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NBA Playoff Game 1s Were Interesting... · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, every single game one has wrapped up
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Speaker 1: in today's video, I'm gonna give you just a little piece,
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Speaker 1: a little piece of every single game. The most observant
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Speaker 1: of our followers and viewers. Here we're recognized. I am
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Speaker 1: the Enjoy Basketball Studios because right after this video goes up,
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Speaker 1: episode is gonna be basically this but an extended version.
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Speaker 1: So that's a free promo to say, hey, go watch
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Speaker 1: small about Kenny Beacher. Because we're doing these every single
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Speaker 1: Sunday slash Monday where I'm recapping play off stuff. I
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Speaker 1: wan'ta apologize early on because I didn't get a recap
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Speaker 1: video yesterday or the day before that. But if you
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Speaker 1: watch the video that I dropped recently, I told you
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Speaker 1: that my oldest daughter was sick. And the parents know
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Speaker 1: when you tended to a sick todller. Them kids don't
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Speaker 1: know how to cover their mouth. They be snotting all
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Speaker 1: over the place. And yes, as a parent, I got
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Speaker 1: that sickness. So you may hear it in the voice,
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Speaker 1: you may hear the congestion, but the show must go on,
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Speaker 1: So let's get into it. I'm gonna start off with
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Speaker 1: the most interesting outcome of the day. The Detroit Pistons,
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Speaker 1: the number one seed, the sixty win Detroit Pistons team
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Speaker 1: lost Game one to the Orlando Magic.
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Speaker 2: Magic fans, Yeah, yeah, I won't. I won't go away
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Speaker 2: from it.
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Speaker 1: Before this series started, I publicly said I did not
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Speaker 1: want to see the Orlando Magic in the postseason this
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Speaker 1: season before the season started, about all the stock lock
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Speaker 1: him at fifty wins, regardless of what happens on the
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Speaker 1: offensive side, even with the acquisition Desbanin. I know that
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Speaker 1: defense gonna hold them down for those wins. And whether
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Speaker 1: they have been you know, them hating the coach or
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Speaker 1: because of all the injuries or the regression or plateauing
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Speaker 1: of Paalo ben Carol, this season has been awful for them, right,
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Speaker 1: and just four days ago I thought it was Gigi's
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Speaker 1: You know, they going to the last game in the
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Speaker 1: season holding their own destiny, right, they can. They can
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Speaker 1: host the first playing game if they just beat the
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Speaker 1: Boston Celtics, who weren't playing anybody, and they lost that game,
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Speaker 1: and they go into that first playing game against the
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Speaker 1: seventy sixty team that didn't have Joelan Beid and they
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Speaker 1: lost that game too. I thought it was raps. And
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Speaker 1: in the second playing game, they're going against the hottest
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Speaker 1: team in the Eastern Conference of Charlotte Hornets, smacked the
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Speaker 1: flow with them, and I say, hey, what a great
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Speaker 1: performance from the Orlando Magic. And if they're gonna play
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Speaker 1: this hard, not even just winning the games, but if
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Speaker 1: they're gonna play this hard, then I'm completely okay with them.
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Speaker 1: Seeing Detroit in that first round. But lord knows, I
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Speaker 1: didn't expect them to win that first game, but they did.
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Speaker 1: Got to give a lot of love and credit to
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Speaker 1: a lot of different people. Let's start off with Jaalen Suggs,
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Speaker 1: who basically set the tembo for this entire game. The
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Speaker 1: one thing the Detroit Pistons lacked in this one was
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Speaker 1: that energy coming off. Kid was sluggish, But Jalen Suggs
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Speaker 1: hit two threes. Diving on the floor, getting steels chased
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Speaker 1: down blocks is really I think stuff like that is infectious.
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Speaker 1: That's why Jalen Suggs has always been, you know, on
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Speaker 1: that back end of some of my favorite players, because
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Speaker 1: a guy that plays that hard on the possession by
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Speaker 1: possession bases, is hard not to be a valuable ballplayer,
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Speaker 1: especially if he's gonna hit threes. Now I know he
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Speaker 1: shot thirties that percent for the field by the end
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Speaker 1: of it, but he was one of the most important
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Speaker 1: players in.
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Speaker 2: This entire game.
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Speaker 1: P five another good playoff performance from his back to back,
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Speaker 1: including that playing with twenty three to nine and four.
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Speaker 1: He was a bully and some of the oh no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: I don't love that shot, Pallo Bank Caro shots go
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Speaker 1: in and when those shots go in, you kind of look.
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Speaker 2: Past all the other stuff. So he was great.
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Speaker 1: Vagner felt like a decor for ninety percent in this game,
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Speaker 1: and then we got to the fourth corner he turned him.
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Speaker 1: I think he had his own personal ten on run
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Speaker 1: in the swing. Windell Carter Junior literally outplayed a guy
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Speaker 1: and Jayalen Durant who's probably gonna make all NBA. So
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Speaker 1: just overall great performance from the Orlando match. They did
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Speaker 1: an amazing job not allowing allowing Ka Cunningham and Jalen
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Speaker 1: during two man games to have any legs whatsoever. That's
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Speaker 1: all about saying that lost because it's a one seed
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Speaker 1: to sixty win team. That we wanted them to do
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Speaker 1: some things. At the deadline, we recognized, you know that
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Speaker 1: we have so much respectful team because you can't accidentally
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Speaker 1: win sixty games. So I'm not even saying this series
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Speaker 1: is very, very, very very far from over, because even
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Speaker 1: people on Twitter let you know that Orlando Magic win
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Speaker 1: every single first game of every single series. So it's
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Speaker 1: very far from being over. But this is a team
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Speaker 1: that we looked at the deadline and say, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: guess it's fine. They didn't do anything, but boy, it
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Speaker 1: would have been cool if they got a secondary creator
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Speaker 1: in this game.
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Speaker 2: Every piece of action it felt like had to.
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Speaker 1: Be created by Kay Cunningham if it wasn't off a
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Speaker 1: steel or fast break transition or semi transition. The only
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Speaker 1: guy that can set the table, the only guy that
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Speaker 1: can win an individual matchup, was Kay Cunningham. In this one,
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Speaker 1: it got so bad that Jab Bickerstaff pulled off a
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Speaker 1: top three DPOY candidate and Asar Thompson and basically a
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Speaker 1: Sart didn't play much of the second half because he
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Speaker 1: thought that he need to go with Danis Jenkins because
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Speaker 1: one thing about Jenkins, even though he did not have
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Speaker 1: a good game today, He's a second guy on the team,
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Speaker 1: the only other guy outside of k that can create
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Speaker 1: offense for himself and others in the half court. So
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Speaker 1: we sacrificed one of the top and most valuable defensive
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Speaker 1: players in the league for just the guy who's a
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Speaker 1: great story. By the way, no shots at Missus Jenkins.
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Speaker 1: It's a great story, but he shouldn't be playing right now.
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Speaker 1: But that was what Ja being his staff, decided was
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Speaker 1: the best case scenario because the offense in.
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Speaker 2: The half court was just that bad.
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Speaker 1: Now I've given Dja vu because this exact thing for
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Speaker 1: sar Thompson happened in last year's playoffs as well against
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Speaker 1: the New York Knicks, where he had multiple games where
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Speaker 1: he basically didn't play in.
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Speaker 2: The fourth quarter. It's very weird because they are still running.
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Speaker 1: And maybe I'm wrong here because I didn't watch all
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Speaker 1: eighty two games or of the Detroit Pistons, and damn,
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Speaker 1: and I'm spending way too much time with one game
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Speaker 1: when I got eight games again too, But I'll maybe
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Speaker 1: end of here. I didn't watch every single game for
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Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons. But when a guy is losing his minutes,
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Speaker 1: or a guy is going to be out of the rotation.
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Speaker 2: Then though patterns of lineups shift.
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Speaker 1: Accordingly, they still play the star Thompson that second half
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Speaker 1: is if we're gonna do our random rotations but instead
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Speaker 1: they shift.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. That's just something to think about for
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Speaker 2: the rest of the series.
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Speaker 1: But this is a Detroit Piston team that cannot afford
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Speaker 1: They're one seed thaton won six games. Again, you cannot
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Speaker 1: walk into sixty games without being a really good team.
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Speaker 1: They're different than some of the other fifty five sixty
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Speaker 1: one teams that we've seen in recent history because some
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Speaker 1: of those teams are able to strictly out talent teams
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Speaker 1: at times. This Pisson team is not one of those teams.
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Speaker 1: This team is not as talented as some other teams
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Speaker 1: that have done sixty wins. We're like a sixty one
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Speaker 1: team going against an eight c In a lot of
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Speaker 1: cases be like, oh, we could just kind of show
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Speaker 1: up and win, because that team can't really compete for
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Speaker 1: us because we have you know, all NBA play, maybe
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Speaker 1: two all NBA players, and this and that surrounding them,
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Speaker 1: and we could just beat them.
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Speaker 2: Network This Pits team can't do that.
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Speaker 1: They have to play every single possession in every single,
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Speaker 1: every single minute, as if both of these teams don't
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Speaker 1: even playing field. And that can be scary because you're
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Speaker 1: Orlando Magic team. They're playing with house money. This Islando,
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Speaker 1: man Tea got nothing to lose. Fucking Jamal Moss probably
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Speaker 1: going to get fired regardless of what happens, right, So
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Speaker 1: he's just throwing stuff at the wall and see what's
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Speaker 1: see what sticks, and that might elogate this series.
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Speaker 2: Hill, it might win them the series. Jalen Duran oh
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Speaker 2: Man man Man.
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Speaker 1: Now, I know they got some other off the court
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Speaker 1: stuff him and windown Carter, but this is not the
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Speaker 1: start you want to have. Jaylor jayl Lewis are going
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Speaker 1: to the offseason and he wants a big ass bag,
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Speaker 1: and based on his eighty two game regular season, he's
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Speaker 1: worthy of their bag. But damn it, this game number
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Speaker 1: one makes you question some of the stuff. He looked
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Speaker 1: like he did last year in the playoffs versus the
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Speaker 1: New York Knicks, and that's not I could and again
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Speaker 1: some of that it's like, hey, I'm a center with
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Speaker 1: not a lot of offensive creation juice, even though sometimes
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Speaker 1: he did getting his back. But if they're gonna shut
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Speaker 1: off my two man game with Cade or Jenkins. Then
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Speaker 1: how can I impact the game offensively? Okay, maybe you can't.
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Speaker 1: What about the other side. I thought his defense today
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Speaker 1: was not up to par. I thought at some points,
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Speaker 1: you know, they had to go double big with you know,
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Speaker 1: with Isaiah Stewart, just because Jalen Drew wasn't doing enough
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Speaker 1: defensively to really hold his own. Shout out to a
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Speaker 1: little magic.
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Speaker 2: What a game? All right?
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Speaker 1: Shift, I promise I'm not spending seven plus minutes on
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Speaker 1: every single game.
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Speaker 2: Go watch the podcasts you want with that. Damn it.
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Speaker 1: Oh, some of these heads gonna be real quick. How
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Speaker 1: about this one, the thunder winning game against the Suns.
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Speaker 1: The size of the Thunder showed his hand. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if Mark Williams cannot play, there was a lineup that
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Speaker 1: they tried to run out there the Sons did where
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Speaker 1: we're seeing double big on the other side with iHeart
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Speaker 1: and chat and the Sons were going basically all wings
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Speaker 1: and guards. It's just not gonna be enough. And the
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Speaker 1: defense is what gonna do. What the defense is gonna do.
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Speaker 1: I mostly am watching this series to see how well
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Speaker 1: j Dubb is playing, and I think leading up to
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Speaker 1: the postseason, he was starting to look like himself more
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Speaker 1: and more. Today he ended up with twenty two, six
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Speaker 1: and seven a phenomena game. I think, and I've said
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Speaker 1: this before, but I think that this OKAC thunder team
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Speaker 1: can win this series if J. Dubb is not one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent. I think they can even win the next
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Speaker 1: series without Jub one hundred percent. But once we get
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Speaker 1: to that conference finals, you might see the Spurs, you
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Speaker 1: might see Denver. You're gonna need the best version of Dubb.
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Speaker 1: And this was a really good look for Dubb. I
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Speaker 1: thought chat Homer was phenomenal on both sides of the
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Speaker 1: floor today. I thought that the defense from this team,
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Speaker 1: and we've seen be historic before. I mean, holding the
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Speaker 1: team to eighty four points. I don't care if it's
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Speaker 1: a one eight matchup. Eighty four points is nothing. So
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Speaker 1: they did a phenomena. See, we ain't gonna spend them
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Speaker 1: a signon in every single series because some of these
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Speaker 1: ones like this next one, the Bosson Celtics won by
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Speaker 1: bazillion points two Similarly, with the J. Dubb and him
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Speaker 1: ramping up at the end of the season to get
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Speaker 1: to this playoffs, I'm watching Jason Tatum the exact same way, right,
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Speaker 1: and I thought Tatum start to finish, this was not
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Speaker 1: his best scoring output since he's come back, but on
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Speaker 1: both sides of the floor, his rebound and is passing
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Speaker 1: his defense, I would say this is probably his best
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Speaker 1: game of the season, which is great. Him and Jaylen
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Speaker 1: Brown just looked like a good old old school duo
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Speaker 1: that we know and love so much, so it was
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Speaker 1: great on that end. It's cool to see Boots in
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Speaker 1: the playoff series and like a meaningful one too, even
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Speaker 1: if you know he's gonna let the ball slip out
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Speaker 1: of his hands one hundred different times. So yeah, I
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Speaker 1: don't think this is a series where the seventy six
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Speaker 1: is really stand much of a chance unless Joe Lee
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Speaker 1: comes back, and then at even at that point, they
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Speaker 1: may not stand a lot of a chance either way.
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Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs won a game versus the Portland Trailblazers
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Speaker 1: women Yama Cess the record for most points in the
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Speaker 1: debut for Spur and I think it might be for
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Speaker 1: a debut at all.
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Speaker 2: I could be wrong. There thirty five five for six
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Speaker 2: and three and some of the.
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Speaker 1: PLEA know you'll watch withinmyah before some of the play
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Speaker 1: the first court play, we did a spin move into
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Speaker 1: the dunk. Why he didn't even leave his feet ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: The lib that he tried to catch but didn't catch, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm giving him credit. I'm missing the lob dunk. So
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Speaker 1: what he just is just a whole nother being. And
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Speaker 1: regardless of what the hell happened, the league is in
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Speaker 1: a very good hands when you have a guy like
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Speaker 1: Victor wimban Yama out there playing man. We even got
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Speaker 1: some you know, Cardi, Brian Minnis, which I'm always looking
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Speaker 1: forward to. He's gonna play his heart out, even if
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Speaker 1: that means fouling the gazillion times per possession. I thought
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Speaker 1: Danny played as good as you can imagine. I know
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Speaker 1: in that third quarter or third or fourth quarter he
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Speaker 1: really wasn't as efficient or as I don't know, aggressive
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Speaker 1: as before.
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Speaker 2: But that first half, you just wait.
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Speaker 1: They even mentioned on the broadcast a bunch of times
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Speaker 1: just waiting for somebody to come along for the come
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Speaker 1: along for the ride with Danny just waiting and waiting
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Speaker 1: and waiting, and that never did happen. If there's any
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Speaker 1: silver line into this series or something we should be
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Speaker 1: looking for, if you're a Portland drul Blazer fan, it's
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Speaker 1: how School Henderson is looking, and there was a couple
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Speaker 1: possessions in this one with School Henderson looked like a
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Speaker 1: grown ass man, which I just want to say is
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Speaker 1: a step in the right direction, regardless, So shout out
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Speaker 1: to him. Beyond the spurs, the crowd and the different
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Speaker 1: colored shirts. My my mind, how amazing was that?
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 1: Moving on to last night's games, because we had I
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Speaker 1: think those games were better than this lay of games.
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Speaker 1: And I made a tweet about this, and I think
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Speaker 1: it got misinterpreted, so let me quickly run through this.
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Speaker 1: I said that because of the play in this Sunday,
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Speaker 1: we basically got just one in two seeds beating up
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Speaker 1: on bad or a bad playoff teams, right, And people
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Speaker 1: interpreted that as me saying that because of the playing
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Speaker 1: that the eighth seeds are bad, and that's not. What
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Speaker 1: I'm saying is because of the way the playing works.
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Speaker 1: Adam Silver is just trying to give that team that
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Speaker 1: won their last playing game, the Suns are the Little Magic,
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Speaker 1: an extra day of rest and preparation. So instead of
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Speaker 1: staggering it where we have Saturday, we got a one
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Speaker 1: seed game and a four seed game, and they may
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Speaker 1: balance each other out because a four to five matchup.
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Speaker 2: And at least in theory should be closer.
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Speaker 1: No, that wasn't the case because we were just added the
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Speaker 1: extra day, so we had every single one seed and
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Speaker 1: every single two seed, and again we got an upset
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Speaker 1: of a one sea So that saves the day.
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Speaker 2: But like those other games at w and.
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Speaker 1: Blowouts signed, I would just want to stagger those a
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Speaker 1: little bit better.
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Speaker 2: The Lakers won a game versus the Rockets, and what
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Speaker 2: a win it was.
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Speaker 1: Man, a new Canard five to five from three, didn't
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Speaker 1: miss a shot, it felt like for the entire game.
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Speaker 1: I'm watching this game with my wife and I told
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Speaker 1: her that this was before he had hit the fourth
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Speaker 1: or three threes in the fourth quarter. That guy right there,
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Speaker 1: that lit white fella, right, that is the most efficient
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Speaker 1: three point shooter we've ever seen. Not the best, not
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Speaker 1: the best, but just most efficient. And she's like, how
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Speaker 1: many three is here today? I think I was like one,
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Speaker 1: And I was like, that's the thing about him, Like
12:23
Speaker 1: he's a guy that he is so efficient, and I
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Speaker 1: think in his mind he's thinking about the official that
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Speaker 1: he passes up on decent looks to try to get
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Speaker 1: amazing looks, and he's so great at making the amazing looks.
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Speaker 1: And then he rated off three threes when like good
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Speaker 1: looks to him, Like I'm like, oh, snap, day is
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Speaker 1: Lebron James didn't get the triple w missed it by
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Speaker 1: two rebounds.
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Speaker 2: My boy.
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Speaker 1: This showcase is the difference between like having a plus
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Speaker 1: passer on the roster and not having an a plus
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Speaker 1: passer because even though the surrounding cast around Lebron on
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Speaker 1: paper at least wasn't an a plus team. Because Lebron
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Speaker 1: is a supercomputer and because he just sees plays well
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Speaker 1: before everybody else, he was a to be as effective
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Speaker 1: as if he was twenty eight years old again, which
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Speaker 1: is crazy. I can't believe I just watched a playoff
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Speaker 1: game where Lebron is forty one years old and he
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Speaker 1: was still the best player on the court. That's that's
13:17
Speaker 1: that's nuts, y'all. That's is that not crazy to anybody else?
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Speaker 1: What's crazy to me?
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Speaker 2: Dammit?
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Speaker 1: Ry Hachi Mora. I love Ruey Ho Chimore has no
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Speaker 1: waste emotions, and it happens a lot for Rui because
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Speaker 1: he is a pretty stiff ball play at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day, but no waste e motions both sides
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Speaker 1: of the floor. Him and DeAndre Ada were amazing. They
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Speaker 1: were amazing with pushing Alprishon Goon away from the basket
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Speaker 1: where he has to get it at the high post,
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Speaker 1: and there's not a lot going on around him, so
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Speaker 1: you see some doubles and when he did get it
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Speaker 1: deep again, not a lot of shooting in Houston, so
13:43
Speaker 1: we can dig in a little bit more and cause
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Speaker 1: him to play bad, like straight up, just a bad
13:49
Speaker 1: Outprission Goon game, straight up, just a bad I'm in
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Speaker 1: Thompson game, and you just can't really have that. Of course,
13:55
Speaker 1: they're hurt by the lay scratch of Kevin Durant, but
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Speaker 1: that doesn't tell the full story because the Rockets have
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Speaker 1: been a good team without Kevin Durrant this season, right,
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it does hurt that he's not out there,
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Speaker 1: but like, I don't think it's still as an excuse
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Speaker 1: to lose his game, because even after the post Kevin
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Speaker 1: Durant news came out, they were.
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Speaker 2: The favorite to win this game, and they laid an
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Speaker 2: egg just straight up.
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Speaker 1: And I'm watching this in the first quarter, well before
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Speaker 1: things got out of hand and the Lakers went on
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Speaker 1: their run, and I'm thinking about this team versus last
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Speaker 1: year's team. Last year's team won fifty two games. Actually
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Speaker 1: this team might have won fifty two games too, but
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Speaker 1: because Kevin is not playing, I'm just looking at, like,
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Speaker 1: damn last year in the postseason, They're starting lineup had
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Speaker 1: kind of been nuked, right Frevan Vliet starting at the one.
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Speaker 1: He's out for the entire season. They trade Jalen Green
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Speaker 1: and Dylan Brooks. They're down three starters from last year's
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Speaker 1: team and the one guy they traded these two guys
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Speaker 1: who is not ready to hoop and game number one,
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Speaker 1: So they're basically playing with last year's roster with just
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Speaker 1: two of the normal starters of Jabari and Operation should
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Speaker 1: go now re Shepherd aske taking the jump in comparison
14:55
Speaker 1: to last year. But that just I don't know, it's
14:58
Speaker 1: just a weird thing to think about. This team was
15:01
Speaker 1: good last season, and they lost a lot of different players,
15:04
Speaker 1: and they did still kill the offensive glass, which I
15:06
Speaker 1: think is a plus. But one thing that shifted is
15:09
Speaker 1: like a lot of their identity over the last year
15:12
Speaker 1: or so. It's like, oh, we're gonna put together these
15:14
Speaker 1: jumbo lineups. Right, it's gonna be a It's gonna be Aman.
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Speaker 2: Barie k D.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna have Tari in these lineups who
15:22
Speaker 1: had a really good game. We're gonna have alphre Schigu.
15:24
Speaker 1: We just six six in above well yesterday because they
15:28
Speaker 1: they didn't have some of those guys. They didn't have
15:30
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant and and so on and so forth. They
15:33
Speaker 1: had traditional sized lineups. Ree Shepherd and Josha Kogi, Jay
15:39
Speaker 1: Sean Tate, Aaron Holliday. These guys are like shorter, They're
15:42
Speaker 1: six five and shorter. So like again, they still killed
15:44
Speaker 1: the glass and I think they rebout offense will be
15:47
Speaker 1: like forty one percent of their missers, which is like
15:48
Speaker 1: still elite, but it just just shifts a lot of
15:50
Speaker 1: their identity. Shout out to the Lakers, Shout out to
15:52
Speaker 1: to new Kenard, Shout out to Aiden. You keep getting
15:54
Speaker 1: eight in games like this. My goodness, this felt like
15:57
Speaker 1: a series of the Rockets should be the heavy favorite,
15:59
Speaker 1: but the Lakers can steal number one, and like just
16:01
Speaker 1: kind of wait to see if Luca or Reeves come back.
16:03
Speaker 1: Come on, man, come on, man, don't know. I'm just
16:06
Speaker 1: saying I'm just saying the Knicks won the game versus
16:09
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks. Loved that Carthonion Towns was able to find
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Speaker 1: ways to be impactful without being able to score, and like,
16:16
Speaker 1: this is one of those guys you look at the box,
16:17
Speaker 1: so even sometimes the eye tests and hisself in real
16:20
Speaker 1: time maybe didn't show the impact of Cardney Towns. But
16:22
Speaker 1: because these games happened yesterday, I did a second rewatch
16:24
Speaker 1: on a few of them. I think Cardinal Towns is
16:26
Speaker 1: actually phenomenal, and in real time when I watched this game,
16:29
Speaker 1: I was not feeling that way, whether it be his
16:31
Speaker 1: screen setting, his passing, the hockey assists.
16:34
Speaker 2: He did a lot of good things.
16:35
Speaker 1: And because some of his game the Atlanta Hawks were
16:37
Speaker 1: guarding him with a wing, he was able. We were
16:40
Speaker 1: able to see the Jalen Brunton and Carthonion Town's two
16:43
Speaker 1: man game quite a bit, and that actually worked out
16:45
Speaker 1: pretty well, and it led to a couple backdoor cuts
16:48
Speaker 1: for O John and Obe you're Josh Harten and so on.
16:50
Speaker 1: And speaking of Jackson, Josh hart my goodness, he was
16:53
Speaker 1: as active as ever, and he's always active. He was
16:55
Speaker 1: as active as ever defensively and I think it is
16:58
Speaker 1: very important for yure Nicks. They're gonna take care of
17:01
Speaker 1: business against this Atlanta team. For Josh Hart gets he
17:04
Speaker 1: to do what he did and didn't take Jalen Johnson
17:06
Speaker 1: out of the game. But for stretches of this one,
17:09
Speaker 1: you kind of forgot that Jalen Johnson was out there.
17:11
Speaker 1: So if they're out there playing without and perceive their
17:13
Speaker 1: best player, then it's just gonna be a tougher time now.
17:16
Speaker 1: I do think later down that stretch, even though the
17:18
Speaker 1: Knicks one, that the Hawks did start to look a
17:20
Speaker 1: little bit more comfortable. So I'm excited to see what
17:22
Speaker 1: happens in game number two. I thought Brunton really really
17:25
Speaker 1: played hard defensively in this one. Scram's switching as much
17:28
Speaker 1: as he could because obviously, like every playoff team will
17:31
Speaker 1: ever do to Jalen Brunson, the Hawks were trying to
17:33
Speaker 1: get after him. They weren't able to as often as
17:36
Speaker 1: they probably wanted to. First half, I thought the Knicks
17:39
Speaker 1: had a lot of defensive miscommunications and they really locked
17:41
Speaker 1: those down on the second half, or specifically that third quarter.
17:44
Speaker 1: So shout out to the Knicks got Game one Nuggets
17:48
Speaker 1: one against the Wolves in the game with the Wolves
17:50
Speaker 1: started off guns blazing, and I think the scary thing
17:53
Speaker 1: is this was very very far away from a really
17:56
Speaker 1: great Nuggets game. I think that's scary for the Timbers, y'all.
18:00
Speaker 1: I think that's scared for the Timbwolves. If this even
18:02
Speaker 1: they still won by eleven. In the game, I thought
18:04
Speaker 1: they played fine. They didn't play amazingly. They didn't shoot
18:06
Speaker 1: it well. I thought Jokis, even though his counter stats
18:09
Speaker 1: were pretty good. I thought Yokis didn'n have his best game,
18:11
Speaker 1: and you also wasted Rudy go Beart superstar game like
18:14
Speaker 1: this is as good of an offensive performances you'll get
18:16
Speaker 1: for Rudy Gobert. And I think the defense, even though
18:17
Speaker 1: Yolki's really good as well, I think Yokis did a
18:20
Speaker 1: lot of his damage and a lot of the work
18:22
Speaker 1: that he was doing when he was being guarded by
18:24
Speaker 1: Julius Randall and stuff.
18:25
Speaker 2: So kind of a wasted game. One thing that grinds
18:28
Speaker 2: my gears.
18:29
Speaker 1: About this Timberwolves team is that sometimes they led a
18:31
Speaker 1: bad call or miss of a call. They let a
18:34
Speaker 1: minor inconvenience turn into one or two possessions of not
18:38
Speaker 1: giving a damn and I think a lot of that
18:40
Speaker 1: happened when n I was reading this one. After they
18:42
Speaker 1: struggled to keep their cold, they're cool, which is like
18:44
Speaker 1: in real time, like yeah again in they face McDaniels
18:46
Speaker 1: and here like oh snap, Maybe that just means and
18:49
Speaker 1: different Nuggets are winning the mental game. If Jada McDaniels
18:52
Speaker 1: has to push Na Kola, yok, you know what I mean.
18:54
Speaker 1: So that was frustrated, and they're kind of dead in
18:56
Speaker 1: the water if Anthony Everads is not moving the way
18:58
Speaker 1: we need him to move. There was only like a
19:00
Speaker 1: couple minute stretch while I felt like Anthony Elwards looked
19:03
Speaker 1: like the best verse of himself. He had like a
19:04
Speaker 1: chase down his block, He had a couple nights finishes
19:07
Speaker 1: at the rim, but for the most part, he looked
19:08
Speaker 1: like a guy that was battling injury and trying to
19:10
Speaker 1: play through it. And that really was the what was happening.
19:14
Speaker 1: The one thing that stood out to me before we
19:16
Speaker 1: move on to is that this is gonna be the
19:17
Speaker 1: last game. That's how you quickly recap a bunch of games, y'all.
19:22
Speaker 1: The one place that teams should hang their hat against
19:26
Speaker 1: this Denver Nuggets team is when Yokis takes his ass
19:29
Speaker 1: to the bench. You gotta turn up. And in that
19:32
Speaker 1: first quarter, Yolkis went to the bench. I think they're
19:35
Speaker 1: down by ten points, y'all. They're down by ten points
19:37
Speaker 1: going in and when Yolkis go to the bench, I'm like, oh, snap, yeah,
19:39
Speaker 1: this is this ten points my turn to twenty Yolkis.
19:41
Speaker 2: Check back game. They run it down by like two.
19:44
Speaker 1: You can't let the nine Yolkids minutes. You can't lose
19:47
Speaker 1: those minutes if you are the Minnesota Temples. So Bruce
19:51
Speaker 1: Brown Hey up and down season. But it's the postseason
19:54
Speaker 1: and Bruce Brown could come to play man. He had
19:56
Speaker 1: a three in so I'm like, oh snap, all over
19:58
Speaker 1: the floor, all over the floor all night long. Christian
20:02
Speaker 1: Browns could continue to get a bunch of open looks
20:05
Speaker 1: a game where like Aaron gordon.
20:07
Speaker 2: Is and foucover for the most of it and they
20:09
Speaker 2: still won.
20:11
Speaker 1: I hope Anthony Arras gets healthy because this was one
20:14
Speaker 1: of my favorite series on paper. But if he ain't
20:16
Speaker 1: gonna be able to play well, then godly this might
20:18
Speaker 1: be over quicker than we thought. Last one, the Calves
20:22
Speaker 1: win one twenty eight to one thirteen versus the Toronto Raptors.
20:25
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I was hot.
20:27
Speaker 1: I was anticipating this game a lot because I picked
20:30
Speaker 1: the Calves to win the series. But I thought there
20:32
Speaker 1: were some points about the Calves that the Toronto Raptors
20:34
Speaker 1: could take advantage of. We've known over the last couple
20:36
Speaker 1: of years the lights have been too bright, and we've
20:38
Speaker 1: seen teams just straight up bully.
20:39
Speaker 2: Their front court.
20:40
Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, the Raptors are an
20:43
Speaker 1: aggressive team, especially defensively, that they can take Nope, they
20:47
Speaker 1: actually didn't take anything away from the Cleveland Cavaliers.
20:49
Speaker 2: They can't take away anything.
20:51
Speaker 1: Every shot that the Calves wanted to generate, they were
20:53
Speaker 1: able to generate.
20:54
Speaker 2: Dog A lot of it has to do with James Man.
20:55
Speaker 1: Say, if you want about James Harden, he's gonna he's
20:57
Speaker 1: gonna have some stinkers in this. Objectively, it's just wait
21:00
Speaker 1: James Harden to be hooping. But he generates looks. He
21:04
Speaker 1: generates good looks, and he has for forty years. It
21:06
Speaker 1: feels like the Raptors cannot play Pacers. The slowest pace
21:11
Speaker 1: that they played the entire season a long which again,
21:13
Speaker 1: the scary we knew the Pacers gonna drop is the postseason,
21:15
Speaker 1: and my biggest question about them if you remember, you
21:18
Speaker 1: know watch small ball?
21:19
Speaker 2: Should watch small ball? Oh small balls?
21:21
Speaker 1: Like how they generate good looks in the half court
21:24
Speaker 1: if the game does slow down or the team they're
21:27
Speaker 1: going against is not a team you can easily turn
21:29
Speaker 1: over slowest pace of the entire season, And because they
21:32
Speaker 1: were struggling to get stops, that means no transition, that
21:35
Speaker 1: means no cross matching things that they've done really good
21:37
Speaker 1: this entire season. RJ Bear's defense jumped off the page
21:41
Speaker 1: for me. He was getting cooked, straight up hunted from RJ.
21:44
Speaker 1: Barret Is, Like, oh snap. At some point I.
21:47
Speaker 2: Was like, I don't even know if I want to
21:48
Speaker 2: see him on the court right now.
21:49
Speaker 1: And all of that is happening while the Raptors are
21:52
Speaker 1: actually hitting shots. The Cavs defense gave up the exact
21:56
Speaker 1: shots they wanted to give up all game long.
22:00
Speaker 2: Scotty took four threes, now he hit three of them, but.
22:03
Speaker 1: Chabal shit took six trees and again like he had
22:05
Speaker 1: a lot of them, but like, those are two shooters
22:07
Speaker 1: that are sub thirty five percent that you want to
22:09
Speaker 1: shoot three points if you're the CAFs and the Raptors
22:13
Speaker 1: were not able to capitalize on the good shooting from
22:15
Speaker 1: two players that don't normally shoot well. Brandon Niggas took
22:18
Speaker 1: one shot in the second half, and I saw the
22:19
Speaker 1: post game interview and I also rewatched the game. I'm
22:22
Speaker 1: not buying it, Brandon, straight up, I'm not buying it.
22:26
Speaker 2: One shot.
22:27
Speaker 1: They wanted me to use me as a as a
22:28
Speaker 1: screener and no, yeah, I mean yes, but no. At
22:31
Speaker 1: the same time, I think that's every single one. Again,
22:34
Speaker 1: this video is a shorter version of what the podcast
22:36
Speaker 1: will end up being. I think I got to every game, right,
22:40
Speaker 1: I hope, So uh leave a like cry, let me
22:42
Speaker 1: know what you think Game ones?
22:44
Speaker 2: Do you okay? Here? Here the big ones. Here's the
22:47
Speaker 2: question I'm asking the audience.
22:48
Speaker 1: If you were a guy that also sat for eight
22:50
Speaker 1: hours last two days doing nothing but watch basketball, I
22:53
Speaker 1: did not get my steps in.
22:55
Speaker 2: Do you believe the Orlando Magic right?
22:58
Speaker 1: Because there aren't like even though again I will still
23:00
Speaker 1: think the Pistons win the series. They do match up
23:02
Speaker 1: like even before they played, I said that they do
23:05
Speaker 1: match up well against Detroit. Do you believe in the
23:07
Speaker 1: Orlando Magic? Do you believe that the Rockets can turn
23:14
Speaker 1: some things around and still win this series. Do you
23:16
Speaker 1: believe that either the Suns or the seventy six ers
23:20
Speaker 1: at least take one game? And do you believe that
23:23
Speaker 1: Weinby will have her even better performance in this in
23:25
Speaker 1: game two.
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Speaker 2: I'll see y'all next time.