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Hey to everyone hanging out on the
live over on YouTube. Welcome to Clips

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and Dim. We were just talking
about a show about high school on a

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house boat, which we might get
to later, but we're doing a live

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hang on the weekend. We're gonna
talk to Clippers elderly looking back to back.

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Adam Oslin is here with a new
name tag. Will Uptike is here,

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Fellas. We're going to talk the
Kings game two, Adam. Adam's

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going self promotional to open the podcast. Proof you guys need me. I'm

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Matt follow out of may on X. Yeah, I mean we Adam and

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Will you guys talked about the game
last night on AM five seventy. I

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put this in the notes, but
it was kind of an old looking loss

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versus the Thunder, and kind of
an old looking win versus the Grizzlies.

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Haggle, no haggle that Will,
Oh, you're muted. I think I

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think that's I think that's actually very
apt. I love that because it was

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it was like an older team being
able to push through and win a close

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game against a less experienced and very
shorthanded Memphis Grizzlies. Yeah, Adam,

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how are the callers? What was
the vibe and we'll get to the live

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comments too. So yeah, if
you want to put a comment in there,

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if you put a hot take,
we'll put it on Adam. How

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are the callers vibes after that win
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the X vibes. I'd follow out
of May No, the callers. The

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callers were satisfied to an extent,
but they want more. Granted, I

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couldn't take calls because become a phone
issue after the Oka c game. But

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after the Memphis game, I asked, will this first off is a win?

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A win I don't subscribe to that. I never have. The regular

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season is about building good habits.
When you're a contender, you're trying to

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build championship habits, stuff you can
rely on and fall back on in the

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playoffs. Tell me the good habits
that carry over after last night's game outside

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of just getting the victory. That's
not a habit that I mean, I

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guess it can be. Winning can
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get to that w that's more meaningful. And there were more bad habits than

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anything. The two takeaways you can
say from last night are Okay, they

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found a way to win a ball
game they had no business winning. Memphis

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was miserable from the outside. The
law of averages hit them hard after shooting

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forty six percent from three the last
two games that were wins for them,

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and it fell off a clip against
the Clippers, and they really got lucky

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because Memphis missed a lot of open
shots. You can say, we still

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have that belief late in the ballgame. You can rely on that, maybe

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that you can turn things around.
Because they did and came through with clutch

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plays and James Harden going zero for
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You could say, Terrence Man having
that game, having a game that

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good. Here we go. We're
getting in the chat now too, being

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aggressive like that? Who said it? Adam Who? Who said the comment,

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this is for shizzle but dizzle?
Yeah, uh no, not that.

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Yeah, Team Man's hustle was great. Lot of Murray pointed out all

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of Terrence's offensive rebounds happened in the
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like his ramp up after the two
early fouls. I hope he can

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keep being aggressive because that was,
I mean, his best game in a

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while, best game of the season
for sure. Easy. Yeah, yeah,

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and and and it's you know,
we talk about this all the time,

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but it's like it's so great that
we still do have not a lot,

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but some youthful talent that can come
through in situations like that, especially

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because I don't know, I just
like with some of the issues that we

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have at Wing Depth right now,
we're really asking a lot from Kawhi on

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a night to night basis in a
way that I worry about the sustainability.

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So you need games like this and
hopefully that is a voter confidence both for

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Terrence, but a voter confidence like
for across the team, Like I know

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the starters know who he is and
what he can do, but I think

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you just when you're in the trenches
like that, I think you know you

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can rely on a guy a little
bit more. And I think that's one

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of those things that that is a
really positive takeaway. So thank you for

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that, Shizzle Dizzel. I think
that that is I think that that's like

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one of the silverest linings of this
game. That was it was gross.

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Charles and I were talking about how
gross the game was the entire time.

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It was disgusting. I guess you
gotta get that right, fishiszl Bud Dizzel.

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You don't want to get that one
wrong, because I just realized what

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Snoop could be saying, Yeah,
okay, so Terrence man playing that well

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and winning them that game because they
have no shot without him putting forth that

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performance. Because Paul George and James
Harden were awful for the second straight game,

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second straight night, Hey what William
blast? Hello, sir. They

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pulled through late with big buckets,
big three pointers from both of them.

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But if you don't have two of
the big three going and cooking, you

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are going to struggle, even against
a team like the Memphis Grizzlies sometimes when

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you have twenty one turnovers like the
Clippers did, which kept them in it.

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The Clippers were I don't want to
say they were decent defensively because Memphis

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missed a lot of shots from the
outside, but they shot like forty two

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percent from the field. The reason
they were in the game is because they

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had so many extra possessions, especially
also getting offensive rebounds in the first half,

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where I think it was twelve to
two or ten to two at the

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break. The Clippers would flip that
around. They eventually tied things up at

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fourteen offensive rebounds a piece. But
yeah, that's terror Man with five of

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them right and most of them coming
in the fourth quarter. Terrence Man,

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that could be a revelation or a
turning point type of game for him.

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We've been waiting for him to make
that next leap. I'm hoping last night

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was the start of something because coach
lou has kept his faith in him,

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has kept him in the starting lineup, even though he has had good reason

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to pull him and maybe start a
mere copy or Norman Powell, and he

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hasn't. He has rewarded Terrence Man
by giving him this long leash. He

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has to take advantage of that.
Not turned down shots and going four to

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eight from the outside last night.
That's a special game from him. Just

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take that many threequarters. We were
talking about Paul George and I Paul George

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is I don't think he's one hundred
percent. If you look at his last

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ten games, He's scored twenty points
in two of his last ten games,

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which is not He has not looked
the same since the groin injury. Yeah,

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and I'm hoping it's just a thing
where you can take a little bit,

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you can take it a little bit
easier in game. Still build up

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some of that continuity with your teammates
and and then hopefully get to one hundred

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percent at some point during you know, in the playoffs. Like process wise,

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Yeah, the process is getting iron
ou which is good. But yeah,

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but yeah, Adam, it's not
you know, James Hard and him

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were bad last night, but the
Clippers need two of the three guys to

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be at a one hundred scoring capacity
in the playoffs. We have some time

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to get there, but it'll be
nice to see PG figure it out,

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especially as we get closer towards what
some are saying a difficult month of the

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schedule. I'm going to say this
again. I said it a couple of

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weeks ago. I think you maybe
sit Paul Georgia game and give him more

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rest and let him reset. And
I know they're playing the Sacramento Kings and

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might not have Norman pal so this
is very much a hot take. But

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two things happen from that. He
gets a chance to rest up if it's

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an injury thing, or just get
his mind back into it. And I

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think it's mostly just he's been playing
hurt. I was encouraged by the fact

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that he tried to dunk on chet
Holmgren Thursday now, didn't get it to

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go. But I like the fact
that he had the confidence in his body

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to go for that and to just
get downhill with a basket. But he's

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not going to be defined by his
play in the regular season or playing through

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injury right now, and if he's
pushing things or pressing, and if the

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contract at all is weighing on him, this is not when your legacy is

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going to be defined. The games
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in the playoffs, and they need
you at one hundred percent to touch the

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highest ceiling that this team can,
which we believe is winning a championship.

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The only way that's gonna happen is
if he is fully fresh. He has

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his legs, he has his bounce, he's putting a three sixty dunk down

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in the half court set like we
saw right before he got injured against Okay

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see last season. So I think
it's imperative for Paul George, like only

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he knows his body and the doctors. Maybe it is more mental right now

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and he's just in a shooting funk
because we've seen that too. If that's

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the case, Obviously he's got to
shoot himself out of it. If it

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is about him physically laboring out there, then I think you take one step

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back maybe because they could still win
that game against the Sacramento Kings not having

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Paul George for a game because he
can get four days off then between that

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and the Lakers game in the next
Yeah, he'd have Saturday, Sunday off,

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Monday, Tuesday off, Lakers game
on Wednesday. But the other thing

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it would do is this is a
twofold solution to some of what's going on.

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It makes James Harden be more aggressive
and get more shots up because Paul

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George isn't playing in that game and
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He only took what nine against OKC? He only took what eight last night,

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and I can understand why because he
wasn't shooting it well. Also,

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the confidence from him to take step
back three in that moment speaks to the

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belief he has in the work he
puts in on that shot to make that

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in that spot was big. But
they need him to be more aggressive.

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They need Paul George just to make
shots. It's not even so much that

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he just isn't taking any right.
He's got a makeup. That's the issue.

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Yeah, they're not falling. I
mean I saw this from our boss,

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Lucas Hahn. But last thirteen games, Paul George is averaging just to

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tick below eighteen points on forty one
percent shooting from the field in twenty twenty

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nine percent shooting from the outside.
We're talking about a month full of games

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of him being in a slump.
Now when he was their best player the

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first month of the season, and
then when the offense was clicking on all

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cylinders and they looked completely unbeatable and
unstoppable during the peak and the eye of

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the storm of this run. Once
they got things clicking with James Harden,

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he was playing amazingly efficient basketball,
some of the most efficient basketball of his

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career. So something's going on right
now, and it's at some point it

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could hurt the team. Now,
you can make the argument they don't win

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that game also without Paul George because
he stepped up in the fourth quarter against

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Memphis. Sure, so I understand
He's not an easy decision to make.

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I just don't want to see a
guy who's trying too hard to prove something,

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right, now in February early March, as opposed to proving something in

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late April. Yeah, I agree
one hundred percent. Someone put a comment

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in here too. I hope the
contract's not weighing on his mind. Both

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sides seem confident. That's kind of
what we've been told. But and who

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knows. That's all speculation. It's
just something people are talking about. Someone

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mentioned all the minutes. Alan Ross
mentioned all the minutes that Harden is playing.

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He said Harden is too old to
play all these minutes. I don't

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know if I agree totally with that
first part. They said he's getting worn

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down. The Russ factor is becoming
harder to ignore. Yeah, here we

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go. A lot of people have
been in the chat about Russ a little

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bit. The rotations got really wonky
last night, which was probably my least

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favorite. Are we going to talk
about PJ at some point? We will

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definitely talk about PJ because he did
have one offensive rebound. But are we

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gonna talk about Will's voice being worn
out from that clips and double dip last

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night? He's too hyped up?
Paul George on The Men Day, Yeah,

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yeah, do any damn cigars?
But Victory cis the Russ thing.

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He was good last night. We
needed him in. I think it was

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the third. It was a lot
better than what happened versus the thunder,

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which was the bad Russ part of
the roller coaster. But something's gonna have

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to happen with the variants we're getting
from Russ, because you can't we can't

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have him out there with one other
non shooter. Last night we saw him

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out there with two other non shooters
when it was him PJ plus and then

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like I think Paul George and Harden, like the rust thing is becoming kind

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of an issue. Adam, you
wanted to get your Twitter set on fire,

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so you posted that the efficiency stats
close to the basket and Russ is

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the worst of two hundred and fifty
players of the two hundred and fifty players,

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sorry, not two hundred and fifty
players. Of players who have taken

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or attempted at least two hundred and
fifty shots in the restricted areas so far

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this season. Russ has the lowest
fuel goal percentage there. And some people

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will push back and said, well, he's not that far from Tyrese Maxi,

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and it's like great, I'm not
concerned with Tyrese Maxi plus he's a

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three point shooter. And if you
watch games, Russ is missing shots that

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aren't even being contested at the rim. Some people are saying, well,

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he's not getting a call or a
fair whistle in there, and he's among

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the trees and he's only six'
four and that's why he's missing some of

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those. No, he got blocked
by the rim twice against the OKC Thunder.

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It wasn't Chet Holmgren who blocked him. He's missing gimmes. He was

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better yesterday. But the issue,
and what it's always been, is when

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he's missing those and I got more
hate for this too trying to point this

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out. It's just math, guys, math up. When he's missing those

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shots, he's so hell bent on
games of the basket and going one hundred

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miles per hour, he's either falling
to the floor on the extended baseline out

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of bounds, maybe in the first
row, and therefore you have a five

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on four going the other way.
It's just the numbers. A five on

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four is happening over and over again. And I don't know if anybody has

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the numbers on this, but when
Russ misses a layup. I wonder what

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the point per possession is for the
opposition going the other way, because it

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feels like right now it's almost automatic
that they're either getting a runout for an

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easy layup or dunk or a three
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with how old this team is and
how they've They've already struggled in transition,

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right, Like this has been a
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They've never defended that well in transition, Adam, you and I talked

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about this a little bit. It
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much in the playoffs, like it
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I'm curious though, with some of
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to sound like a hater, but
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Why are we chopping up the starting
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taking James Harden out only halfway into
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you can't get eight nine minutes out
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that that to open I don't like, I don't like the staccatos of that

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point guard change, Like I think, let Harden get eight nine minutes with

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the starters to get some run to
get like like, let him get more

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aggressive, let him get things set. I just I think mentally it has

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to do something to you when you're
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You know it's minute five. I
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the next possession. And I'm not
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like that, but I mean there
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fur, there to be more certainty
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see we saw James Harden taken out

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earlier in the first and then brought
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quarter. That's something we weren't seeing
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is a bit of an outlier.
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think it's smart. With March coming
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you should be able to get away
with trying a lot of different lineups looking

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for more options because you're gonna have
seventeen games in March. You're gonna have

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to dig in deep to your bench
and still win the ballgame. And that

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is a haird whistle. Whistle.
That's not a weird whistle, that's a

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great that's disgusting. Like honestly,
guys, I don't know what those balloons

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were, sorry, but it happened
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Was shocking to me. We're talking
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time and they're just looking the other
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obviously being hit not just in the
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with the body a little bit too. There were multiple fouls on a dangerous

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play like that, and Kawhi can't
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where he is dunking on guys and
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if anything, they would just err
on the side of oh, there

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was probably a foul there. They
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It was blatant. It was obvious
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makes me, well, I'm not
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the last two games were very poorly
officiated. They both, oh yeah,

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helped the Clippers this year. This
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that's different to me. That stuff
that is really strange and out there.

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To not get a foul on either
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Will and I were talking about this
that Kawhi dunked three times in that game

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specifically, like a gross game against
the Grizzlies, and Kawhi just goes up

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for like three sick dunks. I
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it's not it's it's not just Kawhi
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brought this up because I thought the
last two games across the board, we've

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been getting like smacked in the restricted
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contact Thunder game calls. There haven't
been calls, and like when we went

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when we went on that one for
nine stretch, some of that was due

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to the Clippers. Some of it
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getting away with uh like sort of
a ridiculous amount of contact in the restricted

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area. I think it's yeah.
Zoo was showing the ref. Zoo was

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so fired up. He was like
showing the ref the markings on his arm

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and Zoo's not usually that guy.
What about Terrence Man's second foul after he's

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going off in the first quarter yesterday, a completely phantom call. He got

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all ball. It wasn't even close. He was adamant about it. And

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ex Mango is bringing up the elephant
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ref problem since that tylu comment?
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some retaliation or payback going on because
coach Lou went after the refs or anything

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like that. I just think there
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the season happening, and back to
back games, and some of those calls

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were egregious against the Clippers, not
just Kawhi. I just mean those two

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Kawhi dumps were so blatantly obvious and
as a superstar not getting that call,

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it just what's going on? And
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It's like, how I mean,
the J is known for foiling. That's

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why you took so much flak for
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because he foul so much, so
frequently. That's what's and look to anyone

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in the comment section and listening to
this, please go find one episode this

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season where we've talked this long about
the officials. We may have made one

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offhand comment here and there, we've
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And there's twenty seven games we're not
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like that. You know, I
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I but I do feel like it
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games. Yeah, and the refing
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There was that game I think against
Phoenix where everyone was getting on both

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sides, everyone was getting teed up
by the refs. You guys remember that

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earlier this year. It was super
weird. They got the jump ball wrong

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with all that stuff. Like,
it's been not the best year overall for

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REPSG. So what about because I
got us off track here, what about

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those lineups? And to coach lose
credit also, he was not messing around

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in the second half against Memphis with
lineups. All that stuff pretty much happened

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in the first half where you saw
Mason Plumbley, PJ. Tucker, and

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Russell Westbrook all out there on the
floor mace Man. We got it.

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We'll talk about Mason at some point. We got a lot to talk about.

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No, yeah, no, no, norm though, is I mean,

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what do you do with that?
So weird? It's weird? I

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mean so I tweeted that too.
It was like the the butt, like,

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hey, if we're down at scoring
guard, why not play PJ.

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Tucker got some run. He played
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two defensive, one offensive, had
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close out the first half. I
think I thought was good at the end

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of the third quarter. Third quarter, that's what it was. Yeah,

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he had the steal. I think
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lean to a bucket for Kawhi.
Yeah, do we think he's back?

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Are like, how did we feel
about that? He soaked him up?

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I think very effective. But I
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for whatever stretches that they are going
to have to utilize PJ. Tucker

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as a wing in the playoffs.
And you know, we've talked about this

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on this show. You can't you
can't go from zero to sixty at thirty

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eight years old in the playoffs.
So they have to figure out a way

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to make that work. And in
some of these small ball lineups, I

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mean at the center position, who
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or PJ? Like at least he
has I mean, he has the

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history of demanding a little bit more
gravity in the corner, which I do

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think a little bit. And you
know, it's something to say, well,

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you have to actually shoot. You
have to didn't dust off those history

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books. You have to you have
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Chuck and I had when PJ was
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a running tallly of how many quarters
had gone without a single field goal attempt

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his last five game before his d
N P. Street got over yesterday,

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it was five games in a row
of no field goal attempts. But you're

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right, he's gotta he's gotta get
ramped up. Here's what I find strange

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and a little bit curious. You
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Tucker. I think he can help
them in the right spots. He

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still has utility. I was watching
his lateral movement along the perimeter. It

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was still solid, guys, it
was still good out there. I was

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watching it closely, was it like
the Kawhi five seconds of d P o

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y. It wasn't five seconds of
Heaven like Kawhi, which he's having a

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great defensive ear and his movement has
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But going after me, You're right, what's what's next? You gonna talk

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about? Talk about my nap time? Hey, I mean we can.

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They are calling him Pj's Tucker.
Some people h but if he doesn't take

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corner threes, that's a problem in
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with Russ and Mason. Plumble to
me was nonsensical and it will once again

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make me believe that why can't we
see We could see that, but we

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can't see Daniel Tice next to a
Beata Zubos once. We can't see that

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once. You can see that,
but we can't see Daniel Tye next to

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Viasa. That's so crazy. I
mean, yeah, we saw PJ.

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Tucker next to a beat that is
done. Do you think Tyson is just

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fully out of the rotation it's soun
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sure that they get PJ his opportunity, that he gets some minutes in there,

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like Will was saying, March is
coming and they have to see what

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these guys have. And if I
Viaz's Zubats can lose his timing over two

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weeks as a young player in this
league, what's gonna happen to PJ Tucker

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if all of a sudden you throw
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Nikola Jokics for a couple of minutes
and he hadn't played the last three months,

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right, he'd get yeah, smacked
it is. I think you're right.

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They must. They got to be
cycling keeping guys fresh. Dwayne Jenkins

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Aus, what was your favorite PJ
Tucker played last night? Offensive rebound,

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getting that lucket for Kawhi Leonard,
the forty seconds that he was really good.

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They didn't get they didn't get destroyed
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with that lineup with Mason Flumley and
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tongue in zero stats is incredible.
That's at zero status. It's just it's

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the offense look. And again I'm
shocking up yesterday's rotations. The foul trouble,

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no norm, it was wacky.
That was like a perfect recipe for

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weird rotations. I don't think Tie's
seriously gonna play PJ Powell or out PJ

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Russen plub night, But yeah,
I guess it's time them up to succeed.

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If he's going to it's going to
be next to Kawhi, Paul George,

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James Harden and he's being the small
ball five out there right in a

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mere coffee. Maybe someone our boss
has talked about Otto Porter Junior a lot

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as maybe someone the Clippers should sign. I like him. I wouldn't be

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mad at that. I would be
shocked. I mean if he ends up

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on the buyout market. I know
that availability has been a huge issue for

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him, but yeah, if you
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I think that could be enough to
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It's a good little pieced ad right
like for the for those minutes, like,

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yeah, they may still be monitoring
things because remember how upset Clipper Nation

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was when they didn't make a move
right after Mason Plumbly went down, And

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it was because they were waiting for
Daniel Tice to be bought out. So

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maybe we shouldn't overreact too much that
they haven't brought in anyone yet, but

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they still have to cut someone,
so it's not that easy. Josh Primo

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would be cut and guests, I
can't say no. All right, we're

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about hurting your ears with the loud
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bit about the back to back Clippers
looking a little old coming out of the

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All Star break. Let's look ahead
to the Kings, Adam, what do

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you want to see in this matchup
versus the Kings? Right out the gate

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for the Clippers PG if he's playing
and Jams Harden putting up shots now you

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can say in that first quarter against
Memphis, they were feeding the hot hand

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in Terrence Man, and I like
the fact that they first went to a

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Viacha Zubats and then Terrence Man to
get those two guys going. But eventually

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you need your stars to perform,
and it shouldn't take till the fourth quarter,

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because if it does against the Sacramento
Kings, they will lose that game.

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It was only going to be able. They were only gonna be able

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to scrape by get by the skin
of their teeth because it was Memphis yesterday.

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That was the only way that was
going to happen. A performance like

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that, they play that bad against
most teams. Against the next two in

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Sacramento and against the Lakers, they're
gonna lose those games. So I want

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to see And I posted this at
follow out of May earlier, before there

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was math up. There was following
up not at all. I like that.

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That's good. So since November twenty
fourth, we're going back three months

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now the Los Angeles Clippers, and
this is a little bit shocking. Will

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and I talked about it a little
bit last night. I went back even

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further in the stats. They are
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Damn Is that at all surprising to
you, because it should be because on

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the season, I think there's like
thirteenth or twelveth So what has happened is

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basically the same thing as last year. They started off hot defensively, and

405
00:29:44,839 --> 00:29:48,519
then it deteriorated as the season went
along, and by the end of the

406
00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:52,559
season they were basically playing like a
bottom ten defense. That can't continue to

407
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,559
happen. That's the first thing that
needs happened in that game. Defensive mindset.

408
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,960
Be physical out there. It can't
just be a beach of zoobots.

409
00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:03,960
Everybody else has to cover for one
another. There's been massive slippage on rotation

410
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,480
coming out of the All Star breaks. We're on rotations. What happened in

411
00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:11,920
the second half against Okac? You
getting beat on that many backdoor cuts?

412
00:30:11,599 --> 00:30:15,519
It happened to everybody. It was
brutal, and I know it's okay,

413
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,759
see, but those plays, some
of those were telegraphed and the Clippers did

414
00:30:18,839 --> 00:30:22,240
nothing about it. Yeah. It
I like the defensive thing too, because

415
00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:26,880
this King's defense isn't exactly stalwart,
but their offense is top ten in scoring

416
00:30:29,359 --> 00:30:32,720
only in an average offensive rating,
but they have a point of attack guy

417
00:30:32,759 --> 00:30:38,759
in Darren Fox, So Bonus versus
Zoo is gonna be interesting to watch.

418
00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:41,799
I hope Zoo can set that tone
earlier. Like you said, with the

419
00:30:41,839 --> 00:30:45,480
physicality, I think Zoo recently,
like the first possessional, he had a

420
00:30:45,519 --> 00:30:48,440
block when when someone tried to go
in on the rim, and like that

421
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:53,279
kind of thing is It was great
to see because Zoo also looked his Zoo's

422
00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:59,720
passing was really on point against the
Grizzlies, and Zoo physically just looked really

423
00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:02,759
good against the Grizzlies despite it being
the second oid of a backback. So

424
00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:06,599
I was encouraged by that from that
game. But yeah, double double Zoo

425
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,640
would be great again. Even though
we fouled out against the Grizzlies, still

426
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,079
had a double double. He's been
a bright spot in the last two games.

427
00:31:12,119 --> 00:31:15,200
The minutes restriction is off, I
beats the Zoo bots, looks much

428
00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:19,440
healthier, much more engaged. The
only part about his game that at Nitpick

429
00:31:19,599 --> 00:31:23,599
is he's getting into it too much
with the referees. Yeah, he's getting

430
00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:29,960
under his snow that. Yeah,
I don't want to see. It's one

431
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,200
thing for us to talk about it. It's another for the players letting that

432
00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:37,920
affect them on the court. They're
gonna have to fight through it because it

433
00:31:38,039 --> 00:31:44,079
may not get much better. Uh
true. It's the Clippers. They typically

434
00:31:44,119 --> 00:31:47,039
don't get a lot of great calls. We've seen this for a long time.

435
00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:51,839
Real one funny note, we are
recording this on the one year anniversary

436
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,759
of the Clippers losing one hundred and
seventy six one hundred and seventy five to

437
00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:00,640
the Kings. Or Yeah, lotmoy
pointed that out. That was a horrendous

438
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:13,119
game. Yeah, speaking of horrendous, I need more from big plumb guys

439
00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:15,799
outside of that fourth quarter against the
Golden State Warriors. Since he came back

440
00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:21,319
from injury, I don't know if
it's still in his head, if he's

441
00:32:21,599 --> 00:32:27,559
just hasn't caught his rhythm. I'm
desperately searching for answers because guess what,

442
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:34,039
Eventually, they're going to need him
badly in a seven game series. He's

443
00:32:34,079 --> 00:32:38,680
their only other seven footer. You
can't just have him be benched and be

444
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:44,480
totally out of the rotation during some
of these matchups in the playoffs. They're

445
00:32:44,519 --> 00:32:49,720
going to need him. They got
two months left almost but Mason Plumble.

446
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,359
He has to figure it out right
now. I don't know what's going on.

447
00:32:52,519 --> 00:32:58,000
He looks lost out there. He's
not been effective. It's been lost

448
00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:05,240
three lush smoke Mooster. Are we
calling him smoke monster until he gets his

449
00:33:05,279 --> 00:33:09,559
stuff together? He wanted the smoke
against the Golden State Warriors. I don't

450
00:33:09,599 --> 00:33:14,039
know it. And he played much
better when he was upset. Yeah,

451
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:20,039
the Kings take a bunch of threes. They take the third most threes in

452
00:33:20,079 --> 00:33:22,559
the league. They take the second
fewest twos, So we're gonna get a

453
00:33:22,599 --> 00:33:28,039
barrage of threes last or tomorrow night, Will. Who are you hoping to

454
00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:31,720
shine? What these things keep popping
up? Who are you hoping to shine

455
00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:36,440
defensively? Other than Zoo and obviously
maybe Kawhi because we know he's gonna be

456
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,000
good. I think Terrence is gonna
have to be pretty key. He's gonna

457
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,799
be running around a lot. Yeah
yeah, And I mean Terrence isn't like,

458
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,400
like always a high light reel sort
of defender, but it definitely helps

459
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,720
the defense. I was just looking
back over the last ten games, six

460
00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:55,640
of them the opponents have scored more
than one hundred and twenty points on the

461
00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:00,079
Clippers, which is one of those
things that you know, just despite a

462
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,440
healthy like a really good Grammy trip
and some tough opponents in there, I

463
00:34:05,519 --> 00:34:07,880
feel like the last ten games the
Clippers have kind of been playing like a

464
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:14,760
five hundred ball club or slightly better. And obviously the record is far better

465
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:19,800
than that. But the biggest thing
is like is defensively, they just have

466
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:24,679
to be better. And I think
Terrence can help with that to an extent,

467
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,639
But Harden has to be better.
He has to, Like I think

468
00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:34,320
he's taken a step backwards from even
what we saw at the at the beginning

469
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:39,519
of the beginning of his time with
his Clippers. And yeah, I don't

470
00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:45,079
know, Paul George could be better. I believe about Paul George is scoring

471
00:34:45,119 --> 00:34:49,119
tomorrow. I want Paul George five
tomorrow would be fad. But if he

472
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,800
if he can't, you know what
I mean, Like, for whatever reason,

473
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,599
it still isn't going I maybe maybe
flip the switch defensively, like just

474
00:34:55,639 --> 00:35:00,880
to expend that effort defensively. I
would like to see this team I feel

475
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,159
as of laid like on any night
the Clippers are giving up one hundred and

476
00:35:04,159 --> 00:35:07,199
twenty points to it and while I
think this offense is really good and we

477
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,039
still haven't seen the pinnacle of it, like this just it has to be

478
00:35:12,119 --> 00:35:15,239
better. I just don't think you're
a championship team if every if everyone can

479
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:22,559
put up one twenty on you guys. It's been since the Grammy Trip they

480
00:35:22,639 --> 00:35:27,800
go six and one. They put
a huge emphasis on reaching that goal of

481
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,400
going six and one on the Grammy
Trip. Since then they played six games,

482
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:37,000
They're three and three. They are
twenty fourth offensively in these last six

483
00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:42,679
games, they're eighteenth defensively. There
has been a steep drop off in play,

484
00:35:44,159 --> 00:35:50,199
especially consistently. It's been what Clippers
are gonna show up quarter to quarter,

485
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,039
possession to possession. It just looks
like they're going through the motions a

486
00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:57,360
little bit right now. I tweeted
this out at follow out of May last

487
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,079
night. Uh, they look like
a team that needs a second All Star

488
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:06,719
break. Guess what is not coming? Not very opposite is coming. Mark.

489
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,519
So I actually think, and Adam, you and I talked about this

490
00:36:09,559 --> 00:36:15,320
a little bit yesterday. Do these
guys play better when when the games,

491
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,239
when the schedule is more condensed For
whatever reason, like I they we just

492
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,960
are going they don't have any time
in anytime in the season where they've gotten

493
00:36:24,039 --> 00:36:28,519
more than two days rest. They've
looked really rusty the next game. And

494
00:36:28,559 --> 00:36:30,000
I don't have the stats right in
front of me, like what their record

495
00:36:30,159 --> 00:36:36,480
is on X amount of days of
rest, But I think that this could

496
00:36:36,519 --> 00:36:40,440
be really really good for them.
I do in just a stretch where you

497
00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:44,840
have to be locked in, there's
no time off. Maybe you know,

498
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,599
if we're lucky, we can rest
guys in some fourth quarters and stuff,

499
00:36:47,639 --> 00:36:52,000
but it you know, I do
think that it helps establish more of a

500
00:36:52,119 --> 00:36:54,760
rhythm for an older team, which
they are. They really are looking a

501
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,360
little long in the two as of
late. Yeah, thirty eight year old

502
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:00,920
PJ. Tuckers got to help us
out in the playoffs, like we're an

503
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:07,039
old team, Like they just straight
up are Adam, Are you looking at

504
00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:09,800
day's rest stats? Yeah, I'll
find it a little bit here. But

505
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:15,639
to me, what they need is
and they got you are. No,

506
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,000
I just couldn't come up with it
in time. And I get this thought

507
00:37:17,039 --> 00:37:24,000
out before I forget. But what
they got from Man last night really helps

508
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:28,559
if that can continue. I'm not
saying he gets twenty points. I'm saying

509
00:37:28,639 --> 00:37:32,800
he starts getting fourteen points per over
the next month and really trusts his shot

510
00:37:34,159 --> 00:37:38,840
doesn't hesitate, is much more aggressive. That would be big because an older

511
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,920
team like this to get over the
finish line in the regular season, they

512
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,400
need a shot in the arm.
They need If the pickup's not coming externally,

513
00:37:46,519 --> 00:37:51,360
it has to come internally. They
got to improve and somebody's got to

514
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:52,559
get hot, because all of a
sudden, the last couple of games of

515
00:37:52,599 --> 00:37:55,559
Mire Coffee isn't shooting the ball well, he may start to regress. Some

516
00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:00,280
somebody else is gonna have to pick
up the slack. If Norman Power is

517
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:01,599
out, that hurts them. What
if he comes back and he's all of

518
00:38:01,599 --> 00:38:06,239
a sudden not shooting fifty percent from
three? But the one guy I keep

519
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:07,639
thinking of that could really help this
team. Right now, when you talk

520
00:38:07,679 --> 00:38:13,000
about youth pop athleticism, bones Island, I don't know if it's going to

521
00:38:13,039 --> 00:38:16,840
happen. I don't know if I'm
you know, out to lunch and haven't

522
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:23,039
read the room because obviously he was
sent home just like PJ. Tucker during

523
00:38:23,079 --> 00:38:27,719
that game up in Golden State,
and he needed to adjust his mindset.

524
00:38:28,079 --> 00:38:32,119
But I think bones Hyland could offer
a lot right now. Juice is what

525
00:38:32,679 --> 00:38:37,760
seems to be the word that's in
vogue nowadays. Storms out like this sprained

526
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:42,440
ankle thing. It's like, whatever
is going to happen with that Mark Easier.

527
00:38:43,039 --> 00:38:46,719
I'm so curious what's happening with the
Bones situation because it's it's it seems

528
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:52,760
like there's clearly an internal issue.
I mean, I know beyond the I

529
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:58,880
know, beyond him being sent home
that first that last game right before the

530
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,559
trade dead line where we saw Brandon
Boston in early in a game where we

531
00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:07,079
didn't see Bones. I don't believe
until like the final five to seven minutes

532
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,760
I thought that it meant, you
know, that maybe he was on the

533
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:15,519
trade block or something. But there's
something going on there internally that I don't

534
00:39:15,559 --> 00:39:19,119
get. But I really do hope
they can push through it in March to

535
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:23,800
give him a look, because otherwise
I struggle to see kind of why he's

536
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:28,079
on the roster. And I know
that we all have high expectations or hopes

537
00:39:28,119 --> 00:39:32,719
in the potential of what Bones could
be. But yeah, they got to

538
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,880
get that figured out. Part of
it, I think is very simple.

539
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,920
He can't play on the court next
to Norman Powell. You can't have those

540
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:45,679
two defenders out there. That is
what has kept him out. But if

541
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:50,480
normOn Powell is out right now,
or if you reduce Russell Westbrooks minute somewhat

542
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:52,840
who hasn't been playing great. Yeah, I know I'm getting flamed for that,

543
00:39:53,400 --> 00:40:00,719
but I think Bones Highland can be
Look, guy, we go back

544
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,679
to the preseason, what we saw
the first five games of the year.

545
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,679
I know I said it on the
come and people got off about that phrasing.

546
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:14,800
Look people, what it's gotta be
a better way say that Field arrested

547
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:21,480
development, he was turning a corner. He was gonna have a breakout year.

548
00:40:21,679 --> 00:40:25,119
I fully believe that this guy has
far too much talent. What we

549
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:30,719
saw last season when he came over, what he did in the playoffs when

550
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,360
they were down guys, what he
did in that Game three. I fully

551
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,400
believe in Bones. Now, if
there's an attitude issue that we don't know

552
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,079
about behind the scenes and that's keeping
him off the court, I mean,

553
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,119
yeah, that's total I do want
to say, and like I don't want

554
00:40:43,159 --> 00:40:47,199
to over make excuses for guys,
but like, I think Bones is in

555
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:52,400
a much better position than PJ.
Tucker has been saying all this stuff to

556
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,719
the media, right because Bones coming
into this season, thought that he was

557
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,559
the second up point guard on this
roster, like he you know, he

558
00:40:59,679 --> 00:41:02,400
saw yeah, and he thought that
he was poised for a big role,

559
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:08,280
And I would be I have extreme
doubts that that wasn't the conversation internally,

560
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:12,239
right, Like, I'm sure that
that's what I'm sure that's what he was

561
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,000
told internally, Whereas PJ. Tucker
was part of a deal because we had

562
00:41:16,039 --> 00:41:20,599
to take on bad money, like
it wasn't there was never any agreement or

563
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,280
handshake deal. So I do think
some of that malcontentedness is is kind of

564
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:30,599
warranted from watching the games. It
seems like he's always really engaged and interactive

565
00:41:30,679 --> 00:41:34,599
on the bench. So I don't
know, but I will say like if

566
00:41:34,679 --> 00:41:38,800
anyone has a right to feel a
little bit scorned, it's Bones Highland,

567
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:44,920
because I just can't imagine a bigger
turnaround from what you thought your season was

568
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,360
going to look like. And we
know the heart and thing was looming over

569
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:52,880
all summer, but still, like, I just I can't imagine you thinking

570
00:41:52,000 --> 00:42:00,320
that you're you're gonna accept up You're
ye, could I uh give you those

571
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:06,800
numbers. Now the Clippers on so
many days rest share the screen. Let's

572
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:15,000
go from the bones to the meat
of the issue here, let's five zero

573
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:21,800
follow you, Adam, there's some
interesting data here on zero days on zero

574
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:27,360
day's rest. Ex ring in the
heat saying Will sounds like r f K

575
00:42:27,519 --> 00:42:32,000
JR. You guys are killing me. I'm doing my best. We didn't

576
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:39,360
even I forgot that you have something
about vaccine. Please don't take you off.

577
00:42:42,159 --> 00:42:44,960
I can sure a bench a lot
though, which is which is the

578
00:42:45,079 --> 00:42:49,800
mark of a great man? On
this podcast, RFK had a weird stand

579
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,840
up comedy like fundraiser in downtown l
A the other week with like the worst

580
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:58,280
stand up comedians possible at it,
which I think is so funny. Just

581
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,239
picturing r f K JUNR getting to
downtown LA at night is a very funny

582
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:06,480
picture in my head. I don't
think he had a good time anyway,

583
00:43:06,639 --> 00:43:12,159
Sorry, Adam. Of the stats
zero day's rest, the Clippers are impressively

584
00:43:12,199 --> 00:43:16,199
six and three. Okay, on
one day rest, they are twenty and

585
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:22,199
thirteen. That's about a six hundred
win percentage okay on two days rest.

586
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,880
And this may fly in the face
of what Will said they're eight and oh

587
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:30,079
damn on two days rest? What
about more than two days rest, three

588
00:43:30,159 --> 00:43:36,000
days rest one and oh four days
rest, one and one five days rest

589
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,840
one in oh six plus days rest
the All Star break zho and one.

590
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,760
Well, there you go. That's
that's the small standpoint. There's a pretty

591
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:49,800
clear correlation. I think we have
a pretty straight line from these two things.

592
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,159
Yeah, tomorrow, what's your guys'
concern level about tomorrow night? Which

593
00:43:54,199 --> 00:43:55,920
I think all three of us should
be in the building, right, Are

594
00:43:55,960 --> 00:44:01,320
we all going to be there?
Let's take that picture that from Mark Waverer

595
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:06,840
from Fear. Yeah, I think
we all three be there. So if

596
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,000
you're watching or listening to this and
you're at the game, uh, say,

597
00:44:10,039 --> 00:44:14,320
what's up? Well, how are
your how what's your level of concern

598
00:44:15,599 --> 00:44:21,119
about these Kings, about this Kings
game? Yeah, I feel like fairly

599
00:44:21,199 --> 00:44:23,400
low. I think it'll be nice
to have the team back at home.

600
00:44:25,679 --> 00:44:29,679
It's it's kind of tough that after
the Grammy trip they had to go back

601
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:36,039
out on the road like right away. So I'm hoping that that I'm hoping

602
00:44:36,079 --> 00:44:40,599
that that helps just get things a
little bit more congealed together. Like I

603
00:44:40,639 --> 00:44:44,440
said, Man, it just hasn't
looked that good as of late. And

604
00:44:44,519 --> 00:44:46,519
I know some of that is due
to some some tough competition, but it's

605
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:51,440
I need to see something here,
man, I need to see something before

606
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,360
we get into March to feel good. So my level of concern for this

607
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,760
game, I'm going to say is
fairly low, but depending on how they

608
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:04,400
look it, it's going to have
fairly drastic implications on my concern level going

609
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:13,639
forward. I Uh, Jeremy Mormon
is in the comments chilling easy w Yeah,

610
00:45:13,679 --> 00:45:15,360
if we look bad, if we
look bad against the Kings, like

611
00:45:15,679 --> 00:45:21,559
I think, it's time to start
being concerned. If they look bad against

612
00:45:21,599 --> 00:45:24,079
the Kings, the Sacramento will only
be four games back of the Clippers if

613
00:45:24,079 --> 00:45:27,960
they lose that game. Right,
So, if you think you're out of

614
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,440
the woods it and the standings,
you're not. It's not just about staying

615
00:45:30,519 --> 00:45:35,400
in front of the Denver Nuggets.
There are teams that are still trying to

616
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,119
figure out a way to break into
the top four. Uh. I do

617
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:44,679
remember a time right after the Grammy
road trip where everybody was on cloud nine

618
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,840
and this is it, this is
the team. In the lounge, I

619
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:52,719
had sunglasses on, I was drinking
a drink with a large some kind,

620
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,159
you know, like it was that
was the greatest day of my life.

621
00:45:55,760 --> 00:46:00,320
I was trying to temper expectations.
I was saying, look, it's still

622
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:05,920
February. I did not think they'd
be three and three in their next six

623
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,760
games, and more importantly, playing
this poorly though, twenty fourth in offense

624
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:15,920
last six games, eighteenth defensively last
six games. Something needs to change.

625
00:46:15,039 --> 00:46:17,760
And I think that's the other reason
that coach Lee was trying to find something

626
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:23,039
yesterday. He was searching in lineups, which is somewhat telling at this point

627
00:46:23,159 --> 00:46:28,559
of the season when you're that bad
defensively for that long, or at least

628
00:46:28,599 --> 00:46:31,199
that mediocre defensively for a team trying
to win a championship. Because I looked

629
00:46:31,199 --> 00:46:36,480
at all the other teams over the
last three months that are quote unquote contenders

630
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,840
outside of Milwaukee, everybody else is
much more balanced with being a top ten

631
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:45,000
offensive, top ten defense. Clippers
meanwhile, second best offense over that stretch

632
00:46:45,039 --> 00:46:51,199
of three months. Great, but
they're seventeenth defensively like that, That's got

633
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,800
me alarmed. You got to take
notice with stuff like that. You just

634
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:58,920
have to. So I think Tomorrow's
a big game. I just want to

635
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,639
see them play a lead game for
the first time since the All Star Breaks,

636
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:07,239
going back since the Grammy road Trip, really play a complete game.

637
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:12,800
Would you take the Wayne Jenkins comment? Sorry, well yeah, fo yeah,

638
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,199
Wayne's Jenkins is asking about the fourth
spot, or have you guys been

639
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:22,159
like when will you start watching the
standings and and kind of taking some like

640
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:27,079
more concern for the Clippers and where
they sit there. It's been concerned.

641
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,519
I've been watching the stands. I
don't know. I don't know why everybody

642
00:47:30,559 --> 00:47:32,880
else is just like, Oh,
they're good, they can be they can

643
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:37,400
be the one seed. They don't
have a tiebreaker against any of the teams

644
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,039
around them. Guys, they have
the toughest road, the toughest schedule left.

645
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:44,280
They're gonna need a lot of help. So when Milhaukeey took down Minnesota

646
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,880
last night, I was like,
yeah, we're four games, Yeah,

647
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:52,159
we're Clips are four games up on
the five seed, which is the Pels.

648
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,039
The Pells are a half game.
So the thing with if you're the

649
00:47:55,119 --> 00:48:00,719
four seed is you're pretty much playing
in my what I would assume is one

650
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:06,400
of the Pels MAVs Kings or Sons. Obviously give me the Kings at the

651
00:48:06,519 --> 00:48:09,079
top of that list in a seven
game series than any of those other teams.

652
00:48:09,159 --> 00:48:13,159
I don't think any Clippers fan is
disagreeing with me when I say that

653
00:48:13,679 --> 00:48:16,159
would be the ideal four or five
matchup. But it's still not great.

654
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:22,639
It's you got Timberwolves in the second
round. Sure, it's still like but

655
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,159
knowing the Clippers luck, we're probably
gonna end up with one of the Pels,

656
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:30,480
MAVs or Sons. You don't want
to before, Like, I don't

657
00:48:30,519 --> 00:48:34,760
know if I want because of what
Will just said, because they question Wayne,

658
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,280
thank you, But I don't know
if I want it to stay out

659
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:42,440
of the Timberwolves bracket in the second
round. I think just because like this

660
00:48:42,599 --> 00:48:45,400
is an old team, like that
physical of a series in the second round.

661
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,960
Like I'm not saying that the Clippers
can't get past the Timberwolves. I

662
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,400
still like the Clippers in that in
a seven game series. But god damn,

663
00:48:52,519 --> 00:48:55,440
that is a lot to ask of
an old team in the second round,

664
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,440
and then to still have to go
go and win eight more games.

665
00:49:00,079 --> 00:49:04,920
I think that's way too tall of
a task. What you want is Minnesota

666
00:49:05,519 --> 00:49:09,800
and Denver to tangle in that second
round. That's what you want where you

667
00:49:10,039 --> 00:49:14,599
only have to play the winner.
That that is ideal. So No.

668
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:19,280
Four is not good, not great. I think the ideal situation for the

669
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:23,960
Clippers, which obviously we can't control, is you get you get a Lakers

670
00:49:24,079 --> 00:49:30,400
Timberwolves first round series there and then
that second round series is Timberwolves Nuggets,

671
00:49:31,159 --> 00:49:37,719
and then you know, like whichever
team will have have have had as a

672
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,360
much tougher go through than than the
Clippers have. But obviously you know that's

673
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:45,480
fully out of your control. All
you can control is is your record and

674
00:49:45,519 --> 00:49:50,639
where you end up. Who are
we Adam, No, no, no

675
00:49:51,039 --> 00:50:00,360
salient point. Who are we picking? And the chatt uh YouTube chat you're

676
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:02,599
open to this too. Now we're
picking the most important part of the show,

677
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:08,679
the Kawhi Leonard Player of the game
for Clippers versus Kings, which again

678
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:15,239
quick reminder, six thirty tomorrow,
not at seven thirty. It's at six

679
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:19,320
thirty, Adam, who are you
picking as the Kawhi Leonard Player of the

680
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:24,159
Game. I feel like we're taking
this award even further that it's almost a

681
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:29,280
show now where we just don't talk
about Kawhi Leonard period, because he's so

682
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,840
all the time. No, no, no, I'm just say like he's

683
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,280
so good. It's like, Okay, we're not worried about Kawhi Letterard.

684
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,400
That's the major key for the Clippers. Well, I know he had six

685
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:42,440
turnovers, but I ain't worried about
Kawhi Leonard whatsoever. That's steel and dunk

686
00:50:42,559 --> 00:50:46,440
incredible. Uh. I'm gonna go
with Terrence Man because I want to see

687
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:52,679
this turn into not a one off
game with him having that level of scoring

688
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:57,159
output and that much confidence. This
is what Man can do. This is

689
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:00,360
what Terrence Man can be at this
point at twenty seven years of age,

690
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:06,000
not every night, but once every
couple of weeks, and then the rest

691
00:51:06,039 --> 00:51:09,039
of the time he's just giving you
steady I don't know, thirteen to fifteen

692
00:51:09,119 --> 00:51:13,199
points per game. I would love
to see that from Terrence Man aside from

693
00:51:13,199 --> 00:51:15,920
the defense, and he's gonna have
to guard dere Tearn Fox a lot.

694
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:19,440
I dodn't want to see him be
a threat offensively because it's probably gonna be

695
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,400
a high scoring game against Sacramento.
Will your player of the game, Norm

696
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:30,239
Powell? Oh, you think he's
in I'm hoping that. I'm hoping that

697
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:34,480
he's in Fortune Favors the Bolts,
So I'm hoping that he's in the second

698
00:51:34,519 --> 00:51:37,239
episode. We've said that we need
to stop saying that on the podcast.

699
00:51:37,599 --> 00:51:39,880
I've never heard that before. I
thought we coined that. Yeah, well,

700
00:51:40,039 --> 00:51:47,559
hey, no pun intended, so
we got norm I'm gonna go junction

701
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:52,239
saying Westbrook's gonna shine tomorrow. I
picked Westbrook for this streak. It's not

702
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,400
go He really made me look like
an idiot in the first game. I

703
00:51:54,519 --> 00:51:57,719
was trying to believe, Adam,
don't roll your eyes at me. I

704
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:00,880
was trying to have hope. I've
had it. I've had it too.

705
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:05,719
But you know what I loved about
that fourth quarter because Russ did have a

706
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:07,519
really good stretch in the third,
a couple of layups, knockdown a three

707
00:52:07,559 --> 00:52:13,599
pointer. Still probably shouldn't take four
threes, but he was pulled after that

708
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:17,039
fade away three pointer with about seven
minutes left in the fourth quarter. That's

709
00:52:17,119 --> 00:52:21,920
the type of stuff that is going
to have to happen in a playoff series.

710
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:27,159
So I'm going James Harden, James
Harden twenty piece tomorrow. We're gonna

711
00:52:27,159 --> 00:52:30,519
see aggressive shot James Harden. He's
gonna make more than thirty two percent of

712
00:52:30,599 --> 00:52:35,320
his shots from three to ten feet. It's gonna be great. Wayne Jenkins

713
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:38,519
saying, PJ hits a corner three. If any bookie is giving you odds

714
00:52:38,599 --> 00:52:43,000
on that, call the police.
That person wants to kill you. That's

715
00:52:43,159 --> 00:52:46,920
entrapman. If your bookie's giving you
odds on PJ corner threes, that's entrapman.

716
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,400
If you're searching for the if you're
searching for the line on that,

717
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:54,800
it might be time to call the
hot line. Call the hotline. Every

718
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:59,440
state has a different one. It's
very difficult, but please call the hot

719
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:02,159
the BOVA on a hot line to
place that bet. Yeah, man playing

720
00:53:02,199 --> 00:53:07,000
bets over the phone. What a
time. We're about to wrap this one

721
00:53:07,079 --> 00:53:09,400
up. We want an update,
Adam. Do we have any shipping updates

722
00:53:09,559 --> 00:53:14,719
on the Zoo bobblehead. You can
rest easy check it's been sent out.

723
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,960
I was just asking, I didn't
know it's saying it may be there today,

724
00:53:19,119 --> 00:53:21,800
I sing, I think I said
it Thursday. I hope the story

725
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,320
was real and that guy's just not
keeping it for himself. Oh, I

726
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:28,440
would be a touching story about his
kid. Yeah, I would respect that

727
00:53:28,599 --> 00:53:34,800
though too would be good. It's
like a who who's afraid of Virginia wolf

728
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:39,599
situation. We'll sweet well, we'll
see each other at the game where it's

729
00:53:39,599 --> 00:53:42,760
gonna be a good time. We
all were picking the Clippers to win right

730
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:46,639
there. We're going two and one
over those three and four. Yeah,

731
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:51,599
all right, got the Lakers on
Wednesday. Adam wants Paul George Durest tomorrow.

732
00:53:51,639 --> 00:53:54,559
We'll see what happens if he's hurt. If he's hurt, which he's

733
00:53:54,599 --> 00:53:57,679
not one hundred percent, don't know
if he's hurt, but he's not one

734
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:01,280
hundred percent. Will Where can people
find this podcast if they're listening or tell

735
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:06,679
their coworkers that they have to watch
us. You can find this podcast wherever

736
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:08,920
you get your podcasts. You got
to get the full experience, and that's

737
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:15,400
over at YouTube dot com slash at
Clippers podcast. Normally my voice sounds a

738
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:17,119
lot better than this, So if
that's if that's the hold up on you

739
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:22,360
subscribing, I can assure you that
it's it's not always like this. You

740
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,519
can also chomp it over with us
anytime over on Twitter or ex or whatever

741
00:54:25,559 --> 00:54:30,159
you call it, dot com that's
at Clippers Pod it is. You can

742
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,199
follow Adam there at at follow Adam
A if you missed the first part of

743
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:37,719
this show. We're gonna have a
double dip after the the game tomorrow.

744
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:42,039
Adam, could you explain what the
double dip is and then send us out

745
00:54:42,079 --> 00:54:46,119
with with one positive thing? That's
one of these two fun gentlemen, including

746
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:53,880
RFK Junior our future. Uh you
guys so much. I didn't do this

747
00:54:54,559 --> 00:54:59,639
comment. Will actually was filling it
as the lead singer for Cannibal Corpse last

748
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:07,000
night, giving it to you right
now. I'm sorry. Well to push

749
00:55:07,039 --> 00:55:13,679
through this is what I goes through, dude, not like I mean,

750
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,480
I'm surprised we haven't gotten into a
doc Rivers conversation on this pod with how

751
00:55:16,559 --> 00:55:22,400
Will sounds. Uh So one of
these two guys comes on with me postgame

752
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,880
on Anti seventy l A Sports,
the official home of your Los Angeles Clippers.

753
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:29,840
Clippers Talk is the call in show. They come on as a guest

754
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:34,519
every single show when the phones are
at least working. So we'll have that

755
00:55:34,639 --> 00:55:37,599
for you tomorrow night because the phones
we back up. As for the Clippers,

756
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:42,880
looking for Positives, Looking for positives, here's a hypothetical positive. I'm

757
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:47,599
pretty sure about this. I'm not
positive. I would love for somebody to

758
00:55:47,679 --> 00:55:52,519
get to me out follow autam May
because I was searching for the data frantically

759
00:55:52,639 --> 00:55:58,400
during this episode of what the Clippers
defensive rating is in the half court the

760
00:55:58,519 --> 00:56:01,800
last three months, because I'm yessing
it's much better than seventeen and it's the

761
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:07,639
transition defense that is weighing down that
overall defensive rating that I brought up earlier.

762
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,679
That does sound like a little bit
of a panics guys following type of

763
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:14,000
thing. I think in the half
court defense they have still been much better

764
00:56:14,039 --> 00:56:17,039
than that. They're likely top ten. I'm gonna guess, So somebody please

765
00:56:17,119 --> 00:56:22,320
get to me at fallout of Me
so I can confirm this optimism and sanguine

766
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:24,400
thought before we get out here.
I think, Yeah, I love that.

767
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:29,320
I love it. I'm pretty sure
that's great. We'll be back with

768
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,119
the double dip. Maybe do a
post game after the game live, who

769
00:56:31,199 --> 00:56:36,400
knows if it's interesting. Thanks everyone
for hanging out on the live. Thank

770
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,519
you for all the comments. Thanks
to all the new subscribers. If you're

771
00:56:38,559 --> 00:56:43,039
listening, we appreciate that too.
And yeah, we will see y'all later,

772
00:56:43,079 --> 00:56:45,880
and as always, let's go clips. What do you guys think about

773
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:45,480
what Lloyd said?