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

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episode nineteen of Clips and Dip. I am Chuck Mockler,

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joined by William Updyke and Adam Ausland. We hope you're

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all doing well. Fifteen days into this new year, the

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Clippers are playing fantastic basketball. If you're listening to us,

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thank you. If you'd like to watch us, you can

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find us at YouTube dot com slash at Clippers podcast.

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We're gonna talk the ugly win the road trip. The

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trade season has started. But before we get into that,

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I actually wanted to ask Adam, did you end up

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with a Chris dun bobblehead?

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Speaker 2: I do have one. Hell yeah, that's.

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Speaker 1: One of the top Clippers bobbleheads of all time.

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Speaker 2: I think the dungeon Master.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a legendary goose of a stat line

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for your battle ahead night.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, will Well, what did you say? It was

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gonna be a half? And then he underperformed?

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Speaker 3: I think I said like two points four boards. Yeah,

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I was pretty closed. He finished with two boards.

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Speaker 1: Oh shout out. Kris Don played much better the game

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alfter that, which is great, But the bibblehead is up

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there with the Gallow Leaning, Tower of Pisa and the

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milosh Star Wars one give always have been great. This year, Uh,

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the Clippers got a disgusting win again. They beat the

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Wizards one nine five. They're two and oh through this

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five game stretch that we've demanded, they go at least

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four and one on which feels pretty good. Adam, how'd

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you feel about this game?

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Speaker 2: Uh? You know, they came through late against Charlotte and

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in Detroit right before it where they kind of flipped

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a switch and then pulled away. And this was a

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game where they almost gave away a twenty four point lead,

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but they also won by fourteen, so did they It

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was down to one point game in the third quarter.

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Kawhi comes into the fourth has fourteen points. It's just

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unguardable out there, just putting up top threes. And I'm

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fine with it because over the stretch they've been so good.

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If this was you know, they still had been losing

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and they finally got a win, or they just had

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won one game and then this was the other one,

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I'd be a little bit more concerned. But overall the

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process has been pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well we graduated, are we are? We be upset

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about how they won territory with the Clippers, or are

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we not quite there yet because we still need so

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many wins.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I I think it's I think it's reasonable,

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especially in terms of regressions or these kind of like

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where it does feel like they're playing flip the switch games.

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But lett's at least get to five hundred and then

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I feel like we can we can be a little bit,

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we can could see.

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Speaker 1: A little bit more. Yeah, which six more wins? I mean,

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come on, we're right there. We're gonna win the next

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three per R six six Yeah. Yeah. Kawhi had nineteen

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points in the second half. He took eleven threes, made

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the second most he's ever made in his career, maybe

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the most with seven.

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Speaker 2: He tied it, tied it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He's taken nine three point attempts per game over

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the last ten, which is more than double his career rate.

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It's pretty awesome. It's insane what he's doing.

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Speaker 2: It was supposed to be something where maybe he takes

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a step back to take two steps forward while he's

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going through this transformation, taking more off the bounds threes,

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and instead it's all gravy. He had one bad game

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where he went oh of eight from three. Outside of that,

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he's been knocking him down with regularity for the most part,

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at high volume and some of the highest degree of

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difficulty three pointers you can take.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's at high volume. He's literally almost double his

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career attempts like on the season, and he's shooting over

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his career average right now, he's at like he's right

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under forty. He's at thirty nine point nine for this

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season and he's at seven. Does this.

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Speaker 2: I was in this.

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Speaker 1: I think is putting the cart way before the horse.

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How does this change kind of the outlook for his

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trajectory once his contract is up, because if his game

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is in his predit, if he's taking more threes and

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it's not as predicated.

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Speaker 2: I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I'm just like, it's an interesting thing to think about

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because it is a new wrinkle, right Like, if he's

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gonna actually take for an entire season seven to nine

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threes a game, that's a.

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Speaker 3: Were talking about this already, like a little bit already,

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and you know, not to make a Lebron comparison, but

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like for these elite level forwards, this is a change

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that you know that we see this is an uncharted

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or unprecedented territory. It's more just about can he maintain

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this current clip of efficiency, which not even that he

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has to exactly maintain it, but can he can he

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make enough to where the change like does behoove him

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long term in his game? And I think, I mean,

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to me so far, the answer is yes, I don't

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have any doubt that that'll be able to you know,

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he's always been an efficient player and so so I

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think that it makes sense given where he's at. I

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don't know that that is enough.

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Speaker 2: To me.

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Speaker 3: That's not swinging anything majorly because it's like it.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't make him a max guy again or anything.

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Speaker 3: While it is a new wrinkle, you know, like you're

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taking the added threes at the expense of some of

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the athleticism and some of the dominance that he ones had,

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like being able to get to these spots. Not that

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we still don't see that in flashes, but I mean

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it's a trade off, right, So I don't think that

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in and of itself, if you were like on the

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fence about maybe putting together, say a big package to

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trade for Kawhi, or even if you're in some sort

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of content contract negotiations. I think it's gonna be weighed

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as like, yes, this does keep his value up there.

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elite forwards of the game. Is it big enough to

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be a game changer or is it more that he

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can kind of stay at a consistent sort of plane.

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Speaker 2: To me, it only matters if it puts less stress

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in his body and he stays healthy. If he stays

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healthy and he can prove that he can stay healthy,

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then yeah, you can have a longer career and he'll

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get more money down the line. And this evolution to

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his game is very meaningful. And he's averaging his highest

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points per game of his career right now. It's incredible.

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He has mentioned that it sounded like before it wasn't

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going to be forever, that he was going to keep

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taking these threes at this rate. You made it sound

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like I'm doing this for a month. I'm not sure

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it's gone well. It's gone too well to stop. And

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I wonder how he feels with less drives per game

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and being able to take more three pointers off the balance.

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It's just I marvel at the fact that he's doing

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this at high volume, at this efficiency. And it's come

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together this quickly for him, because that's a real change

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in your game. It's not supposed to look this easy,

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and it has.

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Speaker 1: And I wonder how it looks the closer we get

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to whatever the end of the regular season looks like

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for the Clippers, right, Like, are we going to see

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kind of a shift into a different playoff style?

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Because he is He's basically at fifty forty ninety. He's

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at nine point seven field goal percentage, thirty nine point

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nine three point percentage, and of course we know ninety

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four percent from the line. So I wonder if it

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changes closer to the playoffs, but or what again, play

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in whatever. Hopefully it is some form of that, but

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that will be something a monitor. But it's just been

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it's been cool to see he's so fucking good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a nice healthy reminder of just one of

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the greatest players ever being able to do this at

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thirty four and look like the best player in the

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league last three weeks is pretty incredible to watch. And

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I think it's good for the team too. When everybody

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wants to talk about spacing and stuff, your best player

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having more gravity from the outside if you look at

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the new gravity stat that's out this season, he and

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James Harden are both top ten in that area. Of course,

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Steph is number one, as everybody suspected he would be

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if there ever was this stat, and now there is

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how kick eyes up there? I oh, man, SpaceX.

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Speaker 1: I don't know they did intro to gravity. All right,

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Zoo did not or Harden distributed well in this game

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made the ten free throw attempts. Account looks a little

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tired at times. Joseph I Award and I were chatting

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about that, but everyone looks tired in that third quarter.

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Zoo is now day today. With the ankle, Lopez started

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in his place one for six from three. Other than that,

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I thought he was okay. But we got to see Yanick.

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It was versus the Wizards, but he had fourteen five

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and two plus two blocks. Will if you ordered the

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red Yanick jersey yet? No, absolutely not.

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Speaker 2: He didn't have to order it. He went to the

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team store.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, that was curbside pickup. Thank you. I I mean,

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obviously we want to see Onic develop more. It's a

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shame that Zoo is day to day, which we're gonna

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talk about when we kind of get into the road

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trip talk. But it's nice to se yes, it was

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the Wizards. What a nice see onic put up cond tape.

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let we had.

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Speaker 2: Some crazy blocks and yeah, it's definitely the rim protection

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needs a lot of work with his body position, pick

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and roll coverage and stuff like that. I will say

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I think six of his seven makes or five of

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his seven makes were all dunks. Yeah, he did have

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that spinning move I think on his second bucket in

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the second quarter going to his left for a layup

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that was really impressive again showing off the handle, and

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they do need it. I was just I'm a little

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bit concerned about in the outside shooting that we've been

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talking about. What do you mean, because well, I don't

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want to bring up any inconvenient truce here, but unfortunately

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since the game, unfortunately nine three pointers made per game

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is not sustainable from Brook Lopez, like we saw against

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Portland and so they played. They played ten games since then,

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and he has had one good three point shooting game

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in the next ten games, and that was against Charlotte

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where he went three of six you mentioned last night,

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he goes one of six since the Portland game. That's

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not great. He's shooting nineteen percent from three this month. Yeah,

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if guys aren't guarding him because he's not making three pointers,

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that whole spacing thing doesn't really work as well because

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they're just sacking off of him, which I've seen a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. He did get two. He had two

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dunks last night, which was funny. That was that doubled

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his dunk total for the year, which was like, hey,

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wait to find it an the way to get a bucket, Like, yeah,

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old man throws down, old man yells at room. Collins

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also now banged up. He felt it in pregame warmups.

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He did a pregame dunk and he pulled up on

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a pregame dunk or something. He's going on the trip.

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So now the Clippers have Kawhi, Collins, and Zoo all

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questionable for the Raptors game tomorrow. Feels rough. The Clippers

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are in eleventh. We're tied with the Grizzlies for tenth. However,

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they have a I think three to zero tiebreaker over us,

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so I don't think we'll be passing them in that.

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Speaker 2: Those were rough games. Those those were rough games against

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the Grizzlies.

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Speaker 1: They were not fun at all. Yeah, I mean I don't.

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I'm interested to see how the team overcomes this because

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Will it just kind of feels like another gut punch.

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We saw the Zoo ankle turn in person. He didn't

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play that final fourteen minutes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't sure at the time if he had

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tweeked the ankle or not. And it came out the

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next day that was questionable. But I didn't realize that

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during the game that I thought they were just rolling

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with Brooke because he had his first good three point

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shooting game and coach who wanted to keep it shit.

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Zoo wasn't great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I uh no, because Will and I were up

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not to brag, but we sat in terrace. Well hey,

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the seats are so good you can still see it.

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But he was limp and hard dude, like he came out.

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to sit out for Zoo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Brook is due, so if he has to

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go again and start, I think those threes are going

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to start falling. Because, as I'd say for anybody else

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whose body of work, like, he's been pretty consistent thirty

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three point shooter for years. Speaking of guys that advanced

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advanced their games at an older age, he did it

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like around twenty nine, I think when we started taking

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three pointers.

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Speaker 3: I think it it was like towards the end of

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his tenure with the Lakers when it like really started

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to make a turn and they didn't prioritize.

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Speaker 1: Keeping him, which I always thought was like an interesting, interesting,

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yeah move, some interesting center moves over there for the Lakers.

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to trade Zoo for Mighty Mike Mascalis. So that's a

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great call. Actually, so now and so Collins is hurt,

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which now Kobe Sanders is going to start in his

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spot he did last game. I'm bummed for Collins man.

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He's just been on a heater, dude, Like and we

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need that. We've needed that level of play from God.

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Speaker 2: That's a huge part of this run. The Clippers have

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been on winners of eleven of thirteen. But he told

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coach Lou Pregame before the Charlotte game Monday night that

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he was tired. Watch me, like, make sure you know

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keep an eye on me out there, and he didn't

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have a good shooting game. Granted he didn't take a

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lot of shots, but he did make some impactful plays

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and led them in the plus minus. And then the

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groin issue happened. So you're saying it happened.

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Speaker 1: Uh, pregame it was like a dunk he.

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Speaker 2: Was, Yeah, because all of a sudden it popped up

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on let me out of nowhere. Yeah, because I was

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worried it was something lingering and maybe him being tired

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against Charlotte also correlated to that, or there was a

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connection there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Colin to Maayer, Collins warmed up for the Clippers

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but experienced some groin soreness and even grimaced after a

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dunk in warm ups.

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Speaker 2: And he's questionable tomorrow right, well, questionable on the trip.

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Is much better than guys out for three weeks with

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coryn STrenD.

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Speaker 1: And, like I'm trying to.

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Speaker 2: Think, and he has taken some really hard falls as

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of late, watching his activity and his motor yeah or

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DJ like he's just always falling down at some point,

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He's always falling down, man, he's active.

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Speaker 1: Is it is Zoo's ankle, the same one he was

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just out.

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Speaker 2: For I thought he was out for the right ankle

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and this is the left right.

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Speaker 1: I guess I don't know, Will, Will, would you rather

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have same hurt ankle or now both ankles are hurt?

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Both that? Yeah, I feel I'm like, shit, I don't know,

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doesn't feel great. He just came back so fast from

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that other one. It was right at two weeks and

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we got the several weeks prediction when it first came out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to see the injury report on that.

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And if it was his right ankle, I think it was.

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Let's go with that for now. Now it's just left.

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It's gonna balance out because of this. Oh you know what,

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the it was his left It.

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Speaker 1: Was the same one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Shit, Well he's only questionable though. He is on the

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trip and he's questionable, right, we can yeah, cling to

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that life raft.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Kawaj just did his right ankle, which is

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what had him miss ten games, and he's been playing

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through it the last three or four games now and

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playing well.

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Speaker 1: And really need it. Yeah, playing really da good. All right,

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coming up, we're gonna talk the upcoming road trip and

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then Adam I think is gonna have forty five minutes

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to pitch us on Kaminga and then we will probably.

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Speaker 2: Wrap things up cutting me short.

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Speaker 1: Huh uh. Well, the rest of you Patreon. If you're listening,

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there's gonna be some ads. If you're watching, there's not.

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So yeah. Schedule Roach coming up in three two one.

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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back into Clips and Dip. We're talking

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about the Clippers on their upcoming road trip. If you

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follow the show, if you've been listening, the Clippers are

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two games into a five game stretch that we called

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sort of essential for the rest of the season. Certainly

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essential going into the All Star break. We landed at

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four and one is sort of the baseline for acceptability

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in terms of this five game stretch. Obviously, they want

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to maybe not the prettiest games against the Hornets and

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the Wizards. They are taking on Toronto to kick off

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this road trip, probably the hardest game of the stretch

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and rest and whatnot. Notwithstanding, so they got the Raptors

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then taking on the bull the Wizards and the Bulls,

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and that one is a back to back, so who

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knows what that if they are to drop a game,

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do you think it's Toronto in this stretch?

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Speaker 1: Are you Okay with that. Yeah, uh, I would of

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these three teams, Yes, losing to the Raptors, I would

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be like, Okay, I can understand that it's a very

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good defense. We've seen them give, Like we watched the

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Raptors be very annoying to play against before. Yeah, I

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think that one. I would be at peace with being

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the one for the Yeah, we already won a game

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without zooing John Collin. You know what I mean. It's like,

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I guess it came. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: They won seven of ten. They're good. They're fourth in

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the Eastern Conference. They're young, they have young legs, and

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they can I'm trying to think what is their pace

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at because I remember last year they really gave today.

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Speaker 1: Was that the last game of the season or like

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the close to the end of the season when they

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were just it was just a track me head into

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it like.

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Speaker 2: A fourth and pace this year, Yeah, he went off

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on the Lakers. So I'm a big fan Scottie Barts.

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That was one of the great rants. Yeah, they're twenty

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fourth in pace this year, which is interesting. They were

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ninth last year, so they've changed things up then and

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now Brandon Ingram is back.

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Speaker 1: We'll see.

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Speaker 2: He was there still away last year like Washington's doing

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with trade this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and so r J. Barrett and Purdle are

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out for the Raptors. That was confirmed.

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Speaker 2: Trade rumors, and then both of.

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Speaker 1: Them mamou Klashvili is questionable with an illness and quickly

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has back spasms, so he is questionable too, so also

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in trade talks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that'll be the distraction that derails him in

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this game. From the Clippers, it's the right time to play.

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Speaker 1: Him, that would be great. I have a feeling this

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game might be really gross, depending who's out for both teams.

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Speaker 3: What about the Clippers recent games with Leady to believe

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that where it's any of.

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Speaker 1: This coming from? Yeah, uh, Adam. You mentioned Ingram and Barnes.

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They're combining for forty fourteen and nine right now from

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those two.

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Speaker 2: I'm a fan. I've been on brandon Ingram Island for

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a while. Haven't exactly gotten off. The contract is is

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a lot and they gave up a lot to get them,

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but it's working right now. They're one of those teams

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that's like, yeah, if they're in the Western Conference, it's

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not that great. But they're in the East. Everybody has

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a chance, so you might as well play hard and

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go for it and try to make moves to win.

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Speaker 1: Now, could the Clippers switch to the Eastern Conference. There's

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already two teams in LA.

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Speaker 2: That's a great point.

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Speaker 1: Forty one home games in a row over here, forty

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one over on the East.

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Speaker 3: Coast, and literally makes as much sense as the Pelicans.

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Speaker 1: Being very good point. The Rafters are fourth and opponent

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turnover percentage, which is kind of of my big bugaboo

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stat about this game. Possibly elite defense that also generates

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a bunch of turnovers. Clippers generate their own turnovers, no

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problems sometimes so your help.

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Speaker 2: We know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're proud. We're a proud team. So I'm a

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little worried about that.

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Speaker 2: Over the last thirteen games though, the Clippers, I want

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to say myself, I was thinking of a scary movie

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two scene there. Yeah, they're They're eighth in turnover percentage

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over the last thirteen games. The Clippers, even with an

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outlier turnover game was against Detroit where they had twenty plus.

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But Detroit they had twelve in the fourth quarter, so

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they have been much better. I think a lot of

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that is just the ball is in Kawhi's hands more

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and he doesn't turn the ball over much and it's

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use trading his way up. Yeah, and by the way

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back in Toronto, he'll have something for him.

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Speaker 1: That's true. He'll probably get light booze despite.

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Speaker 2: I don't know they do. They light booze and they

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gave my hero as welcome remember when we first came back.

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I don't know how many times he's played since he's

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been a Clipper in the Toronto game, to be honest,

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my first time back, he gets his ring. He's out

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there with Kyle Lowry, but I mean he's a legend

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there for good reason.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't. The Raptors don't take very many threes.

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Their twenty fourth and three point attempts and their twenty

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ninth and three point percentage. Kind of a weird team

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to look at stat profile wise. I haven't watched a

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lot of Raptors games, admittedly, but it's kind of a weird.

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You know what.

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Speaker 2: I like?

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Speaker 1: Just team stature, Like how is just elite defense? I guess, And.

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Speaker 2: It's like you're playing the international team or something that's different.

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Speaker 1: It's their deal over there, man, croissants.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to look at two point percentage with them,

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is it's gotta.

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Speaker 1: Be it's really good.

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Speaker 2: Good Eh, it's outside top ten barely, But like, the

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best two point percentage team is the Lakers at sixty

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point four percent. They're at fifty five point one. Clippers

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are actually better than them.

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Speaker 1: That's what I think. It's a very weird team. To

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look at the stats, like.

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Speaker 2: What's their free throw attempts per game? Now concerned? Wait

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a second, I don't know, and I know the Lakers

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are still second in that area.

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Speaker 1: They were twenty four. Wow, they're like close to death, dude.

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It's really weird. And they only score one hundred and

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fourteen points a game, but they only get.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and now I need to see their clutch trading. Ah,

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and here it is, boys, and here it is. This

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is why they are fifteen and six in the clutch.

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So they are winning their coin flip games. They have

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played twenty one games in the clutch, which is a lot. Yeah,

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it's tied for eleventh, but I'm an idiot, but they're

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winning them.

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Speaker 1: What are the Clippers, because we are the opposite of that.

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Speaker 2: Oh, fourteen clutch time games, they're four and ten.

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Speaker 1: Right, So Okay, so we cracked it. Just don't go

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to clutch time and we'll win. But we were like

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two and nine at some point.

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Speaker 2: It was worse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really good.

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Speaker 2: They got some recently.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's gonna be weird. But then yeah, so

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like Wizards Bowls back to back, Well, you I would

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be furious if we lost. Honestly, I will be furious

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if we lose either of these games between the Wizards

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of the Balls.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, back to back is tricky, but yeah, yeah, if

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you drop one of the Raptors, you really just can't

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afford to leave either one. You know, the season is

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and over, still a lot of games left, but this

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is like this is this is one of the stretches

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where you get a chance to breathe. It's a bummer

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that all these injuries are piling up at the same time.

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But I guess on the plus side of that, you know,

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we talked about last We talked about last time, like

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if you were excited about anything this season not being

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a championship, it's the development of the young guys, and

475
00:26:28,279 --> 00:26:30,920
this provides some ample opportunities for guys.

476
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Wizards games at noon is the other. Yeah,

477
00:26:36,039 --> 00:26:38,519
so I think we'll need some young legs for that

478
00:26:38,519 --> 00:26:43,960
one lost on them. Correct, correct, because.

479
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the good news is it is a back to back.

480
00:26:52,559 --> 00:26:54,880
But they start one game at noon and the next

481
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day they don't start till five. They do lose an hour,

482
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I think because in Chicago, but it's not like, you know,

483
00:27:01,519 --> 00:27:04,160
after they're done in DC they got a game twenty

484
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:05,240
three and a half hours later.

485
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Speaker 1: That's true. Just for those who haven't seen the Clippers

486
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,119
Pioneer shirt, the.

487
00:27:11,079 --> 00:27:14,519
Speaker 2: Clippers, they've seen it, but you never know.

488
00:27:15,599 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 1: It's one of the craziest shirts ever created by anyone. Yeah,

489
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,400
the time is weird. The thing about the Wizards that

490
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,640
gets me is that Sar is going to be fired up.

491
00:27:31,279 --> 00:27:37,279
He Okay, that second tech on Sar was a complete

492
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technicality bullshit tech.

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Speaker 2: It is, but it is an automatic tech I.

494
00:27:42,519 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: Know, but like bounce the ball in self frustration and like,

495
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,359
you know, like, um, it's so dumb. But I think

496
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he might be extra fired up.

497
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Speaker 2: I'm sure Draymond wouldn't have got that tech somehow.

498
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:54,799
Speaker 1: No, they would not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna be pissed.

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Speaker 1: I've watched a lot of footage. I don't think Draymond's

501
00:27:59,839 --> 00:28:01,880
ever actually I don't think any of the foul calls

502
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:02,920
on dream I should have been.

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Speaker 2: Called damn, he should have member zero personal fouler. Sawar

504
00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:14,079
was cooking a little bit, and uh yeah, he may

505
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:15,960
try to give him the business. This is what you

506
00:28:16,079 --> 00:28:16,759
missed out on.

507
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,559
Speaker 1: Ship usually because he had a tech from the ref already,

508
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,279
So I was like, he's a more of a shit

509
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:24,599
talker to the refs than I thought.

510
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 2: I he's leading the league in blocks. I think this

511
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,559
season like he's he's their legit cornerstone piece that's kind

512
00:28:31,559 --> 00:28:34,039
of panning out right now, and they're about to get

513
00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:36,599
another one in the draft because they are holding on

514
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,440
to that top eight pick that ain't going to uh

515
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,160
New York.

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Speaker 1: To have one of those someday.

517
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,319
Speaker 2: The Bulls what you wish for.

518
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: True, the Bulls are another incredibly weird team. To look

519
00:28:50,279 --> 00:28:54,039
at their stats, they have a worse offensive rating, defensive rating,

520
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,200
and net rating than the Clippers, but they're nineteen and

521
00:28:57,279 --> 00:29:02,119
twenty one. I don't know, it's just like this is

522
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,200
a weird. This is a wee game trip.

523
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 2: The Bulls started off this season hot, like they might

524
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,400
have been five to oh to start the season or

525
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,519
something like that. So they padded up some wins early,

526
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,559
so the record still looks somewhat respectable. But the truth

527
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,920
is the wheels have fallen off over the last month

528
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:24,400
and a half.

529
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Speaker 1: Well, Giddy Giddy wasn't back for their last game because

530
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,480
he's got the hamstring thing. So TVD on that guys

531
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,400
do return. Versus the Clippers, though, yeah, they were.

532
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: They started, they won their first five games of the season.

533
00:29:40,519 --> 00:29:45,480
Everybody's like, oh shit, the running of the Bulls because

534
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,799
remember they had a good I think end to last

535
00:29:47,799 --> 00:29:50,359
season and people were keeping an eye on them to

536
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,559
see if there was carry over, and there was until

537
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,039
till ever started.

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Speaker 1: Ask the Clippers about November. But yeah, no, I would

539
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,880
be that's fucking crazy, dude. I can't believe it was

540
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:08,440
two wins.

541
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Speaker 2: Dude, give me too.

542
00:30:14,079 --> 00:30:16,359
Speaker 1: The Bulls are a good shooting team their top ten

543
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,960
and attempts and percentage. When these teams that are like

544
00:30:21,039 --> 00:30:23,880
in the middle of the road, that are Eastern Conference,

545
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:28,119
it's such a pain in the ass because they just

546
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,119
might get You have no idea what you're gonna get.

547
00:30:31,119 --> 00:30:32,720
I mean, say, with the Clippers, right, like, we could

548
00:30:32,759 --> 00:30:35,680
come out and win two of these games by twenty

549
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,279
five and then lose a fifteen point lead with two

550
00:30:38,319 --> 00:30:42,160
and a half minutes. You know, like, I think it's

551
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,839
I predict messiness a little bit.

552
00:30:46,319 --> 00:30:50,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are vulnerable in the games.

553
00:30:51,839 --> 00:30:53,799
Speaker 1: I'm shorting the Clippers on it. I don't even know

554
00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:57,599
what that means. Well, I mean, yeah, we just the

555
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,839
I tweeted it from the show account last night, but

556
00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:01,240
I was like, oh, we're gonna need a point a

557
00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:04,240
minute from Kawhi to night haha, and then we quite

558
00:31:04,279 --> 00:31:05,160
literally needed that.

559
00:31:05,519 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 2: So he's been on that. I think he's been averaging

560
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,799
a point per minuter, like just below it for through

561
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:12,599
three weeks.

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00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me look, I think it's close, isn't it. Yeah,

563
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,240
a big James couple of games would be cool because

564
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:28,039
he's been quieter. Yeah, not give us the Hornets. Yeah

565
00:31:28,079 --> 00:31:33,839
that is true. Man, why's numbers are insane? Okay, he's yeah,

566
00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:36,599
he's kind of he's borderline outpacing it. Thirty three points

567
00:31:36,599 --> 00:31:39,480
thirty minutes last night, thirty five points thirty one minutes

568
00:31:39,559 --> 00:31:43,920
versus the Hornets. Okay, he's close. Wow, he's at thirty

569
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,319
four minutes per game and twenty eight points per game.

570
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,720
Come on, why take take two more threes dude.

571
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,319
Speaker 2: That's on the season.

572
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:57,799
Speaker 1: Just yeah, that's on the season. The man is unreal

573
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,319
which of that, Oh, it's not.

574
00:32:01,079 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 2: It's not going to be here forever. Of course, they

575
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,599
do need to improve in other areas. I like what

576
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,160
Will said against James Harden. Somebody else is gonna have

577
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,119
to start doing some heavy lifting. It's not going to last.

578
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:14,960
Like if all of a sudden they start if Kawhi

579
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,839
could go into a slump and they start losing, and

580
00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:19,880
people are gonna go, what's going on? Well, Kawhi was

581
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,960
on this crazy heater and all timer for his career

582
00:32:23,079 --> 00:32:24,960
and he's a Hall of Famer and now he's not.

583
00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:29,279
That's the type of thing that could happen. It's very realistic.

584
00:32:29,799 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 3: You need it'll cost him a Hall of Fame spot

585
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,119
first ballot, I don't know well.

586
00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: And then if Collins can't go, because like we said,

587
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,000
it's one thing to beat the Wizards with Kobe Sanders

588
00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:46,279
and Brook Lopez starting, no disrespect to those guys, but

589
00:32:46,319 --> 00:32:49,880
the Raptors is a different story with No Zubac and

590
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,319
John Collins if they can't go. So I'm also wondering

591
00:32:53,319 --> 00:32:55,920
who's gonna be available for the back to back like

592
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,200
we might see some rest on the.

593
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:06,599
Speaker 2: JAP was so many guys questionable for game one? Yeah,

594
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,519
who's going to be available for the back to back?

595
00:33:08,559 --> 00:33:10,720
How are they going to navigate that they're vulnerable in

596
00:33:10,799 --> 00:33:15,160
both of those games? To be honest, it feels like that.

597
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we're but we're saying three and one, two

598
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:22,200
and one.

599
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, two and one. That'll get us to four and

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one on the five games.

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Speaker 1: There we go, it's right there, that's there.

602
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Speaker 2: Here maybe here.

603
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Speaker 1: I hope we don't have to play Chris paul because

604
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,160
that would be awkward.

605
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:41,519
Speaker 2: He's back.

606
00:33:41,839 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone's hurt. We got to ring Chris PAULA who's

607
00:33:45,759 --> 00:33:53,160
gonna be bro? I know he has a UNI. Who's

608
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,480
your Adam, who's your player of the trip?

609
00:33:56,599 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 2: Oh? Player of the trip? I guess I'll play it

610
00:34:00,759 --> 00:34:03,480
safe and try to go with somebody who's not questionable here.

611
00:34:04,519 --> 00:34:13,199
Uh yeah, I'll take my guy. I'll take this hero

612
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:20,599
Jordan Miller. Yeah, after that move he had going to

613
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:25,639
his lap behind his back between the legs crossover. Who

614
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:30,559
was it that he took off the dribble Keishawn George? Yeah,

615
00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:35,000
that was crazy. He's averaging fourteen points the last couple

616
00:34:35,039 --> 00:34:35,719
of weeks or whatever.

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00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:39,679
Speaker 1: We'll need that on this trip for sure. Well, who's

618
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:42,039
your player of the trip? I think anyone's on the

619
00:34:42,039 --> 00:34:44,280
table here except for Kawhi because.

620
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:51,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's questionable though, man could be taking a risk.

621
00:34:54,280 --> 00:35:06,039
Speaker 1: Kobe, Kobe, Kobe Brown. Wow, still on the island. Uh,

622
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:11,039
no vegetation starting right now, guys. Yeah, I think Sanders

623
00:35:11,119 --> 00:35:14,760
is maybe he's hit the rookie wall a little bit,

624
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,039
which bright like he's not gonna score in a fish in

625
00:35:18,079 --> 00:35:20,960
twenty every single game, but he's still making good decisions

626
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:21,760
for the most part.

627
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,079
Speaker 2: Like I asked coach lou about that pregame yesterday, like

628
00:35:26,159 --> 00:35:28,760
what he gives you when he's not scoring, and he

629
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,599
talked pretty highly about his defense, and now good he's

630
00:35:31,639 --> 00:35:34,280
been on that end. Even when he's not scoring. The

631
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:35,199
defense is great.

632
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: All right. So we got Kobe, we got Jordan Miller.

633
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:46,199
Those are pretty cool, good, awesome picks. I'm gonna go, man.

634
00:35:49,079 --> 00:35:52,360
I was thinking Brooke because if Zoo misses time, we

635
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,280
need Brook to be good. Oh now, who looks his

636
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,440
come around on Brooke? Okay, I've never been a guest

637
00:35:59,440 --> 00:35:59,960
bade Zoom.

638
00:36:00,119 --> 00:36:00,280
Speaker 2: Uh.

639
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,559
Speaker 1: I'm against the people who've twisted their minds into some

640
00:36:05,679 --> 00:36:11,480
kind of soft Annie's pretzel that we can't just use both,

641
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,079
that we have to somehow jettison.

642
00:36:13,679 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 2: Zoo assault on that pretzel.

643
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,760
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I was thinking Brook or I was gonna say

644
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,440
John Collins, he was going to power.

645
00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 2: Through, take the risk.

646
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: But we'll see. I'm gonna go Yanick. We're all going,

647
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,840
young guys. I'm going because if Zoo's out, we also

648
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,159
need yan to be pretty.

649
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 2: Good hy coach who doesn't play young guys? What are

650
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:36,480
we thinking? We can't do this?

651
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,199
Speaker 1: We had to go five out against the Wizards, which

652
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,199
was a little troubling at some points just for what

653
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,000
that means about how the centers were playing. So yeah,

654
00:36:46,039 --> 00:36:49,239
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Brook if you can't go,

655
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,960
and if you can go, I'm going Collins.

656
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,199
Speaker 2: Wait a second contingency plans?

657
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely for the Clippers with all our questionables, you

658
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,679
gotta have a plan B all right, coming out, we're

659
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,760
talking a little bit about the trade scuttle butt that's around,

660
00:37:10,039 --> 00:37:13,239
guys are eligible, and then after that we're out of here.

661
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,920
Quick audio break coming up. If you're watching, there won't

662
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be ads coming up in three two.

663
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Speaker 2: One welcome back in clips and dip. I'm out of Mauzle.

664
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We got Will Uptyke and Chuck Mockler here, Episode nineteen

665
00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:31,559
of season four. This is a big episode because it's

666
00:37:31,559 --> 00:37:33,719
time to talk about the island that I have been

667
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,119
on for some time. And I told you guys my

668
00:37:36,199 --> 00:37:38,280
theory before. If you get stuck on a desert island,

669
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,880
all you gotta do while you're worrying about just making

670
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,199
fire for your campsite, no, no, no, you set the entire

671
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,599
island on fire, okay, and create the biggest smoke signal

672
00:37:49,679 --> 00:37:52,880
ever castaway. That would have been a real short. That

673
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,920
would have been It wouldn't even been a short like

674
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,519
that would have been a TikTok video if he had

675
00:37:58,559 --> 00:37:59,480
just done that. That's all.

676
00:37:59,559 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 1: I'm Dog Wilson here.

677
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 2: And forgetting.

678
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: Fed x not.

679
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 2: He emailed himself that timer to see or he emailed

680
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,320
himself he said he shipped of that timer to see

681
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,559
how long it took to get there, and that skewered everybody.

682
00:38:24,119 --> 00:38:31,440
Yeah that's a great movie, Robert, Oh yeah, that's quality.

683
00:38:32,119 --> 00:38:36,480
So Tyler rewatched him cominga highlights from the playoff series

684
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,000
against Minnesota last year as well, specifically the last three games.

685
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 1: All right, so what is what are the Warriors doing?

686
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,559
Because they seem so confused about what to do with

687
00:38:46,639 --> 00:38:52,480
Jonathan Kaminga they want there's so league sources said the

688
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:56,519
Warrior has been prioritizing expiring contracts. They've declined the idea

689
00:38:56,519 --> 00:38:58,800
of taking back long term unless it's, you know, a

690
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:03,239
no brainer. The Warriors refuse to absorb three year sixty

691
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:10,039
million on the leak Monks deal, Like what what do they?

692
00:39:10,079 --> 00:39:11,199
What is Kmingo worth?

693
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 2: Is?

694
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,599
Speaker 1: It's just expiring deals? Right?

695
00:39:16,119 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 2: I think one of the expiring deals is going to

696
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,760
have to be a player that can help them. Now,

697
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,519
I would think, yeah, regardless of how high level a player,

698
00:39:24,559 --> 00:39:26,920
that is, just somebody that could help them, that they

699
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,760
could sell the fan base on that we got this

700
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,400
guy and he can play a role here. It has

701
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,119
to be I don't think they just give away totally

702
00:39:35,159 --> 00:39:35,639
for nothing.

703
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:43,599
Speaker 1: They're twenty two and nineteen. The Clippers what. I don't

704
00:39:43,639 --> 00:39:45,400
think the Clippers have a package for Kamingo.

705
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 2: If Bogie was healthy, it'd be interesting, but he hasn't been.

706
00:39:56,079 --> 00:40:02,079
He hasn't been since since even before he got here. Yeah,

707
00:40:02,199 --> 00:40:05,000
I don't I don't know how the Clippers and also

708
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,320
we're picking all these young guys for our players of

709
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,480
the weekend or pick a three game road trip. Okay,

710
00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:18,000
but you thought about yeah, and that's her plan. See,

711
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:27,719
but I play why I do? Uh? I do? I

712
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,320
do wonder about Golden State and how much they're looking

713
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,519
for because is there enough of a locker room issue

714
00:40:34,559 --> 00:40:36,199
where they just feel like we have to move on

715
00:40:38,199 --> 00:40:41,400
at this point? But because he just became trade eligible today,

716
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,800
which is why his agent put out the report today

717
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,000
it said he is demanding a trade. He also was

718
00:40:47,039 --> 00:40:49,239
a shooter around today. I don't think he ended up

719
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:50,800
talking to reporters, but he was there.

720
00:40:51,599 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: Will have you gotten any saying he's a bad locker

721
00:40:54,039 --> 00:40:56,679
room guy? I know the coaches don't like him. I

722
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:57,800
don't think it's.

723
00:40:57,639 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 3: Just so hard to tell given this current scenario, because

724
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,719
you know, he's had an issue. He didn't want to

725
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:08,079
be there to begin with, which was like clear with

726
00:41:08,159 --> 00:41:10,360
the deal, you know, he's in and out of the rotation.

727
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,920
They're not sure how to use him. He clearly has

728
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:14,920
a not even that they're not sure how.

729
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: To use him.

730
00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:19,039
Speaker 3: They have a system and he doesn't fit the exact

731
00:41:19,039 --> 00:41:22,800
mold for that system, and so he's suffering. He's unhappy

732
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,760
with the role, they're unhappy with him not fitting into

733
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,639
said system that's been so successful for them for so long.

734
00:41:29,559 --> 00:41:33,199
So it's a little bit of a tough situation to judge.

735
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:35,679
I mean, do I think he's been a malecontent in

736
00:41:37,079 --> 00:41:37,719
Golden State?

737
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:38,039
Speaker 1: Yes?

738
00:41:38,199 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I can't. Like, I don't see any situation where

739
00:41:41,679 --> 00:41:43,440
it's time. That's not to say that he's not professional

740
00:41:43,519 --> 00:41:44,519
or that makes him a bad.

741
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:45,079
Speaker 1: Person or something.

742
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:46,679
Speaker 3: It's hard to go to work every day in a

743
00:41:46,679 --> 00:41:49,519
shooty situation where it feels like no one wants you

744
00:41:49,559 --> 00:41:55,480
to succeed and hence you're not succeeding. But like, do

745
00:41:55,599 --> 00:41:58,280
I think that's something that would carry over. No, that's

746
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,760
not something that would That's not something that would worry

747
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,400
me uh so much as.

748
00:42:06,119 --> 00:42:08,199
Speaker 1: Well. I mean, honestly, I just I.

749
00:42:08,119 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 3: Think there's a lot of teams that could take a

750
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,480
flyer on them. So I guess the biggest thing is, like,

751
00:42:11,639 --> 00:42:14,199
is that even a realistic target for the Clippers?

752
00:42:15,039 --> 00:42:16,639
Speaker 2: I see, I'm not alone on the island.

753
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: Will's paddling his bot up over there.

754
00:42:20,639 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 2: I was gonna say earlier, is if you do bring

755
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,360
in Jonathan Kamingez the Clippers right now, some of the

756
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,360
young guys that are now in the rotation are going

757
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,760
to be out right, That's that's something you have to consider.

758
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:46,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've considered it, and you're comfortable with it. Sliding

759
00:42:46,079 --> 00:42:47,199
the piece of paper over it.

760
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 2: Yes, I am fully interested for the right price. Still,

761
00:42:53,079 --> 00:42:55,760
I could care less about all the dnps. I do

762
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,519
think while there's blame on both sides, I think overall

763
00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:02,639
it's been a mismanaged situation from the get go. And

764
00:43:02,679 --> 00:43:05,440
he's been and he's like twenty.

765
00:43:05,159 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 3: Three admitted to fault at that before. I've definitely seen

766
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,079
him have quotes about it before.

767
00:43:11,559 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the same age as rookie Kobe Sanders, and

768
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,960
he's been in the league for a while. I think

769
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,519
they've had too high of a standard because Warriors culture,

770
00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:24,920
championship culture and all these things, and you have to

771
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,960
play this way, and they have all this off ball

772
00:43:27,039 --> 00:43:30,519
movement and he wants to ISO and I know a

773
00:43:30,519 --> 00:43:35,760
lot of the jump shooting numbers aren't great, but whenever

774
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,599
he's gotten like a consistent chunk of minutes for a

775
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,360
month here and there. Over the last couple of seasons,

776
00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:45,679
he's put up numbers. And then last year in the playoffs,

777
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,719
last three games against Minnesota, and you can write it

778
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,119
off of well they've lost those three games. You can

779
00:43:51,159 --> 00:43:53,599
do that for any player. Then everybody sucks. But because

780
00:43:53,599 --> 00:43:55,320
if you lost the game, bottom line is I guess

781
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,840
you weren't good enough. He had thirty, twenty three and

782
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,519
twenty six on good of his See he went three

783
00:44:01,599 --> 00:44:03,599
or four from three to one game, zero two from

784
00:44:03,599 --> 00:44:05,679
three to one game, three of nine from three another game.

785
00:44:07,679 --> 00:44:09,199
I think he was one of the reasons they were

786
00:44:09,199 --> 00:44:16,639
in games. And then yeah, that's what six of fifteen

787
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,599
from three in those three games. Like, the talent is there,

788
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:24,000
It's obvious. He's not just I don't think he is

789
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:28,639
just a high flying athlete that you know, has never

790
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,440
refined his game. I think there's more to his game

791
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:35,480
and his jump shooting ability if he ever just got

792
00:44:35,519 --> 00:44:39,199
consistent minutes and rotation minutes. And I also think if

793
00:44:39,199 --> 00:44:43,400
you bring in a guy like this, he's probably probably

794
00:44:43,519 --> 00:44:47,119
going to at least try to ingratiate himself to the

795
00:44:47,159 --> 00:44:50,360
fan base and the culture and the organization right away

796
00:44:51,039 --> 00:44:55,760
and do everything right. Change the scenery, clean slate. You're

797
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,719
probably gonna get the best version of him, and if

798
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,880
you give him a real opportunity, I don't know he

799
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,519
could thrive. It's worth the gamble to me, he.

800
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:08,599
Speaker 3: Has an though after this year, right teams, I think, oh,

801
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:10,480
that's right, it is a team option.

802
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,519
Speaker 1: Yeah.

803
00:45:14,039 --> 00:45:15,039
Speaker 2: And that's the other thing.

804
00:45:15,559 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 3: So he does have every incentive to turn it around.

805
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: That's why you didn't take the Q. Oh yeah.

806
00:45:24,519 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 2: It also fits on the Clippers twenty twenty seven timeline

807
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,239
to find out who he is for two years before

808
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:33,360
you make a real commitment.

809
00:45:34,639 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: That is true.

810
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,639
Speaker 2: I don't know if Golden State would have even trade

811
00:45:37,639 --> 00:45:39,639
with him though, to be honest, you know, after what

812
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:43,159
the things fell apart with the Paul George stuff, Oh god,

813
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:48,079
the garbage and rivalry very important.

814
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 1: Some of the some of the deepest rivalry, the diminion.

815
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 2: But one of the reasons that it fell apart was

816
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,280
they weren't willing to give up Kaminga. And this entire

817
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,880
time they say we don't basically we don't like them,

818
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:00,760
we won't play, but we also won't give them up.

819
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,679
Are they finally going to say, yes, we will give

820
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:04,880
them up. I think so.

821
00:46:06,599 --> 00:46:07,639
Speaker 1: They probably should.

822
00:46:08,079 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 2: It's not gonna be nothing, though, I have to assume

823
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,000
they get something of value.

824
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was.

825
00:46:14,159 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 3: Some selling lower though than I think they could have this.

826
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:22,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's why they're this report out there that oh,

827
00:46:22,199 --> 00:46:24,400
they're willing to keep him the rest of the seasons.

828
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,159
Like yeah, of course they're going to say that to

829
00:46:26,159 --> 00:46:29,280
try and reclaim leverage because everybody's like you, they know

830
00:46:29,559 --> 00:46:31,440
you have to get rid of them, so they're low

831
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:35,239
balling them right now. But if they say we don't,

832
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:36,639
we don't have to get rid of them. We can

833
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,840
keep them the rest of this year, you better up

834
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:39,280
your price.

835
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 1: That's like okay, man, Like whatever you need the roster spot.

836
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,159
Speaker 2: The truth is, all it takes is two teams. All

837
00:46:46,199 --> 00:46:48,079
they need is two teams that like them and they

838
00:46:48,079 --> 00:46:49,360
can pit them against one another.

839
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting. And we're not gonna hear any

840
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,320
real rumors about the Clippers being interested. Probably just a

841
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,639
heads up to the listeners out there. There was some

842
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,920
Boss Easton Wallace Zoo scuttle, but Jay King wrote in

843
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,480
The Athletic, on top of his basketball talent, his contract

844
00:47:06,519 --> 00:47:09,639
would be a positive for the Celtics. He makes eighteen

845
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,880
million this season, which is nine million less than Simons,

846
00:47:13,519 --> 00:47:15,719
with two more seasons left on a very reasonable deal.

847
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:20,159
The problem if he's available, the Celtics would have to

848
00:47:20,159 --> 00:47:24,840
part ways with significant draft capital. What we talked about

849
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,440
a liver the last episode. Significant draft capital from a

850
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:32,719
team that's going to be in the finals. Team conversation

851
00:47:33,079 --> 00:47:36,559
pretty much every year for the next we assume four

852
00:47:36,679 --> 00:47:40,519
or five, right, maybe maybe less. You need a lot

853
00:47:40,559 --> 00:47:46,400
of first round picks to make that worth it. I

854
00:47:46,639 --> 00:47:50,360
kind of get like three, I think three. I think

855
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:51,599
three hit like that.

856
00:47:53,079 --> 00:47:54,639
Speaker 3: I don't know that you can get it, but that's

857
00:47:54,639 --> 00:47:55,519
what I'm asking.

858
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: For because you're you're looking at twenty five through thirty, right,

859
00:48:00,119 --> 00:48:02,119
like for the most part, that's probably where those picks

860
00:48:02,119 --> 00:48:02,639
are gonna enden.

861
00:48:02,639 --> 00:48:04,039
Speaker 3: But I mean, I guess it would depend on like

862
00:48:04,079 --> 00:48:05,920
what the package is. The thing is he just makes

863
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:10,079
so little money that, like, you know, your return is.

864
00:48:10,079 --> 00:48:12,679
Speaker 1: Just not the guy's not going to be as good

865
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,360
who you get back unless you're getting Derek White or

866
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,039
something like do they want him?

867
00:48:17,039 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 2: Not bad? And probably not? I don't even know what is.

868
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,880
I like Derek White a lot, but that's kind of

869
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,519
a player that is in win now mode. Why would

870
00:48:27,599 --> 00:48:30,239
you bring in was his early thirties, late twenties.

871
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:32,679
Speaker 1: Why he's up, He's up there.

872
00:48:33,039 --> 00:48:36,760
Speaker 2: Also, three picks from Boston is different than three picks

873
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:39,719
from Atlanta or three picks from courts.

874
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,599
Speaker 3: But that's what I'm saying, like, like that, had you know,

875
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:46,000
you'd have to have a player in there, I like,

876
00:48:46,119 --> 00:48:48,360
along with the picks or it's just it's still not

877
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:49,440
that great of a deal.

878
00:48:49,599 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 2: Hey, you and me, Anthony Simon's island right here.

879
00:48:54,159 --> 00:49:01,159
Speaker 1: Who's the other nine million to make it work? Chris Paul? So,

880
00:49:01,199 --> 00:49:02,599
I mean another six after that?

881
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,159
Speaker 2: Kobe Sanders is making four. I think Kobe Brown. Sorry

882
00:49:08,199 --> 00:49:15,000
Kobe Brown, they call it in I didn't.

883
00:49:15,079 --> 00:49:19,280
Speaker 1: I blacked out and hear anything you said, No, it

884
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,199
would take a lot. I mean. Well then, also, it's

885
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:26,719
like if they trade Zoo for that, I would I

886
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,920
assume if they trade Zoo, and I've seen Dime talk

887
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,679
about this too, if they trade Zoo, in my head,

888
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:40,519
that signifies they're probably trading everybody of the Big Three,

889
00:49:41,039 --> 00:49:41,559
because like that.

890
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 2: Why would you do that when they're so much better

891
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:45,920
without him? Why would you need to trade everyone else?

892
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,079
They're just about to take off to the championship once

893
00:49:49,079 --> 00:49:50,119
they trade Zoo.

894
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:51,199
Speaker 1: To the moon Baby.

895
00:49:52,519 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 2: But you know what.

896
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:58,159
Speaker 1: I like, that would be tough if the start, if

897
00:49:58,199 --> 00:50:01,079
the center cores that we are relying on his Brook,

898
00:50:01,119 --> 00:50:05,079
Lopez and Nick because I think Kawhian Harden would probably

899
00:50:05,079 --> 00:50:06,760
be a little upset. Like what you know what I

900
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,760
mean like that as much it's as we love Lopez,

901
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:14,280
that lowers your ceiling a bit, it does love Lopez

902
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:18,159
Charles Dude. Yeah, I want Lopez to succeed because it

903
00:50:18,159 --> 00:50:20,440
means the Clippers to succeed. I also want people to

904
00:50:20,519 --> 00:50:25,039
get better comprehension and reasoning skills, but that is a losing.

905
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,800
Speaker 2: Battle that gonna happen.

906
00:50:28,199 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: Final question of the pod. Where the heck is Chris

907
00:50:31,519 --> 00:50:35,360
Paul gonna end up? What teams?

908
00:50:37,119 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 2: Dwayne Wade said Houston earlier.

909
00:50:39,519 --> 00:50:41,800
Speaker 1: So Kevin duran Ham can kill each other.

910
00:50:42,679 --> 00:50:47,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I again, CP three was not moving well when

911
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:48,519
he was out there this season.

912
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: And I don't even mean this in jest, Like he

913
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,599
doesn't there, He's not on the team anymore. So like

914
00:50:53,679 --> 00:50:57,320
what team does he go back to? The Spur? Like

915
00:50:57,559 --> 00:51:01,400
can we just trade him for cash considerations?

916
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 2: I really don't know.

917
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,119
Speaker 1: Watching please send us any ideas where Chris Paul could

918
00:51:09,559 --> 00:51:10,199
should go.

919
00:51:12,519 --> 00:51:16,760
Speaker 2: I'm guessing that the only reason obviously he hasn't been

920
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:20,360
waived is because they could use his salary as filler

921
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,400
in the trade. But then also they said they want

922
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,400
to do right by him, So it's got to be

923
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,760
a place that he also, aside from whoever else are

924
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:30,880
giving up in this trade, that CB three wants to

925
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:37,920
go to. I don't know. It's it's difficult. Is it

926
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,440
a game of chicken to see if he'll just say,

927
00:51:40,559 --> 00:51:42,440
you know, I'm going to retire.

928
00:51:43,599 --> 00:51:46,760
Speaker 1: There's Chris paul Is on a list of people I

929
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,960
would not want to play chicken against because he is

930
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:56,960
not moving out of the way. There's a lot of

931
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,199
guys in the NBA like, no, he's not, He's not.

932
00:51:59,599 --> 00:52:00,639
He's going straight.

933
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:07,079
Speaker 4: What's yeah, considering he didn't even commit to retiring after

934
00:52:07,119 --> 00:52:10,559
this season after a tribute video was played for him

935
00:52:10,559 --> 00:52:12,599
and he said it'd be his last time in Charlotte.

936
00:52:12,639 --> 00:52:15,280
Speaker 2: What that was so weird.

937
00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: Very weird. I don't know. Maybe he'll be yeah, maybe

938
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,039
he's using the Collin Sexton trade.

939
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 2: CB three, When we retire your jersey, it's gonna be beautiful.

940
00:52:25,519 --> 00:52:28,840
We're gonna do it right. It's just weird right now,

941
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,840
this is this is temporary. Your legacy with the Clippers

942
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:33,440
is intact.

943
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: This part is just weird, all right, anything else on

944
00:52:39,519 --> 00:52:44,079
the trade rumors, anything at all?

945
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Speaker 2: You guys thought about Minga has.

946
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Speaker 1: Heard of this guy? I don't even heard of from

947
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ing dude. All right, So we are gonna do postgame.

948
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There's gonna be no Friday Live. I have to go

949
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out of town. So Adam, maybe you'll do one on

950
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Clippers Talk. There's gonna be a postgame pod on Tuesday,

951
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full app on Wednesday to talk about the Lakers showdown.

952
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Excuse me, postgame live on Tuesday, full episode on Wednesday

953
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to talk the Lakers showdown. Then will where can these

954
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people voice their very valued opinion on this show or

955
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kind of anything? I guess yeah.

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Speaker 3: You can voice your opinions overheat, Apple podcasts or Spotify

957
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wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to show.

958
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You can also, of course, voice your opinions on every

959
00:53:34,199 --> 00:53:36,159
single episode that's over at YouTube dot com slash at

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Clippers podcast. That's where you can subscribe. You notified to

961
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find out when we're going live, when we're doing different stuff.

962
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But however you listen, however you watch, you know we

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appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: We really do. Our last five star reviews said just

965
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the heads up, the ads seem a little loud. I

966
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had to turn them down, so thank you for that.

967
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That's why we do the ad. Warning Adam one positive

968
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thing for these Clippers fans as we head into kind

969
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of a weird East Coast trip.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think is gonna be an All Star.

971
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I think that's pretty secure right now, feeling pretty strongly

972
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about that. Everybody is, uh, you know, I was watching

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Kevin O'Connor. Is it such an NBA world? Remember a

974
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couple of years ago where he was like, you know,

975
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Daniel Turous kind of showing who was he talking about?

976
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Who is the backup center for the Clippers of that young?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god? Young?

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Speaker 2: Like he had been watching the Clippers a lot, even

979
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though what he said proved he had not been watching

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the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: I remember exactly. Yeah, he called him an up and

982
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coming center, and every Clippers fan was like, what the

983
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fuck are you talking? So as I look at my Daniel.

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Speaker 2: Card today and I get it he has to cover

985
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a lot of teams, but like, you ain't gotta fake

986
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the fun like this, well, I think he does it

987
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for Yahoo and the stuff that he was saying about Yanick.

988
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I thought I was high on Yanick. He had been

989
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talking about Yanick because of the game last night was

990
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probably one of the few games he's seen the last

991
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couple of weeks from the Clippers, and the rest is

992
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just narrative and Kawhi is playing really well, but he

993
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hasn't actually watched that many games. He'd been acting like

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Yannick is playing every night and getting sixteen every night.

995
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What did he say, my guy, my guy, slow your

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role a little bit. He was talking about him being

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Harden's clinck Capella now and it's like he hasn't even

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been in the rotation consistently at all. I know he

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has had two sixteen point games in the last what

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is this six games in between? There six points, zero

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points in six minutes, two minutes, two minutes. Like he's

1002
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not he's not consistently in the rotation. It won't be

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at all but beats the Zoobos is back most likely. Look,

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I'm high on Yonick, Don't get me wrong. I think

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he has a very bright future. But he's already acting

1006
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like that. He's getting a consistent twenty five at night,

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just because last night he was seven of seven.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, not everyone one's a cyber truck is

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a genius. I guess.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's ut familiar with this game.

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Speaker 1: He's such a dork. I'm high on Yonick too. We're

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all high on Yonick and we know what. We don't

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need help, all right. We will be back next week

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with the postgame live on Tuesday. Hope everyone has a

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great weekend. Thank you for hanging out, and as always,

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let's go clear.