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The Atlanta Hawks Are Making The Knicks Look Silly… · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Three games, three bangers. If you ask me, see sometimes
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Speaker 1: I'll be saying that that we got bigger games that
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Speaker 1: people like Kenny. How could it be a banger when
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Speaker 1: it was a twenty four point game? And I won't
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Speaker 1: remind you the way I look at a banger don't
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Speaker 1: have to be about the final score. I've seen banger
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Speaker 1: games or the final score was a three point difference,
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Speaker 1: and that game sucked for me. A banker can be
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Speaker 1: a close game, but it could be up individual performance.
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Speaker 1: It could be a crowd, it could be an individual moment.
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Speaker 1: They could make a game of banger. And I think
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Speaker 1: tonight three bankers. The Atlanta Hawks are up two to
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Speaker 1: one on the New York Knicks banger. The Minnesota Timbos
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Speaker 1: just ran the Differ Nuggets out the gym banger and
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Speaker 1: it's ryder Raptors keep their seasonal lie because you know,
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Speaker 1: if you go down.
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Speaker 2: On three, it's kgeez banger.
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Speaker 1: I want to start off with the Hawks, and because
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Speaker 1: that is I think the most interesting. They have won
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Speaker 1: their two games, but I combine two points and in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs it doesn't matter. And I just know that
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Speaker 1: like Knicks fans, hearts are sunk because I've been in
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Speaker 1: this position before. Here's my little Bulls and Ado. When
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Speaker 1: the Bulls were with the Deer Rose, Joe, keep No
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Speaker 1: and luall dangyears, we were going against the Miami Heat
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Speaker 1: that had Bron and Wade and Bosh and one of
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Speaker 1: those series we played against each other. The final score
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Speaker 1: at the end of the series, even though we ended
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Speaker 1: up losing the series, we had more points than them.
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Speaker 3: So the games that they won were by this small margin.
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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day and the playoff series,
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Speaker 1: the only number that matters is the win number, and
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Speaker 1: the Hawks got two to that one.
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Speaker 3: You know, they took care busness right. When you're the role.
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Speaker 1: Team in the playoff series, you want to go on
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Speaker 1: the road and steal one of those games. I would
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Speaker 1: say they did that, you know. I think the Knicks
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Speaker 1: were up by fourteen points at one point in that
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter Game two, and they stole that game. This one,
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Speaker 1: I don't think they stole. I think this was their game,
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Speaker 1: and the Knicks head of the run down it, but
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Speaker 1: I think this was their game. And the whole thing
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Speaker 1: about the playoffs is about adjustments and trying to create
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Speaker 1: advantages and try to get the opposing team to play
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Speaker 1: your way. I thought the Atlanta Hawks, and this one
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Speaker 1: very early on. If you just watched that first quarter,
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Speaker 1: which I missed live, so I think we watch it
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Speaker 1: at halftime. They made the New York Knicks play their
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Speaker 1: style of ball off makes off missus. They were running
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Speaker 1: in transition. I know, the fast break totals don't tell you,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of semi transition was happened in that
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Speaker 1: first quarter when they go on this big run to
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Speaker 1: open up the game, you know. So I think that's
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Speaker 1: that's pretty interesting something that was brought to our attention
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Speaker 1: from our producer, Christian. He told Pierre, and Pierre told us,
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Speaker 1: and I just think it's hilarious that when Trey Young
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Speaker 1: gets traded to the Washington Wizards, the Atlanta Hawks acquire
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Speaker 1: Season McCullum and stuff, right, but they didn't acquire Teach McCullum,
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Speaker 1: thinking that CJ was gonna hold them down for a
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Speaker 1: playoff run. You know, they may have had them back
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Speaker 1: in their mind that, yeah, CJ's obviously a veteran, he's
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Speaker 1: a good ball player, but like, at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, we're probably not gonna resign CG. McCallum. Now
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Speaker 1: they're probably like, yo, CJ's turned himself to an Atlanta legend,
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Speaker 1: so he's probably's gonna get resigned. So like a couple
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, we were talking about offseason signs and I
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Speaker 1: was like, yes, CJ is gonna be a free agent.
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Speaker 1: Miss some teams out there that could use some creation
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Speaker 1: how much what he calls if the Detroit Pistons needed
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Speaker 1: a secondary creative, which they do, so we didn't even
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Speaker 1: think about the fact that season McCallum might just end
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Speaker 1: up being Atlanta. It is so interesting of a series, man,
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Speaker 1: And I'm starting to get to the point now. You know,
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Speaker 1: as they say, as you get older, you're getting wiser,
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Speaker 1: And I definitely feel like I got a couple of
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Speaker 1: great hairs under this hat that I don't want to show.
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Speaker 1: A matter of fact, let me show. I need to
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Speaker 1: just do a better job of accepting a team for
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Speaker 1: who they show me to be. The entire eighty two
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Speaker 1: game season, here's the Knicks. Here go four game win streak. Ooh,
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Speaker 1: here goes a five game loser strenk. Ooh, here goes
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Speaker 1: a three game win streak, but maybe not convincing wins,
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Speaker 1: but wins and wins at the end of the it
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Speaker 1: just been too much.
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Speaker 3: After this game, Mike Brown said, this is from James L.
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Speaker 1: Everson. Third shout out to James. He said, ask Mike
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Speaker 1: Brown about the struggles of finding guys off the bench
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Speaker 1: to make an impact after having a solid bench all
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Speaker 1: during the regular season. It's my job. He said. He
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Speaker 1: had been searching tonight to find a combination that worked
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Speaker 1: with Deuce. Now, now do you want to say fo
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Speaker 1: I say my next sentence. Finding combinations in the playoffs
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Speaker 1: is so important for coaches, right, Hell, we're gonna get
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Speaker 1: to that. That Toronto Raptors game, Jamison Battle was a
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Speaker 1: guy that did not play and dark Oreokovitch strew him
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Speaker 1: in the game. He did not miss a shot, right,
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Speaker 1: So it's always gonna be about trying to find when
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Speaker 1: and where to play players. But the reason I'm bringing
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Speaker 1: this up is because this has been going on all
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Speaker 1: season long for Mike Brown. Where ten games before the
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Speaker 1: season ended, even kar Anthony Towns was saying that I
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Speaker 1: still don't understand my role. And we're watching the playoffs
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Speaker 1: like unfold and you hear all of I'm watching these
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Speaker 1: games and I'm hearing these clothes from Carnthony Towns that
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Speaker 1: he said five weeks ago, and they're all true. We
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Speaker 1: have Karnthony Towns on our team, right, who I think
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Speaker 1: through the first three games of the series has been
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Speaker 1: pretty good, right, maybe not elite, but pretty good. But
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Speaker 1: how are we not figuring out a way to leverage
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Speaker 1: one of the best offensive bigs.
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Speaker 3: In the game. Part of it is Cat's fault right there.
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Speaker 1: There was times down the stretch where they even called
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Speaker 1: it out on the broadcast that he's been guarded by
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Speaker 1: donthy Mingoh we gona talk about second guarded by Jonathan
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Speaker 1: Kaminga and he's just standing on the like not even
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Speaker 1: making himself an option to get a pass on the block.
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Speaker 1: So like, part of it is him, but I was
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Speaker 1: so part of it's like, how do we get the
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Speaker 1: ball into his brother sayings happened all the game too
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Speaker 1: as well as much as a clutch player here, Jaylen
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Speaker 1: Brunton is there are times when he's pounding the goddamn
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Speaker 1: air out of the ball to the detriment of the team.
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Speaker 1: But Mike Brown has not figured out a way to
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Speaker 1: maximize one of the best. So why are we paying
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Speaker 1: a fifty two million dollar player if we're not using them,
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Speaker 1: if he's a fifty two million dollar player, And don't
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Speaker 1: even get me started about about the other guy that
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Speaker 1: they've traded these many picks four and gave one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars two because the brother played twenty
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Speaker 1: minutes and got benched down the stretch from Miles McBride,
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Speaker 1: because Miles McBride was given some level of juice. The
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Speaker 1: lineup that had Males McBride, Jalen Brunton, Canthony Towns, Josh
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Speaker 1: Hard and O Johnanoby was like a plus twenty four
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Speaker 1: a rare so like, yeah, that lineup was working. But
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Speaker 1: Michel Bridges in this situation should be a guy that
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Speaker 1: is a guy you can play, and god forbid they
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Speaker 1: lose this series doll because I'm already getting five, like
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Speaker 1: the just the tweets that say five first, and knowing
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Speaker 1: that that Greek fella from that's playing not playing in Milwaukee,
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Speaker 1: but that's in Milwaukee right now, that Greek fella might
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Speaker 1: be available, and you already gave up your asset tool
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Speaker 1: to get a guy that can't close out a playoff.
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Speaker 3: Game for you, who.
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Speaker 1: Mike Brown? They got rid of Toms debitdough for you,
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Speaker 1: this cannot be it. They lose in the first round here,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be some real repercussions for a lot of
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Speaker 1: different people. You know, how how fast can a window close?
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Speaker 1: If you if you can't even get out of the
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Speaker 1: playoffs to a team that I woulna use the word thrown.
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Speaker 3: Together but traded a franchise player two and a half
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Speaker 3: months to go. You're gonna lose to that team.
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Speaker 1: And that's not to this like the minute at the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks is they're a damn good team. They have
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Speaker 1: been a damn good team for like thirty five games now.
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Speaker 1: But you're gonna lose to that team. Let's get to
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Speaker 1: johnathin Amega man, because my goodness was johnath camegan all
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Speaker 1: over the place the last play of the game where
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Speaker 1: you know they draw up and I think Mike Brown
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Speaker 1: this post game and if you also said that that's
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Speaker 1: what they wanted. They wanted to get on their right
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Speaker 1: side of the court with Jayalen Brunt's being guarded by
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Speaker 1: by Nika Congo. They got that and they still turned
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Speaker 1: the all over. But Johnathankmeninga says that they send a
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Speaker 1: late double with Johnathan Kamena. He's there to help force
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Speaker 1: the turnover, but he also turned into flash going down
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Speaker 1: that court to get that loose ball to close out
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Speaker 1: this game. An amazing performance for mister Kaminga man. And
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Speaker 1: there's so many times where you watch him playing they're like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I understand why so many people are in love with him,
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Speaker 1: and the other times like I understand while Steve.
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Speaker 3: curR hated him.
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Speaker 1: This is one of those amazing games. And I don't
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Speaker 1: remember if it was this game one or Game two
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Speaker 1: where it was where like Dyson Daniels, I don't use
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Speaker 1: word bench, but Dyson Daves had lost his minutes now
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Speaker 1: in the stretch of Johnathan Kaminga. There's times that these
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Speaker 1: guys are playing together and it just in my mind
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Speaker 1: I think about the lack of spacing and be like,
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Speaker 1: how are.
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Speaker 3: They making it work?
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Speaker 1: And then the real time they are making it work,
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Speaker 1: which is such a blast. Where a guy like Dyson Daniels,
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Speaker 1: who played relatively well if you look past some of
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Speaker 1: the stupid turnovers he got we got to the basket
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Speaker 1: and try to throw a wrap around pass to nobody,
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Speaker 1: played relatively well and the defensive impact from him and
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Speaker 1: like some of the non shooting elite defenders and it's
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Speaker 1: like that are archetype. Felt like it was dying right.
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Speaker 1: And obviously these guys are more dynamic than a Tony
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Speaker 1: Allen was back in the day. But like between him
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Speaker 1: and the Star Thompson, you're watching him in the postseason
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Speaker 1: that when they're on the court, their team is just
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Speaker 1: stellar defensively and when they're the offense is not hurting
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Speaker 1: two too much. Don't look don't look at game number
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Speaker 1: one well sar Thompson events stats when it comes to
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Speaker 1: the office. But it's just like five years ago, they
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Speaker 1: would have said a guy like Dyson Day's literally literally
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Speaker 1: couldn't play in the playoffs because it was all five
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Speaker 1: OUTU you had to be a spacer. And the New
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Speaker 1: York Knicks don't have a defensive guy where they could
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Speaker 1: kind of just put on diceon days because they have
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Speaker 1: to put Jalen Brunton on him because we have to
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Speaker 1: try to hide JB.
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Speaker 3: And boy did they do a poor John at that.
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Speaker 1: I think it was God damn it. I want to
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Speaker 1: give credit where this due.
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Speaker 2: Oh damn it.
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Speaker 1: It was a podcast I was listening to recently where
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Speaker 1: they were basically talking about when do we get to
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Speaker 1: the point where we stopped just straight up conceding the switch.
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Speaker 1: You know, if you have a guy like Jaylen Brunson, like,
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Speaker 1: there's got to be times where Jalen Brunton can fight
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Speaker 1: through it and or I'm sorry whoever, the primary defenders
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Speaker 1: can fight through it so they don't get the Jaylen
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Speaker 1: Brunton switch where c McCollum is not cooking them on
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Speaker 1: the other side. You know, he was cooking season McCullum two.
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Speaker 1: But I just wish there was more fight from there.
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Speaker 1: I thought that even though Josh Hard had two points,
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Speaker 1: he laid a lot on the floor down there. The
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Speaker 1: Knicks have to figure out they're down to stretch offense
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Speaker 1: because it was futured again, and they have to figure
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Speaker 1: out a way to use Karnth in the towns effectively,
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Speaker 1: where like he killing the glass, that's one thing kat
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Speaker 1: gonna do. But he is one of the best offensive
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Speaker 1: bigs in all of basketball. And I think this is
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Speaker 1: back to back fourth quarters. I gotta look at Game
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Speaker 1: two box score. I think this might be back to
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Speaker 1: back fourth quarters where he didn't score in the fourth.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking this up real quick. Gay yeah, oh for
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Speaker 1: two in Game two and his eight minutes and then
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Speaker 1: oh for two in this game in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: That's unacceptable from him, from Brown, from Brunton, and so on.
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Speaker 1: So shout out to Atlanta, man. I don't want to.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to. You know, you know, the series
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Speaker 1: has to be completed in all but I remember we
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Speaker 1: talked about that study from like a decade ago that
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Speaker 1: said the way a team start the season like record wise,
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Speaker 1: in advanced stats wise is more of better indication to
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Speaker 1: how they will perform in the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if that's the case anymore.
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Speaker 1: If Atlanta can win this series, and of course Indiana
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Speaker 1: did what they did last season where they were really
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Speaker 1: hot from January first to the playoffs, and Atlanta was
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Speaker 1: really hot from February fifteenth to the playoffs, there has
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Speaker 1: to be a new study to see if that is
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Speaker 1: the case. Right, being hot going into the playoffs actually
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Speaker 1: matters versus the opposite. You know, a team that was
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Speaker 1: hot to end the season, but it's getting smacked around
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 3: The Denver Nuggets got smacked around like crazy, and.
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Speaker 1: I can see Denver fans saying, hey, ag not being
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Speaker 1: out there hurts, and it does. Peyton Watson Steell hasn't
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Speaker 1: been able to play in this series. That hurts.
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Speaker 2: It does.
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Speaker 1: But before this game, after game number two, Jada McDaniel
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Speaker 1: said something the presser that said, hey, our goals to
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Speaker 1: go at all of their bad defenders. He said, Jamal Murray,
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Speaker 1: Christian Brown, he said, Cam Johnson, he said, Aaron Gordon,
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Speaker 1: and the Kole Yokers. Now, if you notice those are
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Speaker 1: the five oh he also it's to Tim Rdaway Junior.
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Speaker 3: Those are the six sixth most important players.
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Speaker 1: On the team. Right.
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Speaker 3: So the guy was a lot of talk, and he
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Speaker 3: came out of this game in game three.
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Speaker 1: After doing all of that talking, and back then all
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Speaker 1: up basket at will, basket at will. And it's like, bro,
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Speaker 1: we already made the video about divers defense, and if
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Speaker 1: they were somehow to win the championship, would be the
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Speaker 1: worst defensive team to win a championship of the modern era, right,
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Speaker 1: And the game like this shows you why the likelihood
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Speaker 1: of them winning the championship is not closed, but a
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Speaker 1: lot less open than a lot of people want to
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Speaker 1: give them credit for. Because the defense is that there
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Speaker 1: were some of these games or some of these times
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Speaker 1: in this game, were like somebody had had the ball
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Speaker 1: right side baseline, and it might have been Jade mcdameels.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, he gets past.
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Speaker 1: Us first defender, who was Christian Brown, and there was
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Speaker 1: like a five foot gap between the ball handler and
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Speaker 1: Nikola jokicch at the rim, and Jokics literally did not
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Speaker 1: even try to contest, no foul trouble at this point
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Speaker 1: or anything, just didn't even jump up and it ended
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Speaker 1: up being an easy layup.
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Speaker 2: I thought that David.
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Speaker 3: Adaman was gonna have an aneurysm on the sideline.
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Speaker 1: In that first half, he caught like three timeouts in
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Speaker 1: the span of six minutes. He just he was fed up,
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Speaker 1: and one of the time you want to call the timeout.
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Speaker 1: He was damned at half court yelling at them to
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Speaker 1: get back off of make. But he noticed that, hey,
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Speaker 1: I've already used three timeouts. Minnesota came in with a
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Speaker 1: game plan and they executed that game plan to a t.
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Speaker 1: And y'all know, I got love for Iyo to sue
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Speaker 1: move twenty five points on ten or fifteen, Come on, Iyo,
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Speaker 1: nine as sis, come on, Iyo.
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Speaker 2: Come on, man, Look, Rudy Gobert, I don't know what tapping.
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Speaker 1: There was a moment in the game where he did
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Speaker 1: that little left hand hook. While I was like whoa.
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Speaker 1: Podcast is like whoa, Mike, Mike Conlin, the bench was
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Speaker 1: like whoa. The whole crowd was like whoa. That brother's
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Speaker 1: playing out of his mind. Yo can start off the
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Speaker 1: game with one for six from the field and Jess
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Speaker 1: Rudy has been taking his lunch. Now we talk about
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Speaker 1: the defensive any deficiencies from n Kolokics. It has been
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Speaker 1: as bad as has been let's be real, let's be
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Speaker 1: real here, but also the other side of the ball.
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Speaker 3: Where he is maybe the greatest in the world, one
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Speaker 3: of the greatest ever as an offensive system, has not
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Speaker 3: been nearly that in this series. The final box go
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Speaker 3: tells you twenty seven, fifteen and three. And I've said
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Speaker 3: this before about him. I've said this before or about
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Speaker 3: a bad Luca game. Sometimes a guy of this talent,
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Speaker 3: because obviously he is one of the most talents in
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Speaker 3: the world.
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Speaker 1: Same thing with Luka Donci's when they have their level
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Speaker 1: of U sits, their stat line might tell your story that.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, twenty seven to fifteen, you say, last.
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Speaker 1: No, no, this game he sucked he's straight up socking.
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Speaker 1: I'm only comparing him to hisself, right, Like if I
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Speaker 1: don't know, if day Ron Holmes had to say stat lave,
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Speaker 1: we'd be like, goddamn they Ron hooped out. But comparing
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Speaker 1: Yokis to himself these last two games, he has not
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Speaker 1: been good. And if he hasn't been good offensively and
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Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball is also struggled as
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Speaker 1: a collective him included, then where is the value coming
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Speaker 1: on this team?
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Speaker 3: The first game it was night and day. What the
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Speaker 3: hell happened?
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Speaker 1: And it can't just be AG's not there because they
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Speaker 1: look bad defensively last game too. So this is rough, man,
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Speaker 1: This is really rough. And I admire a team that said, hey,
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Speaker 1: there back against the wall, we really just don't take over,
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Speaker 1: and they did. Dante hit some shots, Julius play with
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Speaker 1: a good level of energy, which at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, with Julus render That's what I'm looking for
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Speaker 1: the most. I just wanted Julius Rendall's energy to be high,
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Speaker 1: and it was in this game. And matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: the game just wrapped up. Actually started this video before
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Speaker 1: the game was over because they had threw in you know,
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Speaker 1: day Ron Holmes and so on, so like, yeah, they're not.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what the numbers were, you know,
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Speaker 1: after these last couple of games, people have been given
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Speaker 1: the numbers like this is what Rudy Gobert has done,
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Speaker 1: the Nikole Jochi and I can't wait to see those
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Speaker 1: numbers when I wake up, because I guess y'all know,
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Speaker 1: as a Rudy Gobert superfan, I've been waiting, Like you know,
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Speaker 1: I hear a lot of crap when he plays like crap.
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Speaker 1: So when it's finally time to give him praise.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: In the regular season, the defferent Nuggets had an offensive
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Speaker 1: rating of one twenty two point six, the best in
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Speaker 1: the league. In the playoffs is a one oh seven. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you expected to drop but not drop fifteen and a
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Speaker 1: half points, so WHOA all right, last game? That's a
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Speaker 1: Ronner Raptors keep their season alive.
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Speaker 2: My goodness.
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Speaker 1: Going to the this is called the going to the
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say the six. I don't know. I've
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Speaker 1: only been there like three times and protect their home court. Man,
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Speaker 1: they always say series, it's not in into the home
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Speaker 1: team loses and the home team is not lost. So far,
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Speaker 1: in this series. This was a phenomenal game from Scotty Barnes.
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Speaker 1: I made this tweet and I truly do believe this.
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Speaker 1: This is one of the best individual playoff performances from
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Speaker 1: any raptor ever one of you know. Of course, Kawhi
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Speaker 1: Leond did this some crazy stuff. Even Kyle Larry has
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Speaker 1: had some ridiculous playoff games. But Scotty Barnes is commanding
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Speaker 1: this one and that from the jump he was guarding
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Speaker 1: James Harden and like it's just like, this is the
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Speaker 1: This is a superstar level performance, right, you do this
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Speaker 1: a few more times than you officially get that label.
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Speaker 1: This is a superstar level performance. Hey, my team is
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Speaker 1: down two. I am one of the best defensive players
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Speaker 1: in the world, but also I hold a heavy burden
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Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball, so I can
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Speaker 1: be one of the best defensive players. But I don't
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Speaker 1: want to tax my legs too much by you know,
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Speaker 1: running around and chasing James hard. But our back is
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Speaker 1: the wall. I'm our best option. And he was James
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Speaker 1: trying eight turners today. It's one of them. Like same
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Speaker 1: thing with like Kevin from a few nights ago, like
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Speaker 1: a turnovers don'na tell you the full story. Some of
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Speaker 1: it is him, some of his teammates, some of his
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Speaker 1: the balls slipping through somebody's hands. It's a lot, but
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Speaker 1: like eight turnovers, Scotty Barnes did exactly everything you could
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Speaker 1: have imagined him doing another double digit assist game in
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Speaker 1: this one. The one thing that I love about Scotty, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I love Scotti the most.
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Speaker 3: Is when he's getting the good whistle. I will say
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Speaker 3: that I don't.
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Speaker 1: Think of all of the All Star caliber players in
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Speaker 1: the league, I think Scotty is one of the people
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Speaker 1: with a bad whistle. Today he got a favorite whistle,
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Speaker 1: And I'm just like, if he can get to the
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Speaker 1: line and hit his free throws and do all the
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Speaker 1: other stuff that make him an all Star caliber player,
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Speaker 1: then it's like it opens up Pandora's box of how
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Speaker 1: good he can be overwall for this team. Outside of that,
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Speaker 1: Yaka Pearl got benched in last game for CMB. Who
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Speaker 1: we gonna talk about MP, because, my goodness, the rookie's phenomenal.
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Speaker 1: I thought this was the best game in the series
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Speaker 1: by why margin shout out to Yaka Pearl, but CMB,
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Speaker 1: my goodness, that's kind of crazy, how many like decent
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Speaker 1: rookies we got like this co classes is insame. We
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Speaker 1: already made a video about that before the season ended.
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Speaker 1: But you know, whether it be Vj's thirty point thirty
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Speaker 1: plus point game two nights ago or last night, or
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Speaker 1: Kylin Murray Boyle's game here, it's so amazing because there
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Speaker 1: were times where you watch Murray Boyle's in the regular
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Speaker 1: season where I don't use the word scare, but he
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Speaker 1: was hesitant to take shots at the rim, and I
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Speaker 1: think he had a broken hand, so it's like, ooh,
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Speaker 1: I'm a little bit afraid of maybe getting deemed up
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Speaker 1: a little bit more. And this one he was so
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Speaker 1: good on both sides of the ball. We already knew
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Speaker 1: he was a good defensive player. That was where he
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Speaker 1: held his hat. And while he was drafted so high,
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Speaker 1: it was like, hm, the offensive stuff, how would it translate?
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Speaker 1: And in a playoff series versus like, I know, it's
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Speaker 1: been a little while since Jared Allen has made an
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Speaker 1: All Star Game, but an All Star caliber front court
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Speaker 1: between Evan Mobley and and Jared Allen, he was just great,
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Speaker 1: straight up, just great. RJ Barrett hitting shots in the
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Speaker 1: first This is where I talk about the game being
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Speaker 1: about adjustments and plays being about adjustments. You're in my
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Speaker 1: first recap about this series, I talked about how James
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Speaker 1: Harden had him an oppresser, James Hard and made RJ.
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Speaker 1: Barry look really bad defensively all game long. I think
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Speaker 1: between Game two and Game three, RJ has continued to
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Speaker 1: get to show better and better and better, not just
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Speaker 1: effort but production defensively and if he's gonna hit eighth,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry six threes on top of it. I think
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Speaker 1: in the half court, outside of Scottie Barnes, he's been
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Speaker 1: the most important player, and you might be able to
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Speaker 1: argue that he has been the most important offensive player. No,
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Speaker 1: not of a scard, but he's number two, right, He's
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Speaker 1: number two based on these last couple of games. And
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Speaker 1: I thought it was really funny that Jacobe Walcher got
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Speaker 1: the start or Jamal Shd he caught two fouls in
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Speaker 1: like six seconds and he had to go to the bench.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, this first playoff start, and
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Speaker 1: that's how it ends up going Jamison Battle. We mentioned
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Speaker 1: earlier it is about adjustments and finding what works in
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Speaker 1: what game we were talking about Mike Mike Brown. This
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Speaker 1: is so funny because a couple of days ago in
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Speaker 1: the podcast It's had to be Tuesdays Pot, Mike asked
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Speaker 1: a question like, hey, based on the lack of three
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Speaker 1: point shooting in Toronto through the first couple of games,
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Speaker 1: could you see a guy like Grady Dick getting some PT?
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Speaker 1: And I was like, nah, because Grady Dick is a
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Speaker 1: theoretical shooter. But Jamison Battle, on the other hand, he
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Speaker 1: should get real PT.
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Speaker 2: And he did.
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Speaker 1: He played fifteen minutes and they I saw a stat
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Speaker 1: that he is not missing three pointer against the Calves
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Speaker 1: all season long. He's ten for ten from three pointer
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Speaker 1: versus the Calves. It's a great game, man, it's a
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Speaker 1: great game. We'll it's set them up and have momentum
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Speaker 1: going into the next game. Maybe right, because you can
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Speaker 1: maybe argue that they won the last two quarters of
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Speaker 1: the last quarter of their last game too, so maybe
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Speaker 1: they start the momentum last game, but they were just
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Speaker 1: too far behind to make it happen. They went on
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Speaker 1: a little run in that on with sole Leah. Let's
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Speaker 1: say last so they've won the last five quarters. That
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Speaker 1: might be building on something.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: They would really hope that brandon Ingram will come along
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Speaker 3: for the ride.
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Speaker 1: I would say him, Man, if you watch the pot.
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Speaker 1: I've said multiple times, I'm just not a big brandon
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Speaker 1: Ingram guy. I know he's he seems like a great dude. Hell,
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Speaker 1: I just watched that Michael Beasley interview with Shannon Sharp
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Speaker 1: and Michael Beezy gave a lot of credit to Josh
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Speaker 1: Sharden brandon Ingram from being real to him when he
20:21
Speaker 1: was going through a lot of stuff mentally and through
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Speaker 1: his family and stuff. So I got a lot of
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Speaker 1: love for brandon Ingram the person, but the ball players
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Speaker 1: it's not my archetype of guy that I think translate
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Speaker 1: very well to like real playoff stuff. And you're kind
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Speaker 1: of seeing that. Like one of the turning points in
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Speaker 1: this game was when he got into foul trouble and
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Speaker 1: the Raptors just looked a lot better with him not
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Speaker 1: on the court. So Game one he talks about, hey
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Speaker 1: only took nine shots and I was used as a screener.
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Speaker 1: Game two said they made it an emphasis to get
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Speaker 1: him more looks. I think it took fifteen or so
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Speaker 1: shots and it wasn't very efficient. Another game when he
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Speaker 1: into went nine shots, but down the stretch. How many
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Speaker 1: minutes did he play in the fourth? I don't think
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Speaker 1: it was a lot. Yeah, four minutes in the fourth
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Speaker 1: and Jamison Battle took that eighth. So, like I said,
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Speaker 1: Banger Night in the Association, I feel like I'm missing stuff.
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Speaker 1: But that's what this recap is about. I'll remind you
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Speaker 1: that I'm also doing five podcasts a week during the
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Speaker 1: playoffs and a radio show that's gonna be announced tomorrow spoiler.
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Speaker 1: So you want even more and more in depth is
21:19
Speaker 1: just the initial reaction. I would recommend going to watch
21:21
Speaker 1: those shows because a lot of the times I rewatch
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Speaker 1: these games and give a little bit more coverage on it.
21:27
Speaker 1: It's the playoffs, man, maybe, But I do want to say,
21:29
Speaker 1: once the playoffs is over and the draft is over,
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Speaker 1: I'm taking my family on vacation. I'm taking my family vacation.
21:35
Speaker 1: I just found out that since the start of the season,
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Speaker 1: I've done one hundred and twelve podcasts. Yeah, I'm taking
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Speaker 1: my family vacation now.