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Last time Clippers lose in Brooklyn ninety
three. Highlight of the game was the

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pregame with no eagle Carlo Amenez at
a great call, though even in a

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loss tough one, Clippers dropped to
zero and two so far with James Harden

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welcome back in. This is Clippers
Talk. I'm at a moslin A six

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six, nine, eight seven,
two fives seventy is the phone number.

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But right now Chuck Mockler for a
little clips and double dip action here on

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Clippers Talk. How are you,
Charles? I don't know. I'm not

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doing very good, Adam. I
know what's in the game two of the

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James Harden experiment. But ninety three
points against a shorthanded Nets team, a

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defense that seems to be doing its
job. You know, one hundred points

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giving up isn't anything to really,
you know, put your nose up to

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in the modern NBA. But this
offense is barken right now. I just

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I don't know. Am I wrong? No, that's a good way to

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put it. I will try to
spin that though, because coming in we

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all said, well, we're not
that worried about the offense. They'll figure

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it out. It's the defense.
Worried about the defense hasn't been that bad.

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I'll give it up. One hundred
points was nothing tonight. I thought

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defensively they were good enough. Granted, like you said, a Brooklyn Nets

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team that was missing a lot of
guys, including Cam Thomas throughout most of

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that second half. You would think
though, that they could just roll the

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ball out and do you know,
a plethora of just my turn, your

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turn, and win a ball game
against this Brooklyn Nets team. And they

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couldn't even do that tonight. No, there's there's this weird disconnect where it

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feels like everyone is passive at the
same time and everyone is too aggressive at

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the same time, if that makes
sense. You look at just even if

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you were just box if you were
just box score watching this game, you

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can get a pretty good idea of
what happened. Russell Westbrook had eighteen field

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goal attempts. Usually that's something that's
not too bad. But Kawhi had fifteen,

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James Harden had not. That's not
ideal, right, George Shoot's thirty

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five percent. You don't like that. You look at the fourth quarterbox score

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and you see eight turnovers in the
fourth quarter and R seven Excuse me,

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it's just I know it's gonna take
a minute. Tyler was gonna do is

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ten to fifteen games type thing.
But you're you're not wrong. We thought

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that it would be even at its
base, better than ninety three points per

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game like they were tonight. And
the way they just kept chucking three after

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three in the fourth quarter, they're
not falling. It's not an insurmountable lead.

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You don't have to settle for three
pointers, and they did, and

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they just kept missing. That offense
was really really tough to watch, and

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it just showed, look, when
guys are missing that many open threes,

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and a lot of them were good
looks, good takes. I guess you

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could say if they just weren't having
such a cold to start with, but

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it tells you there's just not a
lot of rhythm. Guys don't feel like

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they're in the flow of any type
of offense, and therefore they're not going

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to fall right, there's no rhythm. They took eleven threes in the forest,

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they made one. They took thirty
six the whole game. That's tiredness

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too. You know, maybe they're
not as used to getting this. You

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know, the sets lined up so
you just take the ISO three, you

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take the one path and then the
three point, and we saw a couple

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of those from Kohir, at least
one that was just it's that thing that

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Clippers fans have been worried about,
which is that heart and that energy and

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that effort, which you know they've
been saying they want to play faster.

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They're still middle of the league in
pace, they're still not totally winning the

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possession battle. These growing pains,
and hey, I'll say I'm guilty of

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it. These growing pains are a
lot bigger than what we thought they were

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going to be, which is compounded
by the fact that this is a quote

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unquote easy part of the schedule.
This is when we were supposed to be

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stacking wins. Yes, that was
before the James Harden trade, but as

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we all thought, the James Harden
trade was gonna make us better. So

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we should at least be on pace
to be over five hundred for these these

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opening ten games before things get really
you know, in the in the wis

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with the scheduling. But I mean
there's it's not like there's a lot of

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fingers the point, I guess it's
not one person's fault. But yeah,

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everyone's got to get it figured out. It seems yeah, and in the

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short term I could have seen them
taking a step back, but I would

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have thought they would have just found
a way to win a game like this

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in Brooklyn against a depleted NETS team
that was missing guys coming in and then

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lost their best player against the Clippers, for sure, Cam Thomas, I

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mean, McHale Bridges had ten points
on four of eleven shooting. How do

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you lose that game where Cam Thomas
is out from pretty much to start of

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the third quarter on One of the
things that Color brought this up that we've

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been focusing on is just someone taking
the reins and taking over late. It's

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an ugly game. You can't figure
it out. You got to dig it

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out of the dirt, as Brian
Seaman would say. And hey, Kawhi

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Leonard comes back in with six thirty
left in the fourth quarter. He doesn't

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take his first shot in the fourth
till one fifty five left in the fourth,

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Right, that's the guy to me
that you just have to get him

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involved right away. That's what he's
there for. He's your closer one hundred

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percent. We've heard that every player
is going to have to sacrifice from this

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California four or whatever we're calling it. But when it's late, there's there's

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one guy who definitely shouldn't sacrifice,
which is Kawhi. There's another who probably

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shouldn't, which is Paul George.
Everyone else get out of the way.

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Help these two guys in crunch time
do what they are supposed to do,

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which is take this team to where
they've never been, and that I guess

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still has to get figured out.
But I might be on the side of

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some of the college I'm a little
fired up by this. I'm just like

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I wish it was game two instead
of Game seven or wherever we're at already,

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you know, like this is just
there's seventeen games in March. I'm

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worried about this team. This team
has a lot of stuff to get figured

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out, whichween now and then.
I do think they will figure it out

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to some extent. I don't think
it will get worse for you know,

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when it comes to that. But
this offense is not a modern NBA offense

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right now, and the starting five
we talk about finishing a lot, but

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the Clippers issue a lot of this
time. This two and three era has

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been starting games slow. And they're
still starting games slow, and that's against

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kind of the rhetoric we heard during
this whole offseason about you know, starting

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quick and playing fast. It hasn't
really happened outside of the first game against

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a very bad Blazing team. So
well, look, they won the last

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two first quarters. They won both
first quarters in New York. They did.

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They weren't great, but their defense
was good enough. I just if

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it's not one thing is another the
defense. Yeah, the defense is there.

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The defense has shown up for sure, But you're right, it's the

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offense where it's like we should have
maybe a fifteen point lead instead of a

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six point lead or something like that. It feels like when there's one kind

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of bump. Right now, they're
getting so derailed they can't really get on

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track. And I guess it's more
practice time and hopefully when they get back

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on the West Coast it's a little
more comfortable. But we gotta hope that

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starts soon. I'm not sure about
your I can't get any worse checks notes.

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Oh they got Dallas on Friday.
Okay, okay, I'm doing my

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best here. No, no,
no, it's fair, it's it's fair

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and we like that look. It
would be on par for the Clippers to

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show up in a big way against
Dallas and win, right like, we've

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seen this team play down to competition
and then just figure it out. But

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we're waiting for them to click in
Chuck, thanks for doing this tonight.

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Do we get a tripod coming up
tomorrow? We have a tripod at some

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point. For sure, I'm still
Montana, but we'll figure something out,

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all right, all right, Well, thank you, chef. That's down,

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Adam. Good luck to night,
buddy. Yeah,