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What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to another postgame live hang after

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the Clippers. True, I don't
know if barely is the right word.

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It might be the right word.
Get past the Detroit Pistons. I'm Chuck

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Mockler. Welcome to clips and dip
here with Will Up. Like Adam Watson

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is doing his job over on AM
five seventy, he's doing the post game.

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One of us is gonna hop on
there in the middle of the stream,

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but hanging out, letting people filter
in after the Clippers versus the Pistons

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game, Will, how are you
feeling about? Well, wait, we

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should first first off, we should
say we hope Norm Powell is a doing

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okay. He took a inadvertent huge
elbow. I think that was from Jalen

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Durham that it was a scary scene. Snapped his head back, snapped his

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head back, he was leaking everywhere. We hope he's doing okay. He

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was, man. Yeah, a
lot of blood, really a lot of

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blood. Very scary. Yeah,
really weird, a weird afternoon overall,

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But we hope Norman is doing okay. He had to be carried to the

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locker room. Yeah, ghosts in
the chat pairs up for norm that was

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that was scary. He looked so
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definitely going to be in a concussion
protocol. I would be very surprised if

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he wasn't. Yeah, as he
should be. We hope he's doing okay.

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Weird game overall in a lot of
ways for the Clippers. Will,

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how are you feeling about just initial
reactions before we dive into some specifics of

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this Clippers what was it one twelve
one oh six victory over the Pistons?

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Man? Uh, overall, I'm
actually feeling pretty good. Like I know

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it's the Pistons. They haven't turning
things around a little bit as of late

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five, five and seven in their
last twelve. Uh, this was just

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kind of this reeked of like the
typical Clippers sort of brunch performance that we've

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come to know, and it looked
like it wasn't gonna be that way right

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twelve to two run to start things
out, looked like the Clippers kind of

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had some jews, had the gas
going, and then it just completely flipped

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around and then they trailed basically for
the entire game until what late in the

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third some forward It might have been
the fourth. Yeah, it might have

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been early in the fourth, but
you know, they got the win,

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and I think, really encouragingly,
we got we got the Paul George game

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that we've needed. I feel like
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Yeah, since he returned to the
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it was weird. Yeah, definitely
some struggles there early, but put

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it to put it all together and
had I mean, what twenty points second

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half? Right, fourth? Yeah, I had as Yeah, there's definitely

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I mean, there's definitely things to
like amid all this. I thought this

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was a really great Mere Coffee performance
as well, especially with no Norm,

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Like, you know, he has
to step up a little bit more,

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and so Norm also Jesse w with
a good golf pistons are as bad as

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people think they've been playing. Well, can I say one thing too?

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Sure? I just feel like man
in an ideal world. Sure, this

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is a game where like Paul George
and Kawhi don't play the fourth, Like

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it's just not gonna work that way
all the time. Like you're you're not

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playing a team's record on any given
night, You're you're playing the the assemblage

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of players that's in front of you. So I well, I agree,

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like it was probably a little close
for comfort. It was a little bit

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difficult. I maybe don't think that
our expectations should be though, that the

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Clippers are just gonna blow out every
under five hundred team. It'd be this

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day, but it'd be great.
But it's a newer man. I know

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it's a new so Kawhi also,
Kawhi looked tired. He looked like he'd

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been geat. I don't mean that
in a mean way. He's been playing

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a lot of basketball at a very
high level. He looked a little fatigued

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in this one. Nicole Marino saying, Clippers need the All Star right,

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Yeah, they really do. Kawhi
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forty two percent, but he shot
thirty eight percent overall. He was doing

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a lot of good stuff. He
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two steals. But he had rough
turnovers. Yes, he had three cop

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rough turnovers. There were eight turnovers
in the first or no, that was

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sorry, that was eight offensive rebounds
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I can't remember how many turnovers the
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a little gassed. John stoughters in
the chat asking do we know anything more

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about Pale? We do not.
Oh, here we go, we got

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a super chat went on Monday?
Will they stay in first? I don't

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know. Anything could change on with
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I think I would like them to
be in the first. Well do

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you think they win on Monday?
Before this game, Tylo said he wanted

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the Clippers to be the number one
seed. Did they play like that today?

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Did the Clippers? How do you? Does this change how you feel

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about Monday? Baby? No?
And honestly, there's one thing like that

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we've been talking about. My big
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offense can really stall out when you're
playing against a more physical team, and

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I think that we saw a lot
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me, where a turning point was
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like and I know that it takes
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of you to do that, but
in the second quarter they were what in

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the bonus, like halfway into the
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They started they started getting very very
aggressive and just going going through a lot

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of contact, and I understand that
you're not going to get that for thirty

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one games or however much is remaining, and ideally you really don't even want

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to have to do that because it's
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Norm go down in this one,
but this was a I thought this was

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a pretty physical and and what felt
like it would be a pretty punishing game

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on your body. But I liked
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and get through there, because,
as we said, that's been one of

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those issues with these larger teams,
and it'll certainly be an issue with the

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Timberwolves. A lot of size,
a lot of physicality. They gotta find

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ways to make the offense to get
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hum and it's not going to be
as easy as it is against some of

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these other teams. The small ball
lineup today, but to answer your question,

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they did not play like a number
one. Nice update, Thank you

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for this. Gabriel Burrow. Lou
says Lord will get stitches in his head.

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That's great. Let's again prayers up
for Norm. Hope he's rested.

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Luca, Uh, what's up?
Luca? E twenty three. Asked a

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question because I just want to talk
about small ball. He said, how

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many playoff games un till we see
neither plumber Tice and just go small with

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Russ at the five, Tye was
a DNP today. Yeah, which was

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surprising a little bit. Plumbly firmly
that backup center the small ball lineup,

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that lineup that was who wasn't in
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Paul, George and Russ And that
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that really, I mean it really
I don't want to say won the game,

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but it really helped the Clippers chances
in this game. Yeah, we're

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just a small ball team now,
right, Like we're gonna see it on

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Monday. Plumbly played how many minutes
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and Zoo's on a minutes restriction,
So if Zuo's playing thirty minutes a

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night, we're probably looking at Plumley's
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right, and like it's I think
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Yeah, you know, do you
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of the playoffs. Plubly still in
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I think Luca E two three is
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be. I don't think we'll see
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I don't think they'll be completely relegated
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I think that that lineup is is
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the physicality is an issue right like
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issue in the rebounding, like I
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talked about the zero offensive rebounds,
first game in franchise history for that to

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happen, but overall that was an
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I think that's the first time in
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they've been tracking offensive rebounds since nineteen
eighty three. I saw this stat for

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Lucas Hahn fourteen. It's only four
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an offensive rebound. I can't imagine
they went I don't know. I can't

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imagine they were one and three before
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blueprint all season with physical and athletic
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better since last meeting and they had
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about it on the pregame pod with
with what all three of us with Adam

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was there too. It's like a
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guy fun Techio good was inside,
Like you don't, I don't. He's

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big too. I like, I
like his skill set. I don't know

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how you game plan for him,
you know what I mean? Like,

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I think this is no disrespect to
to fun Techio, but it's like those

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are the guys where it's like,
oh shit, he had a good game.

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It's twenty and nine. Yeah,
a j with a good point with

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with an interesting point here. Uh. They think that if teams are gonna

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lean into size and out rebound us, we might as well go small.

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Like yeah, I mean it feels
counterintuitive, but I think it really does.

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I think I think it's one of
those things like you just get the

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litmus test of whether it's gonna work
or not, you know, and sometimes

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yeah, sometimes you just have to
ride with it, I guess anyways,

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and just hope that the offense that
things pick up on the other side of

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the ball. But it is interesting
to me that it that it has worked

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like that, that they have been
not only not afraid to use it against

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these older teams, but actually effective
in in fits and stretches. The defense

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was really there was a lot of
arms in the passing lanes with that small

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ball lineup in the fourth, which
I really liked. Like a mere hit

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of three in the next possession down
I think harden caused to steal, says

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our Quavas with a great call on
our podcast called Clips and Dip. We

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do a Player of the Game award, but we've been making it so we

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can't say Kawhi is our pick because
he's just so good. It's too easy.

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It's too easy. But Caesar says
we should change the name to the

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Khi lettered Player of the Game Awards. I like that. We're going to

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do that. That's a great idea. Yeah, this The Clippers did not

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play like a number one seed today. They won. As you, I

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was kind of bitching about this game
and then you pointed out, You're like,

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they did still win, so like
that's good. I'm very happy they

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got the win, and like,
look, man, we're going into the

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All Star break like it's such a
weird season. Yeah, I'm not.

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I'm not trying to stand I'm not
trying to stand up you to make excuses.

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This was not championship basketball, This
was not number one seed level basketball.

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But like I can't sweat this one
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we still got the win. That's
really all that's important. You know,

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Let's let's take a little bit of
rest, let's regroup. We got a

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really hard game coming up, and
let's just let's make that the focus.

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Like, let's let's move on to
that one things we uh yeah, here

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we go. This is a great
call. Appreciate this rock looked better than

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the thunder did today very much.
So uh yeah. So before this on

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the pregame pod, we talked about
we wanted to see how PG looked and

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what the defense looked like. PG
fantastic got hot from three late. I

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think he only missed what like one
shot that wasn't that wasn't a three or

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something like that. Like it was
really really great for Paul George today.

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That minutes restriction for Zoo. Who
boy, does the defense look rough with

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this minutes restriction in place. I'm
not trying to say that the minutes restriction

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should be lifted or anything like that. But like, man, is there're

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such a clear difference. He also
can't really get into it, like he

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only had three attempts in his twenty
minutes today. He was efficient, which

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was great, but and two blocks. The first possession of this game was

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a great Zoo block actually, But
man, like, I cannot wait for

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this minutes restriction to be up for
the Clippers defense. Yeah, yeah,

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I mean it's gonna be key to
sort of turning things around. And I

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wonder what it's gonna look like and
what he's gonna look like in this game

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against the Timberwolves because we had we've
seen flashes of of where he was at,

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you know, before going down with
the cap injury. But this would

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be a big test. So I
I loved the Zugo bear batch up always.

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What did Zoo have in the last
game against the timber Wolves? Let

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me Russ had like a crazy deer
triple double? So row hith I hope

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I pronounced that correctly. I apologize
I didn't said Harden needs to be more

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aggressive, law Murray pointed out,
and the second quarter Harden was rough in

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this one. That was kind of
that was a bit of an issue for

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the Clips. I think he went
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had like five assists, but three
turnovers. Yeah, and this was a

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game too where I thought he was
really kind of slowing things down on the

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offensive end, and normally like it
works within the Clippers pace, you know,

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I do. I do think that
he is well suited to sort of

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the tempo that this team likes to
play at. But I thought in a

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situation where you're trailing by double digits, like you got to kind of you

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got to get things moving a little
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even just moving the ball up the
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halt the momentum. And I think
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part of not getting the foul calls
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the half court, it's it can
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that slow. Yeah, it was
wonky too. This is great. A

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Zoo and Rudy is like two dinosaurs going

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into each other. Yeah, big, just loveing knocking into each other.

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I got those long arms. I
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arms. That's true. Yeah,
Now we're gonna do a segment called which

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kind of dinosaur would each Clippers be. We're gonna talk about yeah, no,

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the zoo getting back in the form
that'll make the defense look good,

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and then our co our other host
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But actually we really need to talk
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thing too. Yeah, it is
weird. I feel like we've moved away

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from using him as an offensive piece, and maybe it's just like still working

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him back in the tempo and stuff, but something that was really effective and

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was and was really nice to be
able to keep things humming when shots aren't

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falling, when we're not able to
get into the paint with our you know,

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with our wings and guards. So
I'm hoping that that changes. I'm

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not really sure what the rationale is
behind that, but I would I would

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expect it to turn around once he
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yeah against the Timberwolves, like,
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It'd be nice to be able to
be like, okay, well,

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like let's run, let's run a
couple picking rolls, let's get Zoo involved

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and and try to get some momentum
going that way. But and some touches

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in the paint, right, even
if it's in the short roll or something

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something with it. I totally agree. And like Grisat against the Peals,

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right, Larry Nance comes in and
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Zoo gets too looks and then it
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gonna do that anymore. So I
hope, and it's the ministerction thing.

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Dylan Mayley says, what are your
guys thoughts on Coffee switching into the starting

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spot for Man or do you think
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bench squad. I think you got
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is. I agree, I agree. Yeah, Man was clearly really frustrated

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this game, and Coffee did have
a really good game. Man didn't make

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a shot. Yeah. I just
I think you gotta stick with Man.

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I just think we have enough data
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pretty irrefutable to like usurp him from
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you know, I like Coffee,
I love his development, I know what

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he's done this season. Of course, it's just like we know what Terrence

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his ups and downs this season,
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the bench makes that any better.
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is a couple of inches taller than
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a longer wingspan. Wait, Norm
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I'm sorry, A mirror a mirror, but I think a mirror my Becauzamir

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has the weird wingspan thing. He's
like, not as long as I don't.

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I think you got to keep Terrence
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of this log I don't really think
there's a reason to change now. Uh.

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Sliva says Terrence is a terodactyl.
I can see that. I guess

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that's no. Yeah, I'm like, let's get let's get some more ideas

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out there. But I'm not bad
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going small versus Timberwolves towns of Gobert
small ball Gobert. Although that's a good

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call. Yeah, No, I
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I think against Timberwolves they will imply
some small ball. I was just saying

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the zoo offensive thing because he's still
going to start, like they're not going

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to run out a small ball line
up to start. Do you remember when

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we had to have Marcus Morris taking
those jump balls for a couple of games

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when the Clippers, uh, we're
really going through it that season? That

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sucked. Oh yeah, goofy game
today. If you're just joining the stream,

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thanks for hanging out. It was
a weird at Crypto. There's only

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three more brunch games in our lives, guys, which is fantastic. Yeah,

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Clippers escape with a win. It
was it was rough, but but

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they got the dub. Other than
Paul George, who is your player of

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the game in this one part of
the Lion god pick in my mine would

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actually have to be a mirror I
I. I thought he was great.

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Well, how is it not Paul
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I said, other than Paul George? Yeah, how's it not Paul George?

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Why can't it be? Why can't
it be Paul George? Are we

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worried about Zoom being minus eleven?
Nope, nope, just a minute's issue.

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Yeah, no concerns there, next
point that next question, Yeah,

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I don't know I'm feeling I I
like that point you brought up. I

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just get to get to the All
Star break. Yeah, there's just gonna

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be it. I mean, it's
it's sucked to drop this one, especially

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like with Norm geting her and PG
having a great game. But like we

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got the win. I'll take that. I'll worry. I'll worry more about

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whether the Clippers are ready to play
like a one seed after we come out

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of the All Star break, like
yeah, just because we still just did

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come up with that day road trip
and again, I you know, I

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hate making excuses for this team,
but this, I just feel like this

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kind of little stretch of play right
now seems very warranted. And PG is

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still coming back right like he we
talked about. It's funny on the pregame

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pod. We actually talked about maybe
wanting PG to set this game out.

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We did, yeah, which just
because of the way he had looked,

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especially in the last game, like
it, you know, it's not even

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just the shopping off. He was
just looking a little lost out there,

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looking like he just wasn't one physically. So this is just the exact game

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I mean you needed to see,
or not even needed to see but want

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to see from Paul George. Yeah, that's like, yeah, happy he

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played. He made a great comment
too in the post game. He was

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like, you know, I got
all my misses out or something like that.

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Yeah, against the Pels, which
was a good call we got oh.

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Yeah. So there's been a lot
of discourse around around the Kawhi letter

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double team. Maybe Kuailar with the
stat for us. Kawhi is getting doubled

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the most in the post this season
thirty when he's doubled, his points per

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possession drops a ship tone yeah by
point to oh, you had a good

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idea about this, but this is
a real thing. Kawhi is getting doubled

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more. It's looking a little he
needs he needs to be better at passing

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out of the double. Like just
bottom line, he needs to be better

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passing out of the double. He's
at any given point, he's usually gonna

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be on the floor with three other
shooters. This is just a team that's

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built to punish you for doubling.
And I don't get why we're not doing

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that. And I don't know.
I mean many brings up a great point.

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He's getting doubled the most, so
like he you know, it's not

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new coverage. It's not new coverage
for him. This isn't groundbreaking. It's

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one of those things that we got
to work out, and I think it

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could be. I think maybe some
more off ball movement to so Kawhi has

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some more options and he doesn't have
to like like the like the bad turnover

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this game where he's trying to loop
loop a pass all the way to the

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far corner and it's you know,
I think just having some more off ball

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movement to get him some maybe easier
options or targets would help. But it's

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it is one of those things that
is going to have to improve because the

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playbook can't be as simple as just
double Kawhi in the post. And their

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offense, you know, falls into
half essentially of what it is of what

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it is normally. Yeah, it's
like half, like eighty percent or whatever

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the actual number is. Yeah,
it's like, be physical, double Kawhi.

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That's kind of your best shot at
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And the refs also just for this
Pels game, goofy ass reffing, goofy

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reffing. I don't like all this
season. I know it's the last two

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games, the last two games have
been really really weird. Like I don't

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know if there was like a collective
refs meeting where like the Clippers no longer

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get calls very disman it's just like
very very strange. Yeah, well he

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screamed, that's a foul. Uh
hey, it's I mean, it was

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a foul. He was foul.
So it's all. It is what it

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is. But I think the way
they we're able to come about that and

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turn it around is like just the
way they forced the issue in this game.

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And I think that that was the
best takeaway of this, Like even

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going against the physical defense when they
really when they you know, get downhill

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and then and they like go through
the contact. It's not an option at

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that point, right, You're not
giving the ref an option to call or

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not call it. You have to
make that call, like you you know,

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you have to make that call.
And maybe sure they'll miss a couple,

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but like nine times out of ten, when you're attacking the rim with

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that kind of intent and finishing through
contact like that, you're you're just you're

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gonna get the call. Yeah,
Jesse w saying Terrence is a velociraptor,

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I would maybe I think I leave
kind of digging that i'd leave. Maybe

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rush towards the velociraptor. If you're
just joining the chat. We were doing

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a bit earlier about what dinosaurs Kawhi, wooly mammoth. Someone's saying, try

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seratops. I don't know about that. Maybe I could see it. I

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think wooly mammoth would be a beast
in the post. Yeah, that's true,

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Rock saying if there was ever a
time for both to return, it's

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going to be. As Powell recovers, please don't rush him back. Good

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idea. Sad, We're gonna we
do have to take a quick break because

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All right, welcome back into Clinton. David watching live on the on the

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postgame hangout. It's over on YouTube
dot com Slash at Clippers podcast. We

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never went away, but Charles,
we're talking about what clippers or what dinosaurs,

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but what's really going on? Uh, we're talking about Buds Highland Baby

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getting some run with Norm Powell out. If you missed it, Norm Powell

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took an inadvertent brutal elbow. Uh
from Uh? I believe it was Duran.

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Uh. Well, I think it's
Church of All the Radio. Oh

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sure, yeah. We was about
to go the radio with our other co

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host, Adam Austlin. And he's
gonna be out And they said just stitches.

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But it looked like a concussion situation, like he was the way his

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head snapped back and like how wobbly
he looked on his legs. That was

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that. It was scary. It
was boreline scary. So he's going to

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be out. Who's gonna get some
run? The Clippers ran a nine man

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rotation today. I do not.
I hope they don't run an eight man

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rotation while Norm is out. It's
probably got to be Bones. I love

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this. This is a time for
This is why you know you don't trade

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Bones. It's nice that he's still
on the team. As you like to

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say, you need good players who
are cheap. Bones is a good player

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who's cheap. I'm looking forward to
see what Bones can do at this time.

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He's been really bad in garbage time, but when he has, he's

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not been a good garbage time guy. Yeah, but when he got run

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in, you know, during games, when it wasn't garbage time, he

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looked solid. Yeah. Yeah,
how many minutes are we seeing? Someone

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was asking the chattoo sorry I missed
put it up? Oh John A is

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the best is asking who do you
who gets the green light first? Bones

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or brand in Boston? Which I
think is interesting because last time we did

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see, we did see Brandon Boston
get run into before garbage time, far

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before Bones, and I think we
kind of or maybe reading the tea leaves

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a little too much that maybe that
meant that the trade was on the horizon

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because of how long it took for
Bones Highland to come in. So I

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still man, where are you at
on this? Because I would still yeah,

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I would assume that Bones would be
higher in that pecking order on the

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fringes of the rotation. But you
know, we did see it, We

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did see Brandon get the get the
earlier green light before. But to me,

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I would still say it's Bones.
I just think Bones is the more

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complete player professional basketball player, Like
there's a difference, like he can just

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do a little bit more he can
actually like run an offense, and yeah,

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it's it's just better for what like
the Clipper. Yeah, Rock with

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a good point too. Norm was
healthy in Boston's taller, so it's like,

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yeah, that's you know, I
think that's a good point too.

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This is okay, we gotta talk
about this because I know you're gonna get

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asked about this on the radio from
Adam. He says, maybe PJ sniffs

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the rotation with Powell out. I
don't see the correlation. I don't.

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They're completely different players. What are
we doing here? I'm laughing because I

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agree with you. Yeah, Norm
shoots and makes them. PJ does not

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shoot. I I So here's the
thing with PJ. I understand the logic

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of using him in limited defensive situations. I get that. I get that.

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I would We're probably gonna see that. We probably might have to see

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that at some point. There are
seventeen games coming up in March. Guys

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are gonna be gassed. They're gassed
right now. But he got his thirty

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fifth DMP today at the ripe old
age of what is he thirty nine?

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He's thirty eight. From a health
perspective, basketball health perspective, you can't

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just run a guy back out there
to play hard nosed defense and expect him

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to be at one hundred percent like
he If he's gonna play, he's gotta

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get eased in. I don't think
nor be it out is the ticket to

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that. Yeah. Yeah, I
mean, like, here's the thing.

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I ultimately the team does have some
sized deficiencies for whatever reason. I think

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it's just because of the remaining money
on his contract. But for whatever reason,

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PJ remains a member of this team
post the trade deadline. So I

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think, like he should. I
think it's a team I think at some

405
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:03,440
point. Look, I don't know
what the plan is if they are going

406
00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:07,000
to use him in potential Nuggets matchup
for you know, just to even come

407
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,279
in, get six fouls, you
play the possessions game, you get the

408
00:29:11,319 --> 00:29:15,079
better of yo kitchen. You know, four or five possessions that which could

409
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,160
be enough to get you over the
hump, could be enough to swing a

410
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,440
game. You don't have to play
four on five somehow offense. Yeah,

411
00:29:21,839 --> 00:29:25,559
but if that is the case,
like if the intention is for for PJ

412
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:30,200
Tucker to be in the rotation in
the playoffs, I don't know, man,

413
00:29:30,279 --> 00:29:33,079
I guess you have you have to
give him some minutes and probably like

414
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,759
how do you feel about this?
But probably non garbage time minutes, right,

415
00:29:37,079 --> 00:29:38,200
right, No, that's the other
I mean that's the thing with the

416
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,640
Bones thing too, right, Like
Bones is getting garbage time, but you

417
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:47,240
can't judge guys off this. It's
it's like it's it's really hard to and

418
00:29:47,319 --> 00:29:48,680
I know I just kind of said, you know, Boston isn't as good

419
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:53,440
as well as I still believe that
even though it's garbage time stuff. But

420
00:29:53,640 --> 00:30:00,279
yeah, if he's gonna be effective, he's gotta get actual run. Like

421
00:30:00,319 --> 00:30:06,119
you're you're totally you're you're right about
that. Yeah, it's I I hope

422
00:30:06,119 --> 00:30:08,079
it's Bones. I think if Boston
got the run Bones got early in the

423
00:30:08,079 --> 00:30:11,559
season, he would have done about
as well and we'd have a higher opinion

424
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,160
of him. I don't think so, we don't have any evidence of that.

425
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,359
Yeah, he has not been good
in his NBA. I I like

426
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,039
Boston. He has potential. He
has so much potential. He could light

427
00:30:23,079 --> 00:30:26,200
it up. He has potential.
I just feel like we've seen more flashes

428
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,440
from Bones. I love what we
saw preseason from him and some of his

429
00:30:30,519 --> 00:30:36,039
play it wasn't perfect, but we
saw I thought some reassuring play prior to

430
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:41,920
prior to the hard and trade.
So if only you know, we only

431
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,519
have X amount of developmental minutes.
So I guess in my mind that I

432
00:30:45,559 --> 00:30:49,640
would rather those go to bones unless
he's like pissing them away or something and

433
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,160
it looks really bad, and yeah, sure, bring bad, like bring

434
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:57,839
bo right, Yeah, it's like
I go for it. Whatever. Yeah,

435
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,079
it's it's gonna be well, especially
to this really alters what happens with

436
00:31:04,599 --> 00:31:10,599
the game on Monday. Like,
no Norm, I I'll tell you what.

437
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:15,640
I'm assuming Norms not playing on Monday. I don't want him to play

438
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,400
on Monday. What is the NBA's
concussion produce. It's like forty eight hours

439
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,319
from now. Let me just pull
up Oh yeah, you also have to

440
00:31:23,319 --> 00:31:26,039
do the radio on a second,
so I guess it's just me and the

441
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:32,160
chat. But yeah, so No
Norm is really interesting. Let me pull

442
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:33,559
up the stats from the last time
we played them, when we played like

443
00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:41,559
the fifteenth or something like that.
But yeah, I don't No Norm versus

444
00:31:41,559 --> 00:31:45,400
the Timberwolves makes Monday really hard.
It was already difficult we played them the

445
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,960
fourteenth excuse me. Oh wow.
Okay, so there's a reason we didn't

446
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,880
know the exact number because the NBA's
concussion policy is that there is no time

447
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:59,599
frame to complete the process, and
each injury and player is different in recovery

448
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:04,359
time bury in each case. Awesome, Okay, great, So maybe he

449
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,640
does play on Monday. I hope
he doesn't. If he does, though,

450
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,640
I like this idea from Jerremy.
Are we going masked Norm? It'd

451
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:15,200
have to be a helmet, put
him in a helvet. What I don't

452
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,599
know he's got. You might have
a concussion. He shouldn't be playing.

453
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,680
I don't want him to play.
Sorry, with how hard that hit was,

454
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:28,279
like he yeah, it was,
it was rough. He got his

455
00:32:28,359 --> 00:32:36,039
bill wrong, dude. Norm Norman
had twenty four against the Timberwolves in January.

456
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,599
He was lighting them up. And
I know, obviously it's not a

457
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:43,759
one to one game thing, but
like, this is gonna be rough without

458
00:32:43,839 --> 00:32:45,519
Norm, It could be rough.
I still believe in the Clippers, but

459
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,759
Tyler doesn't have a lot of time
to figure out how to make up for

460
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,799
what Norm does well, and we
just don't. We don't have another We

461
00:32:53,839 --> 00:32:59,720
don't really have another guy like that. No, we really don't, you

462
00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:04,000
know, you know, like even
the most optimistic about you know, bones

463
00:33:04,039 --> 00:33:09,559
is potential minutes for for cracking the
rotation. Yeah, he's more was playing

464
00:33:09,559 --> 00:33:14,359
incredible, especially in the fourth quarter. Caesar Quamas with a great idea,

465
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,200
power ranger helmet, Norm love that. Yes, that's what we do it.

466
00:33:20,359 --> 00:33:27,799
Okay, get visavisor Norm dudevisor night
at Into. It is gonna be

467
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,960
crazy. I need one of those. Side note on that. The Clippers

468
00:33:31,039 --> 00:33:36,759
drafting three guys and none of them
panting out. Yeah, classic Boston still

469
00:33:36,799 --> 00:33:43,960
last time. Well, and I
feel like I feel like coffee is Coffee's

470
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:49,559
development is a nice It's a success
story, right like we missed post parents,

471
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,680
we you know, we missed bites
at the apple or like swings at

472
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:57,559
the plate or whatever analogy you want
to call it. But I do feel

473
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,480
well, you know, when you
pop for apples, he only gets so

474
00:34:00,559 --> 00:34:06,000
many bites. That's true. I've
never bobbed for apples. I will do

475
00:34:06,079 --> 00:34:10,719
that. Uh. But seeing coffee
like actually developed. You know, he's

476
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:15,239
been with the team for so long
and just how good he's been, He's

477
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:19,599
exceeded every expectation. I think that
that boats well. For a team that

478
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,679
you know, it really felt like
struggled to develop guys internally. We've talked

479
00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:28,159
about this a little bit, but
I feel like Terrence kind of developed despite

480
00:34:28,519 --> 00:34:30,519
some of the development for the Clippers. Like he was he was forced to

481
00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:34,079
do so many different things. He
was kind of put into a no win

482
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:39,360
situation, and despite that he managed
to flourish. And then you know Coffee.

483
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,079
I feel like the way they've been
able to work him in and even

484
00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:47,199
him starting for for stretches, I
feel like that's been one of the bigger

485
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:53,320
talent development success stories for the Clippers. Yeah. X Bongo Project. Also

486
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:58,719
hello x Bogo Project. You're in
the chats. He said, we got

487
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,360
bones anyway for those failed drafts.
Hell yeah, we did two second round

488
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:07,679
fix with cares. This is really
funny. I didn't realize this, did

489
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:14,559
PG give during his jersey? Yes, that is kinda yeah, that's I

490
00:35:14,559 --> 00:35:16,920
mean, thankfully it was obviously it
wasn't an inadvertent one, but I did

491
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,599
not notice that. Thank you for
bringing that up. Yeah, that's why

492
00:35:20,639 --> 00:35:24,519
PG was like in the compression thing
post and the post green interview. So

493
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:30,079
why does he wear like it's so
padded? Dude? There he's taking hits

494
00:35:30,199 --> 00:35:34,039
like, I guess that's fair.
I guess that's fair the way that Yeah,

495
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,519
it just feels like it would to
me. It seems like it would

496
00:35:36,599 --> 00:35:38,599
inhibit your movement a little bit.
But I'm sure they got that. Figure

497
00:35:38,679 --> 00:35:42,280
don't know, I think PG.
I don't know if I think P's got

498
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,760
it nailed out. You've got some
access to some non stock stuff. It's

499
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,599
you know, it's it's not the
floor model, custom ship, bespokes ship

500
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,320
our h asks. Are we getting
anyone in the buyout? If yes?

501
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:59,559
Who? I don't know. But
we talked a little bit about the buyout

502
00:35:59,559 --> 00:36:04,400
Marcus last episode, so that young
is still out there right, Yes,

503
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,760
And I mean we've talked Charles and
I have talked to you if you're familiar

504
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:13,559
with this podcast about We've talked about
fur Con, which I'm who I'm a

505
00:36:13,599 --> 00:36:16,800
little excited about. Okay, I
was excited about fur Con, and then

506
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:22,039
fans of the seventy six ers and
Pacers were in our comments being like,

507
00:36:22,199 --> 00:36:25,280
he sucks. It's a bio guy, dude, Yeah, that's what do

508
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,320
you think you're getting on the bio
market. It's a guy that stopper,

509
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,519
a guy who can stop Giannis and
hit threes and defend one through five.

510
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,559
He can hit three, he can
hit threes, and he's played at the

511
00:36:36,599 --> 00:36:39,320
floor and he's six seven, and
you know, I don't know. I

512
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,760
don't know what to tell you,
man. It'd be I'm not mad at

513
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,559
it. Harry Giles. I don't
know about that. He would have on

514
00:36:45,599 --> 00:36:49,920
the radio. Will's going on the
radio. So it's just me. Uh,

515
00:36:50,039 --> 00:36:53,960
you gotta deal with me. Uh, I'll take what off. Harry

516
00:36:53,960 --> 00:37:00,400
Giles will be interesting former Clipper.
I haven't seen his stats, but so

517
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:05,440
who knows. So this is the
other issue. This is a great point

518
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,559
by Chris. We can't get bio
players because of the second apron. The

519
00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:15,119
second apron is basically like a hard
gap. Effectively for teams you get punished

520
00:37:15,159 --> 00:37:19,599
in a really weird way like later
down the road with your picks, which

521
00:37:19,599 --> 00:37:23,199
sucks, and we can't so again, Manny, thank you again. We

522
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:28,800
can get some but not all right, like we can't get you know,

523
00:37:29,559 --> 00:37:35,440
anyone who's really over, like any
kind of substantial amount. Russ the Builder

524
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,639
giving a shout out Harry is a
good reminder Giles was doing some crazy things

525
00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:44,639
with the Clippers. That was a
That was an interesting run from him.

526
00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:50,039
It was productive ish basketball, which
is what the Clippers need on a buyout.

527
00:37:50,119 --> 00:37:53,239
Right, Like, as we'll just
talked about, we're getting a guy

528
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:59,920
who's coming in to like Russ the
builders saying, get some boards, defend

529
00:38:00,119 --> 00:38:05,119
little bit and that's it. We're
not talking a guy who's probably getting even

530
00:38:06,159 --> 00:38:09,280
what over twelve minutes a game,
Like I don't think that's gonna happen.

531
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:16,199
Michael Yun asking how do you fix
the rebounding problems Zoobot's not being on a

532
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:20,880
minute restriction that was huge in this
game. We saw that it was rough,

533
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,760
But I don't know. I think
one way. As we've talked about

534
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:31,559
sometimes because people keep bringing him up. PJ. Tucker is a rebounder,

535
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:36,719
but he's still on the team.
Everyone thought he was gonna be gone,

536
00:38:37,159 --> 00:38:38,719
but he remains on the team.
He doesn't seem happy about it, but

537
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:43,079
he's here. So if you do
need some rebounding and you need a guy

538
00:38:43,119 --> 00:38:49,519
to maybe defend and play five minutes
to be you know, a disruptors,

539
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,480
let's trot him out there. Let's
try it again. He got fifteen cracks

540
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:57,920
at it before. He's had thirty
five games to rest up for the playoffs,

541
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:02,000
so we'll see what happens. Oh
yeah, Otto Porter has been brought

542
00:39:02,079 --> 00:39:06,800
up in the chat a couple of
times. I'll check out his contract,

543
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,480
but I wouldn't be mad at auto
he's check ganted. Yeah, this is

544
00:39:10,519 --> 00:39:13,920
a great point too. We need
a guy who's cool with being benched and

545
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:20,679
cheap. PJ Tucker is expensive and
not being cool with bench So that's a

546
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:25,119
great point. PJ. Tucker is
the opposite of those things, which is

547
00:39:25,159 --> 00:39:31,000
brutal. We did Brad Brown's asking
any word on norm Tylos and he's gonna

548
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,559
get some stitches and he'll be okay. I think that's pretty normal coach speak.

549
00:39:35,639 --> 00:39:37,840
The stitches was crazy. If you
saw that he was leading the whole

550
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,239
lot. You don't see a lot
of blood is not something you see a

551
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:45,360
basketball games very often. It was
a weird day for the Clippers. If

552
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,360
you're just joining the stream, what's
going on? Welcome to clips and dip

553
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,639
Will Updike is on the radio with
our other co host right now, Ada

554
00:39:51,679 --> 00:39:57,480
Last and I am Chuck Mockler.
So we're hanging out. Yeah, weird

555
00:39:57,559 --> 00:40:00,000
night, No norms hopefully Okay,
no way, he's gonna play on mone

556
00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:02,559
Day. I don't think I don't
want him to play on Monday. He

557
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:07,239
torched the Timberwolves last time, but
I you know that was that was a

558
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:15,039
scary injury. Michael Yuna, again
with the heavy hitters in the chat today,

559
00:40:15,199 --> 00:40:19,000
can we talk about the fact the
offense has not improved since December first,

560
00:40:19,039 --> 00:40:21,960
QUI said that they're completely relying on
talent. When you see a team

561
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:27,239
like Denver, the offense clicks like
crazy zoos on a minutes restriction. Pg

562
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,400
Is was hurt, he had the
growing thing. He's coming back. I'm

563
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:35,079
not saying it has been good.
I'm not saying anything like that, but

564
00:40:35,679 --> 00:40:37,760
we've seen this team click. They
had one hundred, they had one hundred

565
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:43,599
and twenty two offensive rating like two
weeks ago. I I, you know,

566
00:40:43,679 --> 00:40:45,920
I don't know if I don't know
how much more you can be clicking

567
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:54,400
than that. But you're you're not
wrong today specifically, Michael Yune, I

568
00:40:54,440 --> 00:41:00,280
think really illustrated that today was rough. It was it was dog shit for

569
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,719
like the first three and a half
quarters or something like that. So so

570
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,119
they do got to step it up. Losing norm is not gonna make that

571
00:41:07,159 --> 00:41:12,280
easier. What's up Von Jacoban,
thanks for catching us live. We appreciate

572
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,039
that. Will's again, it's not
just me. Will's going to be back.

573
00:41:15,079 --> 00:41:16,320
I know there's a bunch of updyke
heads in the in the chat right

574
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:21,960
now. Okay, Asland doesn't want
us to get Cork miss because he needs

575
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,199
them back in Turkey for his Yeeraro
League team, fair reason. I get

576
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:30,000
that. A Pacers fan said that
they cut Corklias and they're not as good

577
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,400
as the Clippers is the Clippers are, so I think that's a I think

578
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,559
maybe that's kind of where I'm at. But again it's a buyout guy.

579
00:41:37,679 --> 00:41:42,199
So so who knows in the chat? Let us know. If you're watching

580
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,119
this, thank you so much for
hanging. If you're listening to this,

581
00:41:44,159 --> 00:41:47,760
you can catch ups on Clippers YouTube
dot com, slash at Clippers podcast.

582
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,440
What do you guys think is gonna
happen on Monday? There's no Norm Pale.

583
00:41:52,119 --> 00:41:57,960
He was great last time we played
them. Oh, I do want

584
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,320
to bring this up plubly and ties
to complete the nine man rotation with Norm

585
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:06,239
out and compete with their two big
lineups. That's not hey, I don't

586
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,760
mind that right, Like we've seen
the Clippers kind of lean into this size

587
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:15,360
thing, you know, like we
we have three centers. Plubley's firmly in

588
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,119
the backup role. He didn't get
a bunch of run today, mostly because

589
00:42:19,159 --> 00:42:22,119
the small ball lineup, which the
Clippers just playing now regularly, it's kind

590
00:42:22,119 --> 00:42:28,000
of crept up on us was playing
really well. I bet we'll see some

591
00:42:28,039 --> 00:42:31,880
tys run, but I don't know. I think Bones should get the nod

592
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:37,039
on Monday. Thank you Vaughan.
I took the words right out of my

593
00:42:37,079 --> 00:42:40,960
mouth. So yeah, Bones needs
to get some run on Monday. I

594
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,000
don't know if he needs the runs
necessarily, but run would be good.

595
00:42:45,159 --> 00:42:52,840
Brad Brown making his first life appreciate
that. A lot of gallow talk while

596
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:57,199
we saying this talk about bringing Gallo
back needs to stop. The the nostalgia

597
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,119
vibes among Clippers fans, which I'm
guilty of some times, can be very

598
00:43:00,159 --> 00:43:05,960
real. But I think I agree
with you Wanby. I think I think

599
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,480
I'm on team Wabi on this one. I don't think we need Gallo.

600
00:43:08,679 --> 00:43:13,960
He's he's not a defender. He's
not a defender. That's kind of the

601
00:43:14,039 --> 00:43:16,519
issue with the Clips right now,
right like, the issue is that you

602
00:43:16,559 --> 00:43:20,559
know, sometimes the defense can get
bullied sometimes the offense too, but I'm

603
00:43:20,599 --> 00:43:23,920
less worried about the offense than the
defense, and Gallow doesn't bring anything on

604
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:30,679
the defensive end right now. Yeah, this is a pretty funny thing.

605
00:43:34,199 --> 00:43:38,079
Yeah, we do kind of suck
rebounding. Uh if again, it's still

606
00:43:38,079 --> 00:43:42,000
blowing my mind. The Clippers won
a game without getting an offensive rebound.

607
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,360
I think it's the first time that's
ever happened in the history of the NBA.

608
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:51,960
Yeah, the small ball lineups rock
saying the physicality issues depth flies won't

609
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,639
help, and it seems like we
will lean on small ball. We are

610
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:59,360
leaning on small ball quite a bit. It's been the two to one to

611
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,559
three era has been marked by a
lot of things. One of them is

612
00:44:01,639 --> 00:44:07,840
the weird usage and not usage of
small ball lineups. Uh today we saw

613
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,719
it and it worked well, and
it's just something the Clippers do. Now

614
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,960
they had wings stuff. We were
pitched wingstop last year. We did not

615
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,519
get that. We got olive Garden. We saw like four guards lineups all

616
00:44:17,519 --> 00:44:22,559
the time, and now we don't
have those wings and we still we just

617
00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:25,519
go small. So it's very odd, but it does seem to be working,

618
00:44:27,599 --> 00:44:32,119
which is good and we are definitely
gonna see it on Monday the against

619
00:44:32,159 --> 00:44:37,679
the Timberls. The absence of Norm
does make it a little weird, but

620
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,599
I still think we'll see it.
We'll see it out there. Hey,

621
00:44:39,599 --> 00:44:44,360
time to cut Primo and sign Thatad. Sign us up that Young. We

622
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:49,320
talked about that Young a couple episodes
ago. Why not. We don't need

623
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,639
Josh Primo on the team. He's
not gonna get any burn. We already

624
00:44:52,639 --> 00:44:55,400
have too many guards. Like we
it's yeah, let's cut Josh Primo and

625
00:44:55,440 --> 00:45:00,280
signed Fad Young. Let's sign cork
Mos like like, let's figure something out.

626
00:45:02,639 --> 00:45:05,800
Yes. So this was the other
we came back into the Wolves and

627
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,840
we did a small ball the last
time we also got our asses kicked in

628
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,519
the first part of that small ball
lineup and they kind of had to make

629
00:45:10,599 --> 00:45:14,960
up some of the ground. But
I do think it will be better this

630
00:45:15,039 --> 00:45:19,480
next time around. On Monday.
Will mentioned too, like this is a

631
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,440
weird part of the season. We
don't really know what the Timberwolves are gonna

632
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,159
look like. Really happy. It's
a home game for the clips, you

633
00:45:25,199 --> 00:45:31,639
know, just for the vibes.
The fans at Crypto have been great this

634
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:36,679
year. If you've been at the
games, you've been fantastic. I do

635
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:40,519
not think Primo is an asset for
next year. He's not really playing that

636
00:45:40,559 --> 00:45:46,639
well and I just don't I don't
see him kind of being an asset.

637
00:45:47,599 --> 00:45:53,679
Like what, I don't know we're
gonna know some of the people are arguing

638
00:45:53,719 --> 00:46:00,079
about Paul George in the chowlenge doesn't
make any sense. Wake Griffin can rebound

639
00:46:00,119 --> 00:46:07,920
wink wink Man. I can't he
He's It's weird right now with the buyout

640
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,760
market for the Clippers, Like this
situation is weird, right, Like we

641
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:16,039
need a guy who is not going
to play a lot, but what he

642
00:46:16,079 --> 00:46:22,719
does is still going to be effective
defensively and things like that. So I

643
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:24,480
don't know if Blake Griffin fits that. Again for the Vibes, sign me

644
00:46:24,559 --> 00:46:27,719
up. If we had the extra
roster spot, that would be great.

645
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:30,880
But they maybe do need to go
get a guy on the buyout market who

646
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:37,159
can shore some of that ups.
It's something that you know, one move

647
00:46:37,199 --> 00:46:42,679
isn't just gonna all of a sudden
make the Clippers like a big, physical

648
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,880
rebounding team, especially a buyout move. They can take some steps right the

649
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:50,920
Clippers not making a move with the
trade deadline is going to be judged by

650
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,760
what happens at the end of the
season. People are gonna be either really

651
00:46:54,840 --> 00:47:00,519
upset or not say anything about it
about Larrence Frank not making any moves.

652
00:47:00,559 --> 00:47:07,719
So it's gonna be interesting. Chris
with a great idea in the chat if

653
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:12,000
we could combine Dwight, Howard and
Cousins into one player game over, sign

654
00:47:12,079 --> 00:47:14,760
me up. You know Bomber's done
a lot with the into it though,

655
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:19,719
but where's his player combining contributions?
Right, Like, let's let's get that

656
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,679
figured out. Brad Brown saying,
asking, aren't we limited on the buyout

657
00:47:23,679 --> 00:47:29,760
market because of the new CBA a
little bit? It's very weird. The

658
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,039
second apron kind of is effectively a
hard cap, so it just kind of

659
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,280
like makes things shitty, Like the
Clippers already don't have a lot of picks

660
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:42,639
and things like that. Oh,
this is a perfect question. Do they

661
00:47:42,639 --> 00:47:45,559
still sell the twenty two to twenty
three city jerseys in LA or in the

662
00:47:45,679 --> 00:47:50,760
USA? It's not on the NBA
store website anymore. Try clippersstore dot com.

663
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:54,119
Donald Sterling shit the bed with the
Clippers merchandising, and we use like

664
00:47:54,119 --> 00:47:58,639
clipperstore dot com is kind of janky, so check that out. They might

665
00:47:58,679 --> 00:48:05,079
have them, because those are those
were solid jerseys, Vaughn says, knowing

666
00:48:05,119 --> 00:48:08,840
Lawrence Frank, he still has one
more move in his sleeves. Yeah,

667
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,639
he's a tinker, you know,
he's he wants He's a guy who wants

668
00:48:12,639 --> 00:48:15,039
to improve the roster, you know, kind of whenever he can. So

669
00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:20,039
I totally agree with this. I
don't think it would be It's not going

670
00:48:20,079 --> 00:48:27,000
to be shocking when if slash when
the Clippers do sign some random guy on

671
00:48:27,039 --> 00:48:30,400
the bio market, so it will
be interesting. I'm looking ahead to this

672
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:36,119
Monday game and I don't know,
I'm really worried about it. I don't

673
00:48:36,199 --> 00:48:38,880
know if that's I think that's valid. No Norm makes this one tough,

674
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:45,639
but yeah, I want to see
the defense looking good. All right,

675
00:48:45,679 --> 00:48:50,079
we got this from Marlen. Hello
Marlene. I don't think you've been in

676
00:48:50,079 --> 00:48:53,199
the chat before. I hope you're
doing well. I'm starting to doubt the

677
00:48:53,199 --> 00:48:57,199
Clippers. They are relying too much
on ISOs. They have not improved on

678
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:02,599
defense yet. Hey, not totally
unfair points here the defense. I think

679
00:49:02,639 --> 00:49:06,119
we got to wait for Zoom to
be off the minutes restriction before we can

680
00:49:06,159 --> 00:49:10,039
totally judge what the defense looks like, because again, he's at like twenty

681
00:49:10,079 --> 00:49:15,679
minutes right now, which is ten
fewer minutes than he should be playing.

682
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:22,039
Probably, So I think that I
think that's fair. And the offense,

683
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:27,559
I don't know, the ball is
moving around really well in the pick and

684
00:49:27,639 --> 00:49:31,440
roll. Again, Zoo being back
helps the short role passing and stuff like

685
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:37,920
that, and the small ball lineup. Yeah, that's not a very argument.

686
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:42,119
Oh, Will's back, Will.
How's the radio? It was good?

687
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,840
Yeah, it was good. Clips
and Double Dead. You can listen

688
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,559
to that wherever you get your podcast, I'm pretty sure later today. But

689
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,280
as far as downing the Clippers,
we talked about it a little bit up

690
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,480
top. I actually thought there were
some reassuring things in this game. I

691
00:49:54,679 --> 00:49:59,679
like the way that they really forced
the issue on offense. I like the

692
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:04,320
way that they started attacking the rim
playing downhill. We know, you know,

693
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,480
We're like, it's it's just one
of those things. Like the whistle

694
00:50:07,519 --> 00:50:10,599
I feel like has been very weird
the last couple of games. And I'm

695
00:50:10,599 --> 00:50:14,400
not a guy who likes to blame
things on the whistle. It's so for

696
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,360
the most part. It's out of
your control, right, there's nothing you

697
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:20,079
can do with it. The best
thing you can do, though, is

698
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,800
to try to try to force the
issue, to try to get downhill,

699
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:23,920
to try to force the rest to
make that call. And I thought that

700
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:28,079
that they did that very well today, even in a you know, even

701
00:50:28,119 --> 00:50:30,199
in a brunch performance, even in
a game where man, it seemed like

702
00:50:30,639 --> 00:50:35,800
it just seemed like they were very
tired. That they were well, but

703
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,400
they were a little out of form. And I think in terms of doubting

704
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:42,159
the Clippers, I mean, this
is the best PG game we've seen in

705
00:50:42,199 --> 00:50:45,320
a while. This is the best
he's looked since the groin injury. That

706
00:50:45,639 --> 00:50:50,039
compounded with you know, a nice
stretch of rest. I don't know,

707
00:50:50,119 --> 00:50:52,400
man, I get that people,
I get that people are upset that this

708
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:59,239
wasn't an easy win. But I'm
still feeling pretty good. Yeah, I

709
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:04,320
mean they're still so for all intents
and purposes. And the four block of

710
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,960
number one seeds right now, right
like, there's four teams that are basically

711
00:51:07,599 --> 00:51:14,199
jockey excuse me for the number one
seed we're talking by out guys. I

712
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,079
was singing the praise as a fur
con. Of course, all the updyke

713
00:51:16,119 --> 00:51:20,960
heads in the chat were loving it. Me too. Is he does that

714
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,400
pretty good? You know he can
shoot threes? Like, I don't know,

715
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:27,000
I don't, I don't. It's
not gonna be a groundbreaking move.

716
00:51:27,119 --> 00:51:30,000
I was. People are talking about
Blake, people are talking about Gallo.

717
00:51:30,119 --> 00:51:31,800
But we need a shooter, I'm
so sorry. Like, and a defender,

718
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,360
a guy who may be defend a
little bit. Yeah, we need

719
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,000
a We need a plus defender that
you know, they don't have to be

720
00:51:37,079 --> 00:51:42,719
an insert blank great player stopper they
need to be, but they need to

721
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:45,639
be a plus defender and they to
me, it's absolutely essential that they shoot

722
00:51:45,639 --> 00:51:49,599
threes. Just with Russ on the
floor. They are going to be spending

723
00:51:49,639 --> 00:51:52,719
time with Russ. It's gonna be
weird. And if we you know,

724
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:59,239
the way we've transitioned into small ball
makes me think less that they would pair

725
00:51:59,519 --> 00:52:00,719
like even if we had gotten a
Linic, right, it makes me feel

726
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:05,719
less like they would they would pair
o Linic with Plumble or any of the

727
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,840
other bags, which I like,
I thought that would be a very bad

728
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:13,320
idea, But obviously we were We
were nowhere close in that bidding war to

729
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,000
what the what the overcharge was on
the h that's it. That was a

730
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:21,159
steep price tag on o Linic.
In my opinion, I have a weird

731
00:52:21,199 --> 00:52:23,719
war chest. The Clippers don't have
a lot of guys are playing so well.

732
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:28,840
It's so hard to justify trading some
of these guys on their contracts and

733
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:37,440
stuff like that. They literally need
someone who is fine playing twelve to fifty

734
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,599
minutes to grab wars. That isn't
Yeah, that's they need to be not

735
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:44,159
just yeah like and also I still
think they need to be able to shoot

736
00:52:44,159 --> 00:52:47,039
if you're a little yeah, not
like five threes a game or something like

737
00:52:47,079 --> 00:52:51,559
that, Like, no more than
they can. They can take that like

738
00:52:51,599 --> 00:52:52,960
two to three attempts. It just
has to be enough to get you a

739
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,400
little bit of space. Yeah,
that's it. It's got to be in

740
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,960
their heads. It's gotta you gotta
give, you gotta give the opponents sick

741
00:52:59,039 --> 00:53:04,199
thoughts. That is what you gotta
do. What about Daniels? Sure like

742
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:07,199
all of these guys fit that mold
where it's like, if he's cheap enough,

743
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:13,320
let's cut Josh Pribo and get him
on the dang team. Will What

744
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:17,199
do you think the small ball is
gonna look like against Mini on Monday.

745
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:21,559
Do you think we lean into it
more or do you think we pumped the

746
00:53:21,559 --> 00:53:25,000
brakes on that with Lo Norm because
Norm's pretty key for that small ball light

747
00:53:25,079 --> 00:53:29,159
up in his spacing. Yeah,
yeah, definitely. I mean, and

748
00:53:29,159 --> 00:53:31,360
and just you know the way he
can attack the room as well. He

749
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:37,079
sometimes he's like shot out of the
cannon. I think. I think part

750
00:53:37,079 --> 00:53:39,800
of this is really going to depend
on I think this is gonna be a

751
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:45,679
good litmus test for where Zoo is
at right. Yeah, I'm curious to

752
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,079
see how he looks and if we're
gonna be able to use him as an

753
00:53:49,119 --> 00:53:53,199
offensive chess piece as well, which
it's gonna be tough, But I would

754
00:53:53,199 --> 00:53:57,760
like to see us sort of getting
back into the realm of those those picking,

755
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,519
those hardened picking rolls that were really
affect did As. And as far

756
00:54:00,519 --> 00:54:05,159
as Marble is concerned, Uh,
the way that we've been leaning into it,

757
00:54:05,199 --> 00:54:07,920
I don't expect that to change.
I would assume that that's what the

758
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:13,679
closing lineup is, and yeah,
I think that it can be effective.

759
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:19,199
No No, Norm though makes it
really weird, But I don't know.

760
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:22,840
According to the NBA concussion Protocol,
I mean, he could he could he

761
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:27,239
could be back to play, so
we'll see and maybe and you know,

762
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:30,400
maybe it's one of those things where
it did look look worse and I don't

763
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:35,000
know, and was an elbow,
you know, I will say an elbow.

764
00:54:35,679 --> 00:54:38,960
It is pretty easy to cut open
a gash on someone's head. It's

765
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:43,199
like a pretty you know, it's
sharp bowe part of the body. But

766
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,599
the way his head snap back and
how wobbly he looked, I don't.

767
00:54:46,119 --> 00:54:51,800
I would not assume that he's ready
to go on Monday. But I hope

768
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,199
that I'm wrong, you know,
I hope that that's not the situation.

769
00:54:55,880 --> 00:55:01,400
It does make it more difficult,
But I will also say this, what

770
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:07,000
about some just really good coffee minutes
helping someone that was helping a small ball

771
00:55:07,039 --> 00:55:12,239
lineup out. That would be great. Amir is gonna be leaned on more,

772
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:15,239
probably with without the Norm thing.
Spanker was saying, y'all are not

773
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:19,679
ready for mass Norm. I would
love Mass Norm. If Norm plays on

774
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:22,159
Monday, he'd better be in a
mask of some kind. Well, you

775
00:55:22,199 --> 00:55:25,079
said, full helmet, full face, helme, dude, full face will

776
00:55:25,159 --> 00:55:32,400
be sick. So Emir only played
nine minutes last time versus the Timberwolves,

777
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:37,280
which is I don't expect that to
hold hold decent. Yeah, I'll give

778
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,760
you a bull I'll give you a
bold prediction right now. I don't expect

779
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:44,440
that you're taking the over on eight
and a half minutes for Norm. I

780
00:55:44,519 --> 00:55:51,960
think yeah. And also the last
time we didn't have Zoo last time in

781
00:55:52,079 --> 00:55:54,599
January, yep Adam brought that up
on the radio that he was that was

782
00:55:54,679 --> 00:55:58,599
the game. He was the late
scratch and we that was kind of the

783
00:55:58,639 --> 00:56:01,719
start of the calf. It was
the late scratch game. Damn. I

784
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:06,920
didn't realize it was that one.
Yeah, that's gonna be that's gonna be

785
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,800
big. What's the line on that
right now? I should check that.

786
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:14,239
I don't know. I was saying
I was being nervous to the chat.

787
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:20,760
I was saying, I'm not feeling
super good without Norm heading into Monday against

788
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,559
Minnesota. But I'm happy it's at
home, you know. But yeah,

789
00:56:23,599 --> 00:56:28,719
I don't know, Yeah, I
kind of I'm interested. This has been

790
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:30,280
a kind of a recurring theme in
the chat. Spankum wants to know if

791
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,719
Norm is out, are we expecting
the Bones appearance or PJ to maybe guard

792
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:42,400
Cat. I'm leaning towards bones appearance. I still don't know like how many

793
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,920
minutes, though I would still say
it's like around five ish. I would

794
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:50,079
say I think that the I think
that the minutes distribution is gonna swing.

795
00:56:51,119 --> 00:56:54,519
It's just gonna be more time for
guys like coffee. And then as far

796
00:56:54,559 --> 00:57:00,239
as the PJ thing, we talked
about this a little up top. But

797
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:06,119
if there's any intention, like even
a even a glimmer of an idea that

798
00:57:06,119 --> 00:57:08,239
that PJ. Tucker is going to
play any and I mean any minutes in

799
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:14,760
the playoffs, I think they had
get better, get him some amount of

800
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:16,760
run I need. Yeah, yeah, I just I just don't know what's

801
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:20,920
saying. I don't know that it's
gonna look good, especially a thirty eight

802
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,760
year old guy after thirty five DMPs. I that doesn't sound like a recipe

803
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:29,039
for success to me. But if
there is even, like like I said,

804
00:57:29,079 --> 00:57:31,320
a sliver a hint of the sliver
of an idea that he is going

805
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:35,480
to somehow be soaked you know,
playoff minutes, they had damn well better

806
00:57:35,679 --> 00:57:38,800
like figure out a way to get
him in, not only get him back

807
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:43,280
up to game speed, but like
figure out how they're gonna like, what

808
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:45,400
rotations they're gonna be able to put
around him to make that actually work?

809
00:57:45,519 --> 00:57:49,960
Because we saw offensively, you know, it was it was a nightmare.

810
00:57:50,159 --> 00:57:52,599
And lineups with him and Russ are
gonna be like, they're gonna be have

811
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:59,320
negative spacing, right and with no
norm I don't want to see norma,

812
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,599
you know, I don't want to
CEPJ on the floor if there's not four

813
00:58:02,639 --> 00:58:08,960
other guys who shoot capably from three
right, like nor makes that really difficult

814
00:58:10,079 --> 00:58:15,400
project to the G League. I
like, I actually think that that's the

815
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:19,079
right move. War he would just
he's not gonna do it. He's not

816
00:58:19,119 --> 00:58:22,760
gonna do it. He would be
furious. I understand. I understand.

817
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:27,960
I understand why. I'm just saying, like, maybe easing into a little

818
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,440
bit of competitive basketball doesn't sound like
the dumbest idea to me. That's all

819
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:34,519
what I'm saying. You're saying,
don't run a marathon fresh off the couch.

820
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,280
Yes, okay, yeah, that's
not how the flat couch the five

821
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,559
K actually works. You know,
just get off the couch and you're on

822
00:58:39,599 --> 00:58:43,719
the five K. I could get
off the coucher on a five K,

823
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,320
yeah, but I don't know if
it's a popular training plan, and that's

824
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:50,599
not the plan, right. It's
not step one, get off the couch

825
00:58:51,079 --> 00:58:54,159
to run five kilometers your first step
on a five k race? Oh whoa,

826
00:58:54,239 --> 00:58:57,840
I don't know what these balloons are. I don't like them. Sorry

827
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:01,199
about that. How far the LA
Marathon could you get? If you if

828
00:59:01,239 --> 00:59:06,559
it was tomorrow? You gnnison.
I think I could do ten miles.

829
00:59:07,119 --> 00:59:12,000
I could get ten and then I
could do like a really pathetic like kind

830
00:59:12,039 --> 00:59:15,760
of walk jog for maybe another maybe
another five miles. I want to say

831
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:19,239
another five miles, but I don't
know if that would be true. Ship

832
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:28,239
your pants at mile six? Whoa, we got out of Bostle. Oh

833
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:31,519
no, you're muted. We can't
hear you. I'm not now what the

834
00:59:32,079 --> 00:59:39,519
that's cursing? But what's going on? Man? We were just talking Norm's

835
00:59:39,599 --> 00:59:45,800
absence against the Timberwolves, most likely
about what about the Timberwolves? Norm not

836
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:52,880
being there for the Timberwolves game.
Yeah, that's tough, but maybe it

837
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:55,760
opens up the possibility of them,
you know, having a less likely chance

838
00:59:55,800 --> 01:00:00,400
of going small and Big Zoo can
really have his I don't know his recoming

839
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:05,440
out party, you know, give
I'd love to see a Visa Zubots get

840
01:00:05,519 --> 01:00:08,079
to thirty minutes in that game,
that would say a lot. That's a

841
01:00:08,079 --> 01:00:13,079
good call. I was not privy
to the radio. How are the callers?

842
01:00:13,079 --> 01:00:17,079
How are the vibes after this exhilarating
win against the Pistons. They were

843
01:00:17,119 --> 01:00:22,960
overall more positive than me, but
some of the callers they did agree that,

844
01:00:22,199 --> 01:00:25,679
you know, you're trying to win
a championship. Here. I understand

845
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:30,280
a win is a win, but
when you have championship expectations, you want

846
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:35,440
to see championship habits. And this
was another game where I felt like they

847
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:38,599
just didn't build any like maybe they've
had a stretches down the league player.

848
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:45,320
Maybe you can say that you know
the fact that they won and they came

849
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:49,719
through late, that's something they can
keep in their back pocket, a reservoir

850
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:54,400
of confidence to draw it from.
But it's still frustrating to see them go

851
01:00:54,599 --> 01:01:00,159
up twelve to two and look like
they were about to buck the trend of

852
01:01:00,239 --> 01:01:04,239
Matt named madness games, and then
they just let the Pistons get right back

853
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,760
into it. They went back into
sleepwalking mode. It's like, wait,

854
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:10,159
you hit the smelling salts and then
you hit the snooze button again, what's

855
01:01:10,239 --> 01:01:14,800
happening here? It was it was
tough to understand, but I love what

856
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,559
coach Lou did. And this may
have legs two, but hot three point

857
01:01:17,599 --> 01:01:22,519
shooting team put out a small ball
lineup and switch everything, and that's what

858
01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:27,400
did it. Because the Detroit Pistons
started seven to fourteen from three and then

859
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:30,480
ended up hitting just two of their
last sixteen shots from the outside. Wow.

860
01:01:30,559 --> 01:01:32,840
And that's really the only reason they
won. Because you look at it

861
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:37,719
points to the paint. They doubled
the Clippers at sixty eight to thirty four.

862
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:44,079
You look at shot attention, that
maybe doesn't tell the whole story because

863
01:01:44,119 --> 01:01:47,039
of the free throws up. It's
true the Clippers free throw advantage was huge,

864
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,039
and a lot of that is because
they were more aggressive in getting to

865
01:01:51,119 --> 01:01:53,960
the paint. But it's still it's
still a big like it's not as big

866
01:01:54,079 --> 01:01:58,239
when you look at it that way. But the fact that they got up

867
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:02,639
twenty more shots and got twel I
need two more rebounds and the Clippers didn't

868
01:02:02,679 --> 01:02:07,760
have an offensive rebound in the game. I said on the last podcast,

869
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:12,239
the Clippers could play miserably and still
beat the Pistons. Team and that's pretty

870
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:16,639
much what happened. I also said
that I hope Paul George doesn't play,

871
01:02:17,039 --> 01:02:22,159
and I'm glad I was wrong about
that because he looked like his best version

872
01:02:22,199 --> 01:02:24,800
of himself in a while. Yeah, it was great to see PG,

873
01:02:25,119 --> 01:02:29,599
and I mean great game to get
rolling into Minnesota, right, We're gonna

874
01:02:29,599 --> 01:02:32,400
need Paul George to be elite.
Zoo gets to actually play against Minnesota this

875
01:02:32,519 --> 01:02:37,000
time, which is awesome. But
PG was bad against Minnesota. He shot

876
01:02:37,079 --> 01:02:43,280
twenty six percent in January when we
played them, So like he maybe has

877
01:02:43,599 --> 01:02:46,079
something to you know, circle on
the on his bulletin board, because like,

878
01:02:46,159 --> 01:02:52,760
we're gonna need probably thirty from PG
to get past the timberwles and good

879
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:55,039
defense, likely against Karl Anthony Townells, one of his best friends in the

880
01:02:55,119 --> 01:03:00,400
league, because he was guarding him
last time out, who is a guy.

881
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:02,679
Even though he's big, he plays
a lot on the perimeter and we'll

882
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:07,760
likely have to once again. So
this is a big measuring stick basely since

883
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:13,079
the Boston game. This is probably
the best measuring stick like game for this

884
01:03:13,239 --> 01:03:16,760
Clippers team since they won big in
Boston. If there's a game you're circling

885
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:20,880
right before the All Star break to
see where you're at. This is it

886
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:24,840
against Minnesota, This would potentially be
for me, like if they want obviously

887
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:30,079
I don't I don't expect them to
blow the Timberwolves out like they did in

888
01:03:30,119 --> 01:03:36,000
Boston, but if they were able
to nail down a convincing victory here,

889
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:38,039
that to me would be even bigger
than the Boston game. Like this is

890
01:03:38,119 --> 01:03:42,239
the template of a team that kind
of gives the Clippers trouble. If they

891
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:46,239
were able to sort of get over
that, you like, exercise those demons,

892
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:49,639
to me, that would say a
lot about where this Clippers team is,

893
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:52,719
even at this point in the season
where it's like we're in the dull

894
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:54,920
drums before the break. They just
come off a huge road trip, they're

895
01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:00,840
obviously very tired that you know,
the habits are trending down where they could

896
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:02,239
get a convincing win this one that
would be I mean, that would be

897
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:05,079
the best win of the season.
To me. It's this and then they

898
01:04:05,159 --> 01:04:11,199
play the Warriors on Valentine's Day on
Wednesday, and then it's the break,

899
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:15,079
so they just they need to like
I'd love them to go to and zero

900
01:04:15,599 --> 01:04:17,519
and things like that, but we'll
see xbogo Projects, saying, is the

901
01:04:17,559 --> 01:04:23,559
blueprint to defend many we did last
time still doable? I mean yeah,

902
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:28,519
because Norm isn't really a huge part
of that and we have Zoobac. So

903
01:04:28,639 --> 01:04:33,039
the defense should theoretically look better than
it did last time out against the Wolves.

904
01:04:33,039 --> 01:04:35,719
It was still very good. Holding
them towe hundred and nine, you

905
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:40,719
know, is nothing to really sneeze
out. But I'm really hoping the defense,

906
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:44,559
That's what I'm mostly looking for on
Monday is the defensive process there is

907
01:04:44,639 --> 01:04:47,119
it? Like Adam said, is
it actually championship level? And Tyler said

908
01:04:47,119 --> 01:04:49,199
he wanted to be the number one
seed? So is it gonna look like

909
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:54,920
a number one seed's defense on Monday? Yeah? It just we talked about

910
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:59,360
a postgame Will and I. But
maybe these last two games where they go

911
01:04:59,519 --> 01:05:03,239
one in one and don't look very
impressive in overall, even the victory today

912
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:08,480
against the Detroit Pistons is kind of
the calm before the storm because there is

913
01:05:08,559 --> 01:05:13,559
a big game coming up Monday for
first place in the West, and maybe

914
01:05:13,599 --> 01:05:15,079
it's just a little bit of a
ramp down before a ramp up, and

915
01:05:15,119 --> 01:05:19,519
we're gonna see a more focused team, a team with much better attention to

916
01:05:19,679 --> 01:05:26,239
detail and connected out there. Because
Minnesota is not a great offensive team.

917
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:30,280
They're about a bottom ten offense on
the season, so there is an opportunity

918
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:32,480
to flex your defense a little bit
against them, and if it turns into

919
01:05:32,519 --> 01:05:35,119
a rock fight, so be it. I would love to see the Clippers

920
01:05:35,199 --> 01:05:41,039
win playing big against a team that
also is one of the biggest front that

921
01:05:41,159 --> 01:05:44,320
has one of the biggest front lines
in the NBA. To me, that

922
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:47,440
would be a really encouraging sign.
All right, So, Adam, as

923
01:05:47,519 --> 01:05:56,039
the resident PJ. Tucker optimist,
where are you at? With Norm likely

924
01:05:56,119 --> 01:05:58,480
out of the lineup, possibly out
of lineup, who do you see getting

925
01:05:58,519 --> 01:06:02,039
more run between Bones and PJ Tucker? And what do you think your boy

926
01:06:02,119 --> 01:06:05,119
PJ. Tucker could bring to this
matchup if he were to get some minutes.

927
01:06:06,199 --> 01:06:10,239
I mean, Bones is more likely
to soak up guard minutes than I

928
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:13,480
think PJ. Tucker is. But
I didn't bring the ball up. Let's

929
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:16,519
see what he can do. You
never know. Maybe he's got some point

930
01:06:16,559 --> 01:06:21,400
Plumb in him, Maybe he's got
some sham guy today did you see that

931
01:06:21,599 --> 01:06:27,320
Plumb had like no outlet the way
up? But hey, you got found.

932
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:31,480
I if like I was calling for
PJ Tucker during this game because I

933
01:06:31,559 --> 01:06:35,719
just felt like the intensity was so
poor by the Clippers. How about bringing

934
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:40,559
a guy that you know is desperate
just to get out there on the court

935
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:44,440
and see what he could do.
But Coach Lou pushed all the right buttons

936
01:06:44,519 --> 01:06:47,400
and they got by. We'll see
maybe because of the matchup against Minnesota that

937
01:06:47,559 --> 01:06:51,800
is an opportunity, because Coach Lou
said he's going to give him an opportunity

938
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:56,719
moving forward and said he's not worried
about what he said on Instagram and the

939
01:06:56,840 --> 01:07:00,360
locker room. All the guys have
just said going things by him, and

940
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:03,079
what a good teammate he's been so
at least it seems like we don't have

941
01:07:03,159 --> 01:07:06,559
to worry about some disgruntled guy that's
going to poison the locker room or anything

942
01:07:06,639 --> 01:07:11,639
like that because it's happened. Yet
he has no beef with his teammates,

943
01:07:12,639 --> 01:07:15,400
between him and the coaching staff,
whether or not he gets minutes. Yeah,

944
01:07:15,719 --> 01:07:18,480
And I think, like I will
say, to Pj's credit, I

945
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,840
feel like, other than the stuff
with the media, he has been incredibly

946
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:26,119
professional about this whole thing. Like
he's still chewing guys on on the bench

947
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:30,679
he doesn't. He's not like pouting
on game, so I you know,

948
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:31,800
you do have to give him a
lot of credit for that, because it's

949
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:36,840
not an easy position to be in
for a guy who's what two three years

950
01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:44,079
away from removed from a championship run. Like yeah, yeah, we'll see

951
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:46,360
if there's any game to do it. It's either to Mark, it's either

952
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:50,360
Monday or one of the games in
March. Right, guys are tired,

953
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:55,719
they were exhausted today. They're still
playing every other day after that seven game

954
01:07:55,800 --> 01:08:02,599
road trip. It's crazy. Did
Daniel Tye get missed today? Well,

955
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:08,480
there may be even less of a
chance than the PJ. Tucker plays because

956
01:08:09,199 --> 01:08:13,079
Daniel Twins will still get minutes first
in the pecking order, especially after not

957
01:08:13,199 --> 01:08:16,920
playing today in a game where they
got out rebounded to that extent. Yeah,

958
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:20,399
that's a good call. I think
we got about wrap this thing up,

959
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:25,119
Adam. I'm happy. We're always
happy when you join the live streams,

960
01:08:25,159 --> 01:08:29,079
but I think we need a patented
Adam Oslin. One positive thing.

961
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:33,279
Look, the Clippers can't play much
worse than they did the last two games,

962
01:08:33,319 --> 01:08:36,079
and they still split them, and
they're going to be at home,

963
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:44,000
and this is a measuring stick,
test yourself, opportunity Monday night, and

964
01:08:44,239 --> 01:08:48,079
maybe the fact that we've seen this. It's funny Kawhi Leonard when he had

965
01:08:48,159 --> 01:08:53,279
that little joelts at the end of
the third quarter and he had that big

966
01:08:53,399 --> 01:08:56,319
dunk and all of a sudden he
started to come alive hit a three pointer.

967
01:08:56,760 --> 01:09:00,319
The team followed. When Kawhi Leonard
plays with that level of pop and

968
01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:03,960
juice and energy out there, it
seems like it permeates throughout the team.

969
01:09:04,399 --> 01:09:08,720
I think on a big game Monday
night against Minnesota, that's the Kawhi we're

970
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:11,960
going to see for the forty minutes
that he's on the court of thirty eight,

971
01:09:12,199 --> 01:09:15,199
and the rest of the squad is
going to follow up there. We

972
01:09:15,319 --> 01:09:18,279
go love to hear it will for
those listening. We want to thank everyone

973
01:09:18,319 --> 01:09:25,479
who watched the stream. Also here
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974
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:29,119
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975
01:09:29,159 --> 01:09:30,319
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976
01:09:30,359 --> 01:09:33,720
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977
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,600
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978
01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:41,479
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979
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:44,960
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980
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:47,039
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981
01:09:47,199 --> 01:09:51,560
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982
01:09:53,159 --> 01:09:56,960
We will talk to you at the
Double Dip on Monday. No pod tomorrow

983
01:09:57,039 --> 01:10:00,600
because there's a football game being played
and as all there we go. Van

984
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:04,439
Jakoban says Kawhi will be shooting fifty
percent Monday night. We love it,

985
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:08,600
we love the energy. The crowd
is gonna be awesome on Monday night.

986
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:11,920
I'm really looking forward to that and
as always, let's go clips