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I'm Jared Weiss.

I am joined by Mo DeKille.

We got Brian Smith on the boards.

And Mullets jump right into it. The Clippers beat the Miami Heat 112 to 109. Miami dominated the

first half. Clippers were phenomenal in the second half. I mean, it was unbelievable. I mean,

Miami puts up 40 points in the first quarter. And then after that, 18 in the second, 20 in the third, like the Clippers just started to come back.

And Jared, that ending of the game was insane.

You literally had a duel going between Paul, George, and Kyle Lowry.

Lowry had 22 points in the fourth quarter.

Like, this thing was nuts.

This game got drunk, Jared. Lowry had that one little run there where he just kept scoring over and points in the fourth quarter. Like this thing was nuts. This game got drunk, Jared.

Lowry had that one little run there where he just kept scoring over and over in the middle of the fourth quarter. PG had that play where he got the offensive rebound and then just immediately jumped into a turnaround three. I'm like, no, what do you do? And of course, he buried it. And that was a real difference maker. but PG is just has a good habit of stepping up when he needs to.

He's been great this season and I'm not. he buried it and that was the real difference maker but pg is just has a good habit of stepping up what he

needs to he's been great this season and i'm not even going to dive in too much into it because i'm

going to selfishly plug nerd herdner she wrote which is also out today and you should go check

that out because we definitely talk some paul george there about what he's doing but overall like

this was just an impressive performance from the clippers who've won six straight now. You know, they started out a little bit slow, basically won at four, and then rip off six wins. The heat on second night of a back-to-back, I want to give them credit. They easily, Jared, could have just sort of let go of the rope, but it was Kyle Lowry in that fourth quarter. I'm not going to forget that fourth quarter for a long while. I mean, Jimmy Butler was out, so that was really big for him to step up. And Hero had a pretty good game. He was really good in out there. How did you feel about Bam out of bio? It's interesting. Bam had a monster first half, 24 points, only six in the second half.

Like, it was almost kind of a disappearing act.

Like in the first half, the Clippers had no answer for him, weren't able to stop him.

Then once the adjustments kind of came along, it looked like Bam started to get a little

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