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The Houston Rockets Force A Game 7 · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: This should go without saying, but I guess it needs
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Speaker 1: to be said publicly. Every game in the playoffs matters,
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Speaker 1: every single game.
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Speaker 2: You know that.
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Speaker 1: I know that. But somehow a team with a Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame coach and three Hall of Fame players doesn't
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Speaker 1: they don't recognize that every game matters in the postseason.
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Speaker 1: Just tostal away a game of a fab because boy,
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Speaker 1: we got a three to one league will be y'all,
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Speaker 1: let's go back to your home floor with take care
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Speaker 1: of business. They did it, They did it. I've never
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Speaker 1: seen a team play with so little urgency just because
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Speaker 1: they're up three to one or three to two in
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Speaker 1: a series.
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Speaker 2: It don't make no goddamn sense.
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Speaker 1: Shout out to the Houston Rockets for not turning over
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Speaker 1: like some of the other teams in the postseason that
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Speaker 1: went down three to one, over down three y owns.
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Speaker 2: It's like, y'all got it.
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Speaker 1: They put their foot on the gas, they put their
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Speaker 1: foot on their next and now we're going back to
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Speaker 1: Houston four games seven, where anything could really happen.
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Speaker 2: But that things.
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Speaker 1: Things have been looking good for the Houston Rockets over
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Speaker 1: the last couple of games.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna read you my notes. The first one is
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Speaker 2: Draymond Green.
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Speaker 1: I have a video on this channel from a few
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Speaker 1: years back when Draymond Green's in trouble for punching a
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Speaker 1: hell out of use of Nurkic said it was like,
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Speaker 1: I think the name of that videos I'm tired of
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Speaker 1: Draymond Green, and everything that was in that video had
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Speaker 1: to do with just him being completely extra. I acknowledged
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Speaker 1: and recognize the greatness that is Draymond Green on the course,
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Speaker 1: especially on the defensive side of the ball, but him
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Speaker 1: picking up that flagorfoul three minutes in was crazy. And
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Speaker 1: every single call that was not called in favor of
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Speaker 1: the Warriors, the man acted like it was the end
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Speaker 1: of the world.
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Speaker 2: And I mean, he's not alone in this right.
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Speaker 1: This is kind of an NBA thing, but it bothers
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Speaker 1: the hell out of me when it's Draymond Green. I
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Speaker 1: don't know why, but specifically with Draymond maybe it's because
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Speaker 1: he has been the beneficiary of a lot of different
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Speaker 1: calls throughout the course of his career, so he don't
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Speaker 1: even understand that if it's a loose ball that happened
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Speaker 1: to go off his knee, that if it goes to
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Speaker 1: the other team.
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Speaker 2: It bothers me.
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Speaker 1: I thought that the Houston Rockets were amazing in this game.
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Speaker 1: And you know, we can talk about all of the
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Speaker 1: young players, right. We could talk about how am and
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Speaker 1: Thompson has been really good over these last couple of stretches.
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Speaker 1: Or I really want to talk about Jabbars Smith Junior,
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Speaker 1: who has been phenomenal off the bench. I mean, coming
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Speaker 1: into the NBA, we recognize him as a as a
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Speaker 1: guy that can shoot shots. It was like, okay, we
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Speaker 1: know he can shoot, but like, could he do other things?
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Speaker 1: And he was six teams coming out of Auburns like
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Speaker 1: he showed flashes of it in this series, even though
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Speaker 1: it is off the bench. He hit some some really
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Speaker 1: big shots in the corner. I mean, lose what I
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Speaker 1: have in my notes right here?
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Speaker 2: Do oh? I don't have it in my.
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Speaker 1: Numb broken plays fine Jabari Simith Junior because he'll make
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Speaker 1: something happen, and a lot of things that he's making
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Speaker 1: happens just shooting.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: We could talk about Aman Thompson with his fourteen point
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Speaker 1: seven rebounds three steals to assist in phenomenal defense. We
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Speaker 1: could talk about Tarry Eason even though he fell asleep
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Speaker 1: on two back doors in this game, but damn he
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Speaker 1: ended up with five stocks in this one. But the
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Speaker 1: real winners of this game were the veterans. It is
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Speaker 1: for another game having Fred van Vliego nuclear twenty nine,
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Speaker 1: eight and eight, including six threes in this one. We
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Speaker 1: gotta talk about Steven Adams. I meaned it if you will,
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Speaker 1: like earlier in the season, when in the earliest he's
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Speaker 1: like a month and a half ago. I'm like, man,
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Speaker 1: I'm loving this new two man lineup that the Rockets
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Speaker 1: are running. At this point, him and Shinhun have like
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Speaker 1: sixty minutes played and I'm just joking about it, Like, man,
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Speaker 1: this lineup is a net rating of plus fifty. They
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Speaker 1: rebounding fifty seven percent of missus. I love this lineup,
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Speaker 1: not thinking that we will get to the postseason and
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Speaker 1: that lineup is gonna be one of the reasons while
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Speaker 1: they're going, oh my god, Re Shepherd's just check into
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Speaker 1: the game. I'm filming this before the game s ended.
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Speaker 1: Re Shepherd is on my court on my TV shout
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Speaker 1: out to read, hope you hit a shot in this
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Speaker 1: minute in fifteen seconds, not recognizing you know that that
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Speaker 1: lineup was gonna dominate as much as it does. Steven
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Speaker 1: Adams was so huge today again, getting blocks, getting stocks.
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Speaker 1: They went to hack of Steven Adams. He was nine
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Speaker 1: of sixteen. And there were two times in this game
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Speaker 1: where Steven Adams missed his second free throw on that
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Speaker 1: hack of Steven Adams thing, and Shoon got an offensive
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Speaker 1: rebound and put it back up. One was just a
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Speaker 1: tipping for two points. One he got hit in the face,
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Speaker 1: he got fouled. He had two free throws, So you
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Speaker 1: went to hack of Steven Adams because he should have
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Speaker 1: fifty three percent from the free throw line, so it
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Speaker 1: makes sense if he hits one one point per possession
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Speaker 1: coming down. We feel like that's a good play for
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Speaker 1: us defensively, but instead it turns into four easy points
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Speaker 1: for the opposing team because they're just bigger and nobody's
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Speaker 1: boxing out well enough as shit Goom could just kill
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Speaker 1: the glass. The zone that they the Rockets have been
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Speaker 1: running over the last Cup games have been pretty damn good.
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Speaker 1: They ran it once in the first quarter four minutes
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Speaker 1: and fifteen seconds left. Every time I bring out the
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Speaker 1: pin instead of typing the notes, I feel like I
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Speaker 1: need to talk about the notes a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: They brought it out with four minutes and fifty eight
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Speaker 1: seconds left in the first quarter, and this is with
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Speaker 1: Steph Curry on the floor. And they did it a
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Speaker 1: little bit in Game of five where they ran the
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Speaker 1: zone with Steph Curry. It's just a dangerous thing to
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Speaker 1: do because Steph Curry is so nuclear. It's kind of
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Speaker 1: like this boxing one and they got to stop there
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Speaker 1: that Steph Curry was doing his first shift and they
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Speaker 1: went completely in on his zone.
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Speaker 2: Now there's no boxing one. It's like a one to
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Speaker 2: three one zone.
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Speaker 1: And it ended up being with two minutes left, one
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Speaker 1: of them ended in a Draymond Green contested corner three.
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Speaker 2: That was awful.
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Speaker 1: One point that they did give up was Jimmy Butler
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Speaker 1: baseline cut. But after that, that lineup that that that
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Speaker 1: zone that they were running was amazing. It's not a
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Speaker 1: team that Houston rockam talking about. That is a phenomenal
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Speaker 1: offensive team. But if they can turn you over and
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Speaker 1: they can force you to take shots that you don't
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Speaker 1: want to take, they have a chance in every single game. Again,
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Speaker 1: I cannot explain the lack of urgency from the Golden
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Speaker 1: State Warriors. I'm gonna tip my cat to Captain Curry,
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Speaker 1: even though he ended up going ice cold, eventually him
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Speaker 1: shooting through this this this stumb thing is pretty impressive,
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Speaker 1: but he ended up going cold as well. And there
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Speaker 1: were many times in this game where so and so player,
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Speaker 1: let's use Jimmy Butler for an example, gets downhill, gets
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Speaker 1: to the paint and just ops to not go up.
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Speaker 1: One of the plays, he had a lane to a
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Speaker 1: layup and instead kicked it out to the corner for
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Speaker 1: Brandon Lejempski, who swings at Jimmy Butler, places him in
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Speaker 1: the corner, and then it ends in a Jimmy Butler
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Speaker 1: three pointer. We passed up the guarantee, not guarantee because
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Speaker 1: it was a body down there, but a layup for
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler can get the three. Jimmy butlering this game
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Speaker 1: took six threes. Nah, that's that's not who we are.
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Speaker 1: We know you could get to the line. He shot
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Speaker 1: fourteen free throws. We know he could do all the
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Speaker 1: other things. But you are bailing the opposing team out
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Speaker 1: if you're getting three point shots from Jimmy Butler, if
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Speaker 1: if Draymon Green is going out there a tempted for
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Speaker 1: and one of the worst things that happens to the
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Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. And when Draymon Green hit that first one,
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Speaker 1: because he goes to the point like, yeah, this is
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Speaker 1: my game, this is my game. And he attempted four
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Speaker 1: to threes in this So you're bailing the team out.
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Speaker 1: If Gary Peyton the second is shooting four threes, you're
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Speaker 1: bailing the team out. And I recognized early in the
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Speaker 1: series he had a game with he I think he
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Speaker 1: had three in there. You're bailing the opposing team out.
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Speaker 1: Those are the shots that the Houston Rockets are looking for.
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Speaker 1: That's what they want. This is the time that they
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Speaker 1: went into the zone and they felt completely comfortable with
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Speaker 1: Brandon Pazimski getting all the open looks in the world.
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Speaker 1: And luckily for them, the two open the two threes
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Speaker 1: that Brandon Kazimski ended up making were off them play
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Speaker 1: hang in that zone and him just getting a wide
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Speaker 1: open look. One of them is in the corner, when
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Speaker 1: of them was in the left wing, if I'm not mistaken.
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Speaker 1: So he made them pay there and we get to
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Speaker 1: the other spots. It's not it's not so great. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this team is just bigger and in playing with more urgency.
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Speaker 1: It feels weird to have it boil down to that,
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Speaker 1: but that's really what it was. This is one of
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Speaker 1: them shooting performances. Is this code stretch that they went through.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, is this karma after what happened with
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Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets game from fifteen years ago whatever the
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Speaker 1: hell it was.
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Speaker 2: And they missed twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: In a row because they got ice ice cold in
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Speaker 1: this one, and you know, I don't know the lion
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Speaker 1: is gonna end up being for this game seven. I
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Speaker 1: would assume that the Warriors are still favored going into
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Speaker 1: this game seven, considering they have Steph Curry, Jimmy.
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Speaker 2: Butler, and Dremon Green on the team.
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Speaker 1: But the urgency, the urgency has to come because well,
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Speaker 1: this could potentially be the last game of the season.
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Speaker 1: And when they talk about when they acquire Jimmy Butler
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Speaker 1: or Steph Curry's emotional telling Draymond Green, this is.
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Speaker 2: Our last chance. Why are y'all not playing like this
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Speaker 2: is the last chance? Man?
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Speaker 1: Because it is it is the last well maybe next
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Speaker 1: year's lessons, but you get what I'm saying this is
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Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of shots left so for
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Speaker 1: them to miss this urgency and then then I think
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Speaker 1: that Steve curR is out there just testing some things out,
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Speaker 1: and I think once you get to game six in
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Speaker 1: the series, we should be kind of kind of passed
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Speaker 1: a lot of the tests. And the things out in
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Speaker 1: part were like I think that Buddy Heald played the
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Speaker 1: start off the game.
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Speaker 2: He didn't have his shot fall and he had.
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Speaker 1: A stinky turnover and some bad fouls, and it's like, shit,
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Speaker 1: nine minutes left. We kind of need him right now,
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Speaker 1: so let's throw him in the game. And then immediately
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Speaker 1: he goes out and falls the three and it ends
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Speaker 1: up breaking he breaks the three.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 1: I don't like when it becomes like, hey, certain certain
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Speaker 1: team is not looking good.
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Speaker 2: We should be more focused on the team that won.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, let's let's focus on that, because again, they
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Speaker 1: played a really good game and they let the opposing team,
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Speaker 1: the Golden State Wards, play right into the hands. There
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Speaker 1: was the lineup, and I don't have the data to
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Speaker 1: say that, oh, this lineup was a plus seven or whatever,
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Speaker 1: but when they go with this ultra big lineup of
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Speaker 1: shin Gun, Adams Easton Bari and Jalen Green, they forced
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Speaker 1: two turnovers basically at the end of the first quarter,
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Speaker 1: and I thought that was huge. I mean, Steph Curry
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Speaker 1: had his own little flurry at the end of the
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Speaker 1: first or the end of the second quarter. That kind
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Speaker 1: of made things interesting, like, oh, the Warriors have a
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Speaker 1: chance here. Then that kind of died down really easily.
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Speaker 1: They just blitzed the hell out of everybody that was
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Speaker 1: on the court not named Steph Curry. And on the
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Speaker 1: opposite side of the things, the Warriors were blitzing the
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Speaker 1: ball handlers for the rockets, especially if it was Steven
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Speaker 1: Adams coming in to set the screens, like Okay, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna make these people make decisions. And Jalen Green has
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Speaker 1: not had a great series by any means, and this
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Speaker 1: one he ended up with twelve.
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Speaker 2: He end double digit. Shout out to him.
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Speaker 1: He actually got to the free throw line more today
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Speaker 1: than pretty much any time in a series which you
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Speaker 1: can you could tip your cap.
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Speaker 2: Tu it was not a good offensive night at all.
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Speaker 1: But I do want to say there's a few possessions
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Speaker 1: where I see that Jalen Green cares and he's going
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Speaker 1: to fight defensively.
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Speaker 2: He's never going to be a really good defensive player.
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Speaker 1: Unless we real his frame and he's just don't have
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Speaker 1: the makeup of a guy that's going to be able
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Speaker 1: to lock down. But there are a few times where
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Speaker 1: he was in rotation. Well well I remember one possession.
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Speaker 1: It was on the this side of the course, So
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Speaker 1: it was it was in the first half where Jalen
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Speaker 1: Green missed a rotation and and and Tarry Easton covered
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Speaker 1: for him, and then Jalen Green recognized that he missed
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Speaker 1: a rotation and he recovered for Tari ended up being
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Speaker 1: a contested three pointer for Moss Moody. He made a
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Speaker 1: mistake and then he recovered from the mistake by contesta
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Speaker 1: Moses Moody right there in open three. And I thought
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Speaker 1: that was pretty huge. Like there were times I'm like,
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Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hands. He had the
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Speaker 1: one play where he threw a bounce past the Steven
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Speaker 1: Adams and it's like three small defenders around Steven Adams,
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Speaker 1: which is just not a recipe which you should be
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Speaker 1: throwing the bounce passes. But again, I gotta give credit
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Speaker 1: where his due because I thought defensively he held his
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Speaker 1: own in the series. And this is a series where
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Speaker 1: you know part of the game plan which come to
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Speaker 1: the postseason, is you're only as good as your worst defender.
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Speaker 1: So teams are gonna pick. And I thought the Rockets
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Speaker 1: were picking on Steph Curry and vice versa. They were
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Speaker 1: trying to pick on Jalen Green. Steven Adams. Man, I
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Speaker 1: just can't. He was so damn good today. He was
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Speaker 1: so good, have been so good this entire entire series. Man,
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Speaker 1: the rebound and the rebound and the rebounding. I've talked
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Speaker 1: about it before. If there was a deal on the
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Speaker 1: table for the war at least from what I was told,
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Speaker 1: for the Warriors to acquire Vosovich. Now, Vosovic is definitely
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Speaker 1: not a Golden State Warrior type of player, but man,
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Speaker 1: they could use some size and Vosovich would have been
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Speaker 1: able to prevent Stephen Adams from getting a gazillion offensive
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Speaker 1: rebounds and shouldn't go and get another.
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Speaker 2: Gazillion over the course of this series.
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Speaker 1: And I think today it wasn't that many compared to
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Speaker 1: some of the other games.
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Speaker 2: But wow, we're.
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Speaker 1: Going to a game seven. We're going to a Game seven,
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Speaker 1: and anything can happen. Man, anything can happen in the
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Speaker 1: game seven. All Right, I don't know, there's nothing else
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Speaker 1: in my notes of value. Once we got to like
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Speaker 1: the end of the third quarter, I stopped taking notes
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Speaker 1: because I was kind of disappointed. And I think that
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Speaker 1: the thing that I wanted to do the most is
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Speaker 1: kind of showcase that disappointment because I'm not rooting for
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Speaker 1: anybody specifically, but it's for me.
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Speaker 2: It just made no sense for a team with.
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Speaker 1: Championship pedigree and championship experience to lay an egg like that.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 1: I mean, when we get to game number five and
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Speaker 1: Steve Curis asked about, like, you know, they're down by
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Speaker 1: a lot. Don't get me wrong. I think they're down
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Speaker 1: at the latest or the biggest league was twenty nine points.
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Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken.
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Speaker 1: And Steve curts like, we're gonna give them one shift.
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Speaker 1: If they don't cut this lead down to whatever in
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Speaker 1: the first five minutes, then we're gonna yank them. It
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Speaker 1: just felt like a team that's like, we can win
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Speaker 1: it on our home floor, no big deal, and the
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Speaker 1: Rockets are like, nah, y'all gonna have to come back
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Speaker 1: to Houston and win it on our court.
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Speaker 2: And they might. They might, but damn it, it didn't
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Speaker 2: look good today. It just didn't