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Speaker 1: Volume Happy Wednesday, everybody. We're going to be taking a

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Speaker 1: this Sun's blow out of the Warriors was yet another

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Speaker 1: This was also a Phoenix team that had failed to

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Speaker 1: time to be an Oklahoma City Thunder fan. Alright, last

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Speaker 1: A Clippers. Clippers really blew this game open in the

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Speaker 1: the offensive glass. Robert Covington played really well in this game,

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Speaker 1: Always has been a good help defender, really good at

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Speaker 1: He always attacks you down low rather than attacking up high,

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Speaker 1: and which is another thing you can do with long arms,

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Speaker 1: and arguably with the best players in the league, that's

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Speaker 1: the best way to bother them because most of the

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Speaker 1: best players are good at finishing over upper contests above

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Speaker 1: you know, back where they're shooting and they're pull up

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Speaker 1: top of the key. Then he scored a bunch of

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Speaker 1: at least a hundred spot up possessions. Norman Pals really

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Speaker 1: numbers are convoluted by the fact that, like Norman Pale

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Speaker 1: in his last twenty three games, Norman pal is averaging

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Speaker 1: nice little influx of talent for them. Quiet Leonard masterful night,

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Speaker 1: thirty three points on twelve shots, just nine for twelve

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Speaker 1: always blows me away. Kevin Durant qwhile Leonard have the

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Speaker 1: weirdest stat lines because they'll have like these games where

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Speaker 1: shot chart and they'll all be jumpers. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: unbelievable the way that Kawhi Leonard and Kevin Durant can

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Speaker 1: be that efficient on that incredibly difficult shot diet. But

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Speaker 1: everything with the Clippers comes down to health. When Kawhi

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Speaker 1: they are plus nine points per one hund possessions. That's great,

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Speaker 1: is less than seven games worth essentially if you wanted

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Speaker 1: some sort of equivalency there. So, I mean, it's just

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Speaker 1: really hard to evaluate the Clippers because we can't ever

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Speaker 1: And then the Mavericks, now I've lost three out of

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Speaker 1: four games because they aren't defending. They're giving up a

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Speaker 1: that span. Al right, guys, that is all I have

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Speaker 1: for right now. Like I said, keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: the feeds. We've got our contender tears coming out, and

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Speaker 1: then we also have our five burning questions for the

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Speaker 1: second half of the season. As always, I appreciate your

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Speaker 1: support and I'll see you guys next time. The volume