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Speaker 1: Clippers win by twenty six and it wasn't even that

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close in Philadelphia over the Sixers. Welcome back in I'm

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Adam Osland. This is Clippers Stock here on the M

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five to seventy. LA's sports still to come. You'll hear

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from Chris Dunn post game. But join the show right now.

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There's a man who once said, and I'm reminded in

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the chat by this, what even is a Dallas Rutherford.

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It's big Chuck Mockler here on Clippers stock, Charles, how

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are you? You know what?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: We're good now?

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Speaker 2: You got me? All right? I'm doing well. The Clippers

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only allowed ninety nine points. The offense looks like it's

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getting a little bit better as well as the defense.

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We'll see how I feel after tomorrow night's game. But recently,

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it always feels good to beat the seventy six ers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, something going on there. I don't know why, but

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it just feels so good. Beat the seventy six ers

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and send him to three and thirteen on the season. Unbelievable.

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I thought this was a really spar effort. When you

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know you're playing a team that's struggling and you could

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let up or not come in engaged with the same

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level of defense that we just saw it into a

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dome where they had one seven straight there instead, it

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travels perfectly and they looked like they were the home

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team once again. It was an unbelievable defensive effort. These

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guys are so locked in together. I thought this was

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the best, you know, front to back victory of the season.

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Speaker 2: I'd say, yeah, I mean the start to this one,

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you know, the opening eight minutes, it was just an

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avalanche from the Clippers, which we're not used to offensively

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this season. So it was kind of like, oh, yeah,

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this is this is starting really well and as they

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usually have, you know, when they can control the ball,

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things tend to end a little stronger for the Clippers.

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But I totally agree with you, this is the most

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complete game we've seen them play. It was never really

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in doubt. You know, there was maybe some we don't

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want to get it too close to give them an

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idea of getting you know, back into this one, but

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but you're right. I mean, every single starter was at

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least a plus thirty, which I'm not sure that's gonna

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happen again for the Clippers, but completely prominent, good rotations, tonight.

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Just yeah, good stuff.

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Speaker 1: So they hold them under one hundred points. People are

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saying this is the new Lawler's law. Just hold them

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under one hundred each and every game. I think Clippers

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have won three straight doing that here. I'm also impressed

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with the offensive I guess process going on because they're

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getting up more threes. Coach Lou has talked about it.

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They took thirty in this one, but they had sixty

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points on the paint, so it was very balanced. They

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hit twelve, that's forty percent. But coach Lou recently has

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talked a lot about you know, when we're getting up

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more threes, that tells you we're moving the basketball better.

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And they finished with thirty one assists and there's less

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just straight Iso Harden has to do everything basketball going

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on right now with Chris Dunn the starting lineup.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris Dunn's been a great ball mover in the

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starting lineup for this one. You mentioned kind of how

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guys are playing connected. I really like the pass I

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saw the night from Jordan Miller where the seventy six

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ers went into his own. Jordan Miller saw Chris Done

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making a cut. He got it to Done because then

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got it to Harden for an open look from three.

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Harden unfortunately missed it. But that kind of you know,

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collective thinking and just wanting to move the ball in

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the good positions. Is it traveled right, Like you said

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about the defense, So I mean, I think all these

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good things on offense are starting from the fact that

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they bought in so well on the defensive side of

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the ball, and it's it's carrying over a bit weird

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to see the bench, you know, but to him didn't

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have the best night, but that's not stopping guys from

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still wanting to contribute and make.

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Speaker 1: The right play. I thought Jordan Miller was solid in

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his minutes with that little seven ozh flurry he had

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to start the second quarter. And I like what you're

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saying there about the ball moving and guys making those

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hockey assists. And you brought up Derek Jones Junior on

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X a little bit earlier. And this is somebody that

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last couple of games, what seventeen points, eighteen points tonight,

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he's looking to attack a lot more. He knocked down

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the only three point where he took, but he is

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making teams pay in the restricted area right now, like

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he looks like it's just a nose for the rim.

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I guess like he's sniffing it out and getting there

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty interesting to see. You know. You look

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at what Derek Jones Junior is doing and it looks

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a lot, you know what's kind of the same things

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that Terrence was doing back when Terrence was in the

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starting out of last year. But Derek Jones has a much,

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you know, different athletic profile than Terrence Man. Not the

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Terrence Man is an athletic, but Derek Jones Jr. As

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we all know, has kind of a different gear he

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can hit when it comes to athleticism. So that extra

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pop from him in the starting lineup and willing to

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do kind of a dirty work and stuff like that. Right,

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he had I mean three boards to assist three steals.

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He was kind of everywhere that he could be tonight

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and it was good to see four free throw attempts

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to let you know that he is being aggressive.

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Speaker 1: Good to see a Visa Zubas. I feel like he

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got more involved in the second half. Early in that

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third quarter when they really started to pour it. He

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had the jump hook going a push shot. Vitza Zoo Bots.

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better right now. As the season goes along. It just

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feels like everything's getting a little bit more refined, a

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little bit more in tune defensively, offensively, and then just

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from an individual perspective, with a Viza Zubots kind of

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making that separation against Philadelphia and leaving no doubt in

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that third quarter by going on I think a little

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six to zero run by himself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, anytime Zoo can bring timely buckets, you know, we

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absolutely love it. His playmaking was really good today too.

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Only fordsis, but he was consistently making the right read

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out of the short roll and it kind of reminded

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me of that Spurs game, right, I mean, yeah, he

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went eight for ten and if somebody only got ten

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shots and found ways to contribute double digit boards again

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and thankfully only twenty five minutes for what is going

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to be a very different test of the defense tomorrow night.

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If we if we managed to hold the Celtics under

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hundred tomorrow night, I would be pretty pretty excited.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm hoping maybe they can get Norman Powell back

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for that one. He is with them on the trip

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obviously we all saw him court side. But this Clippers team,

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if they win tomorrow against Boston, what are we talking about?

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They're already eleven and seven. But in the national media

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is starting to give him a little bit of love,

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like how big is that game tomorrow? Chuck?

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Speaker 2: I think, how can I put this? I think if

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the Clippers win, it would I mean, it would exceed

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my expectation that no disrespect how his Clippers team is playing.

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The Celtics are just a much different beast compared to

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the Clippers team. Getting Norm back would be huge. They

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need the offensive pop. I guess if things don't go

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how we want them to, and this team maybe looks

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a little gass or something like that. And just remember

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second out of a back to back playing You know, yes,

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we know that the Cavs are in first over there,

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but the Celtics of the defending champs scurys, and they've

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been playing very well. Don't read into it too much

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if they lose, and if they win, read into it

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a little bit more. But also maybe not a whole bunch,

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but we can still be excited.

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Speaker 1: At worse, they already got the split to start off

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this road trip with four games coming up, so and

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they're giving themselves a chance by nobody having to playboard

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in twenty seven minutes in this one twenty five ninety

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nine victory over the Philadelphia seventy six ers Clippers in

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Boston tomorrow. He is Big Chuck Mockler of Clips and

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Dip podcast. This was a little Clips and double Dip

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action here on Clippers Talk. Charles, thanks for coming.

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Speaker 2: On, Thanks for having me. Let's go clip