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Speaker 1: Sloppers handle business in DC. They win once twenty one

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to ninety six over the Wizards. I'm Adam mo Oslin,

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Welcome back in This is Clipper Stock here on the

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M five seventy LA Sports. Let's get to him. You

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hear the music, you know the name. It's Big Chuck

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Mockler of Clips and Dip. Fame for a little clips

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and double dip. After the Clippers win by twenty five

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in our Nation's Capital over the Wizards, Charles, Happy Thanksgiving.

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Thanks for doing this.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having me happy to get to go

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into Thanksgiving with a win that they very much should

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have gotten going into this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they pretty much did exactly what Clipper Nation was

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hoping they do while it was a three point game,

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because Jonas Valanciunis has some dark magic working against the

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Clippers now as a member of the Wizards, it would

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make sense that he'd bring out the dark magic like that.

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He had it down to three after he started seven

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for seven with about seven minutes left in the second quarter,

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but then the Clippers on a run, got up by seventeen.

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And the story is James Harden twenty three points in

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the first quarter, forty three for the ballgame his Clippers high.

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He's been spectacular this season. The efficiency hasn't been there,

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but tonight he was uber efficient and I'm glad he's

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getting his flowers a little bit right now. Chuck.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is kind of the perfect example of why

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you get a guy like James Harden right to help

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kind of carry the team when Kawhi and Normans out.

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He did. He played a lot better. So maybe we

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thought he was going to obviously when he hit that

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hot streak, but it was fantastic to see and maybe

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this start something for him going forward. Right the percentages

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haven't been where you know, some people have wanted him

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to be, so maybe this kind of kickstart something with

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him scoring.

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Speaker 1: Live tonight thirteen of twenty two from the field, seven

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of eleven from three. I want to say he made

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his first five to three pointers that he took and

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again twenty three points in a quarter. I know it's

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the modern NBA. I know what happens here and there,

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but that was a special, special performance. Somebody else going

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to big night, a special night for themselves, a career

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high for Jordan Miller, who ended up I thought he

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did some good work early on even before there was

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a blowout. He had a lefty layup near the end

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of the first quarter, a floater after getting a board

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in the second, but then helped pour it on late

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as the Clippers kept the pedal to the medal. Jordan

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Miller with his young career high of fifteen points and

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now everybody's talking about how do they keep him in

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the lineup when Norman Powell returns, which I think might

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be on Friday. Chuck, you got a solution for this?

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Speaker 2: I do't. This is and I feel bad for the

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Jordan Miller truthers out there. He's been very good. He's

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done everything kind of that you expect him to do

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if you've been a fan of Jordan Miller, right he's

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gotten to the line. He's shown, you know, competent defense

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for the most part, and things like that. Like but

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this team, you know, Tyler doesn't want to make his

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rotation bigger. I don't think I think he would prefer

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it to be smaller. And I'm it's a shame, but

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it is. Probably Jordan Miller is going to be out

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of that rotation. That's not indicative of how he's been

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playing or anything like that. Not to say it might

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not change, you know, with trade deadline stuff, but it's

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just hard to see anyone else going out when Norm

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Speaker 1: The only thing I could think is maybe they take

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minutes away from somebody like Niko Batoum who's older, who

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could be out for a week or two and come

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back and look exactly the same, or they shave minutes

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off of him. Kevin Porter Junior, Terrence Man, like, they

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find it in the aggregate a way to get Jordan

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Miller more minutes by just ramping back on some of

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the other guys. But yeah, it's a good problem to have,

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but it can be a problem. And a season like

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this where he's about to be turning twenty five in January, like,

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they do need to find a way to get him

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minutes because I think it can help them win. Now.

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I know. We talked about it a little bit last

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night on Clips and Dip, and I brought up you know,

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Terrence Man. I'm not saying he's expendable, but this is

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a guy who has a tradable contract and you have

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to make tough decisions at some point. Unfortunately, if you're

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going to get a young guy minutes out.

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Speaker 2: There, Yeah, and we will really know kind of what

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maybe the future in general on the Clippers holds for

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Jordan Miller at this upcoming trade deadline, seeing if they

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do try and move off some of this surplus of

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guys who kind of do the same thing that they

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have right now between you know, Terrence Mahn and kind

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of what he's been overlapped with in terms of what

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Derek Jorns Junior does from the starting lineup, we'll learn

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a lot. You know that there's a handful of guys

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who can be traded after December fifteenth, some of the

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Clippers maybe are looking at or something like that. But

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it is a good problem to have. But it's one

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of the Clippers that've had before and it's not necessarily

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worked out that great. So let's hope it's different to

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them and those.

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Speaker 1: In past years when they weren't playing young guys, there

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was a better excuse for why that was happening. Not

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in a year, I mean maybe their years. As Will

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Updyke has said many times, it is a piece of zoobots.

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This year in season right now, he had eighteen points

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and sixteen boards. He's averaging fifteen in twelve and when

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they single cover him, when they don't double. It is

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too easy for a visa Zubats right now when he

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is being decisive out there like we saw him tonight, Charles, like,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good to see him bounce back from

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what was a really tough game against Christaps in his return.

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You know, he is a solid defender, so it was

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nice to kind of have him get back into his

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stride a little bit. And you're totally right. There's not

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a lot of guys one on one who can constantly

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go up against when he has the ball in his

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hand in his back to the basket. We've all kind

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of wanted you to be that double double guy, and

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now he's a legit double double guy. Right. It's you know,

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it's not ten and ten or something like that. These

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are this is a real double doubles averaging. Not to

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mention the stuff he's doing on the defensive end to

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help out this team. He's also you know, he's been

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a consistent guy. He knows the system. He's incredibly valuable

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to the Clippers, even more so maybe this year with

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how thin the margins are.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not kissing ten points in ten he's getting

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you fifteen and twelve right now, Charles, just big picture review.

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I would have signed up for ten and ten after

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the first twenty games given the schedule, and they are

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twelve and eight, and the schedule might loosen up at

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some point. I would expect it too. If you got

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the top three toughest schedule so far this season, I

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would guess at some point that things are going to

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get a little bit easier. I know Minnesota is not

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exactly that team, even though their record is poor right now,

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but they are talented. But just what do you think

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of this Clippers team in their first twenty games so

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far this season? Where have they exceeded your expectations and

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where do they still have room to grow?

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Speaker 2: Well? I mean, the number one thing has been the

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start from Norm Powell. He is other than James Harden

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and the Meats Zubats who we kind of come again

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do We're going to be important? Norm Powell's blown all

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of his expectations out of the water to start this

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season and is a very large reason why they've started

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as well as they have. The other side is the defense,

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which I wouldn't say I'm surprised by. I'm surprised how

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good it has been, but I think a lot of

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us kind of thought it was going to be kind of,

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you know, good no matter what. But it's probably got

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to be the rebounding, which I think trickles down to

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kind of the overall desire and want that this team

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seems to have. There's no switch flipping. This team knows

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that it can't afford to flip the switch right even

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tonight against a team like the Wizards. So I think

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it's probably that. And you know, that bill of goods

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we were you know, given in the preseason has come

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true and it's been great. I hope Norm can get

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right back in a stride when he comes back. They're

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really going to need it these next two games because

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right after the Timberwolves is the Nuggets, who we've been there.

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Let's just say we know what happens when we're playing

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nuggts most of the time.

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Speaker 1: Tell me if you've seen the same trend over the

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last week and a half or so. But it feels

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like the Clippers are moving the basketball much better as

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a collective group. They had twenty seven assists on their

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forty five makes in this one, and I feel like

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they've had I don't know a handful of games where

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they're right around thirty assists over the last week and

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a half. That to me is I'm passing much better

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out of the short roll and just keeping the ball

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moving more around the perimeter and maybe a little bit

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less one on one play from James Harden too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of look at every box score the

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last couple of games, and you're right, there's crooked numbers

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in a lot of guys assist columns, which is really

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cool to see in it. I think it goes back to, like,

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you know, this team kind of skips its spark off defense,

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moving on offense because guys are excited to contribute and

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things like that. They're obviously a well drilled team. Tyler's

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doing a great job this year preparing them. I think

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that's a big part of their start too. But you know,

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to feel that comfortable to pass as much as they

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have been, you got to be prepared. So it is

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nice to see the balls zipping around. For the Clippers team,

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it's things they've talked about doing and again ra actually

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seeing it happen, which makes it so much more exciting.

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Speaker 1: Clippers win by twenty five in DC over the Wizard's

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final score of one twenty one to ninety six in

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favor of your Los Angeles Clippers. They get after it

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in Minnesota on Friday. Big job, thanks for doing this.

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Happy Thanksgiving. Might see you tomorrow, my friend.

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Speaker 2: There we go, Happy Thanksgiving and let's go clips.

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Speaker 1: Cave it up next. Final phone calls eight sixty six

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nine eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine

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eight seven two five seventy. Your Clippers are twelve and

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eight and turn in some heads nationally. It is impressive.

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I'm proud of this team. They take a lot of

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pride in what they do. All that talk in training

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camp at media Day where they were talking about being underestimated,

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well they're backing it all up right now. Addition, by subtraction,

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they lose Paul George, they get better defensively, and they're

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starting to make strides on the offensive end. Oh, by

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the way, they are four and one now without Norman Palace. Somehow,

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I'm hoping they get them back on Friday, though they'll

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coming up right here on Clippers sock on Ampive seven.

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