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Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans welcomed to season three,

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episode thirty nine of Clips. If Kawhi Leonard is back

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with the Clippers, Adam will and I are back to

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talk about Kawhi Leonard being back. We are Clips and Dip.

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Thank you for hanging out with us. I am Chuck Brockler.

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Adam Ozma's here, so is Will Updike. Thank you for listening.

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

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at YouTube dot com such at Clippers Podcast. We're talking

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mostly Kawhi today. We're talking how we felt he looked

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in his debut, it into it, expectations now that he's back.

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Then we're gonna talk a little bit about the Nuggets

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and Wolves road trip. But before we get into that,

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Fellas Adam, we know we're burning daylight, so we will

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get into the Clippers talk quick. How are you doing?

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How does it feel around twenty four hours now that

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Kawhi has returned for the Clippers.

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Speaker 2: I feel good about it as good as you can.

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As I said earlier in the season, I'm never gonna

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feel secure about it ever again with kawhiness right d

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because he played sixty eight games, everything was fine until

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it wasn't last year, and this new issue is something

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they're going to have to manage and that's ongoing. But

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it was still great to see him last night. The

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lift on his three point shot was big for me,

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knocking down. I think he started three of three from

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distance or something like that. He looked very smooth, he

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said postgame. The basketball part is easy for him. It's

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just getting out there. So overall, it was cool to see.

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It was a special night, and it almost felt like

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either he picked the perfect game and the perfect time

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to come back, or it almost felt like it was

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meant to be, like it was our night or our

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year for Kawhi's return because everybody played so well in

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his first game back.

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Speaker 1: Well, how are you feeling.

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling really really good. I mean, you know, the

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only the only thing I could take away from that

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win that in a negative sense, is that just you know,

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not not a great opponent and they weren't at full strength.

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But a lot of things went right for the Clippers,

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and it's hard to not read too much into just

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like how much more on their game everyone is with

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Kawhi Leonard out there. There's a certain sort of ease

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there's also a certain at the same time, a sense

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of urgency for just how important this is. And I think,

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you know, everyone who's been close to him in this

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situation knows that any time that you have on the

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floor with Kawhi Leonard is kind of precious, and I

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think that it, you know, it definitely ups the ante

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for like what is expected and what you need to

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do out there on the floor. So I you know,

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I love where I saw. Like I said, a lot

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of stuff went right, but it's hard to not take

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away that there's there seems to be a different level

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of sort of congealing. Like I feel like this team

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sort of even meshing really well, and the vibes are

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already so good, but now there's like just a little

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bit of an extra fire underneath there that I think

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that I'm hoping continues to translate as his return ramps up.

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Speaker 1: I like that you said, you know, minutes of the

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court with Kawhi are precious. It's not wrong. You're not wrong,

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And I don't.

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Speaker 3: Think anyone is, Like you know, I don't think anyone

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is unaware of that, you know what I mean, Like,

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you know, they want Kui to succeed as much as

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everyone else, and they know that they got to make

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the most of their time out there and you know,

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at the same time make things easy on him.

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Speaker 1: For those that missed it, the Clippers trounced the Hawks.

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They were shorthanded on the second night of a back

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to back. I hope they went out after the Lakers game,

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because the Hawks did not have a good trip to

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Los Angeles on the basketball court at all. That defense

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was putrid for parts of that game. Clippers kind of

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dominated everything. It was bad. Dude, love that Adam tweeted

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at one point like the Hawks just don't care and

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it on the defensive end. It really felt like that

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will to your point to kind of playing a depleted team.

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They let Derek Jones Junior had six dunks against the Hawks,

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which is the most dunks he's ever had in a game.

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They just forgot about him. On the baseline they'd lose

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Norman transition.

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Speaker 3: It was like, okay, Terrence too, didn't he have like

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three baseline like three baseline docs.

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Speaker 1: Well, talk about Terrence's return. Terrence's return was more surprising

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to me than Kawhi is, just in terms of how

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good he looked. No disrespect to Kawi looking good, but

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Terrence looked maybe some of the best he's looked all year.

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Kawhi was on the minutes restriction. He ended up playing

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what like just under twenty nineteen twenty five. Yeah, unclear

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how long that's gonna go, but like not surprising. I

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think twenty minutes feels fair. Adam, do you like the

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longer Tyler mentioned, you know, like we're gonna run him

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in longer spurts. He came back last time, he was

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playing four minutes a shift and then he was kind

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of out. Now we're gonna see the longer shifts. Seemed

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like it paid off last night at least.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I wondered if in that second quarter, because

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they were rolling and he came in at the nine

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point fifty nine mark and played till like there was

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a minute and a half left in the first half,

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if they just said keep it going, We're not gonna

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need him in the second half. Just keep running this

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with Kawhi right now because we can get up by

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twenty as they did at the half I think it

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was seventy four to fifty four, and just end the

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game right now because we're humming out there. So I'll

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be interested to see how they allocate the minutes if

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he gives them that long of a shift against Minnesota,

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because they might feel like they need to more evenly

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divide up the minutes with ten in the first half

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and ten in the second half. And I do want

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to say that before people get mad about this. It's

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gonna happen, and it might happen tomorrow. The Clippers are

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gonna be in a tight game and Kawhi Leonard's not

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gonna be available because he is going to hit his

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minutes limit and it might happen tomorrow, and just know

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that's coming. I don't think they're going to expand it

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more than twenty minutes in the game too. I think

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it's still gonna be twenty minutes. So with travel, why.

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Speaker 1: Game two with travel? Game two with travel, So it's

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like not even like it's a home game.

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Speaker 2: Like Yeah, the reason Kawhi was the one to suggest

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coming off the bench when he came off the acl

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was so he could play more minutes late in that game,

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which did pay off because he hit a jumper against

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the Lakers over Lebron James that helped him win. So

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the difference now is it's going to be harder for

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them to have any minutes left late in the fourth

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quarter for Kawhi to play unless they pull him after

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like two or three minutes in the third quarter in

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a tight game.

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Speaker 1: That's a good call. Yeah, people are gonna definitely be

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upset about that. I like the foreshadowing on your part

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at him and will you were like Kawhi was what

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LT Murray tweeted this out in the second quarter. In

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Kawhi's minutes, he was plus twenty one justin that just

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in that span. So I think that goes to your

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point of like people were a little more there's like

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a responsibility to not let Kawhi down. And I feel

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like everyone, especially in the debut.

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Speaker 3: Well, and I you know, I like I'm in favor

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of the theory of longer shifts. I think that it

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helps him get in rhythm. It also like it just

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establishes a little bit more consistency, you know, like if

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Kawhi is out there in these short stints. I feel like,

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you know, Tyler talked about like a tendency to like

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watch Kawhi, and I think that's very true, right, Like

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how is the how is you know in your in

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the back of your mind. The emphasis not, you know,

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getting Kawhi the ball, getting him involved as much as

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possible when he's only on the floor in these short

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little stints. So while you do have to manage that

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with meeting him late in games, overall, I'm in favor

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of this approach versus like more short stints personally.

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Speaker 1: And the short one.

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Speaker 2: Said, sorry, jehead, go ahead. Well you said they're treating

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it like preseason, and in preseason with a starter and

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a star like Kawhi, you may not play much at

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all in the second half, so they may lean towards

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playing him more in first halves if they're treated like

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preseason and second half whatever this is not. They're not

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pushing to win a game in January with Kawhi. They're

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gonna go off the minutes's restriction, and if he runs

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out of minutes early in the third corner, I mean,

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that's it. You just have to expect it.

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Speaker 1: And there might be almost like an offensive restriction for Kawhi.

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And like because on defense last night he kind of

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did a lot I thought, and his debut, he guarded

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like he was his presence was very much felt on defense,

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but he was asked to do a little more than

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I maybe thought he would. His debut offense completely on

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the side of the coin, you know, he was hanging

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out on the perimeter. I think he only dribbled. He

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did one drive in the half court like he had

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Trey Young on him at one point try to fade away,

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missed it, got it back and passed out of it,

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which I think to me that was like he's still

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very much like maybe he doesn't trust the burst yet

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or something like that. But offensively, and he talked about

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it post came. He said something to the effective basically like,

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don't expect me to go out there and score twenty

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thirty points right now, like that is going to be

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And I don't know if it was like a team thing,

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but the team was playing well around him on offense

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even though he was a I don't want to say

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non factor because that's not true because you still have

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to account for him, but not a lot activity wise, Yeah,

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touches wise, that's going to be a much not by

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a bunch, but a slower ramp up than defense, it seem.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which is surprising just because of that is what's

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been more needed for this team. But I do think

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they're just trying to be conscientious of the effort level

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on both sides. And I mean, again, it's another hard thing,

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like you can't take a whole a lot a whole,

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like many constants from last night's game just because of

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you know who they were playing. How that panned out,

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I mean, was at the scoring Clippers half of the season.

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Speaker 1: I think, so they scored their most fast break points.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it was most points in the half,

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but it was most points in a quarter. With the

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forty five spot they put up in the second, it

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was it was close to most points in the half

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of seventy four. I think they might have gotten seventy eight.

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Speaker 3: Geez. Oh, Well, what I was saying is like I

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don't know that that's necessarily like a rule, you know,

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like let like, I don't know how much they're actively

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lightening the burden on him offensively, especially when he is

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so needed, but just his presence out there, you know,

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everybody talked about how everything was like a little bit easier,

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and that's certainly going to be true, and that's going

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to have a massive impact, even if he's ramping up

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touch wise.

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Speaker 2: I think he can control his activity on the offensive

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end more than he can on the defensive end. It's

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just so instinctual for Kawhi to fly around on defense,

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and that is a problem that is leading to more

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miles being run per season, but it's also what makes

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him great. So what do you do about it? It's

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kind of like what was the old Chris Rock line

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about the Tiger. Tiger didn't go crazy, that tiger went

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tiger like, it's just quiet, and how he is on

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the defensive end, like this is who he is. He's

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a monster on that end. When he sees somebody with

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a basketball and he gets switched on to Trey Young,

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he's gonna sit down and get in the defensive stance

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like he can't help himself there.

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Speaker 1: And we saw it. I loved that he blew up

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a dribble handoff for a steal and couldn't finish on

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the lamp. That was awesome to see. And his first

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foul he almost got a steal. So you're totally right

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to that point of like instinctly defense, he's gonna do

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it like it's just gonna happen. What how are we

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feeling about the rotating starting five, cause that that's a

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new thing, I think, kind of to some surprise to

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not Ty basically said, it's gonna plan on how kind

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of how they're guarding Hearten and stuff like that. How

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are we feeling about it right now?

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Speaker 3: Will you have a Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna contradiction

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basically everything that I've said thus far, and I will say,

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from this sample side, let's just make Derek Jones you

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just like, let's just make DJJ at the starter. I

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think personally that it makes more sense. I don't really

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get why you need three guards out there with Kawhi back,

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especially like with someone done's shooting woes. I mean, not

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that DJJ has necessarily been better from outside, but I

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like the look a little bit more. I like the

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size a little bit more. I like the athleticism a

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little bit more. And also, I mean, I think we've

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debated about this until the cows come home, Like is

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it more difficult to cover you know, a modern day

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three or four TVD But Derek Jones has the size,

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and he is switchable and and can can guard a

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lot of spots. I just I like that a little

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bit more that. I mean, you know, done obviously great defensively,

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not a whole lot on the other end. So I'm

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I'm a bigger fan of that. I think I feel

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like it's a little silly even to have this debate,

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like to to even need this sample size, Like why

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do you need three guards in the modern NBA?

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Speaker 1: You think eventually the Derek Jones junior lineup will went

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out because there's gonna be a set line up.

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Speaker 3: I would like, I would be very surprised if it didn't.

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him in it, like whatever that rotation ends up being

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do some very special things. And I I just to me,

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it makes a lot more sense to keep DJJS as

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a starter and to just go back to that look.

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Speaker 1: Lot more sense. Adam, what say you about the rotating

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starting lineup?

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Speaker 2: I think in a video game and you can just

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switch guys in and out and there's nothing to worry

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about with personality conflicts or just rhythm. It makes sense

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to go with Chris Dunn against a team like Atlanta

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because they want another ball handler out there. And he

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probably is the overall better defender against someone like Trey

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can also guard up against DeAndre Hunter or if Jalen

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Johnson was available yesterday. The versatility with him is the

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difference maker for me because of his height and long arms.

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I think eventually the reasoning behind well, we want another

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ball handler out there to alleviate some of the pressure

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on James Harden. The difference is going to be as

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Kawhi ramps up and gets more minutes and has the

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ball in his hands more, that argument is going to

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fizzle away for having Chris Dunn out there because of

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the ball being Kawhi's hands more at that point. So

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I do think DJ will win it out eventually, and.

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Speaker 1: Not that he's exactly lighting it up currently. From three,

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I think he like two for his last ten. Derek

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Jones Junior outside the outside the arc is a little

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more trustworthy this season than Chris Dunn, which I think

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is also something to considered too. Right teams are fine

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with Chris Dunn shooting the ball. Teams aren't is fine

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with Derek Jones Junior shooting the ball and him in

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the starting lineup that opens it up more for norm

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you know, like it just I think eventually it'll.

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Speaker 3: Win that versatility, Like I don't know, just the versatility

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off ball too. I like, like Adam said, I think that.

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Speaker 2: And I think DJ is two for his last twenty

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two from three.

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Speaker 1: Is it twenty two? Because I was just looking at

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the quick last five when I was tweeting last night,

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and I was like, damn, this is a little bleak.

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Speaker 2: Because his three point percentage right now, what is it

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at thirty five percent? Two weeks ago it was probably

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closer to forty five percent.

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Speaker 1: He's shooting thirty five percent. Oh it's bad. Oh for three,

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oh for two, one for three, one for he took

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six versus the Pelicans. That'll get you if you're Derek

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Jones junior. That should probably never happen again. But there

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also is like this is inherently a temporary thing. No

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team has gone into the playoffs with like we've been

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rotating a guy out for the last twenty five games,

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you know, Like I just don't with a fully healthy

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team at that point, there's gonna be a set lineup

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going into the playoffs that I just think that's it

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has I would be worried. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I I agree, But at the same time, like I

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trust Hid like he can he can tinker with the

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lie that to like to his heart's content. It just yeah,

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that's to my much smaller basketball brain than Tyls. So

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I'm in no way criticizing that. It just to me

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seems like a more just a more natural fit, I guess,

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I want to say.

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Speaker 1: And I think you kind of have to do this

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a little bit right, just because we haven't seen Kawhi

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with any of these guys. So it's like, I don't know,

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if it's a competition it's gonna end up like that,

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but I think it's gonna shake out to Derek Jones

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Junior being in that starting five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it is interesting because he hasn't played with

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either of the two guys that they're rotating, so maybe

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they're just getting a sample of what Kawhi looks like

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with both and they're tracking those numbers, as I'm sure

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they are. I'm not saying that's the intent behind this,

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but they're gonna look at who has the better net

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rating next to Kawhi as well. Over this time, I

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just don't see how you can continue to justify well

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if DJ's playing better than Chris Dunn or the versatility

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is being utilized more that you don't eventually go away

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from Chris Dunn because the balls in Kawhi's hands more. Anyways,

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in James Harden's hands all the time. Well, once Kawhi

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gets up to speed, it's gonna be in his hands

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a ton. So therefore, what has Chris done doing out

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there as having another ball handler when you have that

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in Kawhi.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like not shooting well.

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Speaker 3: I really like your your point about data too, because

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this clearly isn't just about starting lineups, and we're also thinking,

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you know, forward to closing lineups, and with Kawhi Leonard

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being limited to these stints, I you know, I think

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it does make sense to sort of play with things

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a little bit because you have so much you have

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you know, much less time to sort of play these

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things out, especially if you know, like we've talked about,

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for the foreseeable future, he might not be in closing

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lineups depending on his minutes.

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Speaker 2: Look, that does not that is if any team can

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pull this off right now, it is the Clippers because

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of coach louse tinkering, because of Kauhi's limited availability, because

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of the guys who have done this over the years

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for them.

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Speaker 3: And the egos, I mean, like this is their normal.

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Like you know, I do think this is a rarefied

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situation where you do have the temperament and the personalities

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where you can do this, like I you know, not

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every team could say that like this. This could cause

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a friction in a lot of other locker rooms.

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Speaker 1: I love I love Derek Jones quote last night when

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they asked him about the rotating. See he just may

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said I don't care like I care about winning, I

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don't care about and starting or anything like that.

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Speaker 3: And how often have we talked about on this show,

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you know, like don't put too much credence into like

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who the actual starters are for this team. You know,

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watch you got to watch the rotations.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and four of the five starters are set, Like

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that's the other part. Yeah, speaking, we're gonna talk about

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expectations out of KUIs back in a sec. But we

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do need to talk about Terrence Man's return. Because Terrence

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Man returned as well and looked as good as he's

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maybe looked all season. Terrence Man comes back, a lot

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of people are now assuming that KPJ's out of the rotation.

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I don't think that's true. It's very clear that Mobamba

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is out of the main rotation. But I like Terrence

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making Tyler if he can continue to build on this

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first game. Granted it was, you know, it's first game

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of four weeks. I like that he's going to try

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and he's gonna have to make Tyler think about some

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stuff with some of the rotations. KPJ and Terrence looked

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pretty solid together last night, but it just seems like

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it pushed Mobamba out of the rotation. It doesn't seem

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like anyone else got pushed out of the rotation with

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Terrence coming back.

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Speaker 3: Bench Wise, I mean, Bomba was already kind of on

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the outs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Nico was going to play a lot of center

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as what we learned last night.

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Speaker 2: To Bomba's matchup dependent. Maybe he plays against Minnesota because

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they have Gobert, but against a team like Atlanta, anytime

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coach lou can get away with not playing a backup big,

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he's probably going to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good call. Do we think is so?

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And I know we talked about a little bit last

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episode we were all together, but are we gonna see

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some ten games sample style with main bench guys, like a,

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is Tyler just or is that just gonna be all

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matchup dependent? Because I wonder I've been saying Tyler wants

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a smaller rotation, but it's a difference when the smaller

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rotation is like, you know, spot minutes for bomba and

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matchup dependence, that doesn't really count as like a full

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rotation guy. But now we got right the benches just

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for based on last night, the bench is Derek Jones, Junior,

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Terrence Man, Kevin Porter, uh betoom a mere coffee. That's

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ten guys between the starting five. And those guys, I'm

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really curious to see what it looks like.

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Speaker 3: And eight of them in double digits last.

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Speaker 1: Night, that's nuts. I'm curious to see what the bench

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starts to look like closer to the playoffs, because we're

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not running ten guys in the playoffs. I just I

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can't really see that happening with TYLERU. Not that it's bad,

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I just I just don't see that I think.

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Speaker 3: Though, at the same time, like if you can keep

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a guy ready enough that you can sort of use

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even spot minutes like some matchup dependent sort of switches.

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Look man, like this team, you know, the top ceiling talent,

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you know is not maybe as high as certainly as

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some of their other competitors and even years past of

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this team, So you got to try to find those

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things on the margins. And I do think that, you know,

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if you can keep a guy in the rotation enough,

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you know, I'm not saying that he's like part of

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the you know, like the solidified playoff rotation, but even

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if you can get find a path for him to

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like spot minutes in a matchup dependent scenario, I mean

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that's utility. That's you know, like that that's necessary. I

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think for a team that's constructed the way this.

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Speaker 2: One is, I think they need to figure out, hopefully

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Kawai can stay healthy enough where they can see what

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they really have with this team, so they can find

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out if they do need to do a consolidation trade,

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if somebody is expendable. If they are playing these guys

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and they're able to stay in rhythm for some time,

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someone's value may go up and they can make a

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move before the trade deadline. I don't know. I'm not

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looking at Terrence Man's performance last night in that way.

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I love what we saw from Team Man. That looked

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like the energy spark guy, and he said a postgame,

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my job is to keep the energy up. Because the

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lead was down to fourteen and then he had that

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nice run in the second half. A lot of his

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buckets were just extending a double digit lead. The game

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was already pretty much over, but he kept kind of

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the pedal down. That's that's classic Terrence Man right there.

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So I don't know if they can keep all these

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guys happy and just see what happens, who's playing well,

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and how the pieces fit. But in order to really

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get you a good view of how this could look

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and who you need and who might be tradeable, you

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need Kawhi Leonard to stay healthy. You need everybody to

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stay healthy, just for a section of time here so

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you can see what's going on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got it. Yeah, there's a you know, there's

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a month until the trade deadline, so there's not a

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whole lot of time to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: I think I would say, just as a caveat if

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Terrence keeps playing well like this and KPJ plays better

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as he has been playing, I would Terrence makes enough

476
00:24:19,759 --> 00:24:22,599
that that's a trade that would be a difference maker.

477
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,279
You know, KPJ doesn't make enough to be traded for

478
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:27,480
some you know what I mean, Like you just look

479
00:24:27,519 --> 00:24:29,559
at how the salaries work. It's not like we would

480
00:24:29,559 --> 00:24:33,319
trade KPJ for someone making like four million dollars who's

481
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,640
very good and plays like the power forward or something

482
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,119
like that. So I think it would probably be Terrence

483
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,160
if if anyone's value were to get pupped. All right,

484
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,960
coming up, we do have to talk about expectations. We

485
00:24:46,039 --> 00:24:48,240
already know what Will's expectations are for this team. We

486
00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:50,559
already know that they're written in stone, but we do

487
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,319
have to talk about the expectations. We also want to

488
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,359
There was an ESPN snippet going around, and I think

489
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,400
we should give a disclaimer on the wording it if

490
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,799
people read it and freaked out. So if you're listening

491
00:25:02,799 --> 00:25:04,440
to the audio, there's gonna be a bit of a

492
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,079
break coming up. If you're watching this at YouTube dot

493
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,079
com Slash at Clippers podcast, we're still here. So we

494
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,880
got an audio break, and then we're talking expectations in

495
00:25:13,039 --> 00:25:13,799
three two.

496
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 3: What all right, welcome back into clips and dip, talking

497
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,960
about what you've been waiting for all season long, the

498
00:25:22,039 --> 00:25:24,160
return to Kawhi Leonard. We got to see it in

499
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,079
a little preview last night. Now we got to talk

500
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:32,839
expectations and what this means. There was also a quote

501
00:25:32,839 --> 00:25:36,400
that came out at the first place I saw it

502
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,599
was from Tamara Zarli. But I Chuck, do you want

503
00:25:39,599 --> 00:25:42,519
to talk about this because it's a little troubling. I

504
00:25:42,599 --> 00:25:45,880
think we need some wording. But it's about Kauhi and

505
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,200
how he's feeling in his return.

506
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,599
Speaker 1: Yes, so obviously as Adam has laid out very well too,

507
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,960
like we gotta still monitor how things are going with Kawhi.

508
00:25:54,319 --> 00:25:57,680
But there was an ESPN snippet that said, and chel

509
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,680
Mara had a video of this, which is a better

510
00:26:00,799 --> 00:26:04,680
answer than how this was transcribed. I'm gonna read this.

511
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,880
It says Leonard was asked what would signal to him

512
00:26:07,079 --> 00:26:10,079
about how his knees are feeling, whether after games or practices.

513
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,480
He said he wasn't sure, and that he woke up

514
00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:15,160
recently and it was flared up and I couldn't move.

515
00:26:15,519 --> 00:26:17,559
So now I'm just keeping it moving and I don't know,

516
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,079
it's just day to day. The word recently is doing

517
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,559
is a not what I said in the context of

518
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:30,599
the answer, so much heavy lifting. It's the last injury

519
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,319
he had, is what he's talking about. He's not talking

520
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,359
about recently, which would in a lot of people's heads

521
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,160
signal a week ago or something like that. Right, Like,

522
00:26:40,519 --> 00:26:43,720
you see recently and you freak out, But it's not recently.

523
00:26:43,839 --> 00:26:46,640
It was the last injury that it happened.

524
00:26:48,799 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 2: That's what I've listened to it a million times. I

525
00:26:51,799 --> 00:26:55,119
listened to the last last night's postgame interview or earlier.

526
00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,519
There's no indication there did they mean to say? I

527
00:27:00,559 --> 00:27:03,519
tweeted at Baxter Holmes, like, Hey, what's going on here?

528
00:27:04,079 --> 00:27:07,720
Because there is a big difference. Do you mean the

529
00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:11,680
most recent injury, because there's a difference between that and

530
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,880
recently him waking up and feeling like this.

531
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I just and I do believe, I guess

532
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,079
kind of the flip side of the coin. Day to

533
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,759
day does feel fair that coming out of Kawhi, he's

534
00:27:25,799 --> 00:27:28,440
coming back after a game, we're gonnaee outlooks on the

535
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,400
travel day which is today, Like that all makes sense,

536
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,359
but the recently part, because I read that was like,

537
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,759
oh shit, like what is recently here? But then you

538
00:27:36,839 --> 00:27:39,640
listen to the full context of the quote. Check out

539
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,240
the Wonderful Beat Writers for the La Clippers to Mayor

540
00:27:42,279 --> 00:27:46,359
Lot Murray Justin Rousseau for the full quote. But like

541
00:27:47,759 --> 00:27:50,519
it is kind of like to be there. No, yeah,

542
00:27:50,559 --> 00:27:51,960
it should not be there at all.

543
00:27:52,279 --> 00:27:54,160
Speaker 3: So I saw I saw the video. I saw the

544
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,799
video before this ESPN thing, and I, you know, contextually,

545
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,079
I didn't think that he was talking about this, you know,

546
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,799
this recently happening, and I was trying to trying to

547
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,960
use any other word, but it being his you know,

548
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,200
the last time has happened. And I think, you know,

549
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,519
if you're looking at this, it's not one hundred percent

550
00:28:15,599 --> 00:28:17,480
still the answer that you want. I mean, you'd love

551
00:28:17,519 --> 00:28:21,160
to hear that, you know, better than ever, not a

552
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,119
doubt in my mind, but I just we're not going

553
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,880
to get that. So it's still it's worrisome, but in

554
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,680
the status quo way, I guess where it's like, you know,

555
00:28:30,759 --> 00:28:32,799
I would love to know that he's like, it's you know,

556
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,039
it's responding better. This is a better response than you know,

557
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,240
the Olympics and and how I felt. Then, you know,

558
00:28:39,279 --> 00:28:41,480
I would love to hear something like that. I don't

559
00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:43,440
think that we're going to get that for a while,

560
00:28:44,039 --> 00:28:47,319
until we truly know what the impact is, if there

561
00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:50,599
is any you know, residual swelling, how it feels when

562
00:28:50,599 --> 00:28:54,920
he's traveling, et cetera. So it's I don't want to

563
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,480
say that it's not worrisome, but it's not worrisome in

564
00:28:58,559 --> 00:29:02,559
a the way that this article was particularly worded or

565
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,079
worrisome compared to really any other time. I suppose with Kawhi.

566
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: Leonard that's a good point. Any of the other returns

567
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,799
has been the same thing. We all watched that depressing

568
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,319
game that was his return to Staples against the MAVs,

569
00:29:15,319 --> 00:29:19,119
like that was horrible. But yeah, the word recently should

570
00:29:19,119 --> 00:29:20,920
not be in there. I hope it gets changed. I

571
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:25,319
don't think it will, but yeah, upsetting not the best

572
00:29:25,319 --> 00:29:31,720
way to report that news. Now expectations, people are excited

573
00:29:31,799 --> 00:29:33,519
Kawhi Leonard is back. I talked to a lot of

574
00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,759
people last night into it who were firmly on the championship,

575
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,039
you know, Western Conference finals. Then we'll see what happens.

576
00:29:41,079 --> 00:29:45,359
Trade we know Will's shirt has answered all the questions

577
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,799
that he's being asked of. My shirt says, this is

578
00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:52,200
our year. How do we feel? I know we did

579
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,000
the We were talking last time. It was all together.

580
00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:56,759
We were talking, you know, like it's probably gonna be

581
00:29:56,759 --> 00:30:01,000
four five seed. The West is crazy tight. Seeing him

582
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,640
out there last night really made me. I cannot wait

583
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,559
for playoff basketball for the Slippers team because they're gonna

584
00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:10,519
be a problem if they get home court. I think

585
00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:12,359
they probably win the first round and then I don't

586
00:30:12,359 --> 00:30:14,480
know what happens because the West is crazy. But Adam,

587
00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:18,000
how are you feeling. Were you bullied last night by

588
00:30:18,039 --> 00:30:21,440
seeing Kawhi back or have your expectations remade the same?

589
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,119
Speaker 2: It's pretty much the same, you know. That was the

590
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,279
type of performance I was expecting. The threes were a

591
00:30:29,319 --> 00:30:32,640
little bit surprising, but it's also just one game. I

592
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,559
was just going off of what we looked like from

593
00:30:34,559 --> 00:30:36,920
distance when he came back from the acl and it

594
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,880
really took him some time to start knocking him down

595
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,680
from the outside. So that was encouraging. That was good

596
00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:47,799
to see, But still want to see him explode, have

597
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:53,359
a dunk, have a tough layup, open up as he's

598
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,279
running down the court and get into sixth gear. But

599
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,200
last night, I don't know. I think I don't want

600
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,319
to say it was more about the Atlanta Hawks just

601
00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:06,519
being that bad, because I think the Clippers, you know,

602
00:31:07,079 --> 00:31:10,240
they forced their will on them and made Atlanta kind

603
00:31:10,279 --> 00:31:12,960
of tap out because they realize, oh, this defense is

604
00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:15,400
really good. The only way we're winning tonight is if

605
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,559
we get unusually hot from three, and that's probably not

606
00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:19,359
going to happen. So I guess we're going on too

607
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:27,799
in LA, That's right. Yeah, I don't know. My expectations

608
00:31:27,799 --> 00:31:30,119
are still the same. I felt like if they have

609
00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:33,079
Kawhi close to the version they had last season, with

610
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:37,240
this squad that they have put together, they do have

611
00:31:37,279 --> 00:31:39,160
a chance against anyone in the West in the seven

612
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:39,799
game series.

613
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: I like that. And Will, I mean, of course it

614
00:31:43,079 --> 00:31:45,240
is our year, but how do you see this this

615
00:31:45,359 --> 00:31:46,519
playoff series going.

616
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,079
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, this is our year. Was still

617
00:31:51,119 --> 00:31:57,240
dependent on Kauiet So no, not much has changed there.

618
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:02,480
I think it just really depends on where where can

619
00:32:02,519 --> 00:32:04,599
you get yourself in the standings. You know, things are

620
00:32:04,599 --> 00:32:08,839
pretty tight right now, like four through seven. Uh, it's

621
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,839
like what a half a game a game, So you

622
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,480
know there is some maneuvering to be going on. Uh yeah,

623
00:32:16,519 --> 00:32:19,240
Fourth is the Denver Nuggets at twenty and fourteen. We're

624
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:24,000
currently at twenty and fifteen, so there is quite a

625
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,200
lot of maneuvering to happen. We'll see. I don't know, man,

626
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,960
We've talked about this. I know that it would be different.

627
00:32:33,319 --> 00:32:36,599
I really don't want a four or five first round.

628
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,759
Speaker 1: Meeting with the MAVs again. Well have you seen did

629
00:32:39,799 --> 00:32:43,480
you guys see that clip of Luca at their last game. Dude,

630
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,480
that is he's.

631
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,559
Speaker 3: Like I taught you, I never know when he's hamming

632
00:32:48,559 --> 00:32:53,480
it up. Gotta be honest. I feel like his ankle

633
00:32:53,599 --> 00:32:55,640
is damn ankle was broken that one series.

634
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,519
Speaker 1: He was fine on the court, I get that, but

635
00:32:58,599 --> 00:33:05,160
that footage, dude, he is like he's barely service. It's

636
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:11,359
to freak everyone out. Yeah, I like Adam, same with me,

637
00:33:11,519 --> 00:33:16,359
Like it didn't exactly make me think any Like, there's

638
00:33:16,359 --> 00:33:18,359
still gonna be such a problem in the playoffs. Just

639
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,440
to play the Clippers at into it. The home court

640
00:33:20,519 --> 00:33:22,480
is going to be so crucial. Shout out to the

641
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,279
Wall last night for being incredibly into the game as well.

642
00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:28,200
But they're not going to be able to you know,

643
00:33:28,279 --> 00:33:31,279
some seasons it's like, oh, if they lose this last game,

644
00:33:31,319 --> 00:33:33,160
they get this opponent, or if they win this last game,

645
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,119
they get that opponent. I don't think that's going to

646
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,880
be in play this year. I think a lot of

647
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,079
teams are not going to know who they're playing until

648
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,640
the season is maybe directly over. If these standings stay

649
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,440
like this, except for the Thunder of course, because I

650
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,160
don't think they're going anywhere, but a lot of these

651
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,279
teams in that middle section of the playoffs standings, it's

652
00:33:52,319 --> 00:33:54,240
just gonna be it's gonna be jumping around a ton.

653
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,799
Speaker 2: I mean last season, we didn't know till the very

654
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,400
end between Denver and Minnesota, like who was the two

655
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,559
and who's the three? Right, So there was some of

656
00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:07,279
that jockeying for position late. Yeah, it'll be more of

657
00:34:07,359 --> 00:34:09,800
the same. Nobody's going to be able to pick their

658
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,960
opponent out there, and that's what the NBA wants, And

659
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,119
that's this kind of the downside for a top seed

660
00:34:17,119 --> 00:34:18,920
that you don't know who's coming out of the play

661
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,079
in to play you, you know, that can be problematic.

662
00:34:23,119 --> 00:34:25,159
But yeah, okay, see's so good. I'm sure they're not

663
00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:25,800
worried about it.

664
00:34:26,039 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: I think, okay, see he's going to be okay. I

665
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,199
don't like how tight the standings are hot take the Clippers.

666
00:34:33,559 --> 00:34:36,000
The Clippers and Spurs are separated by two games, and

667
00:34:36,039 --> 00:34:38,159
the Spurs are night. The Spurs look like they might

668
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:42,519
be figuring some stuff out too. Wemby is a terror

669
00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:45,199
upon this league and his reign. Who knows when it's

670
00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:49,840
going to end. It hasn't started yet, but it'll be crazy. Yeah,

671
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,119
I'm I'm just excited to see Kawhian playoff basketball. Should

672
00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:57,599
things continue on this trajectory of looking good. Before we

673
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,960
talk about this next topic, is there anything else bad

674
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,280
basketball related we'd like to discuss about Kawhi Leonard in

675
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:07,239
the playoffs or expectations. More than half the people I

676
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,920
talked to yesterday said they expect the Western Conference finals.

677
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,559
So I hope that happens.

678
00:35:14,599 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, We've got a long way to go here. Kawhi

679
00:35:17,519 --> 00:35:21,480
is back for one game, He's played twenty minutes. I'm

680
00:35:21,519 --> 00:35:25,199
gonna be gripping to the rest of the season, just

681
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,760
wondering after the game, you know the next day, is

682
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,039
you're gonna wake up and his knee's gonna flare up again?

683
00:35:31,119 --> 00:35:33,000
Because that's a real possibility of.

684
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty minutes yesterday and twenty minutes for the foreseeable future.

685
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,960
We don't really know when this minutes restriction is gonna

686
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,280
be up. Ten games would probably be my guess. I

687
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,199
don't know if he's all good. But the real stuff,

688
00:35:44,199 --> 00:35:49,760
because occasionally we talk about the art form known as

689
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,280
cinema here on Clips and Dip. Are we excited for

690
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:58,199
Kawhi's movie that he's producing about himself because that information

691
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,400
came out yesterday. He has a movie come out. La

692
00:36:01,519 --> 00:36:05,000
Murray asked him about the fantastic New Balance ads that

693
00:36:05,039 --> 00:36:07,480
have kind of come out before his return. Those were great.

694
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:13,079
The Fred Rogan version that Adam made is so funny,

695
00:36:14,159 --> 00:36:14,920
well done on that.

696
00:36:15,559 --> 00:36:17,039
Speaker 2: I haven't heard about him.

697
00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 1: That's so good. We're should We're all going to the

698
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:26,880
premiere right whenever this thing comes out. Is it about Kawhi?

699
00:36:27,199 --> 00:36:28,599
I think it's just about Kawhi?

700
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 2: Is it tie in? You said these are like the

701
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:39,000
teas him fishing and stuff, like a full length movie

702
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,280
with Kawhi, a guy who doesn't talk that much. How

703
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:43,559
is this gonna work?

704
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm excited. I'm assuming New Balance is

705
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,840
probably producing some kind of short film that's about like

706
00:36:50,039 --> 00:36:53,559
either Kauhi's road to recovery or because his life is

707
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,360
absolutely insane too. If you know anything about the background

708
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:57,400
of Kawhi Leonard.

709
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 4: Are silent films back in twenty that would it with

710
00:37:03,159 --> 00:37:05,679
one hundred It's going to be black and white, just

711
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,519
a montage of him doing knee workouts, and then the

712
00:37:09,519 --> 00:37:11,599
only sound is gonna be him drilling a basketball and

713
00:37:11,599 --> 00:37:12,559
that it's gonna cut to black.

714
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 2: I'm all in whatever.

715
00:37:16,159 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have to go to the premiere at the

716
00:37:18,079 --> 00:37:21,360
very least we have to. Yeah, I'm I'm hyped. Will

717
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,159
what are you expecting? Do you do you? I hope

718
00:37:24,159 --> 00:37:26,480
that wen Herzog is involved somehow. It seems like those

719
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,599
two would really mesh and vibe. Will What do you

720
00:37:29,639 --> 00:37:32,719
expecting from the Kawhi film, of which we don't know

721
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:33,960
a whole bunch of Oh.

722
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't I have no idea. Is it

723
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,960
doc is he starring in it? Is it? Is it narrative?

724
00:37:39,039 --> 00:37:41,239
I don't know, man, I don't know what to expect.

725
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:46,920
I will say, in general, I wish that athletes would

726
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,800
I wish that more objective parties would produce these things.

727
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,039
That's all I'm gonna say.

728
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:53,199
Speaker 1: I like that idea.

729
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 3: This isn't this isn't specifically about Kawhi. It's just, you know,

730
00:37:57,519 --> 00:37:59,840
I feel like sports documentary is like the thirty for thirty.

731
00:38:00,039 --> 00:38:02,599
They used to feel like so special and then now

732
00:38:02,639 --> 00:38:05,000
we get one like every few months, and it's kind

733
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,559
of just like a it's just like a lip service

734
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,000
kind of thing that's not really you know, it doesn't

735
00:38:11,039 --> 00:38:13,719
go that deep. It's kind of it's a little surface

736
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,400
level kind of yeah, quickly falls away into the woods.

737
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,719
So yeah, I don't know.

738
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,280
Speaker 1: I do hope it's a narrative now that I hope

739
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,400
it's a narrative film and not a documentary. I think

740
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:25,039
that'd be said.

741
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 3: I think I think it dramatized. I think kind of

742
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,960
a dramatized thing would be I would find that to

743
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:31,840
be more enjoyable.

744
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be whenever it comes out, it's gonna

745
00:38:37,519 --> 00:38:40,719
be a phenomenal event. And I'm sure there will be

746
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,960
some fantastic cover I just want to see snippets.

747
00:38:44,559 --> 00:38:46,159
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a quiet place.

748
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,679
Speaker 1: A quiet place is what it's going to be called.

749
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,119
And the twist is that he's going to get everyone

750
00:38:52,199 --> 00:38:54,360
killed by making noise. Uh oh.

751
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 3: He also Spike Lee's returned to basketball films.

752
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:02,639
Speaker 1: I mean Spike Lee directing the Kawhi new Allance injury

753
00:39:02,679 --> 00:39:05,400
recovery movie. Yeah, I've been one hundred percent of the time.

754
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,440
Kawhi also had a bit of what did he say yesterday?

755
00:39:09,599 --> 00:39:12,519
Just putting paint on the canvas in the postgame interview

756
00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:16,239
with Lauren Rosen. He something artistic is brewing up in

757
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:21,599
this guy's brain. The post basketball pop art era of

758
00:39:21,679 --> 00:39:24,559
Kawhi Leander is gonna be something to look out for.

759
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,159
Are we expecting a good quote per interview now from

760
00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:30,400
Kawhi because he kind of set the bar pretty high

761
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:35,119
for the postgame interview with that one.

762
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,199
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean we got him talking about Jeff and

763
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:41,239
Gundy post game saying how JBG loves to tell everyone

764
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,519
how much film he's watching. I watched this shit out of.

765
00:39:44,519 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 1: Film or such an old basketball guy thing to say,

766
00:39:48,679 --> 00:39:51,400
I watched the ship out of film yesterday. Like Okay,

767
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,320
those words don't really go together like that, but it's fine.

768
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like unforgiven with Clin Eastwood.

769
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: I killed hell exactly. There's some NFL coach I think

770
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,719
it was the old Giants coach who could he only

771
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,519
watched tape using a Wii remote, so they had to

772
00:40:08,559 --> 00:40:11,280
like put tape onto like we I don't know, it

773
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,719
was just th thing. I bet Van Gundy has some

774
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,159
weird thing like that where he's like, no, I watched tape,

775
00:40:16,559 --> 00:40:18,639
give me broadcast.

776
00:40:18,679 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 3: He knows how to use that.

777
00:40:19,559 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: Oh yeah that's true. Yeah, okay, yeah, it's either iPad

778
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,119
or double reel.

779
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,159
Speaker 3: I mean, I wish it was like him in a

780
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,239
dark room with the projector, but he was. He is

781
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,760
in media. He knows that he knows how use iPad.

782
00:40:33,079 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 1: That would be so funny. All right, let us know

783
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,119
your thoughts on Kawhi's film, if you have any, let.

784
00:40:38,119 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 3: Us know your expectations.

785
00:40:39,679 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, let us know the expectations for Kawhi Leonards film.

786
00:40:43,119 --> 00:40:45,880
Give us your synopsis of what you think it's about.

787
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,559
Tweeted at us at Clippers Pod. Let us know in

788
00:40:48,559 --> 00:40:51,639
the comments at YouTube dot com. Just at Clippers Podcast.

789
00:40:52,039 --> 00:40:54,119
Coming up after this quick break, we're gonna be talking

790
00:40:54,199 --> 00:40:57,159
the road trip Clippers playing the Nuggets on the Wolves

791
00:40:57,159 --> 00:40:59,960
on Monday and Wednesday, and I'm just what we're hoping

792
00:41:00,039 --> 00:41:01,960
to see out of those games. If you're listening, there's

793
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,719
gonna be some ads if you're watching. Our beautiful faces

794
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,719
are still here. Clippers Roady and player of the road

795
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,239
trip picks coming up in three two.

796
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:16,039
Speaker 2: One welcome back in its clips and dip season three

797
00:41:16,159 --> 00:41:18,480
episode thirty nine, I'm out of Maslin. We got the

798
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,519
Big three with Chuck Mockler and Will Updyke here and

799
00:41:21,559 --> 00:41:23,880
the Clippers back out on the road. It was just

800
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,639
a one off into a dome where they won by

801
00:41:26,679 --> 00:41:29,679
twenty six last night over the Atlanta Hawks and Kawhi

802
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,480
Leonard's return. Now he's with the squad on the road

803
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:38,519
trips starting in Minnesota tomorrow where you know, I don't

804
00:41:38,519 --> 00:41:40,320
want to say return to the scene of the scene

805
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,519
of the crime. But they lost a heartbreaker ninety three

806
00:41:43,559 --> 00:41:46,440
to ninety two earlier this season where the Clippers had

807
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,400
some really bad turnovers and Chris Dunn took the brunt

808
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,239
of the even though I think.

809
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: I wanted to trade. After that, it was like, what

810
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:56,239
are we doing here?

811
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, the guy goes up and gets a rebound over

812
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:06,280
Rudy Gobert and then loses the basketball for a board

813
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:07,559
he never should have been able to get in the

814
00:42:07,559 --> 00:42:11,840
first place, So it's a big game. Clippers are zero

815
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,039
and two against them. They got molly wopped, as the

816
00:42:15,119 --> 00:42:18,440
kids say, by the Minnesota Timberwolves back and into a

817
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,239
dome in game two between them this season, and overall,

818
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,159
Minnesota's kind of had their number for years.

819
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm and then they play the Nuggets. Which of

820
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,480
these games is harder because the Nuggets are hitting kind

821
00:42:29,519 --> 00:42:32,360
of a weird stride. Russ is going to be motivated.

822
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:37,039
He's been playing well. I'm not sure which.

823
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:42,599
Speaker 2: Minnesota is down bad. I was listening to Chris Finch

824
00:42:42,679 --> 00:42:46,639
postgame after their loss when Ann had fifty three against Detroit,

825
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,679
like they are miserable right now. The locker room is fractured.

826
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,599
They are right for the picking, but they're also a

827
00:42:54,639 --> 00:42:56,719
desperate team trying to figure out how to turn their

828
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,920
season around. It's kind of just the same place they

829
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,280
were the last time the Clipper played him in Minnesota.

830
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,400
That was right after Anthony Edwards came out and called everybody.

831
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Well, we do know if the Clippers

832
00:43:07,519 --> 00:43:10,280
sent doubles at Anthony Edwards, he will not like that,

833
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,480
So I would not be surprised if we see so

834
00:43:14,639 --> 00:43:17,880
the Minnesota game. I feel like will agree disagree. Derek

835
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,159
Jones Junior in the starting lineup given their.

836
00:43:20,039 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 3: Size, Well, I just don't know how long he's gonna

837
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:27,400
stick with this rotating. Yeah, Well, like I you know,

838
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,760
like how long? How long is enough time to rotate?

839
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,280
I don't know. I think it would be. I think

840
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,280
it would make sense. But like I said, I you know,

841
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,519
I'm biased. I think it would make sense yesterday.

842
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,599
Speaker 1: One hundred percent of the time. I think it's gonna

843
00:43:40,599 --> 00:43:42,440
be Derek Jones Jr. I think we're gonna throw some

844
00:43:42,519 --> 00:43:49,239
weird looks at Anthony Edwards. I'm just yeah, I'm nervous

845
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:50,000
about both of them.

846
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:50,760
Speaker 2: I guess.

847
00:43:52,159 --> 00:43:54,599
Speaker 3: The Timber wasn't lost three straights, which is just never

848
00:43:54,679 --> 00:43:55,800
a spot I want to be in.

849
00:43:56,639 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: Right, It's hard to lose four in a row. Right.

850
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:00,880
And I wanted to bring this up too, because Adam,

851
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,079
you're talking about this on Clippers Talk. We haven't talked

852
00:44:03,079 --> 00:44:07,519
about it a bunch here. Clippers rebounding has been not

853
00:44:07,679 --> 00:44:12,719
good over the last like ten games or so. Wolves

854
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,119
are tenth and rebounds per game over the last five games.

855
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:20,159
Like I said, Clippers are tied at sixteenth with Kawhi back.

856
00:44:20,639 --> 00:44:23,000
How do we see him helping the rebounding thing. When

857
00:44:23,039 --> 00:44:25,679
do we think we're pulling out of this back to

858
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,920
normal or is this going to be the new normal.

859
00:44:30,599 --> 00:44:32,599
Speaker 2: I mean, I think he did start things off last

860
00:44:32,679 --> 00:44:35,039
night with a board. I think that was the first

861
00:44:35,079 --> 00:44:37,119
time he touched the basketball. That might be a sign

862
00:44:38,079 --> 00:44:40,480
Kawhi is a very good rebounder for his position or

863
00:44:40,519 --> 00:44:42,920
for his size. You could say out there he's going

864
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:47,400
to help. And I think overall, it's just hard to

865
00:44:47,519 --> 00:44:51,119
maintain the level of effort it takes to board at

866
00:44:51,119 --> 00:44:53,639
the rate that they were with a smaller group to

867
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,400
start off the year. They could hold it up for

868
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,639
maybe fifteen games, but the last fifteen games their twentieth

869
00:44:59,679 --> 00:45:00,800
in doun A percentage.

870
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:03,079
Speaker 3: There's a pretty.

871
00:45:06,519 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

872
00:45:07,639 --> 00:45:11,199
Speaker 2: Man, I think that's probably an underrated area that we

873
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,920
didn't think about. They'd be missing him, uh, just on

874
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,039
the last because that was a point of emphasis coming

875
00:45:16,119 --> 00:45:18,840
into this season that the coaching staff really wanted Terrence

876
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:23,119
Man to a board. So I think it will it

877
00:45:23,159 --> 00:45:26,079
will improve. I don't think it's dire straits when it

878
00:45:26,079 --> 00:45:28,559
comes to the rebounding department. There's a lot of different

879
00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,480
factors that have gone into why they haven't been as

880
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:31,360
good recently.

881
00:45:31,119 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: Some would say Terrence Boardman gets paid. All right, thank you,

882
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:38,079
I'll get out of here. That's one of the best

883
00:45:38,079 --> 00:45:42,480
worst jokes we've had. What are we hoping? I think

884
00:45:42,519 --> 00:45:44,599
from Kawhi, what I'm hoping to see on this road

885
00:45:44,599 --> 00:45:49,239
trip actually has kind of the court might be secondary

886
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,159
to me on what I want to see from Kauwhi

887
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:52,920
on this road trip. I want to see how the

888
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,280
knees reacting after the travel. The travel day between in

889
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,679
the prem and the post game is what I'm kind

890
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:02,639
of most anxious, isn't the right word focused on? I

891
00:46:02,639 --> 00:46:06,400
think from Kawhi because this is not the easiest travels, right.

892
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,760
They play, they travel, they play a game a team

893
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,960
that's very difficult, mile high. That whole thing. I expect

894
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:14,840
the defense to kind of be what again, what we

895
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:20,880
saw offense. It's gonna happen when it happens for Kawhi.

896
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,440
Right now, I'm just like these first ten games, I

897
00:46:24,639 --> 00:46:27,480
just like, what's the how's the knee responding? That's all

898
00:46:27,519 --> 00:46:29,840
I really cared about. Yeah, I don't figured out.

899
00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 3: With his first game on the road truly. The only

900
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,079
thing I'm looking for is him to play twenty minutes

901
00:46:36,119 --> 00:46:39,239
in both games, just like in his minutes limit in

902
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:42,079
both games. You know, I don't want to say whatever

903
00:46:42,119 --> 00:46:43,639
that looks like, because I don't want him to be

904
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:47,039
limping into those minutes obviously, But like I'm, I'm I'm not.

905
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:52,280
I'm not super concerned about, you know, any sort of

906
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,440
box scorer or anything. I think, you know, what we

907
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,840
saw last night was an indication that he's on the

908
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,960
right right track. And if he's just staying on the floor,

909
00:47:02,159 --> 00:47:07,000
you know, I'm I'm trusting enough in the in the

910
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,519
incremental improvement that it's it's going to get there. This

911
00:47:09,639 --> 00:47:13,920
is just the first heavy travel and it's a lot

912
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,159
of travel just a couple of days. So I just

913
00:47:16,199 --> 00:47:19,639
want to see my benchmark is played twenty minutes in

914
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:20,559
both games.

915
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,159
Speaker 1: And for what it's worth, he's not on the injury

916
00:47:23,159 --> 00:47:26,320
report at all for the game on what he's not questionable,

917
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:30,920
he's not on that thing at all. Adam, what say you?

918
00:47:31,039 --> 00:47:32,960
Part two?

919
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think staying on the floor for Kawhi is

920
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,599
the new win. Right now, you got one guy who's

921
00:47:39,679 --> 00:47:42,360
in preseason mode and it's only going to play twenty

922
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:46,400
minutes and the rest of the team still trying to

923
00:47:46,599 --> 00:47:49,639
figure out how to play around him, and they were

924
00:47:49,679 --> 00:47:52,480
really good against Atlanta doing that. But I assume in

925
00:47:52,559 --> 00:47:54,639
one of these two games it's going to be clunky.

926
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,400
It's just going to happen because it's natural. He's too

927
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,199
big of a piece to where they're going to have

928
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,159
some issues. But I still feel like overall he's gonna

929
00:48:05,159 --> 00:48:07,079
be a net positive and they have a better chance

930
00:48:07,159 --> 00:48:09,800
with him even in twenty minutes, even with him in

931
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,400
second gear at most. I will take that.

932
00:48:12,639 --> 00:48:15,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, second gear, Kawhi is better than a lot of players,

933
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:17,320
and it's kind of where he needs to be, you

934
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,599
know what I mean. We talked about like defensively, the

935
00:48:19,639 --> 00:48:22,360
instincts those are there. If he would have been going

936
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,079
crazy on drives or anything like that last night, I

937
00:48:25,079 --> 00:48:27,960
would have been like, let's maybe pump this back a

938
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:32,199
little bit. I don't try and KPJ style dunk everything

939
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,119
or anything like that. So staying on the court, that's

940
00:48:35,119 --> 00:48:38,440
a great benchmark. Who is going to be our player

941
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,239
of the road trip for this and now we can't

942
00:48:41,559 --> 00:48:43,760
I don't think we have to add Kawhi Leonard to

943
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,199
the players we can't pick right or because he's coming back,

944
00:48:47,679 --> 00:48:48,719
if he's on a minute.

945
00:48:49,079 --> 00:48:51,639
Speaker 3: Come on, even with the.

946
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,639
Speaker 1: Adam, who's your player of the road trip? Who is

947
00:48:56,679 --> 00:49:00,920
your now? The new name is the honorable James Harden

948
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,519
Norm Powell off. He's four of the starting five player

949
00:49:04,639 --> 00:49:05,639
of the road trip.

950
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 3: This has gotten absurd.

951
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:09,559
Speaker 1: That's down. The team's built.

952
00:49:09,559 --> 00:49:16,559
Speaker 2: Man, I'm gonna pick Djang. I'm out of his shooting

953
00:49:16,639 --> 00:49:21,079
funk from three two for twenty two. I knew there'd

954
00:49:21,079 --> 00:49:24,960
be some regression, but this is this is serious right now.

955
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,719
And he talked about a little bit postgame till Mark

956
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,039
kind of joked like, you're just gonna dunk everything now,

957
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,079
and he mentioned how well he's not shooting it very

958
00:49:34,079 --> 00:49:37,039
well from three. Uh, but he's But he also said,

959
00:49:37,039 --> 00:49:38,719
but I'm gonna keep at it. I'm gonna keep putting

960
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,519
them up and they need him to. So I'm hoping

961
00:49:42,519 --> 00:49:45,159
he knocks down some key three pointers and just kind

962
00:49:45,159 --> 00:49:47,639
of re establishes a little bit more of a baseline

963
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,000
just just shooting around. All I wanted this season from

964
00:49:51,039 --> 00:49:54,239
him was to shoot at thirty six percent from three,

965
00:49:54,519 --> 00:49:57,920
and that is a huge victory to bring in a

966
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:01,119
guy with that level of defense and pop, with his athleticism.

967
00:50:01,159 --> 00:50:04,559
If he shoots at league average from three. That's beautiful

968
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,039
right now, he's been so bad that it took him

969
00:50:07,079 --> 00:50:09,760
down from shooting like forty five percent the first month

970
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:16,239
and a half down to thirty five thirty.

971
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:16,679
Speaker 1: Five point four.

972
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:21,519
Speaker 2: I know what they don't always like, you know, swing that.

973
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:23,039
Speaker 3: I know what he's saying.

974
00:50:23,039 --> 00:50:26,159
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. Do you think he starts

975
00:50:26,199 --> 00:50:31,840
either of these games? Yes, kind of big teams.

976
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 2: I think there's a decent chance he starts both.

977
00:50:35,079 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: Will your player, because.

978
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:43,119
Speaker 2: Like they have, Jade McDaniels is a guy with size

979
00:50:43,159 --> 00:50:46,400
out there. Anthony Edwards is shorter, but you don't even

980
00:50:46,599 --> 00:50:50,639
realize that because he jumps so high. Uh, Mike Conley's

981
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,320
undersized and old now, but they have a bigger team.

982
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,679
Both these teams are on the bigger ranger size.

983
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if he starts either. Your

984
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,679
pick for player of the road trip.

985
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,679
Speaker 3: Man, I'm gonna go with the guy who's been sort

986
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:11,519
of consistently and consistent. But after last night we talked

987
00:51:11,559 --> 00:51:14,840
briefly about his return. I'm hoping the Terrence man continues

988
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,599
to be on the right track, hoping that he continues

989
00:51:17,639 --> 00:51:22,199
with the rebounding I liked that he seemed less deferential.

990
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,920
He was still giving up the ball, but he he

991
00:51:25,559 --> 00:51:29,960
was he was comfortable finding his spots and looking to score.

992
00:51:30,679 --> 00:51:34,559
So I just I did really hope that he's he's

993
00:51:34,559 --> 00:51:36,559
back on the right track. I hope that, as Kylu

994
00:51:36,599 --> 00:51:39,519
said earlier, like got his guy back. That's that's what

995
00:51:39,599 --> 00:51:39,920
I want.

996
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,639
Speaker 1: And him being good helps. Yeah, it just gives ty

997
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,000
looks for lineups in the playoffs, so like it helps

998
00:51:47,079 --> 00:51:49,880
Kawhi a little bit. Like Terrence is a good pick.

999
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:52,719
That's exactly who I was going to pick. So now

1000
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:54,880
I need to kill some time, I think. So we

1001
00:51:55,039 --> 00:52:01,000
got PJJ Terrence. Man, I'm to say it because he's

1002
00:52:01,079 --> 00:52:05,239
kind of We're gonna see some small ball lineups against

1003
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:08,480
these big ass teams and Nko Batoum is gonna be

1004
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,960
playing the five, and Nico at the five has a

1005
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,639
lot of responsibility. Not a bad way he can do it,

1006
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:19,440
but I'm interested to see Nico grow more into this

1007
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:21,760
Nico at the five roll with a couple guys he

1008
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:25,239
hasn't been lineups with before. So he's my pick for

1009
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,079
Player of the Red Trip. Not gonna be a sexy

1010
00:52:27,079 --> 00:52:29,840
box score, but he's gonna be like plus nine and

1011
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:33,760
like a three point win or something like that, and

1012
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:37,719
he's gonna bother Yokic at some point. Good picks. Guess

1013
00:52:38,159 --> 00:52:40,880
the Jokic stopper, the Jokic stop. Yeah, and what are

1014
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,480
the Clippers trading for a Yokic stopper? That's what I

1015
00:52:43,519 --> 00:52:46,880
wanted to talk about next, is that even what you need?

1016
00:52:47,199 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 3: Is that even what you need now now you now

1017
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,960
know you need the Shay stopper or something.

1018
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, we need a guy. How about this Clippers trade

1019
00:52:55,719 --> 00:53:06,000
for a guy who can guard any are really well, oh,

1020
00:53:06,119 --> 00:53:11,280
you could take this guy. Shack Bob Coozy, seat belt nothing,

1021
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:18,840
Shaq get out of here. Huh Yeah, PJ. Tucker and

1022
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:20,880
Bud will get it done. You add a second round pick.

1023
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:24,199
Speaker 3: We're finding somewhere zero point game was on film.

1024
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 1: He'll bring a camera, okay, and that one hundred point

1025
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:33,000
game will turn to a zero point game and then

1026
00:53:33,039 --> 00:53:38,039
we'll have footage of it. Okay. Sorry, that about wraps

1027
00:53:38,079 --> 00:53:38,719
things up.

1028
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 2: Fun twist. Will Chamberlain lander on the moon but did

1029
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,480
not have one hundred points in that game?

1030
00:53:46,599 --> 00:53:50,119
Speaker 1: That would Yeah, I'd take that. I'd take that. He's

1031
00:53:50,159 --> 00:53:53,920
on the picture of just the moon drawing up the

1032
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:57,599
moon on it. Someone photoshop that and send it to

1033
00:53:57,639 --> 00:54:00,280
us at Clipper's Pod. Okay, we gotta give a couple

1034
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,119
of shout outs on this outro. We have to give

1035
00:54:02,159 --> 00:54:05,360
a shout out to Daniel Perez. He listens to the show.

1036
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,719
Will and I met him yesterday. He seems very nice.

1037
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:10,000
Thank you for listening to the show.

1038
00:54:10,199 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, great to see you after a game.

1039
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: Yes, we also have to give a shout out to

1040
00:54:14,519 --> 00:54:18,679
the Clippers comms people who helped Will and I get

1041
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:23,440
through what turned into a very secure situation. To get

1042
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,840
into into it, Adam, I'm going to tell you everyone

1043
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,840
has to hear the story. So if your media and

1044
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,119
you have a bag and you're going into into it,

1045
00:54:31,599 --> 00:54:33,159
you go to where everyone's kind of queuing up at

1046
00:54:33,159 --> 00:54:35,840
the pedestrian bridge, you all the way to the other side,

1047
00:54:36,039 --> 00:54:39,480
and you say, hey, I'm media, a Clippers employee. It's

1048
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:43,079
important this person works for the team. Goes hello, you

1049
00:54:43,159 --> 00:54:45,199
have a bag, get it through the bag check and

1050
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,559
then go get your credential in the media check in

1051
00:54:47,639 --> 00:54:51,800
which is in the stadium itself, two different areas. Every

1052
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,639
single game that we've been to, no issue. Put the

1053
00:54:54,639 --> 00:54:58,320
bag in the tag even game one. Even Game one,

1054
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,480
get the tag, walk over the skybridge, go to the

1055
00:55:01,519 --> 00:55:03,639
media check, and the very helpful people there give you

1056
00:55:04,199 --> 00:55:08,280
this beautiful media pass I'm looking at now. For some reason,

1057
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:12,239
yesterday the news system was you had to have a

1058
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:16,360
credential to get your bag checked. This is what the

1059
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,320
security people were telling us, and I politely will was there.

1060
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:23,559
He can vouch. I politely pointed out that our credentials

1061
00:55:23,599 --> 00:55:27,360
are in the stadium, so how can I go get

1062
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:30,280
my credential? Come back here, go through the backcheck. It

1063
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:34,719
just doesn't make any sense. The security company did not

1064
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:41,800
care for my gentle nudge to the logical road. Anyway.

1065
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:45,199
It was incredibly frustrating the Clippers Comms people. We weren't

1066
00:55:45,199 --> 00:55:48,119
out there only people to have this problem. They they

1067
00:55:48,159 --> 00:55:50,119
made it happen. They made it happen. Everyone got through,

1068
00:55:50,119 --> 00:55:53,519
no worries. Shout out to the Clippers Comms people. And

1069
00:55:53,559 --> 00:55:56,159
I hope that guy who had a present go through

1070
00:55:56,199 --> 00:55:58,440
was able to get in. There was some guy whoever

1071
00:56:00,159 --> 00:56:04,639
like a wrap, which yeah, they looked sketchy. You can't

1072
00:56:04,679 --> 00:56:05,599
have a rapped gift.

1073
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,159
Speaker 3: I'm sure it was like, I'm sure it was fine.

1074
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:13,800
I want to trust that it was fine, but.

1075
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: But you know optics. Anyway, that's the rest. That's the

1076
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,280
end of the shoutouts. Shout out Daniel Prez. Shout out

1077
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,280
to the Clippers comms people, some of which I think

1078
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:23,280
listened to this show, which was really cool. We're maybe

1079
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,000
doing a live after the Wolves game tomorrow. Could be

1080
00:56:26,079 --> 00:56:29,840
fun games at five, I believe our time. We're gonna

1081
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:33,000
do a full episode for y'all on Thursday. Will. Now

1082
00:56:33,039 --> 00:56:34,840
that the New Year's is over and people are going

1083
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:38,280
to break their old resolutions next Friday, what's a what's

1084
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:40,960
a new resolution? Maybe that people could tell them to

1085
00:56:41,199 --> 00:56:44,239
experience and where could they find that that content for

1086
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:45,079
that new resolution?

1087
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:49,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, your resolution should be get three friends to listen

1088
00:56:49,199 --> 00:56:53,920
to clips and this. Yep, they can do that anywhere

1089
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:55,960
they get their podcasts if they want to check it

1090
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:59,760
out over on Apple Podcasts, Spotify. These little ratings reviews

1091
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:03,159
all helps us out, but to get the fullest experience

1092
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:06,599
of this podcast, which sometimes includes my video melting for

1093
00:57:06,599 --> 00:57:08,800
some reason, I'm not quite sure.

1094
00:57:08,599 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 1: Of Adam's an avoid I love it.

1095
00:57:10,679 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 3: It's probably an acid flashback coming to my computer. You

1096
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:16,920
can check us out over on YouTube dot com. Slash

1097
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:21,360
at Clippers Podcast. But hey, however you listen, you're engaged

1098
00:57:21,679 --> 00:57:25,000
with this show, we appreciate you. And yeah, happy now.

1099
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:29,039
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Adam. We've gone from light to dark.

1100
00:57:30,039 --> 00:57:33,400
We need one positive thing to send these folks out

1101
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,840
to start this first week of work again. For some

1102
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,599
of us, God damn give us something positive.

1103
00:57:40,559 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 2: So check this out. Clippers are in a win win situation.

1104
00:57:44,519 --> 00:57:47,639
Lakers are down eight with about six minutes left against Houston.

1105
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:51,039
If the Lakers lose, well the Lakers lose. If the

1106
00:57:51,119 --> 00:57:54,320
Lakers win, they help the Clippers chase down the Houston

1107
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,239
Rockets and the standings. And okay, see he doesn't take

1108
00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:59,639
their pick. Not bad, not bad.

1109
00:57:59,679 --> 00:58:01,679
Speaker 1: I'll take that. That's the kind of energy we need

1110
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,920
for the rest of this year. Thank you everyone for listening,

1111
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,199
Thank you for watching. Again. You can find us at

1112
00:58:07,199 --> 00:58:11,119
clipperspot on Twitter, YouTube, dot Comience at Clippers podcast. We'll

1113
00:58:11,119 --> 00:58:13,519
be back for you all tomorrow most likely and if not,

1114
00:58:13,599 --> 00:58:16,880
full episode on Thursday talking everything that happens. Yeah, and

1115
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,719
as always, let's go clips. Indeed,