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Timberwolves Beat Nuggets in Double OT Instant Classic | NBA on TNT Postgame · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Barger, Vince Carter, Shaquille O'Neill. Wow, we're gonna pick this
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  Speaker 1: one up at halftime. I think that's just a smarter
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  Speaker 1: thing to do, because anything that happened before is really
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  Speaker 1: not that interesting. Jamal Murray out Nasri Dante DiVincenzo said,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Pick it up with seven minutes left, all right, starts
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  Speaker 2: getting juicy Man.
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  Speaker 3: Jokic.
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  Speaker 1: Now, so it's one O six, one oh one, Denver five.
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  Speaker 1: Randall bodying himself down low.
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  Speaker 3: Dance, got hot.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is the point where I said I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to see a drive instead of shooting, and he
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  Speaker 2: got hot hot.
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  Speaker 1: As Ant said he had ten points heading into the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. He finished with thirty four, twelve.
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  Speaker 3: To two Minnesota Walla. Then Jokic said, exist get out
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  Speaker 3: the way.
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  Speaker 1: Ridiculous, little frint thrust all right, one twelve one twelve,
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  Speaker 1: three seconds left, final chance. Aunt kept getting double teamed.
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  Speaker 1: So Randall shoots that three, can't get it the fall.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to overtime and overtime. This year Denver has
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  Speaker 1: been five to ohero Minnesota, and.
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  Speaker 3: This game took two. Snatched it, joy Yo Kich.
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  Speaker 1: HiT's a little dream shake right there. No go bear
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  Speaker 1: he found out earlier. Then Aunt man jabs dead walk
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  Speaker 1: with me. So at this point they're up by six
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  Speaker 1: with two minutes left.
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  Speaker 3: And then Denver.
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  Speaker 2: Too eight, too much resistance man.
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  Speaker 1: That tied his career high for your kitchen fifty six
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  Speaker 1: t wolves two seconds left. McDaniels can't get it the fall.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to double overtime, just the third double overtime
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  Speaker 1: game this season in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: He starts going to work. I like the fact that
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  Speaker 3: Denver every time down they was looking for the m.
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  Speaker 1: V P one thirty four to one thirty three. Aunt
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  Speaker 1: drives now.
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  Speaker 3: And the difference.
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  Speaker 2: He gets the ball and gets it to a point
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  Speaker 2: guard who knows to get his start of the ball back.
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  Speaker 1: There were eight lead changes in the second overtime.
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  Speaker 4: Big three who in both overtimes, leaving yourself veron Denver
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  Speaker 4: up by two, Now Denver up by one.
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  Speaker 3: Where's he going? No dump that rush up three?
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  Speaker 4: You only make any same You.
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  Speaker 3: Dunk that Russ regardless he missed.
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  Speaker 1: So Ann Edwards takes it to the lane, kicks it
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  Speaker 1: out and unthinkably Russ Westbrook, who missed the layup on
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  Speaker 1: the other end, fouls wither point one seconds the left arm,
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  Speaker 1: left arm on the chest of the keel Alexander Walker
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  Speaker 1: sends him to the free throw member. Jokismissed a key
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  Speaker 1: three throw late, so it only had to hit two
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  Speaker 1: to win, not three. That first one, that first three
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  Speaker 1: throw and as she said, that first one was the key.
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  Speaker 4: First one always sets the tone. And then the second
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  Speaker 4: one's easy. Third one missed on purpose. Eight pant was
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  Speaker 4: hyph Wow to get that win. Amazing wins.
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  Speaker 1: This was truly an all timer, the second sixty point
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  Speaker 1: game of the year. Crazily enough, it was that both
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  Speaker 1: of them against the Minnesota Timberwolves that in both instances
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  Speaker 1: the Aaron Fox and Jokic Minnesota wins the game a
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  Speaker 1: career high sixty one for Jokic. That is the most
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  Speaker 1: point scored in any game by any player this season.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon's dropped thirty and you wouldn't even realize that
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  Speaker 1: it happened. This game was so nuts.
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  Speaker 3: It's also just the.
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  Speaker 1: Third sixty point triple double in the history of the NBA.
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  Speaker 4: Forget this, sixty one in fifty two minutes, Jokics played
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  Speaker 4: fifty two minutes. Wow, tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Here are the other instances of it, Luka dropped sixty
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  Speaker 1: to twenty one and ten hard in sixty ten to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: The first instance, back in twenty eighteen, took sixty one
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  Speaker 1: points for Nikola Jokic in this game, Wow, why don't
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: we start with that play at the I want to
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  Speaker 1: start with the Russell Westbrook pay shack is team. Don't
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  Speaker 1: it go up by three? Cannas is dribble it out?
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  Speaker 1: Waiste the clock. Let's take me through that place. So
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  Speaker 1: you you wanted him to back off.
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  Speaker 4: There, Well, I think you're up by one right here,
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  Speaker 4: so you take it. You dribble it out seconds because
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  Speaker 4: right here, if you get the score, you're.
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  Speaker 1: Only up three with ten seconds, and with ten.
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  Speaker 4: Seconds you dribble it out as quick as he.
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  Speaker 3: Is and you buck them only get to stop or
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  Speaker 3: foul and make them go to the line and shoot two.
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  Speaker 3: You still loved by one.
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  Speaker 1: If they hit it, I see Cannas is different.
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  Speaker 2: Or you missed the shot and they get the offensive rebound,
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  Speaker 2: spray it out for three. I mean a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things that can happen. So you got to dunk got
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  Speaker 2: Russ I mean either regardless, you got to make that
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to make it. If you commit to it,
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  Speaker 2: you got to make.
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  Speaker 3: The lay up.
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  Speaker 1: And then you go down the other end and commit
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  Speaker 1: the foul to just added insult to injury. And wow,
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  Speaker 1: what a performance there after the third quarter, but Jokis
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  Speaker 1: every tied. They needed a basket, he made the big play.
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  Speaker 1: What a performance, one of the best we've seen all season.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what superstars doing. You know. I alluded to
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  Speaker 3: this earlier late there in the game, especially in the
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  Speaker 3: third second overtime. His team had disciplined enough not to
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  Speaker 3: take Elebia's shots. We're gonna go to our guy every
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  Speaker 3: time and let him make him play and either do
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  Speaker 3: this right here or he get double and you know,
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  Speaker 3: kick it off to Aaron Gordon. Aaron Gordon had a
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  Speaker 3: fabulous game, but I read it love Denver's discipline of
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  Speaker 3: you know, getting the ball to the guy.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I was yelling on the other end.
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  Speaker 2: They double and he gets off the ball, look for
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  Speaker 2: it to get your superstar back the ball. Let him
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  Speaker 2: be the guy to get in the paint, make place.
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  Speaker 2: Then the difference was ball gets to Mike Conley. Here's
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  Speaker 2: a point guard who's been around, who understands no I
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  Speaker 2: can get the guy, get my best player the ball back,
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  Speaker 2: he gets in and he scores, and it's the difference,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what helped them propel them to win.
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  Speaker 4: I'm surprised of his usage because you see someone like that,
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  Speaker 4: usually there's a couple possessions when you're being fed, but
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  Speaker 4: Jokic having to expend that much energy on every single
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  Speaker 4: possession the ball came back to him. And this isn't
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  Speaker 4: such where he's operating out of the mid post and
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  Speaker 4: just picking people apart. He's starting from the three point line,
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  Speaker 4: they're out letting to him. He's giving it up getting
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  Speaker 4: it back. I mean the amount of energy that he expended.
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  Speaker 4: But then on the other end, Anthony Edwards, the reason
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  Speaker 4: why Denver was doubling was because last year in the
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  Speaker 4: playoffs a lot of people questioned his passing ability. Right,
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  Speaker 4: if you pick the ball out of and his decision
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  Speaker 4: making you get the ball out of ant man's hands
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  Speaker 4: and you trust that he's probably not going to get
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  Speaker 4: it back. But for him to come through knock down
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  Speaker 4: some threes that I think loosened up the defense. Where
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  Speaker 4: I would like him to do is to attack with speed.
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  Speaker 4: I think the reason why they inbounded the ball on
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  Speaker 4: the first ot court like the full length was for
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  Speaker 4: him to attack, and he played into the hands of
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  Speaker 4: the Nuggets. But he adjusted, learned, trusted his teammates. I
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  Speaker 4: think this was a great win for the.
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  Speaker 1: T Wolves to what Aunt was giving credit to Nikile
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  Speaker 1: Alexander Walker twenty six seven a match for Nikil Alexander
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  Speaker 1: Walker in plus minus. He was a plus fourteen better
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  Speaker 1: than any other starter on that roster with five threes.
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  Speaker 1: The other stat that jumps out twenty one offensive rebounds
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  Speaker 1: for Minnesota to just eight by Denver. Minnesota shot one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eleven attempts tonight.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they did a great job, especially when Denver
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  Speaker 3: came out and got to the sixteen point lead. They
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  Speaker 3: just kept their composure, kept playing, I think, and did
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  Speaker 3: a great job of pacing itself. He really didn't have
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  Speaker 3: a good first time, but at third in the fourth
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  Speaker 3: quarter and you know both those over times he played
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  Speaker 3: really smart. Man.
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  Speaker 1: So that is six wins in a row for Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: over the Denver Nuggets. They seem to have that and Shack.
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  Speaker 3: How about this.
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  Speaker 1: Nicola Jokicic now tied with Shaq in fifty point games
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  Speaker 1: all time.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have a lot of fifty point games. I
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  Speaker 3: think you had three. Oh okayed election. Joker tied