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Speaker 1: What's going on? Clippers fans.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to a very fun, very upbeat post game live

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hang after the Clippers clinch the fifth seed in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, what a stressful game that was. They

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beat the Warriors, they get to fifty wins. They will

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be playing the Denver Nuggets. A lot of emotions right

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now after what was an incredibly tense last two games

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for the Clippers, because the Sacramento Kings almost almost, but

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it took them to the end of the God, that

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was so stressful. I don't even know where to start.

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I mean, this game was carried by Kawhi James hardened In,

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Vitza Zubats. Everyone else was effective was bad this game

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for the most part. We had some pretty big lineup

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issues with Nick Batoom not being available. We had to

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see some of mere Coffee minutes which were not good.

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Logan Raps saying his blood pressure is bad. Uh, mine

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is great. I feel so much more relaxed now. Also,

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welcome to clips and dip Adam OSM's over on Clippers Talk.

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Will Updyke is unavoidably detained. We're gonna have a full

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crew pod for you tomorrow, but right now we're just

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hanging out, feeling fantastic again about the Clippers getting the

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fifty wins. Logan wraps blood pressure is bad, goodness, gravy.

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Speaker 1: What a game?

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Speaker 3: Almost a disaster, not a disaster, almost a very difficult

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loss to deal with? Forgotten lool Cow saying, from flag

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to OKC to a fifty win season. There we go, right,

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and we should feel good about this. Everyone should feel

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great about this season. Everyone should feel great about this game,

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except for maybe everyone except for Kawhi Harden in Zoo.

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There were some rough performances in this one. Shout out

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to Chris Dunn, who went four for four. We didn't

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waste the Chris Dunn sniper game, which I was really

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worried about. Yes, hats off to James Harden. James Harden

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scored eleven of the twelve Clippers points or eleven of

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the fourteen or whatever it was. James Harden was phenomenal

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down the stretch in this game. We got to see

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Kawhi Leonard absolutely turn it on. Kawhi played forty seven

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minutes for Kawhi, forty eight for James Harden. The guys

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did the Big three for the Clippers did everything that

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they could possibly do to will the Clippers to winning

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this game. Chris Dunn played some fantastic defense on Steph

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Curry especially, I think it was in the second corner,

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third quarter. It was phenomenal. Again he hit all of

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his shots, which I don't know if that'll happen again,

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but that's where we go. Great point from Jamie Mormon.

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You have to be a top three seed to win

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the chip. But what if you have the same record

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as the three seed? As Will Updyke would say, it's

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our year. So I'm gonna go with that. Okay, Kylie Sparks, Hey, Kylie,

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hope you're doing well, saying I just have to shout

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out the four Bros and the Rose Garden at Coachella

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who did a chanting codging circling four seed.

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Speaker 1: Four seed, not quite the four seed, but we will

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take it. The fifth seed.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna do a full regular season kind of decompression

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tomorrow for y'all, Adam Will and myself. But the fact

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that the Clippers win fifty games and the fifth seed

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makes it's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 3: The point is, of course, the Clipper Nation did witchcraft

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in the VIP, which is fantastic, risky thunder saying Clippers

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may never lose again. I don't know if I'm that

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bullish all the Clippers for the rest of the season,

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but this win does feel fantastic. Yeah, I am riding

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a pretty intense Clippers high right now as of three

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forty four. I am not afraid of Denver. I'm afraid

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of Jokich, but I'm not afraid of their team as

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a whole. Okay, we do need to talk about this

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because missing Nick Batoom almost cost this Clippers the game.

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And I don't think that's too hyperbolic of a statement.

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We watched I'm here Coffee had to play. He's coming

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back from an injury. He was he was really rough.

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Boggin Bogdanovich was an issue on defense. He's going to

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be a target. I don't think that was a shock,

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but it was rough today. Jimmy Butler killed the benchline up.

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other issue is Bogden wasn't hitting a shot. So Bogden

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can be a sieve on defense if he's hitting his shots,

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but he was not. He only played fifteen minutes, not

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played off the floor, but effectively kind of just because

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of how poorly he was playing. Ben Simmons played ten minutes.

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He was not very solid either. Having Nick Patum is

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crucial for this Clippers team, and the five days off,

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as f is pointing out, is a blessing. If you're

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listening to this podcast, because I'm going to put this

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out on audio later and you want to watch us

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do these lives, you can follow us at YouTube dot

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Speaker 1: Well, I hate to shave, I look like shit. Yeah,

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the Denver matchup is really interesting again.

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Speaker 3: I feel I like when this person said, I'm not

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afraid of Denver again, afraid of Jokich for sure. Denver

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is a team. If Nick Patum is healthy, I'm giving

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the Clippers the edge. Not comfortably because it's the playoffs

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and anything can happen, but not incredibly uncomfortable. Norman Bogie

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were tough today. Norm picked it up a little bit

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at the end. Norm hit effectively two buzzer beaters in

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this game, which was pretty funny at one point is

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only two makes were uh two buzzer beaters. For the

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most part, the energy for the Clippers really picked up

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in the second Jim Jackson said that the said this

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with like two and a half minutes left in the

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second that that's when the energy really kind of shifted

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up for the Clippers. And he was totally right. There

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was some good defense to easy offense, which they needed.

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We're not I don't know, we're not sweeping the Nuggets.

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I do not think we'll be sweeping the Nuggets. Uh,

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let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here. Let's

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let's not I don't know. I would not put money

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on sweeping the Nuggets.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Who is your guys' player of the game for this one.

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It's probably James Harden thirty nine points, tenn assists. He

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did have six turnovers. The turnovers almost doomed us in

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this one. The turnovers were really sloppy in this one.

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Clippers started this game great and then it really just

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like then it became a really difficult battle. Steph Curry, Uh,

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we had a mini Steph storm, you know what I mean.

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There was like a Steph swell. I guess he still

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scored thirty six points, but it almost felt like it

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could have been worse.

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Speaker 1: Into a Dome is gonna be awesome. I cannot wait.

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Speaker 3: With the into it for the Into It Dome with

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the playoffs, the wall is going to be crazy.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 3: Risky Thunder saying player of the game James secondary would done.

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James Harden was phenomenal. Chris Dunn was really good. He

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was a menace on defense yet again a lot of

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good deflections and he hit all of his shots.

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy we.

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Speaker 3: Didn't waste the four for four night from chrisdal with

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three of those being threes. Yeah, obviously, Cowhi did great.

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Zubots was phenomen When the Clippers basically played through Zoobots

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to start this game and things were going really well,

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Zoo got doubled very quickly in this game.

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Speaker 1: He responded great.

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Speaker 3: He had some turnovers, he didn't get a couple of calls,

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but overall, I think you got to be really encouraged

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from the intensity at which Zoo was able to deal

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with the double teams and stuff like that. Yeah, the

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wall is absolutely gonna be extra out of pocket with

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the posters. It's gonna be a good time harder. Turnovers

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were terrible the first half, Yes, they were. There was

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some bad from the first half. There's some miscommunication on defense,

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which is why Bogga didn't play a lot. Who's just

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getting blown by j C C saying, why do you

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feel so comfortable with the Nuggets? Rockets would have been

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the easier matchup. I don't feel so comfortable with the Nuggets.

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to guard James Harden. And if you don't have anyone

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who's able to guard James Harden with how much better

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I think Norm will play than he's been playing. Kawhi

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is playing so well too. They just don't have the

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defensive chops I don't think for how the Clippers play

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we talked about on the last full pod we talked

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about so maybe Yokic is the best player in this series. Maybe,

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but two, three, four are all Clippers you have in

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no particular order. Kawhi, Harden, Zoo are the next best three.

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So that's why I feel comfortable about it. Also, the upheaval,

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the coaching change, I don't think that helps them out,

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Speaker 1: And this is not to disrespect the Nuggets.

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Speaker 3: That's not I do not think it will be uh,

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you know, a cakewalk or anything like that. But that's

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why I feel more comfortable with the Nuggets than some

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Speaker 1: I feel like, right, I don't know. This is a

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great comment. Buddy Hill thought he was Chris Dune.

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Speaker 3: Horrible last shot, great last play drawn up by Steve Kerr.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just a just a rough go of it.

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Speaker 3: I guess I wanted to talk about to uh. Moses

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mean Jimmy Butler again killed the bench. I think we

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saw we saw the worst bench game we'll see, and

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missing Nick Patub Devil dog Aaron C saying, I wish

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Ben Simons would dunk when he his three from the basket.

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like you just gotta go up with that man. He

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quietly had kind of a bad game. He found Derek

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Jones Junior with a really nice pass. I think it

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in the third. But other than that, Ben Simmons was

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a little rough today. Wow, that's crazy. Six assists, his

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most in ten games done. Absolutely stepped up. Christin was

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phenomenal in this game. He did everything that we needed

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him to do, which is awesome.

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Speaker 1: I have to now.

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Speaker 3: I'm also out of town next weekend, so that'll be fun.

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Nuggets matchup. Yeah, Buggie needs to be better, but was rough.

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get him played off in the playoffs, which will not

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Speaker 1: But he was I don't want to say he.

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thought to be good, but it was rough that when

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the start, when starters are playing more minutes like they

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staying on the court. Wise, I think he can heat up, obviously,

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not shooting good, it's a really tough go. Bogie was rough.

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Derek Jose Junior, Duncan Curry was amazing. I think Brian

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Semens said, it's like, I don't think Steph recognized who

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was going up there, and I think he was right.

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to stop it. But that was a big energy play

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that the Clippers needed. I think Derek Jones Jr. Bringing

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a lot of good energy yet again. Yeah, John de Ware,

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good tonight. And he's not very good because you have

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to have him out there next to someone like Nick

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patom And and stuff like that to help space and whatnot.

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this game. The bench was really bad this game. I

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don't think anyone would deny that. At eight points this game.

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the bench. This is what happens when Nick Patuba is out,

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you know what I mean? Ben Simmons will play some

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meaningful minutes, but he's not gonna play a ton of them.

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I mean, even with a shortened rotation today, right, Ben

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Speaker 1: Meaningful minutes if that makes sense. Hell yeah, sending huge

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Speaker 3: Let's go, we got as Drew you makes Australian do

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I thought he was Australian because

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Speaker 3: Shout out Australia. Hope y'all are doing well. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: He had. He passed up an easy one today. I'm not.

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna deny that at all. It was a

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rough Ben Simmons game. Get away from me, kiddie. Yeah,

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Murray is gonna be back, but hobbled Jamal Murray. The

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Clippers are effectively fully healthy. Knock on wood. Nico should

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be back. They get some rest, might be a week

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that would be nice, but the Clippers are healthier than

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the Nuggets. See thank you for Shizzle Bizzel. I'm not

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crazy for thinking Drew Eubanks was Australian.

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Speaker 1: Is this the.

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Speaker 3: Mandela effect thing? Let us know if you think it is.

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For some reason, he has us he gives off Australian vibes.

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I guess, yeah, that's true. I guess people don't consider

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Ben Simmons Australian despite being from there. Yes, Harden answered

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the call, as he did all season this season. We're

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gonna again, We're gonna do a full breakdown, just kind

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of decompressing from the season tomorrow for y'all with Will,

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Adam and myself. No, Harden was phenomenal today and I'm

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really happy. The Clippers played some bad basketball at points

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in this game. There are some unforced errors, some not

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cohesive defense that took place. They played some bad basketball.

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I'm really happy they at least started the game well

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because they could remember, you know, they could just fall

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back into that rhythm.

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it was never gonna be a blowout or anything like that. Yeah,

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Zoo every time, Zoo base. They basically played through Zoo

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for the first six minutes of this game, and that

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was some of the best that they looked in this game.

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Steve Kerr, but the team looked really good to open

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the game. They were playing through Zoo for the most part.

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just rough, soft switching. Adam Oswoll was complaining about that. Yeah,

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we talked about this during as hard and already a

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better Clipper than PG is what they're asking.

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Speaker 1: Harden. Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 3: I think this is the way I mean as of

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right now, like one hundred percent, because you just have

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a guy who's doing the things he said he was

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gonna do and very well. Right he's saying, give I

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can do this, let me help, right, Like he's been

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a great leader to start to open the season. He

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was taking the young guys in le Rico Hines runs,

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they did the workouts at ASU. He doesn't have a

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stupid podcast. He backs up.

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Speaker 1: What he says.

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Speaker 3: There's no excuses really with Harden. Yeah, I think Harden's

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a better Clipper than PG. He's been phenomenal. It's absolutely crazy.

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I thought someone else said, Okay, thank you Andy Ate

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two eight one, two ninety three.

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Speaker 1: Did he come from the Australian League.

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Speaker 3: For those of you just joining, if you thought that

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Drew Eubanks Will was Australian, put it in the chat

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because there's dozens of us apparently who thought that Drew

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you Banks was Australian.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I love this point from Clipper Alex. We played mature

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basketball today. It was a playoff game. They played a

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mature playoff game. That's a great call. Some chaotic calls.

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Steph got hot towards the end. Really also seems like

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Steph's thumb is ft.

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Speaker 1: Which is tough. See Yeah, no podcast is huge for

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James Harden.

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Speaker 3: I don't have to hear of bullshit while he lost

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or anything like that. And he plays, he is available.

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He's not only available, he is incredible when he is

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available and has been a culture center for the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: Very much. So, Man, what hell of a win? That

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was incredible?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Curry had eight turnovers, Harden had six or something

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like that. It's high usage intensity, It's gonna happen like

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it's annoying. You just hope that they're not as boneheaded

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as Yeah, Kawhi had five turnovers in this game. Like

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we can talk about Harden having bad turnovers. Kai also

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had five. Norm had two really bad turnovers.

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Speaker 1: So it was just tough.

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Speaker 3: What's up with Tyler's refusal to put Dereck Jones Junior

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in over Norm? The lack of adjustment is gonna cost

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us a champion of this year if he doesn't change. Uh, Well,

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we have seen Tyler change, so I think we can

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take some solace in that. It's not like we're not

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accustomed to seeing Tyler make changes in the playoffs and

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the Clippers aren't playing well. They're losing, so there could

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be changes on deck for sure, but you do that

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because that's just who's been playing well. I'm surprised you

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didn't say you wanted to put DJJ in overdone because

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those lineup numbers are actually better. TD saying Chuck Nuggets

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are a good team. I know they're a good team.

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Speaker 1: I did not say they're gonna be a pushover team.

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Speaker 3: I just feel it's gonna be. I feel comfortable in

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the playoffs sense.

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Speaker 1: For this team.

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Speaker 3: It's probably gonna be a dogfight. I didn't I don't

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think it'll be. It's not gonna be a sweep at

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all or anything like that. But I like the Clippers chances.

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The matchup I think favors the Clippers. We'll get more

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into it next week, of course, but it's gonna be interesting. Yeah,

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still has to be respected, still helps the spacing, But yeah,

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not a good game. LA Clippers Film just tweeted this.

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He said game was kind of escaping the Clippers late

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in the fourth and Kristen's playmaking out of the short

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rule stabilize them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Done, got the ball a couple of times in

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the middle of the paint with no one around him.

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You hit a floater on one.

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Speaker 3: He made the right outlet pass on a couple of rooms. Yeah,

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Chris Donne was fantastic today. Nougs, Bugs, Hugs, Clippers and five.

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I don't know if it's gonna be five. I do

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not think it will be five.

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Speaker 1: Like that. Series will still probably go six. Most likely.

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Speaker 3: This wind does buy Betune sometime. I think the Lord

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Hopefully he's okay. We're still waiting for some post game quotes.

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Let me get over to last Twitter real quick because

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we need Niko Batum. You saw what happened.

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Speaker 1: A vizza. Zubas needs to win MIP also, which is insane.

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That needs to happen. For sure he won't, but it

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needs to. Man. I just feel good after this win.

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Speaker 3: Yes, everyone, please please pray for Nico's growing. Put that

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put one in the air for Nico's growing.

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Speaker 1: It's very funny. Yeah, I don't know. I feel I

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feel great.

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Speaker 3: I do have some questions about what this team's gonna

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look like in the playoffs in terms of rotations. It's

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hard to get a sense of it without Nick Watum

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being healthy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is fair.

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Speaker 3: One thing that always makes Clipper Alex's blood boil is

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how often z he was fould but the fact that

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he's so big he doesn't flop.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of non calls. Yes, how can you go back

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and forth? Someone's asking, do we still prefer Bogey to KPJ?

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I go back and forth. Yes a thousand times. Yes,

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he can do more than and KPJ, and is a

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better fit for the team. We've seen the team play

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so much better with Bogie then with KPJ. Why are

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you worried about that right now? That's so funny Edward

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John saying Norm's confidence is in the garage. Well, that

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means he can just open the door and take it

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right out. So I think that'll be fine. Yeah, when

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he's not making shots, everyone's a liability. But I don't

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think tylu is going to change the starting lineup for

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the NBA playoffs. Call me crazy, I just don't think

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that's gonna happen. I also like, what do we think

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is more common Norm Powell to shoot thirty percent for

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the rest of the playoffs or Norm to get back

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to his usual self. I think it'd be fine. I

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think Norm's going to be okay. I think we're gonna

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see better, and it's distributions obviously, Like I don't think

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Norm will have to play forty four minutes. That's another consequence,

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right of not having Patomas. Everyone's minutes got crunched. Amir

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only played three minutes, Ben Simmons played ten minutes. Having

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the having Nico back will be a lot better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 3: There's people who are upset about the result. They won

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fifty games and they're in the five seed and they

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have a matchup against the Nuggets that they can win.

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They can absolutely win. I think we could feel pretty cat.

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We get the rest, which is phenomenal. We very much

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need Norm back one hundred Yeah, we really need Norm back.

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We need Nico back one hundred percent as well. The

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Big three played phenomenal today, which is fantastic. Okay, I mean,

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I'm not gonna go back and forth about KPJ versus Bogdanovic.

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You can miss KPJ. That's totally fine. I would wait,

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I would think about other things.

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Speaker 1: Then.

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Speaker 3: Kevin Porter Junior on the Clippers. He because he's not

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on the team anymore. Yeah, the bench was incredibly bad today. Uh,

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we talked about it a little bit. Bogie's gonna be

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hunted to the max in this Denver matchup for sure,

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So yeah, we don't have to regard Westbrook either.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Norm is clutch. He hit two At one point.

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Speaker 3: The only field goals he hit in this game were

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with less than a minute on the clock in their

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respective quarters, So that's good. Thankfully he hit those. Yeah,

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I'm feeling pretty good about this one. We are going

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to have a full episode for y'all tomorrow, and then

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another preview episode for the first round against the Nuggets

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as well. Later on this week, we're gonna give out

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some regular season awards. We'll preview that game again against

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the Nuggets. Go listen to Adam over on at Clippers Talk.

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He's probably gonna be Adam was probably gonna stream from

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the end of this game just until the end of

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the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Adam just might be on a continuous stream over there. Yeah,

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John to Ware, this is kind of how I don't

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and it feel good.

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Speaker 3: I think for me, it means feel good in the

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playoffs since right the games is probably still gonna go

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six games, but I feel that the Clippers are feeling good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Kawhi free throws were wonky today. I will

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say that the Kawhi free throws felt just annoying, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's fine to be annoyed by him.

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Speaker 1: Simmons isn't supposed to look at the basket. He does.

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Speaker 3: There are some times where it's like he had he

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passed up one today, Logan, I think that's fair. Someone

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named we Roland is upset that the Sippers won in

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the comments. I don't know what to tell you. The

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Clippers got the dub. I'm gonna pop over and see

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if Adam needs help. On the Clippers talk stream, We're

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gonna have a full episode for you all tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Again. I've been Chuck Mockler. Thank you for hanging out.

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Speaker 3: Here's to fifty wins, Here's to the five seed. Let's

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feel good. Great way to end the weekend. Onto the

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Nuggets next week, hopefully play Sunday. Give Nico a little

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more time off. Yeah, have a good rest of your night,

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and let's all be grateful that the LA Clippers won

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fifty games. Shout out to the LA Clippers, thanks for

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hanging out.