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Last time that I check check,
it was fine chaze on my neck.

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It was no smile on my brett. Last time that I check, Clippers

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went what's twenty three to eighty three
over the San Antonio Spurs. Welcome back

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into Clippers Talk. I'm out of
Moslin. We'll get back to your phone

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calls eight sixty six nine eight seven
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seven two five seventy. Believe me, we will get there. Jose Morris,

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hold on, but first you hear
the music. You know it's a

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clips in double dip episode of Clippers
Talk. Chuck Mockler is joining us.

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Chuck, what's up? Not much
man? I am in Montana. Thank

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you for having me. It's about
twenty four degrees here right now. But

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watching the Clippers have an end to
end victory has warmed me up a bit

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after a hell ish day of travel. So I'm feeling pretty good. Colder

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in Montana than the Spurs were tonight
here at Crypto dot com a Renos,

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they shot us thirty seven and a
half percent. Wemby was just four of

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ten with eleven points. What did
you make of the clippers defensive performance against

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San Antonio and specifically Victor woman Yama. Tonight, well, it felt like,

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you know, the game against the
Jazz, there was some physicality issues.

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There was just not shyness. I
don't want to make a team like

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that, but it felt like the
Clippers were kind of resetting themselves with this

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game on how they should play defense
for every single game. Wemby is such

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a tough guard because who do you
throw on him? But Nick Patum was

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weirdly nice. Wemby stopper. I'm
wondering if there's some kind of elderly French

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magic that Nico used on Victor there, but I was pretty happy with it.

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The Spurs, you know, they're
not going to be competing for a

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top playoff spot, even probably a
bottom playoff spot, but you still have

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to beat who's in front of you, and the way you build good habits

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is by doing it every time,
even against a team like this. This

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just in middle playoff spot for the
Spurs. Yeah, Boocket, you mentioned

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Nick Batoomb, though I forgot to
bring that up. That's a great point.

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He had a couple of really nice
plays where he stripped him, the

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ball went out of bounds and went
back to San Antonio, but he made

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him uncomfortable, and then he had
a block at the rim, a little

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French rejection with the French connection between
those two where it looked like they were

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gonna have an easy oop to Wemby, but Nick Batoum was there, block,

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tomb batoombo, whatever you want to
call it. I just like the

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fact that they got back to contesting
everything at the rim, which is what

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we saw against the Portland Trail Blazers. I can live with some fouls,

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even the one they called on Russell
Westbrook, which seemed like a weak call.

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When there's that level of effort to
stop an easy basket, you know

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what I'm saying, right, and
we're making them second guess. You know,

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there was some I think it was
the second quarter where the fouling,

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or maybe the end of the first
it was a little sloppy. But if

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you can tighten that up, you're
still making a young team second guess what

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they're doing, which is, you
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a young team against such a defensive
minded squad like the Clippers. So I

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yeah, this defensive I mean,
I don't know. It's just nice to

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see the Clippers beat a team they
should be in a fashion like this.

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And for the second time now this
season, also for the second time already,

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as it happened in Game one,
Russell Westbrook a plus thirty. I

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want to say he's had less than
ten of these in his career where he

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entered a ballgame at being a plus
thirty or more. And I thought after

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a short stint and where he wasn't
as effective early on, Russ was really

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good providing that energy. I mentioned
the play in transition against Wemby, and

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he was the one guy I saw
it early on was not afraid or not

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thinking about where's Wemby at as I
attacked the basket. You know. Plus

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he knocked down three three pointers in
this game. Great game from Russ and

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a nice bounce back performance. I
would say one hundred percent Russ probably,

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you know, if I'm sure Paul
George will play a lot longer, he

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would have been player of the game. But this is you know, I

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initially when the Russ trade happened,
had some you know, skepticism, but

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this was a great example of even
in the game you win by you know,

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a bunch of points or something like
that, that that doesn't matter to

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Russ. You know, the score
was zero zero going into the fourth quarter

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in Russ's mind, and you combine
that with the efficiency from shooting, which

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is just a bonus for sure,
and then, like we just talked about

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with Batom, kind of doing these
contests, all of these things actually trickle

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down and it worked, and Russ
is a big connector for these things,

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kind of affecting the rest of the
team and holding meaning as you go on

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throughout the game in big games for
sure, and in games where you win

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my thirty. It's very important because
there's this level of the Clippers when it

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comes to quote unquote taking things seriously. They took it seriously tonight and this

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is I love what standard they're setting
for the fans because now they all want

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to see this every single night.
Like we've gotten this tape of real focused

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championship, ninety five percent healthy Clippers, Like we need what is it?

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We need seventy nine more games of
this. But the first three, aside

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from the stumble against a pretty good
Jazz team, feeling pretty good. I

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know on clips and dip, we
were very excited about being three and l

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on Monday, we'll all take two
and one after how to Night went.

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Yeah, especially when the Lakers are
one and two and lost in No TV

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might have more tires as Zack Town
made them work tonight with that matchup coming

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on Wednesday. But of course,
the Clippers really need to get back victory

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against the Orlando Magic first, as
they took him down twice last season.

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But Russ Russell Westbrook knocking down that
three pointer at the end of the first

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half, big shot, a little
bit of momentum, shot in the arm

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heading into the locker room, and
then the Clippers, you know, they

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stepped in the throat in the third
quarter and Russ had another three. He

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had that mislay up that he tipped
in himself. But getting in transition and

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finding Kawhi and Paul George for open
looks, that's just not something we're accustomed

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to seeing those guys getting wide open
looks, and Russ and Bones are making

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it happen with the pace they're playing
at and those guys running and streaking down

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the floor and finding them on the
wings. I just like this brand of

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basketball just a lot more exciting,
more entertaining, and it gets your superstars

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easier shots. Yes, there's more
zip on the ball. Bones, little

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caroless with the ball in the first
half, but he tightened it up.

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Listeners of our show will know your
fantastic rant about bones, which might be

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true. By the way, after
this game we might have surprise. Shots

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don't act, so surprise might be
true. And you're right, it's exciting

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basketball, and it still remains to
be seen very early in the season.

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What happens when the Clippers don't have
those transition opportunities, what the half court

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offense is gonna look like. But
because of these last couple of seasons,

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when everyone's healthy, I don't think
anyone's really worried about the half court offense.

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We just want to see it again. A quote unquote elite opponent.

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Yeah, justin Russell on pregame,
and I believe he said they were the

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second best team through a couple of
games half court offense wise, so they

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were executing very well in that respect. You got to marry those two things.

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You got to be great in the
half court, you've got to be

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great in transition. And while in
past years it's been a little bit of

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an adventure when the Clippers get out
and run, they're starting to get better

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in that area. They really are
eighteen fast break points in this one.

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The stuff they have worked on,
the themes and things they have preached throughout

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preseason and training camp, they're starting
to play out now, and I just

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I like seeing that because it's one
thing to talk the talk is another to

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walk the walk. As our friend
Will said recently on the podcast, I

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thought it beats Zubats speaking of bounce
back for Formwards is twenty two minutes,

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sixteen and eight. He and Mason
Plumbley were much better in this game bringing

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that physicality and also beats to Zubos
was being a focal point and they were

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looking for him on offense. Feed
him. He gets easy looks. I

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mean, the guy finished six of
seven. He's going to shoot seventy percent

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from the floor or something like that. You have to use him. He

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can be a weapon out there.
He's you know, it's funny. I

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think of Zoobots almost like an NFL
kicker for this Clippers team. Right when

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it goes well, when he shoots
seventy percent, you're like, yeah,

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hey, sixteen to eight, way
to go, big Zoo. But then

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he has the game like against the
Jazz, and you just think, what

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do you know? Fans like,
what what is he doing out there?

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Like Zoo is very underappreciated, but
nights like this, I hope fans can

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see that even if it's not that
big in the statue, that his presence

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out there is huge and he's eufficient, which with the Clippers new you know

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outlook on if the easy buckets there, let's go for it. Great spot

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for to be to help that overall
team mentality. He is Chuck Mockler of

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Clips and Dip. Follow him at
Chuck Mockler on Twitter on x and guess

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what. Tomorrow we will have the
trifecta, the Triumphant Trio return will be

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on YouTube with Will Updyke as well
and preview the next couple of games for

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the Clippers. So look for that. Chuck, thanks for doing a little

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Clips and Double Dip tonight here on
clipperstock. Hey, thanks for having me.

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I hope the callers are chills.
So far, so good. We'll

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get back to him. Oh what
a segue, thanks Chuck. The handoff

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coming up next. Back to your
phone calls eight six six nine eight seven

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two five seventy eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy and we'll close

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things out in preview Tuesday Nights game
against the Orlando Magic and Franz Wagner.

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He's good, tough. Did you
see him during FIBA, Yeah, he's

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