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

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week Game one Clippers versus Nuggets preview. We're just kind

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of hanging out. It is happy I were welcome to

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Clips and Dip. I am Chuck Mockler at. William Upbak's

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probably gonna be on, I believe Adam Oslin. We got

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a couple other people who are gonna come hang out

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and talk Game one against the Nuggets as well. If

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you want to watch us, you can find us at

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I'm gonna put this up on the pod channels later.

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If you want to find us on YouTube, it's YouTube

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dot com Slash at Clippers Podcast. Come hang out. It's

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a fun way to experience the pod. Oh my god,

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William Updyke, oh look at this? And Justin Russo were

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you guys?

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Speaker 2: Ay?

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Speaker 1: Wait, are you guys in the same house.

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Speaker 3: He's right over there, just hanging just hanging out.

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Speaker 1: Welcome justin. Thank you for coming through. Will obviously always

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good to see you on the pod. Should we start

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with the good news that Nick Patum is dunking and

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photographs for the Clippers the matchup?

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Speaker 2: How big is this? The explosive box jumps.

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Speaker 1: Of Nick pat Yeah, these are explosive, real jumps.

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Speaker 3: These are the mythical French French leaping jumps that we've

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often heard of.

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Speaker 1: What's the French word for explosive? That probably has to

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be something beautiful that they say.

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Speaker 3: Justin No, I'm only French Canadian, I'm not full French.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I think the Batum thing's a good

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thing to start with though, because we really saw how

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discombobulated this Clippers bench becomes without Nick Patum really right, like,

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so it's kind of night and day what this second

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unit can look like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, quite different to kind of what they

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would expect and what you would expect the bench to

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end up looking like. Without Nico, things get a little, uh,

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you know, guys get overextended in ways that you don't

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want and in a playoff situation, that can lead to

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a lot of problems.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we saw them, Tyler. You talked about it today

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how they told Ben Simmons they did have to remind

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him to shoot the ball. Well, you're a pretty you're

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pretty high on Ben Simmons in this series. How how

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do you feel about him as the backup five?

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Speaker 2: Loving it?

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Speaker 4: I also like that he's uh, they're using him as

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yo kic practice perfect calm, one of one. So yeah,

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I'm happy about it. No, I mean he did not

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look good the last last couple of games he's had,

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like he's had only a handful of good addings.

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Speaker 2: So it's worrisome.

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Speaker 4: But Nick Button kind of is the glue that can

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hold together some of these less her lineups.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see, we'll see what was what was.

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Speaker 3: The Yokish alternative for the Drew U Banks shock of

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Trout Dell just running, just just holding the ball like

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water polo and making making.

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Speaker 1: Reads The Australian still okay, get stills he played point

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that's the perfect Uh yeah, shout out to the Australian sensation,

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Drew you Banks.

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Speaker 3: Who was not Australian but should be at this point.

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Speaker 1: I'm not the only one who thought that. Uh we

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got Joseph I Award coming in.

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Speaker 5: He Hi, guys, hold on.

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Speaker 6: Of course I joined before connecting my headphones, so give

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me a second.

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Speaker 1: All right, no worries, we'll hide you. Uh oh wait

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does he get to go? Are you good?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 5: But that's fine, We're good.

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Speaker 1: We were just talking about Ben Simmons and how he

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really is the most important part of this series. Disagree

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Speaker 7: Uh yeah, I mean he can't suck?

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Speaker 2: You know that would be good?

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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, if he If he continues to suck, we

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got we got big issues. But if Nico is healthy,

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I will say it hides a lot of the ben

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Speaker 1: He was healthy. He was dunking today in practice per

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what I assume are real photographs. Let's hope.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Anything could be AI generating.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see. I guess, Joseph. Since we have you,

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it's such a rarity to have you on the pod.

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What's your prediction for this series? Who's winning? And in

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how many games?

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Speaker 5: Clippers and six?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I like that, Russo what are you at?

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Speaker 3: I haven't made an official prediction yet.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, you're holding out breath.

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Speaker 1: You're waiting until game four.

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Speaker 3: I went until the end, so I'm never wrong. Like,

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who saw this company from the outset?

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Speaker 7: You know? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Well, are you going clips and six? It's a pretty

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popular pick among Clippers fans. There's like a humbleness to

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saying clips and six.

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Speaker 4: I think yeah, I think clips and six makes sense.

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It could change depending on how high I am after

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But six six seems reasonable.

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Speaker 1: Six. It feels like the Nuggets are very good. They

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have Nikola Jokic. It's not going to like we know

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what's gonna happen. There Zu's a good defender against Jokic,

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but it's still Jokic. There's gonna be at least two

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triple doubles from Yokic in this series. I think that's it. Yeah, Well,

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they're winning in six, so it has to be too.

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Speaker 3: I mean if there's if there's two, they might win

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in four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, they just got to it. It's

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the whole thing, right, it's you. It's the same problem

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we had with Luca. Do you let him try and

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score one hundred and fifty points? Which I think they

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should probably do with Yokic, right, like they got to

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I don't know, Russo, what do you think the Clippers

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with their soft switching that everyone dislikes.

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Speaker 3: They got asked about this over the last two days

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of practice, basically like would you rather Yokic be a

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passer or a shooter? And their whole thing is like, well,

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it doesn't really matter. You just can't let them do

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both and so which I think you have to let

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Yokic dictate what he wants to be at the outset

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of the game and then just kind of just let

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him be just that and then try not to give

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him anything else. It's a lot easier said than done.

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Let's be realistic, Mike. It's like, oh, can you stop

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the guy who was top three and assists from getting

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tennisists a game and also scoring thirty points. It's like, yeah,

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if it was easy, he wouldn't have done it, Like

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the teams would have held him down all years, So

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you know, it's tough. There's other factors, like some of

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his assists. I looked it up the other night. The

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top three assist duos in the league are in this

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series James and Zoo the league with over two hundred

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assists from James to Zoo, and then the second and

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third highest ones I believe were Jokic to Christian Brown

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and Jokic to Michael Porter Junior. So as long as

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you can kind of curtail one of those, I like

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their chances on a game by game basis. You can't

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let him get everyone else involved. You can let him

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get Michael Porter Junior involved. You can't let him get

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Christian Brown and vice versa.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, also, I also.

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Speaker 3: Don't think people realize like Christian Brown led the NBA

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in fast break points this year.

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Speaker 1: Holy shit.

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Speaker 3: Really yeah, he ended a streak of five straight seasons

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that Giannis led the league.

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Speaker 1: That's insane. All right, well, that's disconcerting.

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Speaker 3: But that's Jokic had the hit aheads where he would

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hit Christian Brown on the outlets, and Christian Brown led

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like all guards and dunks this year. So yeah, like

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you just got mix. Sure, And that was a couple

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of questions I asked Ty, and I asked Norman Powell

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Christian Brown specifically out of transition, And the whole answer

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is just, well, you just don't turn the ball over.

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to that question, Ty today said that it was the

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first thing jeff Ian Gundy went over yesterday, that it

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was just get back. You can't lollygag. And the phrase

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that he used was buddy walk and basically like you're

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just trotting along with your buddy going down the street together.

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He's like, you got to actually run back, so Hey,

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they've talked about it. They even have a phrase, so

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I get to use that if Christian Brown gets out

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of transition and Doug so I get to say, well,

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they got caught buddy walking.

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Speaker 1: The buddy walk is good that that's being adopted by

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this podcast immediately. What are you thinking about M's comment here,

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more of a pick and roll series, less Iso ball,

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make Jokic work every possession.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that's the idea.

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Speaker 4: I think though, like it's still gonna turn into iceo

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Speaker 2: Not that that's bad.

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Speaker 4: I think that you know, you're gonna you're gonna mismatch

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hunt and you're gonna put your the ball in whoever

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has the hot hand and your best guy, uh and

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sort of hope for the best. I mean, that's sort

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of what some of these series that are a little

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bit more evenly master gonna come down to. And I'm

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liking the Clippers in that scenario with you know, the

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way the Kaui has looked, especially as of late. Obviously

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we also a hard and date in that Warriors game,

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so I'm feeling good about it. Like, but if you're

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expecting like a different offense. It ain't gonna happen.

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Speaker 8: New wrinkles.

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Speaker 1: That's what it's all about, is these new wrinkles. Joseph

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kind of to this pick and roll point, the third

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best Nuggets defender is gonna be on Norm, which feels

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pretty good to me. What are you flicking for from

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just get it together a little bit.

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Speaker 6: I mean, obviously I would love to have early Sea

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Norm show up in this series, because if the Clippers

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have early season Norm, they're a contender, Like they're a

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real contender. However, I'll take something in the middle from

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six man Norm to early season Norm, like hit open shots,

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be able to attack whoever it is it's in front

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of them. Off the dribble, don't try to dribble sideways.

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to go side to side with your dribble ever. Again,

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just straight line drive to the basket and I'll be happy.

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I mean, really kind of to the point everybody's saying,

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this series is going to come down to whether or

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not the Clippers force the Nuggets to make the tough

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decisions that they should be forced to make The Nuggets

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have a lot of imbalanced players and not a lot

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of complete players in terms of they can either do

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one side of the ball or the other, and they

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need to sort of put the pressure on the Nuggets

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to choose who they want to have on the floor

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and win, and the Clippers need to exploit those weaknesses

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on either end whenever it's possible.

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Speaker 1: Thankfully, they have a new GM soon, so they maybe

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they can get some more complete players in the next

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couple of seasons.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but no draft picks. Yeah, they have no draft

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picks in this upcoming draft, so damn whatever.

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Speaker 1: Well they could, they'll buy us. How much the second

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round picks cost two hundred thousand dollars?

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Speaker 3: It depends if you're over the Apron.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right, man, Apron ruined everything, can you Kenny?

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Honest owner? Can't even buy a second round pick?

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Speaker 3: And happen the way, By the way, hold on a second,

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I know this is a Clippers podcast, Joseph, How about

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Arsenal today, Buddy, what.

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Speaker 1: The hell you gonna get that?

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Speaker 3: God up the gunners, baby, What a great sports day.

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Speaker 5: This was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: They beat Real Madrid, right, they.

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Speaker 3: Killed the devil twice?

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Speaker 5: They did like like, like it's incredible.

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Speaker 1: They killed the devil. I think some Clippers fans might

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see this series as possibly killing the devil after what happened.

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Speaker 5: It would exercise some demons.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I asked U Zoo and ty Uh yesterday if

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like I I preface it obviously, like I know, it's

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been five years, and like a lot has changed. None

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of the head coaches, neither of the head coaches from

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that series or even there anymore. And actually the two

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head coaches, the two head coaches in this in that

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in the series now we're both on the bench for

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each team in that series as well. And I was, like,

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the two centers are left obviously, or technically the two

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superstars in terms of Yokichen Kawhi. Then on the Nuggets side,

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it's still Jamal Mary and Michael Porter Junior the holdovers

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for the Clippers. Besides Kawhi, it's Beats the zoobots. And

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I know people are gonna laugh, but a mere coffee

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still here, so you know that counts. And essentially, like

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a lot has changed. And then they said, like there's

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nothing you could take, but I do find it kind

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of somewhat uh ironic in a sense or maybe fate

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that their first post PG series involved trying to get

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some revenge from five years ago in the first series,

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you know, in their first deep playoff run with him.

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So who knows. Maybe if there's a basketball god, maybe

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it'll shine favorably on the Clippers in terms of revenge.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I'm not banking on the basketball

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gods very friendly to the Clippers because if they revenge,

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if they avenge this bubble loss, then we get to

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play the Nuggets or not the Nuggets, sorry, the Thunder

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in the second round, which.

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Speaker 3: Listen, you're just running through all your biggest haters.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And that's a very good point. What, Joseph, what

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else are you looking for in Game one specifically, because

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I know people say it's like a feel out game.

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There's all that stuff because the Nuggets haven't seen Kawhi

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this year at all. Yeah, which I think is fun.

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I think that helps the Clippers. Yeah, I mean, it's

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just just body blows. Basically, it's just gonna be gross.

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Good playoff basketball you're not respecting.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I hope there are literal body blows

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to Jokic's body, Like I really want to beat him up.

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I do you got five five years ago, That's what

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I'm saying. Five years ago, I just wanted Yoki Noah

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to punch him in the Sternham one time.

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Speaker 5: That's all he had to do. We would have won

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the series.

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Speaker 6: It didn't happen, Okay, I'm honestly, I mean, stop me

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if you've heard this before.

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Speaker 5: I'm very curious how much Russ Denver plays.

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Speaker 6: I know Adalman has been more quick to give him

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a hook in his coaching, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, resume so far, but.

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Speaker 6: I'm I'm very curious to see what the Russ experience

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looks like, especially against the Clippers, who I'm sure he

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is trying to prove a point against. And I think

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that the more Russ is in this series, the better

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the Clippers chances are.

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Speaker 1: I think, Chad, if you disagree with that, but I

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will say there's a flip side to that too, because

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will correct me if I'm wrong here. There's going to

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be a bad Rust game, There's gonna be a good

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Rust game, There's gonna be a Russ game. It's just happened.

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Speaker 4: I think, if that's what you're worried about, like things

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have gone a lot of things have gone very wrong

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in that game.

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Speaker 1: Like that's that should be such a that should be such.

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Speaker 4: A non factor. I'm not worried about it. We're Yeah,

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it's either a garbage time or we have done We've

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made some terrible mistakes.

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Speaker 6: Or a really positive thing, because if Russ is having

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a good game, that probably means Jokic never touches the

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ball because Russ is running from end to end, grabbing

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the ball and just getting shots up.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna ask, does anyone know what Russ and

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Jokic's numbers are together? I have to be pretty good because.

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Speaker 3: In terms of what theirn.

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Speaker 6: When I checked because I'm a sickoh, they were the

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lowest amongst players who have played at least two hundred

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minutes with yok So Russ was still a positive. It

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was like plus six, but everybody else was double digits

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and net above that.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I know, stepher the probably like the first

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half of the season, they were actually a massive positive together,

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and then there was like a shift that ended up happening.

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I don't remember. I honestly, I do not know what

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the shift was that caused.

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Speaker 8: It, but yeah, there was rest played more.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I mean.

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Speaker 4: There's always the bump when he gets to a new

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team and it's gonna be a whole new thing and

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he's buying into his role, and then it.

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Speaker 6: Just no, it's it's okay, all right, Russ, you're gonna

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play eighteen minutes. Oh, those eighteen minutes went well. What

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if we tried more minutes and then it just doesn't

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go well because the more chances he gets, the more

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shots he's going to miss, the more turnovers he's going

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to have, the more fouls he's going to commit.

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Speaker 3: I will say, over the course of a season, thirteen

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hundred minutes, there were still plus eight in net rating

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with them both together, which I mean went back up Jokic.

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But also you know, I mean I don't think there's

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a bad Yolkic lineup essentially.

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Speaker 1: Right, that's totally fair. He made he makes he helps

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Rust look good in this scenario too, right, there's a reason.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And also Rust to Yokic is one of the

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top assist pairings in the NBA this year as well,

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a non a non thing you end up looking through

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this year and Jokic not to get like to the

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x's and most part of it too much. But Jokic,

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Jokic has done a good job when Russ initiates on

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the wing of kind of showing at the elbow and

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then spinning out to the paint and Russ will find

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him diving because like defenses have gotten so used to

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Yolkic is always coming up to get the ball from

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like whoever has the ball in the wing that they've

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kind of leveraged that into Yokic getting easy baskets by

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just rolling. And to that point, Westbrook to Yokic is

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was tied for the fourth highest as siscomo in the

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league this year. Wow, so yeah, like it's not like

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these are these are nothing.

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Speaker 1: So they have two, three and four for the most.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well the duo that they're tied with for fourth is

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Halliburton to siakam So and actually Halliburton also is up

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there with the sixth highest to Miles Turner.

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Speaker 1: Damn. That's crazy. Yeah, we got some questions. I mean, right, yeah,

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we all want us to play more. I think that

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we've obviously seen playoff for us be playoff for us

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for the Clippers. The people who wanted him to run

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the show got what they wanted and it got canceled.

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We're getting a lot of questions about Bogie. In the chat,

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someone's saying and thank.

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Speaker 8: John, uh r John.

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Speaker 1: Are okay, thank you? Russo. I watched happy that Adam

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oslind is not here because he would have the gun

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out right now. Because Jonna is asking, how do we

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see Bogie's offense in defense being a factor? I think

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we know the offensive thing right. He can do a

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little bit of everything. He can hit open threes, he

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can run the pick and roll, which will be huge defensively.

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Are we making too big a deal about the fact

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that he is bad at defense? I will open it

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up to the floor for a spirited debate.

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Speaker 8: Will will looks like the second video is he?

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's like probably one of the biggest sufferers

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from Nico being out because I feel like, again, that's

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someone who covers up and that makes those lineups a

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lot better and that like, I mean I know that

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we all, we all, we all watched the tape. It

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was all over of like him getting hitting, him getting

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hunted in that Golden State game, and like it's gonna

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happen against It's gonna happen against any bigger opponent of course,

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Like it's not if and once again, if that's what's happening,

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if if the Nuggets are able to funnel their offense

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through Bogie, Yeah, those minutes are probably going to go

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really poorly for us. So let's hope that those are

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minutes that Yokich isn't on the floor and we can

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kind of keep pace with it. I Like, I don't

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know what to say about him as a defender. He

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has he has his issues, but I think that the

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lineups that you put around him are more like what

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mitigates it, not his individual defense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think that's wrong. Like that's a good

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point actually, Like it's a lot easier to play defense

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if the players around you are better at defense essentially.

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Speaker 4: So it's not I feel like we talk about defense

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sometimes like it's like this one on one thing and

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like that's only one scenario defensively, that's really only one

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part of the events that's not Bogie verse five, Like

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it's it ideally isn't even Bogie versus the ball handler

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in most situations.

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Speaker 1: But also like I think Bogie would be better verse

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five people than just verse one guy.

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Speaker 5: You're you're not wrong. I just can we can we

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stop boiling.

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Speaker 6: Down a guy's entire like profile on one side of

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the ball because Jimmy Butler put his shoulder into his

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chest a couple of times, Like, yeah, Jimmy Butler moves dudes.

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Speaker 8: That's what he does.

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Speaker 6: Lebron, Yeah, that's what he does. Lebron is six foot eight,

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three five pounds. I think all four of us together

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would go as far back as Bogie did. If he

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put it, I would evaporate. If Lebron James put his

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shoulder into my chest, that would be it.

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Speaker 5: I'll be gone.

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Speaker 1: And that's a charge. If you evaporate, that's a charge.

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Speaker 6: I'm still getting the block calls.

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Speaker 8: Oh it's him, he's all.

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Speaker 6: He's not actually calling a block, He's just trying to

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get me off of his shirts.

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Speaker 3: Would Bill Kennedy have to replay review.

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Speaker 8: That he would love?

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Speaker 1: Would he would? He would call for the review of

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the I'm actually calling for this review. So yeah, the

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Batum thing, well, the Batum thing is such a good

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call because like, the whole bench looks bad without Nick

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Batuu And I don't even think that's that much of

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an exaggeration, Like he is a he's the epitome of

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a floor razer. He doesn't make stupid mistakes, he hits

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open shots, he plays good defense. So the bogie deep.

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I mean, it's we just have to win the non

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yokech minutes, right Like, that's the Clippers absolutely have the

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personnel to win the non Yokic minutes. So the bench

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is better on the Clippers side, especially with a fully

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healthy bench.

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Speaker 3: The problem is that's been a problem for the Clippers,

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is winning the non Yokic minutes over there, For some reason,

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Jokic leaves the game and it's like, I don't know

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who regarding right, like, what do we do? And we

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see this Actually it's happened before the playing the game

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against Minnesota a couple of years ago. They had a

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great had a great game plan against Karl Anthony Towns.

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It works so well that Karl Anthony Town's got a

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defould trouble, had to leave the court, sat on the bench,

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and the Clippers just went, I don't know know, that.

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Speaker 5: Was our whole game plan. What do we do now?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And then and then actually the other night they won

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the Steph Curry minutes and got blown out in the

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non Curry minutes and it was just so confusing to

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watch where you're just like, yeah, we played really well

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with the star was on the floor, they took them off,

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They're like, I don't know what I'm doing now, Like

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who would they just bring in? Maybe like Moses Moody's

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in the game? Who the hell is that guy?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean really, it kind of comes down to, like,

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is Jamal Murray gonna be able to flame the bench

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like Jimmy Butler did? Right, So Jimmy just took over

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the game in those non Steff minutes and the bench

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was bad and we had a mirror coming back from

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an extended layoff, and you know, the bench just wasn't

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what it should have been.

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Speaker 5: And so it just all comes down to is.

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Speaker 6: Jamal Murray gonna look like Games five, six, and seven

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in Jamal Murray against the Clippers? Or is he going

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00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,400
to look like games one, two, three, and four where

473
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,880
he took a lap in the hallway because the defense

474
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,519
was so good he didn't know what to do.

475
00:24:09,519 --> 00:24:09,880
Speaker 5: Do we not?

476
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 6: Do we not remember that actually from the bubble where

477
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,440
there was a shot of Jamal Murray with his hands

478
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,319
on his hips in the tunnel going, I don't know

479
00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:19,759
how to do like, I can't do this.

480
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,519
Speaker 3: I have a deep Nico cut from Clippers lore that

481
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,319
I like. In terms of a comparison for this team,

482
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,039
I think he's this team's Hito Turklu.

483
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:36,599
Speaker 6: Oh yeahids because hopefully he is taking steroids and his

484
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:37,880
healthy A playoffs.

485
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 8: I don't think I remember.

486
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,640
Speaker 3: I don't know if I remember that that twenty fourteen

487
00:24:42,759 --> 00:24:47,480
second round series against Oka se Yeh. They lost that series.

488
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,559
I mean, part they blew that series. Let's be realistic,

489
00:24:49,599 --> 00:24:50,359
because they should.

490
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:51,279
Speaker 5: Have Chris Paul blew that series.

491
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of things happen. We just don't talk

492
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:58,920
about that series. But they lost Hito Turklu just before

493
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,319
that series, and he was a big bench piece for them.

494
00:25:03,599 --> 00:25:07,240
And I don't really know if people remember how good

495
00:25:07,319 --> 00:25:07,880
Hito was.

496
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:08,799
Speaker 1: Bro shot.

497
00:25:09,319 --> 00:25:12,880
Speaker 3: He shot like forty four from three, only took threes

498
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,079
and was like their one switchable bench wing defender. And

499
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,039
I kind of I mean, now, granted, you have Derek

500
00:25:20,079 --> 00:25:23,240
Jones Junior now, so I get you have another switchable

501
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,759
wing defender, but he reminds me of like that long

502
00:25:25,799 --> 00:25:29,279
in the tooth, knows exactly what he's out there to do,

503
00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:31,839
doesn't make mistakes. Guy and kind of blues everything and

504
00:25:31,839 --> 00:25:34,839
then you take him out, like everyone just falls apart.

505
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Nico's gonna have other than the big

506
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,279
three of Zuo, Harden, and Kawhi. Nico's gonna have the

507
00:25:41,279 --> 00:25:46,920
best plus minus in this series hopefully. Like yeah, yeah,

508
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,480
I like this question from this point from Jonathan Ang

509
00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:53,519
talking about the only action that they're worried about, and

510
00:25:53,559 --> 00:25:55,880
props to Dime Dropper for pointing it out is the

511
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,279
Murray Yokic pick and pop that pulls Zoo out on

512
00:25:58,319 --> 00:26:02,519
the perimeter because we have seen that action, not specifically

513
00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:05,799
from the Nuggets. The Clippers have been kind of burned

514
00:26:05,839 --> 00:26:08,720
on backdoor cuts this year. That's weirdly been a theme

515
00:26:09,559 --> 00:26:11,559
of the Clipper especially when it comes to lesser Repponents

516
00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:13,000
were like, why the fuck are they getting back to

517
00:26:13,079 --> 00:26:15,079
a cut so much? Will do we just gotta help

518
00:26:15,319 --> 00:26:18,519
the hope the focuses up and that, Like, I really

519
00:26:18,559 --> 00:26:19,680
know what you know what I mean?

520
00:26:20,799 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean if they're getting back to or cut

521
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,640
and the Nuggets are scoring a ton of transition, that's

522
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:26,240
gonna be rough.

523
00:26:26,279 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 2: We're gonna lose.

524
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 5: So yeah, I hope, So they they have to I

525
00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:36,200
mean Jeff Van Gundy all all week just has to

526
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,279
have a picture of Aaron Gordon.

527
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 6: Circled with the giant red marker, just being like, look

528
00:26:42,319 --> 00:26:45,079
for this guy. He's gonna cut like you're gonna be

529
00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:48,160
paying attention to Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic and this

530
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,119
guy is gonna run to the basket.

531
00:26:50,279 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 5: Trip him, elbow him, bite him. I don't care. Don't

532
00:26:54,039 --> 00:26:55,599
let him gets wait.

533
00:26:55,759 --> 00:26:58,559
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to play any team that you're coaching.

534
00:26:58,839 --> 00:27:02,359
You have advocated for physical violence.

535
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 6: I almost said stab him, but I decided that was

536
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:06,240
a little too far.

537
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 1: The yeah, I mean, okay, well, I'm glad you showed

538
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:10,240
some restraint.

539
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 3: The two biggest guys beyond like obviously Aaron Gordon's the

540
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,599
big one, MPJ has become a very good cutter, and

541
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,440
the biggest guy for them to worry about in that

542
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,799
department is actually Christian Brown, ironically because you don't really

543
00:27:24,799 --> 00:27:26,799
think of him, but he's had a really good job,

544
00:27:27,039 --> 00:27:30,359
done a really good job all year of when his defender,

545
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,799
specifically when he's on the wing, when his defender turns

546
00:27:33,839 --> 00:27:37,240
to watch Yolk with the ball, he just straight up

547
00:27:37,279 --> 00:27:40,680
cuts behind them and they never see him. And that's

548
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,640
a big problem going back to the original pick and

549
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:48,039
roll point too, Like Denver runs wedge pick and rolls

550
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,480
on the wing late in games with Jokic and Murray.

551
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,640
They haven't done it as much this year as past years,

552
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,119
but it's also like one of the greatest points per

553
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,559
possession based sequences in the NBA lat in games, their

554
00:28:01,559 --> 00:28:04,480
wedge pick and roll is incredible, and it just stretches

555
00:28:04,519 --> 00:28:07,759
and stresses defenses out because there's like no great answer

556
00:28:07,799 --> 00:28:10,480
to it, and you have to like send so much help,

557
00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:12,960
like pre help to make sure that you just don't

558
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,799
get killed, and it usually doesn't matter. But I also

559
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:22,400
wonder if the biggest adjustment is just just let Yoka

560
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:27,319
shoot threes. Incredible shooter. Incredible shooter, like top five shooter

561
00:28:27,319 --> 00:28:30,759
in the league most likely, And I'm just like, what

562
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,960
if you just let him shoot threes? And I don't

563
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,519
think that's the worst game plan because Yoka's with the

564
00:28:37,519 --> 00:28:39,960
ball in the post kind of reminds you of Lebron

565
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,000
in the post from the Miami and when he went

566
00:28:42,039 --> 00:28:44,759
back to Cleveland, it's like that's just the guy you

567
00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:47,720
don't want to deal with, and everyone else is just

568
00:28:47,839 --> 00:28:51,319
orbiting around him like he has his own gravitational pull,

569
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,759
and that's when all the chaos and the problems starts.

570
00:28:54,759 --> 00:28:58,079
So I'm almost just do you go under the screens?

571
00:28:58,279 --> 00:29:01,960
Like it's tough. It's I don't think there's an easy answer.

572
00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:04,559
They're they're gonna have to every if you have possessions,

573
00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:07,519
we're not. Everybody's not on the same page. It's gonna

574
00:29:07,519 --> 00:29:08,279
look bad.

575
00:29:08,759 --> 00:29:11,319
Speaker 1: I mean, I to your screens point like we they

576
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,799
just don't ever like they always go under right, like

577
00:29:13,799 --> 00:29:17,640
we've we've seen it, Like that's gonna be. They're gonna switch,

578
00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:20,839
They're gonna go under the screen like that is what

579
00:29:21,039 --> 00:29:24,359
to expect from the Clippers defense. I'm interested to see

580
00:29:24,359 --> 00:29:26,359
if I and I just I'm trying to find the

581
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:31,359
numbers on it. But a lineup of Harden, done, uh, DJJ,

582
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,880
Kawhi Zoo seems like the best option the Clippers have

583
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,599
to help against, specifically that wedge pick and roll and

584
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,319
still having some offense out there because of Harden and Kawhi.

585
00:29:44,079 --> 00:29:45,279
Speaker 3: Do they have enough shooting?

586
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:46,079
Speaker 8: No?

587
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:51,079
Speaker 1: The answer to that question is no, unless DJJ is

588
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:52,440
hitting his threes.

589
00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 3: I will say only sixty six minutes with that lineup

590
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:55,440
this year so.

591
00:29:55,559 --> 00:30:00,799
Speaker 1: Right, it's like not a lot. So I don't know

592
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:01,640
about that one.

593
00:30:02,519 --> 00:30:02,759
Speaker 9: Now.

594
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,079
Speaker 6: I know what a wedge pick and roll is, but

595
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,319
I don't think will does.

596
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 5: So do you want to explain it?

597
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:16,079
Speaker 1: You break it down for me, Joseph, you do need

598
00:30:16,119 --> 00:30:16,799
to come back.

599
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 8: Do you really?

600
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,279
Speaker 3: Do you really want me to explain to you?

601
00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:24,559
Speaker 5: Oh, you can't explain it to the people, but I

602
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:25,119
just wanted to.

603
00:30:26,359 --> 00:30:29,599
Speaker 3: Wedge pick and rolls usually start on the wing because

604
00:30:29,759 --> 00:30:31,880
the whole point of it is that you're trying to

605
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,119
set a ball screen facing the baseline if you're the center,

606
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,359
and then rolling down the seam. But there's usually a

607
00:30:40,359 --> 00:30:44,160
guard or a wing who's also involved in the action.

608
00:30:44,799 --> 00:30:47,839
That's kind of like sitting at the elbow or even

609
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,079
sometimes the nail ready to leak out, so it's it

610
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,240
just becomes like a it becomes like an actual math

611
00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:56,119
problem and you're just going to have to figure that out.

612
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:57,640
That's not always the easiest thing.

613
00:30:58,119 --> 00:31:00,119
Speaker 2: Leaky elbow, leaky nail, gotcha.

614
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. It's called like, ironically, yeah, un ironically,

615
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,519
it's called a wed roll because the big man's kind

616
00:31:09,519 --> 00:31:11,519
of wedging his way down the sea. It's kind of

617
00:31:12,279 --> 00:31:14,759
you gotta love how the way these terms come about sometimes.

618
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,839
Speaker 1: I mean, we got buddy Walk, we got the wedge

619
00:31:16,839 --> 00:31:22,160
picked roll, we have terminology. We got terminology on this pod.

620
00:31:22,599 --> 00:31:22,759
Speaker 9: Well.

621
00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 3: I mean so the one last explanation of it, though,

622
00:31:25,039 --> 00:31:28,720
is the other part of it that gets overlooked is

623
00:31:28,759 --> 00:31:32,960
the reason it's also so effective. Isn't just because of like, oh,

624
00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:36,240
picking pop stuff. Because when Yoki sets the screen, he's

625
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,319
also going to post up if there's someone there so

626
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,079
and his post up is always a mismatch at that point,

627
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,440
and that's not that's another situation you don't want to

628
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,640
get caught it. What I will say though, is in

629
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,000
doing some film work for this series, the Clippers did

630
00:31:52,079 --> 00:31:56,680
have some success, just literally just a very minor amount.

631
00:31:57,359 --> 00:31:59,720
They did have some success with Nico and Zoo together

632
00:31:59,759 --> 00:32:06,079
again where Nico actually defended Jokic and they had Zoo

633
00:32:06,319 --> 00:32:09,680
kind of I guess it's like a not a roamer,

634
00:32:09,799 --> 00:32:12,160
but just kind of ready to double. And that's two

635
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,519
long guys to double Yokic. They actually forced like a

636
00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:17,599
turnover to in those limited minutes from Yokic because you

637
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,720
would try to skip pass over the top and it

638
00:32:19,759 --> 00:32:21,480
would just get picked on the far side by like

639
00:32:21,559 --> 00:32:23,839
Chris Dunn. So that's kind of like one of the

640
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,079
things that you can end up doing if if if

641
00:32:26,079 --> 00:32:29,839
you want to play Nico in non bench lineups, well.

642
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: The Clippers too, like Will, right, Like we have kind

643
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,359
of good like free safety guards on this team, like

644
00:32:36,759 --> 00:32:39,599
Jun has done, and Norm has been proven to be

645
00:32:39,759 --> 00:32:44,920
good at free safety stuff specifically, Yeah yeah.

646
00:32:48,119 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 5: From Will Yeah yeah, Chris Duble, I loose you.

647
00:32:55,799 --> 00:32:57,839
Speaker 8: He's a good free safety.

648
00:32:59,039 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 4: Justin do you think that we can see any changes

649
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,559
with I mean, I feel like the three of obviously

650
00:33:04,839 --> 00:33:08,839
Kawhi Harden seems like done in Zoo is set. Do

651
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:14,240
you think we could see like or sorry, Norm is set?

652
00:33:14,279 --> 00:33:16,519
Do you think instead of done we could see or

653
00:33:16,559 --> 00:33:18,880
I guess instead of in Norm too, we could see

654
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,759
DJJ or uh Nico enter the starting lineup or be

655
00:33:22,839 --> 00:33:24,799
more used more heavily in a closing lineup.

656
00:33:25,599 --> 00:33:28,359
Speaker 3: That's a I wouldn't rule anything out. I just don't

657
00:33:28,359 --> 00:33:30,240
think you see him. If there is anything that happens,

658
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,039
you wouldn't see until maybe Game three.

659
00:33:32,799 --> 00:33:35,279
Speaker 1: And we'd be down two games, right yeah.

660
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 3: And you're just trying new stuff out, and even at

661
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:38,839
that point, I don't even think you take Norm out

662
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:43,519
because his offense. Like I actually talked about this with

663
00:33:43,559 --> 00:33:44,799
Adam the other night.

664
00:33:45,519 --> 00:33:47,599
Speaker 4: Because Adam is of the opinion that we could see

665
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,880
Negos start in this, which I mean.

666
00:33:50,039 --> 00:33:53,359
Speaker 3: He could, but I don't. You're not starting him right away?

667
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just no.

668
00:33:56,359 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, was this in the in and outline?

669
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,319
Speaker 1: Is that where you were, Oh my god, we got five?

670
00:34:02,359 --> 00:34:08,760
Can this even support five people at once? We were

671
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,639
just talking. We were just talking starting lineup changes.

672
00:34:13,519 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 7: So is Nico batum in? Is that what we're talking

673
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,480
about game one? I'm all for it.

674
00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 4: Actually, things have been going so well.

675
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 7: Nico bom is taken over. If they get down on two.

676
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we can all pretty much agree on

677
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:37,039
that for sure.

678
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 5: Damn well we solve that problem. Good job, everybody. Great

679
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,960
discussion about the start.

680
00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 3: What if we're just the starting five that they need?

681
00:34:50,079 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 8: Okay, well we're losing.

682
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: I think we're losing some of those minutes.

683
00:34:53,519 --> 00:34:55,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we could just go out there and bore

684
00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:56,320
them to death by just talking.

685
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 5: I was hooping on Monday, That's all I'm gonna say.

686
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:06,079
Speaker 1: I was We're that high school that. Yeah, that's what

687
00:35:06,119 --> 00:35:11,519
this lineup needs. Joseph pocket passes that refused to shoot

688
00:35:11,559 --> 00:35:13,599
the ball, and like Illinois or whatever a couple of

689
00:35:13,639 --> 00:35:17,679
weeks ago, they just held the ball. All right, Adam,

690
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,440
we've all pretty well. Justin Rousseau has not revealed his

691
00:35:23,159 --> 00:35:26,719
his series picked yet. He's waiting, he said until game four,

692
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:27,880
which I think is really late.

693
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 3: Do you actually want my pick?

694
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:40,760
Speaker 6: Of course, put it behind the paywall.

695
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,039
Speaker 3: It later. I I'm trying not to be too optimistic,

696
00:35:45,519 --> 00:35:48,719
and I do think I'm too close to them on

697
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,280
a day to day basis to where like I can

698
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,159
get optimistic about the things that I see and hear

699
00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:58,480
them say. And I do think Denver is a lot

700
00:35:58,519 --> 00:36:01,079
more underrated than they should be in this series, just

701
00:36:01,119 --> 00:36:04,119
because there is the factor that if you've watched them

702
00:36:04,159 --> 00:36:08,199
since Michael Malone left, they have played a little bit freer.

703
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:14,679
Guys left they said, beat it, buddy.

704
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 1: You know, I left a couple of jobs.

705
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,559
Speaker 3: But you know, they they look different in terms of

706
00:36:23,599 --> 00:36:25,480
like it almost was like they got their mojo back

707
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,039
from what you would expect them to look like. So

708
00:36:28,039 --> 00:36:29,199
I don't want to stay here and sull like I'm

709
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:29,719
underrated them.

710
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:30,079
Speaker 1: They are.

711
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 3: They could easily win this series in six games seven games,

712
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,800
five games, even who the hell knows? It's the NBA,

713
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:38,960
and I'm just saying it's the NBA. You never know.

714
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,239
But I'm I'm picking the Clippers in five.

715
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 2: Let's go.

716
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 8: And that's more optimistic than I was.

717
00:36:55,119 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 3: Okay, I will preface this by saying the last time

718
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,239
I picked the CERs and five over the Nuggets, it

719
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,800
looked very great up until the fourth quarter of Game five,

720
00:37:05,559 --> 00:37:07,599
and that it went off the rails.

721
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: I don't like that.

722
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 6: Women and children clapping in the stands and there was

723
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,480
justin like, yes, I did it, I did it.

724
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:22,639
Speaker 3: Manifested it then yeah, but I I don't think so.

725
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,519
The reason for this is the reason I feel that way,

726
00:37:25,599 --> 00:37:31,119
is because I think the Clippers have more problems to

727
00:37:31,199 --> 00:37:35,320
present to the Nuggets than vice versa on an individual basis.

728
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,400
I don't know. Defensively, I mean, maybe the Nuggets just

729
00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:41,800
show up with the defense that we haven't seen all

730
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,039
year and it's like, oh, where was this for the

731
00:37:44,079 --> 00:37:48,320
other seventy nine games of the regular season. But I

732
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,880
just think there's too many pressure points on Denver's defense.

733
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,000
And the only thing I keep going back to is

734
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,159
as long as the Clippers don't get killed in transition.

735
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,679
I think they should be Okay, now that's a big

736
00:38:00,679 --> 00:38:04,199
deal because they have been turnover prone the Nuggets. You know,

737
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,119
yok For as much as we want to talk about,

738
00:38:07,519 --> 00:38:09,519
his defense isn't great. He gets a lot of steels.

739
00:38:10,119 --> 00:38:14,559
He does have great hands down low tremendous guy who

740
00:38:14,679 --> 00:38:18,000
kicks the ball. Apparently every you know, like two kickballs

741
00:38:18,039 --> 00:38:22,280
per game or whatever that lady got, which, by the way,

742
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,440
on my soapbox, I will rant that should be a

743
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,960
technical foul. I'm just gonna leave it at that, like

744
00:38:29,039 --> 00:38:31,559
defensive three seconds. It should be like a defensive three seconds, teck,

745
00:38:31,639 --> 00:38:34,920
like a team tech. Every kickball if it's intentional and

746
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:40,440
you know, deliberate, Yeah, a deliberate, intentional kickball, Like I like.

747
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:41,199
Speaker 1: The whimsy of it.

748
00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 6: Unless it goes into the other team's basket, then it's

749
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:44,880
a three.

750
00:38:45,199 --> 00:38:46,599
Speaker 5: If you kick it all the way.

751
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 3: I should be like the five pointer, like you should

752
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:51,239
just win the game.

753
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,119
Speaker 1: Like, but.

754
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,679
Speaker 5: It's the snitch. If you kick it into the.

755
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 8: Game is over.

756
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 3: I just like I said, maybe I'm too close to them,

757
00:39:02,559 --> 00:39:04,599
and I'm just like all right, I'm just wait. I've

758
00:39:04,599 --> 00:39:08,760
been drinking the kool aid. Yadayada, YadA, but they look good.

759
00:39:09,119 --> 00:39:12,280
The Clippers do, and I get it. The games inside.

760
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,840
The game in Sacramento didn't look great like they you know,

761
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,000
they gutted it out the end. I don't think that's

762
00:39:18,039 --> 00:39:20,039
a bad thing. They needed those two games, I think

763
00:39:20,039 --> 00:39:24,679
before the playoffs, and I kind of just think they're ready.

764
00:39:25,039 --> 00:39:26,559
They they look ready.

765
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: They are.

766
00:39:31,639 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 3: No one is that's the problem. But I just think

767
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,760
the Clippers have a little bit more answers than the

768
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,320
Nuggets do on similar problems that could be facing each team.

769
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,320
I mean, but strangers happen. Like I said, I wouldn't

770
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,920
be shocked if you know, two weeks from now, I'm like,

771
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,320
oh my god, their Clippers are down three to one

772
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,840
and then they have to go to Denver or survive.

773
00:39:53,159 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 1: You know, damn you have a lot of horrifying and

774
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:58,760
wonderful situations.

775
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 3: Case I'm a complex person.

776
00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:05,679
Speaker 1: Truck Adam, how are you feeling? What's your what's your

777
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:10,039
series pick? Are you as optimistic as and I guess

778
00:40:10,079 --> 00:40:11,960
pessimistic as similar?

779
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:16,519
Speaker 7: So I mean there's a little darkness, a little light

780
00:40:16,559 --> 00:40:21,079
in everyone. But uh, I will say, if one team

781
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,880
was to win in five, I would guess it would

782
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,719
be the Clippers. Being able to win in five over

783
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,039
the Denver Nuggets closing this thing out in five. So

784
00:40:28,079 --> 00:40:33,480
I agree on that. I I just don't there is

785
00:40:33,519 --> 00:40:36,559
a path. There is a path where you beat up

786
00:40:36,559 --> 00:40:44,280
the Nuggets in Game one and you end up humiliating

787
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,440
them at home to the point where you break their

788
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,920
will and they feel like, well, it's just more the

789
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,360
same this season. Everything's going wrong.

790
00:40:51,519 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 5: We have no chance in this series.

791
00:40:54,239 --> 00:41:00,599
Speaker 7: That could happen, but it's more likely than not Niko

792
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,559
Jokic drawing up plays on the whiteboard at all that

793
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,519
they're probably gonna rally and they're probably gonna find a

794
00:41:07,519 --> 00:41:10,519
way to make it competitive. So I got clips in six.

795
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 3: But if the.

796
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 7: Nuggets win in six, I'd be like, yeah, they got

797
00:41:14,039 --> 00:41:15,920
the best player in the world. It could totally happen,

798
00:41:16,079 --> 00:41:18,039
So I wouldn't be shocked by anything.

799
00:41:18,599 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: And they are I think some Clippers fans make myself good.

800
00:41:22,639 --> 00:41:28,079
They are the higher seed, they have the off court advantage.

801
00:41:29,679 --> 00:41:32,599
Speaker 8: What's the technique, Oh.

802
00:41:32,519 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 2: They won more games? Whatever, it should be best.

803
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,159
Speaker 3: I will say if if people care about betting lines,

804
00:41:42,199 --> 00:41:43,880
it's an actual pick them for this series.

805
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, like open open Nuggets as the favorite.

806
00:41:50,079 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 5: Slippers.

807
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just dwindled all the way down to a

808
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:57,599
pick him at this point. But I I just I

809
00:41:58,159 --> 00:42:02,079
just I kind of just think the Clippers just beat

810
00:42:02,119 --> 00:42:04,360
him in five. I don't know why. I'm not saying

811
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,320
they're gonna blow them out in every game. Okay, Like

812
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:07,880
I don't want that to sound like what I'm saying,

813
00:42:08,599 --> 00:42:13,519
but I just think that as Adam's cat goes across

814
00:42:13,559 --> 00:42:20,719
the screens, cat.

815
00:42:18,159 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 7: Nowhere is, guys, it's just a black cats.

816
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, Justin says they're gonna win in five.

817
00:42:26,519 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 6: I don't know why a black cat just appeared out

818
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:29,480
of nowhere.

819
00:42:29,599 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, hold on really quick the other way.

820
00:42:35,559 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 3: Just but it the other way. Maybe because the cat

821
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:38,880
came across, it means it's gonna happen.

822
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, hold on, I have some salt over here.

823
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,679
Speaker 6: Throw it over your shoulder like a Continental soldier, my friend.

824
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,840
Maybe it's because the Clippers have been the best team

825
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,840
in the NBA for twenty games. Maybe that's why you

826
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,960
feel confident. Maybe it's because since March sixth, they're the

827
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,360
top team in offensive rating defensive rating. That rating, they're

828
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:09,039
fucking eighteen and three, and they've looked Really.

829
00:43:06,079 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 7: Can I ask you can I can I take the

830
00:43:09,039 --> 00:43:11,280
way down of Joseph's sales that really quick, because she's

831
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:12,280
usually the guy to do that.

832
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 3: But this show.

833
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:19,519
Speaker 7: You know, I'm not saying that this is so fluky

834
00:43:20,639 --> 00:43:22,599
and it has nothing to do with how good the

835
00:43:22,639 --> 00:43:26,440
Clippers are, but I am saying the fact that they

836
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,880
are number one and three point shooting over that span

837
00:43:29,039 --> 00:43:32,440
at forty three percent, and opponents were only shooting forty

838
00:43:32,679 --> 00:43:35,840
or thirty four percent against them, So they're literally shooting

839
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,920
ten percent higher from three over twenty one games. That

840
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,159
doesn't make me feel great. That doesn't seem very sustainable.

841
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,519
Speaker 1: Well, they did, true at the beginning of the season.

842
00:43:46,599 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, the middle.

843
00:43:49,159 --> 00:43:53,679
Speaker 7: True, they weren't shooting the worst in the league. Teams

844
00:43:53,679 --> 00:43:56,440
were shooting good against them. To have both those things

845
00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:00,000
happening at the same time now seems a little bit wild.

846
00:44:01,119 --> 00:44:04,280
Speaker 6: Or we're just really fucking good guys. Maybe that's what's

847
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:04,960
happening here.

848
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 1: Are we worried at all about that? And we haven't

849
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,840
talked about this, I don't think during this podcast yet.

850
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,199
The Nuggets average the most free throws per game in

851
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:16,320
the NBA this season.

852
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:22,199
Speaker 6: Mm hmm, I'm worried about Chris Yea. Yeah, I feel

853
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:23,159
worried about Chris Dunn.

854
00:44:24,039 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: The whistle on Chris Done is such a I don't know,

855
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:30,840
not big, but that's a pivotal part of how this

856
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:37,320
is gonna go, and I mean gets those two early fouls.

857
00:44:38,199 --> 00:44:41,599
Speaker 5: We all agree, Chuck, you've you've left his speechless. We're

858
00:44:41,639 --> 00:44:43,239
in speechless agreement, Chuck.

859
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: See, that's not the agreement. I want realization. We all Okay, we.

860
00:44:53,159 --> 00:44:57,559
Speaker 7: Have another Chris Done. His name is Derek ches Like, Yeah,

861
00:44:58,679 --> 00:44:59,480
they got back up.

862
00:45:00,119 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 3: I just don't think the freak biggest deal though. I

863
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,159
think it's more stopping them from getting out in transition

864
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,199
because they they led the league in fast break but

865
00:45:10,199 --> 00:45:13,079
obviously I mentioned Christian Brown earlier, but their entire team

866
00:45:13,119 --> 00:45:14,599
let the league in fast break points. They led the

867
00:45:14,639 --> 00:45:17,039
league of points in the paint, which a byproduct of

868
00:45:17,159 --> 00:45:22,000
that also is fast break points. But I just if

869
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,159
you just don't turn the ball, if you make them

870
00:45:24,159 --> 00:45:27,320
play against your half court defense, you have a better

871
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,800
a far better chance, which is obviously common sense. But

872
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:36,079
just don't turn the ball. Just don't have stupid turnovers.

873
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,039
Speaker 2: You're you're close to the team.

874
00:45:38,039 --> 00:45:42,280
Speaker 3: Have you told them this, Yeah, I've I've sent them

875
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,440
PowerPoint presentations slides like.

876
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,599
Speaker 6: Hey, don't make baskets.

877
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 5: Number one, make baskets.

878
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,639
Speaker 6: If you make a basket, they can get in transition

879
00:45:53,119 --> 00:45:56,039
slide to yeah, prove me wrong.

880
00:45:56,679 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 3: Prove me wrong about that.

881
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,760
Speaker 7: Justin you gave me a listening to the practice audio

882
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,920
today and some of the questions you were asking, the

883
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,000
line of questioning regarding Christian Brown gave me a new

884
00:46:07,119 --> 00:46:10,960
terrible thought. If he's guarding James Harden, which we expect

885
00:46:11,039 --> 00:46:16,800
Christian Brown to be any time, Yes, James Harden takes

886
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:20,239
that step back three, Christian Brown is taking off the

887
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,400
other way, and Joki is going to be looking for

888
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,360
him on outlet passes every time, and if he misses

889
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,159
those threes, they're gonna be there for him. He's gonna

890
00:46:30,159 --> 00:46:32,480
be cherry picking on the other end because he led

891
00:46:32,519 --> 00:46:34,960
the league in fast break points and he's going to

892
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:35,800
be guarding Harden.

893
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's partially also why I asked him today because

894
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,800
that is the thing. And Ty gave me an answer

895
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:48,000
about how it was the first thing Jeff Angati went

896
00:46:48,039 --> 00:46:51,119
over yesterday and how they just like you just got

897
00:46:51,159 --> 00:46:52,079
to get back, you can't.

898
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,039
Speaker 7: How's Harden getting it back when he falls to the

899
00:46:55,039 --> 00:46:59,000
floor on half the step backs. That's his man. You're

900
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,239
gonna put Norman power on him on Christian Braun to

901
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,639
make sure he runs back regardless of what Harden is

902
00:47:04,679 --> 00:47:05,400
doing on that shot.

903
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,079
Speaker 3: No, I mean the easy answer is just Kowhi always

904
00:47:08,079 --> 00:47:10,760
sprints back, which we've seen him do, and then just

905
00:47:11,679 --> 00:47:13,039
that's the deterrent.

906
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: Or the buddy walk. Adam doesn't know about the buddy walk.

907
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,519
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, today today Ty and his answer to me,

908
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:22,039
happy birthday, Chuck.

909
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:29,320
Speaker 6: There you go, yeah, early four months early.

910
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 3: Tie today and his answer to me about Christian Brown said,

911
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,320
like you go, we can't. I think you said LOLLI

912
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,480
gag was like one of the things. And he goes

913
00:47:38,679 --> 00:47:40,800
or a jog back he goes, and you can't buddy walk.

914
00:47:41,199 --> 00:47:42,760
He goes, you know, like you're And so I got

915
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,719
clarification after I said buddy walk, huh. He goes, yeah,

916
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,039
like you know, like how you just walk with your

917
00:47:47,039 --> 00:47:50,119
buddy like this, like you know, you're just going through

918
00:47:50,119 --> 00:47:54,239
the motions. And I'm like okay, and so yeah, I

919
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:58,639
just they if they get back with any sense of urgency,

920
00:47:58,639 --> 00:48:02,000
they should be fine. The question is do they get

921
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:03,840
back with any sense of urgency.

922
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,079
Speaker 1: And then the three. So three out of the four

923
00:48:06,079 --> 00:48:08,000
games against the Nuggets this year they turned the ball

924
00:48:08,079 --> 00:48:11,760
over at least seventeen times. The fourth game was twelve,

925
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,760
but they got blown out in that last Like I

926
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,679
think we scored ninety eight points in that last game.

927
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:20,159
So they do seemingly Again, none of these games are

928
00:48:20,159 --> 00:48:22,000
with Kawhi though, so I don't know how much starts

929
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,920
to read into it, but we do on the season

930
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,440
seem to turn the ball over a lot, specifically against

931
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:28,239
the Nuggets.

932
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 3: What I will say is, if you go since if

933
00:48:32,039 --> 00:48:34,119
you could just look at like the whole season, the

934
00:48:34,119 --> 00:48:38,199
Clippers are now like twentieth in transition defense, which sounds well,

935
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:39,960
I mean it's not good. It sounds bad because it

936
00:48:40,079 --> 00:48:44,360
is bad oddly enough. Yeah, do you know who the

937
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,880
dead last team in the NBA is?

938
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,039
Speaker 1: Is it the Denver Nuggets?

939
00:48:48,079 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 3: The Denver Nuggets. You know what the problem with that

940
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,360
is for the Clippers, they don't get out and rub.

941
00:48:54,519 --> 00:48:58,199
Maybe that's the alternative too, you just if you get

942
00:48:58,199 --> 00:49:00,360
a rebound, if you just get out and go.

943
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:02,079
Speaker 5: Yeah.

944
00:49:02,559 --> 00:49:06,039
Speaker 7: Well, they they have been great with points off of turnovers.

945
00:49:06,039 --> 00:49:11,320
They've been somewhat opportunistic. They have so that could mode

946
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,719
well for them, but they actually have to find those

947
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:15,760
guys when it happens and make the correct pass and

948
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,039
not turn it over. But like James Harden is looking

949
00:49:19,199 --> 00:49:21,639
for a Visa Zoo bots on some pretty wild outlet

950
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,400
passes at the last couple of games, we.

951
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:25,280
Speaker 3: Don't talk about those.

952
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's where Derek Joe Junior comes.

953
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,280
Speaker 2: I's gonna say, I get DJ Jay in there.

954
00:49:31,519 --> 00:49:34,320
Speaker 3: Right, like he's the transition guy to pull the chuck reference.

955
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,840
It's like watching tuatonguea Iola try to hit Tyreek Hill

956
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,280
down the sideline and just bailing.

957
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,280
Speaker 8: Okay, this feels hurtful.

958
00:49:44,639 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 3: Because he's left handed, you know.

959
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,039
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we had a lot of problems over with

960
00:49:49,079 --> 00:49:51,159
my favorite football team. We don't need to bring up now.

961
00:49:51,159 --> 00:49:53,599
We're not talking about soccer. We're not talking about the

962
00:49:53,639 --> 00:49:57,360
Dolphins thanks to level set an hour into this thing.

963
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 7: I like the optimism that tool was playing. That's pretty big.

964
00:50:01,079 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, the guy with the brain injury is the

965
00:50:06,559 --> 00:50:08,039
bad guy.

966
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 7: I'm not injury pro is.

967
00:50:14,159 --> 00:50:19,639
Speaker 1: Okay, what the hell are you even talking about? Someone's

968
00:50:19,639 --> 00:50:22,079
asking if Murray is on a minute restriction. That does

969
00:50:22,079 --> 00:50:23,960
not seem to be the case. He seems to be.

970
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,400
I don't think they're minutes restricting shit.

971
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 3: No, No, they're gonna play him until the bone, like

972
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,920
his hamstring falls off. They don't they because you got it,

973
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,800
you got the Clippers are gonna do with Kawhi? Like yeah,

974
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,519
like what are you gonna save minutes for? Like, yeah,

975
00:50:40,519 --> 00:50:42,719
he played twenty five minutes on Sunday, but also that

976
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:44,000
game was a blowout, So.

977
00:50:46,199 --> 00:50:48,639
Speaker 5: Yes, do you think they take the kids glove the

978
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:49,679
kid gloves off Kuai?

979
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously he was really hurt these last few times,

980
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:53,760
but do you think they like really push it this year?

981
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 7: He's just playing forty minutes.

982
00:50:56,519 --> 00:50:57,800
Speaker 5: I'm not talking about minutes.

983
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 6: I'm saying if he tweaks something, if he feels something off,

984
00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:03,480
are they going to put him in bubble wrap and say.

985
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,519
Speaker 5: We're playing for next season? Or are they going to

986
00:51:05,559 --> 00:51:06,760
try to get him back out there.

987
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,280
Speaker 3: I just think they judge a ball situational basis.

988
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 5: That's a fucking cop out ru so anybody else that's

989
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,800
like a real goddamn man, Jesus Christ. Someone want to

990
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:17,800
say something.

991
00:51:19,079 --> 00:51:20,800
Speaker 1: What would you call what they did last year?

992
00:51:21,039 --> 00:51:25,559
Speaker 2: Like what we last year? It fell because that didn't

993
00:51:25,559 --> 00:51:26,599
feel like bubble wrap.

994
00:51:27,599 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 7: No, they shouldn't have played him in Game four.

995
00:51:30,679 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was That was one of the worst Clippers

996
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:35,079
games I've ever.

997
00:51:35,159 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 2: That's how I feel about it.

998
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 4: If that's what he's gonna look like, hanging on in

999
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,239
the rim because he can't come down.

1000
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:44,039
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess he's still He's still up there.

1001
00:51:44,519 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, man like that. That was horrible. Yeah,

1002
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:53,400
I don't know.

1003
00:51:53,679 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 4: That is one of the sadder moments I've ever I've

1004
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:57,599
ever enjoyed.

1005
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 6: I actually wiped him from my i'mory until you just

1006
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:07,880
reminded me of that moment. Yeah.

1007
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:09,559
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, that's yeah.

1008
00:52:12,599 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1009
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 1: I think they're they've handled his health incredibly well this

1010
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:17,119
whole season.

1011
00:52:17,679 --> 00:52:19,079
Speaker 5: I think this season has been pretty good.

1012
00:52:19,119 --> 00:52:19,639
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1013
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:21,360
Speaker 3: He's actually talked about it today.

1014
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:26,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's been. The vibes are right, you can't

1015
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,280
right now, the vibes feel incredibly high.

1016
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. I And my question to Tie about kind of

1017
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,280
what has like because after the game on Sunday, Kawhi

1018
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:42,039
had a comment about how he thinks the fact that

1019
00:52:42,039 --> 00:52:46,039
the organization let him go out and consult outside, you know,

1020
00:52:46,599 --> 00:52:48,599
sources for for medical stuff.

1021
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 7: Is that the Costa Rica tripper.

1022
00:52:53,599 --> 00:52:54,639
Speaker 8: That was doctor.

1023
00:52:58,079 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 3: And then Tyson basically he equated to trust in terms

1024
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:07,880
of how he's seen Coawhi's partnership with the team grow

1025
00:53:08,039 --> 00:53:11,840
over the years, not just from like an organizational standpoint

1026
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,320
or with the guys, but just in general. And so

1027
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:18,000
he said trust. And he gave Maggie Bryant, who's a

1028
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:22,239
Clipper staffer, works with the medical staff. I'm trying to

1029
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,719
remember Maggie's official time. I think it's like the president

1030
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,400
of Performance, Health and Wellness. Maggie took over. She stayed

1031
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:33,559
with the Clippers this year, and ty gave her credit

1032
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,360
and gave the medical staff credit for and gave Kawhi

1033
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:42,840
credit for giving Maggie a chance to show, as ty

1034
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:45,639
put it, to show him some different things, some different

1035
00:53:45,679 --> 00:53:47,800
ways to try to be one hundred percent at the

1036
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,440
end of the season and doing things a different way,

1037
00:53:51,119 --> 00:53:56,079
so you know, and he credited her along with Kawhi's group.

1038
00:53:56,119 --> 00:53:58,559
He said that they've done a good job of getting

1039
00:53:58,639 --> 00:54:01,679
him to this point. It seems I know, it sounds

1040
00:54:01,679 --> 00:54:03,960
crazy to say, and they all are. It could just

1041
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,400
be everyone's just saying the right thing and every you know, everything,

1042
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,960
because everything's going well right now. But it does feel

1043
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,920
a lot different because I I even my mind even

1044
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,000
took me back to media day this year where Kawhi

1045
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:22,559
when I remember asking Kawhi if he feels different this year,

1046
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:26,440
knowing that they because he said himself, we now know

1047
00:54:26,519 --> 00:54:28,679
how to treat this, we know how to manage it now.

1048
00:54:29,079 --> 00:54:30,719
So I asked him if that makes him feel better?

1049
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:34,000
And and he said at that time, he said yeah,

1050
00:54:34,159 --> 00:54:36,440
he said, because he feels like he's able, Like you know,

1051
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:37,840
now that they have a handle on it, he has

1052
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:40,239
the confience to go out there and kind of, you know,

1053
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,639
rebound from all this stuff. So I kind of just

1054
00:54:42,679 --> 00:54:47,159
think you've seen a process where he's trusted them, they've

1055
00:54:47,159 --> 00:54:50,719
trusted him, and this might be the most harmonious they've been,

1056
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:55,039
you know, in his time together, at least from a

1057
00:54:55,079 --> 00:54:56,079
medical standpoint.

1058
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,199
Speaker 1: I like the word harmonious because that really is what

1059
00:54:59,199 --> 00:55:04,519
they're trying to strike both every organizations and his outside

1060
00:55:04,519 --> 00:55:10,599
medical staff is harmonious. Yeah. I have no I have

1061
00:55:10,639 --> 00:55:12,840
nothing else to file off. Whether I'm happy that they're.

1062
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:15,320
Speaker 5: On the same we've been. We've been killing these transitions.

1063
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:15,519
Speaker 1: Man.

1064
00:55:16,119 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 8: Really, like five ish.

1065
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,199
Speaker 1: Minutes left, Adam, We're going we're doing a round table.

1066
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:29,199
What's your X factor for the series. We know that Kawhi, James,

1067
00:55:29,199 --> 00:55:31,320
and Zoo all have to play at the level they

1068
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:35,519
have been playing and things like that. What else are

1069
00:55:35,519 --> 00:55:37,840
you feeling about this?

1070
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 7: This feels like the player pick where we can't choose

1071
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:42,480
certain guys. You know, it's.

1072
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,199
Speaker 8: Already damn close to that.

1073
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,639
Speaker 7: The X factor is if Chris Done is making three pointers,

1074
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:51,519
I mean they might be able to beat the Boston

1075
00:55:51,559 --> 00:55:55,880
Celtics in the NBA. That's how good this team can be.

1076
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,519
If Chris Done is making his shots from the outside,

1077
00:55:58,559 --> 00:56:01,199
it just makes them so difficult to guard. And he

1078
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,880
has been over the last month or so. I don't

1079
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,440
know if it's going to continue, but they at least

1080
00:56:06,519 --> 00:56:11,000
have options if he's not. But I do think keeping

1081
00:56:11,079 --> 00:56:13,760
Chris Done on the floor is imperative. His defense on

1082
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,559
Jamal Murray. People bringing up the fifty one percentury shooting

1083
00:56:16,559 --> 00:56:19,119
percentage by Jamal Murray and his career against Chris Dunn.

1084
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:24,480
They need him, they need I think his attitude, his

1085
00:56:24,599 --> 00:56:27,320
presence out there to start games as big for this team.

1086
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,440
He sets the tone defensively, so if he's hitting shots,

1087
00:56:30,599 --> 00:56:33,519
if he's passing well, the short role to me, so

1088
00:56:33,679 --> 00:56:36,400
much of This is just about Chris Dunn starting games

1089
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:39,679
and playing well in first quarters and getting the Clippers

1090
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:41,760
off to a good start, and also finding his shot

1091
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:43,199
and making sure he has that confidence.

1092
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:47,599
Speaker 1: All right, Adam went first. He had the pick of

1093
00:56:47,679 --> 00:56:50,920
the X factor litter Rousseau.

1094
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:53,280
Speaker 3: Does it have to be a player or can it

1095
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:54,000
just be a thing?

1096
00:56:54,119 --> 00:56:57,079
Speaker 1: It can be quite literally anything. It could be the wall,

1097
00:56:57,119 --> 00:56:59,079
which I'm very excited to see for the playoffs you

1098
00:56:59,079 --> 00:57:01,599
even talk about. That could be the energy from the

1099
00:57:01,639 --> 00:57:03,840
watch party that's gonna be happening, which you should go

1100
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,440
to if you're able to. I can't keep giving you

1101
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:08,960
free X factors, man, You got to come up with

1102
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:09,280
your own.

1103
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 5: At some point.

1104
00:57:13,599 --> 00:57:18,079
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go to offensive rebounds. Hell yeah, because Denver's

1105
00:57:18,079 --> 00:57:19,960
fifth and offensive rebound rate and the Clippers are the

1106
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,880
best defensive rebounding team in the league. And it kind

1107
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:24,639
of goes in conjunction a little bit with like if

1108
00:57:24,679 --> 00:57:27,199
Zoo's on the floor, they've been so good at grabbing

1109
00:57:27,239 --> 00:57:28,719
defensive rebounds.

1110
00:57:29,119 --> 00:57:29,599
Speaker 8: And.

1111
00:57:31,039 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 3: I just think that, like, if you give Denver extra possessions,

1112
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:38,840
it's gonna be a long game. You can't give them

1113
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:40,800
extra possessions. Their offense is too good.

1114
00:57:41,559 --> 00:57:44,239
Speaker 1: Speaking of extra possessions make total sense.

1115
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 10: Kyle Tart, Well, boys, so long, it's been so long.

1116
00:57:52,719 --> 00:57:53,519
Speaker 8: How the hell you doing.

1117
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:55,719
Speaker 9: I'm doing great. I'm in Austin, Texas.

1118
00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: Ye hall okay, no cowboy happened this morning. But that's fine.

1119
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:03,519
No cowboy hat, that's fine.

1120
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:08,599
Speaker 9: I don't have a cowboy hat with me. How's everybody

1121
00:58:08,639 --> 00:58:08,920
doing that?

1122
00:58:09,159 --> 00:58:09,599
Speaker 8: We're doing?

1123
00:58:11,079 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 5: But look to ensure the cowboy hat was what killed me?

1124
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: Is it behind me?

1125
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 9: Carl?

1126
00:58:23,039 --> 00:58:26,239
Speaker 1: Justin Russo picked the Clippers to win, and we're gonna

1127
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:27,840
we have so many people we have to go like

1128
00:58:28,079 --> 00:58:35,559
ESPN mode with this. Carl. Yeah, Justin Russo the Clippers

1129
00:58:35,599 --> 00:58:40,440
to win in five five haggle, no haggle the Clippers

1130
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,119
would think that will happen or not happen.

1131
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 9: First of all, Hello, Justin Rousso, is meet you. I'm

1132
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:48,639
a fan of your work.

1133
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate that.

1134
00:58:52,159 --> 00:58:53,719
Speaker 2: You guys have never been in the room together.

1135
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:55,119
Speaker 9: We never We've never done.

1136
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:57,239
Speaker 1: Clipper.

1137
00:58:57,559 --> 00:59:00,199
Speaker 3: I've listened to Carl talk so like this is it's

1138
00:59:00,199 --> 00:59:01,559
like two worlds colliding right now.

1139
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:05,039
Speaker 10: Yeah, this is this is this is a lot of

1140
00:59:05,039 --> 00:59:06,719
people thought we were the same guy because they never

1141
00:59:06,719 --> 00:59:07,719
saw us in the room again.

1142
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,199
Speaker 8: Yeah, we got a lot of reviewss.

1143
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,559
Speaker 9: Justin Russeo's Twitter was my burner. Yeah talking.

1144
00:59:18,039 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 7: That can't be because Russo likes you.

1145
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:25,199
Speaker 10: Bos So, I knew I was gonna have to eat

1146
00:59:25,199 --> 00:59:26,639
a little bit of crow here. Let me let me

1147
00:59:26,639 --> 00:59:30,280
tell that the chat is going wild. Throw some zs

1148
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:33,480
in the chat for zoobots. Who had the year that

1149
00:59:33,559 --> 00:59:38,079
I said he had to have? Adam Auslin, what did

1150
00:59:38,079 --> 00:59:41,079
I say to you at the beginning of the year

1151
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:42,079
when you asked me.

1152
00:59:42,039 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 9: What does zoo have to do to earn your respect?

1153
00:59:46,079 --> 00:59:48,239
Speaker 10: And I said he has to average about sixteen and

1154
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:50,719
ten And what is he averaging?

1155
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:57,239
Speaker 7: Seventeen and thirteen? Come on, man, come on man, Yeah,

1156
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:58,800
you believed it on the entire time.

1157
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 9: Carl, I've never said that.

1158
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,119
Speaker 10: Yeah, I said, I never said I I'm I'm here,

1159
01:00:04,199 --> 01:00:05,679
I will, I will.

1160
01:00:06,199 --> 01:00:08,119
Speaker 1: We can't take a gun on the small screen.

1161
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:11,519
Speaker 8: Adam has the gun out?

1162
01:00:12,159 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 10: Do I need to turn my TV off? Somebody says

1163
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:15,280
we'll get taken down? Let me turn it off.

1164
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:16,239
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good call.

1165
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 7: Turn the TV off. The TV.

1166
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:24,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't have the big TV. It's just still on.

1167
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 8: I just I just got to see a d hit

1168
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:29,119
the street throats.

1169
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. What spread did you bet for this game?

1170
01:00:33,519 --> 01:00:36,159
You got like twenty eight?

1171
01:00:37,239 --> 01:00:38,079
Speaker 9: Yeah? I know right.

1172
01:00:38,719 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 3: Uh.

1173
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 10: Sports betting is not legal in in in Texas, which

1174
01:00:42,519 --> 01:00:44,000
is why they traded Luca away.

1175
01:00:44,679 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 8: Let's let's una, let's get into it.

1176
01:00:46,719 --> 01:00:51,719
Speaker 1: Okay, Wait, so you're eating you versus you've You've made

1177
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:54,000
up for your views on Zoo. He did what which

1178
01:00:54,239 --> 01:00:57,119
he had to do. Yeah, earn your respect, which is fair.

1179
01:00:57,679 --> 01:01:00,199
You got the jersey, whichever one appreciates.

1180
01:01:00,039 --> 01:01:01,719
Speaker 9: Off the jersey. I got the red Zoo.

1181
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:05,920
Speaker 1: Clippers and clippers and sex. What do you what's your prediction?

1182
01:01:06,239 --> 01:01:07,360
Speaker 9: I say clippers in six?

1183
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 2: Ok.

1184
01:01:08,559 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 9: I think I think we.

1185
01:01:09,519 --> 01:01:13,039
Speaker 10: I think are defensively we we are pretty child And

1186
01:01:13,079 --> 01:01:15,039
one thing I've always said, which Adam can agree with,

1187
01:01:15,119 --> 01:01:18,760
is that I've always said Zoo plays well against Yo

1188
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,239
kis He's he's played that for a while.

1189
01:01:24,559 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1190
01:01:26,599 --> 01:01:31,719
Speaker 10: So yeah, man, I'm I'm listen. I've been I have

1191
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:33,000
been instructed to talk.

1192
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:36,159
Speaker 1: My ship, told you to talk your ship.

1193
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:40,119
Speaker 10: I'm gonna talk to my ship. Zoo has done what

1194
01:01:40,199 --> 01:01:43,480
I needed him to do this year. I think he

1195
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:53,079
deserves DEEPOI and he definitely deserves most Improved because god damn, hey, he.

1196
01:01:53,079 --> 01:01:55,599
Speaker 1: Got it out of whatever croatian mind he had to

1197
01:01:55,599 --> 01:01:56,119
get it out of.

1198
01:01:56,639 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 6: Can we just send that to all the media voting

1199
01:02:00,519 --> 01:02:01,440
for most improved?

1200
01:02:02,119 --> 01:02:02,960
Speaker 5: Who deserves it?

1201
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 8: Because God damn.

1202
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 1: Are you worried at all about your So you're conscious

1203
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,239
of Yokic obviously, because he's still.

1204
01:02:14,559 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 10: Joki is going yok he going yoke But I think

1205
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:22,480
if we get the Jamal Murray that has been playing recently,

1206
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:24,719
if we get the lack of chemistry Christian Brown and

1207
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:25,760
Michael Porter Jrs.

1208
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,559
Speaker 9: I think we got a good, solid chance and beating you.

1209
01:02:30,119 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 3: I can't.

1210
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 1: I still can't believe Russo that you said Clippers in five.

1211
01:02:33,599 --> 01:02:34,679
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm just optimistic.

1212
01:02:34,719 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 2: I don't know, You're like, I love it. I love it, man.

1213
01:02:38,239 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 3: I was talking with someone who travels with the team

1214
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:44,079
and we have the same pick.

1215
01:02:44,239 --> 01:02:45,039
Speaker 9: That's all I'll say.

1216
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 1: Well, I'm happy they're confident. It makes sense.

1217
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 3: I just it was. It was like, oh, tell me

1218
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,000
your pick is that. I literally said, oh, I haven't

1219
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:57,360
made like my official pick. And they said, they said

1220
01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:00,320
to me, that's bullshit. You gotta give me something, said

1221
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:04,360
clippers and five. They said, that's what I have, And

1222
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:05,360
I said, okay.

1223
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:07,639
Speaker 7: How many wins did you have met this season?

1224
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:11,840
Speaker 3: Hey, I was optimistic on them this season. I want

1225
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:13,199
that to be known. I said, I had them at

1226
01:03:13,199 --> 01:03:13,800
forty three.

1227
01:03:14,599 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 5: And Adam, what did I have on your pod to

1228
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,039
the beginning of the season. Was it forty eight to fifty?

1229
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: Was it?

1230
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:22,559
Speaker 5: Was it low end forty eight, high end fifty?

1231
01:03:24,199 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 8: Uh?

1232
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 7: You know, come on, do you think yourself probably moving forward?

1233
01:03:29,119 --> 01:03:31,159
Speaker 6: Just moving forward, keep the ball rolling. I said, forty

1234
01:03:31,199 --> 01:03:33,159
eight to fifty on your pod. I remember what I said.

1235
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 10: I think I had forty two on your pot. Adam,

1236
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:39,840
I thought I was going to do forty two and

1237
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:42,480
forty each seated expectations.

1238
01:03:43,079 --> 01:03:46,039
Speaker 7: Especially because like if you told me Kawhi was playing

1239
01:03:46,079 --> 01:03:49,920
thirty seven games, I probably would have said, ooh, thirty eight,

1240
01:03:50,119 --> 01:03:51,320
thirty nine, forty wins.

1241
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:52,119
Speaker 5: M h.

1242
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:57,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope everyone in the chat uh and maybe

1243
01:03:57,599 --> 01:03:59,920
everyone if they're legally allowed to on the stream took

1244
01:04:00,079 --> 01:04:03,480
a thirty seven and a half line. Oh, then Vegas

1245
01:04:03,599 --> 01:04:08,320
was crazy. Yeah, even like I understand where all there's

1246
01:04:08,599 --> 01:04:11,280
six homers here and justin I'm counting you because you're

1247
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:16,199
second Clippers and five, but thirty seven and a half

1248
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:16,760
was crazy?

1249
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:20,079
Speaker 3: Uh how was No, it wasn't crazy, It was acine.

1250
01:04:20,519 --> 01:04:23,519
It really was like, like, let's be realistic, as nine,

1251
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:26,559
the team hadn't had a losing season in thirteen years,

1252
01:04:26,599 --> 01:04:31,000
and you're just gonna be like crazy, Look look at

1253
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:34,039
the talent they had. I'm not saying I'm not saying

1254
01:04:34,039 --> 01:04:36,119
they should have been expected to win fifty games. I'm

1255
01:04:36,119 --> 01:04:39,800
just saying the original Vegas line had a thirty five

1256
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:40,360
and a half.

1257
01:04:40,719 --> 01:04:42,280
Speaker 9: Yeah, one line was thirty three.

1258
01:04:42,559 --> 01:04:44,199
Speaker 1: I was gonna say you could get thirty two and

1259
01:04:44,199 --> 01:04:46,079
a half at some point, I think, like that one.

1260
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 3: That's disgusting you stud on that. Yeah, like what what

1261
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:56,480
I don't know, maybe the cold Like okay, sure they

1262
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:59,039
lost PG like at the time, Yeah, that was a

1263
01:04:59,039 --> 01:05:03,239
big loss in terms of like star power and stuff. Okay,

1264
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:07,920
just let me finish, okay, Chuck. I don't think people

1265
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:12,440
accounted for was that other guys inevitably had to step

1266
01:05:12,519 --> 01:05:15,159
up in that stead. And the guys who stepped up

1267
01:05:15,159 --> 01:05:16,920
were guys that they needed to actually lean on in

1268
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:22,280
the first place. Anyway. So you know, and you still

1269
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:26,239
had James Harden, you still had Tylu, you added actual

1270
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:31,519
defensive guys around them. Thirty three is insane, like like

1271
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:34,960
people should be locked in prison. That's that's in Besley,

1272
01:05:35,079 --> 01:05:36,800
You're you're that's like fraud.

1273
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 5: I love that you have pulling out Carl.

1274
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 9: Travel I travel heavy.

1275
01:05:49,679 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 7: Is the PJ Tucker Jersey in there somewhere.

1276
01:05:53,239 --> 01:05:57,159
Speaker 9: Is not here with me, put up, put up.

1277
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:00,840
Speaker 1: I was just about Tom and he said Carl was

1278
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,119
always hard on Zoom because he knew what he'd become.

1279
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:05,639
I credit him versus Lee. Did you just type this

1280
01:06:05,719 --> 01:06:06,920
when you were pulling out your zip.

1281
01:06:09,639 --> 01:06:10,599
Speaker 9: I travel with heads.

1282
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:17,519
Speaker 1: That's what's up to I'm not rich enough for that.

1283
01:06:18,559 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 9: You can afford you.

1284
01:06:21,599 --> 01:06:23,199
Speaker 1: So we know what you're pulling in. We know what

1285
01:06:23,239 --> 01:06:25,119
the team, we know what Baber pays you.

1286
01:06:25,159 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 8: Bro.

1287
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 7: That's right.

1288
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:28,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, take it out here and say clippers and five.

1289
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:29,800
Speaker 8: That's right.

1290
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 9: You want to get a nice chick.

1291
01:06:32,639 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 1: Listen.

1292
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 3: If it comes to fruition, I just don't want to

1293
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:36,719
be asked about a prediction ever again. I'm going down

1294
01:06:36,719 --> 01:06:38,719
on a on a high note. And if it doesn't

1295
01:06:38,719 --> 01:06:41,440
come to fruition and they somehow lose the series, just

1296
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:42,440
don't ever ask me again.

1297
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:45,519
Speaker 1: All right, No, that's fair. One thing that's kind of

1298
01:06:45,559 --> 01:06:49,880
weird about this matchup is the coaching matchup, because we

1299
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,079
know that Tyler is a very good coach.

1300
01:06:52,519 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 7: We do.

1301
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:57,199
Speaker 1: The other coach has coached three games. He has won

1302
01:06:57,239 --> 01:06:59,199
all three of those games. Adam, you look like you

1303
01:06:59,199 --> 01:07:00,840
have something you'd like to say about this. How are

1304
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:01,920
you feeling about this coaching?

1305
01:07:04,199 --> 01:07:09,719
Speaker 7: Uh? Queasy? No, I I have some concerns because he's

1306
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:13,440
gonna push some buttons that Mike Malone didn't, and he's

1307
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:17,280
gonna play some different rotations and you the devil you

1308
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:19,559
know better than the one you don't. It's that type

1309
01:07:19,599 --> 01:07:23,079
of thing going on. So I do think of anything,

1310
01:07:24,159 --> 01:07:26,639
they're going to be better because of the move they

1311
01:07:26,679 --> 01:07:29,800
made just to at least get rid of some of

1312
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:32,800
the turmoil going on before the playoffs started. But David Adelman,

1313
01:07:33,239 --> 01:07:35,599
it's not like you guys change schemes. We've talked about this.

1314
01:07:35,719 --> 01:07:38,000
You can't do that this late into the season. And

1315
01:07:38,039 --> 01:07:40,599
the scheme is just get djokicch and let him run everything.

1316
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:44,199
But if he starts playing different guys out there, then

1317
01:07:44,199 --> 01:07:46,599
we've seen all season that could throw a wrench in

1318
01:07:46,639 --> 01:07:48,519
the Clippers plays.

1319
01:07:49,519 --> 01:07:49,719
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1320
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 1: The weird it's the what if factor, which, yeah, I

1321
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:58,000
totally agree that. I don't know, because doesn't everyone else

1322
01:07:58,079 --> 01:08:03,280
kind of not good. They don't have a very deep

1323
01:08:03,559 --> 01:08:07,360
roster right like. Comparatively, the Clippers have more depth, especially

1324
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:09,000
with the health Factory.

1325
01:08:09,639 --> 01:08:13,599
Speaker 3: To some degree. But I don't want to discount guys

1326
01:08:13,639 --> 01:08:17,840
like Peyton Watson because that's the kind of guy who

1327
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:23,279
can swing a series just with his defense and transition ability.

1328
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:26,920
Speaker 7: Batoum. If things go wrong they start Peyton Watson over

1329
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:27,960
Michael Porter Jr.

1330
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:32,119
Speaker 3: No, because Michael Porter Junior is too valuable to their

1331
01:08:32,119 --> 01:08:38,079
offense and you can't and you can't play to two

1332
01:08:38,159 --> 01:08:41,079
guys who well, Christian Brown shot really well from three

1333
01:08:41,119 --> 01:08:43,039
this year. I don't think the Clippers are going to

1334
01:08:43,079 --> 01:08:47,199
be hard closing out on him, so to speak. And

1335
01:08:47,239 --> 01:08:51,720
if you play Peyton Watson alongside of him, the spacing

1336
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:53,239
can probably get a tad wonkee.

1337
01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 7: I'm just saying they get down early, they're going to

1338
01:08:58,039 --> 01:09:00,000
be looking for another defender in the starting lineup.

1339
01:09:00,079 --> 01:09:00,159
Speaker 5: Uh.

1340
01:09:01,359 --> 01:09:03,640
Speaker 3: I mean in that sense, you're not. I just think

1341
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:05,840
when you when teams get down, they're gonna try anything.

1342
01:09:06,399 --> 01:09:09,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if they get down early that helps Risso's

1343
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:11,159
five Clippers and five predictions.

1344
01:09:11,159 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 3: So So I thought in the bubble that someone never

1345
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:16,880
got taken out for Zoo you know so.

1346
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:23,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, well so did tylu think? Funnily enough, Carl, what's

1347
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:25,479
your X factor for this series? We were in the

1348
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:26,960
middle of X factors.

1349
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:29,119
Speaker 10: I think for me, the X factors are gonna be

1350
01:09:29,159 --> 01:09:31,039
the bench players making shots.

1351
01:09:31,359 --> 01:09:32,680
Speaker 8: Mm hmm like that.

1352
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 10: I think Chris Dunn played great in that. In that

1353
01:09:36,119 --> 01:09:40,279
last playoff game, hidden some threes. I got struck by

1354
01:09:40,359 --> 01:09:45,359
lightning twice during that game, but it was like, I

1355
01:09:45,119 --> 01:09:45,840
I want.

1356
01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:50,800
Speaker 9: To see him doing that, and I want to like Nico,

1357
01:09:51,079 --> 01:09:51,600
I want.

1358
01:09:53,119 --> 01:09:56,239
Speaker 1: He's healthy. He was dunking. They've taken photos of him dunking,

1359
01:09:56,319 --> 01:09:57,680
which we believe to be real.

1360
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:00,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, now he did have seven fingers and everything.

1361
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:08,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had seven fingers and hair, which was Grock

1362
01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:09,319
gave him hair.

1363
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 3: Oh doesn't grok just sound like the name that Rob

1364
01:10:14,039 --> 01:10:17,199
Gronkowski just got randomly called one day by like a

1365
01:10:17,279 --> 01:10:19,079
drunk player, and they're.

1366
01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:20,119
Speaker 9: Just like it just started.

1367
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:22,960
Speaker 3: What a shitty name. Sorry.

1368
01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:25,640
Speaker 1: I like that we brought the hater out of it.

1369
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:27,600
Speaker 9: It's not hard.

1370
01:10:28,079 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 3: It's not hard to believe me.

1371
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:32,199
Speaker 10: Pedro Munoz is saying Aaron Gordon will be their X factor.

1372
01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:34,880
I am afraid of of Aaron Gordon going off too.

1373
01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:39,479
Speaker 1: He had a reading so Adam posted this too. Uh,

1374
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:42,239
he's he shot incredibly well from three this season, but

1375
01:10:42,319 --> 01:10:45,479
it's all what was it the same attempts as Derek

1376
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:45,960
jo Junior.

1377
01:10:46,039 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 7: Fewer like like fifty few were like one hundred and

1378
01:10:49,039 --> 01:10:51,880
seventy two shots from the outside, So he's not like

1379
01:10:53,119 --> 01:10:54,000
hurl them up.

1380
01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say, though he played twenty two fear

1381
01:10:57,119 --> 01:10:57,960
games this year than.

1382
01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:02,119
Speaker 7: Last year, so right, that's part of the reason. But

1383
01:11:02,279 --> 01:11:04,399
I'm just saying it's not a huge sample size of

1384
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:05,960
that sting.

1385
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:07,000
Speaker 9: No, it's not.

1386
01:11:07,119 --> 01:11:08,680
Speaker 3: But I'm I mean, when you look at him, he's

1387
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:10,600
taking like three and a half a game, and like

1388
01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:16,600
that's it's different than I would say for Derek essentially Derek.

1389
01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:20,760
Speaker 10: What is so this guy's saying Bogie I believe in

1390
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:23,800
I believe Bogie too. Is it is it crazy to

1391
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:27,680
think that we could get six to ten points from

1392
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:29,039
being Simmons.

1393
01:11:29,239 --> 01:11:33,640
Speaker 1: Yes, as I or in a game in the series.

1394
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:38,199
Speaker 7: Yeah, do you say minutes or points? Because I'm with

1395
01:11:38,239 --> 01:11:38,880
you on minutes.

1396
01:11:42,079 --> 01:11:43,279
Speaker 8: I think I don't think.

1397
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:47,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's averaging at most four and

1398
01:11:47,520 --> 01:11:50,920
a half points this series. Yeah, because he has to

1399
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,319
take shots he passed up. The team has talked about

1400
01:11:53,319 --> 01:11:57,199
it as recently as today, like he's not looking for

1401
01:11:57,279 --> 01:11:58,119
the basket at all.

1402
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:02,159
Speaker 5: Brus So you're you're with the team.

1403
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:06,319
Speaker 6: Is he working with Zoo to fix whatever the fuck

1404
01:12:06,439 --> 01:12:09,359
his little jump hook is? Because how do you have

1405
01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:12,319
a hitch in a jump hook? That's what I've been

1406
01:12:12,319 --> 01:12:14,479
trying to figure out with Ben Simmons.

1407
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 3: I can tell you that he has been working with Zoo.

1408
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:22,520
He worked on him the first day that he actually practiced.

1409
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 5: Not working, he's been working.

1410
01:12:27,039 --> 01:12:29,279
Speaker 3: He's been working with Jay Laar Negan and Amir Johnson.

1411
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:31,920
Speaker 5: So okay, oh Meir nice.

1412
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:37,560
Speaker 3: By the way, one of the greatest coaching additions ever.

1413
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:40,600
Because I did not realize now this is bad on

1414
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:43,000
me as a reporter who follows the team.

1415
01:12:43,239 --> 01:12:43,439
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1416
01:12:43,479 --> 01:12:46,199
Speaker 3: Well, when I got the Summer League this past summer,

1417
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:48,800
I looked at the Summer League bench and I I'm

1418
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:50,840
sitting I'm sitting next to Tobar at one of the

1419
01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:54,840
Clipper games covering the game. But I'm like, wow, this

1420
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:58,840
guy looks really familiar on the Clippers bench, and Toby goes, yeah,

1421
01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:02,640
that's Amir Johnson was like, holy shit, that's Amir Johnson.

1422
01:13:03,119 --> 01:13:05,520
And I like Damir Johnson as a player. And then

1423
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:07,479
when I realized they added Amir Johnson, and then you

1424
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:10,000
see the leap that Zeus had. He credits quite a

1425
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:12,600
bit of that to Emir Johnson as well, and I

1426
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:14,800
think having that type of guy has been really good

1427
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:16,960
for him, and I think it could be good for Ben,

1428
01:13:17,279 --> 01:13:21,560
for Ben Simmons as well. Then the Ben situation is

1429
01:13:22,199 --> 01:13:26,720
rather fascinating from the standpoint that this can be a

1430
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:30,960
Ben series. But if he isn't, if he's getting in

1431
01:13:31,039 --> 01:13:34,800
transition and not going towards the rim with the intent

1432
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:38,479
to score, it can be a problem. I don't mind

1433
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:40,560
him setting guys up and all this stuff, but if

1434
01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:43,079
he's are not playing you to score, it's it's a

1435
01:13:43,079 --> 01:13:45,600
little bit tougher. They have to draw that out of him.

1436
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:50,000
I think they can. He's very receptive to everything they

1437
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:52,199
tell him, from everything I've I've heard and been told,

1438
01:13:52,279 --> 01:13:54,640
so it's not like he's just in one ear in

1439
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:55,479
one and out the other.

1440
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:58,039
Speaker 4: You know, well, they're only asking him to do things

1441
01:13:58,039 --> 01:13:59,840
that play with strength does not.

1442
01:14:02,239 --> 01:14:05,359
Speaker 1: Do something different. It's like, who you've done this before?

1443
01:14:06,079 --> 01:14:09,600
Speaker 3: As I had someone explain to me as I had

1444
01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:14,359
someone explain to me with him yesterday, Like you said,

1445
01:14:14,359 --> 01:14:16,520
they're not asking me to do a lot, and they

1446
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:19,239
think that's the like that's the part that he can

1447
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:22,560
truly accept and kind of excel at it. Just it

1448
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:25,760
takes time to get used to things and for him,

1449
01:14:26,119 --> 01:14:28,239
like think about every locker room he's been in, he's

1450
01:14:28,239 --> 01:14:30,960
been one of the top three guys that's been having

1451
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:33,399
to be relied upon, if not one of the top

1452
01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:36,359
two highest paid guys on the team. So there is

1453
01:14:36,399 --> 01:14:38,279
a certain amount of pressure that comes with that. I

1454
01:14:38,319 --> 01:14:40,600
don't think he has that pressure on his team, which

1455
01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:43,119
I think he's still kind of adjusting to. And and

1456
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:47,000
you know, I I think he's done. Okay, there's been blips,

1457
01:14:47,239 --> 01:14:50,119
but there's also been high points, which happens throughout a season.

1458
01:14:50,479 --> 01:14:53,520
I just think because once they got him, everything becomes

1459
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:56,439
so condensed at this time of year, you kind of

1460
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,039
take too much away from each outing that he has.

1461
01:15:00,319 --> 01:15:02,680
Speaker 1: His best game was his first game for the Clippers.

1462
01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:06,760
Speaker 6: He looked incredible, Like he looked incredible about the Utah game.

1463
01:15:07,199 --> 01:15:10,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, literally, his first real like his first actual game.

1464
01:15:12,119 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 2: Utah.

1465
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:15,960
Speaker 5: Who it well, actually it was. It was that stretch

1466
01:15:16,039 --> 01:15:17,039
before he got hurt.

1467
01:15:17,079 --> 01:15:20,079
Speaker 6: It wasn't just the Utah game where he was making

1468
01:15:20,119 --> 01:15:22,119
passes that nobody else on the team could make other

1469
01:15:22,159 --> 01:15:24,279
than James. He was pushing the ball in transition, he

1470
01:15:24,319 --> 01:15:26,960
was gravity rebounds, he was defending like a madman. And

1471
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:29,520
I just feel like after he came back from getting hurt,

1472
01:15:30,279 --> 01:15:33,000
that level of execution hasn't been there. He's looked more

1473
01:15:33,039 --> 01:15:35,640
timid than he did. He looked super confident in his

1474
01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:37,920
role those first three four games or whatever it was,

1475
01:15:38,319 --> 01:15:41,520
and the reintegration process has just been really difficult for him.

1476
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 5: It feels like, to.

1477
01:15:43,399 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 3: Joseph's point, he had a twenty five to two assistant

1478
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:49,720
turnover ratio before he got hurt. It's thirty one to

1479
01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:53,079
fIF thirty one to twelve since then, which isn't terrible,

1480
01:15:53,119 --> 01:15:55,159
but it's it's obviously a far cry from where he

1481
01:15:55,239 --> 01:15:56,399
was at.

1482
01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, thirty one to twelve, Yeah, sure, very common,

1483
01:16:00,159 --> 01:16:05,279
sister turnover ratio that we have to Yeah, it's garbage.

1484
01:16:05,319 --> 01:16:08,319
Speaker 2: Get out of Get out of here.

1485
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:12,399
Speaker 10: I saw Simmons Jersey about to be bought. As soon

1486
01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:15,720
as I get back home, you're sagging on. I'm snagging

1487
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:17,760
the bends I need so right now for with the

1488
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:20,880
new jersey, I only have I only have I only

1489
01:16:20,920 --> 01:16:22,079
have in the new jerseys.

1490
01:16:22,079 --> 01:16:23,319
Speaker 9: Adam Auslan, You're gonna love this.

1491
01:16:24,239 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 10: The only jersey I have with the new shipping, the

1492
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:32,760
cross hair jersey era that we're in is a zoobac.

1493
01:16:32,399 --> 01:16:36,600
Speaker 7: Red that's only when I have It's a beautiful jersey.

1494
01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:39,840
Speaker 9: Here's what I need. I need a d j J

1495
01:16:40,039 --> 01:16:44,159
Blue and I need a Ben Simmons White.

1496
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:49,880
Speaker 7: Sure, yeah, you know Ben's a free age this summer.

1497
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:54,560
Speaker 10: Right, I mean it isn't It is my my m

1498
01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:57,000
O that I buy the jersey and then the players get traded.

1499
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:03,720
My only authentic, authentic like game game play jersey is

1500
01:17:04,079 --> 01:17:07,760
a team, man, So I kind of see that's yeah,

1501
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:09,840
who do we really want off the team?

1502
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:15,439
Speaker 9: That's my man. I'm not getting that's my man, right.

1503
01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:16,520
Speaker 8: That's my guy.

1504
01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:22,079
Speaker 3: Mean, does anyone care about jersey superstitions? In here?

1505
01:17:23,239 --> 01:17:26,600
Speaker 1: One hundred as will chicks had no.

1506
01:17:29,199 --> 01:17:30,399
Speaker 8: The sixth of us to do?

1507
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:32,720
Speaker 7: What color are they playing it on Saturday?

1508
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:35,880
Speaker 1: Are they wearing salmon polos? The real bubble.

1509
01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 11: Heads the salmon polo. I don't have the skin tone

1510
01:17:45,039 --> 01:17:46,000
for the salmon polo.

1511
01:17:46,039 --> 01:17:49,840
Speaker 1: But I would like what as a memory a lot?

1512
01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:51,359
Speaker 9: We were golfing a lot at that time, and I

1513
01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:53,319
tried my best. I was asking.

1514
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:55,880
Speaker 10: I was asking all of my connects with the team, like,

1515
01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:57,640
how do I get the salmon polo?

1516
01:17:57,720 --> 01:18:05,239
Speaker 1: They were like, Taylor Dread, Yeah.

1517
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:06,680
Speaker 3: That Sam and Polo goes right up in the rafters

1518
01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:09,399
alongside the Pioneers Blake Griffin shirt.

1519
01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:11,920
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, which I have?

1520
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:15,760
Speaker 3: I have that's a collector's item. You got to keep that.

1521
01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:19,159
Speaker 6: Yeah, these these visors should go up next to both

1522
01:18:19,159 --> 01:18:19,479
of them.

1523
01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:28,239
Speaker 1: Actually this year, all right, what's the superstition?

1524
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:30,800
Speaker 3: So to answer Adam's question, they're wearing red for the

1525
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:37,479
first two games. If anyone takes superstitions of jerseys seriously,

1526
01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:39,760
which there is one player on the team who does,

1527
01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:43,479
if you buy into that. On the road this year,

1528
01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:45,319
in the red jerseys, the Clippers were four and five,

1529
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:50,199
which sounds bad, but it's actually not terrible. They were

1530
01:18:50,239 --> 01:18:52,880
seven to eleven in the white jersey. They were nine

1531
01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:56,880
and five in the blue jersey. On the road. They

1532
01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:58,920
were nine and one in the Red jerseys at home,

1533
01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:01,119
which is why you're kind of hoping I are with

1534
01:19:01,199 --> 01:19:02,720
the Red jerseys at home, but they're wearing them.

1535
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:03,359
Speaker 9: On the road.

1536
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:06,319
Speaker 3: Games three and four, they are wearing their blue, the

1537
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:10,079
Icon blue, not the city edition, the Icon blue. Uh.

1538
01:19:10,119 --> 01:19:12,159
They went ten and four at home in those so

1539
01:19:12,199 --> 01:19:13,640
if you care about that, there you go.

1540
01:19:14,159 --> 01:19:16,760
Speaker 10: So that though, we're gonna call those the Clippers, Yeah,

1541
01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:19,239
the Blippers, Clippers.

1542
01:19:19,319 --> 01:19:22,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're covering all bases. This is the strategy for

1543
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:23,439
the Clippers.

1544
01:19:24,239 --> 01:19:25,319
Speaker 9: The whites are the trumpers.

1545
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:27,279
Speaker 1: If you say we had that, we could put a

1546
01:19:27,359 --> 01:19:28,039
W in front of it.

1547
01:19:28,319 --> 01:19:32,279
Speaker 3: That's weird if you if you just go off of jerseys,

1548
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:34,880
there's a chance they're up three to one after game four.

1549
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:38,079
Speaker 1: Let's go there we go justin.

1550
01:19:38,159 --> 01:19:40,319
Speaker 7: You took that anonymous pull in the locker room about

1551
01:19:40,399 --> 01:19:42,039
m v P, right, Yes, I did.

1552
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:46,039
Speaker 3: Look they went Yokic.

1553
01:19:46,319 --> 01:19:46,399
Speaker 6: Uh.

1554
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 3: The prevailing thought at the end of the voting was

1555
01:19:50,079 --> 01:19:55,560
nine to six. Of the sixteen players pulled nine Yokic six. Shay.

1556
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,800
There was one abstention who said he had them even,

1557
01:19:59,399 --> 01:20:02,079
and then I pulled one of the two remaining players

1558
01:20:02,439 --> 01:20:05,039
the next day because I was finally able to get him,

1559
01:20:05,479 --> 01:20:07,479
he said, Yokic. So it turned out to be ten

1560
01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:09,239
to six in favor of Yolkic.

1561
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:11,119
Speaker 1: Who do we think of stained?

1562
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:13,079
Speaker 3: I can't tell you that I know.

1563
01:20:13,119 --> 01:20:15,479
Speaker 1: I'm saying who do we think? And didn't ask you

1564
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:19,920
who have stained? I think it was Zoo?

1565
01:20:23,159 --> 01:20:24,920
Speaker 5: I think it was.

1566
01:20:26,560 --> 01:20:27,920
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense?

1567
01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:31,600
Speaker 7: Is Bogie his serbian brother?

1568
01:20:32,199 --> 01:20:37,439
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, all right, we gotta get out of here.

1569
01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:41,000
Speaker 1: But we Carl, because you joined the pod, we have

1570
01:20:41,119 --> 01:20:43,319
to interview someone who we haven't talked to in a

1571
01:20:43,439 --> 01:20:47,640
very long time. How is the curse doing? He has

1572
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:54,319
had kind of a difficult year so far, being the

1573
01:20:54,399 --> 01:20:56,800
five seats after what may have I don't know, how

1574
01:20:56,880 --> 01:20:57,600
is the curse doing?

1575
01:20:57,680 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 8: Have you seen it?

1576
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:07,439
Speaker 9: Bonezo bone Zoo?

1577
01:21:10,319 --> 01:21:16,720
Speaker 10: Hello boys, Justin Justin Russo we've also been compared to

1578
01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:17,239
each other.

1579
01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:21,720
Speaker 1: Wait are Justin's Lifts movie?

1580
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:22,199
Speaker 2: Right now?

1581
01:21:25,319 --> 01:21:25,840
Speaker 9: Now? Now?

1582
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 10: Now, boys, let's let's let's let's be nice year, let's

1583
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:31,039
be kind to me. I've had a very tough year.

1584
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:36,600
I was in Vegas all of some setting betting lines

1585
01:21:37,319 --> 01:21:40,960
and I had some insided trade info and I was

1586
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:44,840
like Marjorie Taylor Green, I bought him the dip and

1587
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:50,880
I lost. Oh curse o man, because these fucks decided

1588
01:21:50,920 --> 01:21:52,880
that they wanted to win fifty games.

1589
01:21:54,279 --> 01:21:55,119
Speaker 9: Can you believe this.

1590
01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:58,359
Speaker 1: Believe some of us can believe it.

1591
01:21:58,399 --> 01:21:58,680
Speaker 8: Curse?

1592
01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:00,760
Speaker 1: Do you think it will translate to any kind of

1593
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:01,760
playoff success?

1594
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:03,520
Speaker 9: Not if I have anything to do with it.

1595
01:22:05,399 --> 01:22:05,760
Speaker 8: Like that.

1596
01:22:07,199 --> 01:22:11,199
Speaker 9: Let's say we're going red, red, and then blue and

1597
01:22:11,239 --> 01:22:15,239
then white. I like the order.

1598
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:19,640
Speaker 8: Oh no, okay, Well we gotta switch this up a

1599
01:22:19,680 --> 01:22:20,119
little bit.

1600
01:22:20,159 --> 01:22:22,479
Speaker 1: Are you traveling for any of the game's curse? Are

1601
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:23,880
you going to be in Denver, La?

1602
01:22:24,119 --> 01:22:24,760
Speaker 8: I will live.

1603
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:29,439
Speaker 10: I guess what's funny is I live in the Mile

1604
01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:31,239
High City I used to play for.

1605
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:33,039
Speaker 2: I used to pay the coast.

1606
01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:36,359
Speaker 8: Oh, okay, where you like?

1607
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:41,520
Speaker 10: That's a little cannon, a little canon for you folks.

1608
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:43,760
Speaker 7: Are you a lot of Super Bowls?

1609
01:22:43,800 --> 01:22:47,159
Speaker 9: So I retired in nineteen ninety seven?

1610
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:48,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, makes sense?

1611
01:22:49,239 --> 01:22:53,840
Speaker 1: That tracks Okay, So how are you? What's your pick

1612
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:54,640
for this series?

1613
01:22:55,359 --> 01:22:59,239
Speaker 10: Unfortunately, I am feeling a bit under the weather, and

1614
01:22:59,279 --> 01:23:00,720
I think the boys may just.

1615
01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:06,760
Speaker 9: Pull it off. I'll have a bad case of person

1616
01:23:08,479 --> 01:23:09,159
I don't know.

1617
01:23:09,399 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 1: Well, hey, don't don't get don't get the shot for that,

1618
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:13,800
because I don't think the curse fin Do you.

1619
01:23:13,720 --> 01:23:20,399
Speaker 9: Think the curse would ever get the jab? Sure? I

1620
01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:21,159
didn't really.

1621
01:23:21,199 --> 01:23:23,159
Speaker 1: I hope the other curses are okay, and this is

1622
01:23:23,239 --> 01:23:25,720
this isn't some kind of curse fin plandemic that that

1623
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:27,359
you're in, your community is going through.

1624
01:23:27,479 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 10: It's you got to third eye. We started, We're coming,

1625
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:34,359
We're coming out with you got.

1626
01:23:34,199 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 9: Our boy RFK in there?

1627
01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:37,760
Speaker 8: Sure she comes to party with us?

1628
01:23:38,199 --> 01:23:39,359
Speaker 1: Well are you friends?

1629
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:41,359
Speaker 9: Are you there meat festival recently?

1630
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:42,000
Speaker 5: Huh?

1631
01:23:42,039 --> 01:23:44,319
Speaker 1: Are you friends with the new curse in Dallas? Have

1632
01:23:44,439 --> 01:23:46,560
you do you have a brother or something and moved

1633
01:23:46,600 --> 01:23:47,199
to Dallas?

1634
01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:50,319
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, I have a brother who played for the Cowboys.

1635
01:23:50,319 --> 01:23:51,439
He plays.

1636
01:23:52,119 --> 01:23:53,520
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that sounds about right.

1637
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:55,720
Speaker 9: Okay, for sure, we'll football family.

1638
01:23:58,720 --> 01:24:02,840
Speaker 1: Just moving at the basketball curse. Well, that's good. You

1639
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:03,720
expanded the business.

1640
01:24:03,720 --> 01:24:04,239
Speaker 3: Well curse.

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01:24:05,319 --> 01:24:07,039
Speaker 1: I mean this from the bottom of my heart. I

1642
01:24:07,039 --> 01:24:09,439
hope you continue to stay under the weather, and I

1643
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:11,520
hope that you're in But I weirdly hope your prediction

1644
01:24:11,640 --> 01:24:14,680
is right and that the Clippers win the first round.

1645
01:24:15,119 --> 01:24:21,479
Speaker 10: Wow, wouldn't that be fantastic? And then and then we

1646
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:23,800
and then we play do we play when we potentially

1647
01:24:24,159 --> 01:24:26,600
play the Wolves at a certain point, because I know

1648
01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:28,319
someone who I really love is on that.

1649
01:24:28,359 --> 01:24:32,600
Speaker 1: D I think some things would have to go the

1650
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:40,720
Wolves way. Mostly yeah, Joe Ingles Okay, oh god, okay,

1651
01:24:40,760 --> 01:24:43,399
I don't like where this is. We're gonna let you

1652
01:24:43,439 --> 01:24:46,720
get back to your curse chicken noodle soup and your curse.

1653
01:24:49,199 --> 01:24:50,840
Whatever you're using, I'm taking.

1654
01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:56,199
Speaker 10: I'm not getting them getting the JAZ I think.

1655
01:24:56,239 --> 01:24:58,279
Speaker 1: I think all iver meact is curse.

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01:25:00,079 --> 01:25:13,840
Speaker 12: Got Carl goed, Okay, curse, Oh Carl.

1657
01:25:12,199 --> 01:25:13,159
Speaker 2: She's not really scary.

1658
01:25:13,199 --> 01:25:16,319
Speaker 5: While you were gone, really spooky, man, I.

1659
01:25:16,279 --> 01:25:20,039
Speaker 10: Went to go look for my cowboy hat. Damnut here somewhere.

1660
01:25:20,319 --> 01:25:22,039
Speaker 1: If you get the Clippers, dude, if you pulled up

1661
01:25:22,199 --> 01:25:24,640
the game and the Clippers cowboy.

1662
01:25:24,199 --> 01:25:26,479
Speaker 10: Hat, Oh my gosh, have you been seeing these? These

1663
01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:29,199
cowboy has have been made with like baseball logos. Yeah,

1664
01:25:29,479 --> 01:25:33,840
and I want a ship in the crosshair cowboy hat so.

1665
01:25:33,800 --> 01:25:38,800
Speaker 5: Bad and the boots to match the ground.

1666
01:25:39,119 --> 01:25:42,359
Speaker 1: All right, we have to get out of here. Any

1667
01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:47,279
last words from this round table of Clippers. I'm going

1668
01:25:47,359 --> 01:25:48,880
to use the first word of the poch my head

1669
01:25:48,960 --> 01:25:54,239
geniuses about Game one Clippers versus Buggets. Russo will start

1670
01:25:54,279 --> 01:25:55,960
with you because you're on the top left.

1671
01:25:56,680 --> 01:25:59,079
Speaker 3: Prediction for game one is that you said anything.

1672
01:25:58,760 --> 01:26:00,520
Speaker 1: You want to say about Game one could be about

1673
01:26:00,520 --> 01:26:02,359
the jerseys, could be about the curse, could be about

1674
01:26:02,359 --> 01:26:02,760
the food.

1675
01:26:04,439 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 3: I'm interested to go there. I'll be in Denver for

1676
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:07,359
the first two games.

1677
01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:09,239
Speaker 2: Let's go definitely.

1678
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:17,199
Speaker 3: I'm flying in early Saturday morning, so that'll be a

1679
01:26:17,279 --> 01:26:21,920
long day. But I'm not excited. My one thing about

1680
01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:26,279
Game one, I'm not excited. It's an afternoon game. But whatever,

1681
01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:27,199
what are you gonna do?

1682
01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:28,119
Speaker 6: All right?

1683
01:26:28,720 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 3: I like that at I will say this. They did

1684
01:26:31,039 --> 01:26:35,399
slay the National TV and Afternoon Demon on Sunday.

1685
01:26:36,239 --> 01:26:37,319
Speaker 1: Oh great call.

1686
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:41,239
Speaker 3: So like that. Everything's coming up Millhouse and I found

1687
01:26:41,239 --> 01:26:43,920
my air pods yesterday. Is even bigger.

1688
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:47,840
Speaker 1: Come all right, we're gonna go counterclockwise because that's how

1689
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:50,479
the guests go. Joseph ry Award, thank you so much

1690
01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:54,279
for being here. Your any final thoughts about this gamer series.

1691
01:26:55,239 --> 01:26:59,800
Speaker 6: Listen, bro, the Clippers are gonna set the tone in

1692
01:27:00,159 --> 01:27:03,279
game one and blow the Nuggets out.

1693
01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:08,079
Speaker 1: All right, we got Clippers, Bro, got the man. I

1694
01:27:08,079 --> 01:27:10,319
have a Clippers bro. I miss you, man. You have

1695
01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:16,039
Carl car final thoughts about Clippers Nuggets gave Walter the

1696
01:27:16,039 --> 01:27:16,680
series as a whole.

1697
01:27:17,079 --> 01:27:18,800
Speaker 10: I just want to say, shout out, Zoom man. We're

1698
01:27:18,840 --> 01:27:21,960
rooting for you. Don't let us down. Okay, you've been

1699
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:24,720
playing great this season, and if you do, if you

1700
01:27:25,239 --> 01:27:31,600
won slip ups one, I am half Dave Adams ass

1701
01:27:32,119 --> 01:27:33,840
save Adams Asland.

1702
01:27:34,239 --> 01:27:35,840
Speaker 9: Okay, I got on him.

1703
01:27:36,279 --> 01:27:39,199
Speaker 1: You got zoo Jersey here, you got a paracissors right here.

1704
01:27:40,760 --> 01:27:43,479
Speaker 10: I got a big I got a big old oil

1705
01:27:43,600 --> 01:27:48,840
tank oiled. What is it called canister oil drug? I'm

1706
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:52,319
gonna float that got damn Jersey. And instead of the all.

1707
01:27:52,319 --> 01:27:55,079
Speaker 1: Right, dude, you've been worn William up Tyke.

1708
01:27:56,279 --> 01:27:59,560
Speaker 4: I'm gonna show James Harden and say he's gonna change

1709
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:02,920
the narrative. And I'm more saying this to motivate him,

1710
01:28:03,520 --> 01:28:05,359
because he did. He did have a couple of great

1711
01:28:05,359 --> 01:28:08,279
playoff games there in Philly. But let's change the narrative, buddy,

1712
01:28:08,359 --> 01:28:11,199
let's uh, let's make let's make this great come out

1713
01:28:11,279 --> 01:28:12,239
stomp on in game one.

1714
01:28:12,359 --> 01:28:14,560
Speaker 5: Let's go make the Clippers great again.

1715
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:23,079
Speaker 8: William update Man podcast direction, we quite literally never go.

1716
01:28:25,039 --> 01:28:28,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I cannot wait for game one. It's an

1717
01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:31,720
afternoon game. I like what you said Russo about, you know,

1718
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:35,600
overcoming those demons. I cannot wait to see playoff Kawhi,

1719
01:28:36,680 --> 01:28:38,600
cannot wait to see Nick the tume. Either it's gonna

1720
01:28:38,600 --> 01:28:40,720
be a good time. I'm gonna be in the Bay

1721
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:43,399
Area for this, so we'll do a stream on Sunday.

1722
01:28:43,399 --> 01:28:47,039
We'll see what happens. Adam, you could do one positive thing.

1723
01:28:47,039 --> 01:28:50,479
You can say whatever you want, final takes for this,

1724
01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:52,359
this series or game, whatever you feel like.

1725
01:28:53,880 --> 01:28:55,840
Speaker 7: Can't be our year. If this is not our series,

1726
01:28:56,159 --> 01:28:58,159
let's go Wow.

1727
01:28:59,439 --> 01:29:01,039
Speaker 1: All right, not wrapping it up.

1728
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:03,479
Speaker 3: Thank you for hanging out.

1729
01:29:03,560 --> 01:29:06,680
Speaker 1: Thank you well, the wonderful guest, Carl Tart, josephrior Ward,

1730
01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:09,319
Justin Russo, Adam and Will and I are here most

1731
01:29:09,359 --> 01:29:11,880
of the time. We'll be doing a stream on Sunday.

1732
01:29:12,039 --> 01:29:15,720
Here's to a good ass game on Saturday. And as always,

1733
01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:16,680
let's go clips.