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Last time, the first time since
November eighth. The Clippers shoot under forty

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from the field. They lose to
the Lakers at crypt one six to one

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oh three, first loss in the
last week and a half, Clippers had

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one five straight. Welcome back into
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not Montana, he is in SOCW. Currently it is Big Chuck Mockler from

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Clips and Dip for some Clips and
Double Dip here on Clippers Talk post game,

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Chuck, thanks for doing this.
Where do you think this one was

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lost by the Clippers. I mean, I'm kind of I'm trying to decide

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between uh, shooting in the paint
and just general defensive kind of lacks not

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focus, I guess lack of defensive
focus. Lot Murray tweeted out a stat

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that so Zoo made nine of his
thirteen field goals tonight, all of them

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were in the paint. The rest
of the Clippers went eleven for thirty two

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in the paint, which is horrendous
in a three point loss, that's just

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that's a lot of bad luck happening. At the same time, I think

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that's a big thing to look at. The turnovers in this game were very

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frustrating. Harden was uncharacteristically loose with
the ball and you know, paired with

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just some weird kind of defensive instincts
I guess taking over on some odd doubles

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here and there. It just all
combined to sink the clipse. Yeah,

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I will say this for the Lakers, when you have Anthony Davis and Christian

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Wood in there, it makes it
a lot tougher on the interior. But

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if eatsa zu Bots got them a
ton of extra possessions that they also did

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not convert on and missed some open
shots and some good looks like Kawhi over

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Austin Reeves in the mid range.
Just an off shooting night for Kawhi Leonard.

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He was more than do the last
fourteen games, sixty percent from the

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field, fifty three percent from the
outside. Tonight six of seventeen from the

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field, two of seven from the
outside, with just fifteen points. Nothing

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more than that going on, right, Chuck and I know postgame, he

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said he wanted to play during crunch
time, but they had him on the

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minutes restriction. They got a game
tomorrow, what can you do? Yeah,

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the minutes restriction thing. I can
see where people are a little frustrated.

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You know, I agree that you
know, this shooting game, you

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know, I hope I knew he
was due for an off night. I

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didn't know it was going to be
this off. But these things do happen,

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and the minutes restriction is odd.
It's just another one of those things

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where if there is the minutes restriction, why throw him there for the last

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seventeens? You know, there's ways
to split hairs with the minutes restriction that

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I think go obviously the more negative
way when you lose like they did tonight

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against the team they lost to.
You know, we talked about this these

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two teams in their last eleven games
and how they were pretty much complete opposite

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and that meant nothing tonight, which
coincided with Kawhi not shooting well. So

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I you know, Tyler said that
he assumed he thinks Kawhi is gonna be

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good to go tomorrow. They play
again on Wednesday, so hopefully he doesn't

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have to play a bunch of minutes
tomorrow. But let's see where he's at

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around the thirty five minute mark,
because that is where he was at today

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when things got you know, a
little weird with with his benching. Yeah,

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I'm wondering about Kevin Durant, who
did come back in their loss to

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Memphis in Phoenix tonight, what his
status will be tomorrow and minutes wise.

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But you know, I did try
to point out that he can't underestimate this

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Lakers team. They were gonna get
up for this one. Throw out the

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records. It is a Hallway Series
type of rivalry. But with Paul George

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having an off night, Kawhi Leonard
having an off night, as we mentioned,

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James Harden having an off night,
Russ and off night normally Pal outside

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of the fourth quarter and off night, you can kind of take away some

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positives here spin it positive that,
Hey, if that many guys have an

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off night, you still only lose
by three with the shots to tie at

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the end. That's not the worst
thing in the world, right, Yeah,

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that's a good point. You even
if you just look at the box

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score for this one, you look
at who is a plus and who is

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a minus. Every single bench player
was a minus for the Clippers, and

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every single bench player for the Lakers
was a plus. So that's something where

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you can, I guess it's kind
of easy to point your finger to,

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right, like we got so many
guys off night. Even then, the

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starters still won their minutes and stuff
like that. Well everyone except for James

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Harden in terms of starters won their
minutes. So yeah, I mean it

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sucks that it was against the Lakers. I guess it's good they got out

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of their system, you know,
to start the year, and with a

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game tomorrow that's going to be I
think, you know, the last time

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they played the Suns, it was, you know, a battle of two

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seventy point haves. So we'll see
what happens tomorrow again against the pundlement thincond

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I had a back to back.
But let's hope it's out of their system.

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You know, Yucky said Norm was
great late, which we can hang

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our hats on and stuff like that. And can't imagine that PG and Choir

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are going to shoot so poorly again
tomorrow. You kind of touched upon this,

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but I thought shot selection was interesting. It was wacky. Yeah,

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and guys turning down shots or making
an extra pass and overpassing, or being

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two unselfish. At times, it
felt like they didn't have much rhythm.

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But in particular, you know,
we talked about this yesterday on the podcast,

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and I don't want to be overly
harsh, but I thought Russ had

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a rough game. And I know
he's taken on the Lakers, and you

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know, immediately out there he was
shot out of a cannon and he was

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doing all he could to try to
get a win against this Lakers team.

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But he had an off night,
and I just thought the flow was just

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it was a little bit nasty,
as coach lou would say. The offense,

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it was jumped up a lot in
this game for them to shoot only

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thirty nine percent. Yeah, both
the point guards couldn't really get either of

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their you know, lineups in rhythm, right, Like James couldn't really get

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the starters into that usual orbit we've
seen during the good stretches, during these

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wind streaks and stuff like that.
And then we saw Tyler again, you

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know, play that Hoffer lineup as
we call it, where it's the four

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Hall of Famers with pg Kawhi,
Russ and Harden and that lineup was okay

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at best. You know, Yeah, I'm looking at Fly by Night Justin

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Russo for that lineup data tonight.
Yeah, we'll see. But yeah,

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it just it was I think I
tweeted this out of the show. It

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was just a little herky jerky kind
of the whole night. There was no

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room to get into you know,
you would have thought that guys could have

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built off, you know, the
easy buckets that do was getting and things

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like that to help there to the
side of the ball, but just off

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tonight. Yeah, I don't know. They have a short amount of time

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to clean it up before another tough
opponent. Let's deflect then and talk about

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Big Zoo a little bit more.
Nine of thirteen, twenty two points,

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nineteen boards with ten offensive rebounds.
I mean, I think he kind of

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won that individual battle against Anthony Davis. He was a plus one, Davis

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was a minus four. They won
the war, they won the game.

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But Big Zoo was incredible, and
it just looks like they have all the

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faith in the world at him now. Finally. Yeah, I mean he's

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shown kind of some new interesting I
guess not new, but you never see

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it this many times in the game. A couple flashes here and there offensively

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from Zoo in games where you see
him do something where you go, oh,

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all right, yeah, go ahead, big Zoo like that used to

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happen maybe once every couple of games, and now we're seeing it multiple times

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per game. It mostly has to
do with the fact that he's had the

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best point guard for his play style
that he's ever had and probably ever will

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have, in James Harden. But
he's getting reward on the offensive end,

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which is helping his defense, which
again helps the offense. So hats off

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the Zoo. It's a shame we, you know, we couldn't get to

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win in what was maybe his best
game of the year for the Clippers.

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But he has another chance to play
well against Nurk tomorrow, which I think

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he's gonna do. Yeah, he
had a great defensive play on ad early

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on, kind of pulled the chair
out a little bit, then had a

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layup on him, an offensive rebound, a block at the five minute mark

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on Anthony Davis. I don't know
if I've seen Aviza Zubots, at least

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against that high quality of a player
on the other end, defend him that

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well and really win his minutes.
Technically he did. He was really really

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good out there. Hopefully he can
keep that energy up tomorrow against the Phoenix

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Suns and Yusuf Nurkic. He is
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Chuck. Sorry about the Fins, but

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they're not done and neither is this
Clippers team. And just a regular season

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loss to the Lakers. There's more
games to be played. And I heard

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a saying before about the NBA.
Best thing about it is you lose a

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game, there's another game right around
the corner, and they got once more

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against Phoenix. Yes, as always, let's go clips and let's hope we

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can turn this five around tomorrow and
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