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The game is over. Paul George
money in the page, but the postgame

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reaction has just begot. Kawhi Leonard
is so smooth in the mid range.

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This is Clippers locker Room, a
recap of today's game and a look ahead

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on your hope for LA Clippers basketball. And now your host, You,

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sir, are a bad man.
Adam Oslin tolp one Clipper Nation as they

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lose one oh one to one hundred
here in downtown Los Angeles, as Kawhi

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Leonard was not able to get a
shot off in time that would have been

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the game winner, they fall to
the OKAC Thunder. Welcome into your post

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game show. I'm Adam Oslin coming
up. We'll get your post game box

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score. You also hear from the
head coach in the players after this one,

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and it's not a footnote. It's
the main story right now. Noah

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Eagle the right knee of Paul George
as we saw him take, really a

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tough paull that was difficult to watch
on the replay late in the fourth quarter.

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Yeah, look, you feel for
a guy in general. If it

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is serious and we don't know yet, so it's it's wrong to speculate that

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it is serious, but especially for
someone like this, for somebody who's battled

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so many high level injuries over the
course of his career, and not just

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battled, but has come back stronger
each time, which is an encouraging sign

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in itself. But you go back
to August first, twenty fourteen, the

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compound fracture of his leg. Most
people would never walk again properly, let

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alone play basketball again on any level
in any form, let alone return not

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only to star form but almost MVP
form back in twenty nineteen, to battle

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back from something like that, to
battle back from double shoulder surgery in one

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summer, to battle back from the
hamstring injuries and the calf injuries and everything

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that it feels like he's endured to
this point, to get to this point

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where he feels like he can help
the team, and he was really looking

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healthy again. He had the two
crazy dunks in this game, one poster

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one three sixty in traffic. To
have all of that and then potentially have

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this happen, you feel for a
guy like that for all the work that

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he's put in, and you feel
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Like I said, you don't want
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It could be very positive news that
it comes back and it's not what

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everybody's expecting it to be, and
that's the hope. And even if it's

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not, and even if Paul George
is out, Clippers did it without Kawhi

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Leonard two years ago, and Kawhi
Leonard is their number one PG would be

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the first to admit it. He
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He is the alpha dog. He
is everything to this team when it

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comes down to it, and they
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without him. They've got arguably a
deeper team right now, with guys who've

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deserved to get minutes that haven't gotten
them, like Robert Covington who got some

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minutes late in this game, like
Bowen's Highland, who hasn't seen minutes over

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the last several games. Norman Powell
is coming back very soon. This is

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a team that has the firepower even
without Paul George to legitimately dangerous and as

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long as Kawhi Leonard's playing at his
top level, which he didn't have tonight,

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and that's one of the main reasons
the Clippers didn't come away with a

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win. But as long as Kawhi
is playing like Kawai, this team is

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still as dangerous as any in the
NBA. I don't care who else is

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out there. So I understand that
there's a lot of trepidation for excitement,

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and there's a lot of concern,
rightfully so for Paul right now. But

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with that being said, there's still
a lot of reason to be excited,

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and the main one is the Clippers
get another crack at this team that they

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just haven't been able to figure out. On Thursday. He is your voice

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of the Clippers, Noah Eagle,
and he will be joining us in Clippers

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Talk tonight, So get on early. Eight six six nine eight seven two

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five seventy. Eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy is the phone

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number. As the Clippers fall one
oh one to one hundred to the ok

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See Thunder as Paul George leaves late
in the fourth quarter with what looked like

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a right knee injury. More from
Noah coming up on Clippers Talk up next,

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we'll dig into your post game box
where you're listening to the Los Angeles

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Clippers radio network. So it was
blocked by George. This is La Clippers

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basketball. He is a one man
record crawl, the defensive man on the

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home of your LA Clippers. Clippers
lose one on one to one hundred,

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so the Oklahoma City Thunder here in
Downstown, Los Angeles, and Paul George

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left late in the fourth quarter with
an apparent right knee injury. We're looking

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for updates on that. We'll keep
your breast of the situation while we have

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a moment, though. Let's pause
ten seconds for station identification here on Los

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Angeles Clippers Radio Network, this is
LA Clippers Basketball A five seventy KLAC Los

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Angeles, ninety eight seven KYSR HD
two Los Angeles and iHeart Radio station.

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Let present it up. Shooting just
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starting two of fifteen in the first
half. But that's not even the number

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I'm focused on right now. Twelve
or twenty one from the free throw line.

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In a game you lose by one, you end up missing nine free

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throws. That is just unacceptable.
Can't happen. Can't lose your focus like

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that. Early on, the Clippers
got into it with the officials and Terrence

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Man was ejected. Whether or not
it was warranted or not it happened.

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We'll have more on that coming up
with Noah Eagle, but it just seemed

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like there was a lack of focus
at times. There was also great energy

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and great effort at times. This
Clippers team came out shot out of a

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cannon, led eighteen to four.
First five minutes. Spectacular defense, rotations

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were on point, Guys were staying
in front of their man. Point of

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attack was very good. But then
things started to slip. They didn't make

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a shot the last seven minutes and
twelve seconds of the first quarter. They

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went without a field goal, and
they were down twenty three to twenty two

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heading into the second after being up
eighteen to four early on and looking like

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they were in control of the ball
game. Kawhi Leonard had an off night

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seven to sixteen, twenty one points, five assists, six boards, couple

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of steals. Russell Westbrook I thought
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but the rebounds eight of them,
three offensive boards, the energy,

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trying to get the crowd into it. I thought, had some really good

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contests against Jay Gilda's Alexander where he
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A Sja went for thirty one twelve
twenty five shooting, but I thought

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Russell Westbrook gave him everything he could
on the defensive end. If eats the

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Zubots with thirteen just three rebounds,
though, and he only played nineteen minutes,

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so Mason plumbly got more of the
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he had twelve boards, four of
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One of his better games since becoming
a Clipper. Roco came in late in

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the fourth quarter, ended up going
just one of eight. He couldn't find

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one from the outside as well,
but did have a couple of steals,

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only credited with one. I'm gonna
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the hands of someone else. But
the story is, of course, Paul

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George going out with that knee injury. Nine of seventeen from the field,

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he was with eighteen points. It
was around the four minute mark of the

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fourth quarter that he left this ball
game and needed to be assisted to get

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into the locker room. We're monitoring
that situation. We'll keep you update here

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as we roll into Clippers Talk.
This is still your Clippers post game show

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on the network side, is the
Clippers lose one oh one to one hundred

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here in downtown Los Angeles at Crypto
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here on Los Angeles Clippers Rightio network. Oh Paul George LA Clippers Basketball continue

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facing his pains as he carries the
three on the Home of your LA Clippers.

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Clippers lose one oh one to one
hundred to shake Gilda's Alexander and the

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Oka See thunder from downtown Los Angeles
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their postgame show coming up on a
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a special edition of Clippers Talk,
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they tried to implement job of the
Hud all of a sudden with the bad

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it right back against OKAC on Thursday, same tip time, seven thirty,

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same pregame show starting at six thirty
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you until then. Coming up Max's
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full side for Paul George. The
conclusion to another game of exciting La Clippers

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You won't be able to deny it. They're going to go to the NBA

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Finals. I believe it in my
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Auslin, Clippers Fall and a brutal
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A coming up. We got some audio

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for you. Looking for stuff from
the head coach in Siran lou looking for

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any updates. We can obviously get
on the status of Paul George who went

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down late in the fourth quarter with
an apparent right knee injury. So I

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guess that's where we could start here. Noah, obviously it didn't look good.

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We don't want to speculate too much. It seemed like it took the

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air out of the building. Yeah, it looked like understandably, you know,

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when a player goes down, you
see this in games all the time,

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mostly in football. You know,
there's a ripple effect throughout the team.

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It's felt by the players out there. This is their livelihood, this

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is their friend, it's a brotherhood
in the NBA, and it just looked

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like the Clippers, you know,
they didn't have that same juice after the

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play so long term, I think
that it can either galvanize a group and

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we've seen that happen before, including
this Clipper group two years ago, or

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there is such a ripple effect of
being bummed out that you don't have your

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brother out there with you anymore,
a ripple effect of frustration of why could

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this happen to us, that you
then let it impact the rest of your

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play. But here's what I'll say
about this group, and here's what I'll

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say about this injury. Again,
let's not worry about what the injury is

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itself until the injury is actually reported
on. Yes, I think that all

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of us are just assuming worst case
scenario right now. Understandable, That's how

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a lot of injuries work all the
time. But you've got to allow for

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it to happen. What if it's
best case scenario. What if it's something

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that it's very recoverable very quickly.
I know you brought up the the Jannistetakombo

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play in the finals. Is that
the finals, right or the during that

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run in twenty twenty one he hyper
extended his knee against Atlanta. I believe

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yeah. I think it was the
conference finals and he maybe missed a game

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or two and then somehow made it
his way back, led his team to

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the finals, and of course led
him to an NBA championship, and had

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one of the top two greatest blocks
in NBA Finals history with that turnaround heads,

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the pick and roll block, the
alley oop on DeAndre eight and and

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he did that all of that with
a sprain in his knee. So with

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the greatest clothes out game in the
NBA Finals fifty he put up fifth and

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then got fifty nuggets at ChIL the
next day and what not that fifty one

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fifty. Yeah, so it's obviously
been done before, and so it could

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be best case scenario, and I
think that you have to you still have

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to focus on that as well.
At the same time, should it not

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be should it be an injury that
requires him to spend significant time away,

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significant time resting, significant time recovering. This is a group that's deep.

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This is a group that's assembled for
this to overcome the Nix and the Bruises

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over the course of an eighty two
game season, to overcome any of the

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adversity thrown their way. And they've
got one of the best coaches in the

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NBA to do it, and Toron
Lu proved that his first year with this

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team. And I know that a
lot of fans have been wondering what toront

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Lu has been thinking, where his
rotations have been coming through and coming from.

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But let me confirm something right now. Toron Leu is the first coach

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to bring this team to the Western
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did it with the likes of Paul
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Nick Batoum, and Terrence Mann,
Paul George being the focal point at that

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point. And he has even admitted
that he's not as good as Kawhi Leonard.

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You've got Kawhi Leonard. And when
you've got Kawhi Leonard, he said

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it himself, said, anytime I'm
playing, I feel like we got a

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chance to win, no matter who
we got on the other side. And

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one of the best versions of Kawhi
we've ever seen. Correct, He's shooting

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up until this game fifty four point
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the third best shooting percentage on a
month in his entire career. So we

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look at this and we say,
Okay, you've got Kauai, You've got

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Terrence Mann, You've got Eric Gordon, who's been playing fantastic basketball and hit

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some big shots tonight even though he
didn't have his best game on the three.

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And that fourth yes, A Visa's
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him, and he's an offensive threat, and right now, there's not a

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whole lot of centers that want to
guard inside. And when he has an

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off night, you got Mason Plumley
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listen, I understand that people don't
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Westbrook of old. But guess what, He's shown flashes of it. And

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I'm not saying he's gonna go out
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on a fish and shooting, but
he's more than capable of exploding on any

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given night. And we saw that
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So I get it. I understand
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to be disappointed. I think we
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it doesn't It's not a death sentence, regardless of the eventual diagnosis for

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Paul George. It's just a hurdle
another hurdle that the US need to overcome.

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Is it a bomber for sure,
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decision is and what the eventual diagnosis
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jump to all the other conclusions.
I believe he's getting reevaluated right now,

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and that's the latest from coach lew
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bet that was the first question towards
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We'll have it all for you coming
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a great point, though, as
much as in the moment you could be

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a little bit rattled and discombobulated and
the Clippers lose one by one as they

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couldn't get a shot off at the
end. Long term, should this be

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a significant injury, We're hoping for
the best. But even in the meantime

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with this uncertainty, you can rally
around it. Yes, you can find

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your spirit and that winning culture when
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Clippers have shown over the season over
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spirit that we've seen from this team. When the chips are down, they

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always seem to be at their best. Yeah, and you know what's funny

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at him? I think Russell Westbrook
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was. So Russ was a luxury
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necessarily. They felt like they could
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the All Star break, they had
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starting to hit that stride a little
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if Paul George is legitimately out,
the Clippers need a vocal leader. Russell

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Westbrook's a vocal leader. I was
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from Portland the other day and she
said, you know, she's been in

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every huddle since she's become a sideline
reporter for the Clippers, so she's seen

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all different types of regimes. She's
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team. She saw the Lobs City
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the teams has had a vocal leader
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Paul was that guy for Lob City
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sense. Every huddle should go in. He's talking, He's saying, hey,

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we need to do this, this
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every night on TNT, the best
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in sport to you know. Then
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leader for the team, say fire, brought that fire. And guess what

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who would you say was the vocal
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said every single huddle, even when
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He saying, hey kid, good
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We need you to do more here. That's what they need more than

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ever right now. They need someone
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that vocal leader. If they get
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I know Terrence mannill follow him.
I know if he's a zubots will

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follow him. I know Marcus Morris
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Powell gets back on the floor,
he's gonna follow him, Eric Gordon Mason

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Plumbing, Nick Patoum, and most
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him. Becau Kawhi Leonard is ready, and you know he likes he likes

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to prove the doubters wrong. We've
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Think about that run in Toronto,
the one years in Toronto. What

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did it come? Right after a
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good as he thinks he is.
Why is he sitting out? How could

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he do this to the Spurs?
Well, guess what Nick Batoum said it

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when he signed with the Clippers.
The last thing you want to do is

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is be on a team that's not
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Leonard. And right now I've got
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You won't like him when he's angry. And to your point of Russell Westbrook

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being that vocal leader, that's something
he's so comfortable with. He has come

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out and said, Look, I
know Kawai doesn't talk a lot. I

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can talk for him. Hell I
can talk for everybody. That's what he

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loves to do. And he's great
at gaining the crowd involved when the Clippers

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are making a push. And I
thought he played had one of his best

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defensive efforts out there tonight. He
had some tough calls go against him,

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as did the Clippers in this one. I know there's probably gonna be some

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calls on that, but I like
the way he engaged with SGA and gave

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that level of effort on the defensive
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And I think that Russ has been
everything that the Clippers could have hoped for

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in a variety of ways, but
maybe the most important one is the availability

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and the intensity he brings every single
night. So he's playing every game,

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and he's playing every game at maximum
effort. And there's something too that there's

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a trickle down from that. If
your point guard is playing with that level

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of ferocity and force and just going
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on fire, everybody else is going
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So I'm looking forward to seeing what
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and galvanizing this group. Eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventies the

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phone number. Let's get out to
start things off to John in La John,

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you're on a special edition of Clippers
Talk with your Voice of the Clippers,

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Noah Eagle John, what's up there? Seems to talk about tonight reps

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scatter ball with plumbly and not moving
the ball. The rest were horrible.

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Number twenty eight was right up there
with Donovan, I think called well on

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one play which was a very bad
call. If you looked at the if

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you looked at the video on that, it was just ridiculous. And they

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continued the whole game. The guy
was, I don't know, maybe he

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is, you know, I'm taking
some you know, making some deal.

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All right, all right, we're
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listen, I don't Tim Donna,
he was fifteen years ago. Let's let's

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move it forward a little bit here. You mentioned the ball, but John,

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I appreciate the phone call. You
mentioned the ball movement though, and

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he touched upon something there that Coach
lu talked about post game. Apparently some

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quotes are coming out. He didn't
like the way they played offensively, especially

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on that last possession. He wanted
them to push it because he thought they

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had the numbers and could have gotten
an easier shot. Well. He also

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mentioned the assist numbers and moving the
basketball. The Clippers only had twenty one

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assists on forty one made field goals. And one of the main reasons they've

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been so good offensively after the All
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as well as they have, and
Russell Westbrook has been a big part of

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that. Well, Russell Westbrook only
finished this game with two assists, and

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that's something that's not very common,
especially considering how well he was getting into

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the pain, how well he was
collapsing the defense. He was finding open

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man, especially open shooters. The
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shots six or thirty one. But
I do want to talk about the officials,

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all right. I'm happy to talk
about the officials. Boossa Dagger is

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the name of the official who gave
the technical foul to Kawhi Leonard and then

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two technical fouls to Terrence Man.
And I know that Mike Fortello, who

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just exited the building, was very
unhappy with Musa Dagger, and he went

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off on him on the television broadcast. He also went off on him to

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me at halftime. Here's what I'll
say about that. I don't think that

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the Clippers got calls in their favorite
today. I think they had some calls

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really go against them, and that
can be frustrating. But at the same

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time, it's been a problem all
year for the Clippers. They take too

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much time worrying about the last play
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And we've seen it a couple of
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of games back where Norman Powell thought
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to the official and he was wide
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through to him thinking he was gonna
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was turned to the basketball. It
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I think it's happened a little bit
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I think now is because the Clippers
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That's where that short leash came from
today. That's where that quick whistle came

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from today. On Terrence Man,
it was an accumulation of what had been

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happening for the first almost two quarters
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they have to look in the mirror
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can we be better along with the
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in the proper way. You gotta
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in the past, because I wonder
how much of that led into the free

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throw shooting. With that lack of
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they were just twelve of twenty one. You pointed out early on in this

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game, and the pattern continued.
They really never were able to right the

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ship on the freebase tonight. No, I mean Kawhi Leonard on the season

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is shooting eighty eight percent, but
since January eighth is well above ninety and

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he went five of seven. That's
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eighty eight percent, went over two. Russell Westbrook, who has been shooting

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it real well at the free throw
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Terrence Mann, who on the season
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is well into the eighties, also
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three. And so you're getting good
free throw shooters missing. It's not necess

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necessarily saying like Mason Plumley, who
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holders, who's sixty three percent.
You could say, oh, you know,

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I could see him going three for
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missing a free throw two at seventy
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you're good free throw shooters are missing, that's when it's extra frustrating, especially

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in the game you end up losing
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you left up the line eight six
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Alla Yune in Lancaster, You're on
Clipper Stock, a special edition your voice

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of the Clippers. No what Eagles
on? All un what's up? Alli?

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You and you're on all right now? Allay Yune. Mike in La

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Mike, you're on Clipper Stock.
First, I want to say, Noah,

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thank you for doing this special edition
of Clippers Hawk. We Clipper Nations,

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Clippers fans are so lucky to have
you as a voice of Clippers.

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Thank you for the great work that
you do. I appreciate that. Mike,

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thank you. And you know,
I completely agree with what you guys

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were saying earlier regarding the officials that
it just it needs to be more out

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and a mature or focus or you
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the team. But you know,
in the end of the day, this

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game came down to free throws.
You know, they go nineteen of twenty

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one from the line, they probably
wouldn't. Most likely would they go sixteen

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of twenty one from the line,
they most likely wouldn't. So you know,

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in the end, given you know, in a vacuum, this is

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not a terrible loss, given the
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in the season, though this is
a pretty pressure loss. Yeah, no

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doubt about it, Mike. We
appreciate the phone call. I think you're

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right. Obviously, the free throws
play a factor. The other thing we

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haven't talked a whole lot about yet
three point shooting. Clippers got a lot

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of really good looks from the outside. They only go six of thirty one.

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You know, it was just one
of those games where nothing was falling,

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and really for both teams in many
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thirty seven from three twenty seven percent, but they made thirteen other fourteen free

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throw attempts. So you just look
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the three point shooting for the Clippers. They're a top five three point shooting

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team in the NBA right now at
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thirty one is incredibly out of character. And I'm sure Adam would agree.

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They got really clean looks through most
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surprising. Okay, See on the
season, they are tent Defensively, they're

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good on that end. They use
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you from getting buckets and the Clippers
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what we have an update here now. Yeah, so this is Andrew Greiff

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just talked to the crew chief,
Curtis Blair after this game. They do

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these pool interviews when there's a controversial
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head of the officially officiating crew for
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to any sort of reporter. So
Andrew asked, what did Kawhi Leonard do

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or say to earn his technical foul? Curtis Blair said, after a no

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call on a made basket, he
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for the first technical foul. So
the second question was what did Terrence Man

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do or say to earn his first
technical foul and what prompted a second technical

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foul? So quickly after that,
Curtis Blair said, after the no call

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on Kawhi, when the official gave
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the official and got the first tea. After that, he used profanity words

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toward the official and got the second
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game. And that is your answer
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a whole lot that that explains.
I think that's pretty much what we already

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expected, and if we're being honest, I still don't agree with it.

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I think that it was it was
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And that's what Mike Fortello was saying
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Dagger made the game about himself in
that moment. And that's a common consensus

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theme when something like that happens,
is that people tend to believe. Okay,

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so this is an official that's starving
for some attention right now in a

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big game with major implications standings wise. And look, the Clippers could have

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really used Terrence the way he was
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six skin out there. But in
this one, aggressive pointing, aggressive clapping

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end up in technicals and no one
came to this game wearing an officials jersey

407
00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:19.559
they are to watch. Well,
it's a different jersey, but with an

408
00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:25.839
officials they've on the back. But
outside of me, who's just crazy,

409
00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:30.720
nobody was here to see the officials. You're right, you got to overcome

410
00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:33.599
it. You have to play through
it, and the Clippers have to have

411
00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:37.839
a little bit more poise than they
showed tonight. Obviously, they lose one

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oh one to one hundred more with
Noah Eagle coming up next here on Clippers

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Talk eight sixty six nine eight seven
two five seventy eight six six nine eight

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seven two five seventy on a night
where they lose to SGA in the thunder

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by one, and they lose Paul
George late in the fourth quarter with an

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apparent right knee injury. We'll keep
your breast of the situation coming up here

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on Clippers Stalk on five seventy sports. Yah, it's block by George.

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This is LA Clippers basketball. He
is a one man king, cral and

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defensive man. On the Home of
your La Clippers. Clippers lose one on

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one to one hundred here at home
to the Okac Thunder. Welcome back into

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Clippers stock. I'm at a maslin. We got a special addition for you

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00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:22.680
tonight. It's therapeutic and timely.
We got Noah Eagle, your voice of

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the Clippers on with us eight six
six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight

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six six ninety eight seven two five
seventy asked Noah anything, yeah, anything,

425
00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:36.720
you want it. You want to
go through the puberty process, we

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00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:41.000
can do it. He almost was
a dentist, Thank goodness, he became

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a broadcasters DV dentist. Let's go
to we got Rick in La. No,

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Peter leaving the ball game, Peter, what's up? You're on Clippers?

429
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Still? Hey, a couple of
things. I know you guys touched

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on the referees and stuff, And
still doesn't make sense to me why they

431
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checked man so quick. It seems
like he just got double teed up quick

432
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and was gone obviously, Like you
know, every diehard fan you know,

433
00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:10.160
upset, right, I was lost
by one point, but specifically that made

434
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me pretty pretty upset. And then
also the Kauhi. I don't know if

435
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he was confused. I don't know
if he pulled the gr Jr. Smith

436
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thinking that, you know, those
tie game. I don't know what happened

437
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.279
at the end there, but it
was pretty tough, man. I don't

438
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.279
know. It's tough to see that
in first two you guys there, Yeah,

439
00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:30.119
we got you, Peter, No, I know you want to start

440
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with the first one on the quick
trigger, the quick whistle Weather referee on

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the second tech for Terence Man.
Yeah, Peter, we appreciate it.

442
00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:41.119
And look, I completely agree with
you. I think that anybody in this

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building, anybody watching on TV,
anybody who listened to us as we described

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it, would have agreed as well
that it probably wasn't the right call,

445
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.079
and I think Moosa Dagger honestly agrees. Now you know, Worgers came out.

446
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.680
Kawhi was talking to the media after
the fact, and he said that

447
00:29:57.079 --> 00:30:02.400
Mousa Dagger came over and apologized for
giving him the original technical foul, So

448
00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:07.079
I think he even recognizes that it
was his mistake. Now we're talking about

449
00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:11.799
major implications of that call alone,
because let's think about it. Kauai gets

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a t and Terrence Man gets two, Shay gets three free throws, makes

451
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two, and the Clippers lose this
game by one. So again, I'm

452
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:19.880
not saying it's the reason they lost
this game. There are so many things

453
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you could point to, but it
certainly feels like one of the major factors

454
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that helped point it because at the
same time, it also thwarted the Clippers

455
00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:32.559
momentum in that second quarter. The
Clippers were rebuilding their lead in the second

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quarter, and at that point Shay
could bring it closer. The thunder ended

457
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up tying it. Clippers go back
in front, then Terrence gets tossed,

458
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and then the Clippers relinquish that lead, go into the break down by a

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couple and then battled back went up
going into the fourth and then would eventually

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lose this game by one. So
it was topsy turvy in many ways.

461
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But that definitely was a momentum builder
for a young Oklahoma City team that's just

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playing with immense confidence right now.
And you wonder in a game a low

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scoring of fair in today's game one
a one to one hundred, with there

464
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:06.920
being so many whistles, there was
a lack of rhythm out there at times.

465
00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:08.839
A wonky whistle can do that.
I mean, we saw a double

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foul, lane violation, multiple offensive
fouls a half dozen of them on the

467
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Clippers in this one. So it's
understandable as a viewer or frustrated, and

468
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.960
we saw the players obviously the frustration
boil over. So again I'm gonna go

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00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.920
back to to the Paul George part
of this, because you can point to

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so many areas, as I said, as to why this game was lost.

471
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But PG in this game played thirty
five minutes and led all scores and

472
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led all players I should say plus
fifteen. He was a plus fifteen in

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this game. So this was a
game that even though PG wasn't scoring at

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an elite clip yet eighteen points and
thirty five minutes on seventeen shots, he

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00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:49.039
had seven rebounds, he had five
assists, he had three steals, he

476
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:55.480
had a block, he limited his
turnovers, He played really really good basketball

477
00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:59.440
and helped facilitate offense for the Clippers, And in a game that Kawhi didn't

478
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:01.799
have it going, that's where he
was immensely missed down the stretch. So

479
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:05.839
again I'm not saying that should he
have to miss time, it's gonna be

480
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detrimental to this team, because Kawhi
doesn't have very many nights like he did

481
00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:12.319
tonight where he went seven of sixteen, and generally when he does it one

482
00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:14.799
night, the next night he comes
back and puts down forty or so.

483
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:19.359
But with that being said, that's
why PG leaving this game was so brutal,

484
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:21.839
just because of the impact that he
had in the same can be said

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00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.000
about Terrence Mann, who had eight
points in ten minutes of action. I

486
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:29.680
just thought he was stupendous. Andy
in Pasadena, who was just leaving the

487
00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:31.079
game. Andy, what's up here? On Clippers Talk, we got your

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00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:34.240
voice of the Clippers, Noah Eagle. Andy, what do you ask?

489
00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:37.839
Noah? Hey, I'm just gonna
fire off here. Just wanted I got

490
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:43.319
to meet Noah tonight. What an
awesome guy, best play by play man

491
00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:47.240
in all of sports. Dog Clippers, He's the man. And Adam,

492
00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:52.839
thank you for your commitment to the
Clippers all year long. Love your updates

493
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:57.400
on AM five seventy. But man, I was at the Jazz game when

494
00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:00.839
Kawhi got injured, so it really
sucked to be at this game to see

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00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:05.680
PG thirteen go down. Also,
just really is a bummer to see the

496
00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:07.839
Clippers put up one of their better
defensive efforts. They got a lot of

497
00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:13.200
turnovers tonight on the defensive end,
and to lose like that just a bumber.

498
00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:17.799
You guys have already touched on the
reps. But I'm having some flashbacks

499
00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:22.279
of Clippers past here with the Lob
City Clippers man, where we are just

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00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:28.960
missing on the free throw line,
where games are just in our grass there

501
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:32.200
for us to take, and I
don't know, just seems like recently,

502
00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:37.359
in the last twenty games or so, we have just been cold on the

503
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:43.359
charity line and that has really hurt
us. National. National critique of Russ

504
00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:46.079
Westbrook I think is way off.
I think Russ has been awesome as a

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00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:50.319
Clipper. Love seeing them out there. And the last thing I'm gonna say,

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00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:55.640
last thing is I think we are
great in the defensive zone off rebounds,

507
00:33:55.640 --> 00:34:00.599
but man, our offensive zone rebounds
are just not there. And that's

508
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:02.920
all I got. Let's go,
Andy. Pleasure to meet you tonight,

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00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:06.160
you and your daughter. It was
a great time. I hope you had

510
00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:10.039
a good time, even despite the
loss and certainly a damper on it with

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00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:14.119
Paul George and whatnot. But the
one thing I just said, most of

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what he said I thought was val
The one thing I actually disagreed on was

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the offensive rebounding. It feels like
the Clippers have done a much better job

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00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:22.639
of that of late. Unless he's
talking about defending the offensive forwards, I

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00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:28.679
think that's probably what he meant was
was other teams getting timely offensive rebounds against

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00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:30.320
the Clippers, which has been a
problem now dating back a couple of years

517
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:34.320
and certainly this year as well.
Look, they went small. I think

518
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:37.599
it was the right decision to go
small down the stretch. The one thing

519
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.320
that I will say, it felt
like a Visa Zubats had a little bit

520
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:44.760
of an impact on this game on
the offensive end, and he went out

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00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:47.159
with four fouls and I don't believe
he came back in after that. And

522
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:51.880
that was a little puzzling considering he
was five or five from the floor,

523
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:54.639
had thirteen points in nineteen minutes.
Sure, he only grabbed three rebounds in

524
00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:58.719
this game, but he was starting
to make his presence felt on the glass.

525
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:00.280
I just felt like he had a
little bit more to give to this

526
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:04.320
game. But when you go small, you're running the risk of giving up

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00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:09.159
offensive rebounds. And despite giving up
some untimely, really inopportunite offensive boards,

528
00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:13.960
the Clippers still got the stops and
still had a chance to win this game,

529
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:17.400
despite missing nine free throws, shooting
nineteen percent from three, and everything

530
00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:21.480
else that you can go down the
list on. So I understand that there's

531
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:23.719
a frustration there. But with that
being said, they overcame a lot of

532
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:28.559
whatever shortcomings they may have had and
still gave themselves a chance. It was

533
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:31.119
just more frustration that they couldn't get
that last shot off before the buzzer,

534
00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:35.199
I thought in the fourth quarter where
they only gave up twenty one points,

535
00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:38.639
granted they only had nineteen on offense, but there were some plays where guys

536
00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:45.079
were gang rebounding, were helping the
helper, were rotating very well. We're

537
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:50.599
playing impenetrable defense. Even while they
went small against Giddy, who was trying

538
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:52.760
to get to the basket. You
saw one, two, three different hands

539
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:57.440
up there trying to redirect shots.
I love seeing that. I thought the

540
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:00.519
effort was great late. But it
is interesting of Visa. Zubos has been

541
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:04.480
their anchor for some time now,
and he didn't come back into that ball

542
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:06.880
game. Yeah, a little surprising. Now. Part of it also could

543
00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:10.519
have been that they were looking to
hunt some of those mismatches and if Shay

544
00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:14.559
had the ball in his hand and
Zubots was out on that island on the

545
00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:16.960
perimeter, that's not the ideal matchup. But I think that's what Toronto Lou

546
00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:21.440
was looking at in this one.
But considering the offensive impact he had and

547
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:24.159
considering the offensive struggles the Clippers had
in the fourth quarter, a little bit

548
00:36:24.239 --> 00:36:27.760
of a surprise that we didn't see
him at all. Andy, thank you

549
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:30.840
for the phone call we got Damien
in La. You're on Clippers stock with

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00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:37.000
Noah Eagle, Damian. What's up, gentlemen. It's a pleasure to get

551
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:39.480
you guys both on the line.
Man, No, a great call tonight.

552
00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:45.000
I just gotta say first and foremost
and listening to the best thing going

553
00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:50.360
in entertainment as far as the NBA
is concerned. You guys do a great

554
00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:52.920
job night in, night out.
It's the one two punch, like of

555
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:58.760
my dreams pretty much. So thanks. It's everything that you guys have done

556
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:00.639
to the team. Uphold you guys
did. But I want to say it

557
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:05.480
on the air now let me get
to the game. Yeah, I'll go

558
00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:08.679
back. Adam. You said it, man, I was surprised to not

559
00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:14.760
see Subak at all. I totally
understand and and I feel the same way.

560
00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:16.679
I get what they were trying to
do, maybe exploit the matchup from

561
00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:22.159
small ball into it, but it's
not working. Let's try it. We

562
00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:25.559
had, you know, about eight
minutes to go, no Subak. Let's

563
00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:30.280
give Dubak a minute fifty or something
like that and see what happens. It

564
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:34.679
would have been really nice to have
him on the floor shake Alexander. He

565
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.320
did a lot of this work in
the pace, so I'm thinking that if

566
00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:40.760
he's you know, if we have
Zooben there, maybe it deters him a

567
00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:44.960
little bit. He had a great
game. It wasn't for lack of effort

568
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:49.280
that I felt like that we didn't
lose, But you know, we just

569
00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:52.480
got away from what was working early, you know, and that was playing

570
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:55.039
like our hairs on fire. We
play like that there's nobody that can really

571
00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:59.440
stand up with us. But if
we're gonna let these young dogs play with

572
00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:01.679
us, man, who knows what
could happen and we leave the game up

573
00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:06.760
to the refs. This was,
you know, within our realm to do

574
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:08.679
it, and we let one slip
away. So I don't know, man,

575
00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:12.239
we got we gotta get right with
it though, And to be fair,

576
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:15.119
you know, the Clippers ended up
taking seven more free throws than the

577
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:19.480
Okac Thunder in this one. So
as much as we're talking about the refs,

578
00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:22.599
they did get to the line enough, they weren't able to convert there.

579
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:25.119
But I see your point about Visa
Zubos. I can see it both

580
00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:29.280
ways. Because the switch ability was
working. They held a team to one

581
00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:32.360
oh one they only scored twenty one
points in the fourth quarter on the Clippers.

582
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:35.840
It's hard to go away from that
when a team isn't scoring at a

583
00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:37.679
high rate. Yeah, and look, Damian, we appreciate you man.

584
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:43.280
Thanks for everything that you do,
listening to us and supporting us and really

585
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:45.639
believing in this team as we know
you do. You know the one thing

586
00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:50.199
that I will say, you said
something about playing against these young bloods,

587
00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:53.679
and there is something to that where
I'm just kind of looking through the Clippers

588
00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:58.360
game log this year, Adam,
how many games can you remember that are

589
00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:01.519
blowouts? Either way? There's really
a lot. There's only a hand thing

590
00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:05.840
in this league. Nobody's out with
a three point shooting sometimes, for sure.

591
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:08.400
But I certainly feel like the Clippers
this year have played a ton of

592
00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:13.159
close games, and it feels like
they play right to their competition every single

593
00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:15.519
day. And that can be both
good and bad, because I look at

594
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:16.360
that and I say, Okay,
well, they get into a seven game

595
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:20.039
series with any team, no matter
how good they are, they're going to

596
00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:22.280
raise their level to play with that
same competition. You know, We've seen

597
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:25.519
that happen at times this year,
where they've recognized big games, and it

598
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:29.800
felt like this was going to be
one of them, and they find their

599
00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:32.079
way through. They claw and they
scratch and they fight, and that's what

600
00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:35.960
OKAYC did as well. And so
I think that these two teams are just

601
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:39.960
equally as hungry to prove for one
another what they believe they are. For

602
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:43.519
Oklahoma City that they should be in
the playoffs, for the Clippers, that

603
00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:46.760
they should be right there in the
conversation with anybody, But I do think

604
00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:51.519
this team does have this factor where
even if there's a great team on the

605
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:52.719
other side, they don't care,
they're not phased by it. These are

606
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:57.079
guys that've been there before. Even
if it's a team that maybe doesn't have

607
00:39:57.119 --> 00:40:00.119
all that many wins, they understand
that that team is going to be still

608
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:02.559
incredibly skilled and they're gonna begin for
a dog fight. I just can't remember

609
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.239
all that many blowouts either way.
Sure, final scores might look even more

610
00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:09.440
lopsided than they actually were. For
example, the Knicks game, the Clippers

611
00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:13.840
beat them by eleven, it was
closer than eleven for the vast majority of

612
00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:16.320
that game. Or the Blazer game
on Sunday they beat him by fifteen.

613
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:20.719
It's a lot closer than fifteen for
the majority of that game. So I

614
00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:22.960
look at a lot of these and
I say, Okay, they're right there.

615
00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:25.679
And you know, I go back
to that stretch where they lost five

616
00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:30.880
in a row coming out of the
All Star Break. Sacramento double overtime,

617
00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:32.519
one point, one bounce goes the
other way. You win that game.

618
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:37.039
Denver overtime, one bounce, you
get the rebound on the Jamal Murray half

619
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:42.440
court heave, You win that game. Minnesota, that was a battle the

620
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.519
entire forty eight minutes. A couple
of balls bounced the other way, You

621
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:47.960
win that game. And then of
course Sacramento again a one point lost,

622
00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:51.480
one more bounce goes your way,
you win that one. So there was

623
00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:52.760
a chance they could have gone four
and one in those games. And that's

624
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:57.320
what still gives me salace with this
team is knowing that you get them to

625
00:40:57.320 --> 00:41:00.559
the playoffs. They know it's a
different level, and certainly their head coach

626
00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:02.480
knows they've got to reach a different
level. And I thought at times tonight

627
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:07.760
the intensity was ratcheted up to a
level that we hadn't seen coming out like

628
00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:10.239
Gangbusters, being up eighteen to four
like that in some of those moments on

629
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:14.519
the fourth quarter, with that great
defensive effort from the Clippers, you could

630
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:17.159
tell there was more on the line, as we have just nine games left

631
00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:21.480
now in the regular season and they're
going to see this team again. It's

632
00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:23.199
almost a two game well we call
it a two game mini series, but

633
00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:28.360
it's a two game playoff tuneup type
series going on right now against the Oka

634
00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:30.119
See Thunder very much so, all
right, we'll take a quick time out.

635
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:34.559
We'll come back. We got more
from Noah Eagle eight six six nine

636
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eight seven two five seventy eight six
six ninety eight seven two five seventy Clippers

637
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:42.559
lose one oh one to one hundred
to the Thunder. Here at home,

638
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:45.760
still looking for updates on the situation
with Paul George, who left this game

639
00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:51.159
late in the fourth quarter with an
apparent right knee injury. You're listening to

640
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:57.280
Clippers Stock here on m five seventy
oli sports Oh Paul George La Clippers Basketball

641
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continue facing his fads as he marries
the three on the home of your LA

642
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:06.360
Clippers Clipper stock after they lose one
on one to one hundred. Here at

643
00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:09.159
Crypto dot com Arena a special edition
when we got your voice of the Clippers

644
00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:15.599
on Noah Eagle here and Noah,
it looks like through all the sources we

645
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:19.880
can find here, Paul George left
the arena on the back of a cart.

646
00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:22.760
His right leg was extended. Clippers
not expected, understandably to have an

647
00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:27.719
update on him tonight. Yeah,
that's the status right now. A PG

648
00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:30.280
thirteen who if you didn't know,
went down late in the fourth quarter with

649
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:35.760
an apparent right knee injury. We're
looking for updates, but it looks like

650
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:38.519
we're gonna be waiting until after this
show to get anything from the Clippers in

651
00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:44.159
the next twenty four hours. No
doubt a concerning situation Clipper Nation, we

652
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:46.400
get it. It's disheartening, especially
after a loss like that, which is

653
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:51.159
compounds things. But they're taking this
team on again on Thursday. They have

654
00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:53.039
to get back after it. And
as Noah Eagles mentioned, they still have

655
00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:58.079
Kawhi Leonard, and Kawhi Leonard says, when I'm on the court, I

656
00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:00.760
feel like we can win. That's
meaningful, that's big time. All right,

657
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:07.079
let's go to Howie in the eight
one eight. Howie, you're on

658
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:10.440
sty what's your question? Thanks?
Thanks for checking the calls. Thanks to

659
00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:15.840
Noel for all your great calls and
the coach Forchella's insight to the games.

660
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:20.480
Prayers for for PG thirteen. First
of all, you know, we hope

661
00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:22.039
for the best for him. And
so that was kind of a weird game.

662
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:25.039
I didn't see after we get off
for the big starts seventeen or eighteen

663
00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:28.719
to four, whatever, it was. Everything they just seemed I don't know

664
00:43:28.760 --> 00:43:31.840
what happened. Almost the defense got
tight for okay see or it just seemed

665
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:36.280
really odd the team tonight. They
was I don't think they played their best

666
00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:38.280
tonight, but and I was kind
of upset why Zoo wasn't it Like you

667
00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:42.320
guys talked about why Zoo wasn't in
at the end of the game and why

668
00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:45.039
they didn't have him there, because
Shay was getting in the middle quite often,

669
00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:47.960
coming up in the lane and getting
up in the middle like really easily

670
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:52.480
and putting left shots from like three
four feet out, you know, like

671
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:54.039
with no problem. I think if
Sue would have been there, that would

672
00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:58.480
have really helped out. And then
lastly, I just want to tell all

673
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:01.360
the Clipper fans that we can't I'm
getting text from my friends saying, oh,

674
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:05.519
God, here we go again.
It's a Clipper Jinks and oh,

675
00:44:05.599 --> 00:44:07.840
here we go again. The Clipper
fans, we have to get together and

676
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:12.559
we have to do the best of
what we got with a team. Man

677
00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:16.960
and Covington and Gordon and makeup.
You know, if he's gonna if if

678
00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:22.159
PG thirteen is gonna be out for
four to six weeks or maybe maybe more.

679
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:24.239
I mean, who knows what's gonna
happen. But you know, we

680
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:28.039
got a rally. We I don't
want to get these texts from my friends

681
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:30.519
about talking about the Clipper Jinks is
back again. Here we go again.

682
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:34.400
I mean, please, we hear
you, We hear you. Howie we

683
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:37.719
got you? Man and Clipper Nation
is going to band together through this.

684
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:42.119
There's no doubt. It's tough right
now. Did see this quote from Kawhi

685
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:45.320
Leonard post game as he's doing his
presser, asked about the Paul George injury

686
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:50.119
if he has to miss time,
Kawai said, next man up, We'll

687
00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:52.199
see. We got a group of
guys that still want to win. Yeah,

688
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:54.920
and so I agree with that.
I do want to go back to

689
00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:59.760
the zoobots point and how we we
appreciate the call I appreciate the kind words

690
00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:01.920
as well well. So when I
said that, I was surprised that we

691
00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:05.639
didn't see zoo bots. That was
more about the offense. It wasn't about

692
00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:07.840
the defense. I actually think the
defense was great in that fourth quarter.

693
00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:10.119
You know, I know Shay was
getting into the paint, but let's be

694
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:14.079
realistic here. The end of the
third quarter, when there was a center

695
00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:16.159
on the floor, Shay was getting
to the basket. There's a difference there.

696
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:21.119
He was laying it up versus having
to take tough mid range or floaters.

697
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:23.119
I think that's what the Clippers were
hoping to force, and sometimes he

698
00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:25.760
made him. He had thirty one
points. He took twenty five shots to

699
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:30.119
get there. I look at this
and I say, I don't think zobots

700
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:32.000
would have made a defensive difference.
I think that he could have made an

701
00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:36.880
offensive difference. So that's really where
we're looking at. I don't know if

702
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:38.280
you agree with me at him,
but that's what I saw. No,

703
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:45.000
I he didn't have a great game
in terms of gathering rebounds and being that

704
00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:47.440
force in the paint. Plus,
Okay, see likes to go small,

705
00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:53.119
so there was that opportunity to play
big and We've seen zoobots punished teams recently

706
00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:58.039
against the Golden State Warriors who tried
to play small against him, So I

707
00:45:58.119 --> 00:46:00.199
completely see your point there. He
was more effective really on that side.

708
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:04.679
Thirteen points five or five shooting guy
was perfect from the field in this one.

709
00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:07.719
Quickly, Wallace imply a del ray
you're on Clippers. Stop with your

710
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:12.760
voice of the Clippers. Noah Eagle, Oh, thanks so much for having

711
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.920
me. No, you know,
I'll tell I'm leaving the game now,

712
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:21.519
and before I say anything. The
dunk, the three sixty dunk by PG.

713
00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:24.199
Thirteen was just insane. And just
to be there. You know,

714
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:29.800
I've been to so many Clipper games
and that's one of the more memorable moments

715
00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:32.039
than I have, and I'm just
so grateful. There's just just to be

716
00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:37.679
there with my grandson. Oh my
god, just seeing that was insane.

717
00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:44.320
My feeling is that questioning the call, oh taking our last time out.

718
00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:47.559
I was just wondering if that was
in your opinion, was that a good

719
00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:51.480
use of the time. It would
have been nice for us to talk,

720
00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:55.000
I think about what we're gonna do
instead of doing that. I was one

721
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:59.440
of your opinions. Yeah, it's
a good point, Wallace and something that

722
00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:01.159
I don't think anybody else has brought
up yet, and something we haven't really

723
00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:06.239
talked about yet, but something that
deserves to be at least mentioned. So

724
00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:09.199
instead of holding that final time out
to Ron, Lew elects to use the

725
00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:14.119
challenge to potentially see if he could
get the ball back, and it was

726
00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:16.599
out of Ron Russell Westbrook and realistically
I'm not even sure it was, but

727
00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:21.159
it was just it wasn't clear enough
that it wasn't out on Russell Westbrook for

728
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:22.679
them to overturn it. And I
think deep down he knew it, but

729
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:25.519
Adam, you said it on the
broadcast live, it was a hail Mary

730
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:30.440
that he probably needed to take.
One just to reassure his team, like,

731
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:32.440
hey, I've got your back,
and two also, what if you

732
00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:35.400
win it, then you're gonna get
the ball back. Then you got a

733
00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:37.639
two for one opportunity to go in
front. If you don't get the bucket,

734
00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:40.679
you can still get a stop.
So it probably made sense in the

735
00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:44.360
moment, but it was tough considering
it was the final time out he had.

736
00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:46.360
Yeah, it was just too crucial
point of the game, and considering

737
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:52.400
how many interesting calls there were.
There was probably even more of a thought

738
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:53.719
say, hey, you never know, you never know how this is gonna

739
00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:58.320
come out. But ultimately, Noah, you had it right the first time

740
00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:00.760
where the call was gonna end up
standing it did. We will take a

741
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:05.119
quick time out, We'll come back
more from Noah Eagle. Here. This

742
00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:07.880
is a special edition of Clippers Stock
eight six six nine eight seven two five

743
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:13.920
seventy. Clippers fall one on one
to one hundred to the OKC Thunder and

744
00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:16.760
Paul George goes down with a knee
injury late in the fourth quarter. This

745
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:21.119
is Clippers Stock here on NAM five
seventy lay Sports. Who is blocked by

746
00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:25.519
George? This this LA Clippers basketball. He is a one man king crawl

747
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:30.239
and defensive man. On the home
of your LA Clippers. Clippers fall one

748
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:35.039
on one to one hundred. Here
in downtown Los Angeles. We are alive

749
00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:37.480
from Crypto dot Com Arena. It
is your official postgame show Clipper Stop.

750
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:42.039
But we got a special edition with
Noah Eagle tonight, your voice of the

751
00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:45.480
Clippers. So let's get back to
your phone calls. Pam in Temple City,

752
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:47.119
Bam, what's up? What do
you want to say? No,

753
00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:52.400
thank you? For having me,
both of you. I really appreciate you

754
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:58.719
being on two. Noah Wallace covered
Mike comment about the the challenge, but

755
00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:02.320
my other comment is what is the
deal? I was holding the ball like

756
00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:07.960
that instead of getting points put into
the bank, and we were we don't

757
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:12.480
have the time out because of a
loss of challenge, and we run out

758
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:15.159
of time. That to me is
playing not to lose instead of playing to

759
00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:20.599
win. My other communists, I
hope that's sometime during an extent at Clopper's

760
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:25.079
Talk, both of you would come
on and give us your journey and how

761
00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:29.519
you got into broadcasting, and we'll
buy you the Clippers. And I'm sure

762
00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:34.000
I speak for everybody when I say
we'd been very interested enough sometime. God

763
00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:36.880
bless you guys. I love you
guys, and I love the Clippers,

764
00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:39.199
and I thank you for having me. God bless you, Pam. We

765
00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:44.000
appreciate it. That was touching.
That was very nice. Shout out Temple

766
00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:46.199
City as well, which I didn't
know existed until a few weeks back.

767
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:51.880
The Clippers actually had a dinner over
there. Beautiful area, absolutely beautiful area.

768
00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:53.920
So shout out to you, Pam. And look you brought up the

769
00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:58.559
final play something that we talked about
it a little bit, but not a

770
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:02.800
ton. I don't think it was
them necessarily trying to do anything. I

771
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:07.320
was a little surprised that they decided
to hold it for the last shot.

772
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:10.639
You know, I don't hate the
call because if you get a good look

773
00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:14.239
and you end up knocking it through. And they didn't have a time out

774
00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:16.480
anyway, so it wasn't like they
could stop the clock in any way,

775
00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:20.360
shape or form. But the way
I looked at it is, Okay,

776
00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:22.719
go to the basket, see if
maybe you can get foul, See if

777
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.199
maybe you can somehow get one to
go, and then rely on that defense

778
00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:28.199
again, see if you can get
a stop. But I'm sure that T.

779
00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:30.599
Lou looked at it saying, hey, we just saw one of our

780
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:34.159
superstars go down. We've got one
of our best defensive players who got ejected

781
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:37.559
midway through the second quarter. Let's
just take our chances, and this is

782
00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:40.119
going to be our best chance.
They're not gonna have time to set up

783
00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:43.800
their defense because we're not going to
call a time out, and let's go

784
00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:45.280
for the win. And I think
that's what happened. And I think that

785
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:49.800
they just didn't get a clean shot, and Kauai didn't feel comfortable putting up

786
00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:52.880
a not clean shot to try to
win the game, and that's how it

787
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:58.119
all resulted in the one point loss. One more call here, Jose in

788
00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:02.320
south Gate, Jose, you're on
Clippers top a regular here. You don't

789
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:07.039
normally get a talk to Noah Eagle
Jose, what's up? Hey? What's

790
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:08.280
up? Noah? What's up?
Adam? I was actually just three my

791
00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:10.119
son down. I'm like, Hey, is there anything that you want me

792
00:51:10.159 --> 00:51:14.119
to tell him? And he wants
me to let you know that he's very

793
00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:15.719
going a new Clipper off it.
But besides that that, it was a

794
00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:21.480
tough blapa and we were at the
game and we saw the Paul George three

795
00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:24.480
sishy donks, we saw the on
the donk open it out going on.

796
00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:28.039
Let me just think to night,
okay, tonight, okay, good night?

797
00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:30.159
All right. So, yeah,
but I wanted to say, Noah,

798
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:35.639
Adam you know, said about PG
but I really did. I realized

799
00:51:35.639 --> 00:51:38.000
that my voice, as you can
see, I was yuming they didn't show

800
00:51:38.119 --> 00:51:42.360
the replay inside the stadium. Yeah, I can't see what was long,

801
00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:46.239
Like, did the land awkwardly or
anything? Yeah? Yeah, it was.

802
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:50.199
It was a tough landing. It
was one of those hyper extensions of

803
00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:52.000
the knee, it looked like and
had to be carved out of the arena.

804
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:57.159
So early signs not ideal, but
like we said, we're not going

805
00:51:57.199 --> 00:52:00.440
to speculate on it until we hear
official word, which will likely come tomorrow.

806
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:05.639
We're hoping for the best today,
yes, and I'm not saying hopefully

807
00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:09.119
Roco could get some more plain time. It looked like Josh how I noticed

808
00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:13.800
that Sga went like on an eight
eight point scoring spree by himself. I

809
00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:15.679
noticed that Roco was just a little
off. Hopefully, you know, just

810
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get so many minutes. But we
got him back on Thursday. Noah,

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thank you, Adam, thank you. Shout out Flaller. Let's up platfor

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helse closen things out well with the
Jose Jose Jose Jose before we get out

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of here, though, we got
a brand new segment. You know,

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there's Katie's casual Corner. But tonight
we got positive moments with the fake philosopher

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big brother Jake with us what's up, y'all, what's up y'all. You

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know, it was a tough loss
tonight and we were hurting really bad over

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it. We were all a little
bummed. I know I was bummed.

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I was in a bad mood.
It's all right, you can tell,

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right yeah. But there's always a
silver finding in every cloud. And my

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thought tonight, never regret a day
in your life. Good days give you

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happiness and bad days give you experience. Every experience is a good experience,

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right you, Damn right? I
love it. It's not going to learn

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from every day. Baby. There
he is, Big Brother Jake Warner,

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Big Brother Jake Podcast. Check it
out. We'll be doing this more often.

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Positive moments with the fake philosopher,
big Bro. Appreciate it, inaugural

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voyage. Love it. I appreciate
it. Thank you all right, Noah,

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anything else before we close out here? No, love you guys.

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Appreciate you, guys. Thanks everybody
for calling in and listening all the time.

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And tough loss. But what do
I always say? Best part about

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the NBA You get right back on
the saddle on Thursday. You get another

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crack at the same team. Nonetheless
excited for that one tip time seven thirty

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Clippers. Okay, see Thunder,
We got your pregame show starting get six

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thirty before we get out of here. I do want to thank Noah Eagle

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for the extended addition and spec shull
edition of Clippers Talk Tonight. Big thanks

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to Brian Seaman, Ralph All our
big Brother Jake Warner, head engineer,

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Big Brother Jake Podcast in the Bank. We had Katie Newton, our producer.

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Casual Corner with Katie who will return
shortly. Thanks the callers, the

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listeners. We're all hoping for the
best with PG thirteen. Of course,

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we love you guys. We'll talk
to you on Thursday. Can't. This

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has been Clippers Talk, a postgame
conversation about your LA Clippers with Adam oslaf

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have the best. This team has those

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championship ingredients. They have some of
that DNA. You can see it.

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This is Clippers Basketball. Join us
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