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LeBron James & Steph Curry Put on Another Classic Showdown | Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Stephen Curry rivalry and how much time is left. Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Curry shot up at crypto well West Coast fives Lebron
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  Speaker 1: matching Kandas's overalls. Oh and man, a lot of contact there, Lebron.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't look ran into Kaminga would go down a
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  Speaker 1: lot of concern. He'd be okay though, But man, Lebron,
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  Speaker 1: you five of eight from three in this one. Early
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  Speaker 1: on it did seem like Golden State had pretty much
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  Speaker 1: good control.
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  Speaker 2: It was the Pajemski show.
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  Speaker 1: But you're always going to get a circus shotter too
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  Speaker 1: from Stephen Curry.
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  Speaker 2: The greatest shooter of all time.
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  Speaker 3: Greatest shooter of all time, I said earlier, you know
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to focus, you know, focus, uh, focus, Lakers,
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  Speaker 3: focus Golden State. I'll pick Golden State every time.
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  Speaker 1: Pajemski had twenty two points a half, including six threes.
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  Speaker 2: He'd finish this one with twenty eighth and eight three.
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  Speaker 4: When it's going, it's gone.
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  Speaker 1: Man eight of ten from beyond the arc for Pazemski.
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  Speaker 1: Rookie had a second year player at a Saint Mary's
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  Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, and I said, three man pass the game.
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  Speaker 1: Third quarter events, the Lakers woke up absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: Lebron got it going. It started getting ar fifteen going.
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  Speaker 5: I mean their ability to score is pare amount. But
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  Speaker 5: it's the bench that will be a question. Only seven
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  Speaker 5: points from the bench, Jackson Hayes only playing with fifteen
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  Speaker 5: minutes two points. That's my concern for the playoffs, like
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  Speaker 5: what will you get from that position?
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  Speaker 2: What we get from the bench?
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  Speaker 1: Rough shooting game for Luca zero for six from beyond
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  Speaker 1: the arc, creating some space there.
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  Speaker 2: I want to guard him. He's having a game. He
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  Speaker 2: is having one of those score and report.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Lebron right, Jimmy Butler's grill.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, his name was on at halftime going the other way.
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  Speaker 1: This is when it started to look like the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: were gonna have one of their comebacks. Luca diming out
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  Speaker 1: Austin Reeves. Nine threes for Austin Reeves.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you go to the man?
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  Speaker 4: Every single time the Warriors needed a bucket, steph came.
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  Speaker 2: Through Lebron James flexing the right arm.
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  Speaker 1: It's a seven point game, ninety seven seconds left. Pajemski
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  Speaker 1: step back and you gotta be Steck hitting better hit
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  Speaker 1: it so it's a it's a nine point lead now
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  Speaker 1: with a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wait, I didn't see that hold on?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was that was Curry sauce.
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  Speaker 1: Great defense, two different plays, this one by Draymond Green
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  Speaker 1: getting a hand on it.
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  Speaker 2: His big block of the day.
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  Speaker 1: That changed a lot of momentum because man, they turned
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  Speaker 1: it over they were going the other way.
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  Speaker 2: Golden State wins this one. They are now twenty and
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  Speaker 2: four with Jimmy.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when they made that trade, they were twenty five
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  Speaker 1: and twenty six, tied for ten. Now they're in fifth
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  Speaker 1: place the Lakes in the season series three and one.
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  Speaker 1: Golden State wins the fourth. And this is the reason
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  Speaker 1: it's big. They're a game apart. They are right there. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: I just realized this is our first playoff MATCHO. If
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  Speaker 1: it ended today, we get seven games of Lakers Warriors,
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  Speaker 1: sign me up.
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  Speaker 2: That would be phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: You heard the King and Warriors go to Nuggets next,
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  Speaker 4: so they still could get that three spot. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: obviously everything has.
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  Speaker 2: To work out in their favor, but.
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  Speaker 1: Man, unreal perhaps So when we were getting ready for
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  Speaker 1: the game today, I was talking to TK and the
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  Speaker 1: crew back there, and I said, you know, with Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Curry dropping fifty two, the other night. How many more
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  Speaker 1: times are we going to get to watch Lebron James
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  Speaker 1: and Stephan Curry. And we see them at this stage
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  Speaker 1: of their career, but we have seen them in so
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  Speaker 1: many stages.
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  Speaker 2: So let's just take a look going back.
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  Speaker 1: This is November seventeenth, two thousand and nine, the first
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  Speaker 1: time they ever faced off. Steph had fourteen, Lebron had
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  Speaker 1: thirty one, and in the midst of their careers they
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  Speaker 1: played four consecutive NBA Finals against each other. They had
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  Speaker 1: that incredible play in game the first ever playing game
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  Speaker 1: when Steph had thirty seven, Lebron had a triple double,
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  Speaker 1: including this a big shot at the end. Lakers end
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  Speaker 1: up winning that one, but this was the fifty six
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  Speaker 1: game between them. Tonight, thirty to twenty six. Stephan Curry
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  Speaker 1: has the lead in the playoffs. It is seventeen eleven
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  Speaker 1: Stephan Curry. All of you have played against different athletes
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  Speaker 1: in your career that have probably challenged.
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  Speaker 2: You and brought something out of you.
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  Speaker 1: With these two, we've even had stories that they want
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  Speaker 1: to play together.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen them in the Olympic team.
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  Speaker 1: As a fan of the sport, what has it been
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  Speaker 1: like to watch Steph versus Lebron Canvas.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you're talking about two players that have literally defined
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  Speaker 4: a generation, and I say that in different ways. Lebron
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  Speaker 4: doing it at a level for longevity, obviously, power, skill set,
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  Speaker 4: just a phenom from start to finish, and then Steph
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  Speaker 4: Curry was undersized, under recruited, had to take a different
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  Speaker 4: route and ended up changing the game at the end.
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  Speaker 4: So I just feel like these are my generation, and
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  Speaker 4: so to be able to watch them while I'm playing basketball,
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  Speaker 4: I think you watch them play basketball and you want
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  Speaker 4: to go out and try to do what they do.
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  Speaker 4: And so I just it never gets old. And I
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  Speaker 4: know at some point we're gonna be able to tell
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  Speaker 4: our kids that we watched these two Hall of Famers
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  Speaker 4: play against each other.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm gonna add growth, you know, Lebron his growth
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  Speaker 5: from behind the arc, his sacrifice, changing his game to
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  Speaker 5: empower other guys. Steph on the other side, he dealt
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  Speaker 5: with his injuries earlier winning championships, but now proving that
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  Speaker 5: he could win the MVP when he had KD. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it's just growth between these two. The battles has always
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  Speaker 5: been fantastic, but it's just it's just great to see
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  Speaker 5: these guys continue to do this and do it at.
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  Speaker 2: The highest level.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, yes, we heard they wanted to play together,
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  Speaker 5: but I think this is what we want to see.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's it would be unfair with those two
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  Speaker 5: on the same team, but they come to play each
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  Speaker 5: and every time they meet up, and that's what's fun
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  Speaker 5: to watch.
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  Speaker 2: To me.
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  Speaker 3: I look at it as sort of David versus Glive.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, with all the hype Lebron had coming
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  Speaker 3: in the game with him, you look at him and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he'll he'll he'll probably win one, two or three championships.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody said that about Steph Curry ever when he first
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  Speaker 3: came in. Ever, so you got a big crown guy
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  Speaker 3: against a little guy with a baby face, and you
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  Speaker 3: know what he has done and what he has done
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  Speaker 3: consistently the game for the last four five years is
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  Speaker 3: because we want to try to match up with Golden State.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone everybody wants to go to analytics and shoot threes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like again, I'm just astonished because when he
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  Speaker 3: first came in, I was like, yeah, he's a great shooter,
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  Speaker 3: but he's he was always getting always and that's why
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  Speaker 3: I will keep lobbying for him. When you talk about
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  Speaker 3: the greatest players ever played the game, just put him
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  Speaker 3: in a conversation. Listen, Burro, gonna have our picks, but
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  Speaker 3: I want everybody in the conversation. I'll just go this
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  Speaker 3: guy and this guy and leave certain guys out. I
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  Speaker 3: want to see MJ. Of course, I want to see Lebron.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see the colaster. And you gotta add Steph.
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  Speaker 2: Current to that.
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  Speaker 4: That's just my thin the shock to add add to that.
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  Speaker 4: I think everybody in twenty fourteen. I remember watching Steph
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  Speaker 4: play against the Spurs and they lost to the Spurs
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  Speaker 4: that year. But everybody's like, it's not sustainable to shoot
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  Speaker 4: these shots. We're gonna expect to win a championship. I
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  Speaker 4: was one of them, and he has made all of
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  Speaker 4: us look crazy because when you're consistent in what you do,
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  Speaker 4: it's like when he pulls up from half court, I
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  Speaker 4: think all of us are believers that it's going to
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  Speaker 4: go in.
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  Speaker 2: Think about this.
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  Speaker 5: The word that you use was consistency. He was consistent
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  Speaker 5: to where they had to say, all right, fine, and
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  Speaker 5: that's the thing he shoots. We've said this in the
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  Speaker 5: back some of the guys we watch the Cup games
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  Speaker 5: we're watching on the other TVs. Some guys shoot to
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  Speaker 5: just get a shot up. He shoots to make them,
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  Speaker 5: and he shoots them with consistency. He practices them. He
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  Speaker 5: focuses on them. What you always say, you want to
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  Speaker 5: see guys focus on their shots. He's done that to
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  Speaker 5: where coaches have said, you know what, we want to
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  Speaker 5: shoot threes. But that's why they practice them. That's why
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  Speaker 5: he practiced him. You can't you can't replicate what the
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  Speaker 5: Golden State Warriors do. You can't replicate what Steph Curry does,
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  Speaker 5: how he plays, how unselfish he is as a superstar.
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  Speaker 2: That's just hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: The thing that I take away big time is this
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  Speaker 1: desk media. We have a tendency that either forecast towards
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  Speaker 1: the future who's next, or we look in the past
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  Speaker 1: and we debate which is very hot right now?
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  Speaker 2: Could they compete back then? What I love about both.
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  Speaker 1: Of these guys is they force you to be in
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  Speaker 1: the present and you watch that game and you're in
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  Speaker 1: that moment and you go, man, that was fun to
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  Speaker 1: watch basketball. By the way, Charles Barklay texted me, he's
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  Speaker 1: weighing in. He said, quote, tell Shaq to unbutton his
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  Speaker 1: jacket before he puts someone's eye out to thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Tell him to some of them fat boy drugs have
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  Speaker 3: been taken that don't work on this fat ass. You
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  Speaker 3: got my number, Chuck May nineteenth. I'm gonna punch in
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  Speaker 3: your That was the perfect way.
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  Speaker 2: Six pegs because you have this amazing moment.
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  Speaker 3: This is called style. You wouldn't know nothing about this
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  Speaker 3: fat boy. Keep drinking that beer.
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  Speaker 2: You an underdog at the posts down in San Antonio.