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Speaker 1: Clippers win one four to ninety three over the Orlando Magic.

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Here it into a dome, welcome back in I'm out

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of Maslin. This is Clippers Talk. Final segment here Clippers

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taking it on the Sacramento Kings right back here on

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Friday to exit their four game homestand before they head

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out onto the road. Join the show right now is

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Big Chuck Mockler from Clips and Dip Charles. This was

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an impressive victory because of how bad they were with

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the turnovers and they still win convincingly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was watching this game and I was kind

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of like, is this gonna end up the second most

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comfortable win since the seventy six ers one. I called

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this on the Clippers pod stream a disgraceful win because

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of the turnovers, and we'll take all of those that

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we can get at this point. There's a lot of

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good stuff, but the turnovers are crazy.

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Speaker 1: The turnovers. I mean, Orlando, there's a reason they're second. Defensively,

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they have the same type of ballhawk guards that the

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Clippers do. It was almost a mirror match at times

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where both teams were turning it over, both teams were

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getting crazy stops, and they just make it so hard

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to score on you. But you know, the Clippers ended

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up shooting forty nine percent from the field. They shoot

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fifty percent from the outside again, and they didn't have

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Norm Powell when they actually got shots off, they were

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knocking them down. But I think the story is a

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mirror coffee filling the shoes of Norm Powell admirably tonight

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and having eleven points what in the first quarter and

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helping them get off to a quick start.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a norm start, right. I think he

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went three for three from three to open this game.

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It was exactly what we've seen from Norm so far,

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which is awesome. He faded a little bit in the

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second half, but again, the start that we got from

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a mirror was exactly what we needed, especially with Harden

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not starting all that well. He closed great to kind

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of trade it off halves in this one. But no,

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I mean, a mirror hard to not call him kind

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of player of the game.

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Speaker 1: What did you make in the minutes from Jordan Miller?

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I thought he was solid overall.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and in terms of you know, this was like

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kind of his first real stint, right and against the

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team that is a really good defense, and he did

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everything that Jordan Miller. Fans wanted him to do right,

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show that he can get to the rim, show that

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he gets the whistle, which he did, and he made

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up for two steals. He was a big part. You know,

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Will on the podcast talks about us meeting outlier offensive

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nights from guys sometimes two steals from Jordan Miller, and

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his first real action is an outlier defensive performance that

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they really needed. And hopefully we see more of the

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same on Friday, which I think he is capable of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, norm Pal is going to be out again on

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Friday against the Sacramento Kings. But to start off this

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four game homestand three to zero the Clippers two games

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about five hundred. They're doing it. They're exceeding expectations right

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now they're playing. I don't know if you want to

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say it's above their heads or just above what the

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national media thought they could do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's I think it's a little of

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both the national media and you know, the win totals

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were a little crazy flying around for the Clippers. I

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think most of them had a pegged at like thirty

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seven wins or something like that. But it's real. I

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hope the media isn't the main stream sports media doesn't

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start talking about the Clippers because that's some things tend

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to kind of unravel a little bit. But this also,

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this team doesn't care everything we were sold in the

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preseason in terms of this new defensive mentality, what Van

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Gundy has brought, it's been what's been happening. So it's

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nice to see that bill of goods still be true

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this far into the season, with the tough schedule, missing

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two key guys tonight. At least.

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Speaker 1: Someone brought this up in the chat earlier, and I

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kind of wasn't sure if I wanted to ask this question,

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but I was thinking about it the other day. Two

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there's almost like a heat culture going on with this

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Clippers team right now, or just the whole is greater

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than some of its parts, and the defensive intensity they're

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playing with. I don't know, is that is that crazy

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to say or is it too early? Right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think there's building blocks to it.

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Right We saw the building blocks in the preseason for

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what this team could be during the regular season, and

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if this team continues this mentality kind of throughout the

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whole season, that's the biggest building block for kind of

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reforming the culture finding a new one in the post,

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the very very post two to one three era.

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Speaker 1: What have you made of Mobamba so far as a

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clipper In just his third game now where he finally

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hit a three pointer and it looked pretty good, there

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was a battle going on between him and Moe Wagner,

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former teammates there. As soon as Mo got into the

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ballgame against Mo, they were absolutely pushing and shoving each other.

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It was crazy. It was a really physical game, but

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those two in particular, there was an individual battle going

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on too that was kind of fun.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the reps were kind of oddom so and they

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were letting some stuff go. But no, Bomba's been a

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breath of fresh air for the people like myself who

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were terrified about the back of five scenarios. The three

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is just kind of icing on the cake because he's

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also just he's been a big target for James Harden

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to find. He's drawn foul, he's finished at the rim

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well for the most part, like he's doing everything a

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real backup five should do for a team. It's limited minute.

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He's not going to really you know, dominate a game

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or anything. But that scrappiness that you mentioned is another

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thing showing how a guy has fit in with this

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new defensive culture, and there's no way the rest of

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the team doesn't feed off that when the guy who's

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just cut onto the team is showing all the other

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things that you know, the regular guys have shown.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, outside the three pointer that he knocked down, as

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you mentioned, just kind of icing on the cake. He

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had a physical layup against Mo Wagner for his first

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points and then he put back layup. He plays like

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a traditional big that also can give you a three

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here and there. Basically, I'm good with that. I hope

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he continues to put him up because you know, he's

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taken over seven hundred in his career and he's a

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thirty six percent three point shooter. I mean, it's real,

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I guess. On the downside, not the best performance from

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Terrence Man in his minutes you could say, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can definitely say that he had a

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nice little He had this dish to Jordan Miller, which

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was cool. He had like a nice little pop in

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midway through the fourth. But I don't know what's up

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with Terrence. He had good performances. Tyler credited him, you know,

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praised him in the postgame stuff that he got his

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guy back and things like that. But it's a rocky

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slope up for Terrence Man. I still think it is

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trending up over the last four games or so, but

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the lows are kind of hard to deal with in

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a new way with Terrence.

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Speaker 1: I think you could say the same for Kevin Ford Junior,

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where he has been trending upwards in this game, and

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he got both once again. I thought he had some

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really timely shots, like there was a nine to zero

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run by Orlando in the third and he had a

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jumper I think out of a timeout on like the

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right elbow. And he had a couple of tough ones,

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like a spinning layup with some English on it that

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he got to go. But then there were some bad

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plays too. It's just it's up and down. But I

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feel like it's starting to trend towards overall positive play

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from him. I know what he misses on the ISO plays.

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It makes people cringe, but it still is just a misshot.

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It's not like it goes like minus two against them

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because he missed that shot necessarily. It's just it doesn't

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look great when it does happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like how you said that the positive trending

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up with a question mark, because it is. It's the

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KPJ roller coaster, right. Some turnovers were rough tonight. There

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was one possession. I think he took two threes a

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little early in the shot cluck. Like you said, he

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he brings things that this team needs. He crashes the boards.

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He had six assists the night, like, there are some

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things he's doing well just when things aren't going well.

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The way that he gets his shot, it's I think

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it's it's a bigger spotlight. I thought he was going

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to struggle more against this Orlando defense, to be honest,

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just because they're kind of built to shut down a

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guy like that. But it trending up. Everyone's trending up

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in their own special either question mark ended way or

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just normal way.

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Speaker 1: Quickly, How do you feel about the game on Friday?

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Can they close things out and sweep the Homestand.

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Speaker 2: I hope they can, But it is the NBA Cup

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and the Clippers seem to have the worst luck in

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the NBA Cup, So we're going to need more minutes

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from Jordan Miller. I think guys are gonna be kind

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of tired from tonight, but I think they can. They

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match up pretty well with the with the Kings, and

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let's just hope we got a third of the turnovers

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out of our systems.

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Speaker 1: Tonight, Clippers with twenty five turnovers and somehow survive with

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the victory one to four, two ninety three over the

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Orlando Magic here and into a dome. He is Chuck

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Mockler of Clips and dip Fame. Charles, thanks for doing

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this on the phone side, on the video side, making

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it happen for people in the chat as well, my

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friend as we close out the show, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having me. Let's go Clips,