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

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thirty four of Clips in Dip. I am Chuck Blckler,

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joined by Adam Osland. William Updyke is unavoidably detained. Is

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he working? Is he out on the town. We never know,

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but we are here to bring you the Clippers news

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and Clippers talk today as well. We're gonna be talking

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Kawhi Leonard. We're turning to practice in a limited fashion,

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two days in a row, which was always better than one.

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In these instances, We're gonna talk what Derek Jones Junior

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his injury means to the team, especially with the upcoming

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game against the Nuggets on Friday. I'm gonna preview that

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game and then also kind of I don't know if

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debate is the right word, but figure out where we

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think the Clippers are gonna be at this trade deadline

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before we get into that. Thank you for watching us,

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Thank you for listening to us. If you want to

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out on YouTube at YouTube dot complish at Clippers Podcast.

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And if you want to just listen to us you're

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tired of seeing our ugly mugs, listen to us anywhere

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you get podcasts, Adam, you're not in your car. I

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don't believe unless you gotta pip my ride set up going.

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Speaker 2: I haven't met Exhibited at a Clippers game once before, so.

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Speaker 1: Uh, incredibly nice person, so nice, so friendly.

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Speaker 2: Might have been blasted, but either way, he was super

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nice and I told him how good he was on

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the Compton album, which I think is severely underrated. His

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verse was awesome. So love that guy.

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Speaker 1: If you meet us celebrity and they're wasted and they're nice,

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infinitely better than if they're wasted in their meat.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, never meet your heroes sober. It's the same.

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Speaker 1: I know a guy who was doing a stand up

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show in Miami and Dan Marino was.

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Speaker 2: There a hole A hole?

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Speaker 1: I heard the opposite. I heard he was incredibly friendly.

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He loved this guy's set, and then invited him to

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brunch the next what. And then the guy followed up

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with his assistant and the assistant was like, you're not

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fucking coming to brunch, dude.

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Speaker 2: I met him once that I did not. I know

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you're a Dolphin fan. I'm not trying to ruin anything

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for you. All I've heard was worse and worse stuff

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about Dan, you know, but a great player, maybe a

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little bit salty because he never got that ring and

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everybody always reminds him of it, like I do.

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Speaker 1: He had to play on concrete. Man, give him a break.

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You're not in your car. What are you drinking today?

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I'm drinking tea. I'm so battling this this cold or whatever.

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Speaker 2: I got a Coca Cola zero sugar Christmas themed and

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I gotta say, while diet coke is like a totally

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different type of cola, you can tell the distinct difference

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between that and a regular coke. This does taste pretty

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damn similar to a regular Coca cola. Some say it

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is the best diet version of a coke, and I'm

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kind of signing on with that. Plus they were free upstairs.

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Speaker 1: Well I'm glad we'll up Like is not here because

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he he might have a diet coke tattoo. The man

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loves diet coke. I'll let you guys debate that on

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the next episode. Let's get into what everyone's been in

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uh titter twitter about Kawhi is practicing limitedly, I think

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is the important thing. Where we're all about putting caveats

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and tempering expectations here on clips and dip.

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Speaker 2: Limited was predicted limited practices. The start was predicted expectedly

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per tylu.

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Speaker 1: He said he did offensive script, defensive work, just no contact,

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but he did pretty much everything else. He looked good.

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He's not playing this week, but he's getting better. Basically

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the same news that was from Tuesday, basically the same

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news today as well. At practice, they're just kind of

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taking their time.

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Speaker 2: I was encouraged the fact that he did practice again.

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Speaker 1: Well in consecutive days. I love that because I think

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I was actually more encouraged today because I was like, oh,

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he's in the limited practice. God, I hope he can

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practice again tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: I honestly was a little bit surprised that he did

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a back to back right away non contact as you mentioned,

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limited out there, but he said full speed. They went

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five on zero offensive script stuff. So five guys against

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air out there running down the floor and full speed

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is meaningful to me. That's one way to really test

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out that knee. Even if it's non contact, it's still

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a lot of exertion there, and like, we're gonna find

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out real soon. I'm sure within the next couple of

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days or not. Maybe if he does get back to

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some contact drills, like at some point, I would guess

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by let's say next Monday, we find that out. Coach

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doing it, set it over and over again. But I

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just wanted, Okay, so he's done this two days in

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a row, At what point do you give it a

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shot with a little bit of contact out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you kind of look at the Clippers schedule,

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the Nuggets. They're not going to be doing an incredibly

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intense practice. Tomorrow would be my.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a travel day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're traveling. They're gonna get there and do walk through,

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then they come back. I'm assuming Friday night. So they

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got Saturday and Sunday the Jazz on Monday at home,

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe maybe we why's not going with them to Denver?

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Speaker 1: So no, no, no, no, not going with them to Denver. Yeah,

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I would probably guess, and then they have a couple

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more days off, right, So they played the sixteenth and

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they're playing in the nineteenth away, so kind of with

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the travel, there's some weird, like there's some spots to pick.

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would not be incredibly surprised if he got if we

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got another kind of ooh, a piece of candy update

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when it comes to Kauai being ready, maybe it's a

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little more contact or something like that. I think, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: That they're hitting him with the foam fingers as he's

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going for layups something.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they got the big the Yeah, the best

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basketball drill tool in the world, just giant foammans. Yeah.

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think a lot of people you mentioned it right, like

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it's it's December, it's maybe early January or something like that.

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I'm still just strictly for the spie aspect. I want

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him to come back on the twenty seventh, just so

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it's not before Christmas. I'm purely being spiteful for that.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a good date. A lot of people

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have circled that one. It makes sense, it's a home game.

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I just feel like if he's one hundred percent, I

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don't care if it's a road game or not. Bankers

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cannot be Cheeringwhi Leonard?

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Speaker 1: You know, do we care if it's a homer and

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away game? Well, I mean, in my heart, I would

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love for Clippers fans to get to see Kawhi return

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at home. But if he's ready to play in what

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is it Memphis? If he's ready to play in Memphis

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Speaker 2: Third, sure if this second game in Dallas, like, they

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are going to need him very soon here with how

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tough the schedule has been. You've outlined it, and I

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just feel like if he's one hundred percent, he should

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be playing. If he's one hundred percent, you'll getting ready

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to go, and he's gone through everything. Why wait for

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a home game just to give the fans the first

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taste of Kawhi Leonard being back. Why not just do

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it where you have a chance to win a monumental

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game or at least a big early season December game,

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game against Memphis Grizzlies. You've been playing really good basketball,

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could be big for standings upcoming.

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Speaker 1: We're three games, so the Grizzlies all are three games

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ahead of us. The Mavericks are two games ahead of us,

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so the standings are tight. We talked about the last

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episode with all three of us, but that's how close

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we are. You know, the top of the mountain. The

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bottom of the mountain is not that far away. The

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Clippers are two games away from the twelfth spot. Yeah,

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things can change quickly, obviously with how tight these standings are.

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you would rather be at the top, closer to that

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top than that twelve seed. So it's a tough schedule.

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I wish I wish he was able to come back

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against the Jazz, because what better team to come back

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to after a long term injury than this version of

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the Utah Jazz.

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Speaker 2: Might have to play that long yest, I only have

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to play ten or fifteen minutes. There's your contact drills.

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The Jazz like that. You never know. The Clippers lost

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to Portland earlier this season. It's see that the Jazz,

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though had been brutal so far in the West. I'm

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kind of a surprised by they got more talent than that.

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Speaker 1: Purposely brutal though, I think is.

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Speaker 2: Capture the flag. Yeah, marketing has just been abysmal so

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far this season. I would say relative to his standard play,

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he has looked like the same player, and I would

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be concerned after they just gave him two hundred million dollars.

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I do not understand why he hasn't quite looked the same,

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has been dealing with an injury. What is it? Because

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I was kind of surprised the first time they've played

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him just how poorly he looked.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, he's averaging his lowest since twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Was he in Cleveland still then?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, competing with other guys. He's supposed to be the

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man now, the lead guy for the Utah Jazz, and

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at times has looked like damn near a top fifteen,

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top twenty player in the league when he's been at

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his best with everything he can do out there on

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the court. It's surprising to me, But maybe it's institutional

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taking for Cooper Flag. I just don't think the players, however, Yeah,

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the players don't care about that stuff though. That's something

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you can do with lineups and rotations and who you

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put out there, But the players don't care about that.

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the Lakers that costed them a basketball game. But right

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at the very end we call him Sexton. But I

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still feel like the players should be given a maximum effort.

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Why does marketing look like this right now? I don't

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get it. He's in the prime of his career.

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minutes restriction for Kawhi when he comes back? Do you

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think with all that they've talked about with we want

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to make sure he's good to go, we don't want

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him come back. Is it crazy to think there wouldn't

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be a minutes restriction.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely gonna be a minutes restriction. There is

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for normal when he comes back. Everybody like, why would

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it not be for the guy with chronicles?

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Speaker 1: And he feels still fluid though, because they're like, oh,

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it was a ministriction but the game was close.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The reasoning behind what they did in early twenty two,

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twenty two, when he first came back and was on

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twenty one minutes, I think it was the maximum he

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could play the first couple of games and then he

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's definitely that is that would be crazy. I'm

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not going to suggest that because that went so poorly.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember. Some people are saying that was Kawhi's idea,

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some people were saying it wasn't because that would help

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him play in the fourth quarter. If he didn't come

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off the bench till later earlier in the game, that

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would give him extended minutes later in the game. And

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he did, to his credit, hit a big jump shot

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I think over Lebron against the Lakers late in that

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ballgame that helped them win. But I don't think Kawhi

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even said I remember like a couple of days into that,

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he was like, Nah, we killed it.

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Speaker 1: We killed Yeah. He's like I think he said, like,

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we're not doing this again, something like that. Yeah, ministerstraction

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the second segment. We can kind of lead into it. Now.

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The Clippers are down guys right now that could play

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the wing. Derek Junior going to be reevaluated in a

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couple of weeks, which sucks. Terrence reevaluated I think at

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the end of this month or something like that. So

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for if you believe in it. Or not, or just

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bad circumstances for Kawhi to come back. And now it's

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like we obviously always needed Kauhi on this team, but

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to have that extra, hey man, we got guys out

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that just makes it a little tougher.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like you got these patchwork rotations around Kawhi's he's

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trying to figure things out. That's just a lot of

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moving parts have to work through. Maybe the good news

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is okay, So a reevaluation on Derek Jones Junior about

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two weeks from now, Terrence Man, I think is about

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two weeks away because his reevaluation was three weeks and

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that was last Wednesday, a week ago, so he's got

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I think two more weeks on this. It's possible that

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beginning of those guys were turning to the game as well.

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If everything goes according to plan. But when you're talking

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about a hamstring and then a fractured left middle finger,

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who knows I worry about I think you brought this

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up when you first heard that it was a hamstring

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injury to Derek Jones Junior. For an explosive athlete like that,

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there's a little bit more concern out there because he

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needs his balance. That's how he helps this team. He

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needs that explosiveness. So if they have to be overly

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cautious with him, fine, because they're going to need him

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for the long run. He's been so good so far

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this season, shooting forty two percent from the outside, still

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like almost ten percent higher than his career averages. And yeah,

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and you want to see everybody together when Kawhi comes back.

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is kind of what we got the other night. We

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found out who was going to be back, but then

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who was going to be out with James Harden not

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playing that game with Obama being out, and then a

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mere coffee then DJ. So, yeah, it's not ideal. I

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don't know if that would affect Kawhi Leonard's return, if

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they would actually weigh that in and say, well, we

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don't have DJ and Terrence back. Do we want to

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put so much on the scoring load of Kawhi to

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have to feel like he needs to do more out

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there immediately or not.

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Speaker 1: And defensive, because it's not like Derek Jones Junior and

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Terrence playing bad defense.

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Speaker 2: Oh, especially DJ was phenomenal, and that is the guy

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that they brought in. That's the first guy you bring

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in to say, hey, there's less on the plate of

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Kawhi Leonard to have to do as much defensively. Now,

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this is how we protect him and insulate him from

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having to do as much, and maybe that prevents him

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from re injuring himself, even though I still feel like

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I don't know if Kawhi can help his defensive instincts.

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whether he's playing the three or the four, he's running

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the most miles out there according to the stat VU cameras.

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How does he adjust his game this far into his

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NBA career where he's at the age of thirty three.

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He kind of brought it up when they were in Honolulu.

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We'll see if something needs to change there, something to

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that effect. But I just I don't know Kawi is

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gonna be Kawhi now. If there's just less guys getting

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beat off the dribble, maybe that means he doesn't have

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to rotate as much, he doesn't have to be the

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low man as much. He's not moving as much because

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guys are staying in front of their man.

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Speaker 1: So this is where and we'll talk about this a

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little bit because it is you know, we don't know

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when Kawi is coming back, when Kauai comes back, if

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it's without Derek Jones Jr. If Derek Jones Junior is

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still out when Kawhi comes back, are they going to

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bring Batuman to play the four? Are they going to

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bring a mirror to play the four? Or are they

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gonna have Harden Because you in my mind, you have

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to have Chris dun and Kauhi together in that starting lineup.

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That is a damn nightmare.

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Speaker 2: You're saying if DJ is still out, Yeah, hmm, So

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because I don't know, putting Normal on the bench then.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. That's what's so difficult. It is like

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because you know Norm's in the starting lineup to help

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with the scoring. Yeah, because Kawhi wasn't able to play

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in the starting lineup. It's kind of it's not a problem,

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but it's definitely something that's interesting to look at when

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you look at the roster in terms of who's available.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's worth thinking about do you want Kawhi

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to have to do less on the offensive end when

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he first comes back therefore you have Norman the starting lineup. Still,

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do you want to have to do less on the

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defensive end with DJ is still out and therefore you

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have Chris Dunn in the starting lineup Still, Yeah, that's

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kind of how I weigh it. No, I see that

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as something they're going to have to look at. If

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it's James Harden, Norman Powell, Chris Dunn, Why yeah, zu Bots,

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that's that's not great.

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Speaker 1: And it's a lot of defensive pressure for done Zoe

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and Kawhi especially.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's the way I'm thinking of it. Even

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if you do have Chris Dunn out there, you're still

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into small right, so it's not like you're bigger if

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you have Christnast and Ormfowl. I don't know, right, I

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do think. But Tom is going to play on Friday

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against Denver. As coach Lou brought up how they're going

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to do it, it's gonna be matchup to dependent whoever

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plays between him and a mere Coffee. So the hope is,

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you know, maybe Terrence is back by then, or maybe

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Derek Jones Junior is back. Right as Kawhi is hitting

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the ground, and we don't have to worry too much

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about this. Yeah, if you do have to worry about it,

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I might lean into having more defenders out there just

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so it's it's still different, you know, having to react

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to what your man is doing in front of you

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rather than creating off the dribble for yourself. That might

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be you know, there's more explosive movements maybe if you're

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having to chase somebody around than having to just get

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to your spots on the floor and get to your

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mid range.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm sure Tyler will figure something out. Uh,

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let us know what you think. It's been a lively

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debate on Clippers Twitter. People want Derek Jones Junior to

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play the four. I think he's maybe too small to

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play the four, but he's been doing well. It's weird.

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It's a weird traffic jam.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been oday against Jo Kitchen the two games too,

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when he's gotten cross matchups against him, So that's true.

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Speaker 1: It's a weird traffic jam to have. It's like a

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traffic jam where everyone's just telling everyone to go. It's

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like a polite traffic jam for the Clippers rotation. It's

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your turn, No, it's dude, exactly coming up. We're gonna

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be talking about the matchup against the Nuggets and just

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a little bit more. I'm kind of about the lineup stuff.

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versus Nuggets talk in three two.

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Speaker 2: What Welcome Back in its clips and dip episode thirty

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four of season three to Masam, we got Chuf Mockler.

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We are missing will Updike tonight, but we're powering through

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Eddieways Clippers having a power through a tough schedule here,

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including a couple of makeup games, one obviously on the

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easier side, a lesser opponent against the Utah Jazz Monday

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night at home. But these are the two makeup games

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that happened because they didn't make the knopout Round and

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it starts Friday night in Denver against the Nuggets. And

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the only reason, as much as I wouldn't want to

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have to play the Nuggets again, I really don't want

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to have to play them again because now they're going

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to play him four times, and it looked like the

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Clippers had already won the season series against them because

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they had one two of what we thought was only

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gonna be three Denver.

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Speaker 1: Damn it. Oh my god, I even put that together.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so now the tiebreaker is still in play. Now

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Denver could win the next two, and then it kicks

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down to if somebody wins the their division, I think,

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and then it kicks down to conference record record against

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your conference for the other tiebreaker, and.

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Speaker 1: The Clippers conference record, as La Murray has pointed, out

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of all the teams with a win record, I believe

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in the West, the Clippers are the only one with

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a losing record against the conference. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Were they nine to ten?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a little bit of a The Nuggets

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are seven and seven. So if the Clippers win, I

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don't know, but it makes it tense.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean if because Will isn't here doesn't

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mean we cannot say it's sorry.

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Speaker 1: This is WI. Someone did say we're gonna go five

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to ohero in our next five games, which is Nuggets, Jazz,

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two against the Mavericks.

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Speaker 2: And Clipper Darryl Who.

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Speaker 1: The Derek Jones junior injury makes the Terrence injury a

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little more difficult to deal with Lot Murray saying the

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available players for Friday, Harden norm done. But you Zoo

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wouldn't be surprised if that's the starting lineup, given it

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is going to be a rotation between you and Amir.

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Speaker 2: Against is a good matchup, like he can help against

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he's always been good.

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Speaker 1: There and Zoo can do the free safety thing like

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it's not it's not the best situation, but it's definitely

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not a huge downfall. Then we have on the bench

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kbj AMR, Jordan Miller, Mobamba Bones, Christy Flowers and Kai Jones.

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Speaker 2: I got worried about. I've been told Trenton Flowers should

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be playing center instead of Kai Jones coming off the

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bench least that last game because they didn't have Mobamba.

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Speaker 1: Why not. It's big asks for a mirror and Jordan

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Miller coming up just kind of scoring wise, you see,

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I kind of see. I was reading a thread from

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the lob the jam of the Pod. I think Patum's

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gonna get the start on Friday. He's good, like you said,

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it's good against Jok. You can't necessarily leave him alone.

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He hasn't had the best shooting year, but you can't

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leave him.

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Speaker 2: Alone I lost you, Chuck. I don't know how to

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hear you.

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Speaker 1: I think it's you.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not able to hear.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, Adam can't hear Wich means I can.

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Speaker 2: Troubleshoot this still not here in Chuck, out of nowhere.

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All of a sudden, I'm gonna jump out and come

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back in. Hold it down, Chuck.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good, all vamp So Adam can't hear me. He's

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leaving and he's coming back. Oh now, it's just my

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face on the screen. Don't like this. Um but yeah,

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like I said, I think it's gonna be Nico starting

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this one. He's good against Jokic. I'm worried about the

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whistle with uh with Nick Patum Hello, damn it still

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can't hear me.

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Speaker 2: I still don't hear you. Oh no, I'm just gonna

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plug this. Maybe I'll.

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Speaker 1: All right. Welcome, Welcome to the real world of podcasting, folks.

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Speaker 2: All right, I can hear you.

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Speaker 1: You' sound great. We're back, I was saying as I

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was holding it down. Totally fine. Uh. The one thing

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that concerns me about Batoom starting is the whistle he's

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gotten this year, and I'm not blaming Nico for this,

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but the whistle has been francophobic this season for Nick Patum,

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and I'm worried about that.

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Speaker 2: In this game, you're blaming the FOEBA rules right because

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it made Niko Batoum feel like you could get away

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with a lot more than he can at the NBA level.

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Speaker 1: Maybe, but it's been weird, right It just it feels odd.

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Are you're You're in the Nico Batuma starting camp though?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought so last night, and then today only

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further my suspicions with him saying that he's going to

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either play Nico or a mir based upon the matchup,

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and I feel like that is the way you should

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do it, because it's not replacing Norman Powell. You're replacing

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Derrick Jones. I understand why you go to a mere

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coffee replacing Norman Powell, but if you got somebody playing

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the four, you need somebody a little bit bigger. And

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Nico can't get up like Derrek Jones Junior. But he

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doesn't incredibly long arms. He still does block shots forever.

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Once in a while he knocks it off the backboard

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on a rear view contest on and he has been

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good against Nicole the Jokic in the past, or at

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least he's you know, a serviceable vet out there that

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00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:20,440
can help help them defensively, stay organized and just make

471
00:24:20,519 --> 00:24:23,839
smart high Q basketball decisions out there. Regardless if he

472
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,799
is being switched on to Nico or not, it just

473
00:24:25,799 --> 00:24:29,400
gives you more options. I think having Nico against Denver.

474
00:24:30,039 --> 00:24:32,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And it's a guy who like he

475
00:24:32,079 --> 00:24:34,440
could start, maybe not play heavy minutes in the middle,

476
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,400
and then also close too, because that's going to be

477
00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:42,519
incredibly important against this Nuggets team. The Nuggets and pardon

478
00:24:42,559 --> 00:24:45,799
my French just beat the absolute shit out of the Hawks.

479
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:47,559
Speaker 2: Is that French?

480
00:24:50,599 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: Was it mirrored? Would that be shit in French?

481
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,559
Speaker 2: I think yeah, I think so.

482
00:24:55,039 --> 00:24:56,839
Speaker 1: I only know that's the one French word. I know.

483
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,119
We need the Norman hardened heater. The Nuggets are giving

484
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,759
up the sixth most points per game and the second

485
00:25:05,799 --> 00:25:08,519
most field goal attempts per game, which is maybe the

486
00:25:08,559 --> 00:25:11,680
most encouraging thing for me for James Harden and Norm

487
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,440
Powell to just go off and kind of just have

488
00:25:16,599 --> 00:25:19,279
a yeah, like Power Twins moment.

489
00:25:23,799 --> 00:25:25,799
Speaker 2: I lost you again. I'm gonna kick out and come

490
00:25:25,799 --> 00:25:26,319
back here.

491
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 1: New computer man. What we heard you say of the

492
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,599
F word, Adam. If you could send Adam a new computer,

493
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,799
that would be great. We don't know what's going on.

494
00:25:40,319 --> 00:25:45,119
Like I was saying, their defense is not necessarily lighting

495
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,319
it up for the Denver Nuggets, Adam, can you hear

496
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:54,599
me that breathing would would signal?

497
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 2: No?

498
00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,680
Speaker 1: Their defense isn't necessarily that good. And the field goal

499
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,359
attempt thing again, I'm more excited, uh for that for

500
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,680
the Clippers, particularly Adam. If you can't hear me, I'm

501
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,039
gonna drop and you go ahead. Nope, we can very

502
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:22,039
much hear Adam touching the mic. I don't know what. Yay, nay,

503
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,880
we can hear you. All right, I'm gonna leave and

504
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:32,200
then come back. All right now, I'm back. Yeah. I

505
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:33,799
don't know what the hell is gonna happen on this one.

506
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,680
Jokic is averaging a triple double. I think it's a

507
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,440
thirty point triple double while shooting fifty. He's gonna get

508
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,160
his points. Is is kind of what I have. I

509
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,359
think we've all seen this happen against the Clippers. He

510
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,680
gets his points, but if you can limit those assists,

511
00:26:49,279 --> 00:26:53,400
maybe he doesn't get into double digit assists. That very

512
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:58,640
much helps the Clippers chances of winning this game. Something

513
00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:01,400
Another thing I'm a little worried about is Adam in

514
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:07,799
his car this time we got it mirrored. Yeah, there

515
00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:11,319
we go. So what I was talking about as we

516
00:27:11,319 --> 00:27:15,519
could hear you touching your mic, Yelkicch is averaging at

517
00:27:15,559 --> 00:27:19,559
triple double thirty point triple double, shooting fifty percent from

518
00:27:19,559 --> 00:27:23,160
the floor. Let's just limit the assists. Are we going

519
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,200
to let him score all the points camp and just

520
00:27:27,319 --> 00:27:29,240
not get everyone else involved.

521
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 2: I'm always there, and Yokicch is right for this because

522
00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:36,880
he's been looking to score even more. I am worried

523
00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:40,240
that he's starting to figure this out. Like, Okay, they're

524
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:44,279
letting me. They're giving up a little bit more than

525
00:27:44,279 --> 00:27:47,599
they typically would because they don't want me to be

526
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,759
the playmaker out there. So I'm going to take advantage

527
00:27:49,799 --> 00:27:52,480
of that. And that's why the numbers have been so huge,

528
00:27:52,519 --> 00:27:54,680
because the word has been out for some time. If

529
00:27:54,759 --> 00:27:57,319
Nikola Jokicch is well balanced out there with his numbers,

530
00:27:57,519 --> 00:27:59,920
you probably have no chance. If he's getting three, five

531
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:05,119
and fifteen, yeah, like you're cooked. But there was a

532
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,480
game already so far this season with the Clippers won

533
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,519
and he had forty one points. He just didn't have

534
00:28:09,519 --> 00:28:11,039
a ton of assists.

535
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:16,039
Speaker 1: That I think is what we need to do. They

536
00:28:16,079 --> 00:28:18,960
take the most free throws in the league, which I

537
00:28:19,079 --> 00:28:21,839
don't like, especially at a home game in Denver.

538
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,559
Speaker 2: I don't like that either. It'd be one thing if

539
00:28:25,559 --> 00:28:27,599
that happened it into it Thome, but they might have

540
00:28:27,599 --> 00:28:28,119
missed ten of.

541
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,839
Speaker 1: Them, right Yeah, And they are the third best shooting

542
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,119
team in the league, which is all the more impressive

543
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,519
when you consider how many minutes Russell Westbrook is getting.

544
00:28:36,759 --> 00:28:39,880
He had a very bad game against the Clippers last time.

545
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,640
I'm worried he's going to be fueled by the fans

546
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,839
in Denver. He's gonna have some He's gonna hit like

547
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,799
three threes or something like that, where you're just like,

548
00:28:48,839 --> 00:28:53,359
we have to live with those. This is an incredible

549
00:28:53,359 --> 00:28:55,359
and it's always a tough test against the Nuggets. But

550
00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:58,799
with this roster, I mean, Hardin and Norm have to

551
00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:01,240
I don't know if I don't know if we got

552
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,079
another bones Highland heater in US, so Harden and Normal're

553
00:29:05,079 --> 00:29:08,359
gonna have to combine for maybe sixty.

554
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 2: What did they end up having the last game against Denver,

555
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,240
which I felt like was maybe their best win of

556
00:29:14,279 --> 00:29:16,960
the season into a dome. That was what a week

557
00:29:17,119 --> 00:29:18,359
week ago or something like that.

558
00:29:19,079 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, was that the uh one? No, that was in

559
00:29:22,279 --> 00:29:26,640
April October twenty six, one four?

560
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 2: What did those two have combined?

561
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,359
Speaker 1: Welling it up right?

562
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 2: Now?

563
00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: Wow? The ESPN site sucks for looking at stats.

564
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,559
Speaker 2: You think That's what ft me, by the way, with

565
00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:39,799
my microphone because I was trying to go to a

566
00:29:39,839 --> 00:29:42,200
game log and both times it happened. As soon as

567
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:43,960
it happened, it cut me off.

568
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: They combined for sixty hard and had twenty three norm

569
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:49,480
ad thirty seven.

570
00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 2: There you go.

571
00:29:51,519 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: I gotterally did not know that, uh when I said that? So, yeah,

572
00:29:56,279 --> 00:29:59,000
I think there's the luprint. Right, those two guys score sixty,

573
00:29:59,039 --> 00:29:59,880
I think will be okay.

574
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,759
Speaker 2: I also worried because that was Aaron Gordon's first game back.

575
00:30:04,079 --> 00:30:07,119
He didn't look right. In fact, they were testing him defensively.

576
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,160
They went at him, which is not something you normally do. Hey,

577
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,400
let's see where Aaron Gordon is at in his recovery.

578
00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:15,400
That's not a guy you typically want to challenge. And

579
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,039
they got the best of them. That was the game

580
00:30:17,279 --> 00:30:19,279
where Jordan Miller went at him twice I think in

581
00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:22,039
the second quarter for buckets and Aaron Gordon was like,

582
00:30:22,039 --> 00:30:24,880
who the f is this guy? What is happening to

583
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,359
me here? And he also missed a big three I

584
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,680
remember late in that ball game as the Clippers pulled

585
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,160
that one out. So he's probably a little more further

586
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,440
along and up to speed. Is that their last game

587
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,200
they played against the Atlanta Hawks. Do they have also

588
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:39,079
four days off here?

589
00:30:39,359 --> 00:30:42,079
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure? And he was bad against the Hawks.

590
00:30:42,599 --> 00:30:43,680
He went one for six.

591
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 2: That probably means he's even more due.

592
00:30:46,799 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: But yeah, they have they don't play until until Friday.

593
00:30:50,519 --> 00:30:52,799
Speaker 2: I don't like what you said about Russell Westbrook because

594
00:30:52,839 --> 00:30:56,480
I find that highly accurate that he is so all

595
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:01,200
due against Yeah, his first two games against the Clippers,

596
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,799
he might have shot something like four for twenty, maybe

597
00:31:03,799 --> 00:31:06,599
maybe worse. I'm not kidding. It was it was unbelievab

598
00:31:06,599 --> 00:31:07,880
because I think he went like oh of eight the

599
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,279
first game against them. It was really really bad. It's

600
00:31:11,319 --> 00:31:15,880
not gonna last. And he's been good with finding I'll

601
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,960
give him credit for this. He's helped, as Doc Rivers

602
00:31:20,039 --> 00:31:22,279
used to say, feed the pig. If it ain't broke,

603
00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:25,839
don't fix it if something is working, spam it. Basically, Yeah,

604
00:31:25,839 --> 00:31:29,599
he has helped keep Jokic engaged throughout the entire game.

605
00:31:30,119 --> 00:31:33,200
I know that's crazy to say for a three time MVP,

606
00:31:33,759 --> 00:31:35,559
but part of the reason he is putting up such

607
00:31:35,599 --> 00:31:38,559
stellar numbers is because Russ is assisting him a lot

608
00:31:38,599 --> 00:31:41,400
out there. He's just looking for him over and over again.

609
00:31:41,759 --> 00:31:47,039
Speaker 1: That's an incredibly good point. Yeah, I'm just the I'm

610
00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:49,960
a little worried about the bench. Not a little, I'm

611
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,359
incredibly worried about the bench.

612
00:31:53,519 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels thin right now because we talked about it,

613
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,440
I said, and this wasn't a disrespect to Terrence. He

614
00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:02,839
just hasn't played that well so far this season. So

615
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,319
when they lost him, I said, well, you're really going

616
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,440
to feel it if somebody else gets hurt. Yeah, because

617
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,920
the US losing Terrence right now, I think, but without DJ,

618
00:32:12,079 --> 00:32:14,799
who's so incredibly important, was playing so well to start

619
00:32:14,799 --> 00:32:17,599
off this year where they are not fourteen eleven without

620
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,480
him whatsoever. Now you're really going to feel the impact

621
00:32:20,519 --> 00:32:22,480
of losing Terrence. And I feel kind of gutted for

622
00:32:22,559 --> 00:32:26,559
him because this would be a big opportunity to kind

623
00:32:26,559 --> 00:32:28,759
of write the ship and get more minutes out there

624
00:32:29,319 --> 00:32:31,839
if he was still available and Derek Jones Junior was

625
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,640
just out, It's obviously not going to help right now

626
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,519
in Terrence Man's out too, So more Jordan Miller, right.

627
00:32:38,359 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: I would think, So, I add on the breakdown, we're

628
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,960
gonna need a scoring like we're gonna need Jordan Miller

629
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,839
to have. You know, he's going to have to get

630
00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:47,640
to the free throw line to mitigate some of the

631
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,880
free throws that Denver's gonna get because it's probably gonna

632
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:54,200
be a ton. Rebounding is going to be a bit

633
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,079
of an issue. We're losing some rebounding, not a whole bunch.

634
00:32:58,079 --> 00:33:00,480
It's not like Derek Jones Jr. Was vacuuming them up,

635
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,039
but just the bodies there. And Matomb doesn't get a

636
00:33:03,039 --> 00:33:05,559
bunch of rebounds either. Like that's not really Nico's game

637
00:33:05,799 --> 00:33:08,039
right now, So a lot's gonna be asked a zoo.

638
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,880
It's SIT's a thin margin game for more so than

639
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,000
usual for the Clippers.

640
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,119
Speaker 2: I want to say, one of my biggest X factors

641
00:33:17,119 --> 00:33:19,359
for the Denver Nuggets hate into this season was Julian

642
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,880
Strother and he hasn't been great so far, and their

643
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,400
bench hasn't been great, by the way, even with us there,

644
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,960
because he got off to such a rough start. But

645
00:33:28,039 --> 00:33:30,079
he had a good game last time against the Clippers.

646
00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:31,000
I think Strawther did.

647
00:33:31,359 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

648
00:33:32,039 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: I want to say he has some elite efficiency out

649
00:33:34,519 --> 00:33:36,400
there and made some big shots and the Clippers had

650
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,839
to overcome that too. So that bench battle is going

651
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,440
to be crucial to this one. What did he end

652
00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:42,640
up end up with, Chuck?

653
00:33:43,079 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: He had fifteen points on six of seven shooting.

654
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty good game.

655
00:33:48,319 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: Not bad, Julian. Yeah, I'm a little I'm a little

656
00:33:53,759 --> 00:33:58,079
worried about this one, just because we're in Denver. Anything

657
00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:03,240
else that you think could maybe not go right, They're.

658
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:09,599
Speaker 2: Gonna be charged up. They've had so many bulletin board

659
00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:12,599
material type of losses where Mike Malone can say, guys,

660
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,400
what are we doing here? This is not us and

661
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:16,239
he will.

662
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: He's not flushing the tapes. He will make them watch

663
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,880
every possession that they blew in a forty.

664
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 2: I love Mike Malone because of stuff like that. But

665
00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:29,920
that response against Atlanta happened on the second night of

666
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,000
a back to back, right after they had just lost

667
00:34:32,039 --> 00:34:38,239
the day before against Washington. Against Washington against Washington.

668
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: And Yokic had fifty something in that game against the.

669
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 2: Wizards and they lost.

670
00:34:45,519 --> 00:34:48,199
Speaker 1: Jovich had fifty six, sixteen and eight.

671
00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:56,159
Speaker 2: What was the final score, one thirteen. So the very

672
00:34:56,159 --> 00:34:59,039
next day, I believe, is that Atlanta game. So they

673
00:34:59,119 --> 00:35:05,079
immediately and made up for their worst loss of the season. Yeah,

674
00:35:05,079 --> 00:35:07,639
and one thirty in Atlanta after the Hawks had just

675
00:35:07,679 --> 00:35:11,239
won sixth straight, including uh just being the Lakers. They

676
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,960
beat the Cleveland Cavaliers multiple times during that six game

677
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,920
winning streak. The Hawks were playing the best ball they

678
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,519
played in years, really, and the Nuggets made them look

679
00:35:20,199 --> 00:35:22,320
miserable out there on their home court.

680
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. We'll see what happens. Who

681
00:35:28,079 --> 00:35:29,719
we're getting to the player of the game picks now,

682
00:35:30,599 --> 00:35:33,440
we I mean, we can't pick norm, we can't pick Zoo,

683
00:35:33,639 --> 00:35:37,320
we can't pick Harden. Maybe maybe with this thin of

684
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,239
a roster we could maybe open up a spot for

685
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:43,559
one of them. Will is not here. I think you

686
00:35:43,679 --> 00:35:46,679
picked his player of the game last time. I'm gonna

687
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,760
go ahead and say Will is going to pick a

688
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,400
mere coffee. I think Will would have been on a

689
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,599
coffee kick, probably would have been drinking a coffee watch

690
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,000
while we recorded this, I as going coffee. Who were

691
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,159
you picking for player of the game.

692
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,039
Speaker 2: I will go with because he's not been shooting the

693
00:36:05,079 --> 00:36:07,559
ball well and I outline the numbers the other day.

694
00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:11,079
He's fourteen for his last fifty two from three. That's

695
00:36:11,119 --> 00:36:14,840
twenty six percent. That would be Chris Dunn. Now does

696
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,960
he bring a lot more else to make up for that?

697
00:36:17,159 --> 00:36:19,840
Of course, he's still a net positive out there. I'm

698
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,480
not too concerned about it, but I also think he's

699
00:36:23,519 --> 00:36:27,159
somewhat due. He's not a twenty six three point shooter.

700
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,760
He wasn't a five percent three point shooter. He's not

701
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,320
a twenty six percent three point shooter and somewhere in

702
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,760
the middle. So can he knock down a couple of

703
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,519
big threes? Because some of this looks like confidence right now,

704
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:39,599
or as I heard on the lob of the Jam

705
00:36:39,599 --> 00:36:42,480
what doctor schaff and Robert Flom say, maybe part of

706
00:36:42,519 --> 00:36:47,599
it is because he expends so much energy defensively flying around,

707
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,840
and therefore it takes something out of his legs with

708
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,400
Chris Dunn, and that could be hurting his jump shot

709
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,599
right now. So four days off, I'm hoping Chris Dunn

710
00:36:57,639 --> 00:37:00,880
has a big game. Obviously, what he brings offensively is

711
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,239
is critical to anything or anybody on this Clippers team

712
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,440
because to me, he's the reminder of who they have

713
00:37:06,519 --> 00:37:08,559
to be, Like, this is our identity, guys, the way

714
00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:10,840
I play, this is how we're supposed to do things.

715
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,760
Speaker 1: Write that down. A reminder of who they're supposed to be.

716
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,840
Is the perfect encapsulation.

717
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 2: Of Chris Done his nickname Memento.

718
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:31,079
Speaker 1: He's constantly, oh, man, but you're going Chris Dunn. I think, man, Like,

719
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,840
it's gotta be someone on the bench, But everyone on

720
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,079
the bench is such a wild card for how they're

721
00:37:38,119 --> 00:37:40,880
going to perform, you know what I mean, Like we

722
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:45,199
didn't expect the Bones Highland blow up there. Is it

723
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,239
too much of a homery pick to pick this game

724
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,960
for a true Jordan Miller breakout game?

725
00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:55,159
Speaker 2: No, because I think he's overdue by one game. It

726
00:37:55,159 --> 00:37:57,519
should have been against Houston, but they stopped going to him.

727
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, I think I'm gonna go Jordan Miller.

728
00:38:01,519 --> 00:38:04,519
And here's why. Obviously we need his offense. We're gonna

729
00:38:04,559 --> 00:38:06,599
need some easy buckets, We're gonna need some rest. Him

730
00:38:06,599 --> 00:38:09,639
getting the line is gonna be huge. He's gonna be

731
00:38:09,639 --> 00:38:12,360
tested on defense. This is another game where if you're

732
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,440
a Jordan Miller fan, which you there's a lot of

733
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,079
people who are, and rightfully so, I love Jordan Miller.

734
00:38:17,639 --> 00:38:24,000
Watch the defensive possessions. Watch the defensive possessions, you know

735
00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:26,320
what I mean, Let's see if he's getting he's gonna

736
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,920
get targeted when he's out there the bench lineups. We're

737
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:34,320
gonna see some horrific betch lineups tomorrow just because we

738
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,440
have to. Sorry, my absolute fucking lunatic of a handyman

739
00:38:37,559 --> 00:38:42,760
is here. So if you see here's some noise, that's him.

740
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,639
I just just watched the defense because if he takes

741
00:38:44,639 --> 00:38:46,519
a step defensively in this game, I will be a

742
00:38:46,639 --> 00:38:50,639
static for his development. And I think they're gonna target him.

743
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:52,519
He's probably gonna be out there with a lineup with

744
00:38:52,639 --> 00:38:58,159
like KP j AMR Like it's just I don't know.

745
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 2: This is where those games where I feel like will

746
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:05,000
Updyke would make sure to say that somebody else is

747
00:39:05,079 --> 00:39:08,119
going to have to, you know, hit above their average,

748
00:39:08,199 --> 00:39:10,440
way above it. In this ball game. They're gonna have

749
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,440
to play above their heads have one of their best

750
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,719
games of the season. Because I don't know if just

751
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,360
having James Harden and Norman Powell.

752
00:39:19,159 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: Of course, yeah, maybe I.

753
00:39:22,639 --> 00:39:24,679
Speaker 2: Think Denver is going to be better on the offensive

754
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:29,159
vent in this game. You mentioned Russ, you know, having

755
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,559
probably a couple of three pointers, some of those kill

756
00:39:32,639 --> 00:39:37,000
shot type of looks from Russell Westbrook if it looks good,

757
00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:40,000
kill type of looks as well. Somebody else is a

758
00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:42,320
lesser player on the Clippers is going to have to

759
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,559
punch above their weight class a little bit.

760
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: Maybe we see Kevin Porter Junior be efficient. Maybe he

761
00:39:49,119 --> 00:39:51,719
hits more than two threes. That would be fantastic. Someone

762
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,320
on our YouTube called him a microwave scorer. He's not

763
00:39:54,360 --> 00:40:01,440
a microwave scorer. He's not four top five bro if

764
00:40:01,519 --> 00:40:05,360
that four of his top five scoring games have coming

765
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,039
losses for the Clippers. So miss me with the KPJ

766
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,840
microwave scoring. He does some on any things. Well, he's

767
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:12,559
just inconsistent.

768
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 2: Someone told me today that he's gonna start in place

769
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,920
of Derek Jones Jooter. I'm like, he's not a four,

770
00:40:19,159 --> 00:40:21,360
why would he start there? And he's like, I don't

771
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,239
want him to. I just think they're going to do it.

772
00:40:25,679 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: What man? I love that take. I don't want them

773
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,599
to do this bad idea. I just think they will.

774
00:40:31,639 --> 00:40:36,840
We're gonna have a live hang after this game on Friday,

775
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,960
hopefully it's a win. Well, we'll see what happens with that.

776
00:40:40,519 --> 00:40:42,639
Coming up, we're gonna be talking if the Clippers are

777
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,400
going to be buyer or sellers at this trade deadline.

778
00:40:45,519 --> 00:40:47,519
If you're listening, there's gonna be some audio ads coming

779
00:40:47,599 --> 00:40:52,679
up in three two one. Okay, welcome back to season three,

780
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,280
episode thirty four of Clips and Dip. I kind of

781
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,760
went a little NPR voice there for a second. We're

782
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,199
going close to trade season. It's four days until a

783
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,159
fair amount of guys can be traded. I would encourage

784
00:41:07,199 --> 00:41:09,679
everyone to look at the list of players who could

785
00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:12,800
be traded after December fifteenth, because it's not very sexy.

786
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,880
It's not a very good looking list of guys who

787
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,280
can be traded. Who would really help the Slippers team.

788
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,280
I personally think that Adam, I don't know if you've

789
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,000
looked at them, but I got a link in the breakdown.

790
00:41:24,159 --> 00:41:27,599
There's just I just don't see it.

791
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 2: Well. They don't need, though, a superstar. No. All they

792
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:38,239
need right now, honestly, is the free up a roster

793
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:42,719
spot so they can convert Jordan Miller's two way to

794
00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:46,119
a standard deal. That's what I'd love to see, which

795
00:41:46,159 --> 00:41:49,760
means a two for one trade with bones and people.

796
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: I like how everyone everyone's like, well, I have one

797
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,320
trade idea, and it's like, doesn't involve bones and peaching.

798
00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:00,239
It's like, well, yes, actually I see John's.

799
00:42:00,119 --> 00:42:02,760
Speaker 2: Is available in the fifteenth.

800
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,559
Speaker 1: God people, Yeah, there were some I don't pull receipts.

801
00:42:04,599 --> 00:42:06,480
But the people who are upset that we you know,

802
00:42:06,599 --> 00:42:09,000
left Keon I don't know, but.

803
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,519
Speaker 2: You heard a lot of that when they initially traded

804
00:42:11,599 --> 00:42:13,960
him for Norman Powell and everybody was up in arms

805
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,000
like how can we get rid of k?

806
00:42:15,639 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: Yeah? But yeah, I where so at the start of

807
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,039
the season has made people I shouldn't stay say start,

808
00:42:25,079 --> 00:42:28,719
we're almost you know, corterway through the thing has some

809
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,280
people wanting the Clippers to be buyers, right to like

810
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,320
make a make a move for Zach Levine is the

811
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:40,119
most underappreciated star or stuff like that. I don't think

812
00:42:40,119 --> 00:42:42,320
it's happening. I don't think they're gonna be buyers or sellers.

813
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,280
I think they're gonna make some calls for some depth,

814
00:42:44,679 --> 00:42:47,760
but they're not gonna be. It's not gonna be you know,

815
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:52,159
the trade deadline from last year or anything like that.

816
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,239
Like it's just their standing Pat this the start has

817
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,320
been phenomenal, but I don't think it changes their long

818
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,280
term plans for really opening up the books after next season.

819
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,559
Speaker 2: Did you just say they're bringing in Pat Beverley for Mirael?

820
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: Is that what she's He's hurt, So I hope not.

821
00:43:09,519 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 2: I'm at the point you can call me a homer.

822
00:43:12,039 --> 00:43:14,320
I've seen enough to say I'd rather have Norm Powell

823
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,320
than Zach Lavine. And when you were.

824
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: Constructed money wise, come on, yeah, when.

825
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:23,280
Speaker 2: You account for the money. But also his efficiency is unbelievable,

826
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,840
and I just he gives you more defensively than Zach

827
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:32,000
Lavine does. Uh, and he's much less injury prone. And

828
00:43:32,039 --> 00:43:35,079
then you take the contracts into the play and there's

829
00:43:35,119 --> 00:43:37,280
no way I'm doing that at this point. And whenever

830
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,519
whenever anybody talked about trading for Zack Lavine, typically he

831
00:43:40,679 --> 00:43:42,480
was involved in that trade machine trade.

832
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,119
Speaker 1: So he's gotta be because he's the only guy. Like,

833
00:43:45,199 --> 00:43:47,199
if you look at this Clippers team, who has the

834
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,480
highest trade value right now by a couple of Miles.

835
00:43:51,079 --> 00:43:54,400
It's Norm Powell like by if there was a graph

836
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,960
of it. He's way up here. He's above everybody.

837
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 2: I still lean on my argument of saying, why don't

838
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:08,800
we see before we're buyers about anything, if Kawhi can

839
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,199
stay on the court, not just get on the court.

840
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,480
Staying on the court. Getting on the court is only

841
00:44:14,519 --> 00:44:17,559
half the battle. Staying on the court and not having

842
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:22,079
his knees swell back up and not having a reoccurrence

843
00:44:22,119 --> 00:44:24,960
of the same issue. That's what I want to see

844
00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:28,079
before anybody can sell me on oh we should go

845
00:44:28,079 --> 00:44:30,880
get this guy now. If you could somehow trade Bones

846
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:31,679
Highland and PJ.

847
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: Tucker, that's freeing up. That's getting guys who can actually

848
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:37,079
play well.

849
00:44:37,119 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 2: If you can get Larry nas junior somehow for them cool,

850
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:44,880
you're not losing anything really, and you're gaining Larry Naz Junior.

851
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,679
You know, I love Bones, but I just don't think

852
00:44:46,679 --> 00:44:48,679
he's gonna be playing much, so you're not losing much

853
00:44:48,679 --> 00:44:51,360
of anything there. And there was this Atlanta Hawks fan

854
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:55,480
that actually point out how they could use PJ. Tucker.

855
00:44:55,519 --> 00:44:59,679
I don't know what he was thinking, but what he said.

856
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: We would administrator.

857
00:45:03,559 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 2: He was looking at his quarter three numbers from his

858
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,719
last season. I guess in Philly or something. I don't know.

859
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,000
He still thinks it's there.

860
00:45:10,199 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what. He wasn't looking at stats

861
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:12,400
from this year.

862
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 2: Sure, But if there's a way to get Larry Dais

863
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,920
junior and not give up much, or if there's any

864
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,039
trade out there where the Clippers don't have to give

865
00:45:23,119 --> 00:45:25,559
up much at all, I'm for it, even without seeing

866
00:45:25,559 --> 00:45:28,079
where Kawhi Leonard is yet. But when you're talking about

867
00:45:28,119 --> 00:45:30,559
big swings where you're likely going to have to give

868
00:45:30,639 --> 00:45:33,440
up good players or a pick, no way am I

869
00:45:33,519 --> 00:45:36,079
doing that right now until I see where Kawhi Leonard's

870
00:45:36,159 --> 00:45:37,039
health is at.

871
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,679
Speaker 1: And not only his health, his health is the biggest thing.

872
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,840
How does he look with the new guys? We brought

873
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:46,760
in new guys to compliment Kawhi Leonard's playing style and

874
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,960
what he can bring to this team, right, Like, it's

875
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,400
not like we like that that to me? The fit

876
00:45:52,559 --> 00:45:54,199
I know, I have no doubt that the fit is

877
00:45:54,199 --> 00:45:56,079
going to be good. But you have to see what

878
00:45:56,119 --> 00:45:57,800
it looks like before you're like, what do we traded

879
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,239
everyone for Zach Lavine? We got to see what it

880
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,320
looks like and there's yeah, there's there's no way that

881
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:09,400
like really, so it's norm second most trade value zoo.

882
00:46:10,639 --> 00:46:12,559
I'm not saying they should trade these guys, but.

883
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 2: He's not I don't think he's eligible to this summer though.

884
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,239
He shouldn't be on that one because.

885
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:22,639
Speaker 1: He signed right yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, so it's it's

886
00:46:22,679 --> 00:46:26,199
pretty much like Norm is Henge. Like they're not training James,

887
00:46:27,639 --> 00:46:31,960
I don't think, but no one else The Clippers have

888
00:46:32,079 --> 00:46:35,679
squeezed a lot of juice out of some of these players,

889
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,400
but no one is like, we don't have a lot

890
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,880
of guys that teams want. This isn't a disrespectful thing

891
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:43,480
to who's on the team right now. They've been playing

892
00:46:43,519 --> 00:46:46,440
phenomenal and they've obviously shown they can buy into a system.

893
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,960
But like, this isn't a team that guy the guys

894
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,159
are gonna get poached from.

895
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,199
Speaker 2: And when you talk about let's see Kawhi with the team,

896
00:46:54,679 --> 00:46:57,800
I kind of look at that as, yeah, let's see

897
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,079
if we can actually find where their flaws are or

898
00:47:00,159 --> 00:47:03,480
with Kawhi Leonard out there before we make a move, right,

899
00:47:03,559 --> 00:47:07,000
let's see what the needs could be before the trade

900
00:47:07,039 --> 00:47:12,840
deadline in February not making a reactionary trade on December fifteenth. Well,

901
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,840
so far the team has looked very solid and a

902
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:17,679
lot of us feel like all they really need is

903
00:47:17,679 --> 00:47:21,559
a healthy Kawhi Leonard at this point. So what holes

904
00:47:21,599 --> 00:47:24,639
are you able to fill or what voids are there

905
00:47:24,679 --> 00:47:27,280
on this squad that you're looking to mend up? I

906
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:28,960
just don't see any at the moment. I know that's

907
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,199
crazy to see. Yes, they could use obviously guys are hurt. Yeah,

908
00:47:32,199 --> 00:47:36,920
but like realistically, I don't know if there's a guy

909
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:41,280
out there that changes the equation for this team so

910
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,400
significantly in the short term and then also in the

911
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:45,360
long term.

912
00:47:45,679 --> 00:47:49,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, there's a list of guys who can

913
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:55,000
be traded on January fifteenth as well that I can't

914
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:56,000
seem to find right now.

915
00:47:57,159 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 2: Those are those New Year's Day sales buy a car.

916
00:48:01,159 --> 00:48:02,880
Everyone knows there's month.

917
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, I will say I do appreciate that people

918
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,039
haven't sent us any trade machine ideas. Thank you for

919
00:48:08,079 --> 00:48:10,519
not doing that, because, to be perfectly honest with you,

920
00:48:11,119 --> 00:48:14,239
I'm not looking at him. I'm not looking at him.

921
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,039
I don't mean that disrespectfully. I have no interest in

922
00:48:17,119 --> 00:48:19,559
trade machine. None of them have ever come true. That's

923
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,559
that's my thing. None of them have ever come true.

924
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,599
I've never seen someone hear that. No, I don't take

925
00:48:26,599 --> 00:48:29,119
shots at Joseph, but you know, like, no one's ever

926
00:48:29,159 --> 00:48:32,119
been like I called it, like, here's a five teamer.

927
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,760
Speaker 2: No, where's the receipt on that trade that you had

928
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,280
last summer that came to fruition? Where is it?

929
00:48:40,199 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: You gotta get JRW on the show.

930
00:48:43,199 --> 00:48:45,119
Speaker 2: He should come on, get on.

931
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,159
Speaker 1: But it's kind of be interesting. Again. Let us know

932
00:48:48,679 --> 00:48:51,760
at Clippers pod on Twitter, at Clippers podcast on YouTube

933
00:48:52,159 --> 00:48:53,719
if you think the Clippers are going to be buyers

934
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,920
or sellers. And again, let's remember the expectations. I don't

935
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,239
think the front office expectations have changed. I'm sure they're

936
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:02,320
pleasantly surprised without things have gone for sure. I don't

937
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think they're going all in for a superstar. I was

938
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gonna helpe them win a championship this season because we

939
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already got that guy coming back, and that is Coahi Leonard.

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Speaker 2: Maybe in the next couple of weeks.

941
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Speaker 1: Maybe in the next couple weeks, just on the twenty seventh,

942
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so Bill Simmons can feel some spite. I think that

943
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about wraps it up anything else on your on your

944
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mind about the clips you want to you wanna let

945
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it go before we let these people go.

946
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Speaker 2: No, I'm just intrigued about Friday night, in a little

947
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bit concerned.

948
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Speaker 1: That's fair, man.

949
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Speaker 2: I'm worried about this game against That's fair dude. How

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do you beat Denver? See I said this the other night,

951
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how do you beat Denver three times to row? Well,

952
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they have tectically beat them four times in a row

953
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now going back to last season, but within the same year,

954
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they're gonna beat them three times in a row with

955
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all this time off, with them waiting at home and

956
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them being hung still because they had that bad loss

957
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the Washington Wizards. Just one win afterwards is not gonna

958
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be enough for them. And Mike below that went over

959
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Atlanta may not make up for everything that went wrong

960
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against the Washington Wizards. They're still gonna be pissed off.

961
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So they're playing a team that has beat them twice

962
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and has beat them already in Denver early in the season.

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I don't know, there's somebody's gonna have to have an extraordinary,

964
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out of body type of performance. I think that's not

965
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norm or not James Harden. Maybe Zoo. Maybe Zoo goes

966
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for twenty five thirty.

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Speaker 1: Another battle I mean against Jokich like that, we can

968
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see it. We're gonna be doing a postgame live after

969
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the Nuggets game full episode on Sunday to preview the

970
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Jazz game. If there's any significant quiet news, we'll have

971
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something for you. If you'd like to leave a review

972
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,320
for this pod, we'll usually do this part. You can

973
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do that we need them. You can do it over

974
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975
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976
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you review it, let us know and we'll read it

977
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on air if you type something funny or mean. Also,

978
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979
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Clippers podcast. You can see our faces Voli pod and

980
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who doesn't love that. We always appreciate you no matter what.

981
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And now, Adam one positive thing. Despite what we just

982
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talked about with the tucket scale on Friday, send Clippers

983
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fans off in this frigid la weather. It's gonna be

984
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fifty nine tomorrow, by the way, so please dress more.

985
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Speaker 2: Uh. Over the next two weeks they only have five games,

986
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so it's possible Derek Jones Junior only misses five games

987
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and Terrence Man only misses five more since he's two

988
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weeks away from his three week evaluation. That would be big.

989
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They don't have a back to back within that stretch.

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Even after Friday, they got two days off, then they

991
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play on Monday and they got two days off. Then

992
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it's two games in Dallas with the day off in between.

993
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:03,039
This schedule is not that brutal right now. It's not

994
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if you were going to be injured. Okay, the level

995
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of competition stuff, but it's not as compacted as it

996
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has been in the party most very recent past. So

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I don't know. I think things could be worse. Even

998
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though the injury front is a little bit worrisome, they

999
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could be getting these guys back and only miss five

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games without them.

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Speaker 1: We'll take it. We absolutely it. We love the positivity.

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Thank you for hanging out, and we'll talk to you Friday,

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and as always, let's go clips.