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  Speaker 1: Well, it turns out the waters were not that turbulent.
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  Speaker 1: Turbut you lied to me. What do that Welcome in
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  Speaker 1: in Denver, who I know is very sad right now
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  Speaker 1: because he thought it was all over. It's all done
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  Speaker 1: there it say his team, all they had to do
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  Speaker 1: was show up. They were gonna win that date. That's
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  Speaker 1: all they had to Did you show up, you win
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  Speaker 1: the game. That's it, That's all you have to do. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: that was not exactly the case, not quite work out
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  Speaker 1: I'll lead this out. Is from the hood in Inglewood.
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  Speaker 1: That is where the joker was leading the Nuggets into
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  Speaker 1: so Cal. They were gonna win kimani at all the momentum,
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  Speaker 1: all the momentum right there in so Cal. Clippers, the
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  Speaker 1: People's team La trying to force a game seven over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend Denver looking to advance to play Oh Klahoma,
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  Speaker 1: Oh Oklahoma City. There. Now, that was the nightcap on TNT,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll start with that. Charles Barkley was not working.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job by him. Did he get suspended for ripping
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  Speaker 1: the tennis coverage on TNT. I don't know, but we
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  Speaker 1: were watching. He probably wasn't, but we were watching. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you were watching. I don't know if you were not.
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  Speaker 1: James harden I mentioned he had gotten the stank out
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  Speaker 1: of his system. In the previous game. Harden had twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight points, eight assist, big second quarter and a big
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  Speaker 1: bounce back for Harden after he was riding the vomit
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  Speaker 1: comet in the previous game. Kawhi Leonard the Silent Assassin
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven points. The Clippers brought down the Hammer and
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  Speaker 1: force a Game seven in that playoff series. There they
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  Speaker 1: went by six over the Nuggets. In Game six, Norman
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  Speaker 1: Powell twenty four points. The Clippers get it done in
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  Speaker 1: the Dome, the intoit Dome there and now after a
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  Speaker 1: big second half, actually second and third quarter, Game seven
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  Speaker 1: will be Saturday. Depending on your time zone, it is
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  Speaker 1: five to thirty local time in the Mountain time zone,
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  Speaker 1: four to thirty in the West, and if you're on
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  Speaker 1: the East coast seven thirty for your weekend planning purposes
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  Speaker 1: of their Clippers and Nuggets Game seven, Jamal Murray, who
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  Speaker 1: had an out of body experience his previous game, had
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  Speaker 1: twenty one points for the Nuggets. Now the better story
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. So we will start
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  Speaker 1: out with that. Let us discuss the question what went wrong?
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  Speaker 1: What went sideways for the Nikola Jokic Nuggets in game six.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got e Sha dah and stones rules and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: will be rough and ready. Rough and ready is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be. So a listen, the Denver Nuggets.
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  Speaker 1: You can break it down ten million ways, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: break down some of the ways here. But they essentially
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  Speaker 1: choked on the sandwich. That middle part of the game,
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  Speaker 1: the meaty part of the game, the second and the
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  Speaker 1: third quarters. The Clippers of my math was right. I
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  Speaker 1: drotted this down on my notes app on my phone.
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  Speaker 1: The Clippers outscored the Nuggets by fourteen points in the
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  Speaker 1: bridge over troubled waters there the second and third periods.
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  Speaker 1: That was enough. That was enough to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Now for individuals, I say, the man in the mirror,
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  Speaker 1: the man in the mirror running the wrong way on
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  Speaker 1: this particular night, Nikola Jokic, who was done in by
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  Speaker 1: his evil twin. You see, the Nikolio that showed up
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  Speaker 1: in the second half was the guy that was drafted
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  Speaker 1: in the second round while there was a Taco bell
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  Speaker 1: commercial on television. The guy that played in the second
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  Speaker 1: half first half fine Jokich had twenty points on nine
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  Speaker 1: of thirteen shooting. He shot sixty nine percent in the
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  Speaker 1: first half. The problem at halftime, he went in there,
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  Speaker 1: he took some stupid pills and the joker was a joke.
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  Speaker 1: The evil twin showed up in the second half. Jokich
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  Speaker 1: shot twenty two point two percent in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: only had five points, and Ivatsa, Zubats and Nick Batoom
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  Speaker 1: handcuffed the unguardable Jokich, three time MVP, all time great
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  Speaker 1: NBA player, was held with as many points, as many
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  Speaker 1: points as you and I had for eleven minutes in
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter, scoreless. For an eleven minute stretch of
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter, Nikola Jokic did not put up a
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  Speaker 1: single point and zubots emasculating him with a block for
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  Speaker 1: the ages. Now that was a nasty block. And you
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  Speaker 1: are the franchise here, you're the face of the Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: and all that. And you suffered a dereliction of duties,
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  Speaker 1: is what you did there? And how about the partner ATKREP.
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  Speaker 1: Now we tried to explain this the other day. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you are so stupid you can't understand it. But
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Murray suffered from a classic regression to the mean.
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  Speaker 1: It happens all the time. Extreme outcomes are followed by
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  Speaker 1: more moderate ones, and Murray, using malarmath, was fifty one
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  Speaker 1: percent worse from game to game. From game five to
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  Speaker 1: game six, his performance went down fifty one point one percent.
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  Speaker 1: He went from forty three points in a ridoculous game
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  Speaker 1: in game five to twenty one points. And then the
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  Speaker 1: Russell west Brick showed up. Now, if you look at
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  Speaker 1: the box score and look at the overall stats, you're ah,
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  Speaker 1: he was fine. He was good. Then he was good. Well,
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  Speaker 1: not when it mattered. West Brick showed up late. He
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  Speaker 1: was two of seven shooting floor in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: two of seven, and missed an absolute bunny in the
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  Speaker 1: final couple of seconds there that would have brought Denver
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  Speaker 1: within four of a tie. You hate to see it
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  Speaker 1: unless you don't. I mean thats just have him shoot.
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  Speaker 1: I'd pray there's a close game in game seven and
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  Speaker 1: the ball goes to Russell Westbrick to make a shot.
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  Speaker 1: Let him shoot. If he beats you. That's fine. Let
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  Speaker 1: him shoot. Let him shoot. You'll be smiling more times
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  Speaker 1: than that. Now, recent history is not looking good for
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  Speaker 1: Denver either. They have started to have issues with the
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  Speaker 1: fur ball in their throat. On Thursday, they lost a
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  Speaker 1: potential series clinching playoff game for the third time in
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  Speaker 1: four tries over the last couple of seasons there since
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  Speaker 1: they won that championship in twenty twenty three. Denver also
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  Speaker 1: blowing it over Minnesota last year. They had a three
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  Speaker 1: to two lead in that series and could not get
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  Speaker 1: past the Timberwols, who are advanced in this playoff. That
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  Speaker 1: was in the second round last year. Now page two
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  Speaker 1: to the winner side of things. So who are we
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  Speaker 1: going to give flowers to for the Kawhi Leonard Clippers,
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  Speaker 1: So that the sound that should be played here for
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers is some shot a smooth operators. They were
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  Speaker 1: as clean as a whistle. They only had seven turnovers
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  Speaker 1: in this game. There's a little shot day for it.
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  Speaker 1: Seven turnovers plus thirteen in points off turnovers. So smooth, unstoppable,
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  Speaker 1: and they did their job. They did their job. James
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  Speaker 1: Harden did not need a shave. He was fine. He
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  Speaker 1: was good in stretches. There were a couple points. I
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  Speaker 1: was yelling at my television Kawhi. Leonard did his thing.
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  Speaker 1: Harden was not as passive. He had storman Norman Powell
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  Speaker 1: with twenty four points nine to fifteen floor the rock
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  Speaker 1: solid Zubots defense. They played with the proper amount of
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  Speaker 1: intensity and hustle in this game. I know it's a
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  Speaker 1: bad day for the haters. You were so excited, you
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  Speaker 1: had all your things ready to go in draft mode
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  Speaker 1: on social media. Try to tell you, oh, you see
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  Speaker 1: there you go, Clippers sugge. You talk trash about the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers loss. Okay, well you have to wait another
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  Speaker 1: day for that. I know you're going to hiding. You're
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  Speaker 1: all cowards. I got you all right now. Last word here,
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  Speaker 1: do the Nikola Jokic Nuggets have an insurmountable edge? Insurmountable
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  Speaker 1: edge in Game seven at home? They are favored in
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  Speaker 1: Game seven, as you might imagine. The pillars of the
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  Speaker 1: NBA community to answer the question, though, do they Nikola
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  Speaker 1: Yokich nugg have an insurmountable edge in game seven at home?
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  Speaker 1: I am shaking my head no, and I'm going very
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  Speaker 1: fast back and forth from right to left here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: shaking my head off. Now, low information fan, the uneducated fan,
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  Speaker 1: the knuckle dragging fan, will say Denvers guaranteed to win.
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  Speaker 1: They're at home, right, altitude, championship pedigree, all that mumbo jumbo.
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  Speaker 1: But follow Stone's rules. Political pundit Roger Stone who famously
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  Speaker 1: said the past is effing prologue. Now I have an
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  Speaker 1: unpopular opinion, and my unpopular opinion here is that the
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  Speaker 1: matchups do not matter. The film does not matter, the
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  Speaker 1: home court advantage does not matter. Injuries, who gives a crap, right,
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  Speaker 1: All that matters is who does better in the moment.
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  Speaker 1: And as the iconic Dick Stockton taught me, stats to
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  Speaker 1: tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're a great player, but you play like
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  Speaker 1: an average Joe in this particular game, it doesn't matter. Now,
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  Speaker 1: playoff Harden got his hiccup game out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: We did the math. He's bad for ten percent of
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  Speaker 1: playoff games. He's fine or good for ninety percent, So
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  Speaker 1: that means he's good for another eight games or so
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  Speaker 1: based on the odds, before he has another clunker. So
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  Speaker 1: you're okay there. And as far as the home court advantage,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a point years ago where if you
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  Speaker 1: were the home team, you always won Game seven. Spoiler alert,
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  Speaker 1: not the case. Fun fact. Fun fact, malord fun fact
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  Speaker 1: on Game seven home court advantage, it turns out there
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  Speaker 1: is none since the bubble pop goes to the babble. Since
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, road teams have won eight of the
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  Speaker 1: last eleven Game sevens. So you're actually better off being
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  Speaker 1: on the road than you are at home. Since the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: you're better and that does not include the pandemic. There
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  Speaker 1: was no home court. That's why that was the easiest
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  Speaker 1: playoff of all time. Some of you dumb dumbs don't
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  Speaker 1: understand that, but the road team has done better. Since
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, eight of eleven Game seven's have gone
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  Speaker 1: the way of the road team. That'll be nine out
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  Speaker 1: of twelve of following the game there on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll take your thoughts on that. We do have
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  Speaker 1: some postgame reaction as the Clippers get the win there
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  Speaker 1: and now the Denver Nuggets they decided to fire their
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  Speaker 1: coach right before the playoffs, and how's that working out
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  Speaker 1: with they're about to lose in the first round of
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. I don't think that's particularly good. But they
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  Speaker 1: haven't lost yet, so technically they haven't lost since Michael
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  Speaker 1: Malone was given as walking papers. But they did hire
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  Speaker 1: the NEPO coach takeover this David Adelman character. And here
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  Speaker 1: is a David Adam. He just looks like they got
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  Speaker 1: him out of like nerd Army or something like that. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: here's Adalman commenting on the adjustment. So I love these comments.
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  Speaker 1: It's talking about the Clippers adjustments. Let's take a list.
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  Speaker 4: And I also on the third quarter, we played good defense.
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  Speaker 4: We never ever came up with the fifty to fifty ball,
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  Speaker 4: and that's just such a backbreaking feeling to do everything
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  Speaker 4: right and don't come up with the ball. So we
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  Speaker 4: gave him a lot of extra possessions. You know, that
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  Speaker 4: quarter absolutely killed.
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  Speaker 1: It's not.
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  Speaker 4: The rest of the game was very even. We played
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  Speaker 4: a really really good fourth quarter. It's a lot of effort.
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  Speaker 4: We got to be better throughout the whole game.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't an embarrassing when a professional coach talks about effort?
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  Speaker 1: Why would you even mention it the only way? Why
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  Speaker 1: would you mention seriously, like the only way you would
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  Speaker 1: mention it is if your team doesn't give effort, your
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  Speaker 1: team's a bunch of dogs, and you have to compliment
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  Speaker 1: them because they actually give effort in a playoff game,
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  Speaker 1: not some random Thursday in December when no one's watching anyway. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: here's one more from the son of Rick Adelman, David
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  Speaker 1: Adelman here and commenting about the Game seven at home,
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  Speaker 1: which the Nuggets are about to lose.
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  Speaker 4: He talked about, you know after the game, he win
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  Speaker 4: those last three games not just to stay out of
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  Speaker 4: the plan, but to get the home court in Game seven,
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  Speaker 4: bottom line, And we earned it. And that's why I
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  Speaker 4: told him there, you've earned this opportunity. He earned the
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  Speaker 4: opportunity tonight to try to close it out because of
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  Speaker 4: the way you played in the series to get to
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  Speaker 4: three to two. But now you have the opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: go home in front of your home fans and advance,
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  Speaker 4: and so you know, you play.
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  Speaker 1: All year for that.
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  Speaker 4: We got that opportunity and we're very, very excited to
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  Speaker 4: go back out there and play again.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind, the Nuggets and Clippers had the same
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  Speaker 1: exact record during the regular season, and the Nuggets earned it.
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  Speaker 1: They did so much good work during the season. The
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  Speaker 1: players got their coach fired before the playoffs. They really
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  Speaker 1: earned it, my fat ass, they earned it. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: be kidding me.
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  Speaker 1: With a kiss to the upper balcony, Welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: from Motown. We'll get back to the People's team winning
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  Speaker 1: and I do have those numbers. I promise you're listening.
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  Speaker 1: Last hour, I was put on the spot by that
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  Speaker 1: dope Jeff and Denver and Cooper loop you any numbers back?
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  Speaker 1: That was okay, I'll give you the numbers later, but
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna start with the game in the Motor City,
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  Speaker 1: which was a really good game. I enjoyed it. I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting on my ass watching the game Game six,
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  Speaker 1: the Detroit Basketball and the New Yorkers, the Pistons looking
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  Speaker 1: to force a Game seven, the Knicker trying to close
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  Speaker 1: things out and move on to take on that Green team.
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  Speaker 1: Were you watching? I hope you were. This was actually
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good game. It came down to the final
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  Speaker 1: seconds with the clock running down. Jalen Brunson the killer
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  Speaker 1: crossover dribble between his legs. He got a little space
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  Speaker 1: and then the dagger from Downtown a three point shot
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  Speaker 1: with four point three seconds left in the clock, and
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  Speaker 1: then he blew a kiss right there to the upper balcony.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd had been taunting him. That's what good fans do.
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  Speaker 1: They taunt the best player on the other team, and
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  Speaker 1: so they did. Now Brunson had a forty burger in
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  Speaker 1: this game, forty points and the Knicks win the game
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  Speaker 1: by three, and what a great way for the piss
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  Speaker 1: and season. And they didn't even get a shot up.
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  Speaker 1: They fetched the ball out of bounds. Beasley fumbled the
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  Speaker 1: ball out of bounds, so Detroit could have had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to tie the game, and they blew it. And
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  Speaker 1: so the win goes to the team from the Big Apple.
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  Speaker 1: New York will now face the number two, the number two,
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  Speaker 1: the Boston basketball team, as they look to advance to
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  Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Finals. You realize the Knicks have not
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  Speaker 1: been to the Eastern Conference Finals since two thousand. That's
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  Speaker 1: a generation. How is that? Man? When I was growing
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  Speaker 1: up of old Buckle mar Day, but it was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: New York teams have all the advantage. Those New York
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  Speaker 1: teams win all the time, they have all the top players.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets have been terrible. The Giants are an embarrassment.
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  Speaker 1: The Knickerbockers are pathetic like, for the most part, the
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  Speaker 1: Mets are ridiculously bad. The Mets haven't won the World
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  Speaker 1: Series since the nineteen eighties. Ronald Reagan was the president.
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  Speaker 1: Last time the nixt one or the Mets won the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. The Yankees, they're going on, how many years?
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  Speaker 1: Is been fifteen years plus?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees haven't won the World Series? So who goofed?
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know. Anyway, let's get back to this one. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The better story is in the losing locker room. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that, but I wanted to start with this,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So as we discussed this game since the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks one and everyone has their pants down because of
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson, can you put into context Jalen Brunson's game
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  Speaker 1: winning basket for the Knicks. So I've got meantastic F
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  Speaker 1: seventeen Nighthawk and Kentucky Bourbon, and we will combine all
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: of these things together and we're gonna say, forget about
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: it and just have some Detroit pizza. I didn't even
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: know Detroit pizza was a thing until a few years ago.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't I had no idea it was a Detroit
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: So I knew a Chicago style. I knew New York
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: style pizza. I didn't even know there was a Detroit
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: style pizza until a couple years ago, and then all
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, it was like everywhere, all right. So
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: my first thought on this, I guess we'll say, numb burn?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Can I get a numb burn? All right? All right?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Enough of that, all right? So my first aught is Baywatch,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: as in Jalen Brunson was the lifeguard who saved the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Knicks from themselves. Complete shambles for the Knicks. They were drowning,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers were drowning. It looked early on they were
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: gonna blow out the Pistons. They were up hacking fifteen.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I jotted that down on my little notes app. They
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: were up fifteen early on, and then the Pistons came back,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and then the Knicks went ahead again, and then it
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: was a little bit bit of back and forth game,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: but facing a door die Game seven, Jalen Brunson had
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: to rescue his teammates from sinking into the deep blue
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: sea of Lake Michigan. It was bad, it was bad,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: uh and the Pistons were on their way to a
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: historical possible come back. In game seven. Detroit was leading
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: this by seven points with two thirty five to go.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: That that's not insurmountable. But you're up by seven with
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: two and a half minutes to go, you're in pretty
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: good shape. Unless Doc Rivers is your coach. Doc Rivers
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: was not coaching the Pistons. But Jalen Brunson I didn't
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: know they had this on the betch, but he put
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: his cape on down the stretch, nerves of steel and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that dagger the crossover to get some space and then
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the knockdown three point shot was meantastic. Jalen Brunson went
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: twilight zone. You're a bad man. You're a very bad man.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson with that shot, and it was chest thumping, kissing,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: blown kisses up to the upper decks some the Jabbroni up.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: There was a good time and it is a reminder
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: that one big shot or a couple of big shots
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: cover up a lot of bad shots. Jalen Brunson took
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: fourteen shots in the fourth quarter. He only made four
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: of them. However, it's the last shot obviously that people remember.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: They'll talk about it. Remember Jalen Brunson beat the Pistons
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  Speaker 1: in a playoff game in the road with that three
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  Speaker 1: point Yeah, they're not gonna say he went four to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: fourteen in the fourth quarter. But when they were downed,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: when Detroit had a seven point lead, seven point lead,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: in really good shape, really good shape. There in the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: final couple minutes of the game, Jalen Brunson with was
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: three of five four eight points in the comeback. New
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: York outscored Detroit eleven to three to close out the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: game and turn out the last the parties over for
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the Pistons. Now, speaking of that, the better story is
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room, So we're gonna go there now.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Despite the loss, I have been seeing a number of headlines,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: number of stories, number of posts on the socials with
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: tributes pouring in that the social media world eulogizing the
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Pistons performance, but celebrating that the Motown Hoopers, who had
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: not broken twenty five wins in the last five five seasons,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: they jumped all the way up from fourteen and sixty
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: eight to forty four and thirty eight. They were the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: sixth seed in the Eastern Conference. The consensus among popular
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: people the pundits is that Detroit is now set up
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: they've arrived. They're a force in the Eastern Conference for
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: years to come. They're good to go. They're good to go,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: all right. So that's the consensus. So I ask the
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Esteem panel, which you are a part of, are you convinced?
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Are you conmissed you make the call? Are you convinced
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that the Caid Cunningham Pistons have a arrived? So after
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: a minute long deliberation, I am shaking my head. No
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: again on this one, I'm shaking my head.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: No.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: This is a stinger. There was venom. There was venom there.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Now there are good signs. I'm not gonna sit here
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and say there's no good signs. There were good signs. However,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the finished product is not there, and there are no
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: moral victories, at least not here. Maybe some other people
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: like the give us out. But the Knickerbockers, I'm Detroit.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I'm spitting mad. The Knickerbockers should have lost this series, right,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: they were plumped for the taken. Detroit blew this series.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: And again, most games have lost them, not one. We
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: talk about that all the time, and this is a
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: great example. Down the stretch, four straight games were decided
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: by three points or less. Three of them were Detroit
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Basketball home losses. They lost at home by two points,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: by one point, by three points. Now, the big picture
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the Pistons, if you look at that turnaround from fourteen
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: wins the forty four wins year to year, the Pistons
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: have been the last year the F seventeen nighthawk, and
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: that's what they were, certainly during the regular season this
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: year where they flew below the radar, they were not
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: detected by any dar. And you don't just pick up
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: where you left off. You have to start fresh. And
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: so they they go back and to the very bottom
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and have to push the rock back up the mountain.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like you're playing a video game and
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: in the old days, and then the power goes out
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and you've got to start over. It doesn't save it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: You got to go back to the very beginning, which
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: is not ideal all right. Now, final point to the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson Knickerbockers as they now have a chance or
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: do they have a chance to upend the Celtics. That's
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: how we're gonna frame this. Do the Jalen Brunson Knicks
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: have a chance to up end the Celtics Boston with
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: home court advantage, Boston, the championship pedigree from a year ago.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: All that nonsense. So do the Knicks have a chance.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: So I look at this for the Knickerbockers. It's not ideal,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: but it is Kentucky Bourbon. It is a puncher's chance.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: It is a puncher's chance. Okay. And the Celtics dominated
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: the Knicks in their four regular season meetings. They won
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: all four games. There was only one of them that
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: was close. But you can't really base too much of
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that because certain star players don't play and so not
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: everyone was out there. And whatever you were back in
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: November and December, obviously you know you're not the same team.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Things get better or worse, they don't stay the same. Now,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the big red flag for the Knickerbockers. They played nine
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: games against the top teams Boston, Cleveland and Oklahoma City.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Nine games. Out of those nine games, how many did
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: they win? The answer would be as many as you
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: and I and Lorena and Coope and blind emmett oer
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: for nine. The Knickerbockers against Boston Cleveland in Oklahoma City,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: which obviously raises questions about the fraud nature of the Knickerbockers. Now,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: fortunately I cannot stress this enough. Past results do not
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: guarantee future out. Boston's reliance on three point shooting is
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: a blessing and a curse because when the threes are
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: not falling, they struggle. They can still win. They beat
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Orlando in a game they didn't make a three point
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: shot in half, but it's much more difficult. You've also
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: got Jalen Brown, who's taking time bomb with a knee
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: that's all wonky. You've got Porzingis who's made out of
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: glass most of the time. And in Game one, there's
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to sneak in there and steal Game one.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: The Knicks have played, and played and played the Celtics.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: You talk about the old debate, We have it every year,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Russ versus Rest, the football debate normally, but Russ versus Rest.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: So the Celtics have been off for a number of days.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: The Knicks just played here on Thursday night, so they
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: should be ready to pounce at the beginning of the game. Now,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: for the Knicks, another problem is Carl Anthony Towns, kitty
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: cat Karl Anthony Towns is in position physically to dominate.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: He often does not. He often is a spectator when
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: he's on the court. He doesn't normally move the needle
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: in playoff games, at least he doesn't know back to
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: back games. And you never know from game to game
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: how Karl Anthony Towns is going to play. That's been
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the curse going back to his days in Minnesota. It
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: hasn't changed with the Knickerbockers. And you know, Jalen Brunson
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: is the real deal, and he'll get some numbers and
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: he'll put up some good stats and all that. So
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: when I bet on the Knicks, I wouldn't bet on
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the Knicks. Do I think this is gonna be a
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: sweep by the celt I would be very surprised. This
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: has six game series and the Celtics will lose a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: game they shouldn't lose early on. They'll lose a game
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: at the Garden, but they'll end up the Madison Square Garden.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Both teams playing the Garden, but they'll end up winning
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: in the end.
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• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Earlier this week, Bill's GM Brandon Bean expressed frustration over
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: being criticized for not drafting a receiver, and he pointed
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: out that he was also criticized for taking josh Allen. Ben,
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: do you think the criticism is warranted?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Well, the problem is that Bills have terrible wide receiver
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: like they scored a bunch of points in all that,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: but Keon Coleman, Khalil Secure and Joshua Palmer who they
• 29:22
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• 29:24
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• 29:28
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• 29:30
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• 29:33
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• 29:35
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• 29:49
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• 29:51
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• 29:57
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• 30:00
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• 30:03
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• 30:06
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• 30:08
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• 30:11
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• 31:25
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• 31:28
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• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Let's change it up a little bit this week. Do
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: some other jokes. Why does Lorena want to burn Mike
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the Leprechaun with an iron? Why she wants to press
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: her luck? Is she what she wants to do? That's
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Kurt from Earth. Well, apparently Mike the Leprechaun is scared
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: of Lorena getting a lot of male weed.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Why, yeah, I guess she. He's going postal on him soon.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: That's Kurt from Earth again. I feel like that's a
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• 32:13
  Speaker 1: new diaper? He got a new diaper? That's Tony in
• 32:17
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• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Why he was in a blind fury? That's why did
• 32:31
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• 32:50
  Speaker 1: What NBA award did Jahn Morant win? Unanimously? What best
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: shooting guard? Best shooting guard? That's hip in name naked
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  Speaker 1: chip very nice. Here you hear that Anthony Edwards was
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: fined fifty thousand for verbally comparing his manhood with a
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  Speaker 1: Laker fan. Wow, yeah, oh yes. After visually inspecting both parties,
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  Speaker 1: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver agreed with Edwards and doubled the fine.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Doubled it. That's Gordon Tacoma. What do you call blind
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  Speaker 1: Scott's stocker mentality? What blind devotion? That's Drew in Minnesota.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: We sent that in. It's Big Bends. Lame jokes of
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the week. These were actual jokes by actual listeners to
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the show. How do you kill one hundred flies? Wow?
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Smack weed man, hippie in the face. That's John in Youngstouth, Ohio.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: What was the worst bud weed Man got on four
• 33:54
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• 34:02
  Speaker 1: did weed Man and his roommate watch on movie night?
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: What ten things I hate about you? That's Eric in Kansas? Again,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: you got any jokes over there? Coop? Let me see
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  Speaker 1: hold on? Okay, while you're working on that, did you
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: hear that President Trump is going to cancel the Obama
• 34:24
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• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Weed Man Hippie's phone sounds better than Ben's. That's Tom.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: What is the difference between mouthwashed Mike and weed Man Hippie?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: What Mike baze regularly the blaggio and has fresh breath?
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: That's ship and Man.
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  Speaker 2: I hope, I hope.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Mouthwashed Mike is okay. We've not heard from him in
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: a while. I hope he's all right. How can weed
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Man solve his roommate problem? Ow move out back on
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the streets? No more roommate? That's Noah in Austin? All right?
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  Speaker 4: What?
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Oh boy? I don't know if I could read this
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  Speaker 1: by all right? Probably should skip over that one. I
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  Speaker 1: want to have a job on Monday. What are Lizzo's
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: fondest memories from her college softball career? What the pizza parties?
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: You win pizza, you lose pizza. That's Surfer Todd the comedian. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Lizzo accidentally rubbed ketch up in her eyes weed made Wow? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: What's that all? Bat? She now has Heine's sight, eke
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  Speaker 1: and rose to Minnesota. Coop, you got anything over there? Coop?
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: What is weed man Hippie's favorite candy?
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Don gummies? Because he has enough teeth? Yeah? What is
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the title of Lizzo's autobiography? What pigmy? That's a chip
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  Speaker 1: in Maine? If Anny bright Side set my joke on
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  Speaker 1: that beg you, Benny bright Side? Why should you always
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  Speaker 1: be bruly honest to Lizzo? Why? Because if you sugar
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: croat your words, She's gonna try to eat them. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's Noah Noah in Austin. Why does Lizzo get better
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  Speaker 1: service than anyone from the United States Postal Service? Why
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  Speaker 1: she has her own ZIP code? That's Terry in Saint Paul.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Right there there it is big bens lame jokes. We
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