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00:00I have an eye on this series, Joe,
00:02within the Clippers and the Nuggets,
00:03that have hit every single way all the way through.
00:06And most people thought this game,
00:07this series, was going to go into seven games.
00:09And it has now.
00:10I actually thought at least one game would go into overtime.
00:12And it has.
00:13And every step of the way, I picked the winner,
00:15which included last night.
00:16Now, sidewise, spread-wise,
00:19maybe you got a little bit tough,
00:20as Joe talked about in section number one for us here,
00:23was, you know what?
00:23Five and a half, six and a half.
00:24Yeah, that made a big deal last night
00:26in a 111-105 victory.
00:27But the Clippers got the job done at home.
00:30It wasn't a blowout scenario.
00:31The Nuggets had to play their starters
00:3240-plus minutes in this one
00:34as we head back to elevation.
00:36But talk to me about what you saw last night, Joe,
00:38from that Clippers six-point victory
00:39over the Denver Nuggets.
00:41Well, what we learned by the Clippers
00:44and in the NBA playoffs this year, Donnie,
00:47is that if you do a lot of the little things right,
00:52you can overcome a lot of absolutely trash shooting here.
00:57And that's exactly what the Clippers did again last night.
01:00Listen, we saw the Timberwolves miss 75 threes
01:03and they still beat the Lakers, right?
01:05Well, we saw the Clippers, I think they, what?
01:07They missed nine of their first 10 threes.
01:10Jamal Murray drops 12 in the first quarter
01:13and we're like, here we go again.
01:15But then James Harden dropped 17 points alone
01:18in the second quarter,
01:19but they missed 18 of the first 22 first half threes they took.
01:24But you know what they did?
01:26They turned the Nuggets over a bunch of times.
01:29They were able to get easy baskets.
01:31So you can win despite not shooting well at all
01:34if you do the other little things well.
01:36And that's exactly what the Clippers did.