Welcome to Down To Down, we're here with Andrew Schlecks, part of the Athletic Podcast

Network.

With me, as always, on Mondays, this is with good friend Michele Barra, Michele, who was

up.

Well, it was an interesting game last night, not quite the result that we wanted, but

the interesting nevertheless, I would say.

Yeah, it's certainly more in line with what I thought would happen at the beginning

of the series.

Like, I just didn't think Dallas had enough, and I didn't think Luca could do enough.

And Luca, I think he generated like 70 plus points yesterday, and it still wasn't enough,

and that really feels like that's like the reality that Dallas is facing.

And then on the other side, like the Clippers finally got it together, like Kauai was great.

And then they got enough from everybody else.

Paul still kind of had his game seven Paul game, but the thing about it is, they have

a team designed where you don't have to have those two be at their peak because you

have a guy like Marcus Morris, who was really good for them.

And unfortunately, Reggie Jackson was really good for them yesterday.

It was a miserable watch from my standpoint, but not a surprising one to me, like really,

really not, especially like Porzonga's stat line looked fine, but you know, I don't

know.

I mean, I predicted, I actually predicted Clippers in five, which obviously I should never

trust the Clippers that much, but I, you know, I honestly before the series, I didn't

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