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What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to Season two, episode seventy

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one of Clips and Dip. We
got the full crew here after the Clippers

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split the first two games of Round
one against the MAVs in La. I

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am Chuck Mockler with Adam Os and
Will Updike. Thanks to everyone who hung

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out on the stream last night over
on YouTube. Gotta come hang after those

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there was a good time. Adam
wasn't there. He was silently protesting because

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of the loss. We're gonna get
into, you know, how Kauwai looked

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the good and bad from games one
and two, and then what we need

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to see in game three to get
a dub and we have a classic Updyke

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fun check. But before we get
into that, fellas last night the Clippers

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lost. How are we feeling the
day after? Adam? You had to

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take phone calls and we didn't get
your reaction on the live How you doing?

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Bud? Kind of feel worse about
it today, which is the Adam

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fun check is not good right now? Uh, I don't know. I've

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been listening to some podcasts catching up, trying to uh think through everything that

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happened in that second half. The
good the bad what's repeatable? What isn't

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it? I don't know. I'm
a little bit more concerned because the common

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theme coming out of this game as
well. The Clippers only lost by three

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in a game they shot that poorly, And I'm thinking to myself, you

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guys know that Luka Doncic Invincible game
hasn't happened yet at all. He didn't

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shoot well. The MAVs didn't shoot
well outside the fourth quarter when they went

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six to nine from three, like
that was the only difference. Luca was

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eleven or twenty six. Like,
I don't think they've played great yet either.

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So you're not feeling good? Sorry, that's what we're will. How

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are how are you? Are you
in the are you in the Adam camp?

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Are you singing to Adam's song?
If you will a little? I

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mean I traced the cord back to
the wall, no wonder. Uh.

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Anyways, I'm doing all right.
I like, I am not as concerned,

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I mean, maybe foolishly so as
some other people online seem to be

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about this loss. You know,
losing home court is a bummer. I

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mean that's assuming though, that we
don't get one in Dallas, which I

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think assuming that Kawhi, which is
a big assumption. Assuming that Kawhi is

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good to go, I don't see
us dropping them both in Dallas. So

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I'm not my death cont level is
at a five or you know, it's

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yeah, I'm getting I'm I'm not
too concerned right now. Like obviously,

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uh, you know, still still
a very formidable team, still a tough

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series, still a lot left to
go. But I don't really feel i

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mean going up too Oh, i'd
be, you know, completely in a

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different position than from where I'm at
right now. But one one split,

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I am like, I'm this doesn't
like, this doesn't really marginally change how

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I feel about the series. Yeah, we knew it was gonna be a

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battle. We knew it was probably
gonna go. We feel that it's gonna

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go six or seven. The big
thing I think, how did we addam

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We haven't gotten we haven't all talked
about this as a group. How do

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we feel? How did you feel
about Kawhi in game two? He obviously

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wasn't gonna be one hundred percent.
We talked kind of pregame altogether, how

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it might make things a little wonky, but going forward from what we saw,

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how do you feel heading into game
three, and do you think he

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plays game three? Well, it
depends on how his body responds coming out

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of this game, of course,
I hope. So obviously we haven't seen

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the injury report yet for today,
or we're not getting one till tomorrow because

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this show is off. I don't
think we're getting one today. He got

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on the line. I was in
courage by him playing thirty five minutes.

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I did not see that coming.
I thought it was gonna be a thirty

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minute minutes restriction, maybe because the
game, and it was kind of just

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a check in process with Kawhi and
how he was feeling during the ballgame,

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so it was fluid. But he
I thought, movement wise, looked pretty

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good. Now. He was short
on almost all of his jumpers. They

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were flat. That was I guess. If anything was to be expected,

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it was that zero five from the
outside. But he had that steel and

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dunk to start the third quarter.
He had a couple of push shots where

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he got physical in the lane,
he had a putback, and his defense

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was really good. Overall, there
wasn't much drop off on that end really

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that was noticeable to me at least. The only thing was he missed a

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free throw late, unlike Kawhi,
and he had a shot clock violation on

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him which was very out of character. So timing rhythm still needs to get

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there. He's got to knock off
the rust. But I heard some people

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talking about this almost like, oh, they shouldn't have played Kawhi. So

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you guys realize either he gets back
into being Kawhi or they don't have a

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chance. Anyways, he has to
go through this right now. That's just

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part of the deal. He's got
to get back to where he was.

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The only way to replicate those on
court minutes is for him to be out

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there. And by the way,
that was the most physical game I've ever

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seen live that was played and officiated
by like it was a Game seven.

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Carlo Jaman has brought that up.
I'd never seen anything like it. What

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Darvin Ham was talking about coming out
of that game too against the Denver Nuggets,

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and how it's difficult to adjust to
the officiating right now after an entire

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season for the most part of seeing
things called one way. And it did

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start to change a couple of months
ago. According to Zach Lowe, points

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were down by like two points per
game around the All Star break and there

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was some unspoken message or maybe there
was a memo was the league did release

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a they did release an entire thing
and there was a zoom conference. It's

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just you're really in the weeds about
NBA officiating for you to have read it

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or have like known, like really, did it still seem subjective or they

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weren't fully stamping. Hey, this
is how we're calling things now, because

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some people pointed out that right away, well, that would affect betting lines,

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like you have to make it very
clear how the game is being officiated

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if there's a change mid season,
on the off season, mid season to

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how you're calling things. It was
just very interesting and I'm fine with it.

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The Clippers does not lose that game
because of it, but it has

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changed so much. You look at
those two thousand of Visa zubats had to

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start by the way he rocked Luka
Doncic and I think it was Derek Jones

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Junior to pick up those first two. I thought one of them might have

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ended up being a Flay guir.
They were so physical. But there was

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some wild no calls with a mere
coffee and Luka Doncic in the second half

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near the sideline. Uh Tarret's man. When the game really told me that

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it was going to be played differently
than what we saw in Game one was

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Tarrence's man went to the basket very
early on and he got hit, and

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we saw that in game one too, But Dallas was waiting and they were

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saying no easy buckets. They met
the moment, their physicality was completely different.

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Everything. Jason Kidd asked for five
bucks in that first half, didn't

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it wasn't it something like that?
Something yea during the press conference he had

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backwards hat game one and they lost. You have clear clear frame classes.

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He makes bad decisions. No lenses, Yeah, no, just a free

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to some freak ship. To be
fair, though, his guys responded to

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what he asked for and he pulled
Gafford quickly. He did start, but

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then he pulled him and Derek Lyvely
started the second half. So we're starting

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to see some of the chess moves
from Jason Kidd's side. But again,

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it wasn't just the Clippers struggling from
the field. Dallas's numbers look much better

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because of what happened in the fourth
quarter with going six and nine from three,

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but they have not shot the ball
well either. So I don't think

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it's just safe to say, well
if the Clippers aren't gonna shoot like this

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again, and it was this close
and Kawhi Leonard didn't look like himself seven

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of seventeen. No, I think
the Dallas Mavericks believed that we also can

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play much better and progress to our
means too. Yeah, there was some

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like the good and bad from game
one and two is so crazy like in

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game too, I saw this tweeted
out the Clippers had a better free throw

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rate, a better offensive rebounding rate, better turnover rate, shot better at

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the rim, more points in the
paint, more fast break points, and

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more second chance points. There was
some good, But I like what you

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said, like this isn't this is
an EBB and flow series. I thought

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some of the bad we talk about, the shooting that fourteen oh run for

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the MAVs in the fourth was just
like the offense would stagnant. It wasn't

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like I mean, and that was
during the power like that was started.

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That that was started during the Power
Rangers line up, like it's you know,

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like these are the things that I
feel like are a little bit of

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anomalies. Norm who I picked to
be my player of the game. Looking

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like shits so far this series,
I don't expect that to maintain, especially

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because he like missing a wide open
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That's just very unnorm He's gotta be
on a short leash, I think

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at this point, guys, because
is a huge swing game. You got

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to get home court back. And
Terrence Man did he play it all in

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the fourth quarter, jel like he
played at the very end. I think

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in the fourth quarter lineup, that
lineup, I love that lineup. It

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was I think I put it in
here. It was very arm Terrence PG

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and Kawhi when he went for the
steal on the crazy Luca pass out of

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that trap in the corner to get
the ball out, terrace Man was on

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the floor for that. But he
didn't play right. So he played at

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the very end. He wasn't in
the consequential minutes, and Mere Coffee wasn't

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either. If Norman Powell is going
to continue to struggle, you do have

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other options, and it's not like
he gives you much else outside of his

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shooting, which has been critical all
season long, and norm being this ice

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cold does throw a lot of things
off. It does really hurt the machine

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with this Clippers offense. One job
which I think and I think Emir should

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have came in the game earlier.
In this one, Russ had a he

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turned it around the second half.
He had a ship first half. Uh,

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and Norm wasn't good either, And
I think that Emir should have came

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in the game earlier. Yeah,
and we'll talk about it more coming up

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in the high five or the low
five. But there were some interesting moves

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by coach Lou late in the ball
game. I want to talk about that

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in the chat asking was this a
bad Tylu game? Very level headed for

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the most part question. I chocked
it up to kind of a bad Tylu

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game, partially due to the fact
that he was crunched with. I mean,

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you know, the COI rot,
the Kauhi restriction and then the two

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early fells on zoom make things wonky. But it wasn't the best. It

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was a coach's fault. It's not
coach's fault when guy's not execute. I'm

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really sorry, Like it's just it's
not And I think, you know,

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we're talking about some of these rotations. I think, sure, maybe there

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should have been a shorter leash,
but this early in a series, like,

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do you have any reason to believe
that Norm isn't gonna turn it around?

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Like, do you, like,
do you have the sample size of

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data to believe this guy shouldn't be
on the floor despite what he's done,

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you know, through sixty games a
regular season, Like, I just don't

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really buy that, And you come
in earlier, I mean, I like,

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I agree, but I'm saying I
see both sides, Like I'm not

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like, I'm not like Tyler losing. Tyler's an idiot for that. I'm

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saying my Like, my opinion is
that a meer should have come in earlier.

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I don't think that means TYLERU lost
us the game. Oh yeah,

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he didn't take the game. You
can't predict stuff like that, and you

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can't predict stuff like guys gambling for
steels. You can't predict a whistle,

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and I think that he will probably. I think that he was right to

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take Zoo out at that point of
the game too, because with the way

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the the way the whistle was going
at that time, Like, what's the

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point in him even racking up one
more? You know you're gonna need him

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later, So I don't really see
it that way. I I I personally

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don't see it that way, and
the offense completely stagnating to end the game,

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and at various points Wa Kawhi was
on the floor. I'm sorry.

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There was just a lot of other
issues that are not Tyler related. It

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was a three point lost. It
was a game where there are things to

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second guess. I don't think there
was anything so egregious where, like Will

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said, you could just say TYLERU
lost them in the moment this game.

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I didn't like him taking out of
eats zubots I said it on the air

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at the time, at the seven
minute mark and going small. That felt

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like a little bit of tie,
resorting back to what he's most comfortable with,

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small ball. But they don't have
a tomb, they don't have Marcus

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Morris. It was I think a
seven to zero run. After Russell Westbrook

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came out of the ballgame, Joey
Lynn asked him about that post game,

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and Russ was having some great moments, momentum plays for them, got them

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extra possessions, walk on Derek Lively, but on the other end of the

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floor, it just wasn't looking that
good. Well, yeah, he was

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too two nine. He was.
He did find Aviata Zubots who got two

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early buckets in the fourth quarter,
and I thought, here we go.

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They're gonna try to execute what they
weren't able to in the first quarter because

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he got into foul trouble and Zoo, they're gonna lean into running offense through

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him and getting easy buckets in a
game where they can't hit any jump shots.

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And that's how they're gonna win this
game. And then after they go

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down three on that seven to zero
run, he takes Aviatza Zubots out and

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they go small ball and they lost
the next three minutes by four. So

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I'd like I understand the logic because
they started hitting three's one more switchability out

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there. I just don't think it
looked a little bit like he blinked a

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little bit and Jason Kidd had the
advantage. He forced coach lou to make

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a move because Maxi Kleeb has been
playing more. They were playing more small

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ball. They were clogging up the
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But I think he had eight points
because he came back in right after that

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three minutes. He comes back in
to me that said, Coach Lou saw

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that it wasn't working. They needed
Big Zoo back in and he got two

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more easy buckets when points were at
a premium. Now he could also make

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the argument that Zoo had played the
entire third quarter, in the first four

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minutes or whatever it was of the
fourth quarter and hadn't gotten a break yet.

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But I would also say he only
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even if he had stayed in for
those three minutes, he's at thirty six

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minutes by the end of the game. It's a playoff game. He ended

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with those two fouls. Also,
so when Coach lu talks about postgame that

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threw us off our game, well, I agree with that it did.

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It led to them forgetting about Zoo
once again when it wasn't like he stayed

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in foul trouble. You could have
gone back to that earlier. You could

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have started spamming it again. I
know he's out in the first quarter because

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of that, but he didn't stay
and foul trouble after that, and you

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couldn't find easy buckets. There's still
a beats of zoobots out there after the

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game one he had after what the
season he's had after what we've seen with

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him and James Harden. I just
I felt like it was a real missed

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opportunity in that game. And the
reason I'm down on it is because I

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think they win last night's game and
there's a real, very realistic possibility the

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Clippers could have won this series in
five games. They split the two in

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Dallas, they come back and close
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Now it's completely different. It's a
dog fight. It's going six or seven,

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and it feels more like a coin
flip right now. Yeah, Zoo

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did end with eight in that fourth
quarter, four for six, and he

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was playing, like you said,
I was impressed with how he played after

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the two fouls. He didn't play
scared, he didn't play timid because he

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wasn't playing insane to get those two
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They were hard fouls, but they
weren't we you know, it wasn't a

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moving screen or something. Before get
into the low five. My player of

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the game pick, Well, if
we're eating our respective crow for player of

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the game picks Paul George did shoot
fifty, which was great. He was

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seven for fourteen, but not an
inspiring Paul performance. We've had to kind

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of like two kind of performances,
and I thought, I thought defensively,

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he looked a lot better in Game
one, so I kind of had more

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praise for him than I know Charles
did in that first in that first game,

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this one wasn't uninspired Paul George performs. To me, he was good

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late, but it was a little
too late. Yeah, maybe maybe we

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could treat one other quarter like it's
the fourth quarter in the game, just

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one. I didn't like how and
when people point to Kawhi Leonard throwing off

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their rhythm, and I don't know
how much rhythm and chemistry you can say

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was built up in one good performance
where they really just got hot from three

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in Game one and say, oh, kaw I threw everything off. Now,

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But Paul all George came out and
had eight points on three or five

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shooting in that first quarter. He
was the only guy that really had it

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going. And he still only took
five shots, and at the half,

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I think he was at seven.
I think it only took two more in

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the second quarter. I thought he
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the clunky offense from the Clippers,
some of it was they were forcing

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things to Kawhi Leonard, especially in
the fourth quarter. But when you look

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at the box score, I don't
say this very often, but the shot

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distribution was too balanced instead of finding
the guy who was hot in Paul George,

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who only ended up with fourteen shots, so he only gets nine more

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after the first quarter. You look
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is at seventeen, Zubus twelve,
James Hardened at fourteen, Norren Palett ten,

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Russell Westbrook at nine. That's a
game where Paul George has it going.

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Other guys don't feed the hot hand
ride it. Let him get to

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twenty plus shots in that game because
late in the fourth quarter, all of

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a sudden, call his shot.
More in those sits you like, I

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I think, like because what we
we when he was miked up. We

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heard him miked up in Game one, and and he was he was calling

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out a lot of stuff on the
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Uh, he was being a leader. And I just I think that when

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Kawhi is there, he has to
still be that guy. He has to

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be he has to be calling his
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all on him too, not being
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But it's just in a game where
it was difficult for everybody to score

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out there, and you have a
guy who might have been on a heater

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but never really got to test it
out, that that also was a missed

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opportunity in my mind. Yeah,
I think that's totally fair. We need

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we need alpha dog PG because that
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That being said, defense is pretty
good these last two games, right,

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can't be too mad hold the maps
under a un Like that side of the

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ball, I'm very I don't satisfies
our but I'm feeling good about the defensive

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side of it. I mean,
it's it's gonna be the most impressive given

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where this Clippers team was all season
and certainly to end the season. You

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know, while we saw glimpses,
we we saw glimpses it. Uh yeah,

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it's looked a lot better. All
they approve that they obviously can be

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a top ten defense whenever they feel
like putting in that effort. To me,

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when they clip that switch, we've
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got it. Before we go to
the next segment, shall we hit them

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with the with the low five.
Hopefully we're going to get a high five

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itself. Uh, the first two
or high fives? Okay, the first

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two plays here? Okay, all
right, this is your high five five

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highlights if you're not familiar with it
from the ballgame in game two. This

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time around, and the sound is
off, we're going straight to the fourth

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quarter here, Okay, No,
they were working on the theme song.

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Jim Williams, thank you for sending
us that. We're trying to figure out

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how to seamlessly integrate that wonderful surfrock
into the high five. We appreciate it.

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Hope enjoyed thet It would be nice
underneath my Naisley voice. Here's Luka

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Doncic at half court, straight to
the consequential buckets here in the fourth quarter

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and plays that really decided this game
at seventy one to sixty seven Clippers is

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at one point they were up by
six and the fourth and I felt like,

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with how difficult both teams were having
regarding scoring, six points might have

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been insurmountable. I felt like I
was right there with you in the press

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box and we're like, hey,
six fucking points in a game where people

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are scoring ninety two, like first
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And that's kind of what happened with
that fourteen to oher run by the

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Dallas Mavericks. Really uh so,
here's Luka Doncics. He gets the pick

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from Derek Lively. Yeah, sorry
about that. Aviza Zubots was hedging the

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pick this time instead of staying and
drop on Luka Doncic in this game,

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So a little bit more of a
wrinkle there from coach lou Here's a beats

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of zoobots who I think he was
trying to beat Luca to his spot.

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Who loves pulling up on the left
wing for his step back three pointer.

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He's overly aggressive, Luca ends up
splitting the defense here, gets the Clippers

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to collapse and he finds the trailing
Derek Lively. But watch Russell Westbrook boom.

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Hell of a play. That's what
people were talking about when they mentioned

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Russ really changing the game for the
Clippers end of the third quarter into the

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start of the fourth. Here's another
nice play from Russell Westbrook. This was

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after a Josh Green missed three pointer. Rush pushes the ball in transition a

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beats the Zoobots beats his man down
the floor in Derek Lively, so he's

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got a hang back, And here's
Russ collapse in the defense. On the

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other side, a little dripple drive
bounce past a big zoo easy bucket against

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the Smalls here in the Dallas Mavericks, And I just I can't say enough,

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feed the beast, get the ball
to a Vitza Zoobots, please,

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guys? Am I crazy? Am
I losing my mind too much about that?

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Or is there something to it?
Because I think, especially in this

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series, Avitza Zoobots has to be
one of the focal points easy buckets And

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it's just like, I am,
I don't get why you even with two

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fouls, I don't get why you
would completely move away from something that was

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so successful for you in game one. Yeah, there weren't offensive fouls,

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right, He wasn't like throwing his
elbows or anything weird like. Yeah.

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So Rusk gets taken out of the
game at the eight thirty mark for Paul

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George. So he had played from
the seven minute mark of the third quarter

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up until the eight to thirty mark
or the fourth quarter, and coach Lou

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told Joey Lynn postgame, that's why
he took him out, and Joey asked

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about it, and Coach Lou kind
of challenged him, what would you do?

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I think he was in the mood
for being second guest on that one.

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It's Paul George. You could have
taken out Norman Powell, but he

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had just hit a three pointer and
you need him, you would think at

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some point in this series to get
it going. Coach Lee was probably thinking,

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this is his time. He's starting
to find a rhythm here. So

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PJ. Washington and Luka Doncic hit
threes. I'm not sure Russ would have

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stopped that, especially from the plays
that we're about to see. I'm not

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sure if that would have been the
difference having Russ on the floor for that.

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But by the time he comes back
after this, Luka Doncich step back

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on Kawhi Leonard, which is just
an insane shot that there's nothing you can

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do about it. The Clippers are
now down by three at the seven minute

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mark, and this is where they
end up going small here. And if

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I don't get this right again and
mess up my time stamps, I'm gonna

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be upset. So Russell Westbrook's back
in the ball game. He's on Kyrie

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Irving. You got James Harden on
Luka Doncic. The Clippers are small,

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Norman Palell, Paul George, Kawhi
Leonard, coach Luke and obviously say we

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have Kawhi back, We're more equipped
to play small. Now here's what I

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don't like about this play. James
Harden actually guarded Luca pretty damn well in

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the fourth quarter, even on the
kill shot three that Luka Doncic made and

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then tampted the crowd. That was
great defense. James Harden gave him this

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multiple times, trying to get his
hand in his face, trying to face

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guard him, be like a face
hugger in Aliens. But even on this

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possession, he's got it in the
far side corner. He's got his back

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to him. There's help here.
If he tries to drive, you're gonna

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have at least Paul George or Kawhi
Leonard, one of these guys is gonna

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come over. Russell Westbrook is watching
Kyrie Irving. But look at Luka doncicch

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watching Russ. Look how smart he
is. As soon as Russ makes a

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little bit of a move over here
to help to cheat over and help on

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Luka Doncich when I don't think it
was necessary at this time. Luca does

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this bounce pass to Kyrie Russ's way
out of position. He has a wide

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open three pointer. Russell Westbrook to
me in this situation, and I don't

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know what the game plan assignment was, but it's Kyrie Irving. It's not

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Tim Hardaway Junior out there. It's
not Maxi Kleeve. I don't think it

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was. Kyrie was on the floor, playoff Kyrie pass away. Yeah,

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it's just James Harden is doing a
good enough job here. If Luka Donci

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just wants to back him down and
take a tough fade away too, I

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can live with that more so than
them knocking down a three in this situation

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from a guy like Kyrie Irving,
who's wide open here. It's a long

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three, but he's gonna make that
all day, I guess. And he's

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wide open, as you mentioned,
like he's unbothered. I don't want to

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put it all on Russ. I
don't know if that was the game plan

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to double there, but it just
seems to me. Watch what happens afterwards,

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James Harden starts tarking to coach lou
and then Russell Westbrook. It looks

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like says something to James Harden here. It's like, dude, like,

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it's so clearly like we saw that, we saw and will you kind of

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talked about this a little bit like
a second ago. There was a lot

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of it felt like more gambling for
steals in game two than in game Oh

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we got something on that apropos big
chuck so uh. One last play here

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in the high five, I swear
to God if I don't get this right,

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this is and I don't. I
don't hate this. When you talk

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about Paul George on Luka Doncic,
by the way, that guy in the

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comments that kept saying that Paul George
wasn't guarding Luka Doncic, I think there

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was like ten possessions at least in
this game where he was one on one

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against him. So whatever. But
when you talk about bad breaks and bad

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bounces, this exemplifies that in a
game this close, in a playoff game.

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Watch what happens here. Great defense
by Paul George. He gets at

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the basketball, taps it away.
It ends up instead of coming this way

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where Paul George can grab it and
go the other way for two. It

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hits Luca right on the calf,
the ankle, the cankel, whatever you

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want to say, and it bounces
right back to him. It was the

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perfect bounce for Luca Dountis to get
the ball back off a really fine defensive

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play by Paul George here and then
he gets it, collapses the defense makes

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it look like he's going for a
jumper, finds Maxi Kleeba for a huge

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three pointer. The other thing that
really worried me coming out of this game

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was some of their role players really
woke up from the outside late and they're

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going to have confidence to build off
of going into game three with that.

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Yeah, and very good point.
And PJ. Washington was phenomenal in the

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fourth quarter for the maps. He
was very good. We love the high

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five. Adam is gonna leave and
then come back real quick. We got

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an audio break coming up for the
listeners and then morey, we're gonna be

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talking the keys. The game three
victory coming up right after this, and

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a quick ten miles, So what are

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00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:34,279
we thinking for game three, we
can talk about the MAVs role players because

405
00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:37,960
Kaliba, who you just showed,
making a three, which you do live

406
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:45,000
with with him taking that three um
was good for the MAVs last game.

407
00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:48,759
Of the five MAVs lineups that have
totaled more than four minutes, only three

408
00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:53,559
are in the plus and they all
include Maxi Kleba. I think a large

409
00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:56,160
part of that was at fourteen oh
run obviously that they went on. But

410
00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,559
Kliba is showing his value for the
MAVs, and I don't know if that

411
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,240
makes Tylou, like Adam you said, go small where he's comfortable, or

412
00:30:04,279 --> 00:30:08,920
stick with the big zip doing.
I was worried about this after game one.

413
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,799
At the very end of Game one, we saw Maxi Kliba playing the

414
00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:17,759
five and we thought that could be
a wrinkle that Jason Kidd goes with moving

415
00:30:17,799 --> 00:30:21,279
forward. I think they're plus twenty
four so far in the series. When

416
00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:26,039
Gafford and Lively are off the floor, which means Kleiba's out there, and

417
00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:30,559
Gafford had a back thing right like
he left heart again questionable to come back

418
00:30:30,599 --> 00:30:34,319
again, like they're running them through
like the ringer over there. Unfortunate for

419
00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:40,359
the Clippers. Honestly, yes,
well, how do you feeling about the

420
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,319
small ball? Does Tys get a
crack? Where are we at? It

421
00:30:42,319 --> 00:30:47,400
seems like we're gonna see more of
in game three? I don't know.

422
00:30:47,519 --> 00:30:51,079
I mean, like with Kawhi Leonard
back, do you think the rotation like

423
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:56,920
realistically expands. Was Mace bad enough
in game two to take him out of

424
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:02,200
the lineup, especially when you seeming
I mean, you know, you seemingly

425
00:31:02,319 --> 00:31:07,119
like the size I'm I'm assuming from
TYLERU you you see that as an advantage

426
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,400
unless you're going unless you're going real
small, real weird with things, which

427
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:18,680
I I don't know that Tys fortifies. I don't know that Tyson fortifies one

428
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:25,640
of those lineups more than just having
another like swingy kind of you know,

429
00:31:25,759 --> 00:31:29,599
guard wing tweeter, uh, like
in a mere coffee or something out there.

430
00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:34,640
So I I would probably, I
like what Adam said, like sort

431
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,839
of just shortening the least, shortening
the rotations a little bit, like if

432
00:31:37,839 --> 00:31:42,039
things aren't working, you don't have
you know, you don't have room to

433
00:31:42,079 --> 00:31:45,559
play around anymore. And I think
the players will understand that. I think

434
00:31:45,559 --> 00:31:53,039
everybody kind of gets that. But
I don't really see, and I could

435
00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:59,400
be wrong on this. I don't
see like full giving up on on Mace

436
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:02,279
necessary in this series. I'm not
saying that that'll that'll hold up should they

437
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,599
advance past this round, but I
don't full see giving up on Mason the

438
00:32:06,599 --> 00:32:10,000
strength of one game in a limited
sample size. And I also don't really

439
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:16,240
see the rotation expanding, So I
think that means Tye is still likely one

440
00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:21,920
of the odd men out in this
one, him and Tuck Wagon hanging out

441
00:32:22,039 --> 00:32:27,039
flipping bottles on the bench. I
think that that point about expanding the rotation

442
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,759
is a really good one, Like
it's like we're already he added Kwhi back

443
00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:36,799
into the lineup, like I would
think if anything, one more guy would

444
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:42,119
be out of the rotation. Yes, I agree with that. I hope

445
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,799
it was a mirror in Game two. That's true. Yeah, what did

446
00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:50,359
you do? Eleven minutes? And
he's been really good defensively. I know

447
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,480
everybody pretty much has for the most
part, but his defense, even going

448
00:32:52,519 --> 00:32:55,720
back to the regular season, I
think he had the best matchup data against

449
00:32:55,799 --> 00:33:00,440
Luka. Doncic and Tyler credited him
for being able to guard Kyrie and stuff

450
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,519
like that. So Kawhi what he
said, because it was it was in

451
00:33:04,519 --> 00:33:07,079
game one, so Kai wasn't there. He's like, yeah, Paul George

452
00:33:07,119 --> 00:33:09,960
doesn't have to worry about Luca and
Kyrie when a mere coffee's out there,

453
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,759
and it's like, wouldn't it be
great to you put a mere coffee out

454
00:33:13,799 --> 00:33:19,359
there with PG and Kawhi somehow,
like two guys at once don't have to

455
00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:22,920
worry about him like that. Maybe
some of those norm minutes go to a

456
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:28,640
mire. Speaking of matchup data,
I think we got to bring up how

457
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:34,799
the Clippers went two for seventeen against
Luka Doncic in Game two and Luke and

458
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,039
Kyrie were very good defensively. We
talked about it and showed it in a

459
00:33:38,119 --> 00:33:43,240
High five preview of this series.
Luka doncis fighting through a stagger screen,

460
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,079
multiple screens to stay with his man
and Michael Porter Jr. Guys, he

461
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:51,200
was very connected. He shut down
Kawhi Leonard on a big possession in the

462
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,400
fourth corner. Granted Kawhi' is not
Kawhi yet, but he had four or

463
00:33:55,480 --> 00:34:02,279
five possessions in that game where he
played quote unquote lockdown defense. It was

464
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:07,679
impressive. Yeah, they've both been
good defensively, Yeah, Kyrie was playing

465
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:14,320
Harden and flustering him. Small Kyrie, he was hounding him going up the

466
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,719
court. Like that narrative was just
false, like, oh, these guys

467
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,920
are food. You can do whatever
you want against them. This is what

468
00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:24,880
scared me about Dallas. Those guys
giving a much better effort defensively kind of

469
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,920
changes everything and they're showing it too
right, like they actually are doing it

470
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,639
as but you know, we heard
MAVs fans before the series talking about that,

471
00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:35,639
but now they actually are doing it. Do we think some of that

472
00:34:36,079 --> 00:34:39,239
late especially was the legs of the
Clippers because they look like that that possession

473
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:45,079
where Norm was it like Norm and
Russ missed like they got the offensive rebound

474
00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:47,559
and then they missed like two putbacks
at the rim. I think it was

475
00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:52,400
during that drought and it was just
like they just it was like the epitome

476
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:57,000
of what tired guys playing basketball looks
like, like not being able to hit

477
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,199
shots at the rim. Just kind
of like yeah, I don't oh no,

478
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,400
I'm happy they have the two days
off. I will tell you that

479
00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:06,800
much. Because this is an old
team we talked about which the week off

480
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,000
was gonna help him like this.
Two days off is really gonna help him

481
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:14,800
too, because they looked gassed a
little earlier in Game two than they did

482
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,719
in Game one. I thought.
I thought it was most noticeable, probably

483
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,440
with James Harden and the lack of
blowbys compared to how many he had in

484
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:27,800
Game one, where he was really
going around Luka Doncic and looking for him

485
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,159
and making him defend. But he
didn't have the same pops to get Luke

486
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,840
on his heels in Game two.
Who also stepped up to the plate to

487
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:42,880
the challenge because the physicality that Jason
Kidd was asking for it was born out

488
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,800
with their superstars too. They brought
it. And when those guys are playing

489
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:50,800
that hard, everybody else is definitely
gonna play hard defensively for the Dallas Mavericks.

490
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,440
So I worry about James Harden wearing
down. But two days off and

491
00:35:55,559 --> 00:35:59,159
we brought it up before, how
much better he has looked. I think

492
00:35:59,199 --> 00:36:02,519
Will's talked about it in situations where
he's off for a couple of days.

493
00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:06,719
Yeah, And I mean, how
many minutes are he playing? He played

494
00:36:07,599 --> 00:36:12,920
thirty nine in game one and then
forty two yesterday. It's minutes. It's

495
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,679
like the most minutes he's played in
the last like six or seven years or

496
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:20,760
something like that, just total minutes
wise, not in the playoffs. No,

497
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,599
I just beent total like from like
like regular season everything, just a

498
00:36:23,639 --> 00:36:32,480
lot of way. Does that even
me? What? What murder? Are

499
00:36:32,519 --> 00:36:37,280
you guys? Good with Mason Plumbley
continuing to play after look up and down?

500
00:36:37,679 --> 00:36:42,800
What? Game one? I was
very I was pleasantly plumbed. Game

501
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:49,400
two negatively plumbed. He did have
one possession where he locked up Luca and

502
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,840
made him pick up his dribble and
have to pass it. But outside of

503
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,639
that, it was not good,
right, I was. His effort was

504
00:36:54,679 --> 00:37:00,679
great, but it's not happening.
That's he's not skilled enough in that area,

505
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:05,519
defensively or offensively. He dribbled the
ball a couple of times to extra

506
00:37:05,599 --> 00:37:07,400
two, which I was like,
pass the ball, who what you've got?

507
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,840
He wasn't finishing, I mean to
me, that was the biggest thing.

508
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,800
He just he wasn't finishing. He
was one of four, and it

509
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,880
looks a lot different to me if
he even not if he's even able to

510
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:23,280
to slam home one more of those. Oh was he over three? Yeah?

511
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,719
I think he was over three and
he had I give him credit for

512
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,880
one, which in one extra field
goal, which was just in my mind,

513
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,480
I think Tyson is going to get
run. I think I think Tyson

514
00:37:35,559 --> 00:37:37,840
is gonna get run in this series. Do you think it's Game three or

515
00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:42,480
I think, yeah, I see. I think maybe Tye waits to see

516
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,199
what happens in Game three because we
did. I think it depends on I

517
00:37:45,199 --> 00:37:49,800
think it depends on how early does
your game plan with do get rocked,

518
00:37:50,159 --> 00:37:52,519
Because if it's another situation where if
it's three minutes into the first quarter,

519
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:57,719
uh yeah, maybe it is Tyson
time. Like maybe maybe you do,

520
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,119
maybe you do go small it,
you know small. I still think of

521
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:07,280
Tye at the five as kind of
going small's. Yeah, it makes total

522
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:12,159
sense. I'm just so irked,
and I know how you meant it will.

523
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,440
But going back to what we talked
earlier, your game plan getting rocked

524
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:20,400
and up ended. Okay, Zoo
has two fouls. He's out in the

525
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,960
first quarter. That shouldn't change every
other quarter. It's not like you can't

526
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,800
go right back to that when he's
back in the ball game. They just

527
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,920
forgot, they forget about Zoo.
That's so frustrating. To me, I

528
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:38,480
don't know, it's just I'm chogging
it up to and I like, this

529
00:38:38,519 --> 00:38:42,199
is what I was saying earlier.
I'm chalking it up to like a concern

530
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,840
of like how the game was being
called, because it's like it's so I

531
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,960
feel like, and it's not just
this game. I'm not just complaining about

532
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:52,719
the reps, but like things are
so wishy washing and like when stuff is

533
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:57,039
getting called and when it's not that
I think sometimes your instinct is to be

534
00:38:57,119 --> 00:38:59,920
like, oh, I mean because
even Jason Kid talked about this, He's

535
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,039
within the first couple of minutes of
a game, you realize that night how

536
00:39:04,079 --> 00:39:07,199
the officiating is gonna go and it
you know, the thing is is that

537
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,599
it doesn't stay that way for a
full game. But I think I understand

538
00:39:09,679 --> 00:39:14,280
it from Tie's perspective, seeing that
early and being like, Okay, well

539
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,119
this just isn't worth the gamble,
Like he picks up one more and that's,

540
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:23,760
you know, def coniro. I
almost wonder if the extreme physicality we're

541
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:30,239
seeing is the referees almost retaliating against
the NBA, who has told them one

542
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:34,199
thing before, which is we want
more scoring, we want things called tighter.

543
00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:37,599
And now all of a sudden flipping
things around mid season of calling things

544
00:39:37,639 --> 00:39:42,159
more loosely, and officials might be
like, cool, man, we're just

545
00:39:42,199 --> 00:39:45,119
not gonna call anything now. We're
not gonna call that foul on a review

546
00:39:45,519 --> 00:39:49,679
on Di'angelo Russell, even though he
got hit in the head. We're not

547
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,519
gonna call the Kyrie Irving foul on
his wrist at the end of that game

548
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:58,000
should have been a take foul from
Luca when Luca just held his arm out

549
00:39:58,039 --> 00:40:01,079
and stopped us. Another take foul
that somehow, like Russ doesn't get take

550
00:40:01,119 --> 00:40:06,800
fouls. They let so much go. It felt like a different brand of

551
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,800
basketball, like there was nothing.
It was so foreign to me when I

552
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,960
was watching, and I don't know
how it translated on TV, but I

553
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,679
had never seen a game that physical
live before, and I've been to a

554
00:40:16,679 --> 00:40:20,239
lot of games over the years,
luckily. I mean, yeah, we

555
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,840
were in the press box. It
was crazy. How can how did they

556
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,480
get Kawhi going? He's the Clippers'
best player. We've said it multiple times.

557
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,440
They go as far as Kawhi can
take them. Is it just more

558
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:38,599
of the same, Like, hey, hey, I'm not mad at that.

559
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,000
The Kawhi and Terrence pick and roll
could be fun. I don't think

560
00:40:45,039 --> 00:40:46,280
they didn't. I don't think did
they run a pick and roll with Terrence

561
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,079
as the screener in game two.
They did in Game one and it worked

562
00:40:50,079 --> 00:40:52,960
really well, but I don't know
if they did it it all in game

563
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:58,559
two. The pick and roll we
saw late in the fourth quarter was James

564
00:40:58,559 --> 00:41:05,039
Harden getting PJ. Washington off of
Kawhi so he could get Luca onto Kawhi,

565
00:41:05,119 --> 00:41:10,639
which did not work. Uh,
Luca held up. I just he's

566
00:41:10,679 --> 00:41:15,079
got to get his mini going.
He I think he sees one mid range

567
00:41:15,079 --> 00:41:21,360
shot go and it's gonna come quickly
as long as he's somewhat close to it.

568
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,039
Doesn't have to be one hundred percent, but if he's feeling good enough.

569
00:41:23,039 --> 00:41:27,400
In postgame he said he did feel
good and he played thirty five minutes.

570
00:41:27,599 --> 00:41:30,440
So some of this was the double
edged door, though, because I

571
00:41:30,679 --> 00:41:34,880
think the paint penetration was poorer in
this one, which is why the offense

572
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:40,239
looked so bad. I would agree
with that. Yeah, and just the

573
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:47,400
amount of threes missed. You go
from Game one having unsustainably hot shooting to

574
00:41:47,519 --> 00:41:52,280
hopefully having unsustainably poor shooting in game
two. Are we gonna get something in

575
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:57,800
the middle now? But this walkie
stuff does happen sometimes in the playoffs,

576
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:04,639
especially with Dallas. We've seen it
just shooting outlier nights. But you got

577
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,519
expected. They shot their worst field
goal percentage of the season the Clippers in

578
00:42:07,519 --> 00:42:14,639
that game, thirty. So that
was to have had one of their worst

579
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:19,320
quarters in franchise history, like not
just playoffs history. Eight points in game

580
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,400
one, Yeah, second quarter.
The two threes that the Clippers made in

581
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:27,639
the first half of that game were
the fewest all season except for the very

582
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,000
last game against the Rockets in the
regular season, which was two. So

583
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:37,199
that when nobody played Yeah, right. I think the physicality, though,

584
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:42,039
took them out of it a little
bit. It was so physical it takes

585
00:42:42,079 --> 00:42:46,960
something out of your legs. Yeah, Dallas was struggling the same way from

586
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:52,360
three until the fourth quarter. They
got a few to go. Luca had

587
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,599
too, PJ. Washington had to, Kyrie had one, Kliba had one,

588
00:42:57,199 --> 00:42:59,960
and that was the difference six or
nine from three and the fourth.

589
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:05,360
PJ. Washington getting more confidence in
getting hot does not excite me. He's

590
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,280
their third best. Yeah, don't
expect to slow, don't expect a slow

591
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:12,360
Dallas shooting night on Friday. Yeah, yeah, that's a great call.

592
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,599
And the if we thought the Dallas
start was crazy in game two, coming

593
00:43:16,639 --> 00:43:22,039
back after taking the momentum and getting
home court, YadA, YadA, YadA,

594
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:23,719
that place is this is. I
mean, I was saying that I

595
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:30,760
feel pretty good about this, but
Friday is kind of yeah one, it

596
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:35,239
is kind of a must win.
Adam's dragging all of us into the situation

597
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:43,440
room. He's JFK, yeah this, So I do think to the norm

598
00:43:43,519 --> 00:43:47,360
point, maybe the sixth Man of
the Year snub gets them fired up,

599
00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:52,239
but you get fourth fifth that came
out today. He was upset before the

600
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:58,519
award became official, just find out. But now it's official, Adam,

601
00:43:58,679 --> 00:44:00,239
It's like what You're like, maybe
I fail that test, I don't know,

602
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,920
and then you get the test back
and you got a fifty four and

603
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,320
you're like, oh, now I'm
really upset. Maybe it's that kind of

604
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:15,639
thing. I upset. George getting
upset, I do. I'm gonna say

605
00:44:15,639 --> 00:44:20,880
this, he should have been top
three over Bobby Portis. I'm fine with

606
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:28,239
Monk. I'm definitely fine with Nasriyo
Games though he was at the end of

607
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,280
the season he bussed with the last
month, or doesn't not or does it

608
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:34,559
not matter for six man, I
can't remember because some some awards it doesn't

609
00:44:34,559 --> 00:44:37,239
matter for well and like a game
played has to be twenty minutes, like

610
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:42,039
uh, Donnie Pizza for the Knicks. He played in eighty games or something

611
00:44:42,079 --> 00:44:45,119
like that, but because he didn't
play over twenty minutes, it counted as

612
00:44:45,159 --> 00:44:50,280
like fifty. He got seventy two
games in Milake Monk, so okay,

613
00:44:50,639 --> 00:44:55,039
he was good. But Bobby portis
on a team that has been wildly up

614
00:44:55,119 --> 00:45:00,039
and down and below five hundred with
Doc Rivers, and I like my I

615
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,320
pored us a lot, but Norman
had a better year than him. However,

616
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,280
all that has to be pushed aside. He cannot be worried about that.

617
00:45:07,559 --> 00:45:10,480
And at the very end of what
I saw in the column from oh

618
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,639
or at least the excerpt, Norman
pal said, you know, the real

619
00:45:15,639 --> 00:45:19,440
goal is winning a championship. The
headline you mean, the head from the

620
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:27,360
headline that you read. Yeah,
from article to down an excerpt. I

621
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,719
read a headline on the abbreviated headline
on Twitter. It cuts off after seventy

622
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:36,639
five characters. No, I just
read a headline earlier it said CND season

623
00:45:36,679 --> 00:45:40,159
two, episode seventy one, and
it just stopped right. Hey, I

624
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:47,400
know that now. And the thing
with Norman's interesting too. He's taken sixteen

625
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:52,199
shots over these two games, so
his shot at time is going to go

626
00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:55,639
down for the regular season obviously,
which makes the efficiency that much more important.

627
00:45:55,880 --> 00:46:00,800
Like, that's what we all loved. MAVs had doing a good job

628
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,719
though of you know, keeping somebody
on him. He's not he's not getting

629
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:07,440
the same looks. And when we
don't, when we see the offense stagnate,

630
00:46:07,519 --> 00:46:09,519
like we saw like they were really
slow. They waited a lot of

631
00:46:09,519 --> 00:46:12,840
time and on the shot clock,
a lot of guys parked out on the

632
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,159
perimeter, not a lot of movements. You can't get Norm open, you

633
00:46:15,199 --> 00:46:17,920
know, it's not it's not as
easy as like, just get the ball

634
00:46:19,039 --> 00:46:23,000
to Norm if everybody's just fucking standing. Yeah, it doesn't work that way.

635
00:46:23,679 --> 00:46:30,239
That's when we saw Norm have success. It was off emotion running around.

636
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:36,119
Yeah, in game one, there
was a concerted effort to stop Norman

637
00:46:36,199 --> 00:46:38,840
Powell. That had to be high
on their game plan assignment. And I

638
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:43,360
did not expect that to happen,
and it continued in game two. They

639
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,960
must have seen him as an X
factor coming into this series. They're right,

640
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,840
Jason Kidd got that right, turned
the hat forward. He figured it

641
00:46:54,880 --> 00:47:02,360
out. I don't know who's our
not letting that die. By the way,

642
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,920
the maps are lucky. I do
not cover with the team because I

643
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,599
would All I would do would be
talk shit about how Jason Kid presents himself.

644
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:15,000
What who's our player of the game. Meanwhile, we're fashionistas over here,

645
00:47:15,199 --> 00:47:22,119
hey off sweatshirt, Rocky style coming
back and forth. We're well dressed

646
00:47:22,119 --> 00:47:27,639
at the games. We're not wearing
backwards hat and jerk off pants and clear

647
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:35,519
sunglasses like this is working, Adam, come on, so all right,

648
00:47:35,559 --> 00:47:39,679
any other major keys we can think
of before we pick our possibly cursed picks

649
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:45,599
for X Factor? Kawhi Leonard player
of the game and I have last time

650
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:51,840
because you guys gave out yours.
Who did Adam have was off too?

651
00:47:52,199 --> 00:47:55,639
I think it was PJ. Tucker. Damn. Actually, I'll take that,

652
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,880
dude, zero for zero could live
with that. Was it a mirror?

653
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:10,280
It might have been a mirror.
I wrote these down A plus,

654
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,239
you picked him here up in ten
minutes. All right, so you're going

655
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:24,400
with big Zoo will Yeah Ship we
need it. We do need it.

656
00:48:25,159 --> 00:48:29,320
I am gonna I'm gonna go in
front of Adam and I'm gonna go with

657
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,000
a guy who will pick last time. That is even more of an X

658
00:48:31,039 --> 00:48:35,400
factor because they're gaming them out.
Norm Powell, Let's get that twenty ball,

659
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,280
Bud. Let's let's use that rage
from officially not being named six Men

660
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:43,960
of the Year run around. Yes, the MAVs defense has been great on

661
00:48:44,039 --> 00:48:46,440
Norm. I'm not pretending like he's
just like shooting the bet out of nowhere.

662
00:48:47,519 --> 00:48:51,079
But if Norm is, if Norm
gets twenty points, I mean the

663
00:48:51,079 --> 00:48:53,400
offense probably looks pretty good too.
It means the offense is flowing and the

664
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:57,480
ball was moving just SI. I
know, who do you guys think is

665
00:48:57,519 --> 00:49:01,920
gonna be the first Clipper to pass
the thirty ball mark? That hurts my

666
00:49:02,039 --> 00:49:07,159
heart that I hate the con zero
We're not We're doing the fun check after

667
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:14,760
this this segment, first Clipper to
pass the thirty ball mark, Kahy,

668
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:22,400
I'm going PG love that. I
think it's I think the rust is what

669
00:49:22,119 --> 00:49:27,079
is making me pick PG over Khi
because I'll tell you what A thirty ball

670
00:49:27,119 --> 00:49:32,119
from PG on Friday would I would
love that somebody is going to have to

671
00:49:32,159 --> 00:49:36,559
get one. As Will said,
Dallas is gonna shoot much better. Remember

672
00:49:36,559 --> 00:49:38,800
how we came into this series talking
about how well, who's going to get

673
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:43,000
the most ups, Who's going to
score the most points? Is how game

674
00:49:43,079 --> 00:49:45,000
two win? Who's going to get
to ninety first? Is how game two

675
00:49:45,079 --> 00:49:50,480
win? Geez? All right,
So, Adam, who is your pick

676
00:49:50,519 --> 00:49:55,719
for Kawhi Leonard Honorary X Factor Player
of the Game, difference maker, Clippers

677
00:49:55,920 --> 00:50:02,239
number ones for one Championship playoff?
Calling my shot? Boys, I'm going

678
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:07,480
off the beaten path. Daniel Tice
speak plumb. Really, both of those

679
00:50:07,519 --> 00:50:12,320
are Wow, you're really going Daniel
Tye? What does the Daniel Tye X

680
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,440
factor game even look like? And
I mean that respectfully, Like tell us,

681
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:22,960
it's not a big it's not a
traditional box score number that you're worried

682
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:27,920
about. But I'm looking at him
going plus eight out there in his minutes.

683
00:50:28,119 --> 00:50:34,000
That's what I'm saying. He's impactful
in the little ways that you need

684
00:50:34,039 --> 00:50:37,280
to win. Who do you see
around him? What's the best what's the

685
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:45,119
best five man? Daniel Tys Pwell
Rangers. I'm gonna say it's Daniel Tice

686
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:54,000
next to Paul George, Russell Westbrook, Terrence Man and a mere coffee.

687
00:50:54,880 --> 00:51:01,559
Love it? Okay, I'm into
that. I mean mark it down?

688
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:05,960
Where can I? Where can what? Bookie's gonna give me a line on

689
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,639
the plus minus for for Daniel tys
for Bookie week. If they go plus

690
00:51:09,679 --> 00:51:16,039
eight, do we call it the
teen Tysons? Yes? We someone write

691
00:51:16,039 --> 00:51:21,119
that down. I'll write that down
right now. I sign up. Plus

692
00:51:21,159 --> 00:51:25,000
eight equals team tis all right?
Coming up after this quick break, we're

693
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:30,840
doing an Updike fund check, which
has gotten less fun. I think as

694
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:34,559
we've done this episode, we're doing
the Updike fun check. If the AD's

695
00:51:34,559 --> 00:51:37,320
been allowed for you, go ahead
and turn it down. We got ads

696
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:40,719
coming up, and then the Updyke
fun check in three two one. Hey,

697
00:51:42,599 --> 00:51:46,880
it's episode seventy one. Clips is
in here in season two. Just

698
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:51,079
read that a little bit earlier.
I'm Adam Alison. We got Chuck Buckler

699
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,199
and Will Updyke. If you missed
it earlier, we talked about some of

700
00:51:54,199 --> 00:51:58,159
the good the bad. We had
some low lights, some highlights in the

701
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:04,119
high five for you. But now, hm, let's see how far I

702
00:52:04,159 --> 00:52:09,639
have taken will Updyke into the muck
and the mire. After he started off

703
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:15,719
all positive, sunshine, rainbows,
lollipop sheen or corns, all that stuff,

704
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:20,239
very optimistic and saying when at the
beginning of this podcast till I went

705
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:24,559
super dark and negative like a mork
into the never ending story. Uh,

706
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:28,519
well, I don't know how to
do this. I just asked him,

707
00:52:28,639 --> 00:52:30,559
what's the fun level at? Yeah, what's the updeck? Fun check?

708
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:37,440
Fun levels? Deaste, it's Deese
right now. It's like I'm at a

709
00:52:37,679 --> 00:52:43,760
Uh, I'm at a convention.
It's a work convention. Uh. On

710
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,440
the plus side, I've used my
two drink decads, but the bartender said,

711
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:51,800
no problem, I got you.
Downside, my boss is still there.

712
00:52:52,119 --> 00:52:55,960
Uh, he's he's he's just he's
he's approaching me right now via conversation.

713
00:52:57,519 --> 00:53:00,000
Maybe it opens with hey, didn't
you I thought we only got two

714
00:53:00,119 --> 00:53:04,719
drink tickets. But I think he's
leaving. I think he's on his way

715
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,119
out, and it's about to be
a lot of fun. It's about to

716
00:53:07,159 --> 00:53:09,800
get weird. Uh. So I'm
I'm Deese right now. I'm you know,

717
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:15,079
I'm cautiously a little more than cautiously, more a little more optimistic than

718
00:53:15,119 --> 00:53:20,159
cautious. But I'm having fun.
I mean, this has been kind of

719
00:53:20,199 --> 00:53:22,079
what we expected of a series so
far, right, maybe not the way

720
00:53:22,159 --> 00:53:25,960
that it's necessarily gone down, but
you know, we thought this would be

721
00:53:27,039 --> 00:53:30,519
kind of a tight back and forth
thing. I think the Clippers defensively have

722
00:53:30,519 --> 00:53:35,920
have have really impressed me. Neither
team has really had that breakout sort of

723
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:39,719
offensive game yet, so there there
might be one for either team that where

724
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:43,519
one team sort of gets run out
of the gym. But uh yeah,

725
00:53:43,559 --> 00:53:46,039
you know, it's it's dec it's
it's decently fun. There's still sort of

726
00:53:46,079 --> 00:53:53,440
a you know, some yeah,
some looming un party vibes, but uh

727
00:53:53,559 --> 00:53:55,920
yeah, how are you guys doing? How much fun are you having?

728
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,280
Well? I want to take this
real quick out, if you don't mind,

729
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,719
because I think we know how you're
doing. I don't get drink tickets

730
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,960
anymore, so you go ahead,
Adams. Adam's throwing, He says,

731
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:13,000
you want these drink tickets? Just
throwing them in the garment. I'm feeling

732
00:54:13,159 --> 00:54:19,079
Damn. I gotta think of an
environment I'm in right now. I'm feel

733
00:54:19,159 --> 00:54:22,880
I like the line you had of
more optimistic than cautious. I think I'm

734
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:27,960
at that same point. I'm a
little cautious about what russ usages looks like.

735
00:54:28,039 --> 00:54:30,480
When things start going poorly for the
Clippers, if Tyler just decides to

736
00:54:30,519 --> 00:54:36,239
go back to that, I feel
a little less optimistic. No disrespect to

737
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:38,360
Russ on the whole. He was
great in the second half for some energy

738
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:42,199
plays, but there's also some stuff, as we saw with the defensive lapses

739
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:46,199
off ball, that you don't really
like to see. So I think how

740
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:51,119
I feel is like we're on a
hike and it's with someone you know.

741
00:54:51,119 --> 00:54:52,079
It's like with a group of people, some people I don't really know,

742
00:54:55,719 --> 00:55:00,440
better than the opposite. I guess
I'm on a hike with a group of

743
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:04,199
people I don't know, and one
guy has a real He's like, hey,

744
00:55:04,199 --> 00:55:06,440
how's it going, Like it's a
pretty light hiker, gonna be good.

745
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,559
But he has a huge like climbing
rope with him, and it's like

746
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:13,440
whoa, Like, what kind of
hike is this? And he's like,

747
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:15,239
Oh, there's just gonna be There's
gonna be some light bouldering, and I'm

748
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:19,840
like, okay, Well, like
I I think I'm okay with that,

749
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:23,119
but some of the people here don't
seem super prepared for that, and that's

750
00:55:23,199 --> 00:55:27,559
kind of how I feel. There's
some uneasiness in the group, but overall,

751
00:55:27,599 --> 00:55:30,599
I think it's it's gonna be a
good time. At the end of

752
00:55:30,599 --> 00:55:34,639
the hike, we all die,
is how the story ends. No friends

753
00:55:34,639 --> 00:55:37,039
we made along the way, though. Yeah, so that's how I feel.

754
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:39,719
A hike, A hike you think
is gonna be chill, but a

755
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:44,880
little more intense than maybe you wanted, but you're still equipped for it.

756
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:47,800
Could be fun and couldn't could turn
into you know, the Donner Party.

757
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:51,760
Yeah, maybe I gotta cut my
arm off with a pen life or something.

758
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:55,760
Maybe I'll piggyback on that and say
I was on the hike and it

759
00:55:55,840 --> 00:56:00,159
was pretty cool for the most part, but sleeping while I had trouble that

760
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:07,400
night because I forgot like my two
inch padded ok I don't know, keep

761
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:12,599
my back in line, like the
foam padding. It makes all the difference

762
00:56:12,639 --> 00:56:15,000
in the world. So it could
have been better. I could have had

763
00:56:15,039 --> 00:56:19,960
a more RESTful night of sleep.
But it's not the worst thing in the

764
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,159
world. Just a little bit of
tossing and turning for my six and a

765
00:56:22,199 --> 00:56:27,599
half hours. That's that's where I'm
at right now. Also concerned about the

766
00:56:27,679 --> 00:56:32,159
Russ minutes a little bit here because
I didn't show another low light, which

767
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:38,519
was him gambling on Luka Dancic going
for a steal to where then Luca just

768
00:56:38,559 --> 00:56:44,199
blew by him, collapsed the Clippers
defense and kicked it out to PJ.

769
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:49,719
Washington for a three pointer. So
as good, it's it's the roller coasters.

770
00:56:50,079 --> 00:56:52,679
It is what it is. It's
always like that with Russ. But

771
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:57,639
I just want to see the Clippers. They got to get their offense unglued

772
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:01,920
in a hurry in game one because
as we talked about that environment or excuse

773
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:06,360
me, in game three, like
they had in Game one, I guess

774
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:08,320
from the outside. But in Game
three in Dallas, in that environment,

775
00:57:08,519 --> 00:57:13,239
we've seen it before. They were
down thirty to eleven to start that game

776
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,920
three, down nineteen before they came
back and turn the entire series around down

777
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:20,679
two games to none. But I
do not want to see that again.

778
00:57:21,079 --> 00:57:23,519
I don't want to rely on them
being able to come back down nineteen in

779
00:57:23,519 --> 00:57:28,719
a first quarter. I want to
see them start fast and get into more

780
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:32,840
of a real flow and rhythm and
play with purpose and intentionality out there because

781
00:57:34,199 --> 00:57:37,760
I didn't know what was going to
happen from possession to possession offensively at all

782
00:57:37,199 --> 00:57:43,559
with this Clippers team. And came
two. Yeah, no rhythm, bad

783
00:57:43,599 --> 00:57:47,199
process, bad process. You want
to see good process, do it fel

784
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:51,519
okay am I crazy though it?
I think Will was right. There must

785
00:57:51,559 --> 00:57:53,519
have been something said to go for
more steals. They were going for so

786
00:57:53,599 --> 00:57:58,280
many more steals in game two,
I thought than in game one. Yeah,

787
00:57:58,519 --> 00:58:05,800
they gambled far too much. Uh
god, how many lazing there were

788
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,760
guys like on a freaking slipping slid. It was like the ice dig you

789
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:15,920
fell. The ball was pinballing all
over the place. They had possession,

790
00:58:15,039 --> 00:58:20,400
they lost possession. It was so
wild. It felt like a rugby scrum

791
00:58:20,559 --> 00:58:23,880
or something out there at times in
that bat, especially like especially when you're

792
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:28,079
not trailing big, you know,
like it makes a little bit more sense

793
00:58:28,119 --> 00:58:30,400
maybe at the end, but like, dude, defend through the shot clock,

794
00:58:30,559 --> 00:58:35,519
like make them take the time off
the clock, like make them work,

795
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:39,000
and then you know, like finish
out the defensive possession. You don't

796
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:42,840
gotta rip this thing away, you
know in a couple of seconds. That's

797
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:47,239
not that's not really any better.
Yeah, it felt like they were trying

798
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:52,159
to make and taking an end.
Obviously, It's like they were looking for

799
00:58:52,199 --> 00:58:57,159
a highlight defensive play that was gonna
scom six points. You know, that

800
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,440
was gonna flip the game that fast
back in their's got to get that highlight

801
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:10,239
reel ready for the Philly for the
Philly hypop video wants them to leave their

802
00:59:10,239 --> 00:59:16,880
batteries at home. Keep the batteries
out of the socks, folks. All

803
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:24,519
right, I think up, Oh, Adam, have you has the bomber

804
00:59:24,599 --> 00:59:30,159
bobblehead been sent off to our lucky
winner? Yeah? I text you that.

805
00:59:30,639 --> 00:59:34,599
Oh did you? Yeah? He
wants he wants to make sure that

806
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:38,119
I think you said, hell,
yeah, well it has been. I

807
00:59:38,119 --> 00:59:42,480
got it out the very next day. This time, we're always on,

808
00:59:42,559 --> 00:59:45,320
You're always on. I think every
single thing has been delivered or sent out

809
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:50,800
the next day. Yeah, quotas
everything has been delivered. And you know

810
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:55,000
what, that's more than some small
businesses can say. That's very Do you

811
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,960
have a wait, do you have
a grievance right now? With small business?

812
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:01,760
You need the air on the pod? No, No, I'm not

813
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:05,760
gonna do that. I love I
love small businesses, just sometimes they know

814
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:10,119
other shit together. That's fair.
We're gonna have a post game live on

815
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:16,000
Friday and on Sunday for y'all.
It's someone's birthday celebration this weekend, so

816
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:20,199
we will be taking Saturday off.
I will not be in town, unfortunately.

817
01:00:20,199 --> 01:00:23,960
I feel terrible about it. Will
Where can these people watch more of

818
01:00:24,079 --> 01:00:28,280
us, listen to more of us, or maybe even let us know what

819
01:00:28,559 --> 01:00:32,000
they think about us for this podcast? Yeah, if you want to let

820
01:00:32,079 --> 01:00:36,159
us know what you think about us, you can do that over on Apple

821
01:00:36,239 --> 01:00:38,360
Podcasts or Spotify. Leave a little
rating or review over there. You can

822
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:42,159
listen to us on either one of
those platforms. Also, you know,

823
01:00:42,199 --> 01:00:45,480
wherever you get your podcast, be
it Amazon Music, Stitcher, Deezer,

824
01:00:45,519 --> 01:00:46,679
I don't, I don't really care, but you can listen to us there.

825
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:51,039
But if you want to let us
know how we're doing on an episode

826
01:00:51,079 --> 01:00:53,639
to episode maybe even minute per minute
basis, you can do that over on

827
01:00:53,679 --> 01:00:58,719
YouTube dot com Slash at Clippers podcast. It's the best way to enjoy this

828
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:00,920
show. We have fun over here. You know, we have a good

829
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:05,840
time. So yeah, but however
you however you watch listen. Thank you

830
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:09,280
so much for checking us out.
We appreciate you, we absolutely do,

831
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:14,039
and Adam to pull you out of
the depths before we head out. We

832
01:01:14,079 --> 01:01:17,079
do this every episode for the most
part, give us one quick positive thing

833
01:01:17,119 --> 01:01:21,360
the Clippers fands to hold on to
for these next two days. Maybe I

834
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,800
was getting a little bit too greedy
and a little bit too demanding, because

835
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:27,440
if you came into the series and
said they were going to get the split

836
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:30,360
It home and Kawhi was only going
to play in one game, I would

837
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,159
have said great. I probably would
have thought the game they won was the

838
01:01:32,159 --> 01:01:36,920
one with Kawhi Leonard. But it's
understandable that he was going to be rusty

839
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:39,960
out there. But there's nothing more
important than just having Kawhi Leonard back.

840
01:01:40,039 --> 01:01:44,119
It's not just about this series.
It's about having a chance to still win

841
01:01:44,159 --> 01:01:47,639
a championship. And he said he
started feeling good the last couple of days

842
01:01:47,719 --> 01:01:52,480
right beforehand, so I'm hoping that
means he broke through and the inflammation has

843
01:01:52,480 --> 01:02:00,079
subsided. Cheap checking the updates,
but I expect Kawhi Leonard to get into

844
01:02:00,159 --> 01:02:04,599
a group pretty quickly here. Honestly, I don't think it's going to take

845
01:02:04,679 --> 01:02:08,000
him long to find his flow again, because they were definitely flashes, especially

846
01:02:08,079 --> 01:02:13,920
in that second half with some of
those energy, crazy, playoff Kawhi like

847
01:02:14,039 --> 01:02:17,559
type of plays. He had four
steals in the ball like he was really

848
01:02:17,599 --> 01:02:21,679
good on the defensive end. He
gets a couple of jumpers to go,

849
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:25,119
It's not gonna take long here,
so they need him especially in Game three.

850
01:02:28,199 --> 01:02:32,000
Please be okay, Well, we'll
have the updates on the injury report

851
01:02:32,039 --> 01:02:35,800
for you. If anything crazy happens
on the injury report, we'll make sure

852
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:37,840
to go live for it. But
thank you for hanging out. Hope everyone

853
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:42,199
has a great two days before the
next Clippers game, and as always,

854
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:43,199
let's go Clips.