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

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episode twenty nine of Clips and Dip. The Clippers are

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eight and seven, back above five hundred, where they belong

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for the most part. I am Chuck Buckley. We got

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the full crew. Will Updike is here, Adam Osland is here.

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Thank you for hanging on the There was some Clippers

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talk last night. Will and I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Snakes post snaked me on the postgame radio.

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Speaker 1: I needed a win. We did a little hang if

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you want to watch it. Will and I talked about

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the game as well over at YouTube dot com slash

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at Clippers podcast, where you can listen to it because

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it was an audio pod. Two, we're gonna be talking

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the best worst back to back that the Clippers just

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had the upcoming game against the Magic with out Norm Powell,

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which means big things for Jordan Miller. And then we

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have to kind of blow off some steam on this

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Kawhi Leonard shooting update and a fun good thing that

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Steve Balmer did. But before we get into that, fellas,

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it's basically soup season. Adam, Will, how are you doing

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on this chili Tuesday evening in Los Angeles?

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Speaker 2: I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm right.

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Speaker 2: Just get to the Clippers, man, that's what the people want.

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They don't want to know how to help we're doing.

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They don't care, they don't care what we're going through.

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Speaker 1: They're eight and seven, they are on top of the world.

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As Justin w pointed out on clip or on Twitter,

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only three and a half games out of that first spot. Baby,

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I can taste it kissing, kissing the one seed. For

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the most part, we beat the Jazz, they beat the

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Warriors in possibly the most chaotic ending of the season

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so far. Maybe shout out a mere coffee for making

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that interesting. What were we encouraged by? What do we

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like from this polarizing back to back? As I mentioned,

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they played the worst team in the conference and then

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then yesterday played the best team in the conference, beating

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them once again.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it shows that you know, we've talked

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about how slim the margins are, but even more so,

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matchups are everything for this team with how those things

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kind of go. I mean, it was very apparent in

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those back to back Houston Knights that's just not a

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great matchup for this Clippers team, whereas like the Warriors,

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we've matched up really well with all season, so something

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and keep in mind if you're on the this is

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our year train is like sort of how that bracket

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breaks is going to determine everything. Not that it isn't

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important in other years, but like this Clippers team just

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doesn't have the versatility of other years. We can't throw

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a lot of different looks at you. And now with

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Norm Powell out of the lineup, Like again, these slim

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margins are getting even even slimmer. They're doing a dance

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on a razor blade right now and couldn't do good.

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Blitz could fall off or do this lip at any

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given moment. So it's one of those things to monitor.

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And it's one of those things the monitor with your

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expectations too, because there might be some teams that are

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lower down in the standings that you're like, oh, this

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should be a breeze, but matchup wise, it's just not.

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You know, the Clippers just don't have the utility to

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sort of pull that out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Adam, what were you encouraged from from this back

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to back? And we're going to talk to the other

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side to you at some point.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if people have talked enough about the

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passing the last two games. They had thirty assists against

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Utah and twenty nine last night against the Golden State Warriors.

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For a team that just plays a bunch of ISO

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ball all the time, it's crazy how many assists they've had.

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James Harden playing through you know, illness yesterday and the

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day before, he was sick for both of those games.

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It sounded like when they got back from Houston that

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was the deal. Yeah, he played over forty minutes. That

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was pretty incredible.

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Speaker 1: You could see it. He was like getting to the

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real more often in the right. He was getting to

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the rim more often in that Warriors game than it

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felt like despite being sick. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean he air ball of three that looked like

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his legs were gone late and missed a layup. But

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it's still Yeah. I mean, sixteen assists of three turnovers.

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that playing through illness, not wanting to come out. They

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don't win without him. They don't win without what Norman

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that was a really really good win, if not their

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best winning into a dome so far. It's right there

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with the San Antonio I guess twenty six point comeback,

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but you might see it as a better victory because

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Golden State Warriors were ten to two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we did it in front of the guy who

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picked the popcorn flavor, so that always feels good.

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Speaker 2: That was the most cohesive I think the Charles and

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that was the most cohesive The offense has kind of

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looked to me just the way the way I mean,

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and in a productive way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the lineup that I really liked from

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last night was the hardened Man, emir Nico and Zoo lineup. Unsurprisingly,

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it played well because those I think, will you brought

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it up like Harden's the new guy in that lineup.

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All four of those other guys definitely know what they're doing.

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But that lineup was super fun and the defense just

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like all the way around the matchups. We talked about it,

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right like Derek Jones, Junior Chris Dunn, Terrence Emir and

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Nico's that's an issue for the Warriors specifically, and it's

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nice to see the clips take advantage of that and

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Terrence man making things happen off the bench. Yet again,

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he seems comfortable there and it's nice when he gets

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the kind of stagger's time with the starters and stuff too,

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because it's a nice boost.

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Speaker 3: You could say, three out of the last four or

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five games now, he's looked much better. The last game

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at into a Dome before they returned against the Toronto

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Raptors with those defensive plays late, and then the first

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game coming off the bench where they would still lose

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that Wednesday night in Houston, but he had fourteen points.

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He had the meaty, chunky stat line that we like

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to see. And then last night he's getting comfortable again.

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Coach Lou said, I'm glad I got my guy back

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after he started coming off the bench. So hopefully, I

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think the big shots that he hit the dunk to

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start the fourth quarter, that three pointer after he had

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just missed one in the near side corner, knocking that down,

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if anything, can help his confidence and really turn his

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season around. Right now as we are twenty percent of

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the way through the season now, so some of these

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trends and patterns they might be here to stay if

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they don't go the other way soon. So I'm happy

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for Terrence.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, nice to see Terrence bounce back. Mobamba had a

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good debut, which I think you could really tell the

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difference between what not saying it was light years ahead,

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but what a nod as much of a project and

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someone who's played more functional NBA minutes can look like

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when you compare kind of what Bomba looked like versus

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what Kai Jones was bringing the team. I think Bomba's

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first possession they called a dunk for him. He set

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the screen, he cut, they threw over a new It's

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a nice way to make him feel welcome, and then

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he's just a big target for James Harden to hit

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like it's he has a knee issue, of course, because

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the Clippers can't have a backup center without that backup

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center having a knee issue. But I was encouraged by

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what we saw from the backup five spot when he

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought he looked really good that first game

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where he played what around fifteen minutes against Utah. I

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think he had nine and eight and ten minutes in

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the first half. It looked like he was trying to

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buck the narrative on him that he doesn't have a

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great motor and that's kind of been what has held

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him back over the years, the inconsistency. But then postgame

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he's talking about how that injury that kept him out

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the first couple of weeks with the Clippers, he was

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just playing through it last year with the Philadelphia seventy

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six ers, So I wonder how much that affected his

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performance and if they can get more out of him

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this season because of that, and because I don't know,

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Jeff Van Gundy lighting a fire under everybody. So I

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just hope, I feel like Mo Bamba, if he just

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brings that right level of energy, he's going to be

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a big upgrade over what Mason Plumb he brought last season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he won't handle the ball and try and

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do showtime passes, which I think is another thing that

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he will do better than Mason Plumbing.

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Speaker 3: Did he do that? Why would he do that?

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Speaker 1: Why would he do that? Though? And then A Mirror

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continues to just make things out.

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Speaker 3: Mirror was awesome last night.

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Speaker 1: It's the best value contract in the NBA. It's making

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so little money, it's absolutely insane. Anything else encouraging kind

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of over these two games before we get into the

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discouraging things that we may have seen despite the.

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Speaker 3: Wins, discouraging eight and seven. I mean, come on, it's

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Speaker 1: What else were you encouraged by?

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Speaker 2: We got one efficient Harden game out of the back

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to back, so it's pretty good. Take it, pretty get

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stuff there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that is a nice segue into kind of

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the discouraging things. Harden played seventy five minutes in two days,

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which is maybe more impressive than what Darren Fox did

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scoring wise the other night. If you think about James

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Harden's age and things like that, we saw it almost

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come back to bite us in the Warriors game, like

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those late a mirror bringing the ball up, that last possession,

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norm bringing it just people are clamoring for this help,

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but like will, we kind of talked about it. Who

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is helping this? I don't mean that disrespectfully.

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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, it's it's really really difficult, and I mean

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Adam Charles and I were talking a bunch about this,

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but like the Clippers record is gonna determine whether they're

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a low I would still say, like low interest buyer

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or just a huge seller. After December fifteenth, and you know,

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it's just looking more and more, especially like as injuries

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and stuff kind of pile up up certainly minutes on

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these big guys, Like are they really a mid tier

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piece away? You know, like is that really the difference maker?

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And I just think it depends. I think it depends

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what does Kawi look like? And again what is their

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record as of December fifteenth.

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Speaker 3: I was listening to you guys from last night's pot

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on the treadmill earlier. I do think we disagree in

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one respect. I think Kawhi cures a lot of what

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ails them with James Harden. I do like guys who

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had the highest usage rating last season, it wasn't James.

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Is Kawhi like he's going to knock down that usage

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rating on James Harden, which is up ten percent from

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last season right away. I think that will bring back

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the legs the efficiency shooting wise. I do love the

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way Kawhi could blend in to this Clippers team.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I know that's.

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Speaker 3: Crazy to say for a superstar, you think it's just

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gonna be this big piece how do you work it in?

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But the way they're constructed defensively, the way they play

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out there, that's Kawhi's style. And it's not like he's

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taking away touches from guys that need the basketball so much.

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Even Norman Powell isn't the guy that creates much for himself.

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It's mostly get it and go catch and shoot stuff.

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So what they need is another guy who can create,

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who can play a ton of one on one basketball

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at a high efficiency rate. That's Kawhi. It's the perfect

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guy that would fit this roster. Now who knows when he's.

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Speaker 1: The show?

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Speaker 3: But I stop asking, I get stop asking Diick Saban

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in the chat, I'm not answering, So stop asking. I guess.

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Long story short, I'm higher on this team than I

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was coming into this season because of the way they

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played so far without Kauhi and just seeing how he

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could elevate this team. It seems like the perfect handing love,

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big love fit with Kawhi Leonard. If he can get back, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're you nailed it. Like with the defense

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like this, Kawhi Leonard on this team defensively is a

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damn nightmare for anybody else with like if the Warriors

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thought they had specifically, if the Warriors thought they had

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matchup problems before, imagine having Kawhi Leonard in the starting lineup,

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you know, moving whoever out. One thing that did come

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up that I thought was discouraging over this two game

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stretch is an Adam. This is something you've kind of

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called out, I mean, disrespect, and you were right about this.

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The Zoo motor Tylu said, now he's given Zoo three

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stints instead of two stints per half. Another good thing

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that Mobam was showing serviceableness so far. But that's something

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that kind of monitor to just as we go on

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with this thing, because that has been kind of a

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knock on him before.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, multiple times now so far this season he has

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commented on believing that it eats Zubas looked a little

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bit lethargic out there, looked a little bit tired out there.

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I hope what are his minutes at now, because at

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what point they were almost like thirty five minutes a game?

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Just stay above thirty consumerable or can he hold up

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just playing thirty? Just around there, like that's that's enough

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for me, just to thirty or above but I'm not

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expecting him to play thirty six minutes every night. I

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don't know if he has that conditioning in him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was at thirty six last night, thirty three

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the night before Lowest, He's played twenty seven versus the

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Rockets on the thirteenth.

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Speaker 3: When he misses some of the chippies, it looks like

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he's tired out there.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's alost guy to the rim.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's terrible, and that's where the Zubats haters come from. Esthetically,

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it is not pleasing when he misses those bunnies like that,

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and when you're you know, so much dependent on that

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touch around the basket because he's not always dunking it.

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Like just any bit taken out of your legs, I

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think can affect that to some degree.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good call. And then the other thing

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that was discouraging is the Norm thing. Norm's hamstring strained.

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He was he was questionable to return, then he came

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back in. Someone was tweeting at us, They're like, I

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was surprised he returned, And I was like, but were

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you also not surprised at all? That he returned like

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they're chasing wins right, like Tyler said as much will

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did you think it was weird he returned like the

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Clippers needed him to get that win.

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Speaker 2: It was unexpected for me, but I mean absolutely necessary.

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I don't think they have enough to get over especially

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the way that Golden State turned it on and how

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Curry has performed in third quarters really all season this year.

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They definitely needed They definitely needed the extra firepower, and

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I was glad that Norm was good enough to go.

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I don't think that they would have rushed him out

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there if there was like if they thought there was

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a serious chance of re injury or worsening something. But

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it's definitely something a monitor, I mean, who even moves

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up into his spot like well, I was talking about

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the rotation and stuff later, but it's it's kind of

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a nightmare. It's kind of a nightmare for me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, such a such a pleasant way to convey the

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nightmare scenario, but I share it. I feel like, not

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quite that this is fine dog with the flaming house.

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But I'm staring at the abyss a little bit. I'm

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glancing at it out of the corner of my eye.

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Speaker 3: I hope. Like you said, the fact that he came

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back and played in that game is some indication about

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the severity of it. Hopefully it wasn't just adrenaline carrying

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him through. And it is a more troublesome hamstring injury

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because those are always tough to manage and are tricky.

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Doctor shapp I was reading some of his tweets earlier,

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Real doctor, real doctor. They need they need Norman Pole desperately.

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And I mean, like, how many games as they won

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where he didn't play well. I think he hasn't played

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well in maybe three games Game one, the two in Houston,

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and that's it out of fifteen so far, and they

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won any of those, and they weren't close in the

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Phoenix one they could have won. That was game one

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they should have won.

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Speaker 1: Yea. The two Houston games eight for twenty nine combined,

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no great shoot it ideal Other than those things hardened

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playing a bunch of minutes norm being out with the

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hamstring injury, possibly zoos motor, not much else.

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Speaker 3: Discouraging twenty turnovers again last night.

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Speaker 1: Oh sure, but I might be numb to those at

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this point.

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Speaker 2: That's another one of those matchup things where like like

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luckily for us. The Warriors are also kind of a high,

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high turnover team. Yeah, I don't know. I think we've

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talked about it here, but like, if this team could

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just get back to say the four team of fifteen range,

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I'd be really happy. There's no way it's realistically going

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to be much lower than that, but if they could

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just get it to there, hell, I'd take sixteen. I

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think it's gonna look a lot better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Outside of that, you know, check it along eighty seven,

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maybe eighteen seven.

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Speaker 1: With a very interesting couple of games coming up, we're

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gonna talk the Magic and Kings game to close out

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this week. Obviously, the biggest issue is what's going to

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go on with Norman Powell spot. If you're watching this

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on YouTube, thank you for watching us and consuming us visually.

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If you're listening to us on audio, it's gonna be

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a quick break and then we're talking the pretty difficult

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two games of Clippers have to close this week out

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coming up in three two?

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Speaker 2: What all right? We're back in and clips and dip

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Clippers are above five hundred. It's great. We're all feeling

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like it's our year. But they got a tough couple

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of games coming on, and again not the greatest of matchups,

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taking on the Magic and then the Kings to end

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this week, Charles, why why don't you lead us in?

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Because we kind of teased this in the last segment,

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but with Norm Powell likely missing at least one of

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these games, who's up?

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Speaker 1: Oh it's Jordan Miller time. This is the opportunity that

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people have wanted. Maybe it's not how we wanted him

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to get the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: How did you think it was going to happen? I'm

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just I'm very curious if you thought he was going

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to get some significant run this season, how did you

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think it was going to happen?

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Speaker 1: Well, snip snap from Tyler. You don't have to worry

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about locker room politics. You just make the change. Baby. No,

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so what it seems like, and feel free to yell

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at me if you think that I'm wrong about this.

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Emir is probably slotting into Norms starting role, would be

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my guest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's probably.

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Speaker 2: I think it makes a lot more sense than kpj Oh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because who's handling the ball in the second well,

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is it Terrence? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Since Chris Dunn is already a starter now, and you

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have somebody else to alleviate some of the on ball stuff.

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With James Harden, it makes sense that it'd be a.

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Speaker 1: Mirror Yeah, and then who slides into a mirror spot

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Jordan Miller from those benchmen. It seems like that should happen,

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right eas he does it done, which is nice, but

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that seems like the most logical thing, right Like Miller

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will probably I mean, how many minutes is a mirror averaging?

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I know it can change every now and then.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if he plays well, he closes. If it doesn't,

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somebody else will.

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Speaker 1: He's averaging twenty three minutes a game. I don't think

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Jordan Miller's getting twenty three minutes maybe unless things are

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going really well against the Magic tomorrow. But I think

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we'll see like the most minutes that Jordan Miller has

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played against not only an NBA defense, the second best

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NBA defense in the league. Right now.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if Patum gets any extra run. I mean,

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he hit twenty minutes yesterday. It was the first game

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where he made multiple three pointers in a game so

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far this season, so he's looking better with his shot

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now after struggling. I don't know if he'll soak up

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some minutes. But yeah, Jordan Miller fifteen minutes is likely.

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That's what feels like.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the most points anyone's ever scored in fifteen minutes?

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Speaker 3: Fifteen? Well, Klay Thompson once had a thirty seven point

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quarter in twelve, So I don't know what he did

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with the other three, but I.

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Speaker 1: Think Jordan Miller's gonna be on that pace. No, but

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they're gonna need easy buckets, right will Like you lose

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norm you lose a guy who can get to the

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foul line, and Jordan Miller can very much do that,

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and we will need to muck the game up against

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the magic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully he's ready to do so on an a

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an NBA level. That's gonna be really interesting. I think

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like the off ball send, like the off ball stuff

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is a lot, in my head, at least a lot

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easier over role for him to fill, you know, just

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just shooting in motion, spotting up that kind of stuff.

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I think he could pretty easily slot into. You know,

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if you're expecting Norms sort of production, you're gonna be

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willfully disappointed. But it is, uh, I mean, it just

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is a great opportunity, you know, we talked about. Unfortunately

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it was a loss, but that game against Houston where

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we got some some some C team minutes or some

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third up minutes or some some guys, some guys who

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are like not even really on the fringe of the rotation. Uh,

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and you know, look pretty good for the most part.

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So it's it's an exciting opportunity where I don't know,

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I don't know how it's gonna pay on the hardest thing, Like,

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the hardest thing for these guys is just especially when

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you don't get regular minutes, is establishing any sort of

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floor of consistency. And I think that that is going

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to be an issue for Miller. I like the floor

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of consistency line. I'm gonna steal that and use that

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moving forward.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'll say this, Tarry East is one of

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the better young defenders in the league, and he couldn't

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handle Jordan Miller without fouling.

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Speaker 1: Like that.

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Speaker 3: Was saw the same thing with Keegan Murray that last

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preseason game. I was just looking up with the Orlando

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Magic give up free throw wise to their opponents every game.

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I guess it's twenty two free throws a game. They're

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a physical team that's about seventeenth in the league, so

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they don't foil, you know, in the middle of the

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pack when it comes to how much they foul. So

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I'm trying to see it. Can Jordan Miller really take

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advantage of a team that's just hacking all over the place?

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But he had he had ten points in what ten

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minutes the last game in Houston, and almost all of

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them were at the free throw line. That was crazy.

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He also bodied Fred van Vlid on a play, who

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is a good defender while undersize, like he just went

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right through him. I don't know. I I'm excited for

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this because oh yeah, I just he's yet to play

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poorly when you give him an opportunity, Like, how are

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we ever going to find out where his ceiling is

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if you don't really challenge him. He's earned this, So

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I hope he gets at least fifteen minutes, and I

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hope they're not you know, just late third quarter, fourth quarter,

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if somebody's up big that yeah, first half minutes in

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this game.

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Speaker 1: I was, yeah, I like that. The first half minutes

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is going to be huge. And again we're running into

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a team the Magic have won six in a row.

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They played some bad teams, including the seventy six ers.

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Who wow, what a what a train wreck?

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Speaker 3: That is what happened there.

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Speaker 1: They won, They've won six in a row. The most

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points they've allowed in that six game stretch is ninety nine,

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and they've held three teams below ninety. Granted those teams

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are bad, the Pels, the Hornets in the seventy six ers,

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but that's fairly impressive for a NBA team in trying

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to twenty four.

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Speaker 3: All those games without Ben Carrol, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's out for a very long time.

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Speaker 3: He played like their four to five. Yeah, that's crazy.

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I mean, defensively they're elite and we kind of knew

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that about them. Offensively, they're worse than the Clippers, right.

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Speaker 1: Right, it's very odd. We need to score off the turnovers. Yeah,

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they're what twenty fifth their thirtieth and three point percentage,

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So they are not good shooters. Someone posted the list

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of players who've attempted over one hundred and threes with

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00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,119
the worst three point percentage. Jalen Suggs is number two

478
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,240
on that list. James Harden is number four. That's neither

479
00:24:43,279 --> 00:24:48,279
here nor there, but really, like if anyone not name

480
00:24:49,079 --> 00:24:52,480
uh Franz Wagner is taking a three. I think the

481
00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:56,720
Clippers will be happy with that. Yeah, he's kind of

482
00:24:56,799 --> 00:24:59,960
killing it. He's at like twenty twenty three to five.

483
00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 3: I will say Houston was very low and three point

484
00:25:03,279 --> 00:25:05,680
percentage till they played the Clippers in those two games.

485
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,440
But uh so sometimes you get worried about those things.

486
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,319
But they have had I mean, they brought in KCP

487
00:25:11,519 --> 00:25:13,240
for a reason. They were looking for a little more

488
00:25:13,319 --> 00:25:15,119
juice on offense and a guy that could shoot from

489
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,480
the outside. And apparently they were flirting with bringing in

490
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,160
Paul George for a reason too, but uh things worked out.

491
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:22,599
He went to Philly dodge.

492
00:25:22,279 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: The bullet there. God happy for my magic ge Yeah,

493
00:25:31,039 --> 00:25:36,039
other than the the Norm Powell loss, who are looking

494
00:25:36,079 --> 00:25:37,920
at on the bench to begetting this one, because the

495
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,720
bench was also a huge part of why we beat

496
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:40,680
the Warriors.

497
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:42,559
Speaker 2: Last time.

498
00:25:42,799 --> 00:25:46,279
Speaker 3: KPJ had an awful first half, awful first half after

499
00:25:46,319 --> 00:25:49,000
having his best game of the season against Utah, And

500
00:25:49,079 --> 00:25:52,400
maybe that answers everything. It's because it was against Utah.

501
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,720
I don't know, but I've really felt like his playmaking

502
00:25:54,799 --> 00:25:57,400
was on point, like he was really making sure to

503
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,079
be a past first guy, and he went back and

504
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,119
reverted back to some of the old bad habits. But

505
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,319
right before he went out he had that big block.

506
00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:09,000
Who is that on the podds? Yeah, and then he

507
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,720
had the and one play where unfortunately he got hurt,

508
00:26:11,799 --> 00:26:14,440
banged his head, couldn't finish the one, Coffee had to

509
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,119
take the free throw. So if he's available and he's

510
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,319
not on the injury report, so I'm guessing he is,

511
00:26:21,519 --> 00:26:24,160
Coach Lou will probably turn to him for maybe even

512
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,440
more minutes because Norm piles out.

513
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta be better. Well, who you got coming

514
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,680
off the bench to to stop the dark arts of

515
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:35,160
the magic?

516
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,079
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that this would be a great

517
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:44,119
time for for Terrence's sort of improved aggression and like

518
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,720
and his offense shining through a little bit more. I think,

519
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,480
you know, when he has the keys, he's just a

520
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,359
little bit more in rhythm, a little bit more in flow.

521
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,599
We've seen him certainly be a lot more confident out there,

522
00:26:54,799 --> 00:26:58,519
and I think, you know, his minutes, his minutes will

523
00:26:58,559 --> 00:27:00,559
likely see a bump up too. I'm I mean, still

524
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,319
maybe not in closing lineups, depending on what's going on

525
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,680
there and how Amer looks. But yeah, I think Terrence

526
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,240
has a has a real opportunity here, especially with coming

527
00:27:10,279 --> 00:27:12,559
off the momentum that he's had in these last few games.

528
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, done too. That closing lineup is going to be

529
00:27:15,599 --> 00:27:20,039
interesting because dun didn't close versus the Warriors. So yeah,

530
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:24,440
that's it's gonna be an interesting matchup. Norman fortunately will

531
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,400
not be playing on his bibblehead night, which bums me

532
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:27,160
out if I'm.

533
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 3: Ah, is there some bibblehead curse thing with this? Haven't

534
00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:31,440
we seen this before?

535
00:27:31,839 --> 00:27:36,039
Speaker 1: I think so, I guess right before. Yeah, the funniest

536
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:40,440
depending on your definition of funny. Uh Kawhi's bibblehead date

537
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,160
is still TVD fans were telling us, which.

538
00:27:44,079 --> 00:27:46,279
Speaker 3: See, I'm not believing anything until we get a bibblehead

539
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:47,799
date with him when he's returning.

540
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,079
Speaker 1: So after they battle the second best team in the

541
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,119
NBA at defense again very bad in offense. They're taking

542
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,039
a ton of threes, they're almost top ten and three

543
00:27:59,039 --> 00:28:02,960
point attempts, but they're are literally dead last three.

544
00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 3: Point I like the fact. In fact, Carlo texted me

545
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,039
this earlier today and I think he's right. Carl he said, yeah,

546
00:28:10,079 --> 00:28:12,599
he said, I'm liking this matchup. Two slow teams like

547
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,279
they do play at the Clippers pace like it's gonna

548
00:28:15,279 --> 00:28:17,119
be I don't know, first to eighty wins.

549
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 1: Oh God, for all those people who wanted old school

550
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:28,079
basketball back, we've got it into it on Wednesday night. Yeah,

551
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,480
I'm looking up the half court offensive ratings.

552
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 3: They're gonna build another wall with all the bricks, with

553
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:37,920
all the great defense.

554
00:28:38,599 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: Yes, the great wall, the great Wall of defense. All right,

555
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,960
so they don't really all right anyway. Then they play

556
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,480
the Kings, who we have annoyed. We held them in

557
00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:54,000
ninety eight last time, but that was with the previous

558
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,640
That was with the previous starting lineup. Daron Fox is

559
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,160
on a heater. I don't know, we only had a

560
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:06,599
nine guy rotation. Uh, how are we feeling about the

561
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:11,000
new Clips against the Kings? Will you hyped?

562
00:29:12,359 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 2: With no? Norm That's a pretty tall order TV, But

563
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:16,680
I think.

564
00:29:17,039 --> 00:29:19,359
Speaker 3: Right on that one in our year, he could be back.

565
00:29:20,319 --> 00:29:23,799
Speaker 2: He could be back because just even with as good

566
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,720
as the Clippers defense has been and can be, that's

567
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,880
that's a tall order. You're not stopping everything, So I

568
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,880
think keeping face with that. At the same time, though,

569
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:37,440
I do kind of like that matchup. I do like

570
00:29:37,519 --> 00:29:40,359
that matchup. Stylistically for the Clippers. Yes, you have the

571
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:45,119
athleticism and you know some of the speed. Uh, but

572
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,839
at the same time an equally kind of smaller a

573
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,640
smaller kind of lineup. We've seen Zoom be really effective

574
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:53,440
down low in that.

575
00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:55,279
Speaker 1: I like.

576
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,119
Speaker 2: I like that line I like that matchup a little

577
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,839
bit more than the Magic matchup, just because of some

578
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,799
of the things that we've seen so far in I

579
00:30:02,799 --> 00:30:05,720
think I'm just still reeling from like the double Rockets loss,

580
00:30:05,759 --> 00:30:10,319
but uh, I do like that matchup. No norm somebody

581
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,480
is gonna have to, Like, somebody's gonna have to have

582
00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:17,599
a breakout, and it's maybe the KPJ.

583
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:19,799
Speaker 1: But he scored.

584
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 2: I mean, he's scored somebody. Yeah, somebody's gonna have to

585
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:22,759
do it.

586
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,279
Speaker 1: Him and a Mirror combined for twenty five points were

587
00:30:25,279 --> 00:30:26,799
of the only people that scored off the bench the

588
00:30:26,839 --> 00:30:28,799
last time we played him. So this could also be

589
00:30:28,839 --> 00:30:33,599
another Terrence Man right, Like, it's interesting we only played

590
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,519
again No Kai Jones last time. We wonder if Bob's

591
00:30:36,519 --> 00:30:37,759
gonna get some look or something.

592
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,519
Speaker 3: But it almost gave the way gave away the game

593
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,920
late with like fournovers in the last four minutes or something.

594
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: Evergreen statement that you just said, Adam, that could be said.

595
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,960
I think we could just run that clip for every episode. Yeah,

596
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,400
Ty was pissed, Like after the game, Ty was pretty upset,

597
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,119
I mean as upset as coaches get about that kind

598
00:30:57,119 --> 00:31:01,119
of thing in public, about the lay game turnovers. So

599
00:31:02,559 --> 00:31:04,799
I'm equally stressed about both these games.

600
00:31:06,079 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 3: I agree with Will, though I do like the matchup

601
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,680
a little bit more against Sacramento. Maybe it's just because

602
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,759
we're familiar with them pactive game and they beat them

603
00:31:13,799 --> 00:31:18,400
earlier this season, and it's somewhat some recency bias going

604
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,160
on here, But I feel better going up against smaller,

605
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,119
quicker teams, like especially when the head of the Snake

606
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,440
is that guy Steph Curry last night dearon Fox with Sacramento,

607
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:35,039
then the brewed athletic teams like we saw in Houston.

608
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,440
I just like that matchup. I don't hate Zubots going

609
00:31:38,519 --> 00:31:41,240
up against the Bonus. The Bonus isn't a great rimp

610
00:31:41,279 --> 00:31:43,599
protector or anything like that. Sacramento I think is like

611
00:31:43,599 --> 00:31:46,920
fourteenth defensively right now. They've been getting better there and

612
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,559
they're six on offense, but I don't know. They shut

613
00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:52,640
the water off in a lot of different ways last time,

614
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,559
and that game was up in Sacramento when they beat them.

615
00:31:54,559 --> 00:31:57,839
So I don't hate it. I mean, be careful what

616
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,519
you wish for. If they don't have NORM, it's scary.

617
00:32:01,759 --> 00:32:03,720
But if you slow down Deer and Fox, it just

618
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,359
feels like it takes them so far away from their

619
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,960
offensive game plan, like you really can get a stranglehold

620
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:10,279
on it.

621
00:32:11,359 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: And I hope we see more. You know, no NORM

622
00:32:13,759 --> 00:32:16,640
means the hardened man. A mere Nico Zoo lineup can

623
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,680
be out there. We can see maybe Derek John Junior

624
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,759
getting switched in there for Zoo to get the not

625
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,319
you know, get the small ball five going. I just

626
00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:26,200
want to point out you mentioned this is a Pacific

627
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,920
Division matchup. I'm looking at the divisional standings as I

628
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:34,599
do every day. Pacific Division only team where or only

629
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,720
division where every team has a winning record.

630
00:32:37,359 --> 00:32:41,839
Speaker 2: Lovely, it's routinely I feel like the hardest division in well,

631
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,359
the best division in basketball.

632
00:32:44,359 --> 00:32:47,799
Speaker 1: My documentary will prove that later this year. It's called

633
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:48,799
it really matters.

634
00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:55,799
Speaker 2: I swear you screw the cup. Let's make divisional playing.

635
00:32:56,039 --> 00:32:58,319
Let's make that a thing. How about that, mister.

636
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 3: Silver, that's a Friday.

637
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,559
Speaker 2: I was gonna say it's a it's a Cup game too, right,

638
00:33:03,559 --> 00:33:04,279
because it's Friday.

639
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,319
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Well, really, I hope the I hope the

640
00:33:08,359 --> 00:33:10,920
supporters of the division and the supporters of the Cup

641
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,160
don't clash or anything like that. Let's keep it peaceful

642
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,920
out there, guys, we should unite.

643
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 2: Is there any way we can win the game but

644
00:33:17,279 --> 00:33:20,240
somehow forfeit the Cup win? Is that is that possible?

645
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:20,559
Speaker 3: Yeah?

646
00:33:20,599 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 2: One.

647
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,839
Speaker 1: If a team just opts out of the Cup, they're

648
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,200
just like, this is just regular season. We're not counting

649
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:28,799
this for the Cup.

650
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,119
Speaker 3: Gulays, dumb, what are we doing here?

651
00:33:34,119 --> 00:33:36,119
Speaker 1: I really I do though, I don't want to lose

652
00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:39,160
another group game in the Cup. Didn't really win one

653
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:39,759
last year?

654
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 2: Did we win one?

655
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,519
Speaker 1: I think we won one?

656
00:33:43,759 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was one.

657
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,839
Speaker 1: All right, we talked this matchup. Now for the most

658
00:33:49,839 --> 00:33:52,599
important part, second most important part of the episode. The

659
00:33:52,599 --> 00:33:56,160
most important part is coming up quickly. Player of the

660
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,720
Game picks for both games. One of the hardest things

661
00:33:59,759 --> 00:34:02,359
to do is to pick a guy who's gonna be

662
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:07,359
good for both games. Adam, I think you went last

663
00:34:07,599 --> 00:34:10,840
last time, so you can go first, and then will

664
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:11,320
and then.

665
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 3: I will decide last shall be first. I'm coming off

666
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,079
the bench just like Jordan Miller. He's my player that

667
00:34:18,079 --> 00:34:20,760
I'm picking here, Jordan Miller for both games.

668
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: Baby, what are we envisioning here?

669
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:32,159
Speaker 3: Ten to twelve points? Ten to twelve points total annihilation

670
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:33,079
of the competition?

671
00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:40,079
Speaker 1: Uh, the most immoralizing twelve points ever scored against the team.

672
00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:44,159
Speaker 3: Just a handful A tough guy to UH wrangle because

673
00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:46,119
he wants to get downhill and gets to the rim.

674
00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:51,440
I hope he just causes chaos with rotations, with the

675
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,039
opposition's defense trying to figure out a way to slow

676
00:34:54,119 --> 00:34:56,119
him down, and that opens up things for others. I

677
00:34:56,159 --> 00:34:57,840
know it's crazy to say that about a guy who

678
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,719
hasn't played any meaningful NBA basketball yet, but that's always

679
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,599
done with whatever minutes he's ever gotten. So I'm gonna

680
00:35:03,639 --> 00:35:05,440
I'm gonna say it's real, and I think he can

681
00:35:05,519 --> 00:35:08,400
do it, So I'm hoping there's not too much pressure.

682
00:35:08,599 --> 00:35:11,559
I posted a transformer like Gift earlier, talk about him

683
00:35:11,679 --> 00:35:13,840
going from hot rod to BOTTOMUS.

684
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,039
Speaker 1: You don't want there to be too much pressure. You're

685
00:35:17,039 --> 00:35:19,039
comparing the greatest.

686
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 3: I know a rise Jordan Miller at your time.

687
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: He's also left handed, which gives him an extra boost.

688
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:31,039
Everyone knows that will your pick the KWI Leonard James

689
00:35:31,039 --> 00:35:34,880
harden A Vitza zubats Norm Powell inaugural player of the

690
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:39,360
Game for the cut, he can pick Norm. Go for yeah,

691
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:39,760
go for.

692
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 2: It for both games. I'm gonna stick with my guy, Terrence.

693
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,800
I think that I think that he has a real

694
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,079
opportunity to step to step things up right now and then,

695
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,519
I don't want to say no pressure situation, but a

696
00:35:53,559 --> 00:35:55,800
better situation than it seems like. Maybe he was in

697
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,119
with the starting lineup for for whatever reason. I just

698
00:35:59,159 --> 00:36:02,519
don't It wasn't the greatest wasn't the greatest fit for it,

699
00:36:02,559 --> 00:36:04,679
and it wasn't the best Terrence that we saw out there.

700
00:36:05,039 --> 00:36:09,199
But if we could get if he could get into

701
00:36:09,199 --> 00:36:11,440
double digits in one of these two games, I feel

702
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,599
like I'd be pretty happy. Like if he could go

703
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,760
like twelve and nine or or flip it over uh

704
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,159
over the two games, I think that that would go

705
00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:23,880
a long way. I think the chunky Stytlin, Yeah, the

706
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,159
chunky stylin. That's fair.

707
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: Okay, So we got Jordan Miller, we got Terrence Man. Damn.

708
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,519
I kind of have a a why to rate a pick.

709
00:36:34,639 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 3: Actually, you know what, what if Bones gets menus with.

710
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,519
Speaker 1: Normal, I'm not picking Bones. I'll just.

711
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,559
Speaker 3: Contract as a skeleton key guy. I just had to

712
00:36:46,559 --> 00:36:48,239
bring it up just in case.

713
00:36:48,559 --> 00:36:53,039
Speaker 1: The skeleton tree contract you had to sign in blood. Yeah,

714
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,519
I think so we're gonna need someone to score against Orlando. Obviously,

715
00:36:57,039 --> 00:36:59,519
might turn into some kind of weird track meet against

716
00:36:59,599 --> 00:37:02,199
the King if the defense isn't exactly there for the Clippers,

717
00:37:02,199 --> 00:37:06,760
which it has been all year. I've picked him a

718
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,440
lot and he hasn't really let me down, but he

719
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,280
hasn't proved me entirely right yet. Dereck Jones Junior, he

720
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,440
can run against the Kings. He's gonna be asked to

721
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,159
probably do more than he usually does on defense against

722
00:37:18,199 --> 00:37:21,760
the Magic just because of the size issues. Another guy, though,

723
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,440
like to Will's point with Terrence, if he can get

724
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,679
plus ten points efficiently, run the break, help him win

725
00:37:28,199 --> 00:37:31,119
you know, points off turnovers, stuff like that, that will

726
00:37:31,159 --> 00:37:35,039
be very much needed these next two games. He's had

727
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,119
a very underrated year I think so far for the Clippers.

728
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,199
Not that he should be in some kind of consideration

729
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:43,159
for rewards, but he's definitely overplaying his contract.

730
00:37:43,159 --> 00:37:44,199
Speaker 2: I think good guy award?

731
00:37:44,599 --> 00:37:47,559
Speaker 1: Oh how could I fuck? How could I forget the

732
00:37:47,559 --> 00:37:49,760
good guy Ward? Derek Jones, if you're listening, I think

733
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,800
I think you should get the good guy Award.

734
00:37:52,039 --> 00:37:54,199
Speaker 3: What do you guys guess he's shooting from three so far?

735
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,280
Speaker 1: Forty one point six?

736
00:38:01,199 --> 00:38:02,079
Speaker 3: You don't respect him?

737
00:38:02,119 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 1: Do wait? Will you guess?

738
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 2: H forty three?

739
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:15,079
Speaker 3: Forty four? Stamn, it's early. It's that it's gonna go down.

740
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,800
But there's a real good chance, pretty.

741
00:38:18,559 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: Big example, a pretty large percentage.

742
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 3: Of yeah, you're right, you're right, or twenty percent of

743
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,280
the year in there's a real good chance he's gonna

744
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,760
finish above league average from three this season with this

745
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,679
hot start. Oh yeah, that's phenomenal. I think I think

746
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,119
he's a grinder, like like Norm, Like this is another

747
00:38:35,159 --> 00:38:38,159
guy who's just waiting for his opportunity, waiting for his opportunity.

748
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:40,199
I love having him as a Clipper.

749
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:44,639
Speaker 1: Now, Oh yeah, it rules all right? That wraps it up.

750
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,800
Let us know your picks over at Clippers pod or

751
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,079
at YouTube dot com slash at Clippers podcast, where some

752
00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:54,760
people have voiced their very loud opinions about what this

753
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,280
team should do. Coming up, We're talking the one Kawhi

754
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,760
thing that came out, and then and some good Steve

755
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,960
Bamber news I mean audio break and then right back

756
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,400
to you in three two one.

757
00:39:07,039 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 3: Oh, come back in. It's clips and dip. I'm out

758
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,559
a Maslin. We got Chuck Mockler and Will Updyke here

759
00:39:11,639 --> 00:39:14,679
the Big Three are with you once again. It's season three,

760
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:22,199
episode twenty nine, and yesterday we got some something we got.

761
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:28,119
We got. Kawhi was mentioned by head coach straw Lou

762
00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:31,679
after promoter Shelborne asked him a question the pregame press

763
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,000
or yesterday of what he has been doing. And what

764
00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:39,719
he has been doing is uh, some shooting, some shooting.

765
00:39:41,599 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 1: I ran through a wall when I heard shooting?

766
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 2: What though.

767
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: Magpie Crosby again, Yeah, no, this was like I felt

768
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:56,440
nothing when I heard this.

769
00:39:58,159 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 3: I felt angry when I saw that aggregators like I

770
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,880
don't ever do this. But when I saw people really

771
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,960
try to turn this into something, It's like, guys, it

772
00:40:09,119 --> 00:40:12,079
is I was in the room coach who was basically

773
00:40:12,119 --> 00:40:15,239
laughing after saying it some shooting, Like what are we

774
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,079
talking about here? When you hear it it, it doesn't

775
00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:22,599
make you more hopeful. Even just reading it. What does

776
00:40:22,639 --> 00:40:25,039
some shooting mean he doesn't have an arm injury or

777
00:40:25,079 --> 00:40:28,119
anything like that. How how is he not able to

778
00:40:28,159 --> 00:40:31,280
shoot set shots without movie like he's obviously sitting on

779
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,119
the bench, he can walk. It's it's not something where

780
00:40:34,119 --> 00:40:36,480
he would be able to do stationary shooting with. So

781
00:40:36,519 --> 00:40:39,400
why is anybody taking this and making something out of it?

782
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,679
Speaker 2: He's doing lethal shooter stuff. He's throwing the gummy bear

783
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:47,119
in the water bottle. We don't need he understands it

784
00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:49,239
now playing.

785
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: We don't need Kawai and near any spinning blades or

786
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:58,920
flames given the injury thing. Yeah, this gives us no

787
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,119
insight in his return at all. Fair.

788
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm actually surprised because I thought the

789
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,599
bigger one was from the press conference where he says

790
00:41:12,599 --> 00:41:14,320
we're waiting, just waiting on two to.

791
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 3: Get back the post game what he said, Yeah.

792
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I thought more people would have jumped on

793
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,360
that because that does give I don't know, doesn't that

794
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:27,599
give like a string of an imminent return there. I

795
00:41:27,599 --> 00:41:29,159
feel like that was kind of like I was kind

796
00:41:29,199 --> 00:41:29,800
of surprised.

797
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 3: I was.

798
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,599
Speaker 2: The reason I'm even bringing up is because I was

799
00:41:32,639 --> 00:41:34,880
surprised that even said that normally we don't talk about

800
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:40,559
Kawi Leonard's absence or his return or what's going on there.

801
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:44,039
Speaker 3: Uh, the kind of unto Once a week they're required

802
00:41:44,119 --> 00:41:47,239
to give an update, and Ramona was like, it's Monday,

803
00:41:48,039 --> 00:41:51,679
so what's the latest with Kawhi? And that was the update.

804
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:57,199
I damn, I don't know. I you know.

805
00:41:57,679 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 2: Everybody's just like saying, what book he's reading?

806
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,639
Speaker 1: Dude, that would be, dude, the Kawhi book club where

807
00:42:04,679 --> 00:42:07,199
we all pick a book to read. Yeah, that'd be

808
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,639
a good time. What book is Kawhi reading? It's the

809
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:10,440
Art of War, right.

810
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 3: It's just there seems to be a pattern here where

811
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,079
everybody gets excited about a report that is pretty meaningless

812
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,000
because Kawhi can't know when he's back yet, and everybody

813
00:42:23,079 --> 00:42:25,559
goes los Aint he's gonna play in Game one against

814
00:42:25,639 --> 00:42:29,760
Dallas and then lost saying he's gonna be back by

815
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:33,480
the second week week in November. Well it's November nineteenth.

816
00:42:33,679 --> 00:42:36,679
Like this is no slide or anything against lat Murray.

817
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:42,559
It's everyone freaking out about reports of information no one

818
00:42:42,599 --> 00:42:45,800
can have because Kawhi can't even have it. So what

819
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:49,239
are we doing here? Like it's still as knee responds

820
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:53,039
the right way. We're fifteen games into the season and

821
00:42:53,079 --> 00:42:56,320
he's not practicing with the team yet, and then when

822
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,400
he practices, well, that's gonna put more stress on the knee.

823
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,320
Is it gonna work spawn well? From that, I just

824
00:43:03,159 --> 00:43:04,920
I don't know. I'm not trying to be a down

825
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,800
or about it, but come on, what are we talking

826
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:08,639
about right now?

827
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,599
Speaker 1: I think the thing people should take away from this.

828
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:16,480
As of six fifty six PM on November nineteenth, they're

829
00:43:16,519 --> 00:43:19,440
above five hundred without Kawhi. They've played a pretty brutal

830
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:25,639
schedule all things considered. There's not like that's great, let's

831
00:43:25,679 --> 00:43:29,280
not let's not cloud it with anything else.

832
00:43:30,079 --> 00:43:32,599
Speaker 3: A lot of people are just operating like this is

833
00:43:32,599 --> 00:43:34,960
the team we have. If Kauhi comes back, it's it's

834
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:36,440
a bonus. But this is the team we have.

835
00:43:37,559 --> 00:43:40,039
Speaker 2: I think that's where you have to be at to

836
00:43:40,079 --> 00:43:44,639
be honest, until until there's indications otherwise.

837
00:43:44,559 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 1: Until we get some kind of metaphor before some kind

838
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,639
of normal exercise explosive boss jumps, you know what I mean,

839
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:52,199
something like that.

840
00:43:53,599 --> 00:43:56,159
Speaker 3: He could he could They could say, you know, he's

841
00:43:56,159 --> 00:43:59,280
playing this upcoming game, and I'll be like cool, he

842
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,079
can play the game, and I'll be like, cool, let

843
00:44:02,119 --> 00:44:06,480
me know how he responds afterwards. That's what I'm looking for.

844
00:44:06,639 --> 00:44:09,679
Can he play ten straight games? Can he play seven

845
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:14,800
of ten games? I don't know. We've been through this.

846
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 1: I do want to test that theory, though, because I

847
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,840
do want to see your reaction. When there is news

848
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:20,880
that Kawi is going to play.

849
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 3: I was, well, you're right, that could change in the

850
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,239
judgeaposition with what I just said. Now, and I'm like,

851
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:34,159
it's on, boys, it's on. Here we go, here, we

852
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,079
go to the top of the West. No. I I

853
00:44:37,159 --> 00:44:40,079
was somewhat measured when he played game two, but I

854
00:44:40,159 --> 00:44:42,119
was like, hey, let's see how he responded the next day.

855
00:44:42,159 --> 00:44:44,719
I kept asking about and they didn't respond well. So

856
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,079
at this point, when you're talking about swelling and if

857
00:44:49,079 --> 00:44:53,599
the surgery happened in May, it's November nineteenth and he's

858
00:44:53,679 --> 00:44:56,760
not back. When when when was it the lawrence Frank

859
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,880
said the swelling was almost gone? Was that two months

860
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:00,599
ago at least?

861
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,039
Speaker 1: Yeah?

862
00:45:04,199 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 2: I just but when is the time hard? When is

863
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,000
the timeline? I kind of got lost on this. When

864
00:45:10,039 --> 00:45:12,840
is the timeline on the procedure? Did we even get

865
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,639
do we know a month for that.

866
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,559
Speaker 3: They didn't say when in May. They just said in May.

867
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:25,519
Speaker 2: So so you would think he's getting close.

868
00:45:27,679 --> 00:45:31,119
Speaker 3: I would have thought he tried to play in tbusa

869
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,360
like then there was a setback. But don't worry. There

870
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,159
hasn't been a setback since then. It's like, well, we

871
00:45:36,159 --> 00:45:38,159
didn't even know there was a setback then. I don't know.

872
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,599
It's all he's not like, like doctor Schapp said, he's

873
00:45:41,599 --> 00:45:44,519
not playing. You can consider this a setback. The season

874
00:45:44,559 --> 00:45:46,840
has started and he's not out there yet. How is

875
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:47,880
it not a setback?

876
00:45:49,079 --> 00:45:51,519
Speaker 2: He didn't have it, don't call it a setback.

877
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 1: I've been out for a year.

878
00:45:54,159 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 3: What are all these cleanup procedures that take six months

879
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,480
to recover from? I'm pretty sure a clean up isn't

880
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,119
it supposed to be talked about as hey, they'll be

881
00:46:03,159 --> 00:46:05,320
back in six months after this cleanup.

882
00:46:05,639 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, cleanup is like.

883
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,280
Speaker 3: A guy is back in like three weeks or a month.

884
00:46:09,639 --> 00:46:12,679
Speaker 2: Well that's how that doesn't It depend now on the

885
00:46:13,119 --> 00:46:14,920
like invasiveness of the procedure.

886
00:46:15,519 --> 00:46:18,559
Speaker 3: But I think then it wouldn't be categorized as a cleanup,

887
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,000
like it would be called something else clean up by

888
00:46:21,119 --> 00:46:24,480
you know, a little scroll articles here, some bone marrow

889
00:46:24,519 --> 00:46:29,719
flying around like just a little cleanup. I don't know,

890
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,519
it's it's obviously not responding the way they would like

891
00:46:33,559 --> 00:46:35,320
it to, or is it already back by now?

892
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: Period?

893
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:37,760
Speaker 3: How can that not be the case?

894
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:38,679
Speaker 1: Period?

895
00:46:39,199 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 2: But I do still want to throw out there, like

896
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:44,239
on the hopeful side, I think we all said, you know,

897
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,960
if this team can hang around five hundred, a little

898
00:46:47,039 --> 00:46:49,880
above five hundred, if we can eventually get thirty five

899
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,639
to forty games out of Kawhi Leonard, I'm not hating

900
00:46:53,679 --> 00:46:55,599
that output. If it's twenty you know, if it's if

901
00:46:55,599 --> 00:46:59,320
it's thirty five healthy games, I'm you know, I'm I'm

902
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,880
kind of liking the odds. But so we're still on

903
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,000
track for that that this hypothetical that we just made up.

904
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 3: We also were saying like fifty five games like a

905
00:47:08,039 --> 00:47:09,360
month ago, and now it's.

906
00:47:09,199 --> 00:47:12,559
Speaker 2: All I think we all lowered our expectation.

907
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,519
Speaker 1: All right, I said I'd like fifty five, and then

908
00:47:16,559 --> 00:47:18,239
I think I went, you know what he's not because

909
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,000
then you were like, he's not playing back to backs.

910
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 3: Before the season started, everybody was like, Okay, let's say

911
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,920
he plays fifty games. Now, we're saying, let's say he

912
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:31,039
plays thirty five games like it has drastically gone down already.

913
00:47:31,079 --> 00:47:32,920
I said I'd sign up for forty one to somebody

914
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:34,960
a week ago if you could play forty one games, if.

915
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,519
Speaker 2: It happens in every sport all the time, especially with

916
00:47:37,599 --> 00:47:38,199
a knee injury.

917
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:44,679
Speaker 1: To end on some good news, uh, Steve Balmer recently

918
00:47:45,039 --> 00:47:48,119
donated one point nine million dollars to comp In College

919
00:47:48,119 --> 00:47:50,760
that will assist with the college's efforts to improve academic

920
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,559
pathways and ensure students have what they need to complete

921
00:47:53,599 --> 00:47:56,800
their coursework and transferred to university as quickly as possible.

922
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,480
Good move by Steve Ballmer. Maybe it could have been

923
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:03,960
a little more given his wealth, but who am I

924
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,480
to judge. I'm not pocket watching, but it's difficult when

925
00:48:06,519 --> 00:48:08,719
the pockets are the largest pockets in the entire world.

926
00:48:10,119 --> 00:48:12,079
But good guy Steve Boma for doing that. And the

927
00:48:12,079 --> 00:48:17,440
Clippers partnered with twenty four Hour Fitness. I believe to

928
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,360
be like the official gym partner of the Clippers.

929
00:48:19,519 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 2: Why wouldn't it be La Fitness.

930
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,559
Speaker 1: I don't know, Adam, you got to be hyped on that.

931
00:48:26,039 --> 00:48:26,880
What gym do you go do?

932
00:48:27,079 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 3: I'm back. I'm been to twenty four for a while,

933
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:34,719
but I'm back. You walk in, Everyone's like, yeah, lifting

934
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:36,400
at two in the morning was different.

935
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:41,760
Speaker 1: I bet it is college days. Man. One time in

936
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,000
college we're at a party and there was like some

937
00:48:44,039 --> 00:48:46,719
workout gear. Nothing better than a house party. Just have

938
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,480
a couple of drinks, wearing jeans, hoodie, getting your lift

939
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:51,599
on a little bit, you know.

940
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're just doing polar opposite things like.

941
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, in offsets, it's a neutral night.

942
00:48:58,599 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 3: From that perspective, I worked out, I can get blasted.

943
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 1: Yeah I could work out. Wow, like out what a day?

944
00:49:06,039 --> 00:49:08,199
College is an important time for you to learn new skills.

945
00:49:08,599 --> 00:49:11,800
All right, we need to get out of here. We

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got some double dips coming up after these games. I

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will not snake Will next time because the Clippers are

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probably gonna win both, so it probably will be Will

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doing a postgame live hang versus the Magic maybe the

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Friday game. Two clips travel to Philly on Sunday, which

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we'll see how that goes. I know how we all

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want it to go. Will. Where can these people reference

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in the meeting with their boss about their you know,

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potential upcoming pay raise? Can where can they tell their

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boss to listen to us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, in any negotiation, you want to be

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sure and cite this podcast, which you can listen to

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on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or anywhere you can get podcasts.

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The best way though to check it out is still

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over on YouTube dot com. That's at Clippers Podcast. Yeah,

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you want to make sure to tune into every episode,

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as we'll definitely have the answers on what's going on

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with Kawhi Leonard. But however you ingest this podcast, just

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know that we appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We absolutely do. Adam, send these Clippers fans out with

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one positive thing before we get out of here.

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Speaker 3: Hey, we've beat the Warriors twice. Only one other team

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had beaten the Golden State Warriors and that team had

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only lost. Well, they've lost one game now in the

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Cleveland Cavaliers. Yeah, I don't know that. Have they made

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up for I kind of think they made up for

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that loss already to Portland by getting two wins against

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Golden State this early. I said they have to make

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up for that somewhere. Yeah, I think it might have

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happened last night.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. I'm also going game by game, man,

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I can't see shit behind the in this rear view window.

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Speaker 3: Moving forward, Yeah to Orlando.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all right, that about wraps. Thank y'all for listening,

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and as always, let's go Clips