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Speaker 1: What's going on Clipper fans coming at you live here

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from the Clips and Dip one of the Clips and

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Dips studios. I am Chuck Mockler. The Clippers just beat

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the Hawks behind a great game from Kawhi one of

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his most encouraging games. I mean in their return for sure,

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especially on the defensive side of the ball. Excuse me,

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that's been something we've been looking for from him, which

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is fantastic of each a Zubots. They could not really

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deal with him at all down low they get He

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got the ball late to help kind of ice this one.

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But it is a good game. I mean the third

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quarter of the Clippers won thirty five to eight, which

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I don't know how often that will happen later on

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in the season, but I don't know. It's a good game.

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It's nice that the Clippers can come back to LA

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with a win. They got the Hornets on Sunday and

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then a very difficult stretch, but being able to beat

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the Hawks and then getting this matchup against the Hornets

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is great. But I mean, again, Kawhi Leonard fantastic on

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both ends of the ball today tonight. This was his

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best defensive game in his You know since his return.

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I think hard team to play defense against since the

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All Star Break. The Hawks were putting up like one

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hundred and twenty one points per game since the All

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Star Break and play at a pace it's a lot

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faster than the Clippers. So being able to keep up

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with them and make life difficult was really really encouraging.

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Not ready to make any giant, you know, takes or

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assumptions about the Clippers after this game, but they won

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a game that they should have won, which is always

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a bonus. Zoo had a really efficient game, only got

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nine shots, but he still put up eighteen points. James

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Harden had some turnovers early. I think he had four

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in the first quarter or something, at least three, and

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then he handed it with six, so he cooled it down,

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which is good. What's up, Brian Rojas? What do you got?

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Tyler does a great job of adjusting for the second

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half of the game. Yes, yes, part of that. The

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the jumping energy the Clippers had in the third quarter

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to start was fantastic. It was really cool to see. Obviously,

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their the Hawks couldn't hit water if they fell out

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of the boat in that quarter, so that helped. But

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the the energy before the Hawks started missing. Everything was

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really awesome. You had Nico making good defensive plays. Chris

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Dunn made really good defensive plays to open up the

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second half. It was good. Got Simmons bogie director, Junior

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Coffee have potential. Uh yeah, this was a good game

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to understand why Ben Simmons is valuable to the Clippers.

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I don't think anyone was really questioning that. But this

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was a game where you see how good and helpful

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Ben Simmons is in terms of bringing the ball up.

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He played good defense, He was solid tonight. He didn't

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obviously light it up from scoring, but he did everything

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else that he was brought here to do, which is

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more important than the scoring. So he did everything. It

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was more important than the scoring tonight. Which is a

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fantastic game from Ben Simmons. And he looked good out there.

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He didn't look like he was worried about, you know,

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the knee or anything like that, which is great. A

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meror another efficient game. Seven guys in double digits for

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the Clippers, which is great. This is a good This

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is a nice like building block, maybe something starting to

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happen when being able to get this win and then

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if things go as they should against the Hornets. The

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Clippers go into a really tough stretch with a lot

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a moment but after the thunder, yeah, Kashgar's under then

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away to the Knicks and then the Nuts and then

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the Calves again. So a pretty tough stretch coming up

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for the Clippers. Fantastic that they get this win ahead

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of a game that they should be able to take

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care of uh Sunday against the Hornets. But the Hawks tonight,

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no one scored twenty points, which is awesome. I gotta

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give a hats off to oh Konglu. He had an

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absurd block on Dirk Jones Junior when the Hawks were

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kind of making a weird little something happen and Tyler

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had to call the time out. He had a really

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good block on Dirk Jones Junior. Yeah, I think the

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biggest takeaway from his gating drop years in the chat,

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Kawhi looked great on both sides of the ball. Outside

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shooting wasn't there, but I'm not super worried about that.

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There was a good stat from Justin Russo about why

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that I wanted to read out. Kawhi had at least

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ten points in the paint tonight. Which is the fifth

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time in his last six games. He'd only done it

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twice all season before this current stretch of Kawhi scoring

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in the paint. So that's encouraging, right. We got Kawhi using,

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you know, slowing things down, being able to score in

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the paint, which is huge that hadn't been happening. And

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he looked really good defensively as well. So a very

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encouraging Kawhi leaner game got to be hyped. On that,

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Ryan Rojas asking do you see Norm playing Sunday or

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should he hold off for the tougher games. Law Murray

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was on pregame with Adam Mouzon, who I'm assuming most

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of the other people are watching over on Clippers Talk,

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and he said that Norm wasn't out, but he wasn't back,

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so there's kind of some I got uncertainty, but in

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a good way. So it seems like there's a decent

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chance that he comes back for the tougher games. I

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don't think he'll play Sunday, uh, but I think he

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if they need him for those tougher games. I would

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not be surprised if he's back. That's what lat Murray said.

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I'm going with that when they need him back. Jeremy

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Mormon with the great call here, Zoo's going to make

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those double teams pay when Norman is in the opposite quarner.

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So that's the other funny thing. Zoo's hitting this great

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stride while he's seeing a lot more doubles with Norm out.

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I don't know how much they're gonna double Zoo when

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Norm is back, because, as you're pointing out, that would

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be insane. So there's gonna Zoo's gonna have more opportunities

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to be one on one, uh when Norm is back,

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which is gonna be awesome because he is absolutely crushing it.

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Alan's saying great second half. Yeah, thirty five to eight

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quarter again, probably won't happen in game, but will absolutely

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take it. Yeah, Sam Frank's pointing this out. Zoo had

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a couple uh different spin moves to buckets tonight. The

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low post footwork was really awesome to see from Zoo.

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He was absolutely killing it and again making good reads. Yeah, Zoo,

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I think things are again. I think things are only

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gonna get better for Zoo. He closed tonight. He played

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thirty minutes, went two of three from the line, which

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has been kind of bad. This year, which is weird,

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but Zoo's got I think Zoo's even has more good

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games coming because when Norm comes back, they're not gonna

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be doubled off Norm, assuming Derrek Jones Junior is gonna

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be in the starting lineup or Nico with toomb Nico

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had a great game tonight too. Nico has played some

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really good basketball over the last like two weeks or so.

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He spent He was phenomenal. I know, seven boards. I

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didn't realize it was that many. He had one of everything,

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including a turnover. But who cares, goofy. It wasn't awesome win.

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Ben Simmons looked solid. Guy Hilaire is not impressed with

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Zoo's defense tonight. Yeah, I guess that's fair. I will

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say I don't watch a lot of the Hawks, but

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Okongo had a really good game. He seems good and

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annoying to play against. The Hawks did a lot of

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damage against the Clippers. I mean, obviously early in this

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one of the Clippers came out kind of slow. They

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had nine turnovers in the first quarter. I want to say, yeah,

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it was a lot of turnovers, but the Hawks had

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had eight, so I mean that wasn't that big a deal,

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but this was a game. I think also that a

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better team would have made, a better defensive team would

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have made this game a lot harder for the Clippers.

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Because a game you have a quarter where you turn

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the ball over nine times but you only lose a

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turnover battle by one, that that's pretty good. And the

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Hawks are bad at defense. So coming into this game,

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the Hawks were twenty fifth in defensive running and they

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were top ten, but they were top ten to three

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point shooting, So the early three point shooting from the

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Hawks made sense. That carried over, but the bad defense

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also carried over to they had eight turnovers in the

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third quarter when they only scored eight points, also disastrous

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for that. Dunn was unreal on defense but unplayable on offense.

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From Miles Johnson, it's part I mean, we're gonna see

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what it looks like in the playoffs, because in the

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regular season it's fine when everyone else is playing well. Again,

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seven guys in double digits tonight, did Dunn even score? No,

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Dune didn't even score and he was still plus three.

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I'm chuckling because it's the regular season. I think in

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the playoffs it's gonna be interesting to see what Dun's

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usage is and what lineup season. I think Dun's gonna

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be used more when the Clippers go five out with Well,

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but then if Simmons is out there, then you don't

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have as much shooting. But if you could go really

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weird five out where you go like Norm Harden, dumb

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Kawhi batoom, but I don't know that's weird, It's gonna

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be interesting to see when it turns out the playoffs

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because we need his defense. His defense is phenomenal. He

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is one of the best perimeter defenders in the NBA.

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But he's Yeah, it's not good, goofy aback saying. Speaking

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of DJ Nico, all the credit to them. They're probably

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the most consistent to slate stretch. Good call. They've had

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some good game Derek Jones juner since his return to

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You see what difference he makes for this team. The

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athleticism was crazy. We had a really good put back

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dunk in the first I think that was the first,

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but it was good. Shit. I want to know how

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many free throws the Clippers ended up with. The Clippers

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ended up with twenty free throws, which is crazy because

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at half they only had four, so the Clippers got

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six teen free throws in the second half, which was

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a very big help. I'll have to check once they

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update it, but I assume a fair amount of those

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happened in the third as well. Would be my guess.

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Done played great against t Young. That is more important

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than his offense, to be honest. The issue with that, though,

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is better defense is than the Hawks are going to

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funnel the ball towards Chris Dunn. I will said, Ryan Done,

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because your name is Ryan. So that's the issue. Like,

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the Hawks are bad at defense statistically, but teams like

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the Thunder and stuff will figure out ways for Chris

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Dunn to get the ball in his hands on the perimeter.

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We saw it tonight. There was a couple of times

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where it was Done and Nico, who were all the perimeter,

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and the Hawks left both of them, and then Nico

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ended up getting the ball. So I it's gonna be

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I know, he's a very, He's an elite defender. I'm

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not crediting that part at all. Yes, Miles Harden at

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twenty seven points per game post All Star is super impressive. Yeah,

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I think someone else said in the chat that this

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is like a very. It's very encouraging that he has

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this much in the tank. Still fair amount of games left,

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but yeah, I mean, the dude just keeps going. I

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don't he was fantastic tonight. The turnovers look bad, and

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they were bad to start this game, for sure, but

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then he chilled out on the turnovers, which was great.

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It wasn't a consistent thing. The hands were really active.

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I mentioned Nico and Dunn and the third being really

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good at defense, but harden was had had active hands

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too in the passing lanes. So it was a really

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nice collective effort defensively. In the third I heard the

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Clippers called the Bulls for Ao Jsunmu funny story. That

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was my pick in the Lockdown h NBA mock draft

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one year, I said that the Clipper should draft Day.

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I'm just gonna that would be cool. I don't know

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what they would do about that because it's past the

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trade deadline. Good to see Tyler back. I haven't even

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mentioned that he's been out with back stuff. So happy

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that Tyler was back. Gotta win. That was cool, just

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a kind of It was a it was a little

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uneasy to start, but yeah, Ryan's saying their defense, their

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defense did look good to start that third quarter the

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way the Clippers came out though. We got to see

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the Clippers use defense in the offense and it was awesome. Yeah,

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the Hawks and the Hawks' defense went back to the mead,

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which is bad post All Star break. So that's kind

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of where we're at. Sam Franks, I just want to

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see this team healthy. Ben Simmons looking good too, Yeah,

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I yeah, I agree. I would like to see this

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team healthy as well. We're getting there. Norm Powell probably,

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he's is seemingly in the mix for the games after

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the Hornets game for what Law Murray said over on

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Clippers Talk before the game tonight, So that's encouraging. So

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they're pretty close to healthy. They're like probably five days

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in a long time. Just pretty rad. So I don't

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think we'll have to wait too long. We might have

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to give Norm some Grace's got to get back into

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these missaffair amount of games. He's got to get back

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to the groove. But the team is gonna have the

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full roster pretty soon. Goofyah saying random, but are you

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faithful in us beating the Wolves in the plane to

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get the preferred prison playoffs. I hope the Wolves lose tonight.

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I think so it's not I'll have to go back

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and look at the matchups more. But if the Clippers

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kind of keep trending in this way, if Kawhi keeps trending,

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I mean, it's a good point too. If Kawhi keeps

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trending the way he started hopefully to tonight. Defensively, I

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like it a lot. I like it the chances. I'm

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not overwhelmingly excited, but I like the chances, and tends

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to have some good games against the Clippers, which is

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nervous making. But if Kawhi can put together these more

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performances like the saw like the one we saw tonight. Defensively,

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I mean and offensively, he was great, obviously, but we've

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seen that a lot more since he's been back, as

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opposed to the defense. So if he can get the

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defense going more like it was tonight, if Harden can

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continue to be insane, if norm can bring back the

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efficient scoring, as as Sam said, if this team could

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just get healthy, stop me if you've heard that one before,

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I mean, yeah, the playing game, I feel pretty good

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about bog Good. Vogdanovic also tonight two for two from three.

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His ability to hit open three or any three is

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really and be able to put the ball before it's

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going to be huge. Uh, someone's saying that, Yeah, they're

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they're figuring it out like the Warriors. The Clippers are.

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There's there's seeds planted of the Clippers starting to figure

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it out themselves. Once Norm gets back, that's let's talk

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about the field. Once Norm gets back, that's a big

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help too. But without Norm, who isn't like a plug

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and play guy, but he's still a guy who can

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get back into the offense pretty easily. If they go

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with the lineup that I think they'll go with, which

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is Norm. Harden Kawhi Derek Jones Junior Adam said maybe

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so maybe Beatum two who knows in Zoo. I think

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they can start figuring things out too, which is good.

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And again this is conditional on the Clippers playing well.

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On Sunday, the Hornets scored one hundred and forty six

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points to day versus the Spurs. God damn, that's a

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lot of points. Did they win? Okay? Yeah, they also

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gave I don't know, I don't yeah, I mean get

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it out of their system now, I guess that's fine

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with me. Score one hundred and forty six points against

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who's even healthy for this person? Damn not anyone that good.

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I'm happy they scored one hundred and forty six points today, right,

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shouldn't we want that to happen today? Right? If Norm

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is back, who gets moved out? I think we don't

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really know. There's no real indication to know, because we've

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seen a couple different starting lineups, and we've had Derick

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Jones Junior out too, So maybe Ty saw something that

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he liked. I think they should go with what it

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had been consistently for a while when everyone was healthy,

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which was harden More Kawhi, Derek Jones Jr. Bots In

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my head, it's simple, but I maybe I have it

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just a simple brain, So I'm gonna go with that.

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I could also see. I don't know, if you put

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Nico in Derek Jones junior spot, you don't go three guards,

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you know, I don't think you go. I don't think

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Ty goes hardened Norm done Kauhisu. That feels crazy because

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they've played with traditional size positionally throughout the year, So

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I think I think they go back to what the

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usual I'm not gonna say regular. Whatever. The version of

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regular is, this version of the Clippers, that's what it is.

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They like DJ scoring up a bench they I'm sure

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they do, but I mean, Nico, he did play twenty

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two minutes tonight. Maybe they're ramping them up because I

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mean a bench of Bogden, Derek Jones, Junior, Ben Simmons,

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Emir Chris Down that's not bad. It's not a bad bench. Um, yeah,

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you absolutely nailed it, nailed it. I also think, yeah,

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you can't do three guards. He's not gonna do three guards.

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But we've we've been traumatized with that before. And I

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don't necessarily like this. But Adam and Will said on

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the last pot too, that it's gonna be a little,

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uh matchup dependent for the playoffs. Whatever the Clippers play

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in the regular season, they probably won't have the same

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line up for the playoffs. It just feels like there's

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been having to be too much experimentation. Again, we've said

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this before. You could probably go back three hundred and

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sixty five days and hear one of us say this

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take again. You know what I mean. But like that's

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where we're at. What's up center? J ruh, Ryan Rowhouse.

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Would it be weird for Simmons to start and move

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down to the bench once Norm is back? Yeah, I

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think so, mostly because we've seen what the bench looks

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like when Dunn has to initiate the offense or something

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like that. I don't. I don't think they moved. I

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think it would be weird. Uh, Dun's moved to the bench.

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Either way, once Norm is back, the offense needs it.

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It's not like the offense really needs to have Norm

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Harden an offensive Norm Harden and Kawhi with Derreck Jones

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Junior at the four or let's say Nick patuone at

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the four and it beats the Zoo Bots. Sure you

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lose some defensively, but the offense is so much better.

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And that's what the Clippers have had issues with and

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if they can get it figured out, especially for the

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slower playoff stuff, I think that that's great, but you

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can't as many shooters out there as you can have.

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I think it's what the Clippers go with. And Ben

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Simmons is also he plays he plays a role of

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do everything except for shoot, so he really has to

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initiate the offense for the second unit because no one

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else can't. He's the second best guy doing it on

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the team. Done is not good at bringing ball as

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the ball up the court though, which is the issue.

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It's kind of I don't know if it's a problem

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that the Clippers have with the rotation, but it's definitely

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like we're all kind of wondering what's going on. Right.

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It doesn't feel like there's a lot of bad options,

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but I feel like everyone's kind of like, what's going on. Well,

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it's not bad to overthink it because the Clippers again

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have so many guys where it's like, sure I could

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see him starting, but you know what I mean. But

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Harden rm kwaibatum zoo not mad at that. It seems

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like I'm gonna have to check it's Niko's. I'm gonna

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have to I'm looking at Nico's minutes so far thirty

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three four, okay, so not incredible. They're not like ramping

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him up really or anything like that, I guess, or

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maybe they are because Nico's starting is not bad. He

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does a lot of good things. He was so crucial

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in the third tonight. Him and Done who I know,

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but him and Donners really we're really good in the

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third quarter of tonight again, I scored eight. I know,

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but Tyler's also said a lot of other things. Uh

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Done is not very good at bring the ball up

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to the court. I just don't think they're starting Ben Simmons,

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and I think it just no. And I don't think

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like you can't like you're gonna have Norm on the bench,

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like you can't start Harden Norman done. I don't know

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if play through Zoo exactly, but maybe give him some

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more options. It's gonna look when Norm comes back, the

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Zoo shot diet is gonna be very interesting because even

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tonight he had nine shots. So when Norm comes back,

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because he's gonna have to get going and stuff like that,

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Zoo's gonna have better matchups. Is he going to get

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I mean, I'm assuming gonna be the same amount of shots,

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but this is the Zoo shot diet he's gonna have.

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He's been fantastically efficient, but his shot diet is going

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to be very interesting once Norm gets back. I don't

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think they're gonna be playing through Zoo. I don't think.

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I mean, if the Kawhi looks like he looks tonight

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and Harden keeps doing these things, Zoo is needed for sure,

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when things get sticky and whatnot, I think they should

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play through Zoo a little bit more. But when Norm

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comes back, what does that look like for Zoo. So

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there's some questions that need to be figured out by TYLERU.

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But again it's that scenario of like it's all, it's

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all like it doesn't seem bad. Yeah, yeah, you played

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with the fifty million player. But yeah, uh so Tyler

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has some stuff to figure out. But the Clippers will

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probably be I mean, they'll have the full rotation in

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a week for sure, But I think the big I'm

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about to head out in a few But I think

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the biggest takeaway again from this game for me uh

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Kawhi Leonards defense looking really good at his best defensive

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game in a minute. He looked good when he came

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back against the Hawks two. But this is a good

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point Ryan. He has been getting doubled more. That will

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happen less with Norm coming back. So I think the

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shot diet will probably stay. Actually exactly the same is

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what it is. I don't think he'll have any twenty

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field goal with ten games, maybe on the back to back.

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We don't know what norms. You know, minutes looks like

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or something like that, So I think, actually, this is

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a good point. I think it'll probably stay the same.

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But yeah, here's to the Clippers winning against the Hornets

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on Sunday. The Hornets put up a shit tonn of

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points against the Spurs, so let's hope it's out of

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their system. That would be pretty cool. Biggest takeaways Kawhi

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Leonards defense looking good, Zoo being efficient was fantastic. Harden

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children on the turn of everyone was pretty efficient. Everyone

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shot above fifty percent except for Chris Dunn, who shot

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zero percent and Ben Simmons who shot twenty five percent.

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Everyone else was above fifty percent tonight. So a lot

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went right for the Clippers shooting wise, which is awesome.

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They were able to make a Hawks team that had

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scored like a buck twenty since the All Star Break

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every game feel uncomfortable and whatnot. It wasn't pretty the

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whole game, you know, but they held a team. They

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held the Hawks to twenty points below what they had

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been scoring since the All Star Break. Part of that

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is a huge third quarter that involved really good energy

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to open the frame, really good defensive play to lead

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the offense, and the Hawks just losing their minds. Thirty

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five to eight is one of the craziest quarters you'll

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see all season. Ryan ROAs bad energy out there saying,

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diavante revenge game on Sunday. Probably at this point, Sure,

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what did he put up tonight? Hold on, how many

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did he put up? They also, they put up one

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hundred and forty five. They won by eleven musahds zero points.

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That's very funny, that's hilarious. I'm Diabat's part. I'm glad

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he's getting right. He didn't get that much run. But again,

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they put up one hundred and forty five, they won

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by eleven. The Clippers have a chance, I know, I'm

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kind of talking to it right now, which I know

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usually do. The Clippers have a chance to have the

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start two thirds of a wind streak going heading into

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a really tough week if they can get by the

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Hornets on Sunday. I really hope they keep playing the

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same defense and whatnot. Yeah, let's hope this Kawhi defense

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keeps going. He's gonna have a chance to really show

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it up off after this game against the Hornets because

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they have great I love it. That's awesome. And when

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Norm comes back, it should be better. Yeah, this this

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team again, it's not like there we go. It's not

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like you know, I don't there's the building blocks have

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been started, you know, to be carved out. I guess

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it's how I feel about this Clippers team right now.

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They have a lot to show us in terms of consistency,

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especially against good teams. They have a brutal schedule coming up. Calves, Grizzlies,

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thunder All at home thankfully, and then the Knicks in

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New York. This starts after the game against the Hornets,

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so they're going really low to really high with who

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they're who they're playing. Hey, thanks, goofy. I have a

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good one with who they're playing. So like, if they

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can go and we're gonna do a full episode on

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Monday for y'all, myself, Will and Adam Calves, Grizzlies, thunder Knicks,

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if they split that, I'm pretty happy with a two

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and two over that stretch, because any of any of

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the two wins are good. Even if you say in

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your head, if you go, oh, well, okay, so the

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Knicks is the easiest one easiest they beat the Knicks,

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that means they're beating one of the Grizzlies, Calves or Thunder.

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I would like them to beat the Western Conference team

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one of them. That would be great, but any of

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these wins would be good to get one hund This

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is where we found out what we're made of. They should,

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I don't. They're gonna get norm back at some point

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in this stretch. Unclear when it's gonna be LOAMRII did

470
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allude to it on clipperstock, which is sick. But this

471
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is where we find out, kind of with the good momentum,

472
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if they can get to win on Sunday, which they should,

473
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I mean like they should be able to do that,

474
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there's gonna be some seeds planted. Yes, Norma is going

475
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to get back in the rotation. He's probably gonna be

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back with it a week, is what it seems like.

477
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So it's gonna be a good time. We are gonna

478
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learn a lot about this team. I'm not ready to

479
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change my prediction of probably a first round exit New Real.

480
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No more complaining when we win by twenty plus fair

481
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the Clippers need wins by twenty one. That's very funny.

482
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That's a good bit. Uh, norm Is I keep saying

483
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I'm gonna leave, but I'm not Norm is getting reevaluated.

484
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We don't know when. I don't know that information has

485
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not been public yet, but from what we heard from

486
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Lot Murray on Clippers Talk, it seems like Norm is

487
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seemingly available for this tough stretch of games. Not sure

488
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if it happens on Sunday, but they have a really

489
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tough stretch of games, and like people have been saying,

490
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this is where we find out what the team is

491
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made of. And there's not that much time left, so

492
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we got to see where it goes. There's I'm not

493
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ready to be excited yet because we've all been hurt

494
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before a million times the same way by the Clippers team.

495
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But I'm leaning into it a little bit. We'll see

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where I'm at after the game on Sunday. If you

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want to watch our episode before this, Adam I previewed

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this game. You can find all the on the channel.

499
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Subscribe to Clips and dip. It's at Clippers Podcast on YouTube.

500
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Thanks for hanging out. We'll have a full episode with myself,

501
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Will Updike and Adam Osme. He's on Clippers Talk. Go

502
00:31:58,319 --> 00:32:01,720
listen to him and let's go clips. Let's there's something

503
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maybe starting to kind of be figured out, is how

504
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I feel about the Clippers. And that's without Norm coming back.

505
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So when Norm gets back, we will be in full

506
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on something definitely maybe is possibly happening for the Clippers.

507
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See you next time. Here's to beating the hornets. Please

508
00:32:19,279 --> 00:32:21,799
don't put us into purgatory before we go into this

509
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very brutal stretch. All right, we'll see all it