's lost

414
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,079
a step there. A mere coffee
has is I think it's someone on Twitter

415
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:37,119
said this, but they're like,
if a mere coffee brings us seventy percent

416
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,279
of the defense that PJ. Tucker
does, but one twenty percent of the

417
00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:44,559
offense, which is not a lot, but he can't shoot the ball and

418
00:28:44,599 --> 00:28:48,079
things like that, we should just
play a mere coffee, Like he would

419
00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:51,640
be a better option than he knows
the system. He'd be a better option

420
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,039
than PJ Tucker. He brought up
a mir coffee two weeks ago on this

421
00:28:55,119 --> 00:28:57,279
show. And then I get somebody
the comments section saying, like, Adam,

422
00:28:57,279 --> 00:29:00,440
we're not exactly concerned about a mirafe
right now. There's other issues.

423
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,759
It's like, well, he can
help, he can help the police is

424
00:29:03,799 --> 00:29:07,279
a huge issue. Guys have to
figure this out because I thought that,

425
00:29:07,559 --> 00:29:11,400
I mean, I think that's been
like as they start to gel, even

426
00:29:11,559 --> 00:29:15,720
as clunky as it looks, it
just becomes more and more apparent like this

427
00:29:15,759 --> 00:29:19,359
second unit is killing them, Like
it is killing them. Every shift they're

428
00:29:19,759 --> 00:29:23,200
you know, they're mine, they're
they're minus ten. But it seems like

429
00:29:23,319 --> 00:29:29,240
most shifts, the best the starters
have to come in at this crazy deficit,

430
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,039
already not working that great together,
and then you're now under the gun.

431
00:29:33,079 --> 00:29:37,079
You're always playing from behind. So
yeah, everybody wants to get into

432
00:29:37,079 --> 00:29:40,039
their ISO thing. Everybody want thinks
like, hey, let me put some

433
00:29:40,119 --> 00:29:42,640
of this on my shoulders, Like
it's not a recipe for these guys to

434
00:29:42,759 --> 00:29:48,960
ever establish like the the pen ultimate
form of their chemistry. If all the

435
00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:52,680
time they're like, yeah, they're
at the gun. Well, I'm old

436
00:29:52,759 --> 00:29:56,720
enough to remember when a Mere Coffee
signed that new contract. What a bargain

437
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,240
it was to get him at that
price three years, eleven million, whatever

438
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,039
it was. It's not for him
to sit on the bench. That doesn't

439
00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:07,200
make it a bargain. That makes
it kind of worthless. You're not getting

440
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:12,160
your return on that money if he's
never playing anymore, and you're complaining about

441
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,200
not having as many wings. I'm
not saying the Clippers are, but people

442
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,039
in the comment sex who we're complaining
about that. And I'm like, Amir,

443
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:23,400
Amir is still on this sad guys. Try um, He's been good.

444
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,079
He was legit their best player for
an entire month. He kept them

445
00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:32,680
afloat before like to say that this
guy has somehow gotten way worse. He's

446
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:37,440
not thirty nine, he's twenty six
or something. His skills have not diminished.

447
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,039
What are we talking about? And
I have the exact number for you

448
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,839
because I want to be exact here
A PJ. Tucker and vitz Zubots in

449
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,519
their thirty four minutes, their offensive
rating is eighty three point six the Clippers

450
00:30:49,519 --> 00:30:53,480
with them two on the floor,
their defensive rating is one thirty point eight.

451
00:30:53,559 --> 00:30:59,480
That's a minus forty seven net rating
in thirty four minutes with them two

452
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,799
on the floor. So yes,
there are second units that are not going

453
00:31:03,839 --> 00:31:07,720
to be a plus. But there's
a difference between getting beat by two or

454
00:31:07,759 --> 00:31:11,680
three points in your minutes played versus
getting demolished by eighteen points in the eight

455
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:17,160
minutes. Those two guys were out
there last night together and let's s the

456
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:22,880
best plus minus from the bench last
night was minus six from Daniel Tyson Norm

457
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,400
Powell. Norm Powell forty from three
so far on the season on four and

458
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,200
a half attempts per game. Loved
the offensive start from Norm Powell to this

459
00:31:30,319 --> 00:31:34,960
season. He's been everything. I
liked him in closing lineups too. Yeah,

460
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,200
his offense has been great. Daniel
Tys will talk about we got to

461
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:44,079
talk about. The big change with
the bench was Russell Westbrook was leading the

462
00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:48,079
bench. This was not Russell Westbrook's
best game. He was two of nine

463
00:31:48,079 --> 00:31:52,319
from the floor, and to the
start, it was brutal. Some of

464
00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:56,119
the shots selection. He took multiple
off the dribble threes, which like,

465
00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,000
look man, we're not trying to
dump on Russ. That has never been

466
00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:02,480
a part of his game, not
like even not even like when he was

467
00:32:02,519 --> 00:32:06,759
an MVP. He was not taking
off the dribble threes. That's never been

468
00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:09,359
a part of his game. And
he also too early in the fourth quarter

469
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:15,880
that were not corner three pointers where
he has been shooting well. And that's

470
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,640
James Harden got subbed in. There
was a time out. I think they

471
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,519
were down six, and that's when
James Harden was put back in, and

472
00:32:23,079 --> 00:32:29,279
I think it was related to Russ
was definitely taking some ill aby shots and

473
00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:31,000
he was missing. He missed every
single shot he took at the rim.

474
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,640
He was zero for three at the
rim. The only shots he made were

475
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,160
threes. You can be the biggest
Russ fan in the world, you want

476
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,799
to see him make his twos.
I would love to see him make those

477
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:44,799
twos. Just don't take six threes, right like Russ, norm and shoot

478
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,839
if they are all catch and shoot
threes and that like, that's the flow

479
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,559
of the offense. Great, and
we have to sure Russ, Norm Hard

480
00:32:51,599 --> 00:32:54,160
and Kawhi and Tice were plus six
and four minutes, but I don't know

481
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:59,680
how real that was. If that
makes sense. Can I tell you the

482
00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:02,000
line up that I thought was going
to happen in the second quarter that had

483
00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:06,920
been doing damage, but instead they
put in PJ. Tucker for Terrence Man.

484
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,319
And what their offensive rating is?
Let it make it rain? So

485
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:15,119
with let me make sure you get
this right. Uh, With Russ next

486
00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:21,519
to Paul George Norman, Palo beatz
zubots Terrence Man in eight minutes, their

487
00:33:21,559 --> 00:33:24,759
offensive rating is one thirty seven point
five and their defensive rating is eighty one

488
00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:30,359
point three. So don't tell me
there aren't solutions for how to work the

489
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:36,079
second unit and find one that is
effective. They they just did, and

490
00:33:36,079 --> 00:33:37,960
then they went away from it.
Even though Terrence Man only played twenty one

491
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,599
minutes and was taken out early in
the first quarter, he could have started

492
00:33:40,599 --> 00:33:45,160
that second quarter in that lineup I
just quoted. He absolutely could have.

493
00:33:45,759 --> 00:33:49,839
Yeah, you're right, it's a
little bit alarming that, like they're trying

494
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,960
to make sure to get PJ.
Tucker minutes, so even if he has

495
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,039
to play next to a Viata Zubots, well whatever, we gotta get him

496
00:33:55,039 --> 00:33:58,359
on that. I didn't do it
because I didn't want to be an asshole,

497
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,000
but I was gonna. I was
gonna tweet his his quotes from the

498
00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:07,599
recent OC registered article with his egg. Well, I don't know, Yeah,

499
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,159
we don't. Let's not. Let's
wait a little bit before we start

500
00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:15,480
throwing gat. We don't need another
uh Clippers fans, you suck thread from

501
00:34:15,519 --> 00:34:22,159
a Clippers player, J tuckering.
Do we think the UH signing deadman to

502
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,880
the G League is maybe an emergency? Oh? God, PJ Tucker sucks.

503
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:30,639
Move. No, I don't I
like the Deadman signing. I'm not

504
00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:32,480
against it, but like if it
was, oh god, PJ Tucker sucks.

505
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,960
He wouldn't have gotten fifteen minutes last
night, he wouldn't get as many

506
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,920
opportunities. They're looking for something with
him. They're trying to say, if

507
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:45,599
it flips around next Toots, I
don't think there is next to Zubots though,

508
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,320
next to either Big, at least
not with other second unit guys.

509
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,239
Like Okay, if they had Paul
George Kawhi and James Hard next to Zubots

510
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,519
and PJ Tucker, Yeah, that's
gonna be a plus rain. Yeah,

511
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,360
because they can make anything work.
But he's still not optimate. Is that

512
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:07,559
what I'm hearing? That's apparently what
Coach Lou was considering. He said it

513
00:35:07,639 --> 00:35:14,760
pregames so wild and I were like, if he has to play fifteen twenty

514
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,320
minutes like you have, I don't
know. You just I don't know how

515
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:21,519
else you can maxify those minutes.
I really like, I get it's not

516
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,920
figure it out. The logic is
there. I totally understand where you're Here's

517
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,519
what I would do if you have
to play him. What I would do

518
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:34,000
is play a vitch Zubats the entire
first quarter, and I would start PJ.

519
00:35:34,199 --> 00:35:37,400
Tucker next to Norm pal Terrence Man, Paul George and Russell Westbrook to

520
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:42,320
start the second quarter because at least
you have spacing. Then I don't know

521
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,760
how well it's gonna work, but
if you have to play him, that's

522
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,960
what you do. Yeah, I
like that idea. He and Russ like

523
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000
that that. I mean, everyone
else has to be able to shoot,

524
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:58,480
like und like if those two are
on the floor, so you know,

525
00:35:58,679 --> 00:36:01,199
period, like there can not be
any more non shooters on the floor than

526
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:05,639
that in the modern NBA. Like, it's just not it would be possible

527
00:36:05,639 --> 00:36:08,480
if one of them was like a
force athletically, you know what I mean,

528
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:13,079
then you could have some more like
non shooters design but like not like

529
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,880
they're not that like they're not that
guy. And we're not trying to bag

530
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:21,159
on PJ. Tucker. We're all
saying there are certain situations where we under

531
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,000
man he was effective against the Denver
Nuggets. I don't think it's about a

532
00:36:24,039 --> 00:36:28,280
fire with PJ. Tucker. He's
got that. It's ability. At this

533
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,239
point, He's he's the second oldest
player in the league. He's limited in

534
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:36,519
some ways you can't play him at
the four. I don't think to figure

535
00:36:36,559 --> 00:36:39,719
out the numbers all say. No. Coach was quoting all the advanced numbers

536
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:44,840
on Thursday at practice, so I'm
sure he has an idea. They're looking

537
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,760
to see if the defensive number turns
around. Yeah, it has not happened

538
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,880
so far. They're there. They're
probably saying, like, it just doesn't

539
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,679
make sense. It's only been thirty
four minutes. There's gotta be something there

540
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:59,119
with him and Zoo defensively, where
even though we're not going to be as

541
00:36:59,159 --> 00:37:01,960
good offensively, maybe there's something there
defensively and that's how they get away with

542
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,039
it. Four more games with the
sample size of him and Zoo, that'd

543
00:37:06,039 --> 00:37:08,280
be tech. If they lost this
game last night, it would be directly

544
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:13,840
correlated to that lineup. Oh yeah, and that's all we'd be talking about.

545
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,599
We would have opened up the show
with that. So if people are

546
00:37:15,639 --> 00:37:20,280
wondering why we're still talking about this
in a win, it's because even in

547
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,480
wins, sometimes you can build bad
habits and losses. Sometimes you can build

548
00:37:24,519 --> 00:37:29,519
good habits that eventually turn into wins. It's not that simple. And this

549
00:37:29,559 --> 00:37:30,920
is when I met by kind of
the worst case scenario win right, like

550
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,599
the offense that was like we had
we needed this because of minutes from PJ.

551
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,440
Tucker next to a five like we
needed And this isn't new like in

552
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,599
the Losing Street, which is now
over, like the second unit has been

553
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:49,599
a bismos. But I'm telling you
there's a lineup right there. Paul George

554
00:37:49,679 --> 00:37:53,800
Russ, Norm Powell, Terrence Man
I vitza zoo bus. They're destroying play

555
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:59,559
it it works? What did?
So let's talk, Uh, Daniel Tice.

556
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:02,800
I would say I was a little
surprised that he debuted. Not a

557
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,239
knock on him or anything. He
just, you know, kind of fresh

558
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,800
off the plane. Let's get you
some minutes. Uh looked like a guy

559
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:13,159
who is debuting with the brand new
team. Got dunked on twice, got

560
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,920
absolutely post rized. But you love
to see the effort. You'll love to

561
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:21,360
see the effort to try and get
the block. He did not did not

562
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,559
seem particularly close, but the effort
was there. Did I tell you he'd

563
00:38:23,599 --> 00:38:28,679
can test everything at the rim?
He really did? You You fucking nailed

564
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:32,719
that. And this it's to feed
him a couple of times on some passes

565
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,719
that I was kind of like,
okay, like if if, like once

566
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,320
they get a little bit more in
sync, I can see some things go.

567
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:43,079
I can see offensively that pairing picking
up a little bit more. I

568
00:38:43,119 --> 00:38:45,800
mean, obviously I still think you
prefer to have Mason plumbling, but in

569
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,440
his absence, I can kind of
see some things there, and I like,

570
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,320
I do appreciate the effort defensively,
I do wonder, like sort of

571
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,400
what his game shape is like,
Like, we know that he wasn't exactly

572
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:59,960
happy with his playing time there in
Indiana. I thought that he looked bad

573
00:39:00,039 --> 00:39:04,760
later to start, not necessarily like
in sync, but just activity wise and

574
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,320
physicality wise. It seemed like he
was getting a little tired as the game

575
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,440
wore on, and so I sort
of wonder how that's gonna change, just

576
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,639
even as he gets more reps.
I don't even mean like clicking in with

577
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:19,920
the offensive leads. I don't know
that he's in his like peak game shape

578
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,320
currently. His he had not a
knock once again, not a knock.

579
00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:25,800
He had a nice cut for his
only basket. I think where he just

580
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,039
you know, the defender kind of
lost track on me, just cut straight

581
00:39:29,039 --> 00:39:31,159
into the paint. His cut is
going to be really nice for this Clippers

582
00:39:31,199 --> 00:39:34,960
team, and the connection is there
too, Like, yeah, there was

583
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,480
something else with Russ last night.
In his first game off the bench.

584
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:43,880
He was overpassing a few different times
where it looked like he had an open

585
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,679
layup he would have an opportunity for
an easier shot, and late in the

586
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:51,639
third quarter he kicked it out to
Tyson the far side corner for a three

587
00:39:51,679 --> 00:39:54,719
pointer. He missed it, and
it just seemed like Russ is trying too

588
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:59,480
hard to be unselfish here, like
no, take take that lay up there,

589
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,920
Like can't you had a nice matchup
where he could bully somebody and do

590
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:06,119
the rock the baby thing and he
didn't do it. Yeah, he might,

591
00:40:06,159 --> 00:40:07,119
and then you know, it's an
adjustin period for us too. I

592
00:40:07,159 --> 00:40:10,199
think Russ is going to be obviously
better off the bench than he was against

593
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,960
the Rockets. It's the same as
it is with the starters, you know,

594
00:40:14,079 --> 00:40:16,960
like it's and also there was some
stuff where people were talking about how

595
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:21,519
he like didn't stay and talk to
the media after the game. If you

596
00:40:21,599 --> 00:40:24,199
haven't been in an NBA locker room
after a six game losing streak, once

597
00:40:24,199 --> 00:40:27,639
you break it and you win,
you kind of just want to go home,

598
00:40:28,039 --> 00:40:31,440
Like I don't think there's anything to
read into at all. It's also

599
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:37,079
a Friday night game. I'm so
sorry, but like it's a job like

600
00:40:37,159 --> 00:40:42,039
any other jobs. Killer he was
there sometimes on Friday night you gotta go.

601
00:40:42,079 --> 00:40:45,599
Stassbender was there. Yeah, yeah, that would be sick. He

602
00:40:45,599 --> 00:40:47,679
also hasn't talked to the media over
the like the last two weeks during this

603
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:52,039
losing streak, so it wasn't necessarily
out of the ordinary. I can't remember

604
00:40:52,039 --> 00:40:55,760
the last time we got postgame from
a locker room audio from Russ. Yeah,

605
00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:02,079
and then let's talk bones. How
many more d n P does the

606
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:07,079
Does the five to six game samples
start over? Now that we have the

607
00:41:07,119 --> 00:41:13,159
new starting lineup? I hope not. I hope not totes. I don't.

608
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,440
Oh, I don't know because then
another idea, So where do we

609
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:21,079
put him? Like what who's losing
time between Tye Westbrook, Norm Powell,

610
00:41:21,119 --> 00:41:24,239
and PJ. Tucker that you actually
can take time away from We need size

611
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,679
right now, which sucks. So
like maybe you give it, you know,

612
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,320
you give some a like I don't
think you can't give him Norm's minutes.

613
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:35,360
Norman is doing everything that he should
be doing, which is hitting threes.

614
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,039
Maybe could be a little better defensively, but I don't think bones is

615
00:41:37,039 --> 00:41:39,320
really helped him out. I like
the effort though, and I actually thought

616
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:44,920
he had a couple of great,
uh individual performances on VanVleet like that,

617
00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:49,960
you know, like he's gonna there's
certain guy he's more equipped to guard.

618
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,840
There's certain things that he can do, and yeah, exactly, it's it's

619
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,960
it is what it is a situation. But it's not like for lack of

620
00:41:55,039 --> 00:41:59,519
tryh Yeah, I just feel bad
for him. Sorry, go ahead on

621
00:41:59,599 --> 00:42:04,960
him now. I'm kind of surprised, uh in seeing that through eleven games,

622
00:42:05,199 --> 00:42:07,199
Norman is shooting fifty percent from the
field and forty five percent from the

623
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:12,440
outside. Crazy. I did not
expect to see that. But that lineup

624
00:42:12,519 --> 00:42:16,559
they closed with was with Norman there
instead of Terrence Man plus the starters,

625
00:42:17,079 --> 00:42:22,280
and that lineup is an offensive rating
of one twenty one point two in a

626
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,519
defensive of ninety six point six.
So people have been tweeting at me,

627
00:42:25,639 --> 00:42:30,840
like, why is Norm getting more
minutes than Terrence Man? Like that LINEUPO,

628
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,719
I mean like it was working.
Yeah, well, and you know,

629
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:40,440
Mark watching with your eyeballs that was
working. He's hit some timely threes

630
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:45,039
to the six minute mark three in
that game off the tap out from Zoobots,

631
00:42:45,079 --> 00:42:47,239
but then the three pointer he hit
with about three minutes left in Denver.

632
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:52,079
I think is what made coach Louse
stay small with that lineup and it

633
00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:59,840
it has worked. Yeah and yeah, So like where you're right at him,

634
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,639
where do you put bones? Where
does he go? I feel fast,

635
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,760
but that you can't. Yeah,
it sucks for it sucks for bones.

636
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:15,599
He was playing so good Bones is
the odd man? Or or does

637
00:43:15,599 --> 00:43:20,480
this obliterate the only other guy?
Sorry? What's that? Does this obliterate

638
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:25,360
their ceiling? Because that was before
they got James Harden No topless right now,

639
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:34,199
the caps not flipped off, nothing
like that. The only other guy

640
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:40,039
he could play for is Russ,
which guys that he could come in FORO

641
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:52,440
damn that sucks. Actually, try
to maybe run a second unit that's four

642
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:58,360
guards plus suit, something to think
about. You can think about it all

643
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,480
you want. I'm not I'm gonna. I would rather think about PJ.

644
00:44:01,599 --> 00:44:07,519
Tucker starting than four guards plus sue. Any last words on this bench?

645
00:44:07,679 --> 00:44:12,599
Are we feeling going? Are we
optimistic? It's gonna get better? Is

646
00:44:12,639 --> 00:44:17,920
it mostly on Tylu? Tomayr asked
Tylu last night about the matchup with PJX

647
00:44:19,039 --> 00:44:22,280
two of Vita Zubos. Yeah.
Tomyo Izarali from Clutch Points asked him about

648
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,639
it, said, you know,
it's not a lot of minutes yet,

649
00:44:24,679 --> 00:44:30,599
but it hasn't looked great out there, and coach Lou kind of deflected a

650
00:44:30,639 --> 00:44:32,920
little bit with it. Uh,
it was after the game. He said

651
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,440
I need to see And he says
this all the time, so I don't

652
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:37,800
think he's being disingenuous, but he
said, you know, I got to

653
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:43,000
see, I got to rewatch the
game tape something to that degree. So

654
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:47,360
I think the questions are gonna keep
coming if it's not working, and maybe

655
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:51,320
there will be a change. I
don't know. I don't know what else

656
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,719
they need to see from that,
unless they just feel like the numbers are

657
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:58,079
skewed right now. They're better than
that defensively with PJ next to Zoo and

658
00:44:58,079 --> 00:45:01,880
it can turn around. I don't
know. I think defensively like they could

659
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:07,800
possibly get better. It just it
makes it so hard to score. Yeah,

660
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:13,639
it's too difficult. Coming up,
we're gonna be previewing the stationary texts

661
00:45:13,679 --> 00:45:16,880
two step as Adams so eloquently named
these games against the Spurs they play on

662
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:22,760
Monday and Wednesday. Spurs are currently
kind of destroying ish the Grizzlies, so

663
00:45:23,159 --> 00:45:25,760
their record might be a little bit
better than three and nine. The ads

664
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,360
have been too loud for you.
Go ahead and turn it down. We

665
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:34,079
got Spurs preview coming up in three
to one. Thank you for joining us.

666
00:45:34,079 --> 00:45:37,719
You're on clips and Dip. We
are talking Clippers verse Spurs. We

667
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:44,960
beat the Spurs by forty last time, not entirely sure if they've gotten way

668
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,920
better since we beat them by forty. We do have a bit of a

669
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:52,400
different looking team, but they've been
smoked in some games. They've lost like

670
00:45:52,559 --> 00:45:57,599
four games by at least twenty five
points. I think three by thirty five

671
00:45:57,679 --> 00:46:01,480
or something like that. Adam,
what do we want because we should win

672
00:46:01,519 --> 00:46:06,000
these two of these games, both
of these on Monday and Wednesday. What's

673
00:46:06,039 --> 00:46:10,280
the what's your biggest worry on getting
over this Spurs hurdle? Spurtle? If

674
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:15,960
you will, Well, they've kind
of gone as Victor like when they've won.

675
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:20,440
It's because Victor wenbin Yama has a
good game where they play him more

676
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,239
minutes or they play him at the
five in the fourth quarter and then he

677
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:27,599
comes alive because they've kind of been
babying him so far. So he's been

678
00:46:27,679 --> 00:46:30,639
inconsistent with his play. If you
watch the game against Oka, see where

679
00:46:30,639 --> 00:46:34,960
they got blown out against Chet,
Like, they're really just letting him dip

680
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,840
his toe in the water a little
bit. Now, that's a big toe

681
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:44,559
and it might reach the bottom,
but it's it's still they're handling him with

682
00:46:44,639 --> 00:46:46,360
kid gloves so far, and they're
big gloves because okay, I'm done.

683
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:53,559
Yeah. The point is, yeah, they're relying on a rookie who's phenomenal

684
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:59,880
and one of the biggest attractions in
sports right now. But if you do

685
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:02,360
a good job against him and don't
let him get going, and the Clippers

686
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:06,320
certainly did the first time around,
but that was a different Clippers team.

687
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,320
They had Roco on him the majority
of the time. So we're going to

688
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:12,559
see Terrence Mann, We're gonna see
more Paul George, more Kawhi Leonard.

689
00:47:13,159 --> 00:47:15,679
I don't know that's interesting. I
have I have noticed this. You know,

690
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:21,840
we talked about the Houston Rockets and
we were kind of skeptical on how

691
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:27,239
good they were and defensively, teams
had been shooting thirty two percent against them

692
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,480
from three. Well, the Clipper
shot thirty eight percent against them from three,

693
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:37,159
And now I'm seeing the San Antonio
Spurs though not which is not related

694
00:47:37,159 --> 00:47:39,280
to the threes, but I was
they were physical. I think their defense

695
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:44,039
is legit overall. I just think
thirty two percent wasn't sustainable. They're not

696
00:47:44,079 --> 00:47:49,079
that good on the perimeter. H
San Antonio is twenty ninth when it comes

697
00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:53,639
to opponent three point percentage. Teams
are shooting forty point five percent from three

698
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:59,039
against them. That's how you get
smoked. Who's worse? Who is worse

699
00:47:59,079 --> 00:48:01,400
than the Spurs right now? On
that opponent? Is itzz? It is

700
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:08,400
the Memphis Grizzlies. Yeah, teams
are shooting Memphis Clippers lost to them.

701
00:48:08,599 --> 00:48:12,639
Yes, well we don't got to
talk about that. Yeah, the Grizzlies

702
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,960
are twenty eighth in defensive rating,
twenty eighth in offensive rating, thirtieth in

703
00:48:17,079 --> 00:48:21,639
net rating. They do, however, get the what is it the third

704
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:27,519
most shot attempts up of any team? Something. Lookout for the pace their

705
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:32,039
third That's why. Yeah, they're
getting a lot of shots up, but

706
00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:39,440
they're not going in exactly, they
are seventeenth and three point percentage, seventeenth

707
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:43,960
and two point percentage. They don't
get any free throws. They take the

708
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,440
fewest in the league because again it's
a team full of young guys, which

709
00:48:46,639 --> 00:48:51,320
does skew. I think your your
free throw numbers will be fair. I

710
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,480
thought the Clippers got a good whistle
last night. We always complain when they

711
00:48:53,519 --> 00:48:57,280
get a bad whistle, as they
did against Denver. I thought they got

712
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:01,880
a favorable whistle ultra for Houston,
and there was a did you see the

713
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:06,920
Paul George on Sengoon clip that they
picked? There was a no call on

714
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,760
Sengoon that I was happy was a
no call because Paul George. We got

715
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:15,559
a couple of refuse suck chants early
and we did which look from Denver though

716
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:20,760
I'm not usually I don't you know, like usually singling people out with crowd

717
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,519
chants. There's nothing better than a
refuse suck. Everyone is united, even

718
00:49:23,559 --> 00:49:28,880
opposing fans will join in on a
refuse suck chane because sometimes the ref suck.

719
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,280
What about bull Well, yeah,
that's yeah, I'm in on that

720
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:37,639
one. There were some Yeah,
that's the same. That's the crazy part

721
00:49:37,679 --> 00:49:40,719
of the family. Did you guys
ever have a high school that had really

722
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:46,239
inappropriate chance about the refs? No, we had. There was a chance.

723
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:51,599
That was when I was in high
school that they it got like the

724
00:49:51,599 --> 00:49:55,199
whole student section suspended, basically,
like students couldn't go to games for a

725
00:49:55,199 --> 00:50:00,559
couple of weeks because the chant was
a rope a tree hanging the reference Jesus,

726
00:50:00,599 --> 00:50:06,519
and the ref was like nope,
like everybody gone, everybody get out

727
00:50:06,559 --> 00:50:07,440
of it. That was not my
high school. That was my rival high

728
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:13,559
school, of course, of course. But so like what I guess,

729
00:50:13,639 --> 00:50:15,559
what do we want to see in
this game? We want to see more

730
00:50:15,559 --> 00:50:17,920
of the same from the starters.
Hope they're at least plus sixteen together.

731
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,360
That would be nice. And this
is a nice chance for the bench to

732
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,719
get a little bit of momentum.
Right They got two games against quite literally

733
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:30,119
one of the worst defensive teams in
the league. The Spurs don't have a

734
00:50:30,159 --> 00:50:36,239
deep bench despite playing everybody. They've
played like all fifteen guys at least four

735
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,599
times so far this year. There's
a chance for Russ to get a little

736
00:50:39,599 --> 00:50:44,679
bit of rhythm and maybe figure some
stuff out. Like I'm more like to

737
00:50:44,679 --> 00:50:46,480
see some of this like that,
I would like to see some of the

738
00:50:46,519 --> 00:50:51,960
hesitancy, especially given how well teams
are shooting from three against the Spurs,

739
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:53,599
Like, I would like to see
some of this hesitancy on the catches shoot

740
00:50:53,679 --> 00:50:57,880
gone. I don't want to see
any more like double dribble into a step,

741
00:50:58,039 --> 00:51:01,559
wait for defend, Like why spotting
your defender three seconds to come out

742
00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:05,360
and argue Like I just don't really
understand it. So I want to see

743
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,079
that turned around. Yeah, that's
a good call, Adam. What are

744
00:51:07,079 --> 00:51:13,239
you looking for on the bench from
the Clippers? I want to see them

745
00:51:13,519 --> 00:51:15,039
be a little bit more connected.
Well, I'll tell you what I'm looking

746
00:51:15,119 --> 00:51:21,239
for, Paul George now Terence Man. Yeah, yeah, it beats a

747
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:25,000
Zubos play the lineup that has been
working. But if that's not the case,

748
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,719
I hope it's a situation where the
Clippers starters do get off to a

749
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:37,599
hot start, and overall the starters
only playing sixteen minutes against Houston. I'd

750
00:51:37,639 --> 00:51:42,079
like to see him get closer to
twenty two minutes, that starting unit getting

751
00:51:42,079 --> 00:51:45,360
to play together a little bit more. Sixteen minutes together isn't a lot.

752
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:49,159
Now, some of that's just because
Norm came in for Terrence Man late in

753
00:51:49,199 --> 00:51:52,360
the fourth quarter, and that lineup
has been successful, so I don't hate

754
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,760
it, but in this one,
I wouldn't mind to see a little more

755
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:59,599
continuity built up between the new starting
guys and the starting unit. Yeah,

756
00:51:59,599 --> 00:52:02,119
and he played forty minutes against Houston, which makes sense. We needed it,

757
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:06,159
thankfully, and I don't think that
happens without the two day break.

758
00:52:06,199 --> 00:52:08,639
But yeah, if he's gonna play
forty minutes, I agree, I'd like

759
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:14,360
over half his minutes to be with
the starters. He also had his ankle

760
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:19,639
rolled up on in the fourth quarter. That was very concerned. It looked

761
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:22,119
like he grimaced at first, but
he played through it. I hope that

762
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:27,280
wasn't just adrenaline and he's fine.
You know, it didn't look good.

763
00:52:27,639 --> 00:52:30,119
Was there any updates or anything.
I didn't see anything else because I remember

764
00:52:30,159 --> 00:52:34,360
you tweeting about that. The update
was he blocked the shit out of Jail

765
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:38,639
and Green afterwards. Who guess.
Yeah. One thing I do want to

766
00:52:38,679 --> 00:52:49,159
point out the Clippers broke They're losing
streak only after US three sevens giving out

767
00:52:50,079 --> 00:52:54,440
Player of the Game awards. Am
I wrong? I thought Jamiel tizes edition

768
00:52:54,559 --> 00:53:00,480
but you thought it was nice time? Baby? Who is our pick for

769
00:53:02,199 --> 00:53:07,079
WLL? What are you doing with
the audio? Oh? Yeah, sorry,

770
00:53:07,079 --> 00:53:09,239
we were hearing clickies. You guys
trying to look at porn while we

771
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:15,719
do this, look at porn while
we do this? Have you heard what

772
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:21,039
bourn sounds like? So Player of
the Game picks? Who are we going

773
00:53:21,079 --> 00:53:23,239
with? We never remember follow up
on this, but it does motivate the

774
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:27,599
team, as we've seen since they're
want to know since we started doing it.

775
00:53:28,199 --> 00:53:30,480
Will Adam? Wait, Adam,
you look really excited? Who is

776
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:34,400
your Who is your pig? And
we're doing Player of the Game? So

777
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,239
this has to be over two games. You can only pick one guy.

778
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:39,400
Now, you guys go first.
I just thought I remember that I picked

779
00:53:39,519 --> 00:53:44,079
Vita Zubats coming into the last game
maybe and I'm like, yeah, I

780
00:53:44,119 --> 00:53:47,960
think you did. But who could
pick wrong? Right? Yeah? I

781
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:52,639
think I picked Why Will not have
said PJ Tucker? I picked PJ Tucker.

782
00:53:54,519 --> 00:53:59,119
Oh that's right? Will picked Bones? Yeah that Uh that didn't work

783
00:53:59,119 --> 00:54:02,880
out out? Uh? Will?
Who are you? Who are you picking?

784
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:10,519
For this two game? Boom?
Who are you picking? I'm gonna

785
00:54:10,559 --> 00:54:14,119
go normal. I'm gonna go normal. I think uh. I think he

786
00:54:14,119 --> 00:54:16,280
looked really good in those closing lines, in the closing lineup, and I

787
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:22,280
hope that they can get him some
more minutes next to next to the big

788
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:25,440
trio. Okay, h Adam,
you said we should go, we should

789
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:30,079
go before you, I am going
to go Zoo again. Feels like kind

790
00:54:30,079 --> 00:54:36,840
of a cheat code because this person
is not incredibly good down low. I'm

791
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,119
going Russ. I'm going Russ.
I think Russ feels good off the bench

792
00:54:40,159 --> 00:54:45,039
in this one. It's a it's
a cupcake matchup. Potentially. I think

793
00:54:45,159 --> 00:54:47,920
Russ has a nice little two game
stretch. What that does for some people's

794
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:51,679
feelings about where he should be on
the team. I don't necessarily look forward

795
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:53,199
to, but I think Russ helps
us more off the bench than he hurts

796
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:59,360
us. All Right, Terrence Man
hasn't scored more than eleven points so far

797
00:54:59,519 --> 00:55:02,239
this seas I'm gonna take him to
go above that and at least one of

798
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:06,719
these games. While Terrence Man's an
easy pick because all the little things,

799
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:08,920
but I'm saying specifically he's gonna score
more than eleven points in one of the

800
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:13,800
games. Everything else he does great
already. Yeah, Hey, you're great.

801
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:15,960
Terrence. Just keep it up,
just score. Get back on Twitter.

802
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:19,280
All we're saying is you're the best. You're the best. Yeah,

803
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,360
please get back on Twitter. That's
what's so funny, Adam. You brought

804
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:24,199
this up when he talked about how
he hates NBA Twitter. It's like but

805
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:31,000
Clippers Twitter specifically, everyone loves Terrence
Man. No one dislikes Terrence Man,

806
00:55:31,159 --> 00:55:36,679
which makes total sense. I think
about that. That about wraps it up.

807
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:39,480
I think we're doing we're doing a
double dip after both the games.

808
00:55:40,079 --> 00:55:44,840
No, The Killers not in theaters
anymore, so I don't know what the

809
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,639
hell I'm gonna do. The Killer
two is on to B though. Shout

810
00:55:47,639 --> 00:55:54,639
out to be big, shout out
to two B. This is is good.

811
00:55:54,760 --> 00:56:02,719
I love it has that all on
air. It's James Vanderbeek as the

812
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:07,400
hit Man. Yeah yeah, it's
the Killer. Yeah, it's The Killer

813
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:08,360
with one oh yeah. Before we
get out of here, guys, thoughts

814
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:13,639
on The Killer. Loved it,
loved it. It's loved it. I

815
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,480
dig that. It's it's exactly what
the title says it is. It's exactly

816
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:21,800
what the trailer said it was.
It's you know, it's a movie about

817
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,880
a Hitman. It's not seriously,
it's not trying to not trying to do

818
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:29,320
too much. I love it.
I just thought the ending was a little

819
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:36,559
bit underwhelming because I don't know when
we give it away. Yeah, no

820
00:56:36,599 --> 00:56:38,400
spoilers, but okay, I'll just
put it like that. Then you thought

821
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:43,880
that the one guy should have been
Yeah, no one's gonna be able to

822
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,960
crack this code check, Well the
guy is. I will say. My

823
00:56:47,039 --> 00:56:52,599
favorite part is there's an evil billionaire
character and the costume department for the killer

824
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:58,559
has him wearing a sub pop T
shirt. That was I was like,

825
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:06,079
yeah, yeah, I love that. Yeah, you loser. Yeah.

826
00:57:06,079 --> 00:57:08,599
And then also I have to give
a shout out the Montana griz destroyed,

827
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:14,079
uh, the Montana State bobcats so
rest and piss ms U. That's what

828
00:57:14,079 --> 00:57:16,400
I got to say about. Are
you sure you guys weren't the ones with

829
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:21,480
a chant? Well, we have
some Grizz game stories that we can talk

830
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,199
about off there that. Look,
you know, we were not proud of

831
00:57:24,199 --> 00:57:29,239
some things, but you know,
that's what happens. We will probably have

832
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:34,480
a full episode Tuesday, Saturday.
Turkey Break makes things kind of weird.

833
00:57:34,519 --> 00:57:37,840
I'm not calling it Thanksgiving I'm calling
it Turkey Break from now on. That's

834
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:42,360
my new thing. So unclear,
but we will have one tripod episode next

835
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:45,760
week. I feel like some turkeys
are going to be confused, like we

836
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:52,039
want to break why you can break, Adam, But you love doing this,

837
00:57:52,119 --> 00:57:53,760
It's your favorite part of the show. One positive thing to send these

838
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:59,280
Clippers fans out on before they have
to go shop for their turkey break fixings.

839
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:04,519
It worked so far. James Harden
playing through him late in the ballgame,

840
00:58:04,639 --> 00:58:09,039
the difference in offensive execution with having
some semblance of an offense late in

841
00:58:09,039 --> 00:58:13,440
the last two minutes on that twelve
to one run instead of just io ball

842
00:58:13,519 --> 00:58:17,039
back and forth, and even when
it turned into that with Kawhi Leonard and

843
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:21,719
it was Jabari Smith Junior on him. Yeah, probably shouldn't take that shot.

844
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:23,079
He's a very good defender. He's
got a lot of length, not

845
00:58:23,159 --> 00:58:28,880
exactly Wemby, but he's tall,
he's long, he's strong. Kawhi defers

846
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,480
to another Hall of Famer who ends
up knocking down a three pointer. How

847
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:36,280
about that? It's kind of crazy
and embarrassment of riches. We'll take it,

848
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,239
We absolutely will take it. We
hope it happens a bunch versus the

849
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:43,840
Spurs over Monday and Wednesday. We
hope everyone has a wonderful pre holiday or

850
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:47,079
whatever you're doing. Welcome to all
the new listeners and post holiday, Welcome

851
00:58:47,079 --> 00:58:52,559
to all the new listeners. Find
us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube,

852
00:58:52,239 --> 00:58:57,159
YouTube dot com, slash at Clippers
Podcast. We're gonna go live when

853
00:58:57,199 --> 00:59:00,760
Tyler announces PJ. Tucker as the
starter, so Will can take victory lap

854
00:59:00,559 --> 00:59:05,880
around wherever he's at because it just
weirdly feels like it might happen. That'll

855
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:08,920
be Adam's not gonna be there for
that one. Yeah, we'll talk to

856
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:13,079
everybody next week and as always,
let's go clips