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Let s Overreact To Day 1 Of The NBA Playoffs... · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: All right, ladies and gentlemen, for the last ten hours,
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  Speaker 1: we got great playoff hoops. And you know, some of
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  Speaker 1: these games were absolute peaked ten out of ten. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think any of them beat the WrestleMania main event.
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  Speaker 1: But like you know what I'm saying, we just got
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  Speaker 1: straight up great hoops. And I'm gonna try my very
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  Speaker 1: best to give my initial reaction slash overreactions to the
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  Speaker 1: first four games of the playoffs, and you noticed. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it for the people that may not.
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  Speaker 1: Game one doesn't tell the full story of a series. Right,
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  Speaker 1: Your team might have won, you might be on cloud nine,
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  Speaker 1: you might not win this series. On the opposing that,
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  Speaker 1: you might feel very bad about your favorite team and
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  Speaker 1: they might come out for game two, three, four, five
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  Speaker 1: end up spanking that ass. You never really know, right,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what Doc Rivers has up a sleeve
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  Speaker 1: for game number two after seeing Game number one. JJ Reddick, JB. Bickers,
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  Speaker 1: Staff and Tyron Lou whatever it may be. So again,
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  Speaker 1: we're reacting and overreacting for Justice one game. Not trying
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  Speaker 1: to put this overarching magnifying glass on the series at hole,
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  Speaker 1: but just these one games, I think I'll start off
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  Speaker 1: with the Wilds versus Lakers. The game is not officially over, justet,
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  Speaker 1: but Alex Line checked in. I said, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: let me start filming now, because they't nothing about to
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  Speaker 1: happen for the rest of his game. There are a
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  Speaker 1: couple different things that shoot out immediately. I thought. Very
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  Speaker 1: early on, we talked about the first two minutes a game,
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  Speaker 1: I was a little bit scared for the Minnesota Timbles.
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  Speaker 1: They started off with like two turnovers, cross core passes
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  Speaker 1: that went nowhere, and I'm like, oh no, Julius Random
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  Speaker 1: and Julius Rand ended up with seven turnovers. But this
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  Speaker 1: might sound crazy. Obviously, you don't want anybody to have
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  Speaker 1: seven turnovers in the basketball game. But other than that,
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  Speaker 1: other than the seven times to game the other team
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  Speaker 1: the ball, I thought he had a really good playoff game.
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  Speaker 1: And that's good for Julius Random because y'all know the
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  Speaker 1: type of reputation he has, and it's not even reputation
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  Speaker 1: base no more. You could just go watch those games,
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  Speaker 1: go look at those stats from his previous playoff series.
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  Speaker 1: So the Minnesota Timbules played an absolutely phenomenal game, absolute
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal game. One thing that the Lakers weren't able to exploit.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that they had found as the
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  Speaker 1: kryptonite to a lot of teams in the regular season
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  Speaker 1: after they did the Luca Dantis trade, was that small
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  Speaker 1: ball lineup. About four minutes into this game, Dorith Phinney
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  Speaker 1: Smith check there for Jackson Hayes and they went on
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  Speaker 1: a run here or there. But for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Tembules are well equipped to match any small
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  Speaker 1: ball lineup because Ride Gobert was pretty good defensively in
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  Speaker 1: this game. I think they had a hund a one
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  Speaker 1: hundred defensive rating when he was on the floor. But
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  Speaker 1: they felt so very okay with Sam Rudy. You got
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  Speaker 1: two early fouls. That's okay because Na's Ree is gonna
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  Speaker 1: pop it to this game, and that's gonna help us offensively,
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  Speaker 1: but also prevent the Lakers from getting the matchups that
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  Speaker 1: they wanted. And on the Yapolis side of things, I thought, again,
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  Speaker 1: this is JJ's very first playoff game. I'm sure he's
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of his sleep. I thought that the
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  Speaker 1: Wolves did an amazing job forcing the Lakers to play
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  Speaker 1: Wolves basketball. The Wolves were completely content, were giving up
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  Speaker 1: any switch they wanted. You to play ice so ball.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted it to be one on one mino e
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  Speaker 1: mono because at the end of the day, that just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a great recipe for the Lakers specifically in this game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the exact stats of let me say
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  Speaker 1: if I can find it really really quick, thirty three
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  Speaker 1: field goals made, fifteen assists. That is really isolation basketball.
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  Speaker 1: On the flip side of things, forty four may field
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  Speaker 1: goals for the Timberwolves, twenty nine assists. They got the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers in rotation time and time again. And this is
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  Speaker 1: why you don't react to the first minute of a game,
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  Speaker 1: because in this first minute, I thought that the first
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  Speaker 1: three shots that Anthony Edwards took, I was like, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: this is not about to be really good. I thought
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  Speaker 1: that he looked like two years version of himself where
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  Speaker 1: he thought that he had to put on the cape.
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  Speaker 1: This is game one in the playoffs, but ye I
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  Speaker 1: need to drop sixty And the first three shots that
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  Speaker 1: he took, I'm like, oh, those are Elevi's shots. Eventually
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  Speaker 1: he slowed down, Eventually he got to his rhythm, and
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  Speaker 1: eventually he ended up taking a lot more shots that
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  Speaker 1: I was more content with his overall shooting splits don't
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  Speaker 1: tell you the story, but like when he was in
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  Speaker 1: this game, when he was at the helm and doing
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  Speaker 1: this thing, he was absolutely phenomenal. A game that started
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  Speaker 1: off with looking like two years versus himself. I walked
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  Speaker 1: out saying, damn, this is one of the most disciplined
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  Speaker 1: I've seen Anthony Edwards play. And that's saying something because
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  Speaker 1: I think that he's been more disciplined this year than
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  Speaker 1: any time in his career. So this is an absolutely
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal game from him. When you get to the point
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  Speaker 1: where you get Jada McDaniel's giving you twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: if you've been watching the Minnesota tenblls, you knew that
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  Speaker 1: like this version of Jada McDaniels has been showing his
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  Speaker 1: face way more often this year compared to last season.
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  Speaker 1: Right when they were going through all of those injuries
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  Speaker 1: throughout the regular season where it was Julius out for
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  Speaker 1: significan amount of time, so on and so forth being out,
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  Speaker 1: they needed more people that can self create, and Jada
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  Speaker 1: McDaniel's picked up that and he said, hey, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: just a corner sitter. He was eleven or thirteen tonight
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  Speaker 1: including three for three for three, but not only just him.
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  Speaker 1: Nasri came off the bench and gave them twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: And there were many times where they got the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: in rotation that led to a nas reopened look and
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  Speaker 1: Nasrie was just knocking the shots down. It was perfect.
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  Speaker 1: The one time the Lakers went in their run was
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  Speaker 1: when Anthony Erraws went out with that cramp, and it
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  Speaker 1: was like a twenty to eight run, I think they
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  Speaker 1: said on the broadcast. Anthony Erows came back and immediately
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  Speaker 1: first possession after his cramp, he get Luke in isolation
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  Speaker 1: and Luca did everything he could right he sat down
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  Speaker 1: in a chair. He was being real aggressive at the point,
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  Speaker 1: and then Anthony Raws got one step in front of
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  Speaker 1: him that the turnaround mit rains jump a cash and
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, this was as good of a performance
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  Speaker 1: across the board for the Minnesota Tembolves where you look
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  Speaker 1: at and you say, like everybody that we needed to
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  Speaker 1: play well, play well. Ridy Gobert ended up with two
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  Speaker 1: point six six rebounds, but the team was so good
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  Speaker 1: defensively when he was on the court that it's like
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  Speaker 1: it was it's dope to see because we also seen
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  Speaker 1: this from Chris Finch this season. We're like, if the
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  Speaker 1: matchup is not for you, or somebody else is outplaying you,
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  Speaker 1: they were. He was completely content all season long to
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  Speaker 1: say this is not your night. So rid Gobert played
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  Speaker 1: only twenty four minutes. It was a plus fourteen in
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  Speaker 1: these twenty four minutes. But like it was nas Reed's time.
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  Speaker 1: How crazy would have been to bench nas Reeds just
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  Speaker 1: because Rudy Gobert is there. No, we runed our hot
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  Speaker 1: hand and it eventually ended up paying off. So a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful game won and going into the opposing team's arena
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  Speaker 1: four game win and getting to win is really crucial.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the stats say about all of that,
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  Speaker 1: but this was a game where you definitely felt that
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Tembles played their game and the Lakers couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get any of their own right. Luka Doncis ended up
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  Speaker 1: with a ridiculous that line of thirty seven and eight
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  Speaker 1: but only one assist. That's what I'm talking about. There
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  Speaker 1: was very rare. It was very rare that, you know
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  Speaker 1: how I mentioned that the Minnesota Timbles had the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: in rotation all the time. It was very rare that
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  Speaker 1: happened for the Lakers were like, the first look that
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  Speaker 1: they got was the first the only look that they got.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Lebron didn't have his best
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  Speaker 1: game eight of eighteen. He had a couple chase down blots,
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  Speaker 1: good defensive possessions, but for the most part, the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that the Lakers had and an advantage going to
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  Speaker 1: the series was the top end talent and the top
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  Speaker 1: end talent they'd come to play outside of Luca Right,
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  Speaker 1: this was not a good Lebron James game. And if
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  Speaker 1: they want to win this series and eventually go on
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  Speaker 1: to the championship, Lebron James obviously has to give you more.
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  Speaker 1: I think Austin Reeves obviously has to give you more.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was very intriguing in the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: When you go look at my podcast, I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: that Mike Conley was going to get their signon on
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  Speaker 1: Austereevez early on. Nope, it was Anthony Erwards out of
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  Speaker 1: the game and they felt okay with have it Mike Conley,
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  Speaker 1: gar Rui and there were a few possessions in the
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  Speaker 1: game where they did dump it down to Ruey on
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  Speaker 1: the block by himself but the Wolves have this cohesion
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  Speaker 1: defensively that like, they didn't leave Mike Connie on the
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  Speaker 1: island by himself. Late help ended up happening, and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't give a rue hat you more enough time to
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  Speaker 1: really back down use that side, so he had to
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  Speaker 1: turn around jump shot from the post, and it was
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  Speaker 1: a miss. I thought they played an almost perfect game
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  Speaker 1: and it does help and you end up hitting twenty
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  Speaker 1: one threes and you shoot fifty percent from three. So
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  Speaker 1: again overreacted to game I won perfect game for them
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  Speaker 1: and sould Timbo will shout out to them for that big,
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  Speaker 1: big time win. Again, going into another arena and getting
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  Speaker 1: game one is huge. The next game we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about is Nicks versus Pistons. The Pistons, you know, not
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  Speaker 1: a surprise to anybody. The Pistons are a good team.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not been watching the Pistons, this is
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  Speaker 1: a good team. There's a reason that they're to six seed.
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  Speaker 1: But everything that I had in my notes doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: because we got to the fourth quarter and everybody, everybody
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  Speaker 1: on the on the Detroit Pistons just forgot how to hoop.
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  Speaker 1: And I truly do believe a lot of that is
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  Speaker 1: inexperience because if you look at that stretch, we had
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  Speaker 1: like three really really bad K Cunningham turnovers. I thought
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  Speaker 1: Kay was pretty bad today. I think o Jadanobe deserves
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  Speaker 1: a lot of credit for what he did to K Cunningham.
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  Speaker 1: The reverall counter stats A twenty one, six and twelve
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  Speaker 1: look great. It wasn't. It wasn't his night. That's not
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  Speaker 1: even the K cunning him that we are used to.
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  Speaker 1: And they're gonna need a better version of this K
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  Speaker 1: Cunningham if they want to compete in this series. But
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  Speaker 1: when we get to that twenty one oh run, we
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  Speaker 1: got like three bad turnovers from K Cunningham. We saw
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  Speaker 1: Asar Thompson have a few where it's this inbound pass
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  Speaker 1: is just lazily thrown up at Cartony Towns gets it
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  Speaker 1: and goals, and twenty one oh run is just insane.
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  Speaker 1: I think somebody had to stab this the fourth time
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  Speaker 1: something like that has happened in modern basketball. The only guys,
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  Speaker 1: and you talk about experience versus inexperience, this is a
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  Speaker 1: prime example. The only guys that I deem to have
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  Speaker 1: a good game for the Pistons were the Vets. Tobias Harris,
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  Speaker 1: I will say this, it sucks to waste in Tobias
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  Speaker 1: Harris's performance. Like this, Tobias had like seventeen points in
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  Speaker 1: the first half, he averages thirteen and ended up with
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. You know, like in my mind, where you
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  Speaker 1: have a role player like Toby have this mind blowing
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  Speaker 1: of a game, you really need to capitalize on that
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  Speaker 1: because you don't know if you're gonna get that level
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  Speaker 1: for production from Tobias Harris again for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the series. But Toby had an amazing game when it
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  Speaker 1: beasy hits a really big shot, specifically early on. He
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  Speaker 1: ended up with six stories. Tim Mardiwick Junior had a
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  Speaker 1: really game, but that was it the vets Kay coneheam
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  Speaker 1: blackluster performance. Jalen durham Man. People used to say to
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  Speaker 1: me that I was pretty hard on Jalen durham But
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just like kind of tough love. I
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  Speaker 1: do believe in him, and I do think that there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of potential there, but there are so many
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  Speaker 1: matchups where he just looks lost defensively. Tonight was one
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  Speaker 1: of them. Nights Man, he was just I didn't like
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  Speaker 1: many of the stuff I saw from Jalen Durham. It
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  Speaker 1: was pretty pretty bad. And then of course with you
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  Speaker 1: add on the foul trouble, he struggled to stay on
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  Speaker 1: the court when you're one of the most important guys.
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  Speaker 1: So he ended up having a struggle of a game.
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  Speaker 1: Sar Thompson didn't have a great game. And then Ron
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  Speaker 1: Holland came in. He jacked up a three and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, get his ass off the court, and then
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  Speaker 1: they got his ass off the court. On the flip
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  Speaker 1: side of things, you know, the Knicks. I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 1: credit to a lot of different people. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: Ojionanoby deserves most of the credit, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: he ain't got the craziest stat lie like a Jaylen
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  Speaker 1: Bronson who tweaked his anchor that cane back. I think
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  Speaker 1: Tom depitall make the joke. Then we went back to
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  Speaker 1: the to the locker room. He went to go get
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  Speaker 1: a kate. That's a good joke, Ojionanoby. Where things were
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  Speaker 1: tough when the Hissons are in this game and the
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  Speaker 1: Pissons are leading, there was one guy in that first
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  Speaker 1: half that I felt like was keeping the Knicks afloat.
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  Speaker 1: That was Ojiananoby. And do you add on the opposite
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  Speaker 1: the ball of him being that big ass defender on
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  Speaker 1: K Cunningham and slowing him down and nullifying him. I
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  Speaker 1: thought old Jihn Andoby's twenty three point seven rebounds doesn't
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  Speaker 1: tell the full story of who O Johnnoby was Tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give some credit to Tom Thibodeaux because I
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  Speaker 1: saw him do something today that as a former Tom Thibodeau.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Thibodau is the coach in my favorite team fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago. He usually just goes with his guys regardless
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  Speaker 1: of the situation. One of his guys and mckel bridges
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  Speaker 1: what's struggling and a guy off the bench, and Cameron
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  Speaker 1: Payne was able to come in and not just play
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  Speaker 1: spot minutes, but like have an extended run that twenty
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  Speaker 1: one oh run. That man campaign is in there for
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  Speaker 1: the entire thing hidden shots, and Tom Thibodeau's is you know.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Thibdau is gonna ride his guys to the depth.
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  Speaker 1: And mkel Bridges is one of his guys. Mikel Bridges
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  Speaker 1: like let the league in all minutes play because he
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  Speaker 1: plays every single game and everything, but like he felt
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  Speaker 1: okay with letting the hot hand, Cameron Payne get get
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  Speaker 1: it going and hit some big shots. That's huge to
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  Speaker 1: Tom Thibodau, Carthony Towns was amazing this game. He was
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  Speaker 1: amazing this game. Just too strong, too physically, Like the
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  Speaker 1: physicality was one thing that you know, when I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to put pros and cons of every team, the
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  Speaker 1: Pistons physicality was a pro for them, right, That's who
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  Speaker 1: they've been Offse's going to go beat the hell out
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  Speaker 1: of you. They gonna You're gonna shoot free throws for sure,
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  Speaker 1: but that's okay because they want you to feel them.
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  Speaker 1: And there were sometimes where Kad did get massed up
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  Speaker 1: against Isaiah Stewart. He tried to back up down and
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  Speaker 1: nothing really happened. But outside of that, any other matchup
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  Speaker 1: uh Carthony Towns had it was a feat session. Tobias Harris,
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  Speaker 1: come on, man, give me that ball at the high
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  Speaker 1: post and let me go to work. He got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of big steals down the stretch, a couple big
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  Speaker 1: blocks down the stretch I got. I gotta give credit, man,
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  Speaker 1: you have to give credit. And it really is just
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  Speaker 1: that one run, one run can change the trajectory of
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  Speaker 1: not just a game, but potentially an entire series. Only
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  Speaker 1: time with hell shout out to the Knicks, And I
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  Speaker 1: do want to shout out to the Pistons because they
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  Speaker 1: gave us a good game. They just it just got
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  Speaker 1: too much. We should have known when they got us
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  Speaker 1: a five second violation to start the fourth quarter. How
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  Speaker 1: the hell is that possible? Out of a core what
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  Speaker 1: you get a five second violation? That's insane. Moving on
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  Speaker 1: to maybe the best, not maybe the best game of
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  Speaker 1: the day, the Nuggets coming back and beating the Clippers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where I was for the first eighteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes of this game. In my notes, I say that
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers out hustled, out rebounded, and got every single
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  Speaker 1: shot they wanted. There was absolutely no resistance from the
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets for the first eighteen minutes of this game, whether
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  Speaker 1: it be James Harden giving you a legendary first quarter
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  Speaker 1: or Kawhi Leonard giving you a legendary six minute stretch
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of the second where again James is
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  Speaker 1: that big shot to go going to the second quarter
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  Speaker 1: and they're right after that, think Kawhi Leonard went on
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  Speaker 1: his own personal twelve something run. So it was pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: But after that thing shifted, and when they shifted, it
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  Speaker 1: shifted really hard where I don't know what the hell
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  Speaker 1: happened at that halfway point, but the Clippers couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: anything going, and the Nuggets just chipped away, chipped away,
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  Speaker 1: chipped away, chipped away, to the point where it was
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  Speaker 1: at one point like a two point game after it
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  Speaker 1: had been like fourteen to fifteen points, just shipping their
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: way to it. I know everyone want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the n So let's get to the end. Russell Westbrook,
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  Speaker 1: he give it, then he take it away. You will
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: live by the Russ, you die out of the Russ.
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  Speaker 1: Russe is a big time three. He not even celebrated.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I'll practice this shit, man, That's what he do.
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  Speaker 1: And then he ends up having the POSSESSI where he
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  Speaker 1: didn't even a shot up after the maid shot from
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers and boom ba boom. And then he just
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of possessions where he gets to steal
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  Speaker 1: and he goes for the layup and I got like
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Vietnam flashbacks to the one game versus the tim Wolves
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  Speaker 1: when he went on that fast break by himself again
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  Speaker 1: luckily ended up working out he gets to great defensive
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: possession down the stretch, He's hyped, the whole benches hype.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: And this is a huge fumble I believe from the Clippers.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Of course, the Nuggets took it away. Man, they ended
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: up grinding it out. But I do believe that this
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: slipped between the fingers of the Clippers. When you get
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: to the point where the other team just flips the
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: switch where you the one out rebounding, you the one
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: out hustling, and it just changes like that where Brody
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: is on the offensive glass like crazy, where Aaron Gordon
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: is on the offensive glass like crazy. That is just
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: those are effort place. Sometimes the ball bounces and you
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: can't do anything about it. Some of them balls were
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: right there between one different nugget player and three Clippers,
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: and that one different nugget player was Russell Westbrook ended
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: up with the ball that's hard over everything. And the
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: thing that bothered me the most is a new I'm
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: just a neutral. I wanted a great game. We got
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: a good game. The thing that bothered me the most
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: is something that has happened a few times for the
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Clippers down the stretch where they go away from what
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: their bread and butter was the thing that was keeping
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: them in this game. The thing that got them to
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: the league was James Hard and the Zubos pick and roll.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: It was just it was just money. Whether they be
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: James getting downhill, whether they be a little slip pass
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: to Zubots and then a Chris Dunn running the baseline
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: for easy lay up. There's a lot of different things
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: that happened out of that James Harden, the Zubox picking roll,
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: and then down the stretch they pretty much abandoned it.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: And that was so surprising me. I know who Kowhiler
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: is and I know what he can do, but like
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: in my mind, I think you just keep going to
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: the thing that was giving you great points per possession.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this advancedat's are going to say
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: about it, somebody might have it by now, but it
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: just felt as though you just went away from the
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: thing that was working the most. I thought. There was
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: times down the stretch of Norman Powell was if normOn
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Powell was a scoring forew which he really wasn't. He
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: had a couple bad defensive rotations and a couple bad
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: offensive rebounds, giving up or he didn't even jump to
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: get the ball, So that was a bit surprise to me.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: But this is what the different Nuggets do. This is
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: what they do. As the Lakers fan some last season,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: this is what they do. They let you have the
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: lead for three and a half quarters and they finally
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: put in together just enough to win the game. The
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: best in the world was the best in the world,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: and that's saying something because I thought that Jokis missed
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: a couple really really easy bunnies. The shot that we like.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: The reason one, one of the reason why Yokis is
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: so special, and there's a lot of reason why he's special,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: is that his go to shot goes in sixty five
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: percent of the time. Right when you think about going
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: down the stretch. You talk about clutch performances and so
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: on and so forth. The reason why Jokics and maybe
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: the Klutsch Player of the Year or the running runner
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: up to Klutsch Player the Year is that the shot
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: that he can generate for himself for he's seven feet
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: away from the basket, that little push shot goes in
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: sixty five percent of the time. I thought he missed
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: like three of those today alone, and mathematically speaking, that's
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: not normal. Jamal Murray struggle for the majority of this game.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Chris done, but then hit a couple
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: big shots during that run. Amy Gordon deserves so much
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: flowers for how he performed today. And also Adalman what
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: coach is in game four of their coaching career and
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: has the balls to bench a staple on his team.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Michael Porter Jr. Just straight up benched. Now, Russ is
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: a better option. It's a dangerous game you played, but
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: it worked. Russ was the better option down the stretch.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: That hustle, that hard, that corner three point shot, that
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: defensive intensity, that is what they needed down the stretch.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: So I wanted to give to my hat to undefeated
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: the NBA coach. I think I don't think he's lost
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: his yet. So yeah, that was one that if few
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: the Clippers you probably feel terrible about because you had
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to go on the road get a win
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: and now you gotta hope to do it next game.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: And the last one is probably the least interesting of
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the mall and that was only because the Pacers spanked
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: that ass. We did get to the point where the
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Bucks went on a little rundown of stretch there when
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: the Pacers went on I think every single one of
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: these games, one of the two teams went on a
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: five minute stretch where they couldn't score every every single
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: one of these games, and it happened to the Pacers,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: like what end of the third quarter, beginning of the fourth.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: It's kind of blending. That was eight hours ago. Now,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: it was a long time ago. But other than that,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: they were they were great. Pascal Siakam again, I continue
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: to give him praise because whatever you need him to do,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: he'll do. And it's very reminiscent of how he started
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: off the playoffs last year. Was like I could give
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: you twenty five and seven, that's pretty easy to me.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Tyres Haliberd did not have a great shooting like Oero
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: for seven for three, three for thirteen for the field,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: but boy did he pick apart this team left and right,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: left and right, left and right, like you know. The
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: one thing that was pretty interesting about the post Dame
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: injury when they went on that they I see they
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: started off eight and eight. Myth fuck of the discord card.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, people just drew the discord was the one
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: thing about the post Dame injury. I think they started
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: off eight eight, and then they went on the eight
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: game winning streak. And the eight game winning streak was
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: behind or backpacked by an amazing offense. The defense was
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: still a struggle, right and you saw that today. It
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: didn't matter what type of looks defensively they threw at
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the Pacers. The Pacers just capitalized. When they went on
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: that little mini stretcher they were playing zone, the Pacers
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: just picked it apart. Myles Turner was phenomenal, and I
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: think I said in my podcast episode one thing that's
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: gonna matter a lot is like how many open shots
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: MOUs Turners can hit, and today it was four of
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: them things four to three pointers made. Andrew nim Hart
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: continues to be a playoff riser from the fifth or
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: sixth most important player on the team. And one thing
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: that was pretty interesting to me and super fascinating was
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the defensive intensity from Benedict Mather. I guess I'm just
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: not really I wasn't really used to seeing him get
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: in that chair as much as he did in this game.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Giannis was as phenomenal as ever. He was drawing one
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: hundred fouls, but he just had no help whatsoever. I
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: could rag on Uzma, his twenty two minutes, zero point
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: zero rebounds, zero says, zero steel, zero blocks over five
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: from the field, two fouls. I could brag on Kuzma,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: but I won't. I'm just gonna read this that line again.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Twenty two minutes, zero point zero rebound, zero says, zero,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: zero steal, zero blocks, zero field goal percentage over five
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: from the field, zero for two from free throw line.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Two fouls. That be all. I did like to see
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the Damian Lillard and ty Reese reyapping at each other
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: a little bit. I like that considering he might be
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: back for game number two, is what Sam Serania said,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: So I'm excited about it. All was I convinced on
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: any fort these wins. The Pacer win was pretty convincing,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: but again, Damian Lillard coming back definitely is gonna change
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the dynamic of the series. I believed in the next
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: this entire way, So I guess I can't call it
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a convincing win necessarily because I was pretty early on
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: saying that they were gonna win the series. What the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Wolves just did is very eye opening, though, and we
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: gonna see what JJ Reddick and company do with the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: film session that they have and how can they adjust
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: because I thought that they really played right into what
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the wolves wanted. All right, that's it.