Clippers lose 119-106 to the Bucks

Clippers lose 119-106 to the Bucks

Episode Transcript

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The game is over, Paul Georgemoney in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begun. Kawhi Leonardis so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers Locker Room, arecap of today's game and a look ahead
and your hope for LA Clippers basketball. And now your host, You,
sir, are a bad man,Adam Ousley. Clippers fall one nineteen o

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one oh six at home to MilwaukeeBucks. Welcome in near post games show
coming up, we'll get to yourfinal box scoring. You'll hear from the
head coach Toron Lou and the playersafter this one. But first let's get
back out to your voice of theClippers in Noah Eagle, No, you
talked about the three points shooting.Bucks also killed the Clippers on the boards
in this one, But overall,you know, I thought the Clippers effort

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was there with what they had,they just got out executed. Yeah,
the shooting is what sticks out tome. Milwaukee ends up going seventeen of
thirty nine in this game, Adamforty four percent. The Clippers go eleven
of thirty three thirty three percent.It's a six made three difference in a
game they lost by thirteen points sixthrees. That's eighteen points. I mean,
that just can't cut it. Weknew the rebounds were going to be

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a problem because Milwaukee's the top reboundingteam in the NBA. The Clippers are
right in the middle of the pack, and so that played itself out.
But overall, yeah, the efforts, their execution wasn't you wash it.
You have three days now to getready for Golden State and you've got new
pieces to integrate. So looking forwardto that, yeah, and a lot
to look forward to with those threeguys that are coming. The Calvary is
on the way for the Clippers.I know we talked about it a little

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bit in the pregame show in thatfirst segment, but just a reminder for
Clipper Nation, Eric Gordon, Mason, Plumley, Bones Highland on the way.
There's a lot to be excited aboutwhat this team moving forward, very
much. So I think they're gonnaall add a different element, different punch,
and hopefully just kind of revitalize alittle bit of what this team is

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doing on both ends of the floor. But I'm looking forward to everything that
each one of those guys brings,and it'll be exciting to see them make
their debut in just a couple ofdays, especially in that environment against that
team. We know the history betweenthese two, so I'm looking for one.
I know everybody else in Clipper Nationis as well. Clippers following this
one one nineteen to one oh six, they got three days off, also

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a good thing for this squad.Hopefully Kawai Leonard will be back and ready
to go. Tuesday night tip timeis at seven Clippers versus the Golden State
Warriors. Looks like they'll still bewithout Steph Curry six pm with your pregame
show, Noah Eagle, great callas always, We'll talk to you on
Tuesday. My friend Adam can't wait. I'm not even gonna make you wait

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for can't wait. Coming up next, we'll get to your post game box
score. Clippers fall by thirteen toMilwaukee and Yannis Denikopo and you're listening to
the Los Angeles Clippers Radio. CanI kick you? Can? I'm kicking
Can? I'm kicking Clippers lose onenineteen to one oh six at home to

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the Milwaukee Bucks, second time ina week they've lost to this squad.
This time they didn't have Kawhi LeonardMilwaukee, though without Chris Middleton and they
were on a back to back still, they got thirty five from Jannis and
then a Koomper who had their firsteight points in this one. Clippers were
down big early on. By twelve, it was fourteen to two. They
battled back and had the lead goinginto the second quarter, but just not

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enough. Paul George struggled again eightof twenty three from a field, nineteen
points on three of eleven shooting fromthe outside. They were led by Brandon
Boston, who ended up with twentypoints. Some of those were an inconsequential
time off the bench. Norman Powellhad sixteen, a Mere Coffee had ten.
Really gave them a boost in thatsecond quarter with I want to say

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eight of his ten points. Playedreally well, maybe his best stretch so
far of the season. But obviouslyClippers not just missing the guys they've traded
for, but being without the guysthat they let go because everybody's in transit
at this point, it's up inthe air. Guys are in the play
okay, they're their courtside, butthey weren't yet cleared to play for the
Clippers. That would be Eric GordonMason Plumley and Bones Highland. So they

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should be back Tuesday when the Clippersare taken on the Golden State Warriors.
But in a game where Milwaukee goesseventeen of thirty nine from the outside and
the Clippers go just eleven of thirtythree from distance, and Milwaukee Bucks also
second chance points off those boards twentyto two in favor of Milwaukee, that

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is a pretty big disparity there.Clippers lose one nineteen to one oh six
to the Bucks. Coming up nextfor preview Tuesday's game on Valentine's Day,
Clippers hosting the Golden State Warriors.And you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers
radio, Baby girl, they'll wantthe dog if you won the game.

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That was a five point game headinginto the fourth. The Milwaukee would make
their push. Clippers wave the whiteflag around the four minute mark and they
would fall one nineteen to one ohsix to Jannis Dna Cooper on his thirty
five but also Brook Lopez nine hthirteen from the field. He had twenty
two and fifteen fourteen and seven inthe second quarter alone and went four of

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six from the outside. Splash Mountainhad himself a game, Drew Holiday finished
with nineteen for Milwaukee Clippers. Nobodyscored more than twenty, and some of
those twenty points from Brandon Boston cameduring well garbage time late in the ball
game. It was no longer inquestion who was going to be the victor
in this one. Clipper's next gamecoming up on Tuesday, they get three

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days off. That is huge forthis squad. No Kawhi Leonard in this
one, being precautionary with that rightknee coming off the ACL injury. In
eight of his last fifteen games,he's played thirty eight minutes four more.
I think that's the reason. Andyou saw he just didn't look right against
the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday. Sotwo more games before the All Star break.

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Tuesday night on Valentine's Day, Clippershosting the Golden State Warriors, and
then they'll be in Phoenix on Thursday. Warriors won't have Steph Curry, Phoenix
won't have Kevin Durant yet, twovery winnable games, even going up against
tough squads in the West and inthe PACTV Wow, we have a moment.
Let's pause ten seconds for station andentivocation here in the Los Angeles Clippers

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Twitter at follow out of May outsideof Los Angeles leaving leaving you until six
pm with Clippers countdown on Tuesday whenthey take on the Golden State Warriors back
in downtown Los Angeles. In LA, it's Clipper stock news to Master Jay,
so I walked till for her jammass to say, it's a hard
knock light, then you pass away. They say sleep is the cousin of

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death. So mars wide open becausethe treous kids to the last breath rushed.
Well. This post game quote fromcoach lou leaving the presser pretty much
sums it up. Quote Greek freak, bad mother effer, whatever you want
to call him, unquote pretty muchbe honest. Then a kupo has thirty

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five, not fifty four. Thistime, but he got some help from
Brook Lopez, who had twenty twoon nine of thirteen shooting with four three
pointers, and the Clippers would fallto Milwaukee second time in a week,
this time at home one nineteen toone OZH six in downtown Los Angeles.
Welcome into your postgame show. Thisis Clipper Stock. I'm out of Maslin
eight six six ninety eight seven twofive seventy eight six six nine eight seven

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two five seventy is the phone numbercoming up. We'll get to your phone
calls. We'll hear from Lawrence Frankin the pregame pressor talk about the trade
deadline, the moves that were made. I've got a few minutes from that
presser that i want you guys tohear. But if we're starting things off
talking about the contest tonight, orthe Clippers fall for the second straight game,

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and it's tough losing these last two. You thought they would have at
least split against Dallas Wednesday night,who didn't have Luca don chich and it
was Kyrie Irving's first game, andthe Clippers did have Paul George and Kawhi
Leonard couldn't get that one, andthen tonight without Kawhi Leonard, without the
guys who were moved, and ReggieJackson, then Luke Kennard and John Wall,

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and if you want to talk aboutthem as well and give them their
due a tip of the cap andgive them their flowers tonight, that is
more than welcome because I think allthree of those guys, even John Wall,
had his moments this season in ashort amount of time. But of
course the impact of Reggie Jackson onthis franchise and Luke Kennard, I think
it was pretty pretty special. Butwith the other guys in waiting to get

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their physicals and Mason Plumley who's comingin huge pickup in Bones Highland with a
high ceiling, and Eric Gordon backwith the Clippers, they just didn't have
enough and they couldn't hit shots fromthe outside. Eleven of thirty three from
distance. Remember how they got backinto the ball game down fourteen to two.

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They turned things around in less thanthree minutes. It was a tie
ball game in that first quarter afterthey were down by twelve, because they
started hitting threes. Marcus Morris hittwo, then Paul George Unfortunately he was
just three of eleven from the outside, eight of twenty three from the field.
I'm glad he took twenty three shots, but he's just been cold the
last couple of games, now finishedwith nineteen, had six assists to one

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turnover. That's good to see.But if Brandon Boston is leading you because
he got some buckets late in inconsequentialextended garbage time as it was over at
about the four minute mark with theClippers waving the white flag, it's not
gonna get done against this Milwaukee teamthat's just one ten straight now, that
is going for the one seed inthe Eastern Conference, and even on a

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back to back without Chris Middleton,they just out executed the Clippers. They
beat them up on the board,something fierce. We know Milwaukee's great there,
but a plus fifteen board advantage,a plus seven on the offensive rebounds,
and twenty to two they won thesecond chance points. It's hard to

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overcome that in the three points shootingdifferential, because Milwaukee went seventeen of thirty
nine from the outside, they tookjust six more threes and the Clippers to
make six more. So they werehot. Clippers couldn't hit any of their
open shots, or many of them. At least I thought they fought.
They gave what they could. Itwas a five point game heading into the

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fourth quarter. But when Joannie wantsto take over and just cut through the
defense and throw it down as theGreek free does. One of the greatest
players I've seen he can do that. He's an MVP as a finals MVP
with one of the greatest punctuation closingfinals games ever with this fifty pointer to

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bring them their first championship in fortyyears. Pretty unbelievable player. And he's
still getting better. He hit athree pointer, he hit a jumper.
I don't know what you'd do againsthim, but to me, the area
this game was lost for the Clipperswas really in that second quarter when he
was out and I think he wentout about the six minute mark of the

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second but Brook Lopez took over theClippers. I want to say, we're
leading by five when Jannis left theball game, and yeah, it was
at the six seventeen mark. Fortythirty five was the score in favor of
the Clippers. Lopez comes in forJannis and took over as good as a

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mere coffee was in that second quarterfor the Clippers, which was great to
see. That was the best stinthe has played all season long. Been
a very up and down season forhim. But with the trade deadline behind
them, I expect some of theseguys that could have been up on the
trading block or their names could havebeen out there and rumors to play better,
to play looser. I thought wesaw that from a mere coffee.
Well, I don't know brook Lopezwas going to be included in eight trades.

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I highly doubt that he's one oftheir pivotal players. But he went
off, started hitting threes, hada tip shot, got to the basket,
a couple of easy layups, andthe Clippers or minus eight in those
minutes, the last six seventeen ofthe second quarter without Jannis Denna Cooper on

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the floor, and it was brookLopez who took over. That just can't
happen. You go from up fiveto down three at the half and it
was pretty much all brook Lopez inthat second quarter. He had fourteen and
seven in the second loan twenty twoand fifteen in the game, four mate
three pointers, I mean one ofthem was from Steph curry Land. I

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got a tweet at me that whydidn't he eats. The zoobots do a
better job guarding him on those threes. Well, one's a thirty footer.
I don't know what you could doagainst Splash Mountain, who can just shoot
over the top of him too.Another seven footer doesn't matter. He was
awesome for them. Drew Holiday hadnineteen and the Clippers they needed a bigger

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performance from Paul George just having gotat the last two games. Now,
I wonder if the right knee sorenessor the hamstring is still bothering him.
He did get to the basket acouple of times early in the fourth quarter,
slithering through the defense. Weave himthrough defenders and that was good to
see. And he had an eightpoint third quarter with a couple of three

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pointers made. But outside of thateight twenty three from the field, three
of eleven from the outside, justnineteen points. I think it was gonna
take a thirty spot from him andjust the Clippers being hotter from the outside,
outside of Marcus Morris who was fourof seven. Yeah, Terrence Man,

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he was of two. Norman Powelluncharacteristically cold shooting night, one of
six, rowco two of five,A mere Coffee took just one, three
oh one, But man Norman getsa couple of those to go and the
Clippers don't get beat up on theboards that drastically. Yeah, maybe they

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find a way to rise up andpull this one out without Kawhi Leonard,
with all the guys missing still thatthey're waiting for the Calvarry will arrive likely
all three players that they trade foron Tuesday. And I do think people
ask me for a grade on thetrade deadline as a strong B B plus.
They did well. They filled needs. Mason Plumley huge, That's probably

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the best backup center in the league. He was a starter in Charlotte.
He's having a career year. Hejust averaged sixteen and eleven in January.
Bones Highland is all the talent inthe world on offense. He's got to
clean things up on the defensive end. But we'll hear from Lawrence frank In
a little bit talk about his highskill level and coach Lou brought up the
comparison to Lou Williams. A lotof people can see that looks very similar

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in stature and style of play,but can hit tough shots, high degree
of difficulty shots, a good threepoint shooter, brings a lot of excitement
and energy, and you know whatyou're getting with Eric Gordon an efficient score,
but downhill attack. He's a bully. He's a bulldog. He pushes
guys around getting to the basket.I want to say he's at nine drives

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per game is where the advanced statsput him. That's really good. So
they need somebody to put more pressureon the rim. He's also obviously a
good three point shooter having a downyear, but I expect, you know,
his thirty five percent or thirty sixpercent three point shooting to rise drastically
because he's gonna see a lot moreopen shots with the Clippers. And this
is somebody who just had three straighttwenty point games. A week ago in

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Air Cordon, he dropped twenty fouragainst the Clippers and made it interesting trying
to lead Houston against them. Soa great trade deadline. Overall, It's
bittersweet always because Reggie Jackson, he'san all time favorite. He is,
and Luke Kennard and he was oneof my favorite players. Love him.
Best three point shooting in the leaguelast season. Tough to see those guys

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go. And john Wall certainly hadhis moments early in the season, Eddie
and Whittier start things off here onClippers Stock. What's up? What's up
about hey? Game? Terrence Mannhas really owned up to that starting point
guard role. Man, I'm lovingthis kid more and more by the minute.
Terrence was fearless at times. Inthat third quarter, he went at

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Brook Lopez for a tough layoup.He drove on Joey goals, which was
a siteper sore eyes, per CliperNation, they love seeing Joe Engels get
picked on there. I thought Terrencehad a really good ball game, actually,
five of nine, ten points,six boards, a couple of assists.
I'm glad you brought him up,Eddie. Yeah. Norman Powell,
dude, I personally think he's ournumber two. Sorry, Paul George.

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Norman Powell had been balling. That'skind of there's there's two ends to the
floor. And Paul George is aneight time All Star, was third in
MVP two years ago and Defensive Playerof the Year. Yeah, yeah,
thrm, Powell is playing really well. But come on, what are we
talking about? Yeah that was twoyears ago. He's an All Star this

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year, Eddie, He's an AllSNAr this year. The worst All Star
on the team. Dude, hedidn't deserve to be an All Star.
Just being real. Okay, he'saveraging twenty three a game. He's putting
up stats, and only six guysin the league are I know he's had
two back to back games, butyou can't be a prisoner at the moment.
Now say that he's not their numbertwo on the team. Norman Powell

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has been man, that's all I'llsay. That's fine. Hey, yeah,
he also went one of six fromthe outside and had a rough game.
He looks better than Paul George tonight. But hey, I was gonna
say my pickup, you know,buyout guy that they pick up. I'm
gonna stir the pot here. Ithink they get Patrick Beverley back. That's
the dog in the on the bench. All right. I appreciate the phone
call, Eddie. I know CliperNation would welcome back Pat Bev, who's

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likely getting bought out if he hasn'talready from Orlando. Yeah. Patrick Beverley
an all time favorite with Cliper Nation, so I wouldn't be shocked by that.
Let's go with Lenny an Inglewood.Lenny, what's up, hey,
man, let me just say this, bro, we don't do good against

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the league teams. And over thepast year and a half, there's two
teams that we've pretty much dominated.That's been the Rockets in the Lakers,
everybody, and but the elite teams. You know, we beat Boston early
in the year without Robert Williams andwe just Clippers didn't have Norman Powell in

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that game either. Yeah, butlike you said, Norman Powell is a
sixth man. Nobody's gonna nobody,nobody elite should Oh no, right,
look, look, look man,let me tell you Norman Powell, I'm
gonna say something. Might not likeyou've been talking. You can argue he's
the third best player right now.I don't know if he's third most important.
I agree it's it's Nick Batom.But the heater he's been on for

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two and a half months shooting fortysix percent from the outside is incredible.
Norman Powel has been great. Probablylike I said, dude, he's seeing
my man fifty grand Uh Luke Kennard, I told you something was wrong he
had to go. Uh, youknow, wish him all the best,
But let me tell you something.JJ Reddick said something in one of his

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columns of the day, he said. The reason why he had to leave
then the NBA. He said itwasn't a regular season. He said,
it was what he put himself throughthrough the off season. JJ Reddick got
every scrap, every ounce out ofhis talent. Man, he just the
sixty three off guard from Duke whoyou know early on in his career.

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Are you implying Luke Nard isn't.Now Here's what I'm saying. Luke Kennard
is a better athlete than j.J. Reddick. If you look,
man, I'm I'm a Luke Kennardfan. I looked him up. You
know what the high school that dudewas, he was the leading he scored
more points in lebron and on thequarterback of the left hand of quarterback,

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he said, all kind of recordsin passing. Maybe they didn't know if
he was gonna do basketball and footballdue to phenomenal in terms of his skill.
But he's not. He is nota dog like Norman Potter. He
looked like a dog with the sevenpoints scored thirty five point comeback against Washington.
Bro looked like a dog when hehit that half court shot to bring

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him back against Atlanta when they weredown twenty. Let's not let's not do
this. I'm not interested in thewho's got the dog in there in the
rib cage stuff like I've seen itwith him. I'm I'm not gonna dog
him just because he's no longer onthe Clippers. I'm gonna bring up facts.
No, but I'm bringing facts too. Normal power would unk on his

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mamo. Okay, that's what weneed. I don't think that's Luke Kennard's
game plenty, who know. Butwhen I'm staying in that Luke Knar,
I'm a fan of Luke Kennar.Okay, So that's that's what I'm saying.
But what I'm saying he is forsome reason, he has not been
productive for us. And I don'tsee how you could sit down and look
at his numbers. He was thebest three point shooter in the league last

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season and he's still shooting forty fourpercent almost forty five percent from three this
season. To say he's not productive, it's meaningless to me. Just because
he had a bad stint his lasttwo weeks. Now you're shifting. Now
you're shifting because he's been injured.There's one It's one thing to say a
guy's injury prone, but he's productivewhen he's on the court. But it

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sounded like you were saying he wasn'tgood when he was on the court,
and that's just not that's just nottrue. No what Like I said,
dude, I fought. I sawLuke Conard's quick for a long time.
I was really disappointed that he wasn'table to, you know, to get
us over the hump because I stillfelt all along this year that was the
one thing that we had that otherteams didn't have. We had the best
deep ball threat. And I said, if he goes off, that was

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I would stand in bars and barbershopat the top of my voice that Luke
Nard is gonna put us over thetop. Well, the truth is the
guys who have to put him overthe top are their superstars. Internally,
it's the two or three connections thathave to get it done. Now,
we got one superstar, we gotone all star, okay, man,
Paul Jordan is an all Star.He's and he's you know, but he's

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had a couple of bad games afterhaving twenty nine and thirty the two games
before, right, but nobody,nobody would call Paul George's superstar. Paul
George is an all star. Anddon't don't get that twisted man. There's
only five or six superstars in thisleague. Look, if you're a third
in MVP voting, you're a superstar. If you're third in and defensive Player

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of the Year by the way,Okay, but what was that three years
ago? And just over a yearand a half ago. Was he not
a superstar when he took them tothe Western Conference finals without Kauai? How
quickly we forget? Yes, he'shad his had his moment. Okay,
Well, if he can play likea superstar at times, you know that
that's where it has to be.He has to play at that level in

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the playoffs. Well, part ofthat is he's taken all the responsibilities of
a point guard and he can't doit. Like I said, he's not
naturally he's not naturally built for that. And even though Terrence Mann is good
and attack, he's great at attackhim the who but he doesn't dictate a
point guard. I say, wasdictate the flow of the game. We

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still lack that. Okay, westill lack that. I think Kawhi Leonard
often is the one who dictates theflow of the game. He plays at
his own pace. You can,You're right, he can. He has
that unique ability from his But youplay three of your superstars. Yeah yeah,
but but you still we still needI just think that I'm not saying

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it's the final point, but forsome reason we come up short against elite
teams. Well, you can.You can make that argument for the most
part this season. Now, Idon't know how many of these games where
they've had both Kawai and Paul George, like tonight, they didn't because they
do only have ten wins I believeagainst teams over five hundred, and that's

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one of the worst records against teamsover five hundred in the Western Conference.
But how many of those games dothey have Kawai and Paul George. I
don't have that number four you.I know, they let go of a
couple in Philly, up by twentyin Mala Hockey, up by twenty one
games they probably should have won.Yeah, So just moving forward, Uh,

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okay, Lenny, do you likeany of the moves they made?
Yes, I do. I thinkthey got like you said, I think
Mason Plumley is a steel I wasreally shot. I was really surprised that
they got him. Mason Plumley andI've watched his game. He used to
us to come in and dunk,and now he's he's adding uh low post

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moves. He's you know, I'veseen him impressive stuff. I mean,
he's he's rounding out his game.He's very athletic. I think Mason Tumney
was a steal on the how theygot him. I think bone timing was
a steal. And Eric Gordon isgood too. Like I said, you
know, man, I would Iwish the best for Reggie Alden Kevin.
Now Reggie's going to Phoenix and whoknows, man, I mean, he's

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he he's, he's he's gonna hemight get his But John Wall just was
never gonna be that for us.And it's disappointed because I thought, you
know, in the preseason, andI've followed him closely in the summer,
I thought he was really going toput it together. But I think,
like you said, that those twoyears off and that Achilles Hill is just

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it's just a heck of the thing. They overcome. Yeah, And I
don't think you can do it,but Lenny, I wish them. I'm
with you, man. I wishall those guys the best, and I
appreciate the phone call. That wasa long conversation. I gotta take a
break here eight six six nine eightseven two five seventy eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy if you'dlike to get on after the Clippers fall

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lost two straight now in both gamesto Milwaukee this season, one nineteen and
one oh six at home, thistime to Jannis and brook Lopez to up
one. They got three days offthough, get those guys up to speed.
I know they have their physicals comingup. That's why they were on

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the sideline. Couldn't play in thisone. But the hope is all three
players they acquired and they're really goodadditions, will be available against the Golden
State Warriors on Tuesday. More Clippersstock next here on the AMPI seventy only
sports ker so Star almost someone.Clippers fall one nineteen to one oh six

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to Janness then and Kompo brook Lopezand the hot shooting from the outside from
Milwaukee. They go seventeen of thirtynine from distance, and I had twenty
two advantage in second chance points.And this is a little bit of a
disturbing trend. Here last four games, the opposition is shot almost forty seven

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percent from the outside against the Clippers, Milwaukee almost at forty four percent.
But overall, teams have been hot, and we've seen it recently. That
first quarter by Dallas nine three pointers, that first quarter by Brooklyn eight three
pointers. They're getting off the hotstars. Clippers are down fourteen to two

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before they turn things around quickly andledge twenty seven twenty two heading into the
second tonight, but they fall aftergiving up a thirty eight point quarter in
the fourth and really it was overwith four minutes left. Clippers lose to
the Bucks. Before you hear fromthe head coach Chavier and Labber heights,
Javier, what's up here on Clipperstock without in Austin, it was up.
I'm thank you for taking a carlike the enormous season ticket holders.

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So I was at the game today, so it was it didn't start well,
but then, like you said,they caught up in the second quarter.
But you know you earlier you wereseeing about throwing some flowers to the
x Clippers. Yeah, and you'reyeah, and that brought something up that
I thought about and Lenny said itearlier that they can't seem to beat the

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good teams. But you know it, last year without Paul George and Kawai,
Lu Kennard and Reggie Jackson, someof these players didn't want some games
that they should they shouldn't want.I mean, he beat Brooklyn the game
against Milwaukee when they got forty fromRocco exactly. But yeah, but do

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you know what I'm saying. Yeah, they beat in Miami twice, they
beat Milwaukee at Milwaukee, they beatthe Nets in Brooklyn. And that's just
four games I can remember. ButI know they wont other games. And
this is what Kawai and Paul George. So like you said, you want
to thrown some flowers. I meanthat's you know, they did a good
job. I just don't understand what'sgoing on with with the team. With

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the team this year. I meanit just I don't know. Hopefully with
these trades we got, who areyou most excited about the three guys they
brought in? Of course Plumby,but the guy was in bones or yeah,
I saw hide it, so likeI'm like, my god, this
guy is he's exciting. He justhe's he has no fear. So I

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was like, wow, So thatthat was still, so I'm happy for
that too. But but yeah,I just like the day I was at
the game today and I just Inoticed every time Title called time out.
You noticed they ever scored every timewhat he called him and honestly almost because
he called a time out and theyhad that turnaround when they were down fourteen

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to two. So it wasn't everytime outlets, let's be honest. Yeah,
they had some bad out of timeout execution. A few different times
they had a shot clock violation,and I thought at times in that third
quarter, well, they were playingthe right way for the most part.
Drive kicks swing, and guys weremaking the extra pass. They were a

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little too unselfish and one of thosetimes led to a shot clock violation.
Guys were overpassing a little bit.Yeah yeah, but you know they just
underman too. So they were missingbutton kawaii to threw Newts players. So
that's bi players are missing. Butbut yeah, so last thing real quick,

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Adam I'm gonna be nice. I'mnot gonna say his name, but
he played thirty one minutes, wasa minus twenty two, did not grab
one rebound, and you're playing againsta team that it's number one. You're
rebounding. That's all I got tosay, Adam. But you know what
do I know? All right,Adam, We'll see you on Tuesday and
help you at the game. Thankyou, all right? Avier, I

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believe, and Code was talking aboutMarcus Morris, who also hit four three
pointers for a team that desperately neededto hit something from the outside. The
plus minus it can work for you, it can work against you sometimes.
I don't love it. In aone game sample, yeah, not getting
a board there and the Clippers gettingdominated and it being that lopsided twenty to

(31:47):
two, and second chance points forMilwaukee that hurt them as well. Here
was coach Lulo post game after theBucks win one nineteen to one oh six
over the Clippers. Tight considering howshorthanded you were, was there anything positive
about taking these guys into the gameas long as you did. I mean,
I just liked our fight early on. You know, we got down

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early, I think fourteen to two, and I'm to keep fighting and then
build the lead to get it backup to eight in that first half,
and then tough player. We hada fifty fifty ball and then Drew Halliday
picks up in the corner and makesit three and cuts it to five.
And that's kind of what got themgoing and got them enrolling. But probably
our young guys and some things thatthey did. You know, a Brandon,
he was really good. He dida good job. And then you

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know, we didn't make didn't makeshots. I thought we got some good
looks early on, and then theykind of deflated us. But then we
stuck with it and we came backand like I said, our defense was
really good and then we was ableto you know, take the lead by
eighty after being down twelve, andthen you know, at the third quarter,
they kind of got going a littlebit on us. So you guys
had Zoo on on be honest forpretty much the entire game. I think,

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I know at parts, you know, Johnnys, I think shot six
or fifteen in the first half.But Zoo was a little frustrated some of
the way he was getting in thebasket and scoring. I guess what was
the idea with throwing Zo with jannestthe entire game and what were you telling
Zo in those moments when he wasa little frustrated. I mean, just
just to stay with it. Imean, our guys are shrinking the floor,
trying to help as much as possible. But he's a tough cover.
I mean, that's why is theMVP. And you know you gotta put

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a physical guy on him, youknow, just trying to slow him down.
And when he gets inside the pain, if you got a smaller guy
on him, he's finished, youknow, gett into the free throw line.
And so I thought Zoo did agood job. You know, overall,
he really heard us. You know, when he got down, he'll
like attacking in transition, you know, getting the run and start. I'm
kind of pulling up pressure. Butoverall, you know, I thought we
did a decent job on guarding him. You know, he took fifteen shouts

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in the first half and the latand in the second half, but you
know that's that was our game plan. And like I said, I thought
Zoo did a good job. Jannestand transition is like his own death lineup,
like a wolf pack of one.It's just it's gotta be terrifying out
there. I thought Zoo held hisown, did about as good of a

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job as you could and also wentback at him. We saw this in
Milwaukee too. I wish Zoo attimes would get more involved offensively when the
Clippers need easier buckets because he hada hook shot. He went at Jannis
for another finished with just six points, but only attempted four shots, still
had eight boards three blocks. Inever really questioned Visa Zubos and his consistency

(34:23):
out there on the floor. He'shad times where he struggled, and I
think he's been tired, but healways goes hard. He's their iron man
and does a lot of the dirtywork and the little things to try to
make up for any deficiencies out thereon the defensive end. But yeah,
the honest is just that good coach, lew said walking away from bad Mother.

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Effer. That's probably what it sayson his wallet, like jewels and
pulp fiction. All right, Clipperslose one nineteen to one oh six.
Coming back back to your phone callseight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy eight six sixty nine eight seventwo five seventy. This is Clipper stock.
You're on AMPI seventy ol sports.Here we go getting out rid Fima.

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Well, I'm back in the Clippersstock. After they lose one nineteen
to one else six at home tothe Milwaukee Bucks eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy is the phonenumber before you hear from Lawrence Frank and
his pregame pressure on the trade deadline, Zachary and Santa Monica. You're on
Clipper Stock with Adam? Awesome?What's up, Zachary? Oh hey Adam?
Well, so yeah, I'll startby saying this. I did think

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that Lawrence Frank and the front offichas did a good job yesterday. I
do think they need to probably getone person from the buyout market, a
backup point guard specifically before like youknow, the roster is set. But
why I'm calling tonight, I justgotta say, you can add me to
the list of people that are disgruntledabout lowered management. It just really doesn't

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sit well with me. Pun intendedthat you know, we're against like an
elite team like Milwaukee. This team'salready been, you know, having to
rally so much over the last coupleof weeks, and then like the best
player on the team just sits out, you know, and really just I
just feel like it's so detrimental tothe other guys. I get why they
do it in theory, but Idon't know aside from that one season in

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Toronto. I just don't think thetrack record there has shown that it's really
beneficial yet in the long run,and it just really doesn't sit well with
him. Aside from that one seasonwith the very player you're talking about that
went on to win the championship whilehe was still limping out there, Aside
from that, right, yeah,I mean, I just think you know

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that's still if you're going to takea sample size, that's still like a
one time sample size. So like, yes, but it's not it's not
like a comp or another player.You're talking about the very same player who
knows his body best, who hasa medical team, and it's a collaborative
effort. They come together on this, but often Kawai doesn't get him make

(37:04):
these calls. And I mentioned itearlier, but in eight of the last
fifteen games he's played thirty eight minutesor more. He's been playing heavy minutes
lately. And he's not the onlyone when you look around the league of
guys who have been sitting out,and the comp would be Jamal Murray with
the Denver Nuggets, who was alsomissed games coming off in acl that he

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tore a couple of months before KawhiLeonard did. But let me point this
out, Zachary, with how goodKawai has looked already off the ACL where
he was runner up for Player ofthe Month in January. Don't you think
the plan has worked? Don't youthink to get the most out of Kauai
this is the right way to bringhim back slowly? Well, let me

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say this. You're gonna asker answeryour question. It's one a two part
answer. I mean, yes,Kawai was getting into form well to me,
though, you know, they wouldn'tif they both sat out against the
Calvs, like what two weeks agoor something, six players missed that ball
game. Yeah, okay, wellthen that might be so okay, that

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might be a bit of a factorthen. But to me, the team
looked very off ever since that happened. So you know, if it's working
for Quiet, I just don't knowif it's working for the rest of the
team. But how did they look? Wait? How off did they look
when they won three of the nextfour games after that loss against the Caffaliers.
What well? I remember we youknow, I mean, and some

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other fans were calling in and youwere wait on, you said, they
looked off after that game. Theywon three of the next four, and
the one they lost was a gamewhere they were up twenty one against Milwaukee.
Right, we were saying how theywere not closing out games, how
they were not you know how theyhow they were letting teams sort of crime

(38:53):
in, and I just felt likethey completely lost whatever momentum they had from
like winning. Okay, let melet me blow that up. They almost
gave the game away against the Hawksbefore they sat down against the Cleveland Cavaliers,
so that trend was already there.It didn't get started because they sat
against Cleveland. Okay, Well,could I before I go, could I

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propose like an ultimate solution? Maybechair? All right, well, so,
yes, I'm interesting and quiet.It's injury is different than what the
player I'm about to talk about.But I remember back like a decade ago,
the Phoenix Suns. I think theyhad like the best medical staff in
the league. These people were knownto revive like the careers of so many

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players. I know, I knowwhat you're talking about with Shack and Jason
richardson m Yeah, and what theydid with like their stars, particularly Steve
Nash, is what they had theminstead of like load management, which is
taken off lately. They had likethese guys just play reduced minutes every game.
And to me, again, Iknow Quiet's injury is different. I

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I mean, I'm not a medicalexpert, and I can say it would
work with him, But I justwish there was a way that you could
put him in every game and stillrest. And I feel like that in
theories should be possible. Well thatwould be I don't know. Look,
they look at every angle with thisstuff. They're doing their due diligence.
But again, considering that Kauai looksat worst ninety five percent of what he

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was before the ACL, I thinkI'm going with what they're doing. I
think the results speak for themselves.I'm not going to get in the way
of that, because I sure didn'tthink he would be back to this level
this soon, Zachary, did you? Yeah? Honestly, is that question?
No, I don't think I was. Okay, not sure what I
expected, but I mean, yes, I will grant you. He looks

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very good when he has played lately. All right, Well, I appreciate
the phone call, but he didn'tlook great and looked a little bit taxed
and tired. Against Dallas on Wednesday, so maybe that played a role here.
All right, we'll play Lawrence Frankwhen we come back. Eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventyeight six six, nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number.Clippers fall one nineteen to one oh six

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to the Milwaukee Bucks at home smallthings and dropped the thirty one and twenty
eight on the season. And thisis Clipper stock. You're only a five
seventy old sports actually listening to thingsin my heart said, heart set right
in my bike. It's shot inmy bike. Not over thinking my life,
not always wanted to rent if I'ma likable person as someone that nobody
likes, not always stressing my money. You're losing my job. I scared.

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I ain't making a flight, notalways going to bed at be night.
But it's not in my stomach thatnever one won what it gave you
everything? Do you know I saidit, I am better now I bet
And now I only said that becausehe noted a row. You know now
I metch you. That's you down, nuts, you down for it gave
you y s what it gave youvery six. I did not only anyone

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well there's an update. Everything camesecond after the Clippers lose one nineteen to
one ZO six to the Milwaukee Bucksat home. Paul George post game in
the locker room was asked about addinga traditional point guard and said, quote,
if there's somebody out there, RussellWestbrook, if it makes sense and

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it goes with our team, we'reall four. Hopefully Russ sees this and
we figure something out TBD. We'llsee. Here's the President of Basketball Operations
Executive of the Year two years ago, Lawrence Frank pregame speaking with the Media'll
gild you just a glimpse into thisand we'll put the whole thing on the

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podcast later. But here was LawrenceFrank. The like to start just by
thanking the three guys that were withus, and we're a big part of
the fabric of our organization. Aswe you never get numb to how painful
it is to trading players. Itjust thinking about trading people is a is

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a tough concept there. It's awhole lot more than brainstorms on the computer,
you know, widgets. It's theseare human beings with lives, with
families that you grow very close to, very close to the teammates, people
in the organization. So I wantto thank Reggie Luke John with Reggie such

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an incredible story, a rebirth ofa career, you know, kind of
the first thing I think about Reggieis just hearing you know, nineteen thousand
people chanting his name. Huge reasonfor leading us to our first conference finals.
Couldn't have done it without him.Last year where we dealt with a

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lot of injuries, you know,Reggie put on a uniform every single night,
and when you look over the lastthree years, he's actually played the
third most games of any Clipper.Have a ton of respect for Reggie.
Unbelievable spirit. When we were downO two and both playoff series, like,
he didn't flinch. He had agreat attitude about him. Uh.

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He's a terrific person and he's agreat story of Sometimes when you know,
you think you think it could beover, you get a chance, you
get some people who believe in you, uh, and he took full advantage
of it. So it's it's sadto see Reggie go. Uh. Luke,
to see his growth in development fromthe time we traded him, you

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saw his confidence grow. He's awhole lot more than just an elite shooter.
He's a really good connector on thebasketball court. He could dribble,
pass and shoot. It's great tosee his development as an no bold defender
with each year. Uh here hegot better. Consummate, prou and very
very thankful for what for what Lukemeans the organization. You know John,

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who's you know, one of thebest point guards of his generation, very
very professional, tremely competitive, Uhandled you know, a different role in
a first class professional way. Andhave a ton of respect for John both
what he what he's done, andalso what he is and he still has
he still has a lot of basketballleft in him. So with that,

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I open it up to questions,can you get beat with the new players
coming in? Like how do yousee them fitting in? What are your
expectations for the three new guys comingin? Yeah, I think you know,
when you go into the deadline,you before you even put players names
to anything, you look at whatare the goals and objectives of the deadline

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and to make sure you're staying withinthose guard rails. And we're really really
excited with the deadline. Is ashard as it is to trade players,
your job is to get the teambetter. So one of the first objectives
we had is we wanted to enhanceour playoff rotation and with two way play
with someone who can also pass,dribble and shoot and be switchable. The

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second thing we wanted to do wasconsolidate our guards. Uh, you know,
it just it was a challenge.Just we had so many talented guards
that it's tough not to play themall. But yet they didn't quite all
fit together, just because they sharedsome of the same traints, whereas they
also shared some of the same deficiencies. Uh. The third thing we wanted
to do was just address some positionalneeds. Uh, and you know,

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and then the fourth thing we wantedto do was to add some youth to
the roster where you know, we'reone of the older, older teams in
the league and we want to continueto inject really good young talent. And
then the fifth thing we wanted toachieve was we wanted to add some flexibility.
So we're really really happy first withinthose guidelines, we feel like we've
been fortunate that we checked all thoseboxes. So with each guy with with

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Eric Gordon, who's no stranger toClipper fans. The you know, Eric's
proven to be able to offensively,be able to play both on and off
the ball. Uh He's, youknow, not a point guard, but
he can initiate an offense. Hecan run pick and roll, he can
make all the different passes out ofpick and roll. But one of the

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biggest benefits he does is off theball. He provides as much spacing as
any player in the league. He'snot a three point shooter. He's a
four point shooter. And just andso what happens is and he's he's used
to playing with with stars is ifyou really study how his defender will be
next to him, He's very rarelyat the nail. If Eric's in the
slot, you know he's gonna behugging it. Just it just gives wider

(47:28):
gaps to attack. He also,as you saw in the game when we
played him, if you remember,you don't know what it was, maybe
four or five weeks ago, he'san excellent downhill attacker, very similar to
Norm in that regard. And westruggle at times when you know, we
can get at times a little bittoo jump shot, you know, leaning,
and you know, he gives usanother guy who can get his head

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on the rim. He's an efficientattacker. The understands had to punished switches.
So we think he can carry areally good load for us, both
on and off the ball, andthen defense of just because of his his
body type and length, he's ableto guard up. He's able to switch
up. Houston when they were attheir best with those teams that that competed

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with Golden State, they were oneof the better switching teams in the league,
and they were able to do itwith Eric on the floor because he's
able to guard bigger players. Andwe we kind of built our team around
that concept, and especially in theplayoffs where switching becomes so much more prevalent
than drop, pick and roll defense. We think he's he's a really really

(48:30):
good fit in that and he's gotplayoff experience. He's playing in a number
of big games, So we thinkEric will fit in seamlessly with Mason.
You know, we obviously needed toaddress, you know, the big position
behind Zoo. You know, Mason'shad a career year. His energy.
It's a little bit you know,we saw it last year with Isaiah where

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we're able to take advantage of hispassing. You know, I don't know
if you know how many well someof you guys have followed us for a
long time. But if you rememberplayoff series when he was with Portland and
they had you know, with CJand Dame, we blitzed them literally every
catch because they had Mo Harkless onone wing Amino on the other. And
yet Mason was the one who pickedus apart. You know, he's able

(49:14):
to he can play in that pocketand that window and attack and make plays.
So again, looking towards the playoffswith Kawai and Peg, they're gonna
get blitz, we wanted to makesure we had another playmaker at that size.
It also helps us because we don'thave the pure point guard, another
guy who can pass the ball likewe saw with Isaiah lash Year. Mason's

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a very very good runner. Theother thing we liked about Mason, I
think it's important in the playoffs thatyou're able to execute different pick and roll
coverages. And with Mason, hecan get up. With Charlotte on the
side, they ice to a blitzbasically a trap they you know, take
away the middle and he's got he'sgot good active feet, he slides well
laterally, you know, obviously,I think those who follow Charlotte know,

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he's a very improved free throw shootdirectly correlated. He started shoot at left
handed, you know, so it'shis credit. And he's a super high
character guy. I got an opportunityto meet him when he was and spent
some time with the win who's arookie. We had Marshall Plumbly his brother
here in our G League program.So we're really really excited to welcome Mason
and then Bones, Busy Bones.We we kind of fell in love with

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Bones during the draft process a coupleof years ago. The he has a
an enigmatic personality. I think he'sgonna be a fan favorite. He plays
a game that's an exciting game.He forced his teammates to play fast.
He pushes the ball. He's adeep shot taker and maker. He's a
really good shooter off the dribble,and he's a whole lot more than just

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a score if you really break downhis game. He's a very very good
passer off pick and roll, andhe's a very very good weekend left hand
passer. He can make all thereads, all the passes. He plays
with a great energy to him.Uh and uh, We're really really excited
to add some of like Bones,who you know made I think he was

(51:07):
second people All Rookie last year.You know he had some you know,
some different things you know for himthis year where things did go away,
but that's why he was available.So, uh, we're super super excited
with with all three guys. Youguys came in with championship expectations. How
is this group going to compliment Kauaiipg better as far as trying to reach

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that goal? And also do youfeel like the lack of a true point
guard might be something you might bea little concerned about the playoffs? Well,
I think the thing is it's agreat question. And look, and
we obviously were in conversations with quoteunquote true point guards and the I think
there's when you look at teams andeven if you think about the team we're
playing tonight, like who's the pointguard for the Bucks, Well, you'd

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say Drew Holiday. For years peoplesaid is Drew like Drew Holidays an All
Star? But it is the pointguard. You look at the Warriors,
like who's the point guard of theWarriors? Is it Steph Curry or is
it Draymond Green? You know forthe Celtics, you know Marcus Smart,
is the point guard. So Iguess my point is you play through your
best players, and if there wasa if there was a point guard that

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could be in our top eight ornine, you know, you know,
like we we looked at those guysinvariably. What's important is we need someone
whether they're a point guard or not, is someone who won't be played off
the floor defensively, someone who canshare some of the ball handling responsibilities but
yet not be so ball dominant thatyou know, the ball's gonna be in

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quiet PEG's hands sixty percent of thetime. So it's a delicate balance.
So I think with it is regardlesspoint guard or not, is getting guys
who they've got to be able toshoot because you know in the playoffs where
you know, like the Stars,they're not gonna have a lot of space.
So we wanted to check that boxwith Eric the ability to drive a
close out because you're gonna see alot of rotations when people put two on

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the ball. And then on theother end, can you guard multiple positions?
And so I think whether point guardor not point guard, like,
we wanted to get a player likethat, because if we didn't get a
player like that, whether it wasquote unquote a peer point or just a
guard. We would have just statestatus quote and the league. The league
has a ton of great point guards. The thing is, it comes down

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what's the definition, the prototypical definition. There aren't a lot of those guys
left. A lot of these guysare scorers first that put two on the
ball, create an advantage, thatmove it. We built our team around
quiet PG and then surround them withcomplimentary pieces. So I think you look
at everything, you try to exploreeverything. And it's also a competitive trade

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market. You know you're not youknow, you don't just always get the
perfect thing, but you look,okay, how can we get the team
better? So I think, andthis is not a any insinuation on the
roster we had prior is I thinkwe we got better. I think subtlely,
with some of the subtle changes made, we've improved. Ultimately, at

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the end of the day, it'sgoing to come down to, you know,
all our players availability, the abilityto play well together and to completely
buy into what TLO needs them todo. What do you get it all
from offer spot? And I'm justsure of how do you view the whether
you will fill that buyout market ors, what do how you view sort of

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that what we need? Yeah,yeah, I'll sit down with with TLU
and just kind of evaluate where we'reat. I think, you know,
my instinct is to kind of letlet's kind of take shape, Let's see
what this looks like, see howit fits. Uh, we only have,
you know, maybe five six gamesbefore the buy out market. Guys

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have to be brought out by oryou know, Wave prior to March one,
and but just kind of I'd liketo let this marinate a little bit.
But I'll sit with Tie and seeksee what he thinks and and we'll
kind of proceed from there. Itwas just sort of was with everything that's
happened in the West. Dallas madetheir move. You saw what that looked
like, was in that partially obviousPhoenix to Kevin durand they did that this

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week being Phoenix, we won't seeKevin either, but they obviously made some
moves. A lot of teams mademoves, but obviously those are the two
that probably are at the top ofthe list. How did that, if
it did at all affect of howyou looked at trying to upgrade this roster
this week? Yeah, it didn'thave any impact, and someone asked me

(55:37):
it was an interview, but askedthe same question me is you know,
you have to run your own race, and you you have to do what's
best for your group. Each teamhas their players and they have a set
of their tools in terms of whatthey have draft capital. Uh. You
know, obviously Phoenix made a hugeflash move getting one of the one of
the great players to have played thisgame. You did it in twenty nineteen.

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You don't have an unlimited treasure chest, so I think you you do
what's best for your group. Sofor us, like I said, that's
why we always kind of we holdourselves accountable with what are the goals and
objectives that we're trying to get doneway ahead of the trade deadline. So
you don't get that that deal heatthat oh my goodness, you know Dallas
did this or you know you knowanother team did that. I think you

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just you have to run your ownrace. You have to you have to
do what's best for your group.And our commitment, you know, to
Steve to our players, to ourstaff is to try to give them the
best chance we can at competing foryour championship year and in year out.
If I made just a quick followyou mentioned flexibility. What does that mean

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specifically for you? See? Uh, well, I don't know. I
mean flexibility obviously creates optionality. Whatit means, I guess the only time
will tell. Would you be valueto share just a little bit behind the
scenes, because it seemed like thefloodgates just opened up. You know,
as a fan, you didn't wantto go to sleep Wednesday night because the
phone was blowing up behind these scenes, What was it like for you?

(57:06):
You've had your plan, you thoughtalready what you're you know, when you
were going to pull the trigger onyour deals? Yeah? So yeah,
so you started weigh in advance inthe sense of, you know, you
establish from goals and objectives, andthen you establish some player targets in terms
of you know what your needs areand who would best fit it, and
those dialogues start. You know,it's months of dialogues and because you have

(57:30):
to you know, in order fora deal to get done is both teams
interests, those circles have to intersectand it has to be a win win
for both sides, and it hasto make make sense for both teams in
order to be able to create thoseideas. You need to really have really
good relationships with the other teams tounderstand what exactly are their needs, what

(57:51):
are they trying to get, whatare they trying to achieve by the deadline,
and then you just start doing somedot connecting, and very similar to
to the draft, you have aorder of where you're gonna go, and
then you have to understand as thetiming factor and if you if there's not
enough traction on one deal or youjust don't see it happening, you have

(58:12):
to quickly pivot. And then thething is what becomes challenging. And I
give an unbelievable amount of credit,we have a terrific front office group.
They do all this despite me.I mean they just wake me up to
the end like, look this iswho we got. Oh good, but
the no, we we really havea great group with with Michael Winger,
Trent Wren and Mark Hugh's, LeeJenkins, our entire strategy group, jud

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Winton, matallizea, Greg Pime andthen so many people behind the scenes are
Director of Pro Scouting John Lawyer.So it's it's a collective effort of everyone
kind of connecting dots to be ableto put these multi team trades together.
And so we were very very fortunate. I mean at three in the morning
the you know, I don't evenknow the days, but like we really

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didn't look like anything was is gonnabe we're able to execute anything. And
then even as I'd say as lateat eight thirty in the morning, nine
in the morning, like I didn'tlook and then things start to come together
and you have to move quickly,but you're not able to be nimble and
fast if you don't have a plan. And it's it's very process driven because
again it's very easy to get dealheat and you have to be disciplined,

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and especially in our situation where wedon't have the full treasure chest, you
know, and you have to youhave to understand how to manage your assets
because you're you're you're consistently trying toget better. But you also you can't
be so nearsighted that that you makesome some foolish decisions. That's what I
feel like. Obviously, point guardis an important role, especially for a

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team with with the wings starting thatyou guys have, and Tis talked about
wanting to use a point guard totraditional point guard to quote unquote, this
washer doesn't necessarily have that, soI'm curious. I mean it's a maybe
maybe builds, but how what wouldthe I guess collect conversations going on about
having that true point guard out therebecause Ty said, you know, he

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likes that traditional point guard versus nothappen one because I think right now you
guys don't really have a Yeah.Well, I think the thing is the
I think you know, you lookat the I guess quote true point guards.
You know how many of them weretraded? You know? So I
think there were two? Right?Other teams also value the position, So

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I think what you do is ifyou're not in a position to obtain them,
it's not for lack of trying.You ultimately then have to be okay,
how can I get the team betterif I can't get this position,
because I think and the playoffs area great revealer in that you could get
a backup point guard or two pointfive or a third point guard who may

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have the skill sets because a pointguard in today's day is completely different than
what it was ten years ago.I mean, other than maybe a couple
of teams, everyone basically runs thesame stuff there. There's not there's not
the intricate, complicated patterns being runas much these days, and it's like
scorings up. It's a free flowinggame. So I guess the question is,

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would you rather have a backup pointguard who has limitations in other errors
or would you rather have a betterplayer who's going to be in your top
eight? Now, the ideal thingis you have that, you know,
whether it's a point guard or whateverposition that can do both. But if

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you don't have, if you can'tacquire that guy, like you got to
find other ways to do it.And I guess even my point earlier,
when you really study the league,you know, like there's the term point
guard is a very very vague term. So to me is what you do
is you always build your team aroundyour best players and get complimentary skill sets.

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Because if let's say we had aball dominant point guard who couldn't you
know, who had other limitations,Well, how does that impact your stars?
So I think it's like TYNEI dialogueevery day and we try to do
everything in our power to be ableto get him what he needs. And
like in any relationship, if youif those guys aren't available or they're not
being traded or another team gets them. Well, you gotta be you gotta

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pivot. You know, you can'tjust say bug, you know like that.
No, that's the job and thejob is you have to be creative
in different ways. And so it'sit's it's an unbelievable process because you just
you just got to be very creativeand figure figure things out together. Thinks.
So my pleasure, guys, havea great night. There was a
president of Basketball Operations, Lawrence Frank, speaking about the three players they acquired

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and Eric Gordon, Mason, Plumleyand Bones Highland at the trade deadline.
His entire press conference. I'll addit to the Clippers Talk podcasts coming up.
I'll have that upload within the nexttwenty minutes before we get out of
here quickly. Jose and Southgate,who called in before the game even started.
Jose, what's up. I'm gladwe didn't eat let go of Charnce

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Man. Of course, I'm hurtthat we let Red d Red g go.
But I feel like we addressed onthe team's heels. Yes, Se
reveals and that's as we could,especially since Irvan and Duran here in the
West, we're looking for more couplepoint guard Reggie and Wat weren't sad.

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Goose is the young point guard,so he's gonna be looking to set up
the offense, to set up screensbefore he looked for a shun like Warren
Reggie. So let's see with allof the team knows so real quick,
where credit words due? Uh?No, you already know, from the
from the Atlanta to the Detroit tothe Washington game. Reggie Jackson, you

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already know, Reggie. Okay.And then one last thing, my bad,
you know, Adam, you haveme waiting forever. One last things
playing plans. I was hoping that'dbe the last name. Thank you,
Jose. Clippers lose tonight. Theygot three days off time to implement these

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new players. Tip time against theWarriors on Tuesday on Valentine's is at seven.
A lot of Clippers count down fromdowntown Los Angeles starting at six before
we get out of here. Ido want to thank the Clippers organization.
No It Eagle, Brian Stephen,Ralph Law, every brother Jake Warner or
head engineer, Big Brother Jake podcast. He's got a Super Bowl edition out
right now. Dennis, that Cassinoset assition to the stars, the star

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being Noah Eagle and our producer KeayNewton here in the bank. Thank you,
Katie. Thanks to all the callersthe listeners until Tuesday with the pregame
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