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Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to a bit

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of an impromptu, just kind of vent session preview of

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what should hopefully happen tomorrow against the Bulls. Things have

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not been going that well for the Clippers, around a

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three game losing streak. None of us like that. Yeah,

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there's been a lot of people freaking out at a

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great stream the other night, trying to kind of calm

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people down and whatnot. What's up? Jade Dog seven seven seven.

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If you just want to vent, put some stuff in

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Podcast always. How are y'all feeling? Hello? Why not the Clippers?

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What's up? How you doing? Clippers are on a three

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game skid. Kawhi Leonard is playing tomorrow against the Bulls,

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which is great. We hope that he looks good because

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a lot of the Clippers problems are alleviated. If Kawhi

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Leonard plays like the best player on the team, which

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he should be, we'll talk about that. But Norm Powell

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remains out. And again, if you're just watching and you

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want to put your vent take in the chat, go

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for it. Keep it PG. I think there's some children

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who listen to this. I don't know. J Dog seven

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seven seven saying not trying to overreact is where I'm at.

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I'm in the same boat. I was a little I

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caught the first half of the game three cords of

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the game last night, and then rewatched it after I

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landed after my trip, and I was I was running

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a little hot, a little annoyed. It's just the offense.

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I guess we can get right into it. The Clippers

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are on a six game losing streak when Norm Powell

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is out. They're four and eight without him this season.

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What's good, Chuck? Trade Kawhi for a bag of knees.

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We shouldn't trade Kawhi for a bag of knees. We

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should trade somebody else for a bag of knees. I

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think that's fair. Punk's gone wrong saying my heart Yeah,

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this team will give you heartburn. I mean score being

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out is an issue. It's obviously not good. Uh Oh, folks,

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we got Adam Oslin in the house. We're gonna get

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into some of your questions in this stack. Adam haw

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the hell are you, buddy? I'm okay.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing better than most Clippers fans are in a

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complete panic today, although the Kawhi news should help some.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Kawhi is coming back. How did you feel about

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the norm injury designation change? It went from knee soreness

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to now we're at tendinopathy. Does that matter? Is that semantics?

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I'm trying not to freak out about it, but I

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am freaked out about the fact that they've lost six

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in a row without Norm in our four and eight

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without him this year.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a requirement after a couple of days

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on the injury report to give more specificity, so I'm

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not Look, if he doesn't play against Lakers, then I'll

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be more concerned. But it is something that he dealt

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with in twenty twenty one. I guess for a couple

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of games he missed and then came back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm hoping that the offense Jeffrey Herrera saying offense

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is just a trophense, just a troaches. Our defense is great, though,

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but defense can only go so far, and I think

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we saw that last night too. Not getting up one

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hundred points. It's difficult to deal with, especially against a

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team that was on a rest disadvantage. How do you

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feel about Kawhi tomorrow against the Bulls. We got ghosts

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saying he's going to go out twenty three on eight

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twenty three for MJ and Kobe.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if they lost that game, that's when I'd

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start to get concerned my level of concern over a

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loss to the Pistons, who I think a lot of

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people still think suck, but they don't.

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Speaker 1: They are good, and they have a guy in Kaide

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who not only is good, but that's the exact kind

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of player that gives the Clippers issues.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and their defense was pretty good throughout most of

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the ball game, but they did have twenty seven fast

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break points and a lot of them were off of

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not live ball turnovers. They were just straight misses and

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the Pistons athleticism going the other way. I don't think

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there was any lack of effort going on in that

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game by the Clippers. I think they played hard. I

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think they played well. They were at a talent disadvantage,

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and these things happen when you're missing fifty points between

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two guys. It's difficult, So.

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Speaker 1: I don't it's difficult.

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Speaker 2: I understand some of the panic, but they did just

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lose three games like a week ago and then uh

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one three right afterwards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I like what you said kind of

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the if they lose tomorrow, I will be I think

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more concerned. But yeah, I think the alarm bells will

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start ringing if Norm can't go because we got the

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Lakers right after the Bulls. Right, yeah, we got the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: I'm not overlooking the Bulls. No, I think they're winning tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Chunk Sampson saying, I thought we played awesome yesterday,

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but seeing us barely scraping out of the plan is depressing.

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The standings are not kind to the Clippers right now.

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The Clippers are in a battle against the standings. We

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kind of thought the start to this season made us

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feel very we were hyped, right, but at the before

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the season started, we all said, you know, high playing team,

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potential to be out of them play in we're probably

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capped at that four or five rage. It just feels

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like that four or five cap is getting a little

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further away. There are four games out of the five spot,

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and those Lakers games. If they weren't already looming large

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are huge starting on Friday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I get it. Maybe some people reset their expectations.

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before Kawai came back, so you just felt like, oh,

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they're going to take off from here. And they went

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six and won the first seven games with Kawhi. Yeah,

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but Kawhi on a minutes restriction, the ramp up process,

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a dip near the All Star break, a skid that

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they've hit has caused people to I don't know, I

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just don't understand how if you had told anyone before

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the season, your five games over five hundred with twenty

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five left and Kawi has only played sixteen, they would

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sign up for that. They would absolutely have signed up

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for that before the season. It's signing close, like and

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you're the sixth spot. It's not even close.

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Speaker 1: We all.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what happened to the preseason talk that

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we had, but as you just mentioned there, we said

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like six to ten.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean to start, right, it's that start of

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the season kind of going so well. And I also

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think part of it is kind of the deja vu feeling,

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right because we've this this timing every last couple of seasons,

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it's like we're maybe overperforming. Things start to break down

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around the All Star break. The team comes out a

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little slower around that time, and I like, this is

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the first round pick from Houston still in the air?

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Speaker 2: There are four games up on the Clippers, which beats

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is actually five games up because they own the tiebreaker.

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Now they are three and seven their last ten games

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and they have been losing. But it would take a lot.

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It's possible, but it would take a lot of Clippers

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winning and more of a losing streak from the Houston

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Rockets continuing, which I don't see happening.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Deca fantastic Again, this is a point where we

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haven't seen Pete Kawai yet, but he's going to be

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there soon. He I agree that we haven't seen Pete

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Kawai yet. I hope we need him to be there

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soon because we broke it down the last time we

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had the full trio on, which is there's what nineteen

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games left of Kawhi if you look at back to

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backs and stuff like that, like the time for Kawhi

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to get into what the Clippers need to make any

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kind of noise is getting a little short.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna end up playing less than forty games

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this season, and you're gonna have to hope that in

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the last nineteen or twenty games, if he's healthy enough

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to play those ones, that he will be available for.

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he starts to push pedal to metal. And I don't

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know if it's so much that you know, he's trying

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to be cautionary with his own body because it's still early,

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or the alarming thing would be if he just doesn't

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have much left in the tank. Yeah, I think that's

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pretty unlikely, considering we're not that far removed for the

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best from the best version in the regular season of Kawhi, ever,

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which was last year. Yeah, So I still want to

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believe that he can get close to that version and

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that level that he played at last year. And he

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just isn't completely comfortable yet with certain movements out there.

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Speaker 1: And we're coming up next month March. My sources tell

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me sixteen games for the Clippers's it.

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Speaker 2: I know. I was seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I was way off man I was I was losing.

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I don't know what I was on that. We've seen

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this a couple It's either gonna go one of two ways.

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Either having to play that many games is gonna get

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Kawhi into a rhythm, which we've seen happen before. Right,

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there's times Remember last March, when did we go in March?

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Last year? We did? Okay, I believe because the team

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was like, we got to keep playing. There's no time

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type thing. That first week of March, I really hope

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we can see Kawhi start clicking in the gear because

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everyone else will once there's no I don't think there's

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any scenario like James harden Right plays phenomenally the other night,

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no one else can hit a three. You know, things

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just aren't working When Kawhi is playing well. It kind

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of usually everyone else plays well too, you know what

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I mean, for good or bad. But that first week

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of March, I think is gonna tell us a lot

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about how this team is gonna look heading into the

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playoffs or play.

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Speaker 2: In from my perspective on March, well, I guess March

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Speaker 1: Saturday Saturday. Sorry, it's not a full episode. We've had

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travel going on. Things have been crazy. Thank y'all for

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hanging out with us. I'm sorry, go ahead on them.

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Speaker 2: I need them to lock in like it is March

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first on Friday, okay, because they're playing the Lakers. The

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after playing at home against Minnesota the night before, so

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that could be an interesting one where you might even

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be rooting for the Lakers to beat the timber Wolves

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before the Clippers have their shot at the Lakers the

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next night. But honestly, if they could somehow figure out

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a way to win the next three to bounce back

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after losing three straight, which means they would have knocked

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off the Lakers in back to back games with a

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day off in between, that would do wonders for the

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fan base for this team. And I think these are

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the games where you need to see Kawhi really go

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zero to one hundred a little bit, because last time

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out against the Lakers, it was honestly alarming to me

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because they always get up for them, and they got

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beat by twenty five. They look slow and lethargic and disinterested.

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I want to see Kawhi like really lead them this

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weekend that's my hope.

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Speaker 1: I would love three and oh in the next three,

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I'm not I don't know how much I believe that

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will happen. I want to see if we split against

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the Lakers, given the fact that they just got loot

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like it's not you know it. Now there's this whole

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level of Luca. You know, the rivalry that we used

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to have with the MAVs, and now he's just he's

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across the city. I should say I will be okay

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with a split against the Lakers. I think that would

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I don't know if I can get my hopes up

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to go to win both of those games.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying, if you want any shot of passing

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them in the standings, you have to win both games

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this weekend, because then you'd own the typebreaker over somebody.

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That's the only way to do it. That's why that

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lost that twenty five point loss. To me, that was

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a devastating one because I feel like they had won

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that game and into a dome and they go to Crypto.

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They just have to get one of them. Now. I

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feel like you got to get both if you want

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a chance to pass them by in the standings.

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Speaker 1: Thank god, there's that point differentch like the end season

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tournament for the uh the tipebreakers, because I don't know

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if it would shake out in the clippers favor. Yeah,

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and the Lakers have an emotional match tonight against the Mavericks.

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Speaker 2: Of course, I'm already pissed. I'm already upset. I want

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Nico to have to be seated half court front row

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for every Lakers maps game from here on.

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Speaker 1: They should make him king kind of mission impossible style

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from the top, so he has to watch it. He

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has to see everything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and to keep his eyes open like in Clockwork Orange.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the old that's the only part of it. We

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want it to be. Uh like Clockwork Orange. We takahi.

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I want it bogged and shooting. He's eight of his

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last thirty five from three. Last game was I think

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our colleague, UH French Canadian trapper Justin Rousseau said it

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was the worst. I think it's you know, no one

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had missed ten threes in a row or so. It's like,

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I don't know, it was not good. If that gets better,

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things should be easier. But I'm it it feels a

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little it's rough right now. It's not the confidence is there.

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You gotta have confidence to take twelve threes when you've

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only made zero at the time.

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Speaker 2: And he owned it post game and said, like, you know,

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if I hit more shots, the outcome could have been differently,

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could have gone different basically, and then he pointed at

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it's up here and obviously that's what it is. It's

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all mental right now. He needs to see a couple

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go through his shot, like his form and everything looks great,

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he's firing, he's got that quick release out there. Aesthetically

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it's awesome until you see the end result. He has

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to find a way because as much as I think

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if this team's fully healthy, they can get by with

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him still shooting thirty percent from three like he has

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a whole season, even though I think he's only played

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thirty games now, I think for them to reach their ceiling,

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they need Bogie to get back to who he's been

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throughout his career.

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Speaker 1: You can't make these additions like they may right because

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he was brought in kind of as the KPJ play

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center whatever we want to talk about it. It was

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high usage. We brought Bogie in to be a high

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usage guy. Off the bench started the other night obviously,

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but I agree they need it. And that's what's tough

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with the Kawhi situation too, as we hope we can

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play the maximum games from here on out, obviously taking

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the back to backs off, but Kawhi being outputs so

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much more pressure on everyone else to be efficient kind

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of over what they usually are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, although I will say if Bogie was just bad

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and not miserable one, yeah he hits four, they might

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have won. Now, I'm not putting it all on him.

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Other guys did not play that well, but their defense

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was pretty damn locked in. Zubat said postgame that defensively,

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he felt, you know, much better about this performance than

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the one against Milwaukee and Indiana.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no idea. How do you feel about Ghosts? Take

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care that he would rather see Cam Christy go oh

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for twelve. The thing is next season, ghost I think

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that's gonna be more next season than this season.

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Speaker 2: Like Bogee does have just much better overall developed basketball

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in even when he's not hitting. While he was fouling

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in that game, a lot of people were it's been

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kind of an issue as of late. You're going to

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bet on bog Don Bogdanovich, who is a thirty eight

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three point shooter and a ten year vet in the

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league to come out of this. That's what that's what

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they're doing. They're saying, we believe in him as they should.

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It's good process. I think I think it was smart

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to start him in that game and embolden him and

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say go out there because we need your shots, because

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I don't know if there was a path to win

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without him in that game, like either he gets it

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going or you're gonna lose anyways, Like if you just

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don't play him.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can't DNP. You can't DNP both because

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the gravity is still there to some extent. Someone commented

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earlier that Norm's gravity clearly helps out Zoo, which is

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entirely true. If you have non shooters next to Zoo,

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it's a lot easier to guard Zoo, which is why

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the Ben Simmons and Zubots lineup seem insane. But the

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gravity is still there, which is what's important. The shots. Hopefully,

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you know, he finds the right wellness retreat or something

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to do with some breaks coming up to get his

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mind right. But when the shots are falling, it's gonna

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look a lot better. I mean, obviously, but.

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Speaker 2: Hey, look he's been a Lakers killer in his past

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with Sacramento, maybe that's the team that really wakes him up.

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Speaker 1: I would love that we talked about that. What we

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sung him like he hates the Lakers, Like, so maybe

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he just has an insane two game stretch against the Lakers.

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I'll tell you what, he could be bad against the

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Bulls tomorrow. If we get thirty six percent from three

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over those two Lakers games from Bogden, sign me up.

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And that's not even an elite percentage. That's like that's

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basically league average. Yeah, I like it. I like what

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deca fantastic saying shoot or shoot give me another eleven

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threes tomorrow too, Like, has.

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Speaker 2: To get it out of your system, like figure this out.

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He wants it so bad. As part of the problem,

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I think he was kicking his own ass. He was

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upset with himself visually or visibly upset with himself, you

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could see out there. And then postgame, you know, he

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took a lot of the blame for them losing that one.

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And you know, there there's so many guys that weren't

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able to step up offensively yesterday when they needed. I mean,

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James Harden, after one of his most efficient games of

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the season, has a game where was he five to

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twenty two or something like that, and had more turnovers

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than assists. So it's not all on Bogie. But I

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don't know. I really believe in the guy. He has

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a pretty extensive body of work hitting shots in this

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league and in big games in the Olympics and Foeba,

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So I'm not giving up on them.

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Speaker 1: What I like this from Decca fantastic. Norm being on

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the trip is a good sign, right, Oh yeah, it is.

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Ty described him as day to day, which I know

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hopefully so gets some Clippers fans a little bit of

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you know, spicy memories or something like that. But it's

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good that he's there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's something you could read into a

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little bit. They're hoping that this is going to turn

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around quickly for him. Again, it happened a couple of

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years ago in twenty twenty one. He missed two games.

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He came back when he was still playing with Portland.

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La Murray had that, So I'm hoping they're just being

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overly cautious. They thought they could steal a game yesterday

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and not push them too far, because look, if he

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doesn't play so many minutes against the Utah Jazz right

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before the All Star break, maybe this doesn't happen. But

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they're chasing that game. They're down twenty. He and James

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Harden both have to play huge minutes. He has that

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crazy overtime, but they don't win it without him. I

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think he had nine of their twelve points in ot

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norm pal like he emptied the take and then he

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didn't look great obviously in the three point contest. Was

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it bothering him then? I know some people are upset

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about that. I just there's not a there's a lot

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of movement going on there. It's stationary shooting, Like I

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don't know if that exacerbated anything.

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Speaker 1: It's stationary shooting. And also like I think that's looking

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at it, you know, like why did he play in this?

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That's looking on paper. This is a guy who talks

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about wanting to be an All Star, never gone to

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an All Star weekend. I can't blame the guy for

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competing in the three point contest. And hey, he only

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had one round, right, It's not like he shot as

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little as you possibly could. So I don't I don't

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blame a vet who's been a six man his whole

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career for wanting to experience All Star weekend. Yes, Kevin

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Hart ruined it for everybody, But I don't blame Norm

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for being out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. Hopefully he's back against the Lakers. If

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he's not back against the Lakers, with the importance of

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those games and how meaningful they are, then I'll be

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more concerned, much more.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of much more concerned, we should all be concerned

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because William Updyke is now here. Will what is your

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level of concern? How are you feeling? It's a bit

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of a vent session, so go off if you feel

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like it.

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Speaker 3: Where are you at, buddy, I'm not feeling good man.

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I'm sure you guys already talked about it, but this

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happening after the All Star break is it is beyond disturbing,

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is beyond troubling. It'd be differently, you know, it'd be

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different in some of those stretches that we see where

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you know it's an ungodly amount of games and a

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small amount of time, But to have this much rest,

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it is I don't know. And coming into March, which

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Charles remind me, do we play a couple of games

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in March, I think is pretty worrisome.

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Speaker 1: Where are you? How are you feeling about Kawhi playing

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Kawhi coming back tomorrow is huge? Are you? Adam says

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we need to go three and oh, which I think

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is fair over these next three games. I don't know if.

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Speaker 3: Dropping those last two, man, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying they need to go three and oh if

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they want a chance to pass the Lakers and the standings.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, undoubtedly, undoubtedly.

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Speaker 1: I mean they probably have to.

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Speaker 3: Go too and one to stay in the mix.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's the other part right now, Like it's

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the Clippers are tied with the Wolves, They're a half

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game up on the MAVs, they are one game up

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on the ninth place Warriors, and the Kings, who are tenth,

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are only two games back. How you feel about et

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Cado saying, I'm not mad. If we had our starting five,

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we'd be three and oh on the road. Not a

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true strength of team. But seating is troubling. I'm worried

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about the runway that the Clippers have, they have how

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everything is going. I think they have sixteen games of

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what the playoff rotation is going to be to figure

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everything out.

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Speaker 3: If we get sixteen games, I'm actually fairly confident with that.

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Are they Are they successive coming into the playoffs or

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sixteen scattered? And it's kind of and there's five games

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leading into the playoffs with none of the playoff rotation.

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Speaker 1: No. I think, in my mind and my utopia as

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a Clippers fan and my fantasy as a Clippers fan,

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which is how you know we are real Clippers fans,

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we get sixteen games of a healthy team kind of

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chopped up leading into the playoffs as it should be.

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I like this point by Decca fantastic, actually, because I

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wanted to talk about this too. DJ and Dunn shooting

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stresses me out because we need them so badly. On

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d Chris Dunn played like a madman on defense yesterday.

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It was tape that any defensive minded guard, if you

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want to work on your game, you should watch that.

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It's four on five on offense. Sometimes I'm not saying

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don't play the guy or anything like that, but it's

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it's a big hurdle to go over.

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Speaker 2: He had a good offensive game though yesterday. Did he

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end up with the thirteen or I think of the Indiana.

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Speaker 1: Game, let me check I have the he has been

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that game thirteen, he went six to ten.

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Speaker 2: That game yesterday in the Milwaukee game, especially the third quarter,

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are two of the best perimeter defended games I've ever seen.

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I find individual.

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Speaker 1: It's difficult. And then and this goes back to the

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point of Kawhi being healthy, right, Like, if Kawhi is healthy,

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if Norman is healthy, Chris Dunn doesn't have to take

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ten shots. That's way too many shots.

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Speaker 3: A herculean load for Chris Dunn.

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Speaker 1: I mean it kind of is though, like and and

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you can't do anything like you can't the titles in

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this episode her load.

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Speaker 2: And that's why I'm not hurting so much over yesterday's

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game or against Indiana, Like, I get it. If you

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just look at the record, they're owing three out of

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the All Star Break. They blew a game against the

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Bucks that was pretty inexcusable up thirteen, Giannis doesn't play

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the second half of the fourth quarter. But the last

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two if you told me the last two, if you

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told me heading in who they're going to be missing

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against good teams, you're gonna be at a disadvantage. You're

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probably going to lose those games. That's that's difficult. I

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get the PTSD with Kawhi and if people are so

474
00:26:22,519 --> 00:26:26,440
sour on this era that you know, they're just upset

475
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,599
and they don't want to hear that, Hey, you're playing

476
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,240
good teams too, and they have their guys and you don't.

477
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,279
And that kind of explains a lot of this. Like

478
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:40,359
if they lost to Chicago with yesterday's roster with the Clippers,

479
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:43,880
I'd be more concerned. Chicago is really bad. They've lost

480
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,519
six of seven. They lost to a team that has

481
00:26:46,599 --> 00:26:50,119
happened in their best moment in ten years yesterday with

482
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,200
the Pistons, and the Pacers have won like sixteen of

483
00:26:53,279 --> 00:26:57,680
twenty one. Like those are good teams, So I like,

484
00:26:57,759 --> 00:26:59,920
I get it. There's only twenty five games left, asn't matter.

485
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:01,920
Just got to find a way to win no matter what.

486
00:27:02,599 --> 00:27:05,519
But I think there's an explanation for what's going on

487
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,200
right now too, and unfortunately it's back to the same theme.

488
00:27:08,319 --> 00:27:10,920
Then maybe that's what the issue is. It's injuries hurting

489
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:11,680
this team.

490
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,839
Speaker 1: And it was what we played. We just played four

491
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,759
or five six in the East. I think, seating wise,

492
00:27:16,759 --> 00:27:17,680
that's who we just play.

493
00:27:19,319 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 3: Les you said sixteen games was your runway there's only

494
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,880
twenty like twenty five games left, right, I feel like

495
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:25,839
that's not that bad.

496
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,559
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, and that's fair. I think that so Les.

497
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,839
Speaker 3: Get sixteen out of the last twenty five. Uh like

498
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,240
fully healthy? I feel like pretty good.

499
00:27:37,319 --> 00:27:40,279
Speaker 1: What's more important heading into the playoffs? Health or getting

500
00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:44,559
out of the play in? Great question, by the way.

501
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 2: Health health obviously, Like yeah, if they're in a first

502
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,200
round series, didn't we just see this last year? If

503
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,599
they're in a first round series and Kawhi is limited

504
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,440
and only can play two games, right, I don't see

505
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:55,880
that again.

506
00:27:57,279 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: That is one of them. I have such a vivid

507
00:27:59,319 --> 00:28:01,599
memory of being at that game. Will and I were

508
00:28:01,599 --> 00:28:04,279
in the press box that it was there was overflow,

509
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,519
so they put us in like the little kids press box,

510
00:28:06,799 --> 00:28:08,920
and we were watching Kawhi and it was just like, oh,

511
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,279
this is like one of the more like just sad

512
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:16,480
i've felt watching someone try and play basketball who isn't healthy.

513
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,880
I agree that his health. Hopefully we only have to

514
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,759
deal with one of these issues, because if we're unhealthy

515
00:28:24,799 --> 00:28:28,440
and we're in the play in, that will be our

516
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,279
lowest listen to or viewed postgame episode ever.

517
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 2: You know what the title will be like the title

518
00:28:36,319 --> 00:28:38,559
just be on second thought, not our year.

519
00:28:40,799 --> 00:28:41,759
Speaker 1: Will was wrong.

520
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 3: Here's thirty two ways, Here's what would have to have

521
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,640
to happen. Here's thirty two events that would have to

522
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:47,920
happen for it to be the Clippers year.

523
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, no, but it is health and Kawhi is

524
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,000
playing tomorrow. Someone pointed out that Norm is on the trip,

525
00:28:56,119 --> 00:29:01,119
which is a little encouraging. Will, where are you at

526
00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:05,440
with with your concern level, uh for Norm's injury. Adam

527
00:29:05,519 --> 00:29:08,359
is going to be concerned if he doesn't play on Friday,

528
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,000
which I think is fair, but.

529
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 2: I'll be really concerned if Yeah.

530
00:29:14,559 --> 00:29:16,319
Speaker 3: I mean I think that's a fair benchmark. I mean,

531
00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:18,160
this is a guy like that we got on a

532
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:22,920
pretty favorable UH trade deal because of the injury concerns

533
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,160
because with that contract and his availability, you know, it

534
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,480
was an issue something not a lot of franchises wanted

535
00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:31,319
to commit to or certainly give up an asset to

536
00:29:31,359 --> 00:29:34,240
get and we had, i mean, outside of his first year,

537
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:39,480
like really good injury luck with Norm. So yeah, it's

538
00:29:39,519 --> 00:29:42,319
it's concerning. I want to say though, that it cuts

539
00:29:42,359 --> 00:29:46,319
both ways, and that his durability thus far in his

540
00:29:46,359 --> 00:29:49,440
tenure as a clipper is going to continue. Uh, that's

541
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,240
based on absolutely nothing. I haven't I haven't done my

542
00:29:52,279 --> 00:29:54,960
examination yet. He hasn't been with the team. You know,

543
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,680
popped on the old stethoscope. We had to see what's

544
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,880
going on there. But healthy as a horse?

545
00:30:06,319 --> 00:30:08,279
Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, we got to get the statis.

546
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,039
Speaker 3: I didn't say a healthy horse?

547
00:30:13,079 --> 00:30:16,559
Speaker 1: Art h asking. Will Kawhi or Norm play in Chicago? Buddy,

548
00:30:16,559 --> 00:30:19,799
you gotta follow injury reports. Kawhi will play tomorrow. Norm

549
00:30:19,839 --> 00:30:23,480
will not, but he is with the team, which is

550
00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:27,799
which is good.

551
00:30:28,119 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 2: Not because I'm injured, but I'm just said at Buddy's

552
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,599
house and I told him ten minutes and I lied, Well, Bro.

553
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming out. Adam. No worries at all.

554
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:42,880
We'll talk to you later. Here's to see, all right?

555
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,440
Adam is out? Will it's been a three game losing streak.

556
00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:53,200
What is up? I don't so. Ben Simmons is playing tomorrow,

557
00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:57,599
which is good? Are we can we? Do you think

558
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,319
we're out of the let's play Ben Simmons and lineups

559
00:31:01,359 --> 00:31:03,119
that clearly don't work phase.

560
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 3: I think it depends on the availability, because I do

561
00:31:07,559 --> 00:31:12,480
think you're kind of grasping at straws no norm is

562
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:16,799
obviously like such a huge blow to the offense. Not

563
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,319
that Ben Simmons necessarily helps that area, but I could

564
00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:23,759
see the rationale behind his playmaking, you know, attempting to

565
00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:25,920
pull something out or make a difference. I think with

566
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:31,279
the amount of one way that's left, I just don't know, Like,

567
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,920
obviously we're not there in every practice. I just don't

568
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,160
know where the thought process is coming in for some

569
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,400
of these lineups around Ben Simmons. Like his strengths, you know,

570
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,640
I mean, like, sure he's not at the peak that

571
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,039
he was once athletically, physically, the back thing is going

572
00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:48,599
to be a lingering thing. Not being able to play

573
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,319
backs to backs is a definite issue. But he's been

574
00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:54,319
in this league a long enough time that we kind

575
00:31:54,319 --> 00:31:58,440
of know his strengths in his weaknesses, and I think

576
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,119
that it's fairly easy, uh, depending on the construction of

577
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:06,039
your roster, to build competent lineups around that. I do

578
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,680
understand that, TYLERU. You know, he said he wanted to

579
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:15,799
try basically every machination that he could around Simmons, which

580
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,319
again I don't know that I fully I guess I

581
00:32:18,319 --> 00:32:20,480
don't know that I fully understand that, Like I don't know,

582
00:32:21,599 --> 00:32:21,880
you know, I.

583
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: Don't know what you.

584
00:32:24,039 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 3: Don't Well, I just don't know why like that you

585
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,000
think the same experiment is going to yield a different result.

586
00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:32,559
But you know, I mean it's it's the double edged

587
00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:34,599
sword with tie, right. Like we we love that he's

588
00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:37,839
a tinker. It's sometimes really annoying that he's a tinkerer.

589
00:32:38,279 --> 00:32:41,400
Uh so, you know, like you kind of have to

590
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,519
take the bad with the good on that one. But

591
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,799
given this losing streak and just given how precarious the

592
00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:54,480
situation is in the web, Yeah, yeah, I mean playtime

593
00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:57,000
has kind of over. I you know, I I don't

594
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,160
think there's any chance of the Clippers moving up at

595
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,119
this point. Like, I think there's little to no chance

596
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,599
they can maybe sneak into that four or five. There's

597
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,640
no chance of them surpassing the Lakers. I love Adam's optimism.

598
00:33:08,799 --> 00:33:11,279
There's no chance they're making up four games.

599
00:33:12,119 --> 00:33:13,799
Speaker 1: Well, he did just say they would have to do

600
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,079
that in order to get there. He doesn't think they

601
00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:20,000
they will win both of the games. But like, yeah, I.

602
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 3: Mean that's what I heard.

603
00:33:22,839 --> 00:33:25,279
Speaker 1: There are four games out of where the Rockets are,

604
00:33:25,319 --> 00:33:28,079
and the Rockets have had a horrific stretch these last

605
00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:29,119
ten games.

606
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 3: Three and seven. Yeah, and even still, I still think

607
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,119
it's a stretch to think that we're going to get

608
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:39,279
past them. Yeah, unless unless, like unless the skid continues.

609
00:33:40,359 --> 00:33:43,839
Speaker 1: The Mavericks because of the injury stuff. I'm not worried about,

610
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,759
you know, losing game to them. The Timberwolves, they just

611
00:33:46,839 --> 00:33:50,480
beat Okac like they're there, and the war I don't know,

612
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,400
the Warriors are playing pissed off. The Kings could just

613
00:33:53,519 --> 00:33:57,960
spitefully do the annoying Kings thing where they like make

614
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,400
it up to a playoff spot obviously gets milked or

615
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,480
something like that, but at the expense of the Clippers

616
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,400
having to beat in the plane. Thank you Punk's gone

617
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,199
wrong for saying we needed the power of you three

618
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,920
together to turn this around. Let's hope that works out.

619
00:34:11,119 --> 00:34:13,079
Let's hop they don't lose three in a row after

620
00:34:13,119 --> 00:34:14,679
a three more in a row after we do this.

621
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,599
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we haven't all been together in a minute.

622
00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:18,719
That's what's screwing the whole thing up.

623
00:34:19,119 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: Damn. Yeah, we did an episode of scheduling scheduling man. Yeah,

624
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,000
I don't know, it's just like I think before we

625
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,159
next year, I know, that's putting the cart before the horse.

626
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,840
I know people are super sour on Kawhi right now.

627
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,159
They're upset because the guy who is supposed to be

628
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,039
the best player on the team, you know, same tier

629
00:34:47,039 --> 00:34:48,199
as hard. You know what I mean in terms of

630
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:52,599
engine and stuff like that. When Kawhi has been healthy,

631
00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:59,159
he is the like when healthy it's been he's been

632
00:34:59,199 --> 00:35:00,039
the third.

633
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,039
Speaker 3: And when in ben I feel like are two words

634
00:35:04,079 --> 00:35:07,880
doing a lot of lifting in that statement. I you know,

635
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,400
I know that it was tough and last season, yes,

636
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,519
we saw peaks. I don't think we've seen the same

637
00:35:13,599 --> 00:35:18,039
thing in any sort of sustended like sustainable or extended

638
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:22,800
stretch since his return. This year, we've seen peaks like

639
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,000
there have been flashes in the pan for sure, but

640
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,880
nothing like nothing like the confidence that I had and

641
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,400
where he was at physically last season.

642
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like what you said with the confidence physically,

643
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,639
and that obviously trickles down to everyone on the team

644
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,719
and it just puts more pressure. We were talking about

645
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,000
Bogden shooting situation where it's just he's eight of his

646
00:35:43,159 --> 00:35:50,000
last thirty five from three, which percentage wise, that's not

647
00:35:50,079 --> 00:35:53,480
very good. And you know, some of that has to

648
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,519
play like, oh, we're down some guys. We got to

649
00:35:55,639 --> 00:35:57,599
chase a little bit, We got to push a little

650
00:35:57,639 --> 00:36:01,559
bit more. It just makes things harder. There's people who

651
00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:04,280
were talking about like why don't they trade Kawhi? But

652
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,639
all that stuff. I'm gonna be honest now, you if

653
00:36:07,679 --> 00:36:11,440
there was a trade for Kawhi at this front office,

654
00:36:11,599 --> 00:36:13,400
like they would have made the trade.

655
00:36:14,039 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you want? Like Kevin Herder in four seconds?

656
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,000
Like I just don't think like the the offer that

657
00:36:19,079 --> 00:36:21,519
moves the needle enough for the Clippers is like really

658
00:36:21,559 --> 00:36:22,280
out there.

659
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: The front office doesn't make shitty trades. Also, we haven't

660
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,320
seen them like.

661
00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 3: Like and there. It just is a lot. Yeah, you know,

662
00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:34,280
like the significance of Kawhi choosing the Clippers is a

663
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,239
big deal. The significance of like you can look at

664
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,719
it sourly because you know, it didn't ultimately culminate in

665
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,239
the championship.

666
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,760
Speaker 1: Except for this year, except for this year?

667
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,599
Speaker 3: Correct, uh, except for this year, Like because it hasn't

668
00:36:48,639 --> 00:36:51,639
thus far culminated in a championship. I think that that's fair.

669
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:58,639
But it's really the Clippers don't have uh what six

670
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,000
year five six year run of being a contender at

671
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,320
this level without Kawhi and like you can, like you

672
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,079
can boohoo the result and that that's totally fair and

673
00:37:09,119 --> 00:37:12,400
that's valid. But that's you know, like that's hindsight is

674
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,840
twenty twenty, Like there's no I you know, and regardless

675
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,199
of it, like the ultimate end, you know, there's no

676
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,159
denying how he's already lifted this team. And I think

677
00:37:22,199 --> 00:37:25,679
a guy like that beyond just concerns about injury, like

678
00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:29,719
you've already given up so many assets and I know

679
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,440
those like the sunk cost fallacy is like, you know,

680
00:37:32,519 --> 00:37:34,079
it's a little bit of an issue. You could see

681
00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:37,800
it both ways, but like it, if you're not getting

682
00:37:38,119 --> 00:37:42,480
the like an ok cesque, you know, like treasure chest

683
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,000
to re stop.

684
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:48,079
Speaker 4: Those things, what are you really left with? There's no

685
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:53,079
way that you're getting a player, like a player and

686
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,679
a first or something like that, which I I you know,

687
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,960
I think with like barring that you're looking at some

688
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,360
very dark stretches for the Clippers.

689
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lizo asking do you see us possibly hunting for

690
00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:08,599
a matchup over getting out of the play in.

691
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,280
Speaker 3: God, I hope not, because I don't want either one

692
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:11,639
or two.

693
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this team is just trying to get

694
00:38:14,519 --> 00:38:21,559
healthy and win games like that. There's no there's they haven't. Yeah,

695
00:38:21,599 --> 00:38:25,880
and they haven't shown the ability to say oh, like sure,

696
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,119
I guess the only matchup they would want to hunt

697
00:38:28,119 --> 00:38:30,920
would be the Warriors. Like it's not like there's other

698
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:35,239
teams in the West that we've destroyed, right, Like we have.

699
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:39,280
The Clippers have a twenty and eighteen record in the West,

700
00:38:39,559 --> 00:38:43,719
which is worse than the two teams below them in

701
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,519
the standings and only one game better than the Warriors,

702
00:38:46,559 --> 00:38:50,639
who are three spots below them. Like, this is a

703
00:38:50,679 --> 00:38:54,039
team that I don't think they would hunt for a matchup.

704
00:38:54,079 --> 00:38:56,440
I think they would hunt for health, and that that

705
00:38:56,679 --> 00:38:57,239
is about it.

706
00:38:58,880 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 3: Hunt for health.

707
00:38:59,559 --> 00:39:02,199
Speaker 1: Hunting for a matchup would be crazy in this Like

708
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,840
there's no team that is and I'm not saying this

709
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,159
to Poo poo the question. There's no team that's tied

710
00:39:08,199 --> 00:39:12,119
with a playing team that should be hunting a matchup. Yeah.

711
00:39:12,199 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 3: I like just the way Denver is playing right now,

712
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,559
I mean they're like they're they're hitting a peak. They look,

713
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,760
you know, like they did in that They look like

714
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,599
they did in that championship run. And then we've just

715
00:39:24,639 --> 00:39:27,239
seen we have enough game footage on on Okay, see

716
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,559
it's a bad matchup for us, it's not. I mean,

717
00:39:29,679 --> 00:39:34,000
I I don't see that going our way in seven games.

718
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,159
It's just too like it's just it's it's a young team.

719
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:42,719
It's a highly physical, highly athletic and I just I

720
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:46,320
don't see us hanging with them for for for like to.

721
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 1: Win for And they're just good at defense too, So

722
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,599
like any team that's like plus at defense against this

723
00:39:52,639 --> 00:39:57,159
Clippers team right now is not ideal.

724
00:39:57,599 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, because what do you really have to combat that?

725
00:40:01,159 --> 00:40:04,159
Speaker 1: Right? So they got the Bulls tomorrow. We got a

726
00:40:04,199 --> 00:40:08,719
couple more minutes before we head out. Is tomorrow must win?

727
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:16,880
Will updyke? Yes or no? Yes? For your own sake?

728
00:40:17,079 --> 00:40:19,280
Is tomorrow a muster and the clip. The Bulls are

729
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,639
three and seven in their last ten. They are not

730
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,360
a good basketball team. They do not play good defense.

731
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,000
This could be a jump start a bit. I'll tell

732
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,679
you what, I'd love to win this game before heading

733
00:40:29,679 --> 00:40:31,079
into two against the Lakers.

734
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,559
Speaker 3: They got Yeah, go like losing four straight and then

735
00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:39,360
taking on two against the Lakers, that's a recipe for disaster.

736
00:40:39,519 --> 00:40:42,119
Let's at least get one win in I don't want

737
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:44,559
to say guarantee, because there's no guarantees in this league,

738
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,840
absolutely not with this any team. Yeah. Well, and I

739
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,719
just you know, any team can jump on you on

740
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,320
any given night. But this is, yeah, as much of

741
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,320
a must win as we've talked about in a while.

742
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be stressful, I think, no matter like

743
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,360
I don't think they blow them out, it's gonna be stressful.

744
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,280
There's no norm Ben Simmons will play, so hopefully we

745
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:13,840
see the good lineups with that bogie, hopefully his shot falls. Like,

746
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,639
there's just I've talked about the rotation. There's a lot

747
00:41:16,679 --> 00:41:18,760
of stuff that still needs to fall into place, which

748
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,320
is so frustrating just in terms of having everyone healthy

749
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,679
for the rotation. So this is I don't want to

750
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,760
say it's a get right game because again, the full

751
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,119
rotation isn't available, So I don't know if it can

752
00:41:29,559 --> 00:41:33,519
technically be a get right game, but it's a it's

753
00:41:33,559 --> 00:41:37,199
so we really need this game for the Clippers.

754
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,519
Speaker 3: Someone is asking the chaff we lose the bulls, what

755
00:41:41,599 --> 00:41:43,400
is this clips and dip live stream gonna look like

756
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,599
it's gonna look like me having a drink. No glass,

757
00:41:48,039 --> 00:41:51,480
No glass, buddy, that's what it's gonna look like.

758
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: Just a bit, just one of those comically large bottles

759
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,599
of like handle rum. You're just holding it by the

760
00:41:58,639 --> 00:42:04,400
two handles. I'm actually I there's a show I'm going

761
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,039
to tomorrow night, but that starts at like eight. So

762
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,159
if the Clippers lose, I will definitely be turning up

763
00:42:10,199 --> 00:42:16,079
for this show. So the postgame live will be very fun. No,

764
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,719
it's gonna be. It'll be rough if the Clippers lose

765
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:24,599
to the Bulls. It depends on which fashion, but there's

766
00:42:24,639 --> 00:42:26,320
not a lot of avenues for it to be a

767
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:27,199
chill stream.

768
00:42:27,599 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 3: Remember when I said we go like, we couldn't go

769
00:42:29,559 --> 00:42:33,000
calling the Milwaukee loss Wor's loss of the season, because

770
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,760
the Clippers will find a way. This would be the way.

771
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,159
Speaker 1: This would be the way. Yeah, this would be the

772
00:42:39,159 --> 00:42:46,159
way because also looking at the schedule in March, their

773
00:42:46,199 --> 00:42:51,840
first game in March is against the Lakers. March second

774
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:56,079
versus the Lakers. They have a three and five to

775
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,880
start No, sorry, they were three and four to start March.

776
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,559
They go Lakers, and then a back to back away

777
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,679
to the Sun's Home versus the Pistons, and then they

778
00:43:06,679 --> 00:43:09,679
play the Knicks. I don't know, man, Like this is

779
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,119
Adam is a does a really good job at it's

780
00:43:13,159 --> 00:43:17,719
staying positive for things. But like we are in we're

781
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:21,480
in teetering space where the wheels might just fucking fall off.

782
00:43:21,639 --> 00:43:25,760
And I want, I'm being real, like there's two ways

783
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,360
this goes. The team galvanizes itself with all these games

784
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,880
in March, or the first week of March goes poorly

785
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,559
and we're in a play in spot kind of maybe

786
00:43:33,559 --> 00:43:34,880
fighting for that playing spot.

787
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's proven time, right, Like we talked

788
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,639
like all year, this team surprised everyone, This team overachieved,

789
00:43:42,679 --> 00:43:48,400
They exceeded expectations. Was that you know, like was that

790
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,400
an anomaly? Or you know, can can they get back

791
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,880
to that? Can they do when bethinks are going to

792
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,119
be able to do? And this this month is certainly

793
00:43:58,159 --> 00:43:58,639
the test.

794
00:43:59,519 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 1: It's like the first week of the month is the test.

795
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,519
Which is what's so frustrating because man, like they got

796
00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:08,679
a stretch. Listen to this stretch, dude, this is so brutal.

797
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,000
Calves on the on the eighteenth Grizzlies on the twenty first,

798
00:44:13,159 --> 00:44:17,079
thunder on the twenty third at home away to the

799
00:44:17,159 --> 00:44:21,000
Knicks on the twenty sixth like this. I hate the

800
00:44:21,039 --> 00:44:26,840
schedule makers, and then they close with to end the season.

801
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,440
It's insane. The season is close to being over. Their

802
00:44:30,519 --> 00:44:33,400
last three games are Rockets, Kings, Warriors, which if you

803
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:40,239
look at the seating, are all potentially incredibly important games

804
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:44,480
for where the seating is at. Okay, Adam's out here

805
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,119
to do it. Do you want to do one positive thing?

806
00:44:46,159 --> 00:44:47,559
Or should I do one positive thing?

807
00:44:48,199 --> 00:44:50,760
Speaker 3: You should do it? Man, bring back the old Moniker?

808
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,039
Speaker 1: All right, I don't have one in my back pocket.

809
00:44:54,079 --> 00:44:56,199
But the positive thing we can take is that Kawhi

810
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,559
Leonard is playing against the Bulls, which is good. Norm

811
00:44:59,639 --> 00:45:01,679
Powell's on the trip, which shows that the injury is

812
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:07,719
not too crazy. And yeah, that's what I got. They

813
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,679
have a potential get right game versus the Bulls, and

814
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,880
then they're gonna get ready to shock the world against

815
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,880
the Lakers, hopefully twice. I would be happy with a split.

816
00:45:19,199 --> 00:45:21,079
I think everyone should be happy with a split. I

817
00:45:21,079 --> 00:45:23,840
think it's hard to beat a team that has Luka

818
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,159
Doncics and Lebron James twice and such a short span.

819
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,039
So that is my version of positivity for this.

820
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, a win over the Bulls and a split and

821
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:35,480
like you're correct in course?

822
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 1: All right, right, we got a good question from I mean,

823
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:41,800
is this team trying to just get into the playoffs

824
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:46,599
like they did in the twenty twenty three season. Yes, absolutely,

825
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:51,119
they're trying to win a championship obviously, but not being

826
00:45:51,119 --> 00:45:53,679
in the play in would feel pretty damn good to

827
00:45:53,679 --> 00:45:56,920
close this season, which as of six forty seven pm

828
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,559
February twenty fifth, is how I feel.

829
00:45:59,599 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just get to the playoffs?

830
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:06,079
Speaker 1: Healthy?

831
00:46:06,559 --> 00:46:09,559
Speaker 3: Can we see it one time? I like, how about just.

832
00:46:09,519 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: Once you're going, Bill Simmons, can we see it? All right?

833
00:46:14,039 --> 00:46:16,079
Thank you everyon for hanging out. Here's to a more

834
00:46:16,199 --> 00:46:19,000
fun stream next time we're all together. I don't know

835
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,679
if we'll do a live stream tomorrow, but we will

836
00:46:20,679 --> 00:46:24,159
have a full episode for sure before the Lakers game.

837
00:46:24,639 --> 00:46:26,519
Hope everyone has a good rest of your night. Here's

838
00:46:26,519 --> 00:46:30,199
to a win against the Bulls. You know, don't take

839
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,039
don't be too stressed out by this team. It is difficult,

840
00:46:33,199 --> 00:46:35,960
but here's going against the Bulls and as always, let's

841
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:36,480
go clips