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What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome Season two, episode eighteen of

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Clips and dip your triweekly full pod, and then we do a double dip

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thing on AM five seventy with Adam
Ousley, who was here as always.

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Will Updike couldn't join us today.
Big weekend for the Clippers. We wanted

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them to go three and oh they're
at two and one. We're gonna get

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into what was good against the Spurs, what was bad against the Jazz,

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and then dive into what feels like
the first legitimate test of the season for

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the Clippers, which is a back
to back against a plucky Magic team and

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the team across the hall. If
you're new to the show, welcome.

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We were on Spotify, Deezer on
YouTube, over at YouTube dot com slash

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at Clippers podcast. But I've been
doing a whole hell of a lot of

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talking. Adam. We have these
spooky names. It's the night before Halloween.

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I'm in Montana, a very scary
place. You're in Burbank, which

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is in its own way. How
are you doing today? I thought our

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crime was pretty low here, but
maybe maybe you're right. Things I don't

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know about the uh underbelly of Burbank. It's good to be here, Chuck.

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I'm okay. Clippers. Yeah,
didn't end up being three and oh,

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like we all predicted on this podcast. Of course, my eighty two

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and ZL prediction is now could put
SOT tough tough weekend for me. I

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look like a damn pool. Yeah, that's right. At least we got

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the themed out name tags in this
one. We'll be missing Will, but

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we can still do our little name
tag game here on the YouTube side if

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you're watching us there, and we
appreciate all the new listeners and viewers of

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Clips and DIP. As we know, there is more of a ground swallow

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support during the season than during the
off season. It's slightly more exciting to

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be talking about actual, real games, not even just preseason anymore. As

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the Clippers open up the season two
and one, Yes, so they got

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tripped up against the Jazz. The
Spurs game went as well as it possibly

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could have. No one played over
twenty eight minutes, which is huge going

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into this back to back Through three
games, Paul George is at twenty seven

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to four and four, Kawhi twenty
three, six and five. Russ is

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doing efficient RUSS things at eleven,
seven and seven. He's also shooting sixty

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percent on eight field goal attempts a
game, which is great, you know,

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all things considered. I mean two
and one is almost as good as

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you could be. But what went
wrong against the Jazz? Do we think

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and do we think things? Maybe
just the mentality got corrected against the Spurs,

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all right, some of it was
just fluky shooting and no disrespect to

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the Jazz, but those shots by
Kelly Olenok won in the face of Kawhi

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Leonard in the far side corner.
That's tough to overcome. And then in

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a game where you're only down one, of course, Jordan Clarksond goes for

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a three pointer and hits it.
I said he hated us. I said

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he hated us. He's been a
Clipper killer every time he put up a

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shot. In the twenty to twenty
one playoff series. I thought it was

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going in. But to get that
shot on the switch with two to one

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three guarding him, and I think
it was marketing there who was setting the

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screen. It was an unbelievable shot. It was a big victory for them,

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and then they turned around and lost
and didn't shoot very well against the

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depleted Phoenix Suns team right afterwards.
So some of that classic Clippers luck,

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catching the wrong team at the wrong
time on the wrong night where they seemed

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to hit everything. But I still
put it on the Clippers by not coming

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out with that defensive intensity to start
the game. If you don't want a

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team to gain confidence after they had
lost by twenty five or thirty, whatever

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it was against Sacramento, you don't
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I want to say they had four
or five three pointers in that first

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quarter and then all of a sudden, thht Is knocking one down in the

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face of Kawhi. Leonard and Marketing
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against Powell, having his career three
total. Now, I think it was

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the first time he's ever made multiple
threes in a game. So that was

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tough. Are those nights It was
partially on the Clippers, partially on inordinate

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fluky shooting by the Utah Jazz.
But the Clippers are the team that's trying

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to fight for a championship this season, right the onus is on them to

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come out and play the right way
and build the right habits. And Kawhi

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said a postgame, they came out
flat and he looked very frustrated. In

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that game, he looked a little
his shot was speaking of flat, his

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shot was getting a little flat,
which is how I think, you know,

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Kawhi isn't maybe where he wants to
be, like in that specific game

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at strength or game speed, because
late in the game he was hitting the

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little front rim stuff and for me, he doesn't have a lot of tels.

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But for me, that's like,
uh oh, Kawhi's maybe a little

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bit tired or something like that.
Not that that's bad. Yeah, he

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got hot, I think it was. He had nine of his twenty five

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in the fourth quarter. But obviously
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that ballgame. Kawhi on the left
wing matchup against Jordan Clarkson, they didn't

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call the time out. I didn't
hate that move they had. If you

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tell me Kawhi Leonard's gonna have Jordan
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game with the Clippers being down by
two, I would typically feel pretty good

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about that. Yeah, And he
was working with Nicholas Withtom in the two

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man game to regain his dribble against
Jordan Clarkson. Took the three pointer ended

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up being a really tough shot tip
at the cap to Jordan Clarkson. It

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was well defended. I guess he's
the Kawhi stopper or something. It's weird

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to say. No, it rimmed
out. Russell Westbrook gathered it with about

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three seconds left. I think it
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less than that. I watched that
clip twelve times, so I think it

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was three point three when it was
in his hands. But then he gets

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to the floor, so maybe it's
about two to two and a half to

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two point possession after the yeah,
sure, and he tries the fade away

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over Olenick comes up short. I
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but Nicholas Batoum was open on the
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after watching the clip like you Supruder
film style, just going over it over

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and over again, because in real
time, and I tweeted it out right

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away, I said Batoum was open
on the right wing, and my mind

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went right back to that game against
the Knicks last season where he knocked down

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that three pointer to tie it to
go into ot and Madison Square Garden.

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They eventually would win you trust Nicolas
Patum in those situations. And to me,

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if he is calling for the ball, a guy that unselfish get on

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the ball, and that's where it
has to be. Well, even from

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a technique perspective, if you get
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in zero point three seconds, yeah
he can beat Derek Fisher with getting rid

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of that thing. But on second
and third viewing of that play, John

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Collins had a b line towards Nicholas
Patum. If he had caught it,

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I think there's a good chance he
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floor or relocate pump, fake or
somethings off him. Therefore he might not

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have got up a shot. Actually, tough spot to be in. And

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that's that's the spot you find yourselves
in when Walker Kessler makes two threes,

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right like, that's you take one
of those Walker Kessler which have never happened

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before. But you are right.
They came out flat five offensive rebounds on

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one possession with under a minute left
for Lori Marknen to eventually tip that in.

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Yeah, and I put a lot
of that game on the bigs of

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the Clippers. Now, Utah is
a wacky team. To play because everybody

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can shoot out there, including Kelly
Olenick apparently really well, so it draws

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them away from the basket at times. But still the rebounding effort just wasn't

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good enough. Seventeen offensive rebounds I
think it was thirty three or thirty four

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second chance points killed jazz Es battle. And that's what we heard all off

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season was we can't lose this possession
battle. That was the textbook way to

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lose it. When you're seeding,
you know, almost an extra quarter of

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field goal attempts to your opponent.
That's a really tough hole to dig yourself

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out of. Nineteen more field goal
attempts Utah got up for the Clippers to

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be leading by four late in that
game was almost remarkable. Even Kawhi last

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night postgame mentioned and I think he
was still frustrated about losing that one.

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This team seemed really locked in,
like they wanted to start make sure they

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started off four to oh. They
saw the schedule as well, so it

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was a little bit disheartening and deflating. But even Kawhi was like, giving

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up twenty more shots to the Utah
Jazz, that stuff can't happen. It

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did you want to clean it up
now. And the good news is last

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night it seemed like they corrected a
lot of those mistakes, especially with coming

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out with a sense of urgency last
night was I mean forty points. I

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know the modern NBA people score a
lot of points, but to win by

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forty I mean app They came out
exactly like we wanted them to write,

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Like it was, Oh, this
is a team that we can take care

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of business of. Let's not only
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in a way that like, I
don't know, I was surprised it didn't

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get more pressed, I guess,
but I do like everyone played well in

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that game for the most part,
right, Like there's no one I think

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everyone wasn't a positive plus minus like
Bones, Right, yeah, no,

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shit, Bones was great. Kobe
Brown hit a three. Everyone was talking

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about that, everybody, the first
bucket of his young career, a three

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pointer. We love it a little
intel. By the way, Carlo Amenez

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did a season ticket holder one on
one with Kobe Brown event postgame and apparently

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the reason why, all of a
sudden he got that huge twenty percent jump

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from the outside in college his senior
year at Massoo, the new coach that

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they brought in said hey, you
have to shoot three pointers now on this

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team. So it sounds like it
just wasn't something he worked on before.

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So if you're wondering, is it
an outlier, is it just some one

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off season where he shot really well
from the outside. Seems like no,

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he was actually zoning in on trying
to improve in that very area because it

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was demanded by that team to do
so, So maybe it's it's there more

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than people realized. It was like, it's not just three bad seasons,

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one good season, so therefore that
one good season you have to throw out

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or something like that. And it
doesn't necessarily translate to the pros. No,

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it sounds like it was just something
he never really worked on before.

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And it turns out he's a pretty
dark good three point shooter since he has.

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Yeah, his attempts didn't exactly skyrocket
from junior to senior year, but

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they did. Man, that pension
practice did. Yeah exactly, that's what

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I mean, thankfully. But yeah, so and I think even after so,

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you know, they lose to the
Jazz, they come out absolutely destroy

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the Spurs, Zoo bounces back Bones, has a great game. The Clippers

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are also practicing today, which is
the day off in the middle of a

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three and four streak. That to
me, and what happened how they responded

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after the Jazz game against the Spurs. I'm believing what we were told in

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the off season so far, you
know what I mean the fact that I

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don't. I would be shocked if
they practiced once in the last three years

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on the off day on a three
and four. Yeah, and then they

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practice Saturday after losing to Utah,
and then you would think, oh,

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you give them the prize of having
a day off after beating a team by

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forty forty because you got a back
to back coming up. You give him

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a little bit of relief. But
instead coach lou was talking about, we

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need to get better. It doesn't
matter. There were still mistakes in that

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game. There's no perfect game.
There's always things to work on, and

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you can better prepare yourself for this
back to back. And he said it

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wouldn't be a hard practice, but
oh, of course would be great preparation

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for them. So this is something
you mentioned the talking points this offseason.

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He said, even if we're not
necessarily running up and down or doing line

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drills and stuff, like high school
basketball doing what was that terrifying drill he

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talked about in the press conference.
I think it's called blowout or something like

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that, where it's like fourteen seconds
on the clock and you just run.

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You're just turn it over. You
gotta run more. Yeah, well,

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he did emphasize that the one thing
he said he could do better is even

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if guys are out, or guys
are banged up, or guys are tired,

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you can still do walkthroughs, you
can still watch film, you can

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still care yourself better that way.
And it sounds like today was one of

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those days, a lighter sort of
practice, but you know, challenging to

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the mind and the basketball IQ's.
I guess this is what they're going for.

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It's a quiz day. They're doing
a quiz day at Clippers practice right

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now, which is good. Another
note from Clippers practice, Terrence Man out

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of the walking boot, which is
great. No timeline from the team if

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you were expecting one, you're a
new fan to the team, because we

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don't really ever get those. But
under the or out of the boot is

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clutch. I was happy to hear
that from practice today, Yeah, because

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I saw him last night. He
walked right by me in the tunnel and

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he was still wearing the boot,
and I was like, oh man,

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this is probably worse than people realize. You know, day to day may

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be optimistic, but yeah, today's
seeing that him dancing around. There was

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some video of him while lifting weights. I think somebody put out I don't

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know if it was Joey Lynn or
who. But that's a good sign.

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We love it. And so are
there any potentially leading to be a major

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concern thing through three games? The
turnovers? You know, again, it's

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three games there, twentieth in the
league in turnovers. I think that'll get

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cleaned up. I would like them
to just not be bottom ten. Do

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you know how many more passes they're
making compared to last season. That's what

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I'd be interested in seeing because it
may be a symptom of just passing more,

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sharing the basketball more. Because in
that first game where they had thirty

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six assists, yeah, they had
seventeen turnovers. But when you have thirty

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six assists out there, you know
that's not necessarily a typical seventeen turnover night.

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It's a little bit different. It's
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twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen, twenty
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per game because they're making more passes
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that or that's part of the reason
turnovers are up. Yeah, that's a

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good call. And again early in
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nothing super concerning right now, I
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It seems like Tye is leaning into
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just kind of letting them. I
think the term on Twitter I saw was

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bludgeon opponents together, because the advanced
stats all pretty much say like, oh,

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when these two guys are on the
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the other team, like all the
way around. So I'm liking that he

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said he's going to keep I think
what Russ and Norm together or bones and

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Norm together anytime that Kawhi and PG
you're both off. It sounds like he

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really wants to use Russ and norm
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of bones the key with Paul George
and Kawhi more Uh, that's an emphasis,

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that's some a little bit of a
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game or after what he saw against
Utah. That was an adjustment that they

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made because he likes Norm is obviously
instant offense. He's get it and go

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type. He's not going to get
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Kawhi Leonard and Paul George at all. And same with Russell Westbrook who only

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took four shots in that game against
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Russ was really good last night that
euro step in the lane, knocked down

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three three pointers. Kawhi looked for
him as he drew the defense as it

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collapsed on him and the key,
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pass to Russ on the far side. Corn the first half knocking down a

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three. Leebo was the first half
like his confidence seems to be high with

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his shooting stroke right now, and
he was asked how he's feeling athletically and

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he was kind of like, you
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you could tell that contest on Wemby
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foul and it got looked like one. They challenged it. That to me,

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that tells you all you need to
know about Russ. I used to

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say, he's like, uh,
Raphael the Ninja Turtle. Sure see of

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the show will know. Adam Love's
a ninja Turtles. I used to say

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KD was like Leo. He was
more like Raphael h Leonardo Leeds. Rafael

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is crude, but rude whatever the
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own at times and go after the
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Russ has certainly been much more controlled
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That's been great. The confidence you
mentioned is high, the attempts are

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low, which is the perfect Russ
combination right now, high confidence, well,

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efficient attempts from outside the paint.
Obviously he's shooting something crazy in the

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paint. I think he's shooting like, yeah, I don't know. He's

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shooting fifty percent on just under three
three point attempts per game and not the

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RIM's shooting like sixty or seventy five
percent. So like we're getting exactly the

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kind of rust the Clippers need right
now. Yeah, for a guy who

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was criticized for only shooting fifty percent
the rim, what happened to Russ?

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He's blowing layups all the time.
He's been better in that area when he's

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a blur and gets down the court
very quickly instead of it turning into a,

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you know, a glamorized turnover.
I guess you could say if he

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misses it at the rim and the
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He's sinking those shots more often now, the euro step last night in Game

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one. He also had a play
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where he looked like the fastest player
on the floor, but then had the

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finesse and the touch at the basket
to get it to go. I just

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thought he was a badass by the
fact that he challenged Wenby. He had

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a one on one on Russell Knew
in transition and Russ made a great play

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on the basketball. And his defense
has been very good so far. Same

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with norm I think we brought that
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has been different compared to last year. And he said that at Media Day

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that he wasn't gonna wait for the
playoffs to come around for him to lock

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in on that end. The team
told him, hey, we need your

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defense now, and this is somebody
who we need. He really shouldn't be

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a below average defender. I think
his defense has been surprisingly in a negative

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way, I guess disappointing to me
so far as a Clipper. He has

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been in there with some interesting lineups
at times, which doesn't help. But

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yeah, so far, the effort
has been stellar. He was locked up

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on Wemby a few different times,
and I joked on Twitter, but you

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got him to miss. I was
like, Norm locked up Wemby, Like

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here we go. And the other
nice thing about Norm He's having a good

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start to the season. We're not
getting early slump Norm. Everyone was worried

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about that, which is fair because
if norms slumping, the bench is gonna

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you know, bones is the key, but Norm is also there too.

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Skeleton Skeleton key, that's my new
nickname for makes everything that's fair. That's

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great, But yeah, everything for
the most part is going well. After

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this break, we're gonna talk to
the Clippers back to back preview. They

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got the magic tomorrow night and then
the Lakers the night after that. If

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still to come. In this with
myself and Chuck Mockler, we'll talk about

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the NBA in season tournament court designs
that were just revealed earlier today, with

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i'd say some pretty polarizing mixed reviews
from people looking at them. We'll give

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you our impressions of what the Clippers
court looks like. But it's time to

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preview the first back to back of
the season. The first three and four

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is here, first of twenty five
of those. So the Clippers were able

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to get a win last night by
forty and most importantly getting their starters out

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by the end of I took the
Clippers. Tell you what I took the

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Clippers at minus thirty eight and a
half. Great bet. Great bet.

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If you missed out on that one, hope, I hope you got good

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odds on that nice check? Do
you think so ty Luis had the plans

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for Kawhi and PG to play versus
the Magic and then evaluate how they feel

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versus the Lakers. Lebron and I
think a couple other key contributors for the

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team across the hall popped up on
the most recent Lakers injury report as well.

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What are the chances Orlando's not gonna
be an easy game? They're a

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very good team. They have two
young great you know, kind of mini

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two one three ish or at least
the same positions. They have a ninety

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six defensive rating through two games,
but they've played Houston in the Blazers,

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so you know, I wish,
hey, that'd be nice, Yeah right,

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but ninety six is still absurd.
They also have a very weird opening

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slate for an Eastern Conference team Houston
Blazers Lakers Clippers. Is that that has

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to be the first time an Eastern
Conference team has started all Western Conference Opponi

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Stope in the season that many games. Do you think we see Kawhi and

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PG both against the Lakers. I'm
a little skeptical. I don't say that

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with any stank on my breath.
I just think The Magic is gonna be

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a really hard game, and stink
on my Breast should be the nickname now

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track from steak on over here.
Yeah, I think it's going to depend

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on what happens tomorrow night. If
they handle business the same way they did

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against San Antonio, where the starters
end up playing less than thirty minutes,

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then there's a great chance they're able
to go. But it is still dependent

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on how they are feeling, of
course, and the Magic have to take

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on the Lakers tonight, so they're
getting them on the second night of a

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back to back, which is good
for them, but the problem is then

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the Lakers get a day off and
we'll be waiting for the Clippers. However,

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Sacramento took them to overtime last night. We talked about a postgame on

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a little Clippers double dip on Clippers
talk that that was big because great Lebron's

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last two games. After coach Darbham
came out and talked about this minutes restriction

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they're trying to keep them around thirty
side half of basketball, it lasted like

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one Why would you the minutes restriction
on Bron thing? Have you seen the

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on off numbers for the Lakers with
broad off the court. It's what they

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are on all his teams throughout his
entire career. That's basically how it looks.

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When Lebron's on the court, you
win those minutes, when he's not,

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you lose. That has been kind
of his cross to bear. But

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he played thirty five minutes in Game
two against the Phoenix Suns. They got

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the victory. He was great late
and that ballgame had ten points in the

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fourth quarter. He played thirty nine
minutes with that overtime game in Sacramento.

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So they're chasing wins obviously early on
because I do think, look, it's

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smart, impactive. It is smart
what they're doing, or at least what

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they were saying they were going to
do with Lebron, because if you look

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at all those games against the Denver
Nuggets, and granted he was dealing with

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that foot injury and he definitely looks
way better after this offseason coming back from

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that, but they ran out of
gas in all those fourth quarters. Those

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were all those games against Denver,
and the Lakers let them all slip and

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Lebron look gas. Their only chance
is if they manage his minutes well enough.

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He's about to turn fing thirty nine
in year twenty one. I know

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it's overstated and people are tired of
hearing that, but you're never gonna see

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it again, so I think it's
okay to appreciate it, even though he's

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wearing a Lakers jersey, because last
night was the twenty year anniversary of his

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debut up in Sacramento where he lost
with Cleveland back in two thousand and three,

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and to celebrate they lost again,
Lebron did now with the Lakers in

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Sacramento, not at Arco, but
at the Gold One Center. So looking

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at the magic, Franz Wagner's having
a great start to this season. He's

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shooting thirty seven percent on eight threes
a game, and you can also score

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inside. His buddy Paolo is also
very, very good at basketball. They

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have two huge wings to go.
It's almost like looking on the mirror a

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little bit when it comes to like
roster construction. At least, I'm really

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excited to see what they do with
I'm wondering if they just funnel him to

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Zoo and try and make him force
the pass and make a decision like that,

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because I gotta assume we're going to
see a bunch of different looks.

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They have Cole Anthony, who always
kills us, had a crazy duel with

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Reggie a couple of seasons ago which
was fun. Oh yeah, the one

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two like it's this is a huge
test for the defense. This is I

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mean offensively obviously, where it's not
like we're going in a sneezy team either.

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But they have size, they got
continuity, you know, they want

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to make a mark on the season. I'm looking at Kawhi and PG.

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Yes, I'm looking at Kawhi and
PG to start this game. We really

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need him to start defensively with what
we didn't have against the Jazz, because

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if we come out like that,
it's it's not going to be very fun

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to ope in this game. And
how about Paul George with five steals in

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the first quarter, a career high
as steals for a quarter, and he

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was just picking guys pockets one on
one. He's averaging like three a game.

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Which is anybody who derided or moped
Paul George saying he was gonna be

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on his bullys, well, through
three games he's been on it, and

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then some I mocked him. I
need to see it at more than three.

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But we'll see. He's been fantastic. So far, so good,

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but yes, he needs to set
the tone. They need to set the

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tone defensively, and just let the
opposition know. I'm gonna say this a

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lot this season. It's not gonna
be an easy night. Everything's gonna be

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contested. Make them uncomfortable early on. Let them know that they're coming off

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a game tonight against Los Angeles Lakers. We'll see how that goes, but

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just let him know, not tonight, not tonight in Los Angeles. This

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Clippers team is coming out with playing
with force, and they're looking to build

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on this early season defensive mindset,
energy that they've put out there throughout training

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camp. And that's all you can
ask for right now, like keep doing

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the basics that you've been preaching and
keep building off of it. And we've

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talked about how we've wanted to see
what this team's offense looks like in the

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half court against you know, maybe
a better defense than what they've seen so

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far. This is gonna be a
very good test of what the halfbart offense

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looks like, even if we can't
get the normal transition game we've been seeing

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when things are going well for the
Clippers. We're still gonna have to probably

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if this is a close game,
win it in the half court, and

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they have size, they have guys
who try on the defensive end. You

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know, like this is gonna be
a chess match for tylu. I'm excited

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to see the lineups. I'm yeah, for some reason, I have an

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inkling that kJ Martin might be able
to have a clutch bucket or two.

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I'm not saying a crazy good game, but we're gonna need speed and legs

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in this one if we want to
play everybody versus the Lakers. So I

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hope if any minutes kJ gets he
can use his youthfulness to dust everybody on

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the court. There was something in
that game last night that I felt like

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was a wrinkle for how they're gonna
use kJ Martin moving forward. In the

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first half, when he got minutes
when the game wasn't quite fully out of

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reach yet and he was playing more
consequential minutes, they basically used him as

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a runout cherry picker. Guy,
beat your man down the court, We'll

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look for you that way. That's
how you exploit his ability to get up.

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He's a great athlete. Just throw
the ball down the court to him,

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and then he ended up catching a
couple of lobs in the second half.

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But I like that. I think
that's smart. That's where he can

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be useful, beat his man down
the court. The Clippers want to push

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the face a few baseball passes to
him, whatever, it takes, four

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points, whatever, something to just
throw off the rhythm. If if the

407
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,519
Magic are kind of running away or
having a really good game in this one,

408
00:28:37,799 --> 00:28:40,240
what's your pick for this game?
I don't know, there's you know,

409
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,480
we obviously were never going to talk
about betting lines on this on this

410
00:28:42,519 --> 00:28:48,799
podcast. You do you think the
Clippers take care of business night? Wanted

411
00:28:48,839 --> 00:28:52,680
this back to back, like you
said, you mentioned is the second night

412
00:28:52,759 --> 00:28:56,039
for the Magic, which does help
the Clippers a lot. Yeah, I

413
00:28:56,119 --> 00:29:00,519
do. Uh. I think,
Well, they're undefeated at home so far.

414
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,920
But I think they're gonna come out
and play the right way. There's

415
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:14,160
a reason they did a pregame closed
practice before yesterday's game, Like there is

416
00:29:14,359 --> 00:29:18,240
just a different level of focus and
an intent on playing a certain way and

417
00:29:18,279 --> 00:29:22,920
we're not messing around, and we're
gonna give us every opportunity to be great

418
00:29:23,039 --> 00:29:27,079
this season. You can't control injuries, none of that stuff. All you

419
00:29:27,079 --> 00:29:33,160
can do is build on those philosophies
that they've been talking about. So I

420
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,240
think they're gonna get off to a
quick start. I don't expect them to

421
00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:38,599
win by forty or anything like that. Orlando will be a good test.

422
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,039
Jonathan Jonathan not believe in Huh,
you don't think they have two forty point

423
00:29:44,039 --> 00:29:47,319
wins back to back? Is the
line thirty eight this time to Chuck or

424
00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:52,200
I got him at minus twenty six
and a half. I got really good

425
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,240
odds on that. Jonathan Isaac is
backing healthy. Finally, they have a

426
00:29:56,279 --> 00:30:00,519
little guy rebounding well like. They're
doing the things that can beat the Clippers

427
00:30:00,599 --> 00:30:03,960
right their third and rebounds per game, they're hitting, They're getting a lot

428
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,400
of free throw attempts. This is
a be tight around the margins game for

429
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:14,000
the Clips. This is one of
the teams that got the Clippers attention enough

430
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,880
to do all this conditioning coming into
the season. They're one of those good

431
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:22,680
young teams that you know early in
the year before it looks like, oh

432
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,559
we're gonna miss the play in we're
gonna miss the playoffs again, and maybe

433
00:30:25,559 --> 00:30:27,200
they will be in the play and
mix in the East. But everybody has

434
00:30:27,279 --> 00:30:30,440
hope early on. So some of
these teams, like we saw with Okac

435
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,319
to start off last season when the
Clippers took those two losses in Oka,

436
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:40,000
see early on, everybody's feeling good
about themselves. Obviously, the Thunder now

437
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,519
look to be a playoff team for
sure, as long as they're healthy.

438
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,440
But I've just been young. Teams
like this can be very dangerous early on

439
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,519
in the season. Speaking a dangerous. They have a Joe Ingles now,

440
00:30:49,559 --> 00:30:56,000
I believe, so watch out.
Don't like that? Forgot about that?

441
00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,359
Hey that partoo hard Tomorrow? Yes
he is, and on Halloween, so

442
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:07,319
it's only fitting a right Moving on
to the Lakers game. Yeah, So

443
00:31:08,039 --> 00:31:11,799
here's a stat I saw on Twitter, and this is before they play the

444
00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:15,960
Magic. It's very early, but
through the three games they've played, the

445
00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:22,240
Lakers are twenty ninth and pull up
shooting effective field goal percentage twenty ninth and

446
00:31:22,279 --> 00:31:26,519
spot up shooting effective field goal percentage
twenty fifth and catch and shoot three point

447
00:31:26,519 --> 00:31:30,839
percentage and twenty third in wide open
three point percentage. It feels like they

448
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,599
start every year like this. The
shooting is out there. Gabe Vincent has

449
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:42,680
been horrendous for that team. I
it's always crazy when you play the Lakers,

450
00:31:42,759 --> 00:31:45,400
right, it's like a it's you
know, it's like a real divisional

451
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:52,839
game. It's like the division actually
matters when you play the Lakers. I

452
00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:56,720
I think you might have some feelings
on this. Do you think the Clippers

453
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:01,720
are gonna make Ad shoot a lot? I hope so, because outside the

454
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:06,200
bubble, Anthony Davis has never been
a great shooter. I don't know why

455
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,880
they're chasing that now and talking about, hey, we should get himutting up

456
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:14,039
more three pointers this season. At
least that was the mess. Darvin Ham

457
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,720
said he wanted him to take six
a game, right, And I'm trying

458
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,319
to pull up his stats now he
is at fifty percent. He might be

459
00:32:20,359 --> 00:32:23,240
like one for two on the year. Let me check he's he's only he's

460
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:29,039
shooting. He's attempting two to three
pointers per game, so forty eight percent

461
00:32:29,119 --> 00:32:32,480
is obviously very low. I wonder
how many mid ranges he's taking. There

462
00:32:32,519 --> 00:32:36,880
was a shot against the Phoenix Suns
the other night in their Game two,

463
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:42,079
where Yusuf Nurkic dared him to take
a fifteen footer on the left elbow.

464
00:32:42,279 --> 00:32:45,559
He literally thought about going up to
guard ad and then said no, no,

465
00:32:45,319 --> 00:32:49,759
no, take that shot back the
way ad Brick did. So.

466
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,880
From ten field goal percentage by distance
ten to sixteen feet, he's at thirty

467
00:32:54,880 --> 00:33:00,200
three percent. Three to ten feet, he's at thirty three percent. Right

468
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,400
at the rim, he's at eighty
three percent. Where does the three to

469
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:07,799
ten percentage stack up against the rest
of his career, because that seems abnormally

470
00:33:07,839 --> 00:33:12,039
low. Three to ten well,
so for them for his career he averages

471
00:33:12,079 --> 00:33:17,680
forty four. Okay, so it's
down significantly that it's two games that'll come

472
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,559
around, and then ten to sixteen
for his career he averages forty two.

473
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:27,480
So not exactly lighting it up,
we're not talking about still not good,

474
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,400
no, right, So people think
I'm I'm hoping we're gonna go ahead.

475
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,039
People think I'm a hater, and
maybe i am, but well, I

476
00:33:35,079 --> 00:33:38,839
mean so true teller Anthony Davis in
the Bubble. Anthony Davis in those twenty

477
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:44,759
one games in the playoffs in the
Bubble shot fifty five percent on long two's

478
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:50,680
and thirty eight percent on threes.
If anyone can find me a twenty one

479
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,119
game stretch in his entire career,
where he had twenty one consecutive games and

480
00:33:54,079 --> 00:33:59,599
then that stretch shot that well on
long twos and threes. Good luck.

481
00:34:00,279 --> 00:34:06,720
That was one of the abnormalities or
abnormal shooting outputs like TJ. Warren,

482
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,880
like a few other guys that we
saw in the bubble, and nobody wants

483
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:14,280
to talk about it because that would
discredit the Clippers championship. But I'm sorry,

484
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,199
it's the truth. Anthony Davis was
on a heater like he was Kevin

485
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:22,079
Durant, and he's never shot that
well before. So for them to be

486
00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:23,800
like, oh, we want you
to take more of those shots. Get

487
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:28,000
back to that, So get back
to what it's never happened outside the bubble

488
00:34:28,039 --> 00:34:32,360
doesn't make any sense. Get back
to what he's back all right, he's

489
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:37,280
doing what he normally does, just
about But look, he's a great player.

490
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:38,920
I'm just saying, he's never been
a great shooter, right to your

491
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:44,559
point. Try to make him into
a jump shooter, right, and Zoo

492
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:50,159
plays fairly well against the Lakers.
I'm interested to see if he can.

493
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:52,800
He had seventeen and thirteen the last
time we played the Lakers. So did

494
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,440
you have a game with five blocks
early on last season? Against Anthony Davis.

495
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,280
Was it the first game against him? Yeah? It was, It

496
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,039
might have been, so. Yeah, Lebron is still the best player on

497
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,840
the Lakers, which is insane.
He's shooting eighty five percent at the rim.

498
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,800
He's not taking a ton of shots
from three to ten or ten to

499
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:19,199
sixteen feet. I've gotta imagine we're
gonna see Kawhi and PG multiple looks on

500
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,800
Lebron trying to force him into these
shots he doesn't take at all so far

501
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:28,960
this year. And if he beats
us on mid range jumpers or whatever goofy

502
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,280
thing might happen, you just kind
of got to live with it because his

503
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:37,239
stat like it's you don't want him
at the rim, you want him anywhere

504
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,440
else other than the rim. We
might see some comical defense from the Clippers

505
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:45,800
in this game against the Remember how
sometimes the teams would just pack the paint

506
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:51,119
against the Lakers if they don't play
well against the magic the Lakers from outside.

507
00:35:51,159 --> 00:35:53,960
I think we might see some mimeable
defense from the Clippers in this game,

508
00:35:54,559 --> 00:35:59,840
as they should. The main reason
that the Clippers have won eleven straight

509
00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:04,719
against the Lakers is because Lebron has
had some of the worst games over his

510
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,880
last five years against the Clippers.
It's not a coincidence that it's happened in

511
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:13,639
the two to one three era U
The first game against him, he shot

512
00:36:13,679 --> 00:36:16,239
thirty six percent. The next game, that December game with a Pat bev

513
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,880
rip at the end, he shot
thirty seven percent, then forty one percent,

514
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,480
thirty one percent, forty percent,
thirty nine percent, thirty three percent,

515
00:36:23,599 --> 00:36:28,519
forty four percent, forty one percent. But the last three games last

516
00:36:28,559 --> 00:36:32,360
season against the Clippers fifty four percent, fifty five sixty five where he had

517
00:36:32,599 --> 00:36:36,639
what the forty point game. Uh, he had a forty six point game

518
00:36:36,679 --> 00:36:40,440
against the Clippers. Clippers still won. But overall in these eleven games where

519
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:45,000
they have dominated the Lakers, it's
been locking up Lebron and getting the best

520
00:36:45,039 --> 00:36:50,960
of him. Yes, like that, I mean that's he's the best guy

521
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,960
on their team. Like force Anthony
Davis to be the guy because Anthonyvis has

522
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:59,599
shown you can do it sometimes.
But if this Clippers team, if we

523
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:04,440
come out foot on the gas,
legitimately foot on the gas, Russ comes

524
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,559
out, he'll probably have a little
bit of extra motivation as always against you

525
00:37:07,599 --> 00:37:14,519
know, his former team, especially
how things ended over there. If you

526
00:37:14,519 --> 00:37:16,679
know, I'm assuming Roco is going
to start again if we get locked in

527
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,800
Roco, who did a good job
on Wemby, very physical on Limby,

528
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,599
He's gonna have to be physical with
everyone he guards for the Lakers. Like

529
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:35,159
I also like, let's give let's
put the ball in Delo's hands. Let's

530
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:40,519
make Delo make decisions. The group
of Dangelo Russell, Reeves, Vincent and

531
00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:45,519
Cam Reddish are a combined seventeen percent
from three to start the season. They're

532
00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:49,920
eight of forty five as a trio. I'm most worried about Reeves getting hot.

533
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:54,679
He is He's more than Dow.
He's a good basketball player. He's

534
00:37:54,719 --> 00:38:00,719
better than Dangelo Russell. Like,
that's who I'm most worried about maybe getting

535
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,360
hot in this one. That's a
great call because he has had a miserable

536
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,320
start to the season and he's good, Like this is no shade on him.

537
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:13,559
He's so good player. People right
now are saying, oh, he

538
00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:17,440
had his insanity moment. It's over
now because he's gotten off to a start

539
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:22,719
where from the field he's shooting thirty
percent from three, He's shooting twenty five

540
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:28,239
percent scoring. He played summer basketball
too, like I think he's just tired.

541
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,519
I also, I have a feeling
this is just a stupid theory of

542
00:38:32,519 --> 00:38:39,480
mine, but preaking like the hype
when you're a Laker and do anything.

543
00:38:39,639 --> 00:38:45,320
Sometimes France and Ruie it's like this, and Tory Prince's been very good so

544
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:50,960
far. But I wonder how many
players in the league, because you saw

545
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,599
that moment with Kevin Durant in the
preseason saying, don't put him on me

546
00:38:53,679 --> 00:38:59,639
next week. I wonder how many
guys feel like, all right, Austin,

547
00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:02,960
it's time the payback is here.
We're tired of you having a bigger

548
00:39:04,039 --> 00:39:07,199
name in this league than guys who
are legitimate All Stars and who have been

549
00:39:07,199 --> 00:39:10,360
doing this for a long time,
just because you're a member of the Los

550
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:16,840
Angeles Lakers. Theory. I remember
this. I felt like teams against the

551
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:23,599
Clippers during Lob City took umbrage with
Blake Griffin and all his dunks, and

552
00:39:23,599 --> 00:39:29,000
they were annoyed by him because he
hadn't done anything at the highest level in

553
00:39:29,039 --> 00:39:31,800
the league, and the Clippers were
more style than substance. Sure, and

554
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:36,079
I'm not saying that's the case with
Austin Reeves. I actually think he's really

555
00:39:36,079 --> 00:39:39,119
good and he can be a great
championship a role player on a championship team,

556
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:44,840
just like Terrence Man. But I
also think guys are gunning for him

557
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,599
now, like he has a target
on his back because you saw what last

558
00:39:47,679 --> 00:39:52,280
year he crossed over Giannis. It
became this big clip. He's gotten a

559
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,719
couple of guys, and I just
think the rest of the league is like,

560
00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:00,719
no, it's it's over, Like
we're we're actually going to go at

561
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,480
you, because there was some of
someone of a blueprint at times in the

562
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:07,559
playoffs where if you made him work
defensively, his legs were taken out of

563
00:40:07,559 --> 00:40:09,719
the ball game. On the other
end for jump shots, Yeah, we're

564
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:14,320
gonna we gotta put everyone. Let's
put Lebron in motion on offense. I

565
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:19,400
want to see Lebron having to move
around and navigate soft screens. Anything to

566
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,400
make him work harder on the defensive
end is gonna be huge, which is

567
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,800
where Russ is gonna come into play, setting things up bones on the second

568
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,599
unit again, force him to run. Let's make everyone run. When Kawhi

569
00:40:30,599 --> 00:40:34,679
and PG aren't in this game,
it's gonna be a great game. Obviously,

570
00:40:34,679 --> 00:40:36,159
we're on the second end of a
back to back. We don't know

571
00:40:36,199 --> 00:40:42,400
if Kahian PG are gonna play,
but it's it's winnable. It's it's possible

572
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,119
to go to a zero over this
back to back. It's gonna be very

573
00:40:45,119 --> 00:40:49,920
difficult. I think they're gonna split. I hate to be the downer.

574
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,000
I hate to be the Debbie downer. I think they're gonna split. I

575
00:40:52,039 --> 00:40:57,559
think they're gonna end up three or
what is it? Yeah, I don't

576
00:40:57,599 --> 00:41:02,800
want them to split. You haven't
met then, Yeah, here's what's encouraging

577
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,880
to sound good. I don't like
that. But it's a tough like,

578
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,039
it's a tough split to get.
No, I want them to start nine

579
00:41:10,039 --> 00:41:15,280
to four at worst in their first
thirteen games. To me, that Utah

580
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:20,840
game, you have to get that
back somewhere. But I'll say this regarding

581
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,920
rest and if they're both gonna play
Kawhi and Paul George's back to back,

582
00:41:24,039 --> 00:41:29,760
we don't know how they're going to
be used and dispersed in those games.

583
00:41:30,039 --> 00:41:35,079
They got four days off afterwards.
Now they may be practicing all those days,

584
00:41:35,119 --> 00:41:37,159
but they actually have After the Lakers
game, they don't play again.

585
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:43,800
I think until Monday. This is
like the only little lull in their schedule

586
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:50,159
before the Gauntlet creeps up on them. But maybe that plays a factor here

587
00:41:50,199 --> 00:41:52,800
where they can play extra minutes in
both games with the back to back and

588
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:58,079
not have to worry about it as
much and go for these wins because you

589
00:41:58,119 --> 00:42:00,840
know you're getting four days off afterwards. Right. I like that mentality.

590
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:06,880
That's a good time. We're feeling
confident. Oh, one other guy I'm

591
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,599
worried about, maybe Christian Wood.
I'm happy he's not on the Clippers.

592
00:42:10,599 --> 00:42:14,960
He seems like a nightmare in the
locker room, but the shooting ability is

593
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,280
there. If he has a wonky
hot night, I would be upset,

594
00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:25,119
Yeah, but not totally surprised.
Someone's gonna have a goofy night and someone

595
00:42:25,159 --> 00:42:30,679
with an outlier performance is usually how
you lose a game like this, or

596
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:35,119
somebody sneaks up on you. Yeah, Gabe Benson, make it off the

597
00:42:35,159 --> 00:42:38,199
snide. There are guys who are
primed for figuring it out and having a

598
00:42:38,199 --> 00:42:43,199
hot shooting night. But maybe then
Torren Prince doesn't have as good of a

599
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,000
night. So we'll see if it
evens out and they got the extra practice

600
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:51,079
and they're feeling good. Last thing, we're gonna close on. The new

601
00:42:51,199 --> 00:42:55,280
court designed for the D Season tournament
was released for every team, these Clippers.

602
00:42:55,280 --> 00:43:00,079
One is blue as hell. It's
very blue, says Clips in the

603
00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:05,480
city audition logo with the little basketball
over it at the center. I don't

604
00:43:05,519 --> 00:43:07,880
hate it. I feel kind of
crazy saying that. I think the blue

605
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:12,360
if you saw it on Twitter,
I think that it's not gonna be that

606
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:17,280
bright. I think that's a weird
rip. But I guess I'm just interested

607
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:22,760
to see it in person. Well, I like the fact that there's more

608
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structure and tradition they're trying to build
with the N Season tournament where you do

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change the courts. Oh, they'll
they'll be wearing their city edition uniforms.

610
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It's not just oh and tonight.
Oh yeah, this game also counted as

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one of the tournament games. You're
going to know it's going to be visible.

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And why not blue, blue court, blue ocean for the Clippers,

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Like, that's not the worst thing
in the world. I saw a few

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other ones out there because some people
are saying this doesn't look like the Clippers.

615
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I looked at the Celtics court.
It should be for the Milwaukee Bucks,

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the Boxers court, well, the
Celtics one looks like it should be

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for Milwaukee. The Sixers one looks
like it should be for the Pelicans.

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So some of it, it seems. The Pistons one makes like no sense.

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They're related to their city edition jerseys
though, right, that's what the

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courts are connected to it, I
would assume. So yeah, well it's

621
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it's gonna be. Some people were
more excited seeing that. Knowing that,

622
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Okay, like if you kind of
uniform everything into this and wrap it into

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this playing tournament vibe here, and
you really make it a different type of

624
00:44:36,679 --> 00:44:38,960
environment, a different type of look
those nights for the playing game, that's

625
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kind of fun. Yeah, it's
I mean, you're right, your your

626
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your point is great. Of like
they're trying to make it a separate thing.

627
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They're trying to make it a little
more fun. Yeah, they're gonna

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stand out more. Again, waiting
on that full backstory for the Clippers City

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Edition before I pass even more judgment
on it, But hopefully we'll get that

630
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soon. I don't know that about
wraps it up. We're gonna be back

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with a double dip for allowed on
the radio. Still uh after against the

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Magic and the Lakers, most likely
We're on Spotify, YouTube, all the

633
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,079
places with podcasts. This one will
be up there, but without a fantastic

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thumbnail because Will Updyke is usually here
with us and he does anything related to

635
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graphic design that we need done.
Yeah, he's like our n season tournament

636
00:45:23,079 --> 00:45:29,440
guy, Like he makes things pop
exactly Will Will makes things pop. I

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am Chuck Macharm on Twitter at Chuck
Mockler, Adam is that at follow adam

638
00:45:34,599 --> 00:45:39,199
a anything positive? We want to
send these folks out on the Clippers responded

639
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:45,119
after it looked like they resorted back
to what we saw last season and things

640
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didn't go off the rail the very
next game they were covered and that slippage

641
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:53,679
didn't continue on the defensive end in
first quarters, big bouncebacks, performances from

642
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:59,920
Russ, from Plumbley, from Zoobots
of course, so things are still trend

643
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the right way overall. Let's hope
that Utah performance was anaboration. Let's have

644
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rission because that's a ghost is Halloween. Yeah, it is very spooky right

645
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now, Thank you everyone for listening. Review us over on iTunes or apple

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pops whatever it's called. Now we'll
be back with I Believe a full crew

647
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on Thursday because we got this dang
all back to back coming on. Full

648
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,320
crew should be together Thursday, if
not, just Adam and again, hey

649
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that's not a bad time. We'll
talk to you guys soon. As always,

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let's go clips