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Jimmy Butler Suffers Injury, Jalen Green Scores 38 in Game 2 _ Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Taris that not a fighter in the budget?
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  Speaker 2: The bunch.
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  Speaker 1: One on nine to ninety four, the Rockets winning. What
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  Speaker 1: do you say we hear from Emuka?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously dam was a big part of that, but
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  Speaker 3: everybody else contributed as well, and guys regressive. So that's
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  Speaker 3: that's what it looks like. We hold the team to that.
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  Speaker 3: We should have comfortable wins like we have all season.
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  Speaker 3: And like I said, first games out of the way,
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  Speaker 3: guys got their rhythm back, got their focused confidence never left.
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  Speaker 3: But get the jitters out and have a good offensive
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  Speaker 3: show and we'll be in good shape.
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  Speaker 4: A double double for Opera Chegin, What did you like
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  Speaker 4: about his performance, not only tonight but just his first
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  Speaker 4: two games in general, The way he's kind of imposed
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a matchup problem for teams and they're switching
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  Speaker 3: all type of guys on him, kind of going after him.
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  Speaker 3: But he's patient, takes with what they give him and
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  Speaker 3: makes the right read most of the time.
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  Speaker 2: But we need his regressiveness. He'd calm, just stay on
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  Speaker 2: the post.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, he's we're putting them all over the court,
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  Speaker 3: setting pick and rolls from isolations that they elbow. Play
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  Speaker 3: making rebounding obviously at a high level, but in guarding
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  Speaker 3: wings on the perimeter, and so hell of a job
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  Speaker 3: by him in the first two games. You know, good
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  Speaker 3: carryover from what he did all season. Basically that's why
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  Speaker 3: he was All Star.
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  Speaker 5: He man, how did how did things change when Jimmy
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  Speaker 5: went out?
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  Speaker 6: And what type of things did you all do to
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  Speaker 6: take advantage of his absence?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you see, he's a huge part of what they do,
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  Speaker 3: isolation scorer, cross matches. He likes to hunt those, and
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  Speaker 3: so you could key in on carry a little bit more,
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  Speaker 3: obviously with him not on the court, and I think
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  Speaker 3: we did that for the most part.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he had five.
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  Speaker 3: Points until late the two late threes in the first
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  Speaker 3: half and then you know, scoring twenty on six or
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  Speaker 3: fifteen with six turnovers. We got aggressive with him, went
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  Speaker 3: after him and try to make some other guys beat us,
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  Speaker 3: and they worked for us.
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  Speaker 2: What kind I mean time?
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  Speaker 1: The story on this game is Jimmy Butler's situation depends
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  Speaker 1: on the severity of this injury, this pelvic contusion, and
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow with the MRI. I know, we see what it
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  Speaker 1: holds out the rest of the series.
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  Speaker 7: He's a heck of a player. I hope he's all right,
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  Speaker 7: but you know, just we got still got to give
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  Speaker 7: the Rockets some loves, not because they can't.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: Jalen Green was off ling game when he was fantastic.
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  Speaker 7: Tonight he showed up and playing like he's supposed to play.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: You know, he's a heck of a player, but he's
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  Speaker 7: got to find a way. You can't go thirty eight
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  Speaker 7: and seven. Yeah, you gotta sho, that's got to be.
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  Speaker 7: It's got to be.
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  Speaker 1: You're not cotting him any slack for playoff debut. Never
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  Speaker 1: been there in game one. No, but he's been doing
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  Speaker 1: the same thing all season. There has been a roller coach. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but he's he got a lot of talent. But you
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  Speaker 1: can go thirty seventeen twenty. He can't go thirty thirty
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  Speaker 1: and seven.
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  Speaker 7: That just you can never be a great Old Sola
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  Speaker 7: is one of my favorite because you just said to.
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  Speaker 2: Me you got ahead too.
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  Speaker 7: No, but he always said to me asking about players,
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  Speaker 7: he says, Chuck, if a goal scored thirty one night
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  Speaker 7: and ten the next night, people are gonna say he
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  Speaker 7: averaged twenty.
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  Speaker 6: But it is that one o'clock. Oh my bad, my bad.
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  Speaker 6: I put I put the wrong time on Earth.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was one.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so he had a good you're gonna wake chuck up,
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  Speaker 7: go ahead, No, but he said, he said, if you
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  Speaker 7: get me thirty one night and ten one night, people
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  Speaker 7: gonna say he's averaging twenty.
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  Speaker 2: He said, we can't win like.
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  Speaker 7: That, and that was one of the most valuable lessons
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  Speaker 7: he taught me as a coach.
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  Speaker 2: Rest in peace, Coach Solace, how about your Rockets tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Huh uh?
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  Speaker 8: Coach of Douglas said something very interesting about Shangun patience.
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  Speaker 8: One thing about the European players. You're not going to
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  Speaker 8: speed him up. He's very patient. Turkish Terminator loved the
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  Speaker 8: way he played, and you know jitters for Green came back,
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  Speaker 8: had a you know, great game. But can they do
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  Speaker 8: it on the road, that's the key. Can they do
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  Speaker 8: it in a row? Jaalen Green had a five his game.
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  Speaker 8: All the other Rockets still need Fred van Vliet to
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  Speaker 8: pick it up a little bit. Golden State fall back
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  Speaker 8: had a lot of different matchups that we'd never seen
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  Speaker 8: far back. So you know, hopefully Jimmy can come back.
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  Speaker 8: But the Rockets play well. Happy for the Turkish Terminated
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  Speaker 8: played excellent ball.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight, they're plus thirty on the boards. Overall, they're one
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  Speaker 1: hundred to sixty two points in the paint. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's when you when you have dominating performances like that
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  Speaker 1: on the glass and in the paint, that's not going
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  Speaker 1: to go away, is it.
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  Speaker 7: That's why he had to bring Cominia in the game
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  Speaker 7: because Kaminga's the other other the war is a small team.
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  Speaker 7: Even with Jimmy's there, they're still small. That's why Steve
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  Speaker 7: Kerry he hadn't played He didn't play them in the
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  Speaker 7: play in games. He didn't play them in Game one.
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  Speaker 7: He says, I got to put some size out there.
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  Speaker 7: So so Kamena's gonna be huge.
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  Speaker 2: This serious.
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  Speaker 6: You know, if you're a Rocket fan, you'd have to
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  Speaker 6: be encouraged because even if Jimmy Butler was there, the
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  Speaker 6: two guys that you need to play well, they would
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  Speaker 6: have played well because offensively that wasn't the massive Butler
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  Speaker 6: doesn't match in Chagoon or really Green that much.
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  Speaker 2: He used them at the small forward.
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  Speaker 6: So you'd have to be encouraged, especially with Green because
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  Speaker 6: you know, at the beginning of the series, I said, well,
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  Speaker 6: this is the series that he made Indoka has to
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  Speaker 6: make him a star, help him become a star, and
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  Speaker 6: he's done that with you know, when he was with
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  Speaker 6: the Celtics with Jayleen Green, Jaylen Brown Rather and Tatum.
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  Speaker 6: So he understands the concept of a guy who can
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  Speaker 6: score and has a matchup advantage every night. So this
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  Speaker 6: is a big series for him.
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  Speaker 1: Jayalen Green with his thirty point Nike thirty eight at
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight, they're fourteen and one when he goes for
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  Speaker 1: thirty plus meantime short time ago here with Steve Kerry.
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  Speaker 5: Just what were the emotions as you saw well, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Brandon wasn't feeling great and then Jimmy go down down right,
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  Speaker 5: you know, kind of in a real quick succession there.
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  Speaker 5: What were you thinking? What was that emotion?
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  Speaker 6: Like?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, you know, there's really no time to even feel
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  Speaker 4: any emotions. You just respond and react with what you
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  Speaker 4: have to do in terms of you know, making a
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  Speaker 4: sub and trying to think about new substitution patterns, who
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  Speaker 4: you want to pair together, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So obviously feel terrible for Jimmy. Hopefully he's okay, we'll
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  Speaker 4: see he's gonna get an m R tomorrow and BP
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  Speaker 4: really proud of him for making the effort. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he he's been feeling terrible all day and he tried.
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  Speaker 4: He got any IV at halftime, just didn't have it.
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  Speaker 2: So tough night.
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  Speaker 4: We'll bounce back, doctor Jimmy at all?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, are you optimistic or you just kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of you know, Jimmy always says he's gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, but we have to wait to see with
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  Speaker 4: the MRI.
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  Speaker 3: What did you think of the foul or you know,
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  Speaker 3: how he went down?
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  Speaker 2: Did you think it was I haven't seen the replay.
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  Speaker 4: I asked our guys behind the bench, and they they
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  Speaker 4: just said it looked like there was some physicality on
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  Speaker 4: the rebound, and I think Thompson just you know, inadvertently
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  Speaker 4: found himself underneath Jimmy just based on the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the tug of war that was going on there. So,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we didn't we didn't think there was anything
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  Speaker 4: wrong with the play.
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  Speaker 2: It's just one of those plays.
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  Speaker 1: What did you generally think of just kind of yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean what Steve Kruse said there in answer to
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  Speaker 1: that question about how it happened, and I'm in Thompson
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  Speaker 1: and that kind of thing when you when you watch
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  Speaker 1: this play again. I don't think you can find any
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  Speaker 1: fault with anybody in this. This was just this was
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  Speaker 1: Thompson who took took a shove really and then he
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  Speaker 1: wound up taking the legs.
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  Speaker 2: Out of that. That was probably just an accident.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so we wait and see on on Jimmy Butler,
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  Speaker 1: uh and uh how much time he will miss, if
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  Speaker 1: any will he missed a game.
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  Speaker 2: We don't miss Jimmy something man. Yeah, I'll be up
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  Speaker 2: to and I dare I'll tell you what I think.
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  Speaker 2: I really think.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you bluff when you finish your thoughts.
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  Speaker 7: I think if if they had, if they hadn't won
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  Speaker 7: the first game, I think Jimmy would have tried to
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  Speaker 7: play tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that was that's that would be big. We await
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  Speaker 2: the results of the m R I on THEE john
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  Speaker 2: S and the congratulations and we'll see. Hey,