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Parents manure. Once again, He's
Clippers Talk. I got calls on Clippers

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today's game. That's what he's capable of.

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Hosted by your pre and post game
voice of the La Clippers, Adam

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Osler. Let's say it's better to
be lucky than good, But the Clippers

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they were both and might have got
a little luck of the irish in Boston

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against the Celtics were the Boston Celtics
shot a stormtrooper's ask four of forty two

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from the outside in the Clippers win
ninety one to eighty two in Boston over

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the Celtics. Welcome in the Clippers
Talk. I'm Adam Oslin to eight sixty

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seventy is the phone number or get
to me at follow Adam A coming up

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on the show as we're taking you
till the top of the hour. Why

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who can stop me? I'm running
everything tonight. I'm the captain. Now

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what are they gonna do? Hold
on, I'm getting the text with my

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boss. Shut your dumb it.
Oh so we'll go. We'll take it

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till eight. Clippers though, they
come through late in a fashion they weren't

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able to just a few weeks ago
when they lost that game. They were

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up by four on OKAC with thirty
seconds left and they just couldn't put them

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away. Tonight they could, and
they got off to a good start.

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But to see them come through against
a Boston Celtics team that is well one

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for nine in one score games this
season, it wouldn't end up that close.

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Clippers win by nine points, but
I thought they played big and they

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beat Boston at their own game late, playing big while playing small. By

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the way, a lot of small
ball in this game for the Clippers,

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who just had to cut it out. This wasn't a must win game,

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but it wasn't need to have a
game. Boston doesn't have Jason Tatum.

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They still had Jalen Brown, who
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But Marcus Morris goes back into his
old stopping crowns there in Boston and

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has twenty three. Had a big
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had twelve, Yes, had twelve
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had just two more in the second, but had seven big ones in

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the fourth and the one free throw. He did miss as he went five

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of six from the line. Ended
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the Clippers. Don't believe me.
Listen to No. Eagle nine games played

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and remember the Celtics one and nine
this year in games decided by five points

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or least second free through a long
reapound a man second chance, and the

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Clippers can train some more clock tennis. Shoot for Canard on the left wing,

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chap step and drive to his right
straight away, picks up his dribble,

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feeds far side corner. Morris will
try the three, missed it long

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reapound a soup bots third chance.
Now can Arts right away, leave it

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for Bledzo on the left wing.
He'll try the three bull's eye. Eric

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Bledsoe sticks it from the outside and
the Clippers lead eighty six seventy eight.

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Eric Bledsoe with ten of his seventeen
points in the fourth quarter when the Clippers

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went ice cold, but that may
have iced it. It put them back

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up eight. They were up five
with two minutes left. It was Marcus

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Morris at the free throw line who
again finished with twenty three. Didn't hit

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a three pointer oh five from the
outside, but he's a mid range master.

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And there were some people, even
some people in Clipper Nation, that

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thought he was washed, that thought
he was done, that thought he had

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too many miles on him, too
much physicality with the type of game he

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has, and maybe he was an
older thirty two. Hey, Marcus Morris

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right now in December playing his best
basketball as a Clipper, some of the

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best basketball he's ever played in his
career. Because tonight what Notwithstanding he had

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been shooting forty five percent from the
outside from three while getting seventeen per game.

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In December, he outdoes that with
twenty three, yes, oh of

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five from three. But to beat
that efficient from the outside, and I

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want to say, it's about nine
games in December without Paul George for the

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majority of them. No Kawhi Leonard. To beat the focal point on offense,

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to control things, to get tough
buckets, to be that shot creator

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in the post, to be able
to iso and put games away like he

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did. And he had a big
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It's not easy to do. When
you shift from being the third option

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or the fourth option to being the
number one guy. Teams load up on

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you Boston knew what was coming and
they still couldn't stop him. Marcus Morris

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was in his bag, as the
kids say, tonight in the mid range,

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just nasty stuff. But it wasn't
just him. I tweeted this out

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earlier and I've been talking about this, but Terrence Mann and Luke Kennar are

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just having sixteen points against Brooklyn Monday
night. That's just not good enough from

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those two. And much has been
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have really picked it up, especially
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half. Terrence Man as well.
But to me, they're key to success

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coming into this season. One of
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stay in contention for a top five
seed was having those two elevate their game

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continue to grow. And they've been
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been plenty up, plenty of upside
with them, but sixteen points combined wasn't

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going to do it for the Clippers
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And maybe it's unfair. They're two
young players. They're asked to do a

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lot more right now, play big
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Marcus Morris by the way, played
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hear from coach Lupo's gave afterwards maybe
a little Oaki doke some gamesmanship there.

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It sounded like he was gonna be
our minis restriction. Just played twenty seven

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Monday night. Was supposed to get
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up playing I want to say the
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It speaks to the importance of this
one. Clippers are lost two in

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a row, and that two man
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They feed off of one another.
When one has it going, the other

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does as well. They've been starting. They play really well next to one

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another, and they combined for thirty
four points. And I think the number

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is with so many guys out right
now, if the Clippers are going to

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survive the gauntlet here in the month
of January, they need those two to

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combine for thirty a game, and
I think it's possible. So they get

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thirty four tonight, maybe the only
combine for twenty six, and next night

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there you have it thirty point average. But the Clippers, they just had

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to find a way because they got
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two from three. I don't know
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was Houston Rockets missing twenty seven straight
three pointers in that game seven against the

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Golden State Warriors a couple of years
ago in the Western Conference Finals, and

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I don't even know if overall they
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ten percent. Boston's in the bottom
half of the league. They shoot thirty

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four percent from three, but nine
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We were all holding our collective Clipper
Nation breath, thinking they're gonna progress to

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the meaning at some point some of
these are gonna start to fall. It

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wasn't all great defense. There were
some wide open shots and the Clippers were

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giving it to him because they stayed
cold. Clipper Nation as PTSD from Josh

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Richardson and the great games he's had
against them, whether with Dallas or with

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the seventy six ers. When he
had that eighteen point fourth quarter in Philadelphia

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a couple of years ago to beat
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It was Josh Richardson. He goes
three of eleven h five from three,

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just six points outside Jalen Brown Robert
Williams the third he had sixteen or fourteen,

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and they did destroy the Clippers on
the glass. They had fifteen of

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their twenty one offensive rebounds in the
second half. Clippers had just nine total,

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but on that one possession multiple offensive
rebounds leading to an Eric Bledsoe three

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point or putting them up eight with
about two minutes left. That might have

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been the Dagger Clippers win by nine
in Boston. Another big one coming up

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in Toronto, America's hat Friday.
Let's go to Javier and Lahabra Heights start

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things off as you usually do.
Why because you call in first, Javier

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before the game's even over. What's
up? Hey, what's up? Patam?

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Thank you for taking my call.
Eric Bledsoe, I guess he showed

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me up just a little here today
because how about that. Hey, it

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happens to the best of us.
Javier. I'm sure I've been on cold

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take six spells before. Yeah,
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first first quarter or first half,
I was like, no, here we

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go again. But yeah, you're
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When you hit that three, I
go. Clippers have it. I think

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they have it, but yeah,
they got to continue and you you I

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don't know it was you or Noah
that brought the the point of man,

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yeah and Eric with a man and
Canard that they if they both combined for

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thirty, that's that's at the sign
they can win it. They they can

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help the Clippers winning a lot of
games. And you're right, I didn't

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notice on that game on Brooklyn that
they only had how many points both of

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them eleven or fifteen? That six
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over sixteen individually they each had seventeen. No, yeah, that was that

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was big. I mean, you're
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uh, they get They went on
a lot of games. So now we

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just got to win one more Adam
in Toronto and be two games over five

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hundred to end the year. And
that you know that that's you know,

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that's a you know way to end
the year. I'm in my opinion,

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so hopefully, you know, if
they went on on Friday, thank you,

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Adam. I have a good New
Year's and uh, well we'll talk

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to you, uh hopefully on New
Year's Eve. Happy New Year. Javier

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appreciate the phone call that Luke Kennard
Terrence man connection. Those two work in

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tandem. They were my players to
watch. It's the first time I went

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from going from one guy to two. But it illustrates just how much they

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need each other. There's a symbiotic
venom Eddie Brock type relationship those two guys.

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They just work well together and it
makes sense. They've been together now

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for over a year and they get
They get along off the court as well.

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Clippers win in Boston ninety one to
eighty two. That is your PSA

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first night, big victory. There
are no must wins in December, but

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I will say this was a need
to have it. Boston win four of

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forty two from three. Clippers hold
them to eighty two points. They win

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by nine. More Clippers stock coming
up on postgame audio. We'll have doctor

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Chapon from the lib the Jam podcast
and postgame audio from Coachluin. The players

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they'll listen, and the Clipper stock
here on Ampus seventy on Sports. It's

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got the hottest chick in the game. Win my chain. That's right home.

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Not DNC, but Simon Nuts and
them. Let us no one can

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do it up. I checked Channa
like the Food Inspect up. My homie

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Strick told me do finish your breakfast. So that's what I'm gonna do.

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Take you back to the zoo with
the fastboard to Joos in the necklace.

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Let me tell you, Joos when
I do to protect this shoot at you

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act us like movie directors. LA
Clippers Basketball continue safe time, shot down

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the stretch. This is the official
home of the Lost Angeles Clippers. Clippers

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win ninety one eighty two in Boston
over the Celtics. Ocome back into Clippers

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Talk. I'm Adam Oslin still to
come here on the show. We're taking

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up till the top of the hour. Doctor Schaff from the Lob the Jam

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podcast. So a couple of little
Sir Robert Williams. My goodness, Clippers

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win by nine. Though we'll also
postgame audio from coach Lou coming up maybe

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in this very segment. I mentioned
this going out of our show Monday Night.

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But there's something special when the Clippers
go into Boston. Now, I

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want to say last year it wasn't
aspect they lost that triple overtime game,

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bad call against Lou Williams. But
in twenty nineteen, after they reconfigured the

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team once again, to get themselves
into a position to make a run at

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the two one three connection in Land
Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. They had

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moved to Bias Harris at the trade
deadline. Unexpectedly. We thought he was

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gonna end up getting paid by the
Clippers. Instead, he's making over thirty

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million a year with Philly. Ended
up being the right move. You fill

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that with contracts from Kawhi Leonard and
Paul George. But he had just hit

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a game winner and that night he
gets traded, and that has been the

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kiss of death in the past.
Same thing happened to Blake Griffin that a

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game winner against the Pelicans gets moved. But all of that has led to

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a Clippers team that win healthy,
can compete for a championship. But I

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bring up Boston because in twenty nineteen, their first game, first or second

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game after that trade, they're in
Boston. They have the new guys,

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they have Landry sham It, and
they come back down twenty eight and they

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formed a new identity. It wasn't
we're heading into the lottery and tanking and

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not caring about the playoffs anymore because
we traded to Bias Harris. It was

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We're gonna fight no matter who is
out there, and things crystallized for them,

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and they ended up taking the Golden
State Warriors with Kevin Durant to six

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games and had the biggest playoff comeback
in NBA history down thirty one in Game

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two. That game in Boston got
things started, and I wonder if tonight

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can be another catalyst for this Clippers
team winning the way they did with who

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they had out there, with Marcus
Morris, Terrence Man, Luke Nard,

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Eric Bledsonovitza Zubos, the same starting
lineup as Monday Night, but guys like

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Winslow coming off the bench, Savior
Moon his second game as a Clipper,

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a Mere Coffee continues to play with. Coffee hit two big three pointers,

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but the one in the second half
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run Boston was on a twelve to
run. He hit that. He had

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the strip on Langford that saved a
layup in the fourth quarter. Then Man

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had kind of a takeover moment.
Connard hit a three ball. They were

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playing small with Justice Winslow at the
five, and the Clippers just find ways

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to win. Kean Johnson also had
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they're building something here just like they
did a couple of years ago, or

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at least rediscovering that identity that they've
established for the last couple of years,

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Because I gotta be honest, when
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loss, that shouldn't have happened up
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have to win that game. There
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hit the game winning three pointer when
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against San Antonio and got run off
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of the season. Coming off that
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some concern that there were cracks in
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been, that they weren't rallying around
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man up mentality, had to have
the stay ready Clipper mindset. But games

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like tonight kind of reaffirm, Yeah, they're that team and Marcus Morris is

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still that guy, and I think
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embraces and thrives when he's the number
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plate. He's been waiting for these
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got to take advantage. He did
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the fourth quarter. Let's go to
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ain't Bruins talk on Clippers stop without
of Maslin. How are you happy or

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you know, Adam, I hope
the Bruins they post for maybe January.

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back pretty much everyone. Yeah,
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I know I haven't talking in a
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Kawhi Leonard. Is he going to
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know, and I don't think Kawhi
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how his body reacts. But I
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listen to this, Harold, because
at Media Day, Kawhi Leonard was asked

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why did he not wait till this
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for more money, And what he
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because he wants to play now.
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like that, it could be a
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if you're playing right now. So
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the only other report we had is
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so about four months after the knee
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explosive movement. And we also heard
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encouraged with what are you seen from
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the hardest worker he's ever seen.
That's what Jerry West said. So Kawhi

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is on a mission. He's on
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But we'll see. The body has
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What happened to what happened to Tatum
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NBA's health and safety protocols, so
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NBA, between the injuries the players
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on the court. You know,
I'd like to get into its stuff.

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It's not very good. It's just
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I mean, it's just like when
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going to continue the player? Are
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or later. It's all these guys
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plow through it. They're trying to
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all eighty two games in this season, and that's the goal right now.

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But we'll see. They'll adjust as
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this new virul So we'll find out. But I think the quality of play,

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considering who's been out there, has
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been some great games this season.
I thought tonight's game was exciting, came

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down to the very end. We've
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But also I find it interesting.
I really mean this to see who has

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the most death. We're not just
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or eleventh guy off the bench.
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nowhere from the G League and seeing
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your death the NBA right now,
with everything going on, let's go to

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Morris in Long Beach. Morris calling
in on a night where Marcus Morris just

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burned his former team in the Boston
Celtics. Morris, what's up? Oh

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boy, didn't he I'm gonna tell
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to steal, and the police a
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my thunders, absolutely correct. Now
we're gonna find out how deep these professional

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basketball teams are. And I'm gonna
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the guys they played tonight up against
the Ballston Celtics. If you started the

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season and had those names and there, you would have started laughing and you

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would have got well, they're coming
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before, they're a playoff team,
and that coaches they got right. Now,

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this guy is showing some millions.
This guy's showing some billions because he

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ain't got much talent, but yet
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the city with Yeah, they're having
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we're doing this without know all stars
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out to the coach because now it's
getting down to how sharp you are,

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how prepared you are. You know, it's the type business. And in

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terms of talent on the floor,
I don't care who's shooting. It is

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pretty to see a three point shot
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we still got it going on.
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team, Adam. I know y'all
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me. They're doing real good and
their playoff team. We just got to

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figure out what's gonna be their seat, all right, Morris, I appreciate

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the phone call. Eight six six
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am bullish on this Clippers squad.
But it's the schedule that's what's always concerned

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me going into this year. It's
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games and seven nights and having to
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the guys who are out right now, it is a lot to ask.

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If anyone can do it, it's
coach lou. No one can push the

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right buttons better. No one can
mix and match and put together makeshift lineups

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and figure it out on the fly
better than him and his players that respond

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to him. All Right, we'll
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After they go into Boston and win
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Celtics. Clipper's next game coming up
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coming up here, on the show
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the Lob the Jam podcast. And
Yes, the game and the skill level

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is so high right now. I
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could watch an MMA fight sometimes it
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know the names of the guys fighting, but it doesn't matter. You just

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get into it because the sport is
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NBA. You may not always know
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but guys have stepped up. They
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Athleticism, the skill, the three
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with shots has never been higher.
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Boston. This is Clipper stock.
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hear from coach Lou post game.
I got it for you. But first,

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Sean and Inglewood, welcome to Clipper
Stock. Hi Shan Shock, Yeah

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you're on. Put the pots and
pans down, my friend, a life,

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this is real life. You're on. Okay, Adam, Now you

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just take me last. I don't
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no, no, You're not last. And then you steal my thunder.

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You know, I was going to
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So at least, as I said, five just six losses can be attributed

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to this ridiculous schedule that the Clipplers
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sub Portland, who cares about Portland? And seconds, Secondly, I just

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want to say that they had a
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the difference in them because they were
getting to their rotations better defensively, and

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even though Boston missed a lot of
threes. Getting to their rotation made them

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missile out of threes shot at the
point some of those were I'm telling you

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though, when I go back and
look how many open threes they have with

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the NBA stats, they must have
missed twenty. It was unreal. This

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was and uncharacteristically out of this world
outlier type of shooting night for the Boston

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Celtics. It might be the worst
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Celtics. And that's going back aways, of course, but it's not about

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Boston tonight. First of all,
Marcus Morris, you are a soldier and

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you had twenty three points, ten
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twelve shots tonight. And I also, even though he played very certainly,

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i'd like move as he sped down
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converge to him. That's what we
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I want to just compliment lest So
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not getting we were never getting the
production we're getting, and Bledsoe out of

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Patrick Beverley, who I love,
he's my neighbor, is my neighbor in

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Chicago, but still we weren't getting
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getting out of Bledsow. So everybody
pol whining about Bledsoe. Okay, so

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listen, stay positive, super Nation. We will be in the playoffs.

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I still stay. We wanted the
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don't want to hear about four or
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We would have took it last year, but everybody was healthy. That's

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what I gotta say, Thank you, Sean. I see another team in

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Los Angeles took it on the Chintz
to night and lost late to the Memphis

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Grizzlies, who keep winning. But
you're right regarding Eric Bledsoe. He's been

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more than just solid now and those
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without him. Tonight ten points in
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their points. They only had twenty
two points in the period. He had

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ten of them. But that three
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from three, and I was wondering
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of the season, and through the
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percent from the outside. Didn't look
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But now on this Clippers team,
with this ball movement. Check this

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out Eric Bledsoe in December, in
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percent from three. He's a thirty
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and with the Clippers right now,
he might have a career year. Now.

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He got off to such a slow
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He's shooting just thirty two percent on
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December, and I think there's a
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better from the outside, and Marcus
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But Eric Bledsoe last four games nineteen
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Brooklyn, seventeen against the Boston Celtics
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Now he did, I'm wanna say
he did? Oh, Marcus Morris

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turned around Fayway. Okay, you
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lot of different heroes for the Clippers
tonight, but let's hear from their leader

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in Coach Loup post game after they
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Here on Clippers start rhythm, I
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when you used to play in a
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goes zone. But we did a
good job of going zone and then after

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the first two passes going man to
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like I said, I guy did
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competing or we talked about before the
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there. But I thought all of
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to do. Defensively. They hurt
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but that's because we playing zone a
lot. You know, balls are

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flying all over the legs and things
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the most part, I thought we
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worked in a last seventeen months or
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point in that run, do you
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he's gonna happened over YouTube or is
that just an organic procect of that?

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Marcus gotta be our closure down the
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with that, getting to the free
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making a couple of shots, you
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and then when he got tired,
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and row and he was able to
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like I said, total team win. You know, I thought we did

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some good things, you know,
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and just keeping him out balance,
you know, you know, just trying

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to keep him out of rhythm.
And I thought we did a good job

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with that. Tell you uh,
when you look at Luke making more threes

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and an entire team and the fact
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know, with with the games around
that hip issue, like how were you

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able to you know, get him
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tonight. I just thought the guys
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he could have you know, we call

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it, you know, honey,
when he could have came out and transitioned

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behind the basketball that we didn't do. But you know, I thought the

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guys did a good job of looking
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knocked down some shots, you know. So like I said, it's a

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total team effort. I thought we
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tough to score right now. We
know that, but you know, with

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our defense and if we keep competing
defensively, then you know, with being

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ball games and you know, ready
to win him at the end, just

405
00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:36.960
following up because last year, you
know, he had an adjustment period of

406
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trying to uh get the you know, play the kind of defensive you won

407
00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:44.319
see out of him. I know
that when he was in Dallas for Game

408
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:47.559
six, he made a steal off
of Jaalen Brunson. Now I know that

409
00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:52.000
left an impression when you how is
he continue to develop and as a as

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a defender this season just being in
the right spots, you know, I

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think competing you know, guarding a
basketball and like tonight, you know he

412
00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:03.680
had two buck shots, which might
be a career high. But just like

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I said, you know, when
you're shorthanded like we are, and you

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just gotta just keep finding ways to
try to try to win games. And

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you know, we talked about,
you know, we'd be able to win

416
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.640
ugly at times, and you know
tonight was ugly win for us. But

417
00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:19.000
you know when it ugly is pretty, you know, so you know we'll

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00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:22.480
take this win. It's a big
win for us to get us off the

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00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.319
skid, and you know, hopefully
we can build off this one. There

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00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.039
was coach Loupoe's game after the Clippers
just find a way to win in Boston

421
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.240
ninety one to eighty two. Mitch
in New Jersey before we break here,

422
00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:37.480
Mitch, what's up here on Clipper
Stock? Happy Needy, how's it going?

423
00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:41.920
Happy New Year? Missed you and
yours. Thanks. I'm waiting for

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00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:45.880
my tests because I went by and
we both had our shots and everything.

425
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:49.359
Yeah, I guess, I guess
the Athlings get ahead of the line.

426
00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:52.839
But you know, I like to
see the young players. But I'm missing

427
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:59.319
scrub. I guess he was wanted
to know he's in health and safety protocols.

428
00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:01.839
Yeah, so it was brand Brandon
Boston as well on this one.

429
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:06.519
He missed the game in Boston after
having his best game against Boston, which

430
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twenty seven back. And when it
was called Staples Center and Crowbell, it

431
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:15.839
seemed like Cousin seems to getting getting
worse than before it gets better. Stay

432
00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:20.839
went in a row. I was
gonna say, oh, bless it,

433
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:22.960
bless so I love this blessed.
When they traded it in, I didn't

434
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:28.079
want I didn't like I didn't like
that tray blesso when Gordon for Chris Paul,

435
00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:30.200
I didn't like it then, I
mean I still don't like it.

436
00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:35.920
And one most thing, excuse my
mind. You know, I just had

437
00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:38.920
us in a hectic day. But
I'm glad that day hopefully get back.

438
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:43.519
I went oh with them. Three
name guys, I'm gluing quiet. I

439
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:47.759
think Abaca if you look at it, Mars and Patuham fitting miss more games

440
00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:51.599
and Tom Brady his whole career.
I didn't look it up. I'm just

441
00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:53.839
destined. Well, why isn't a
base play? He seemed to missed so

442
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:59.880
many games one twenty time more,
bitch. I appreciate the phone call.

443
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:06.920
Guys are hurt. It happens.
And you mentioned Eric Bloods. I believe

444
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:12.160
you meant Eric Gordon being involved in
that trade for CP three. And you're

445
00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:15.119
the first Clippers fan I've ever heard
say you didn't like that trade. But

446
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:20.119
hey, that's fine. Clippers win
tonight ninety one to eighty two in Boston

447
00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:23.680
over the Celtics. Coming up next, we'll have doctor chap On from the

448
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Law of the jam accent not quite
as strong as Mitches there. It's a

449
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:31.839
beautiful thing is you're in the accent. I'm just just having trouble deciphering some

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00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:39.039
of it because I'm just a primate. Clippers win by nine over the Boston

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Celtics. More Clippers Stock. NeXT's
Doctor Shapill be here, sorts, candy

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paint, Cadillac quille check I'm not
my Cadillac kull wide hold on to like

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my twenty inh LA Clippers Basketball continue
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the official home of the Los Angeles
Clippers. Y'all know me but a with

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no key. Huge victory by the
Clippers tonight in Boston. They win ninety

456
00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:22.119
one to eighty two over the Celtics. This is Clipper stuff. I'm out

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of Moslin. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the

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phone number if you would like to
get on right now on the Super Secret

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Guest Hotline. He is the man
on the lob the jam the podcast outside

460
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:43.519
of Ralph Waller who does three for
it and that's his phrase. But it

461
00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:50.880
is the good doctor Doctor schap Here
joining us tonight on Clippers Talk after their

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00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:54.039
victorious for the first time in the
last couple of games. Doctor shap how

463
00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:59.400
are you. I'm good. I'm
good. I'm glad to be joining you

464
00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:05.159
after a because it's been joining after
a couple of bad losses last year times

465
00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:08.199
over. So this was really a
really refreshing win from the Clippers today.

466
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:13.119
For sure. I'm doing good.
Am I crazy to bring up what happened

467
00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:15.920
in twenty nineteen in Boston when they
came back down twenty eight Landry Shama hit

468
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:21.320
those big three pointers in the fourth
quarter and say, there's just something about

469
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:23.360
the luck of the Clippers when they
go to Boston and take down the Celtics

470
00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:27.480
where they can form, you know, a little bit of some good vibes

471
00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:30.119
that they can carry over because it
did happen a couple of years ago.

472
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:34.119
I don't know. Yeah, it's
ironic because there's a quote from a certain

473
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:37.519
Celtic after that game talking about the
last lack of team chemistry and not having

474
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:43.840
any effort and was Marcus Morris senior
so and he was a Celtic then,

475
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:50.400
So Marcus Morris being at the forefront
of this really gutty effort from the Clippers

476
00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:54.840
and him scoring to continuing his heart
stretch offensively since he came back from his

477
00:35:54.960 --> 00:36:00.199
initial hiatus when he took that few
those few games off, we're incorporating his

478
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:06.239
knees. Uh. It's really it's
really awesome seeing how the team is kind

479
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:10.119
of banded together. This is this
is a really talent deprived team right now.

480
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.840
They're rarely going to have the best
player on the floor, even during

481
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:19.639
this crazy COVID era, and sometimes
they're not going to have the two best

482
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.400
players on the floor. And Jaylen
Brown, you know, was the best

483
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:27.199
player on the floor from a talent
standpoint today. But Terrence Man and a

484
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:30.639
mere coffee did a great job with
him. He went one for thirteen from

485
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:34.920
three and the Celtics as a whole. You know, it's it's not just

486
00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:37.679
Terrence Davis that's been going crazy on
the Clippers. You know, Clippers have

487
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:44.159
had a string of role players player
oh my god, career or night,

488
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:47.320
Yeah, Lou Dort, Dejon,
Tay Murray, you know, even Austin

489
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:51.480
Rivers. A lot of these guys
who shoot under thirty five percent for the

490
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:54.280
year hitting three plus threes against the
Clippers and hitting over fifty percent and those

491
00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:59.320
single games, so we've been getting
hit. So getting a four from forty

492
00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:04.440
two from the field was really nice, really nice. Luck of the draw

493
00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:07.400
today for a team that shot that
badly at home, and if the Clippers

494
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.039
were able to get it out today, I'm sorry, Boston. It was

495
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:14.559
coming to someone after what's happened to
the Clippers this season. It had to

496
00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:19.880
be you. It's Doctor chaff follow
him at the Lab, the Jam Pod.

497
00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:23.159
We've had Rich Homie Flamm, big
Shot Bob Flam, We've had Lucas

498
00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:28.039
hand on obviously for a while,
but this season we got Doctor Chaff on

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00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:31.320
as well. So Doctor, let's
talk about Marcus Morris and this resurgence we

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00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:36.559
have seen since the first really six
games he played this season month of December.

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00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:39.239
I don't know what the calculation is
after tonight going oh five from three

502
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:44.280
but was shooting forty five percent from
distance, But to me, it's more

503
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:47.760
important to see that level of efficiency
when you're the guy because so many people

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00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:51.880
are out. You talked about everyone's
dealing with this right now, and they

505
00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:55.119
are. But the Clippers, uniquely, they haven't had their best player all

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00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:59.280
season long. It's not like Kawhi
Leonard has been in and out. He's

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00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:02.480
not here right now obviously with the
ACL so when they get hit with injuries,

508
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:06.559
it's already built in. They're missing
their number one guy already, but

509
00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:12.239
Marcus Morris, he's played like one
recently. Yeah, and it was really

510
00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:15.840
important to start well. The Celtics
have been starting well and a few of

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00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:19.440
their games. I think Brian Steman
mentioned it on the telecast today. So

512
00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:22.559
for Marcus to start, I believe
there was six for seven or so in

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00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:27.559
that first quarter. Really carry that
load early on and keep the Clippers,

514
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.440
you know, ahead, was really
helpful. You know, honestly, the

515
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:35.599
best thing in half court sets,
when you know, if initial pick and

516
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:38.119
roll doesn't work or luke off the
ball doesn't work, it really is dumping

517
00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:42.320
it down to Marcus. I mean, his points per possession out of the

518
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:46.480
post has been fantastic this year.
And you know, whereas before we didn't

519
00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:51.360
want move to be featured as much
on the elbow in the post because we

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00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:54.440
had Kawhi Leonard and Paul George,
now it's really a pretty great option to

521
00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:58.639
dump it down to him in the
post. You know. Granted, later

522
00:38:58.679 --> 00:39:00.800
the game he had Horford and he
came off to the three point line.

523
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:05.320
I don't know exactly what he was
doing there, but we got bailed out

524
00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:08.440
with those free throws. But he's
been great since he's come back. He's

525
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:12.199
hit seven plus field goals. I
want to say, in at least,

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00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:15.840
you know, six or seven games
since he's returned from that initial hiatus with

527
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:21.039
his knees, which is a great
amount of consistency from him. It's something

528
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:23.159
that we haven't seen from him as
a Clipper. He's just been the guy.

529
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:28.480
I was worried that New York Marcus
wasn't there anymore, primarily because of

530
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:31.280
his health and getting older. But
he's been alive and well and he's been

531
00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:35.000
carrying the team. Doctor Chap,
I'm gonna give you a number, and

532
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:38.760
you tell me if this is accurate
or realistic or attainable from these two players,

533
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:43.159
Terrence Mann and Luke Kennard. To
me, for the Clippers to be

534
00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:47.119
able to survive in January for however
long Paul George is out and who knows

535
00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:51.599
who else still know. Reggie Jackson
tonight hopefully is available on Friday. But

536
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:57.320
to me, they got to average
thirty points combined. Tonight they had thirty

537
00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:01.280
four. Last game they only had
sixteen. Is that it all realistic?

538
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.360
Yeah, you know, thirty points
considering the amount of you know, the

539
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:10.199
average between them, both of them
about twenty two points a game as it

540
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:15.559
is, and between the opportunities that
they'll get. You know, I think

541
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:17.599
thirty points is attainable. You know, if it's on a scale at one

542
00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:21.440
to ten, how attainable is it
to get that consistently? You know,

543
00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:23.599
I think it a good six or
seven or eight or so, and I

544
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:27.719
think that's pretty good. You can
expect one of them to be on and

545
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.360
the other one to be off.
You know, they gave us thirty four

546
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:35.360
today. I think expecting an average
than the average out at about thirty.

547
00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:37.920
I think that's doable because they'll be
up and down a bit. You know,

548
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:42.360
Luke and Terrence are both guys who
often I falter a kind of as

549
00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:46.079
good as a team around them.
I love Terrence's decision making. Recently he's

550
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:52.039
been more to the point about taking
his threes and then that causes people to

551
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:53.320
guard him a little bit. More
is his attack of clothes. That's have

552
00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:57.360
been good. You know, he
was seven for eleven today, he's been

553
00:40:57.519 --> 00:41:00.800
He's flipped the switch a little bit
since starting. I think he's been playing

554
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:06.039
better and more aggressive. Art had
been just on fire this month before the

555
00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:09.800
hip injury, and today was very
reassuring him seeing you know, the basket

556
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:13.719
kind of open up a bit and
hitting all those threes. I think he

557
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:17.840
was five per ten, really good. I think it's really nice for Canard

558
00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:22.440
in general to get to about ten
threes a game, especially even with how

559
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:25.960
few bodies we have around. That
was a huge goal for Paul George for

560
00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:29.840
a long time to get to ten
threes a game, and for Knard being

561
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:32.880
a shooter with this team. You
know, I think even when defense is

562
00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:36.239
hone in on him, if he
can get to around eight or nine or

563
00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:39.000
ten threes, it'll help the team
because he's a he's a dead eye.

564
00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:43.480
So you know, Eric Bledsoe I
thought maybe made the biggest shot of the

565
00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:45.079
game that three point or to put
him on eight with about a couple of

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00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:49.079
minutes left. He had ten of
his seventeen points in the fourth quarter.

567
00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:52.719
And he's been the guy that Clipper
Nation is kind of zeroed in on so

568
00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:57.559
far this season as a scapegoat at
times. But I gotta say he is

569
00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:01.119
shot almost forty percent from now.
He has I think shot forty percent from

570
00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:05.719
three in December and we're talking like
fifteen games. Because he plays almost every

571
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:08.360
single game for the Clippers, and
so nowI hits a big one and this

572
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:13.719
is just not the level of production
offensively they would have gotten from Patrick Beverley,

573
00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:15.840
who we all love. But this
is why you had to have Eric

574
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:20.920
Bledso in a season without Kawhi Leonard. We already knew that. Yeah,

575
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:23.480
you know, Bludso is now creeping
around that thirty one and a half percent

576
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:27.079
for the season, which is near
his thirty three and a half or so

577
00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:31.280
career three point percentage that he is, you know, going back the right

578
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:35.760
way to the mean. And I
think you have a point there, you

579
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:38.559
know, I don't. I think
Patrick Beverly on a totally healthy Clipper team,

580
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:44.719
it's hard to say that he can't
be of substantial value just because of

581
00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:46.519
all the liddle things he does and
the defense he does. But when you

582
00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:51.239
have no bodies out there and you
need to just get a bucket or run

583
00:42:51.239 --> 00:42:54.760
a play, Bledsoe is gonna have
a ton of mid range opportunities, which

584
00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:58.440
you know sometimes you're gonna have to
live with. He's gonna have some,

585
00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:00.639
you know, pharais to the basket. He's chaos on defense, and that

586
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:06.280
can really spur a transition game.
I understand people having a kind of a

587
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:10.280
complicated relationship with Eric, but I
think he's shown right now with Reggie off

588
00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:15.280
the floor particularly and the ball being
in his hands, that he's shown a

589
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.719
lot of utility to really keep this
team afloat, and particularly when you're not

590
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:22.199
dumping it down to PG and then
Bledsoe cramps the spacing. He's always been

591
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:24.519
a guy that needs the ball in
his hands and needs kind of the offense

592
00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:28.360
to kind of run around him a
little bit, and needs to make his

593
00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:30.480
moves with the big man and get
towards the basket and kind of create for

594
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:34.480
others. And he's been doing that
today. That three pointer was the bigges

595
00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:37.400
shot of the game, and pretty
much, you know, I didn't win

596
00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:40.400
the game for them, but really
gave them a little bit of breathing room.

597
00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:45.679
And I think bl it's been great. He's been even more imperative to

598
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.159
be on this floor. Almost all
the time. Was just the lack of

599
00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:52.440
ball handling out there. I like
Xavier Moon, but you can kind of

600
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:55.039
feel his size a little bit out
there. It sucks to say, but

601
00:43:55.440 --> 00:44:00.480
he's a guy that has definitely has
ball handling skills, but it's just a

602
00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:02.679
kind of a smaller guy. Bledsoe, you know, uses his body and

603
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:06.639
loves physicality a lot. You can
see him bounce off of guys all the

604
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:09.599
time. So I think that's like
a big advantage of blood and I think

605
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Clipper friends are kind of appreciating a
lot of what Bloedsoe can do, kind

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of in a vacuum when he's not
surrounded by people who need the ball over

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him. Yeah, and he's looked
when they do get healthy with that second

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unit, him being the lead ball
handler there. He's just in a flow

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now and that's really encouraging to see. Quickly shap before I let you go

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a doctor chap with us here from
the lab, the jam the pod Keian

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Johnson. Who's your comp for him? What can he turn into? Because

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he's just so unbelievably raw, it's
hard, you know. I think people

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comparing him, let's see. I
think people comparing him to like a Tony

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Allen type or a defense first type
guard who can give you maybe a little

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bit on offense, an intangible type
of guy who can pick up, you

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know, a good perimeter guy on
defense, make some cuts towards the basket,

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give you some rebounds, give you
some energy. Transition guy. Remember

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Tony Allen, before he blew out
his knee, was kind of an underrated

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scorer, and then he blowed his
knee became a real defense first kind of

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guy. You know. I think
he's kind of of that mold of these

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defense first kind of guys. You
know, even even Patrick Beverly, Dylon

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Brooks, like these kind of guys
that are known for their defense and do

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intangibles. On the other end,
if Kean can can get a steady jumper,

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and as steady three point jumper,
we know he likes to hit the

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mid range. His handle is a
little bit off when it comes to in

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NBA games, but he's been doing
some nice reps offensively in the G League.

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I think that Clipper fans, and
that's a big reason why I'm optimistic

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that Kean, because those kind of
guys can play with anybody. You don't

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need to worry about him needing touches
on offense. You don't need to worry

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about him getting upset that he's not, you know, running pick and rolls

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or being posted on the elbow or
things like that. If Kean can be

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a guy that brings a lot of
that defense first, and he's already said

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it on the air that he wants
to be a defense guy and he can

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be that's the guys he can also
hit shouts from the corner and do things

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like that, then gosh, that's
that's a hell of the guy to have

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and can really make things easier for
guys like Kawhi Leonard and Paul George when

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they're not trying to defend that top
guy all the time, you know more.

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Harkless did a lot of that good
stuff for the Clippers early on in

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that first season where he was defending
the primary guy, so Kawai and Paul

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George didn't have to Niko Patum.
There's a lot of that now. If

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Kean can become that kind of guy
that can also bring that nice transition game,

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I think a mere Coffee on our
own team is somebody that Kean can

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kind of look to model his game
after being a defender first three point shooter,

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willing to push the ball in transition. I think that defense first type

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of guy with nice glory of transition
and intangible plays is a sort of guy

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Kean can maybe become if he keeps
working at it and Tony Allen comparison is

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interesting. I wonder if he could
also knock out Oj Mayo over our card

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game. Okay, I'm kidding,
that was just hearsay. We don't know

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if that's true. He is Doctor
Chaff from philab The Jam the Pod,

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Doctor Chaff, I'm up against it. Thanks for doing this tonight. We'll

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talk to you, my friend,
and absolute pleasures. Always go Clipped Clippers

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going up North taking on the Toronto
Raptors. Next game coming up Friday.

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Tip time four thirty Clippers countdown,
same as today. We'll start things off

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at three thirty. Before we get
out of here. I do want to

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thank Noah Ego, Brian Seeming,
Ralph Waller, the callers, the listeners,

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and Doctor Shaffer. Coming on.
I'm Adam Oslin. We'll talk to

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you at three thirty on Friday.
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