It's the Clippers.

The Clippers need this game more than any more than the Nuggets for the simple fact that they need to show the Nuggets that what they did last year and the bubble is a flu.

And this is not the same Clipper team.

They have a.

We have a new coach, Paul George is back to himself.

Kawhi Leonard is back to himself, and they have to send a message to this young Denver Nuggets team.

That is that.

That's basically saying, Hey, you don't want to see us.

You don't want this smoke.

So is more is most.

It's important to the Clippers to go in here and smack the Denver Nuggets to send a message and make a statement.

Um, sure, if you see it as the Clippers world.

If you see this as the story of the Clippers is, the Clippers is the A side of the Nuggets is the B side.

I don't think that's the way the Nuggets see themselves, and that's not the way I see this.

I don't believe in playoff.

Paul George like playoff.

Paul George is an insult, and it shouldn't be.

He's a great enough player where that should be a compliment.

But it hasn't been through as career in the sample size is large enough that, you see, he clearly does not assert himself the way he should in the playoffs.

He has some good games, then he goes away.

Other games, he comes down in the world in those circumstances.

What's Jamal Murray do?

What's Yokich Do they give you that work?

As you would say, Perk, they give you that work.

And Portis Jr.

Also horrible defender but a really offensive talent, have now has another year of experience under his belt.

No, if you come into this thinking, look what happened to the Clippers last year, Clearly they need the win Mawr.

Sure, because you think that's the Clippers world or their story.

Fine.

But if you look at it, the Nuggets like this is a team that's going to win a championship.

They have, Like Jamal Murray is gonna be in the Hall of Fame one day.

Yokich, you'll be in the Hall of Fame one day.

Porter might be an All Star with this scoring if he could get his defense to come around it all This is a team that that was down but never out.

It seemed right in the playoffs that the cardiac kids and it felt like no lead is safe.

No, no.

The Nuggets have to be looking at this season like they're going for there's right now.

You don't want the Clippers send the message.

Look, last year it's different.

It was a fluke.

We didn't have our act together.

What's that do for the Nuggets?

The Nuggets got to send the message.

That wasn't a fluke.

We're here.

We mean business were better than we were last year and they're going for you know, they the Nuggets have championship aspirations today.

They want to win the championship, and they have good reason to believe that they can.

Yeah, and the Clippers wanna win the championship championship to Max.

But when you talk about Paul George and his struggles in the playoffs, this would Paul George, these type of games, like the season opener against the Lakers, a prime time game.

Ah, Christmas Day game.

He need to approach these games like it's the playoffs.

This is a test for him.

He need to have that mindset.

He need to be locked in and focused like this is a playoff game and go on and go into attack mode and show the world and shoulder nuggets that any time the bright lights hit the ice, I'm ready for it.

And this is why I say that the Clippers need to need this game or than the Nuggets.

By the way, they only blew a 31 lead Toa letting the Nuggets come back and win the Siri's last year.

So they need to come back and make a statement.

They need to make a statement that Paul George can play in the playoffs in Game two of the regular season.

No, they can't make that statement.

Clinton.

Nothing Clippers could do to make the statement you want them to make meantime Jamal Murray one of the special things about him.

I mean, Yokich is just different.

Yokich could bring the ball up.

Yokich is the best passing five, Maybe of all time.

He's certainly in the conversation.

He could shoot from the outside.

You know, you bring up mantra is Harold and what a good player he is.

And he could play defense and everything.

Yokich, that was ugly.

What Yokich did to him, and it's nothing against Montrezl Harrell.

That's how good Yokich is offensively.

And Jamal Murray.

What makes Jamal Murray so special is not just his game perk.

It's where, like when the light shine brightest, we already saw him have, like against Utah, for example, one of the best playoff series you'll ever see, period.

That was historically great what he did.

So Murray is already Jamal Murray is already a prime time performer.

So is Yokich in those moments there, like MVPs Now we got to see Porter give them a legitimate third wheel if they're serious about challenging the Lakers, and I think they are, Yeah, okay, listen, I get it.

I'm not taking anything from Jamal Murray.

He had a hell of a run down there in the bubble and in the playoffs.

But he also struggled throughout the regular season, and I think Jamal Murray has to make sure that he comes out and approach this regular season like it's also the playoffs and show us that he could go in 90 and the night out and be consistent through a full season of basketball.

He had one good run in the postseason.

A sample small sample size.

We need to see a larger sample size.

We know where yogis could do over a course of 82 games or 72 games.

We have yet to see that from Jamal Murray, so he has to prove himself also, Max.

Don't just crown them.

Oh well, I Well, I agree with you, but that means you agree with me.

In other words, what Paul Jordan to show he needs to show in the playoffs.

We ain't playing the playoffs were playing the regular season.

What you just said is Jamal Murray needs to show the stuff he played showed in the playoffs in the regular season.

Here we are.

I win.

Yes, perk.

Thank you, Thank you.

I appreciate you don't make it on the yourself a basketball debate, Polly May 1st of all, I said Paul, George E.

I said that Paul George for us.

With his mental toughness, he needs to approach primetime games, looking at them, for it's like practice and getting ready for the postseason.

So, like a Christmas Day game, he need to think of this is like preparation for the playoffs.

So when he get to the playoffs.

He won't keep having these disappearing acts.

He need to figure out something, something you need to change up something.

I'm just trying to give him some advice.

You ain't win nothing.

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