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Clippers lose, you ot to the
Lakers. That's where to say, hasn't

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happened three years? Where it happened
tonight? To one twenty five was your

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final welcome back into Clippers talk.
I'm mean a Moslin Paul George was a

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plus twenty two in a game they
lost by five. You know what that

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means? They were outscored by twenty
seven points when he was off the floor.

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Quite a swing. That's tough to
overcome. But again, I go

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back to those Lebron James list minutes
to end the third quarter that the Clippers

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somehow lost. Join the show though, now is our friend will Updyke from

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clips and dip little clips and double
dip tonight. Well, how are you

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feeling, man? You're not down
the dumps? Are you not? At

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all? Man? That was that
was the most exciting game of this young

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Clippers season so far. Know what, we saw a repeat of some things

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that we've seen before, mostly endgame
execution. There was certainly some you know,

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unforced errors and fouls that were not
necessary. But man, that was

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a fun game to watch. I
think, you know, I think that

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performance knowing that the Clippers are going
to be adding even more talent should give

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Clippers fans a lot to look forward
to. Okay, Okay, I like

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it. It felt like to me
they just needed one more guy to be

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on his game tonight scoring wise,
because outside of Paul George, Kawhi Leonard,

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and Russell Westbrook, the one other
player who was in double figures was

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Norman Powell with twelve, but it
took him fourteen shots to get there.

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Bones Highland off tonight two of seven, Avitza Zubas three of eight. They

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just didn't get enough contributions. But
I agree with you overall, it's still

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encouraging style of play wise. It
was a very entertaining ball game out there.

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It was just I was looking for
one more role player to step up

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lay for him. Yeah, I
mean I think you know, you look

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at the efficient. I mean you
mentioned Bones have an off night, but

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the efficiency of Russ and Norm both
was not great. There were forty three

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percent overall from the floor. Norm
didn't make a three. But even if

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Paul George fouls out right, which
once again you hope that you're not even

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in that situation that early and overtime, but you swap out one of those

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guys for a more efficient scorer,
and I, you know, I feel

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like that's probably getting you over the
hump. Paul George was twenty of his

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thirty five in the fourth quarter to
get them to overtime. The Clippers were

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down by nine with just over two
minutes left. This would have been one

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of their more improbable comeback Clippers victories
if they have, if they were able

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to pull it off, and Paul
George was leading them there. And he

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has been spectacular through five games so
far. You backed up the talk will

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He absolutely has. And I got
a shout out our play by play guy

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Carlo with an iconic Nylon call with
Paul after Paul George hit a three to

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take the to take the Lakers lead
down to one there in the fourth quarter.

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Absolutely loved it. But Paul George, you know, he has been

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doing what he talks about all off
season. He's been talking about his approach.

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He's been talking about taking stuff more
seriously. He's been talking about putting

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away these games. While they weren't
able to put away this one, they

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like, you know, he still
did all of that. And how about

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Kawhi Leonards second night of a back
to back, he comes out career high

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in single quarter scoring that first quarter, and he just continued to do it.

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What a way to respond, I
think for both of these guys,

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the minutes that they put in and
the performances they got on the second night

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of the back to back after we
had to hear all summer about Oh,

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these guys are the faces of the
new league resting policy. Oh these guys.

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These guys don't try hard. They
won't do this, they won't do

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that. I think so far,
once again, in a very young season,

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they have answered the call. Yeah, it looks like a different mindset

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out there, just a Clippers team
that is taking the regular season more seriously.

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Even on the second night of a
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thought, you know, they missed
ten free throws in this one. They

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left some points out there. But
I want to know what you thought of

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one of our newest Clippers that we've
seen out there on the court now in

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PJ. Tucker first impressions of him
and a Clippers uniform, Will oh Man

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offensively worse than Marcus Morris. Come
on, well, he took one shot

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at the end of his tenure,
defensively. Loved what I was seeing out

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there. He seemed to be one
of the only Clippers who could defend without

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fowling Lay, although he did have
a bad foul in that first in the

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first half. But you know,
it's interesting. I'm really curious to see

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where he fits in right because we've
heard, you know, Terrence Man could

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be in the starting lineup. They
could go with two guards, although Tyler

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didn't say post game that he would
prefer to play things a little bit bigger,

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which could be an indication of how
he's gleaning but tougher. To me,

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I think that it makes sense to
have guys who are as offensively capable

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as possible around him and let him
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whether that means he's in the starting
lineup or not, I'd like to see

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him. If the Clippers are getting
cut like torched early by someone, maybe

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toosson Tucker in there with the other
starters to try to slow things down or

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try to cool somebody off a little
bit. TYLERU said postgame he hasn't had

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that conversation yet with James Harden and
Russell Westbrook about how the Clippers will divvy

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up ball handling responsibilities, but that'll
happen as they have four days off now

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to figure some of these They had
that conversation, though, have they not

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been talking about this then? You
know what, July, I'm sure they've

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had some ideas and guys know how
it could end up maybe just nothing official

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since he officially became a Clipper,
you know, Yeah, yeah, that's

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all it is. But I look
on a night like tonight, you can

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really see down the stretch because Russ
unfortunately had three of his turnovers three of

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his six in the fourth quarter.
And to have someone like James Harden who's

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just a little bit more stable with
the basketball. They're both both very good

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playmakers, but you'd feel pretty good
with Kawhi Paul George on the wings and

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James Harden bringing the ball up late
in games. You feel a little bit

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more secure just because of his steady
play in late game situations come down to

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a lot of isoball That's something also
James Harden really thrives in. Yeah,

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it gives them additional weapons and just
you know, you look at the shot

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distribution tonight and I think, you
know, the obvious criticism or the obvious

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skepticism of the arrangement is you know, Paul George, you know, pretty

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ball heavy guy, Kawhi ball heavy
guy, adding in another ball heavy guy,

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you know, will that work?
I think that there is a lot

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to figure out, but I do
think his playmaking elevates that and just James

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has increased efficiency as a scorer.
I think, you know, things will

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have to change. Some other people, I think more obviously more so than

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Kawhi and Paul will will have to
change their approach and their touches will decrease.

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But I think there's a pretty clear
lane for this team to improve while

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still building along this foundation of once
again, in this in this very young

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season, what already is looking so
good, which has been the improved approach

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and incredible play of the two to
three connection. Hey, if you want

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to win a championship, guys are
going to have to sacrifice. That is

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part of the deal. And I'm
sure James Harden's coming into the situation with

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his eyes open and knows that Clippers
lose tonight one thirty one twenty five to

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the Los Angeles Lakers. Still weird, just weird to say that. I

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just it's been so long. The
first next game coming up next Monday.

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Well, I appreciate you coming on
Clips, Clippers Talk with the little Clips

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and Double Dip tonight is my voice
is just falling apart at the seams.

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Overtime for me has done some damage
tonight, but Will thanks for picking me

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up, my friend, absolutely and
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