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Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans? Welcome to season four,

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episode eight of Clips and Dip. I am Chuck Mockler,

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joined by Adam Oslin. William up Dyke still in England hopefully,

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or he's somewhere else that we don't know about. But

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we are here today to talk regular season Clippers basketball.

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It is back this week. They play on Wednesday. I'm

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so excited. If you're listening to us, we're excited you're

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hearing us. If you'd like to watch us, find us

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at YouTube dot com slash at Clippers Podcast. We're gonna

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go live after the game on Wednesday, live after the

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game on Friday. It should be a fun time before

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we get into the game against the Jazz. Adam Osland,

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how the heck are you as we inch towards meaningful,

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more meaningful Clippers basketball.

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Speaker 2: I'm good. I am busy and excited for Clippers basketball

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to start. I feel like we've been for some time

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here itching and itching.

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Speaker 1: For those of you not watching, Adam is petting his

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cap uh in a very doctor Evil style, which.

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Speaker 2: Am allion dollars.

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Speaker 1: We're ready for the season to start. Yeah, there was

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more news about off the court things involving the Clippers,

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but we're not going to talk about that because we

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don't feel like talking about it. We are going to

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talk about how Bradley Beal played in the final preseason game,

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so the Clippers are returning to action healthy. Uh. He

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didn't make a three, the mid range was nice, he

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was good close to the basket, and the Warriors like

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played their guys for the most part against a B

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plus Clippers squad.

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Speaker 2: I would not say B plus Clippers squad. Let's see

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no Kawhi, no Javes, Harden, Nobam Nobod, no CP three.

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I feel like there's somebody else I'm missing here. They

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had two stars in DJ who played like eight minutes. Yeah,

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played thirty minutes in that gameball Outside Jimmy Butler, they

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pretty much played.

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Speaker 1: How'd you like Beal stuff? Did it and still confidence.

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Speaker 2: I felt good about it. Quick with his decisions. He

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could have had a couple of assists, but they couldn't

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convert for him. But he had some nice passes, some

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nice reads. I think, you know, he looked like Bradley

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Beal to me. I I think people are going to

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be impressed and shocked at how good he is. Because

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of the conversation regarding him over the last two years

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in Phoenix. Yeah, and it's really overblown. There's a whole

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lot that went wrong there that was outside of Bradley Beal,

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and his numbers are pretty good and if he's that

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efficient with the Clippers, they're going to be in really

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good shape.

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Speaker 1: I like this tweet that Clippers film had where he

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was talking about Bradley Beal. He said, it's literally Norm Powell.

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If Norm was better in the mid range, a better

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passer ball handler, and a decision maker and a more

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versatile finisher at through himgoing. But he's getting the exact

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same sets as Norm Powell, seamless fit. I don't know

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if I would go that far all the way around

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on Bradley Beal, but I do like the gist of

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this because I think it's right. His sets can fit

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in well into Norms and we can add some more

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kind of dribble handoff stuff.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and it's no disrespect to Norm, but no

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one should feel disrespected that they're being overlooked by a

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guy who averaged thirty as the number one option on

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a team before. I don't know if Norm could do

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that even on bad teams, and those Wizards teams weren't great,

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of course, but I think a couple of them made

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the playoffs in the East. Like he's he's an efficient

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number one. He is deadly in all three levels, and

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he doesn't move the same exact way to twenty five.

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There isn't huge slippage there athletically either, I'd say so.

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I do think it's honestly an upgrade in all those areas.

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The only the only spot on the floor you could

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say Norm, maybe he. I don't know what the catch

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and shoot numbers say, because Norm had some ridiculous numbers

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in his years with the Clippers, you know, playing off

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of the Powell Rangers lineup and stuff like that. Will

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he be as good of a fit as Norm was

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at times being that third or fourth option, which is

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where Bradley bal will have to be at times.

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Speaker 1: And to your point too, you know, in terms of

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like Beal not being as good as a shooter as Norm,

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that's fine because Norm, like you said, had some absurd years.

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Speaker 2: Had some absurd fourth quarters too, where he was the

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best shooter on the team, like shooting like fifty from

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three and fourth quarters, and Norm was really good. But

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Bradley Beal is capable of more.

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Speaker 1: He's also healthy, so it seems like he's going to play.

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Not too much significant stuff from practice today other than

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not realistic for the Clippers to play eleven guys every night.

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So it sounds like it's gonna be an odd man

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out of the rotation that different player could change game

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to game. But don't expect the Clippers to play eleven guys.

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I think this shouldn't be that big of a surprise.

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They want consistency and we have to have but ideally

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you want your top guys to play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think we talked about it recently, the Golden

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State Warriors trying that at the beginning of last season,

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it was not sustainable to keep guys in rhythm, to

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keep guys happy, to play eleven or twelve guys each

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and every night. It's just it's theory versus practice, and

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it did not play out the way they wanted it to.

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So I think the Clippers they have less, you know,

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young guys that are all jocking for position, maybe as

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Golden State did to start last season, and naturally some

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guys will be banged up and older guys on this

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Clippers team will be looking for rest. So I think

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it'll make a lot of sense that you know, you

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don't know maybe who you might see on a given

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night on the back end of the roster. But they

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will keep rotating those guys in and out, so hopefully

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alls they are healthy, those guys will be fresh and

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in rhythm just enough.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just in time when we need it. The expected

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starting five from here at clips and DIP. I don't

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want to totally speak for Adam, but I think he's

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with me on this one. James Harden, Bradley Beal, Derek Jones,

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Junior Kawhi Leonard and a Vitzuzu bots will match up

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against the Utah Jazz. What are we looking to see

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kind of from that starting five? I guess because you

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have a whole mess of bench guys to talk about

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who could make a huge impact. Donn also was sick

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today in mispractice, so TVD on his status as of Monday,

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but they didn't seem too worried about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, another former member of the Utah Jazz, not just

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John Collins going back there.

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Speaker 1: I think this starting five is boond memories I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. John Collins is my player to watch. I

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want to see what he does to his former team.

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But these, uh, this starting lineup with the Clippers makes

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all the sense of the world. I was raised my

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hand pretty early in the offseason be like, hey, guys,

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what about that point of attack defense? And we don't

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want to lose all of that. I get wanting to

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put Kawhi the three, but I think this is a

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higher priority to have point of attack defense and just

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to have that, you know, floor going into every game

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where you know you have one of the best guys

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at that particular defensive those defensive traits in the game

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at all times with DJ and Dunn, and that's a

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premium in this league. That's really nice to have. And

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the Clippers have two of those guys start one of

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them in DJ, and hopefully as three point shooting continues

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to go up like it has last three years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and kind of on the three point shooting, to

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the defense of that starting five with Derek Jones Junior,

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I think, to your point is better than the offense

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would be with John Collins, you know what I mean?

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Like that, that's a top five unit possibly in the

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NBA defensively for the starters, which is huge.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think there's a chance that in

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certain situations, certain teams, certain matchups, it does make sense

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to start John Collins. If it's a playoff series, maybe

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the right matchup. Look how big Houston's gonna start off

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this season. I don't know if anybody saw their five

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man starting lineup, It is ridiculous. They have KD at

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the two, Jabari Smith junior, Shngoon, Steven Adams, and Aman

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Thompson running point. So certain teams, yes, it could make sense.

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the best starting lineup construction for most teams.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and then the depth should be on display. We'll

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get into that more after a quick break in a

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few But like you said, we got Collins, who was

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going inst the former team. We got CP three, Lopez

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done the aforementioned illness, but Toom and Bogie, so one

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of those guys is probably gonna be out of the rotation.

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But a guy who's not gonna be is John Collins, who,

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like you said, Adam could have a fun night on

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this second unit because I don't think the Jazz depth

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can really match up with the Clippers, specifically.

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Speaker 2: Something about going up against your former employer that brings

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out the best in guys, as Brian Seeman likes to say.

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And I think it's going to bring out the best

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in him, not that there's necessarily, you know, any real

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bad blood. To my knowledge, they traded for him, they

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wanted him. But the only thing I could think is

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it sure looked like they were intentionally not playing him

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last season the second half of the year because he

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was helping them too much. So you could take that

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as a compliment or that could rub you the wrong

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way and just hey, I want to play. I'm twenty

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seven years of age. Now he's twenty eight, and he's

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not getting core time out there, and maybe that will

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be the get back from him in this ballgame.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. And it would be very hard to

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be a young good player. Yeah, I just saw that happen.

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It seems that Adam and I both have the other

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game on. Sorry, no no worries, man, it's a really

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tough time for the season when it's going to be

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the Dodgers in the World Series as the first open

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the season. That's a problem for me to solve.

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Speaker 2: I feel like they're familiar with George Springer in a

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game seven.

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Speaker 1: We don't talk about him in this house. We don't

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talk about him, and I don't talk about him. What

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we're even talking about in a moment, Oh, John Collins,

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I was saying, it would be so difficult to be

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a very young, a very good player and basically getting,

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you know, the short end of the stick, because the

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franchise wants to not play very good. But it shows

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so much to kind of what kind of teammate and

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guy he is that he didn't make a stink about it,

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because that is a thing that if you made a stink,

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most people would be like, I can see it, like,

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it's not like he's in the wrong, But like you said,

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like at media Day, he showed off his personality of it.

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He's not big on social media, which had some people

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kind of freaked out, which I thought was funny. But

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I'm excited for him to catch that first lob from

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CP three. I think we're gonna need him in transition.

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But yeah, I think he's gonna have a good day

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at the office.

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Speaker 2: I think that second is gonna be bottom who's at.

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Speaker 1: The Yeah, uh, we're gonna talk about the rosters, and

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it's like, who do you thinks all the outs maybe

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for the Clippers in this game rotation wise, who do

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you think maybe isn't there's a chance they all get

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playing time based on how things could go, but meaning

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early before things or maybe out of hand minutes, maybe both.

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Speaker 2: Just because Bogie Boom, Bogie Btoom, Um, you know Jordan Miller.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, okay, let's let's let's way let's maybe put

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uh twenty five twenty six Clippers season decree from clips

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and dips. When we talk about their rotation, I'm going

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to assume that Jordan Miller's not in it at all.

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Speaker 2: Uh. I think it's the Toom and Bogey are the

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most likely guys. Maybe Chris Don if he's still not

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feeling well. And because if they're not going with full

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line shifts out there, then instead of seeing those five

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guys that we saw together in the Second Union, we

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could see Kawhi with four of them instead. I assume

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that could be something we'd see so I could see yeah,

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Don Bogie Batoum.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's fine. That's what that's why the depth

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more about Clippers Jazz kind of what the Jazz can

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in his clips and dip. I'm Adam Moslin.

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Season four, episode eight. We got Chuck Moppler. No will Updyke,

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but he will be returning soon. Don't worry about that.

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Clippers first preview in Utah for Game one of eighty

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two to start off the twenty twenty five twenty twenty

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six season and the Utah Jazz. It's funny because this

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Jazz team, they are incentivized to hold on to I

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think a top eight pick they have that would go

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to I want to say Philly. If it lands outside

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the top eight, they want to lose this season I

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think at some point marketing might get traded. I think

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it like anybody could be on the table. They've already

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gotten rid of some guys. Obviously it's not just John Collins,

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but Colin Sexton now gone, Jordan Clarkson now gone, well

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known Clippers killer. So the deal is this Utah before

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last year, the two years prior to last year got

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off to really hot starts and then realized they need

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to lose, and Daddy Age is all for tanking. But

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the two years prior to this past season, the twenty

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four to twenty five season, they got off to strong starts.

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And this is You're gonna get their best shot opening night.

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The excitement level that's going to be there at Delta Center,

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and all the guys are gonna be pumped for this,

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and they still have professionals that can burn you, and

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some good young players, and I think this is gonna

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be it. Can can game one be a trap game?

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Speaker 1: Yes, a gay one? Can one hundred percent be a

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trap game? Like you said, I was looking. We don't

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talk about gambling on this show, but sometimes you look

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at win totals just to see what the team is at.

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Multiple sports books have given this Jazz team and over

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under of eighteen and a half wins. So even I,

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someone who's never gambled in his life, knows that that

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is a low total. But it doesn't matter because you

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can show what you can do as a young team

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that's supposed to lose early in the season, and you

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kind of try and get your your wins in when

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you can. Like Adam was saying, do we know if

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Ace Bailey is gonna play? He has tendonitis in both needs.

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Speaker 2: Ooh, which that's interesting because he look good at times

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in the preseason. Yeah, I haven't seen the update is

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your report on him? But Walker Kestler is gonna play,

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and a Walker Kessler is one of the best young

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big men in the league. I'd say young Zoo. He

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looks that good. That's the guy who if the Lakers

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were going to give up two first round picks for,

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that's the guy they do it for to make up

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for losing a Visa Zoo bots Walker Kessler.

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Speaker 1: So that's what's kind of funny about this Jazz team

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is their bigs have shown to have some success against

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the Clippers before. Right, Like Walker Kessler's good marketing, I

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consider a big he can shoot the lights out, uh,

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like they have. There's concepts of a plan for this

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Jazz team to have kind of a modern, you know,

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big shooting offense, but that kind of does because I

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don't know how they are in transition, which I think

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is the Clippers biggest weakness. But sorry, go ahead, No.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, Lauri market is coming off remember

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last season, will they won't they trade him? And then

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there was a deadline. He ended up getting paid the

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contract the big He had a really bad year for

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his standards. He only played forty seven games. There was

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this back injury that he had throughout it. I could

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see him really wanting to show that, you know, I'm

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the guy that you paid for and I'm gonna give

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you a good return on your investment. And I actually

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really like their head coach and Will Hardy. He runs

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good stuff. But they have done stuff that looks like

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they're intentionally taking at times. But I think it was

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the game against the Lakers last season, did they now

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get it across the court? Did they get an eight

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second violation or something ridiculous at the end of the game,

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And it looked like a little fishy something, you know,

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something a little Fishy happened with do you tell you know?

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Speaker 1: To your point about Will Hardy, you know that guys

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are buying in if you're able to convince them to

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do an eight second. So he has the belief of

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the players.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe in you, coach. I believe in picks

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to replace me in future years. That's what we want here.

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I don't know why many players would care much about taking, but.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be. People commented to he plays

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shooters against the Clippers a lot like kind of five

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shooters sometimes, and the lob of the jam of the

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pod brought this up last time we played them near

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the All Star break, Philipowski had twenty and ten, Zoo

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only played twenty five minutes, and that was when we

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saw kind of like Ben Simmons having a good game. Yes,

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the Jazz lost the game, but that's not really the point.

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The point is that we maybe might see some small

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ball five tomorrow if they play the all shooting lineup

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or something. But that's kind of how this is a

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trap game, right. We don't know what the Jazz are

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going to do because they're like a losing a team

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that wants to lose. But it's the first game, and

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they have good pieces that can make shit happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like a trap game because you don't

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know what they're gonna what they're gonna throw at the wall.

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They've remade their team in some ways. You know, Yes,

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they want to keep their first round pick, and they

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need to finish as one of the bottom eight teams

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to do that. But it's game one. They want to

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give their fans a little bit momentum heading into the season.

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I don't know what they're gonna throw out there. And

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the Clippers also have all these different variables and very

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lineup variations that they can use too at the same time,

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so a fueling out type of process early on. If

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the Clippers do get down early, have some patience. Let's

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just let's see how these matchups are gonna go. But

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I also wouldn't be surprised, obviously if this Clippers team

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just dominated, because.

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Speaker 1: I was waiting for the other shoot to drop.

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Speaker 2: I'm very hopeful that they're gonna start off eight and two,

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seven and three at worst.

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Speaker 1: Sure, Well, this, like you said, they're just sitting losing games.

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They were thirtieth in defensive rating last sear and they

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didn't exactly refortify, like they didn't bring in anyone to

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help out for the starters. I had three things kind

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of on the breakdown where it was the harden Zoo

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pick and roll, what does Kawhi shot diet look like?

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And then from Russo's article, when the Clippers got Bradley

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Beal handoffs for Bradley Beal going downhill, making a decision

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against a team that's going to be bad defensively, Which

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of those three? I guess are you most interested to

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see kind of unfold?

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Speaker 2: I definitely want to see, you said, getting downhill.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, yeah, Beille, getting downhill. You're fine.

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Speaker 2: There's like way more lag than usual. I don't know

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why here getting downhill games to the basket something we

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haven't seen the long time from this Clippers team consistently,

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which is why I always felt like a beachs a

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zoobots was grossly under utilized because they have a guy

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that can actually get you some easy buckets. But now,

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if Bradley Beal is really slicing and dice in the

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defense along with Derek Jones Junior, who was doing some

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of that in the preseason, get it and go use

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your athleticism to get downhill. I think that would be

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a really really good sign on just intentionality and maybe

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one of the mandates coming into this season because some

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of the stuff you see are what are the principles

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that carry over from training camp immediately? And sometimes you

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get a real glimpse into what this team's identity is

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going to be. We know they're still trying to be

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great on the defensive end and have that point of

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attack defense, but what are the new wrinkles to this

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team building on what they did last season with not

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just their defense, but having you know, the offensive potential

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that they do now considering who's healthy to start off

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this season, how are they going to play on that

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end right away? Because that's obviously something we didn't see

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till really February when why I started to get it going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was another thing on here was the show

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up factor, which we used to kind of talk about defensively,

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but now offensively, it's like we got the ideal starting five.

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Kawi's been healthy in the off season, Like Beal's talked

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about it. I like that Beal talked about after practice

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how comfortable he feels with Sue because Zo sets such

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good screens, so there's a lot of Like he said,

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he kind of feels a familiarity there when with that

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asset kind of being a part of it. It's a

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big help too. But yeah, I want to see the

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fast start. I want to see them, you know, looking

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efficient and looking smooth and intentional on everything they're doing.

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And I think the Jazz might try and make the

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Clippers run is the other part. So maybe not get

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sucked into the pace that the Jazz try and pick

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it up to, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a good point going into every game.

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The Clippers have to know that's going to be the

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game plan from the opposition. But if they make them

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pay with some of those hit, it heads to DJ

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early on to show the day we can fight fire

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with fire. Here we can do a little bit of

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the same plus and we're in the half court. We

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execute as one of the best teams in the league

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in this area. So yeah, I think they need to

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put out some good tape to show that they're able

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to run a little bit or maybe a little bit

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more than they could in the past. Use the athletes

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that you have, Use Jean Collins, use DJ. Let's see

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what type of pop, Bradley Beal has getting downhill. You know,

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I think this team maybe surprises us in that area

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a little bit. And again, they were better in that

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area last season. I think they were like around thirteenth

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and transitioned fast break points or something like that. It

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was it was a distinct improvement and an emphasis coming

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into last season that they were able to pull off

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overall in the numbers.

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Speaker 1: And I pass tested it, or that it passed the

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eye test, because sometimes it was like, well the Clippers,

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they're only ranked fifteenth, and you'd watch it and you're like,

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this is not a good fifteenth though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you got a Kawhi Leonard coming in, hitting

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the ground running quite you know, there's no restrictions. This

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is a Kawhi Leonard that we haven't seen for five

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years with the healthy offseason.

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Speaker 1: I mean five years is crazy. And now kind of

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moving to the bench, which we touched a little bit

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in the first segment, if the starters aren't able to

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make something happen, I feel confident that the Clippers bench

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should probably win their minutes when matched up against mostly

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Jazz bench guys. Am I being too confident in that? Yeah?

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Or nay?

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Speaker 2: Uh no? I think that's realistic. I think most nights

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the Clippers are going to have a more lopsided bench

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advantage then maybe they do starters advantage. They will have

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a starter's advantage a lot of the time, but bench

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advantage wise, it may even be a larger margin of

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error between and a larger disparity I should say, between

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their bench and everybody else's. But again, there's going to

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be staggering. It's not going to be just a true

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five man benchlinep out there that often.

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Speaker 1: I would it would be very funny if Tyler did

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the hockey change in game one. Things would have to

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be going pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't blame him. After the preseason they had.

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Speaker 1: That is true. Oh, there was a report shocking news

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from I think it was Windhorse this week that James

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Harden might not be he and it's good some people

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have seen him in the preseason. WHOA stop the presses

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if you've heard that. If you haven't heard that James

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Harden might play his way into shape, that's kind of

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a nice thing for him. With Beal being here or

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is that heel?

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Speaker 2: You?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, work on getting downhill and stuff to I'm going

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to distribute and play into shape a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember if this was media day or a

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practice session he did with the media, but I thought

475
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,640
he said and he looked pretty good being a media day.

476
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,480
I thought he said, he's gotten an even better shape

477
00:27:22,519 --> 00:27:24,960
than he was in coming into last season when everybody

478
00:27:25,039 --> 00:27:26,880
freaked out at the type of shape that he was in.

479
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:29,519
We'll see I.

480
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 1: This whole like, I don't think it matters.

481
00:27:36,839 --> 00:27:40,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, but outside of one season to start with the Rockets,

482
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:45,000
when he was about to get traded, the reports of

483
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,000
James Harden being out of shape, and then he comes

484
00:27:48,039 --> 00:27:51,519
in and drops twenty five easily, Like how many times

485
00:27:51,559 --> 00:27:53,640
are we going to do this? I know he's thirty

486
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,240
six now, I know he's older, but I just it

487
00:27:57,319 --> 00:28:00,920
seemed like low hanging fruit or just hey, this is

488
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,599
a big name and we're talking about Yeah, it is

489
00:28:04,759 --> 00:28:09,160
total just engagement. And I was not happy seeing that.

490
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: And I think people are tired of it. To your point,

491
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,480
even the aggregators that were like I didn't even see.

492
00:28:14,559 --> 00:28:17,519
I'm like, it's this is it's dying. Let it go.

493
00:28:17,799 --> 00:28:20,279
He's also old now, so it's like it's not as

494
00:28:20,319 --> 00:28:23,119
crazy as when he was young, like to being not

495
00:28:23,279 --> 00:28:24,039
as good as shape.

496
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 2: Well, like we all saw him at media Day and

497
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,039
all these pictures and stuff, and there wasn't some gross,

498
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,319
unflattering picture that made James Harden look bad or in

499
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,960
some bad light where everybody was picking at that. So

500
00:28:38,039 --> 00:28:42,359
it's like we're a pretty good judge like of seeing

501
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,359
what type of shape he's in and even spoke about it.

502
00:28:45,519 --> 00:28:48,400
So I don't know, this just seems like a yearly

503
00:28:48,519 --> 00:28:50,240
thing now and it's just overblown.

504
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: With all the attention the Clippers have gotten this offseason,

505
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,559
you don't think someone could have got one unflattering picture

506
00:28:55,599 --> 00:29:00,880
of James Harden. Come on, I'm looking forward, uh back

507
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,440
to Encourt. I'm so excited to see Lopez and obviously

508
00:29:05,559 --> 00:29:08,680
the CP three bench led unit is going to be

509
00:29:08,759 --> 00:29:12,480
great when he's out there, But man, I just want

510
00:29:12,519 --> 00:29:17,880
to watch those two play against this specific backup because

511
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,079
I'm just I'm excited to see those old guys rec

512
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,039
shit for lack of a better term.

513
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, the older I get, the more I want to

514
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,279
see old guys rec shit.

515
00:29:27,559 --> 00:29:27,839
Speaker 1: Like I.

516
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 2: Watched the UFC fight. I'm always rooting for the older guy,

517
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,599
Like I see Kershaw out there, let's go.

518
00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just how it is.

519
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 2: So I I honestly think a lot of people are

520
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,880
going to be stunted at how good they look. You know,

521
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,599
some of the casuals or the national media that just

522
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,200
look at the number the age. It's like, well, I

523
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,079
don't know. Brook Lopez missed two games last season and

524
00:29:56,519 --> 00:30:02,279
CB three missed zero and James Harden three, Like, I

525
00:30:02,319 --> 00:30:05,680
don't know, guys, I think there's a decent chance that

526
00:30:05,799 --> 00:30:08,480
these guys. You know, I've said this all summer long,

527
00:30:08,559 --> 00:30:13,079
but getting younger is good. Uh, getting getting better is better,

528
00:30:13,799 --> 00:30:17,960
and they definitely got way better, maybe at the expense

529
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,480
of getting a little bit older, but I think it's

530
00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:24,079
worth it when you bring in guys with this pedigree,

531
00:30:24,599 --> 00:30:30,000
with these these resumes that you can lean on, and

532
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,839
with the depth that they have, not having to rely

533
00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:35,599
on them to play huge minutes anymore. It would be

534
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,480
one thing if you were asking CB three to play

535
00:30:38,519 --> 00:30:41,400
thirty minutes a night or Brook Lopez you just did

536
00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:46,480
last season. They don't need that on the Clippers. So

537
00:30:47,559 --> 00:30:52,960
we're talking about older guys appropriately playing lesser minutes. I

538
00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:53,759
think it can work.

539
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: We think it can work. Now we come to the

540
00:30:59,279 --> 00:31:01,319
most important part of the show for those of you

541
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,039
knew to the show. We pick a player of the

542
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:09,119
game every single game. We are not allowed to pick Kawhi,

543
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,960
Leonard Aviza, Zubats or James Harten. Is that fair to

544
00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:15,960
start the season. It might evolve into adding Bradley Beal, but.

545
00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 2: It feels like we got plenty of good options still.

546
00:31:23,279 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think we do. Are you sticking at him?

547
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,000
Are you sticking with mister Collins?

548
00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 2: I gotta take John Collins back in Utah and just

549
00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:37,519
I want to see that that type of player, that

550
00:31:37,799 --> 00:31:40,279
archetype they just haven't had in a while, not since

551
00:31:40,359 --> 00:31:44,799
Montrez or Blake Griffin. Just I think he can. You

552
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,119
talk about reckon shit like him playing next to Brook Lopez,

553
00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:51,880
roll into the basket a lot, all that space he

554
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,039
has to work with. I expect two or three dunks

555
00:31:55,240 --> 00:32:03,880
against his former team. Give me give me six sixteen.

556
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: I gotta go CP three. Oh sorry, sixteen what we

557
00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:12,200
do have a crazy delay? Sorry about that.

558
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 2: I don't know why this delay. Give me give me

559
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:21,079
sixteen eight and uh a block and a.

560
00:32:21,079 --> 00:32:27,759
Speaker 1: Steel sixteen to eight and a block and a steal.

561
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,599
Hell yeah, sign me up for that all day. I

562
00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:35,880
gotta go, like I said, I gotta go CP three.

563
00:32:36,039 --> 00:32:39,039
I want to see him be like a plus twenty

564
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,160
three and just one of those things where it's like wow,

565
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:46,279
CP three had eight points, uh eleven assists, no turnovers.

566
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,039
The bench was like plus twenty with him leading it.

567
00:32:51,039 --> 00:32:53,519
I think it's gonna be CP three. I think the

568
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,880
experience just on the bench is and is going to

569
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,000
destroy this chaste.

570
00:32:57,839 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 2: How about this? I just thought about this. His last

571
00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:04,440
game as a Clipper was against Utah in Game seven

572
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,200
in twenty seventeen that they lost unfortunately at Staples Center.

573
00:33:09,599 --> 00:33:13,319
His first game with the Clippers is back against Utah.

574
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,839
Speaker 1: Stars are aligning for him to be player of the game.

575
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 2: Well, wait, who did we pick for Will? Oh?

576
00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:28,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, who would Will pick?

577
00:33:29,119 --> 00:33:29,559
Speaker 2: KPJ?

578
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,599
Speaker 1: KPJ? Would you go Derek Jones Jr.

579
00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: That's a Will type of pick.

580
00:33:37,759 --> 00:33:40,319
Speaker 1: That's a Will. That's a classic Will pick. Will's gone,

581
00:33:40,359 --> 00:33:43,400
Derek Jones Jr. If he's right. Adam and I are

582
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,960
taking credit. Coming up, we're doing a very quick audio break.

583
00:33:48,039 --> 00:33:50,640
You can just watch us at YouTube dot com Sacklippers Podcast.

584
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,759
We're gonna talk just a scoch about the game against

585
00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:56,720
the Suns, and then we're gonna do an outro coming

586
00:33:56,799 --> 00:33:57,960
up in three two.

587
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:04,319
Speaker 2: One Welcome back in Clips and Dip episode eight of

588
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,359
season four. And we got two Clippers games this week,

589
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,800
Real games, guys, We're real boys. Now we can do this.

590
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,760
The Phoenix Suns are coming to Into a Dome on

591
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,480
Friday for the home opener, just as they did last

592
00:34:19,519 --> 00:34:23,840
season for the Into a Dome opener. And we had

593
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,960
four miserable games against Phoenix last year, at least if

594
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,599
you stayed till the final score, because some of those

595
00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:33,639
games the Clippers were absolutely kicking their ass and let

596
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:37,000
their foot off the gas and somehow lost and it

597
00:34:37,119 --> 00:34:40,440
was very frustrating, including the first game at Into a

598
00:34:40,519 --> 00:34:42,960
Dome where they were up by nine with I think

599
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,679
three thirty two left and they should not have lost

600
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,000
that game, and there were some misfree throws and I

601
00:34:48,039 --> 00:34:51,920
think it went into overtime in the Sun. I just

602
00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:55,119
I still can't believe the Suns started a third quarter

603
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,639
fifteen of fifteen from the field. Are you kidding me?

604
00:34:59,679 --> 00:35:01,079
I think the that was the Halloween game and I

605
00:35:01,119 --> 00:35:03,039
feel like they're playing them on Halloween again.

606
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,119
Speaker 1: This year, are they? Well, no, they are, it's a

607
00:35:07,159 --> 00:35:10,960
week back, right, Yeah.

608
00:35:12,039 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 2: Who are they playing on Halloween? It's not Phoenix. I

609
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,239
know they're playing Friday. I'm saying, are they playing them

610
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,000
on Halloween too?

611
00:35:20,119 --> 00:35:22,039
Speaker 1: No, they're playing that. They're playing an even worse team

612
00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:22,880
to play on Halloween.

613
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 2: That's right, it's the Pels. That's as scary as any

614
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:34,159
Friday thirteenth movie. Okay, we'll focus on Friday. They need

615
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,079
to destroy the Phoenix suns, shoot them into the sun,

616
00:35:40,039 --> 00:35:42,480
send them off where they came.

617
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,559
Speaker 1: Oh wow, this needs to be I'm not kidding.

618
00:35:47,639 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 2: I need a twenty five point win.

619
00:35:50,599 --> 00:35:53,760
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, all right, I like this. So there's also

620
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,639
a chance that they're going to be down a guy

621
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,159
because Jalen Green is missing their opener with a hammy,

622
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,239
and so their possible starting five is gonna be Devin Booker,

623
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:07,119
Grayson Allen, Dylan Brooks, Ryan Dunn, and Mark Williams. I

624
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,760
think this is just a brief preview. We're gonna probably

625
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:14,239
talk about it more in our respective streams after Wednesday's

626
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,519
Game one. But there's gonna be an awesome CP three

627
00:36:18,599 --> 00:36:21,960
tribute video. As my guess, the home crowd is going

628
00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:26,280
to be insane. You will be there. I should be

629
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,519
there as well, not as members of the crowd, but

630
00:36:28,679 --> 00:36:32,440
just there to witness it. I think there's a strong

631
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,280
chance of what you want to happen happening.

632
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,639
Speaker 2: Back from whence you came back to the Suns. Fire

633
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:47,800
them back into the sun. Yeah, because said about last

634
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,199
year still and I think they if they didn't have

635
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,639
shirts about Denver, they might have shirts to say some

636
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,400
others swear we're talking about why they lost to the

637
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,760
Phoenix Suns four times.

638
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:04,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, something like m never mind, I was gonna spell

639
00:37:04,199 --> 00:37:06,800
it a not fun acronym, but I will. I hope

640
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,280
they play that clip of mister Burns creating the machine

641
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,719
that blocks out the sun at some point when the

642
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,480
Clippers are winning. I think the depth is gonna help

643
00:37:14,559 --> 00:37:17,320
us in this one. It's a bit stronger of a

644
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,840
starting five, I think than the Jazz. Maybe we don't

645
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:24,639
really know yet though, Point Devin Booker is back this year.

646
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,280
That's a thing that they've been talking about. And I'll

647
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,320
tell you what. I think we have a remedy for

648
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,440
that on the bench, which is Chris dun guarding Point

649
00:37:33,519 --> 00:37:36,880
Devin Booker. Good luck with that, buddy. I hate the Suns.

650
00:37:37,159 --> 00:37:38,480
I've been on record as saying that.

651
00:37:40,599 --> 00:37:43,559
Speaker 2: I have dj are done on him for forty eight

652
00:37:43,599 --> 00:37:46,679
minutes or how many forty minutes however many who plays.

653
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:47,760
Speaker 1: Or Derek Jones Jr.

654
00:37:48,639 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, they got oh yes, sorry,

655
00:37:52,599 --> 00:37:54,440
wait they got two DJs.

656
00:37:54,400 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: Yep, Deandres back Man. Yeah, I feel I don't know

657
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,400
what the spread is, but I I hope the Clippers

658
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,840
can beat it. And also then they play the Jazz

659
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,639
again on Sunday, and that's looking too far ahead, but

660
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:16,400
it's a They're in a nice space to start to

661
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:17,480
season two in them.

662
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 2: They should start three and O.

663
00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:22,280
Speaker 1: I think it's Portant.

664
00:38:25,519 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 2: Is it? Or is it Utah?

665
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:29,559
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh it's Portland.

666
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 2: Man.

667
00:38:30,599 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: I think I'm probably gonna go to that game too.

668
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,519
So you're I mean, we're picking the clip I'm excited

669
00:38:36,599 --> 00:38:40,719
to watch, and they're they're just not I mean, defensively,

670
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,400
the starting five is annoying for the Suns for sure,

671
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,760
but I don't know how much Dylan Brooks really left

672
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,280
has left now that I now that I've uttered that

673
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:50,960
sentence out of.

674
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:56,679
Speaker 2: My mouth, annoying is the right word. I respect Dylan Brooks.

675
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:58,480
I like the way he plays. I like a guy

676
00:38:58,599 --> 00:39:00,480
like that on my team. There's some Patrick Beverly with

677
00:39:00,519 --> 00:39:05,639
the way he plays. I'm fine with that. But Kawhy

678
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:10,239
is going to go to World. Yeah he doesn't have

679
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,039
some Pat Bev through his game.

680
00:39:12,599 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: He does. I don't like him as much as Pat Bev,

681
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:16,880
nearly as much as Patrick.

682
00:39:16,679 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 2: Beverly, because Patrick Beverley was a Clipper. If doyn't even.

683
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: Independent of that, I think I think Dylan Brooks is

684
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:30,400
far more annoying. Well, Patrick Beverley didn't dress like stone

685
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,440
cold Steve Austin and look insane doing it.

686
00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:38,199
Speaker 2: He did jump up on a table on a play

687
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,519
and win against the Clippers and waved his jersey above it,

688
00:39:43,119 --> 00:39:46,599
just won the championship, shoved CP three in the back.

689
00:39:46,639 --> 00:39:47,480
Who's back with?

690
00:39:47,559 --> 00:39:51,280
Speaker 1: Okay, we don't just credit Clippers credit.

691
00:39:51,639 --> 00:39:55,039
Speaker 2: You're saying. I like those type of players that that

692
00:39:55,159 --> 00:39:56,760
go out there with an edge and set a tone

693
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:57,199
a little bit.

694
00:39:58,639 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna play our what you're saying, Kawhi is

695
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:01,440
going to do his thing.

696
00:40:03,119 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 2: I think there's still gonna be a bad defense this year.

697
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,440
They're not going to be twenty seventh the Phoenix Suns,

698
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,280
but I still think they're gonna be a bottom ten

699
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,519
defense and the Clippers can feast that they're over under

700
00:40:13,639 --> 00:40:16,079
is like thirty wins. I'm not kidding Phoenix Suns they

701
00:40:16,079 --> 00:40:19,039
should be bad like I think at some point, I

702
00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:22,800
don't know if I don't want to say, we're having

703
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:29,920
a Booker is going to regret taking this deal. But

704
00:40:30,639 --> 00:40:33,039
look if he wants to be the greatest Phoenix Sun

705
00:40:33,119 --> 00:40:35,559
of a Phoenix Suns player of all time and be

706
00:40:35,679 --> 00:40:40,039
a lifer but not have a chance to win, I

707
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,320
don't know. I don't know how this is going to

708
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,679
go for them. I just think they really miss their window.

709
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,039
Speaker 1: Give a leord to ability wise, I don't think this

710
00:40:50,199 --> 00:40:52,400
is the same, but career wise, it's very similar to

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Mike Trout, where it's like you're the number one.

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Speaker 2: Here man, except Devin Booker at fully tasted. Deren Booker

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was up two to oh in an NBA finals and

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looked like he was about to taste the champagne. Sorry

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Mariners fans, Dodgers going to Toronto.

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Speaker 1: Looks like we gotta destroy the Blue Jays. Okay, any

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other thoughts on Sun's clippies before we get out of here.

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Speaker 2: I need utter destruction of the Phoenix Suns.

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Speaker 1: Destroy all. I could not agree more. We're gonna be

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doing a post Both of us are gonna be doing

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a postgame live independently of each other, and maybe we'll

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do a crossover and the Balloons are going wow post

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game live after Game one on Wednesday, probably talk a

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little more about the Sun's game there too, gonna be

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live after the Sun's game as well. Reviews can help us.

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You can do that at Spotify now with the star ratings.

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You can type out a review that we will read

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on air, pending language. Of course, what I'm saying is

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don't use two bigger words or I will not be

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able to make my way through. We thank you for

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watching us. You can subscribe to this at YouTube dot

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complish at Clippers Podcast click notify, so when we go

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live after games, you can watch us if you're listening.

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We also appreciate you. Adam. It's the week of Clippers

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regular season basketball. Please give us the first installment of

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Adam's One Positive.

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Speaker 2: Thing First in installment, my ass. I've been doing these also.

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Speaker 1: Regular seasons of the regular season. You're fired up about

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the Suns. I love it.

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Speaker 2: There's a real good chance the Clippers could start three

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and oh and they should start three in h and

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I'm expecting them to. This could be the first time

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in a long time that they get off to a

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quick start, because if you go back and look over

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the seasons, I think the last time they got off

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to a really good start where they were five and

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they won five of six for their first five was

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the twenty twenty twenty twenty one season, So it has

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been a while. This is it. I think it's going

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to happen seven and three at worst their first ten games.

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That's what it's gotta be.

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Speaker 1: There we go, That's what it's gotta be. That's what

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it's going to be. We will see you very soon.

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Let us know if you're going to the game. Follow

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us at Clippers Pod. Thank you all so much. We

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made it. Let's focus about what's happening on the court

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because that's all we can not control, but control more

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than the other stuff. Thank you for listening. Let's go

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