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The Denver Nuggets STEAL Game 1 · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: All right, Ladien and Jenning, we got to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: I am not at home, obviously, I am at the studio.
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  Speaker 1: We just filmed our TV show. If you didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: I also host a TV show, an NBA related TV
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  Speaker 1: show on Tuesdays. Don't ask me what time. I actually
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  Speaker 1: don't know what time it airs. But we just wrapped up.
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  Speaker 1: We watched Denver Nuggets versus the OKC Thunder, and there
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  Speaker 1: was no way in hell I was gonna drive thirty
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  Speaker 1: minutes home and then talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: I got too much on my mind, So let's get
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  Speaker 2: into it.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much you can say about this game, but
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  Speaker 1: I think majority of it is gonna boil down to
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  Speaker 1: the last fifteen seconds of a game. We watched forty
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  Speaker 1: eight minutes, I mean forty seven minutes and forty five
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  Speaker 1: seconds of a basketball game. That like, it's not a
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  Speaker 1: lot to even really say. Because the ending of this
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  Speaker 1: game was so crazy that I gotta talk about it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So the Thunder decide to foul Wallup three, something we
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  Speaker 1: see all the time in basketball, and I'm always very
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  Speaker 1: iffy about it. Not iffy, I guess I can. I
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  Speaker 1: can see it from both perspectives. Right, you get the
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  Speaker 1: time terrible times like tonight where you lose an entire
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  Speaker 1: game with this strategy. But I think the numbers say
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  Speaker 1: like ninety one percent of the time this is the
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  Speaker 1: best way to do it. So like again, I completely
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  Speaker 1: understand the idea behind it. I also don't think the
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  Speaker 1: OKC thunder executed it well enough. So we start off,
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  Speaker 1: you foul up three, Shay gives Alexander Hitch two free throws. Boom,
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  Speaker 1: they come down and they fat foul, big yoke, Big
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  Speaker 1: yok hits two. I thought one of the cool things
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  Speaker 1: is because it's thirteen seconds left in the game. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, Jokics is about to attempt a second free throw,
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  Speaker 1: and we get like this platoon substitution where Mark Danel
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  Speaker 1: puts all three of his centers in Is, Jay will
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  Speaker 1: Is Chat and Isaiah Hartenstein. We were watching in the
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  Speaker 1: studio like damn, they came in like the Avengers, Yoki
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  Speaker 1: tsiss the second free throw, Boom, time out. We get
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  Speaker 1: some substitutions. One of the substitutions is to take Nikola
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  Speaker 1: Yokics out of the game. At this point in time,
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  Speaker 1: Nikola Yokis has five foul so yeah, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: play the foul game. We have to foul them. We
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  Speaker 1: don't want yokicic nowhere near the ball, damnit. We don't
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  Speaker 1: want him on the court. But what is lost in
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  Speaker 1: this is that the different Nuggets don't have a time out,
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  Speaker 1: but in their mind, we're about to foul. Immediately, boom,
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  Speaker 1: the first foul happens, a free throw goes up. Yokis
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  Speaker 1: is right back there. He's at the scorer's table, baby.
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  Speaker 1: But there was so much of a defensive blunder. This,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, is when the OKC thunder should have
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  Speaker 1: won this game. There's so much of a defensive blunder
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  Speaker 1: that Shay gives Alexander walks to the to the basket,
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  Speaker 1: gets rid of like two seconds on the clock, and
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  Speaker 1: they're up by three again with eleven seconds and oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, because we didn't foul, we didn't get a
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  Speaker 1: day of ball. There's no Nikola Yochis checking into the game.
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  Speaker 1: This should be perfect for Okac. In my mind, you're
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  Speaker 1: running the line up. Payton Watson is closing this game
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  Speaker 1: right now. Just respect the p Why. I got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of love for your big fellow. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: Nikola Jokis and you're up by three. In my mind,
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  Speaker 1: as somebody that is not an NBA coach, this is
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  Speaker 1: the moment in time. Oh, I'm not even gonna rec
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  Speaker 1: league coach, ain't coach a goddamn moment in my life.
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  Speaker 1: This is the moment of time where we completely kill
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  Speaker 1: the foul up three things. They have a five man
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  Speaker 1: lineup out there that we don't trust to generate a
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  Speaker 1: good open three pointer, specifically, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: and they can't get Na Kola Jokics, the best player
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  Speaker 1: in the world who look like the best player in
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  Speaker 1: the world today. They don't have an opportunity to get
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  Speaker 1: him in a game. Let's play a straight up and
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  Speaker 1: if they hit a three, so be it. Damn it
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  Speaker 1: they hit a three without nakoliogicch But instead they foul.
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  Speaker 1: And not only do they foul, they foul without letting
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  Speaker 1: any time off the clock. And the reason why this
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  Speaker 1: is important is that the time if we fouled and
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying we as if I'm an okay, see guy here,
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  Speaker 1: the times that we fouled well up three, we've basically
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  Speaker 1: not got any time off the clock. So we now
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  Speaker 1: are asking our players to hit let's say, eight to
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  Speaker 1: nine to ten free throws and a fifteen second span.
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  Speaker 1: Because we are not utilizing the clock to our advantage,
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  Speaker 1: they foul before Denver can even get the ball a
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  Speaker 1: quarter of the way up the court. And then you
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  Speaker 1: get Amy Gordon hitting two. And because you stop the
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  Speaker 1: ball or you stop to play, Jokis is in the
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  Speaker 1: game and then things happen. Westbrook fouls chat Holmgren and
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  Speaker 1: I kid you not right hand up to We're again.
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  Speaker 1: This is me and the guys that we shoot the
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  Speaker 1: show with. Shout out to the guys. We see chet
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  Speaker 1: Holmger walk up and I promise you I'll say he's
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  Speaker 1: at least missing one. He did a shoulder row and
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  Speaker 1: he did a and listen, I can't say that I've
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  Speaker 1: watched every single chet Holmgan free throw. Hell even remember
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  Speaker 1: any other free throw. He had two in this game before.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know his free throw team that could legitimately
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  Speaker 1: be what he does for every single free throw. But
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  Speaker 1: this time I'm like, he's gonna at least miss one.
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  Speaker 1: And not only did he miss one, he missed two.
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  Speaker 1: They get the rebound, Christian Brown kicks it up to
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  Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook Aaron Gordon three, the second game winner of
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon's postseason so far. The Denver Nuggets just find
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  Speaker 1: a way to win and you just cannot count them out.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people I want to give credit
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  Speaker 1: to on this one. Again, I gotta give credit to
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon, who not only hit this shot, but hit
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  Speaker 1: the two free throws previously to keep them in this game.
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  Speaker 1: He has just been amazing in this post season run.
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  Speaker 1: Like they call him what mister Nugget for a reason.
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  Speaker 1: He really is a man of the people and he
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  Speaker 1: really is that impactful of a player that, like some Knights,
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  Speaker 1: like tonight, he is the second best player for the
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  Speaker 1: Dinner Nuggets. At least in my opinion, he was the
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  Speaker 1: second best player for the Dinner Nuggets. And obviously it's
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  Speaker 1: easy to say that after had a game winner. We
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  Speaker 1: gotta give credit to Big Honey forty two points, twenty
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  Speaker 1: two twenty two rebounds. I just love the aggression that
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  Speaker 1: we got from him. Everybody who was in foul trouble.
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  Speaker 1: He got everybody in a foul trouble today. It was
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  Speaker 1: chatting foul trouble. It was it was of course Isaac
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  Speaker 1: Hartenstein in foul trouble as well, and they just.
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  Speaker 2: Really didn't have an answer. They were loading up so heavily.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes he would take the three to keep the mind
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes they got the good switch where it was
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  Speaker 1: Caruso or was loudor and he was just using that
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  Speaker 1: size in that body, which is seems easy to say,
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  Speaker 1: but I swear to you sometimes it feels like a
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  Speaker 1: lost art in basketball. I guess I'll previously or at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the video talk about the previous game
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  Speaker 1: where like Jason Tatum phenomenal, the NBA player obviously got
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  Speaker 1: the switch that he wanted four possessions in a row,
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  Speaker 1: and every single one of them ended up in a
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  Speaker 1: step back three. Nicoleok Is like, no, you're gonna put
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  Speaker 1: this little dude on me. I understand that they load
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  Speaker 1: up more. I'm going to back him down. They did
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  Speaker 1: a good job get into the pass and LEAs Ascarusso's
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  Speaker 1: fucking phenomenal tonight. It hurts to lose the game where
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  Speaker 1: als Garusso was that damn good. But this is again
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  Speaker 1: why the Nuggets have a chance in every single series.
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  Speaker 1: Big Big Honey was amazing. Russell Westbrook, I do believe
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  Speaker 1: this to be true. There's a there's a version of
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  Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook that doesn't hit that ball up to Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Gordon recognizing there's three seconds on the clock. I am
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  Speaker 1: one of the fastest dudes on the court. There's one
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  Speaker 1: dude to beat. There's a Russell. There's a version of
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  Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook that does that. Don't find that guy and
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  Speaker 1: instead he tries to play the time, or he tries
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  Speaker 1: to play for the tie right, but he has the
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  Speaker 1: wherewithal the experience to kick it out to the corner.
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  Speaker 1: He just continues to be phenomenal. I mean, he was
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  Speaker 1: one of the biggest wild cards. There were certain times
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  Speaker 1: in the Lper series where he killed them and then
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  Speaker 1: he made up for it by being amazing. And I
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  Speaker 1: think tonight it was more amazing than killing. He had
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  Speaker 1: one of the turnovers that were really bad down to stretch,
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  Speaker 1: but other than that, he's been phenomenal. This run, man
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  Speaker 1: and again with your OKC you feel off. I know
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  Speaker 1: Chat is kicking himself after two miss free throws, but
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  Speaker 1: this is what it is. It was it was Lou Williams.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Lou Williams who said on running
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  Speaker 1: Back to Show that he hosts over there FanDuel that
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  Speaker 1: as a player fouling up three, it can be scary
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  Speaker 1: stuff because the game is in your hand and you
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  Speaker 1: just know that. Of course you have the added pressure
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  Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, statistics are going
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  Speaker 1: to come into play. Chat holmerns seventy five percent free
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  Speaker 1: throw shoot. He was two for two going into that
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  Speaker 1: free throw. Statistically speaking, he's probably missing one of these.
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  Speaker 2: If we just want to play his averages now, damn it,
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  Speaker 2: he missed both. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't the averages, but like you're just asking a
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  Speaker 1: lot of your guys to be able to hit these
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  Speaker 1: free throws, you know, and it turns out to be awful.
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  Speaker 1: There were times where I was critical of Rick Harley
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  Speaker 1: Le specifically. I think that was last year in the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Rick Carlisle had a lot of game or a few
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  Speaker 1: games where they did not file up three in the
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  Speaker 1: opposed I wish I could tell you off the top
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  Speaker 1: of my head which games it were, But there are
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  Speaker 1: a few games, Rick Carlo, the foul up three and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, damn, if you foul up three right here,
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  Speaker 1: then you just trust your dudes at the free throws.
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  Speaker 1: And then again you get this moment in time where
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  Speaker 1: not only do you lose this game, you lose home
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  Speaker 1: court advantage in the series, where again you could see
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  Speaker 1: this team can hang. I didn't think Shay gives Alexander
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  Speaker 1: had an amazing performance. He had a couple big shots
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. A dub did not have a good game.
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  Speaker 1: It really was Alice Caruso and Russell Westbrook via like
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  Speaker 1: the most important players on the court for stretching that
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  Speaker 1: third quarter there. So you know, you would hope, if
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  Speaker 1: you are the Thunder that this is just one big
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  Speaker 1: blunder and that's not indicative of who you are. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they spent the week and some change without playing a
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  Speaker 1: game of basketball, while the dinnerent Nuggets just came out
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  Speaker 1: of a seven game series. You would think advantage to
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  Speaker 1: the team that was resting. But like it's an age
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  Speaker 1: oh question, res versus Russ. I bet there's somebody that
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  Speaker 1: made or road a thesis on this res versus Russ
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  Speaker 1: who wins win? And I don't know the answer to it,
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  Speaker 1: But in this case, it was the Russ. Actually it
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  Speaker 1: was the rest for the majority of it, and then
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  Speaker 1: you know ended up being the rust at the in
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  Speaker 1: the end of it.
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  Speaker 2: So what a game would a game with a game?
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  Speaker 1: I love this series, man, and I felt bad because
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't able to do like a preview video for
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  Speaker 1: this series.
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  Speaker 2: But it's too late now, baby. The we in the weeds.
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  Speaker 1: Quickly before we get out of here, and I could
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  Speaker 1: take my ass home because it's midnight here in Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: The Knicks. The Knicks won against a top team. This
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  Speaker 2: is what I was saying.
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  Speaker 1: If you gonna go over eleven in the regular season
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  Speaker 1: against against toppy and talent, whatever the hell the record is,
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  Speaker 1: you would want that first win to be in the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Would you rather be one in ten in the regular
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  Speaker 1: season and then one in the postseason? Hell no, lose
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  Speaker 1: all those regular season games because the postseason where it
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  Speaker 1: matters the most. And I mean shout out to the Knicks,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought this was more of a game where
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  Speaker 1: the boss of Celtias.
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  Speaker 2: Just got so very complacent.
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  Speaker 1: I just there's there's times when you watch the Celtics
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  Speaker 1: and I'm saying this as a guy that truly does
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  Speaker 1: believe that this team is still the favorite to win
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  Speaker 1: a championship. So what I'm about to say, keep that
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  Speaker 1: in mind there are times in quarters and stretches where
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  Speaker 1: you watch them and you could not tell that this
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  Speaker 1: is a team that just won a championship last year
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  Speaker 1: or a team that is favored to win this year.
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  Speaker 1: For them to get to the point where they shoot
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  Speaker 1: and miss forty five threes is insane. And that's where like,
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  Speaker 1: if it's still the line if you're a boss inself
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  Speaker 1: just fan. We lost by three and we missed the
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  Speaker 1: most three pointers in NBA history in the postseason, Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, You don't expect to.
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  Speaker 2: Do that again, but it's just time again.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned Tatum earlier, where you get the switch that
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  Speaker 1: you want, you play so hard you spend twelve seconds
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  Speaker 1: trying to get this switch.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we do with it. Insane.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, we watched this together as what every time
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  Speaker 1: Jayler Brown took a three. Pierre, who's a Knicks fan,
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  Speaker 1: is like, yep, that's exactly what we want and it
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what they want as a team. But I
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  Speaker 1: do gotta give credit to Ja Lebron, who continues to
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  Speaker 1: be the clutchest player in the league. I gotta give
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  Speaker 1: credit to Ojidanobe, who had a couple of big shots
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. Give credit to Michel Bridges with two
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  Speaker 1: of the best defensive possessions of this game. And at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, it don't matter how you
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  Speaker 1: got there, you were up one ozho is Spike Lee
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  Speaker 1: the curse because Spike Lee wasn't at this game because
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  Speaker 1: he was at the goddamn met Gala. Maybe Spike Lee
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  Speaker 1: need to stay away and they can No, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I got so much respect and love for spike Lee.
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  Speaker 1: I do think if there's things that the Knicks can
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  Speaker 1: do if they want to continue to win in this series,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta find a way to get ca Anthony Towns
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  Speaker 1: more involved. There's just too many times when he's thirty
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  Speaker 1: feet away from the basket. I thought one thing that
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  Speaker 1: he did early in this game that was pretty interesting
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  Speaker 1: is that he was kind of camping down low waiting
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  Speaker 1: for a shot to go up, because it's like, you
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  Speaker 1: got a small defender on me, I trust myself. As
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  Speaker 1: an offensive rebound. He ended up with four offensive rebounds today. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: they ended up with a ton of hustle players between
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  Speaker 1: him and Josh Hart. But if you're the Celtis, you're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is not a great performance. We don't know the
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: hell's gonna go on for his zingis, but like we're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna miss that many shots in a row again.
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  Speaker 1: But also it's like, you gotta win three games, four
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  Speaker 1: games in this series. You gotta win four games in
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  Speaker 1: the next series in four more games. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: there has to be more to this team. Wasn't today,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't today, So that's it. I'm gonna take my ass
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  Speaker 1: home because I got to get up to shoot the
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  Speaker 1: other show in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thank y'all.