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The OKC Thunder Just Stole Game 4… · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: It's rare that I watch a basketball game and it
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  Speaker 1: leaves me speeches.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea what just happened in that game.
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  Speaker 1: The Indiana Pacers had the momentum, had the crowd, had
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  Speaker 1: the performances, had.
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  Speaker 2: Everything for three quarters, and they lost.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like at a loss, mostly because I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen for the rest of the series fall.
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  Speaker 2: We know the Pacers could still win, but for.
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  Speaker 1: Three one to be that much in reach and not
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  Speaker 1: to be able to grab it against this OKAC team,
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  Speaker 1: Man Man oh Man ok See, by the numbers, had
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  Speaker 1: no business winning this game. Ok Seed just hit three
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  Speaker 1: three pointers in an NBA Finals game in one. Right
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  Speaker 1: before I loaded up, found out that the last team
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  Speaker 1: to do that was was the Boston Celtics in eight,
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  Speaker 1: almost almost twenty years ago. I'm around a little bit
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  Speaker 1: almost twenty years ago. They had eleven assists as a team.
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  Speaker 1: They had eight assists going into the fourth and they
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  Speaker 1: won the fourth quarter thirty one to seventeen, So they
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  Speaker 1: had three. They finished with three assists in a fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter where they pull off a huge comeback.
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  Speaker 2: The Pacers all postseason long has been.
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  Speaker 1: The comeback kids is what they've done, and they've been
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  Speaker 1: amazing at it, and for once it was the other
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  Speaker 1: way around. This game was so much in the pacers
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  Speaker 1: favor going into the fourth quarter that about halftime I
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  Speaker 1: tweeted out, it's sga sick. Not only did he have
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  Speaker 1: like eleven points on eleven shots with zero zero free throws,
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  Speaker 1: zero ass he finished the goddamn game with zero six
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  Speaker 1: by the way, with zero re free throws, zero assists.
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  Speaker 1: I was even looking at the box. I was looking
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  Speaker 1: at the man of res.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking at the way he.
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  Speaker 1: Was playing the game of basketball. He was pretty passive.
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  Speaker 1: There's a few times he got off the ball to
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  Speaker 1: dub and waved his hand to say.
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  Speaker 2: Like, no, this is your time to shy. That's just
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  Speaker 2: not normal.
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  Speaker 1: A few turnovers by ok see that led to some breakaways,
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  Speaker 1: and Share was the last two down court.
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  Speaker 2: So on my mind, this is this flu game.
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  Speaker 1: Literally we know they I mean they mentioned on the
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  Speaker 1: broadcast at gazillion times talking about them trying to trying to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, change up his pattern so he's not as
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  Speaker 1: tired down to stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Damned ad that work.
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  Speaker 1: But I genuinely is watching Shay and again as somebody's
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  Speaker 1: watched a ton of Shay over the last however many years.
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  Speaker 1: This was an uncharacter or another uncharacteristic performance. Three quarters into
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  Speaker 1: this game, and again I can't give enough credit to
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  Speaker 1: like mim Harden's defense on him all series long has
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  Speaker 1: been has been incredible. But then we get to the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and I praised the the Indiana Pacers for
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  Speaker 1: one thing that they have done differently than so many
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  Speaker 1: other teams across basketball when it comes down to clutch games.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they were so far in these and they
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  Speaker 1: have been the clutch team. I think they were nine
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  Speaker 1: to one going into today's game. They have been the
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  Speaker 1: clutch team. And one of the reasons for that is
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  Speaker 1: a they got some pretty good closes and they generate
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  Speaker 1: the looks usually. I thought in this game they look
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  Speaker 1: like all the other twenty nine teams when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to close games. Okay, see did something different in the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of minutes. This game was so percuted to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't know what to do, and I rewind.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I gotta rewatch these last five minutes in
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  Speaker 1: reels like I gotta go back, I gotta go back,
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  Speaker 1: and Okay, see decided to pretty much switch everything, and
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  Speaker 1: that just changed the brain chemistry of what the Pacers
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  Speaker 1: normally do. A team that's normally swing, swing, pass, dribble penetration,
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  Speaker 1: passed one more to open shots.
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  Speaker 2: Resulted the ioball.
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  Speaker 1: Halliburn gets to switch on Shag gives Alexander we gonna
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  Speaker 1: cook him, step back three, Noe shake gets a block,
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  Speaker 1: Halliburn gets to switch on to chet Holgreen and chet
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  Speaker 1: Holgren I gotta give you your respect that these two possessions,
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  Speaker 1: but like calls Tyre's Halliburton to like pretty much airball
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  Speaker 1: two threes. Now, there was a time where Halle got
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  Speaker 1: to switch on to Shan and a lands to an
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  Speaker 1: open layup. But for the most part it seemed like okay,
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  Speaker 1: see salty switches and was like, we gotta take advantage here.
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  Speaker 1: But it hasn't been the way they played basketball all
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  Speaker 1: series long. So it was just different to see them
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  Speaker 1: look like every other team, but that just hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: their identity. I was so all of my notes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: preparing to talk about this great defensive performance from the
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  Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers in my notes last year, I was ready.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, the Indiana pays the court to clean and
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  Speaker 1: the glass were the twenty fourth ranked defense. This team
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  Speaker 1: to go out there and go get a Rudy Gobert
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  Speaker 1: or go out there and go get nobody elite to back.
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  Speaker 1: This is the same Rice from last year. They just
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  Speaker 1: turned it off. Even early into the season. They weren't
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  Speaker 1: a great defensive team, and then Nee Smith and themhard
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  Speaker 1: came back and their injuries, and then they were a
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  Speaker 1: good defensive team.
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  Speaker 2: So I was completely prepared to come in here and
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  Speaker 2: talk about how they locked up shape again.
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  Speaker 1: Then the fourth quarter comes around and the OKC Thunder offense.
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  Speaker 1: I pretty much hated forty four minutes of the offense
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  Speaker 1: that they gave us today. It's just I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: you end the game with eleven assists, I can't call
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  Speaker 1: it a beautiful basketball game. I don't care, I don't
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  Speaker 1: care the results. I can't call it a beautiful basketball game.
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  Speaker 1: But in the last couple of minutes they decided to
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  Speaker 1: do something a little bit different. All series long, and
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  Speaker 1: I guess the entire day of this pace is run.
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  Speaker 1: Opposing teams have tried their very best to attack Halliburn.
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  Speaker 1: He's the worst defensive player on the court for the
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  Speaker 1: Indiana pacers, Nimhr Nie Smith have been phenomenal defensively. Pascal
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  Speaker 1: si Yakam gave you a master class at least for
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  Speaker 1: the first couple of quarters and then then touched the
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  Speaker 1: ball down the stretch. Mouse Turner good defender as well.
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  Speaker 1: So like we're gonna attack Halliberd, he's the weakest link.
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  Speaker 1: But in the last three minutes when we saw Shay
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  Speaker 1: turn into what he scored fourteen points in the last
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  Speaker 1: three to four minutes of this game, which is again like,
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  Speaker 1: I know people are gonna talk about some other stuff
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  Speaker 1: revolving around his game, but like for what it was worth,
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous shot making, some of the best shot making you
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  Speaker 1: ever see.
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  Speaker 2: But I know the conversation's gonna be different.
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  Speaker 1: Last couple of minutes of this game, instead of trying
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  Speaker 1: to go get Halliburn, they went out for Nie Smith.
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  Speaker 1: And because Nie Smith and Nim Hart are such good
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  Speaker 1: defenders in their own right different ways, right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Nie Smith is a bigger defender, willing to get a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more contact. Nim Harder winds you down by
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  Speaker 1: guard you ninety four feet and again on Shaye, He's
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  Speaker 1: been amazing so far.
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  Speaker 2: But because they are such good defenders pacers, like we
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  Speaker 2: just switched those. Nie Smith can hold his own. He couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't. The difference between Nie Smith and nim Hard.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of difference. These are different players,
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  Speaker 1: and again they're both great defensive players. But the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that is to differentiate as far as like a
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  Speaker 1: guarding a Shay thing is Nie Smith tends to be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more out of control defensively than the Nimhr,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit less discipline on that side of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: And that's part of a superpower, right. Nobody fights over screens,
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  Speaker 1: are through screens better than Nie Smith. If you need
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  Speaker 1: a level of I don't give a fuck defensively in
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  Speaker 1: order to fight that well over scre pints. But that
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  Speaker 1: mindset doesn't work against the say gives Alexander, So Shay
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  Speaker 1: get him into like the the elbow slash, you know,
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  Speaker 1: free throw line area and the shot making, the decision
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  Speaker 1: making in that aspect, as far as like recognizing where
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  Speaker 1: Nie Smith is beat and taking advantage of that with
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  Speaker 1: supreme the baseline jump shot, supreme shot making.
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  Speaker 2: They their fits tangled up, both of them fall.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he ain't get a little bit armed from Shay
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  Speaker 1: that ain't none out of the ordinary, doll the shot
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  Speaker 1: making they're insane. Shae hit one three point of getting
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  Speaker 1: the team on, he hit three, So yeah, he hit one,
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  Speaker 1: and the one three point of that he hit is
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  Speaker 1: just such a big three. He ended with thirty five
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  Speaker 1: to three and three steel zero sets. A zero sis
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  Speaker 1: thirty five point game is going to be crazy throughout history.
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  Speaker 1: And he looked bad for three quarters and then he
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  Speaker 1: comes in and has an MVP moment. And again, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what happens for the rest of the series.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what happens for the rest of the sea,
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  Speaker 1: but I can't help but to think that if OKAC
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  Speaker 1: goes on to win this series, you're gonna look back
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  Speaker 1: on Game four and be like, damn, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: thought that when OKAC went on their little run, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go.
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  Speaker 2: Back and rewatch it. But like there was a time there.
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  Speaker 1: Halliburn's on the bench just a little bit longer than
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  Speaker 1: I probably would have would have done it.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I'm not ric carlin Rick car Lyisle is.
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  Speaker 1: A bazillion times more smart than I am when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to basketball. He's he's you know, done the right
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  Speaker 1: thing ninety nine percent of the time. So who am
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  Speaker 1: I to talk about that one miss rotation? But for
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  Speaker 1: Obi Topping to give you that seventeen and it was
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  Speaker 1: allowed seventeen, it was an emphatic seventeen. It sucks to
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  Speaker 1: lose his game, man, it really does. On OKC side,
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  Speaker 1: I got a text message from my boy Mike. Let
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  Speaker 1: me read you what this text message said. This is
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  Speaker 1: during the game, Mike sends a text message that says.
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  Speaker 2: Where where is it? A? Where's it?
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  Speaker 1: That?
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  Speaker 2: Where's it at?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, dudes, I'll say, dudes, ain't get a first
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  Speaker 1: round pick for that man?
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  Speaker 2: You know that to say them shut up? I should
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  Speaker 2: have hit him with the sow. The sow is better
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  Speaker 2: than shut up. He said he worked at least two there,
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  Speaker 2: said he planned out of his mind.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know when when people hit you lower,
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  Speaker 1: it hit you with a spot that you very you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're very self conscious about it, something that you think
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  Speaker 1: about all the time.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta hit them lower. So what I say to Mike,
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  Speaker 2: then y'all tray zubots for Michael Scolar got.
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  Speaker 1: Him, got him, you know what I'm saying, got him.
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  Speaker 1: But as Grusso was incredible today, talk about keeping the
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  Speaker 1: team aflow out of nowhere. I mean just this whole
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  Speaker 1: serious series. He's been pretty good, but like twenty points,
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  Speaker 1: five steals, a block, he got a couple and ones
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  Speaker 1: in this one Dub, I guess I could give. He
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  Speaker 1: ended with twenty seven some of the shots and Dub
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  Speaker 1: ended up taking. I know he's a mid range guy.
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  Speaker 1: That I mean, that's what that's the identity of these
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  Speaker 1: their top two dudes. They get to the bit rains
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  Speaker 1: they create.
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  Speaker 2: From that spot.
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  Speaker 1: But I just think that they have so and he
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  Speaker 1: specifically has so many more opportunities to take three pointers,
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  Speaker 1: and they just he opts not to. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: think about the game against is that the Denver Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: Game seven, whichever game it was, there was a game
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  Speaker 1: where he just went bananas from three and it was
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  Speaker 1: just all catch and shoot open opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: It's like some of those shots are still there.
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  Speaker 1: Gets his space team and for whatever reason, Bro just
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  Speaker 1: don't want to do. He right to get downhill, which
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  Speaker 1: I mean getting down hill has worked at least a
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  Speaker 1: little bit for him. He right to get downhill, stop
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  Speaker 1: and turn around and take the minute I was surprised
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  Speaker 1: to see as much Wiggins as I did. Wiggins had
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  Speaker 1: a really bad stretch in the first half, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, in my notes, I wrote no more Wigs
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  Speaker 1: and he checked into the third court.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, what the ell is about?
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  Speaker 1: The only thing I could say is like I wanted
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  Speaker 1: them to get more Pascal si I can touch this
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  Speaker 1: down to stretch. He was great today. I thought that
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  Speaker 1: he did an amazing job getting switches. He got Shay
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  Speaker 1: gives Alexander or one of the first possessions of the game.
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  Speaker 1: He got case and watas. A few times he got
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  Speaker 1: Russo when he had that opportunity to do that, they
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  Speaker 1: were good. The difference is like there was a time
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  Speaker 1: where Obi Topping had the small defense on and he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to get a post touch. Obi Topping don't have
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  Speaker 1: the same level of give me that ball as Pascal siakim,
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  Speaker 1: so they tried to throw it in Obi Topping and
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  Speaker 1: ended up being a turnoff, Like, no, how about we
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  Speaker 1: just keep those posts touches to Pascal Siaka, please please
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  Speaker 1: please please, yeah, man, some of these notes is like
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  Speaker 1: five twenty in the first quarter, uh seven seconds left
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  Speaker 1: on the shot clock before Indiana oh no, this is
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  Speaker 1: the defense about Okay, see, before Indiana even came close
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  Speaker 1: to the three point line that ended in the turnover.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like some of the small thing.
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  Speaker 1: This is a game of small margins, and the Pacers
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  Speaker 1: feel like they won majority of them. They won ninety
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  Speaker 1: six percent of them were putting into man eleven three
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  Speaker 1: pointers to three.
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  Speaker 2: Let me do some mathematics here. That is.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one twenty one point difference, twenty four point difference
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  Speaker 1: in three pointers made, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Walk out of there with a win. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: conversations going to be about the officiating. Trust. I hated
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  Speaker 2: the officiating tonight too.
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  Speaker 1: I made a tweet It's like I can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: see the thirty minute highlight reel of Scott Foster today
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  Speaker 1: because goddamn, did we see him a lot. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of free throws in general in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty three from the Pacers, thirty eight from the Thunder.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was a well officiated game. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not normally got to talks about officiating, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: think it was a well officiated game either way. It
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  Speaker 1: was a great game for what it was worth, but
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  Speaker 1: because of the officiating. It dumps an A minus game
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  Speaker 1: to maybe a game to like an eight minus game,
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  Speaker 1: because I thought it was pretty atrocious. And I think
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  Speaker 1: part of the problem is they changed the level of
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  Speaker 1: physicality that you were allowed to play on the game
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  Speaker 1: the game basis, so sometimes that play right there is
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  Speaker 1: a foul, but other times it's not. So me as
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  Speaker 1: a player, do I play it as if it's a
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  Speaker 1: foul or so I con tell you to be aggressive here?
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  Speaker 1: And it just became too much. We should not be
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  Speaker 1: hearing Scott Foster's voice four times in the basketball game person.
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  Speaker 1: That's my opinion. We get until Monday, we got the
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  Speaker 1: whole weekend with no NBA hoop, so.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of trash.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that the timing and schedule of it probably
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  Speaker 1: impacted the shee lease a little bit. And again Shay
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  Speaker 1: scored so much in the fourth court as it doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 1: but like this was the first time when we had
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  Speaker 1: a game just one day break in between. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we had begetting the two game breaks between Game one
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  Speaker 1: and Game two and game two in game three, but
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  Speaker 1: three and four only gave us one day, and now
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  Speaker 1: they get another two day. They go back to Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City and yeah, they just took It's a tight series,
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  Speaker 1: but because of home court advantage, they just took control
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  Speaker 1: of the series. And we'll see how the Pacers react.
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  Speaker 1: What a series has been. This has been the great series.