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Anthony Edwards Played The Perfect NBA Game... · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Whoo Wolves versus Lakers classic, absolute classic, the Wolves taking
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  Speaker 1: three to one series lead.
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  Speaker 2: Is it over? Is it not?
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know, but this game was so ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: that I said, sorry, Celtsics versus Magic, I got a
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  Speaker 1: film during your game. I'm sorry, Pacers versus Bucks. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna put a video out on in your game
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  Speaker 1: unless you give us a double overtime win or something.
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  Speaker 1: And I do got some things to say about Nicks
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  Speaker 1: versus Pisics, but those gotta wait because we just experienced,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, the perfect Anthony Edwards game by far,
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  Speaker 1: my favorite game of his career.
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  Speaker 2: Now, he's had a couple bangers.
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  Speaker 1: Right, He had a couple against the fin Suns last year,
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  Speaker 1: and like he's had some bangers, for sure, but this
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  Speaker 1: one right here is my favorite, and maybe as rec
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  Speaker 1: bias right because it's just rounded ended up finishing like
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  Speaker 1: twenty minutes ago, regardless, my favorite performance of his entire career.
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  Speaker 2: They were up three to one, and I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Never gonna count out bron because I've seen what he
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  Speaker 1: can do in three one, but that was almost ten
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  Speaker 1: years ago.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The Wolves have just been the better team, full stop.
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  Speaker 1: But let's go back to Anthony Erwards. If you missed
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  Speaker 1: the game, here's his stat line. Forty four minutes play,
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  Speaker 1: forty three points, nine rebounds, six assists, one term massos,
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  Speaker 1: assists just one, seventeen free throw attempts. Fourteen of those
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  Speaker 1: went in five may threes, a true shooting percentage of
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  Speaker 1: a seventy point five. If you want to do the math,
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  Speaker 1: or want me to do the math for you, the
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  Speaker 1: perfect game. The biggest X factor for the series going
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  Speaker 1: into it was like, could the Lakers make Anthony Evers
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  Speaker 1: think different times in his career where he's been phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: in that right. I remember earlier in the season when
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  Speaker 1: he did have a good stritch people asking him what
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  Speaker 1: he did. He said, I watched Lucadonta's tape in order
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  Speaker 1: to get better and make decisions out of a pick
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  Speaker 1: a roll. I watched Lucadonta's tape to see how he
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  Speaker 1: plays when people head just screens, and he looked great.
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  Speaker 1: And a little while after that it was back to
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  Speaker 1: being like, oh man, okay, Anthony Edwards really handle all
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  Speaker 1: of the different looks that you could throw at him.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why in this series I thought that Mike
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  Speaker 1: Conley would have to play a huge part if the
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  Speaker 1: Wolves wanted to win, because if Anthony Edwards is personally
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  Speaker 1: struggling at all the different looks, then that means that
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  Speaker 1: Mike Collin's job to settle everything down to get the
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  Speaker 1: offense running becomes extremely important. But because Anthony Edwards has
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  Speaker 1: looked at every single thing JJ Reddick has thrown in
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  Speaker 1: him and dominated.
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  Speaker 2: It a guy like Mike col he becomes expendable.
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  Speaker 1: He played twenty five minutes, so then you got the
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  Speaker 1: big block on Brown, which I thought was insane. A
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  Speaker 1: couple of different plays in this game, he felt like
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  Speaker 1: a certain player of toya Aco Anthony Verits. At the
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  Speaker 1: moment when Lebron dove on his leg, I thought he
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  Speaker 1: was done with. Mike Conley got the block and it
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  Speaker 1: starts tweaking at his leg. I'm like, oh, no, is
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  Speaker 1: that the end of Uncle Mike.
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  Speaker 2: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: But he becomes somewhat expendable. And because he becomes somewhat expendable,
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  Speaker 1: that means Rudy Gobert does too. Rudy Gobert has never
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  Speaker 1: had a good offensive series. Don't get me wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: this is by far the worst offensive series of his
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  Speaker 1: entire career, and that is saying something Me and the
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  Speaker 1: guys were talking about the discord because we were just
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  Speaker 1: watching this game together.
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  Speaker 2: It is insane.
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  Speaker 1: Like if I told somebody watch this game right here,
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  Speaker 1: watch game four of Wolves versus Lakers. At least three
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  Speaker 1: of the dudes on the court together right now are
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  Speaker 1: gonna make it to the Hall of Fame. Can you
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  Speaker 1: pick out who it is they're gonna say Braun? You
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  Speaker 1: could tell that they're gonna say Luca. You could tell that.
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  Speaker 2: The last dude is Rudy Gobert.
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  Speaker 1: The jury is still out on like Anthony Average's twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: but like three of those guys are guaranteed into the Hall.
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  Speaker 1: If you have never watched basketball before, you would never
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  Speaker 1: suspect that man's gonna make it to the All of
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  Speaker 1: Fame when his career is Oh, he's been bad, and
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  Speaker 1: today I thought this is worth a defensive performance too,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna play much after Chris fins skin. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care if you make a forty million dollars, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't care if you got a three hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollar contract. If yours can't play, yoas can't play, and
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  Speaker 1: nas red ridiculous, Let's go down again. Anthony Wards has
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  Speaker 1: played the perfect series or the perfect game in this one.
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  Speaker 1: One of the reasons I picked the Lakers to advance
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  Speaker 1: before the series started. I'm not one of the dudes
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  Speaker 1: that feel like they need to get the right so
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  Speaker 1: I'm not rude in either way.
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  Speaker 2: Was because of the top end talent a.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Luca Nancis and Lebron James in the playoff series
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  Speaker 1: just feels unstoppable. Has it been that unstoppable? We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. The other thing was the defense, right. The
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  Speaker 1: defense had that month stretch even without Anthony Davis being
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  Speaker 1: on the team where the defense was really good. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at how many different looks they could throw
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  Speaker 1: at Anthony Edwards, and I'm combining that with the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Luka Dancis another playoff riser, and Lebron James because
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  Speaker 1: even though he's forty, he's still amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, Lakers win this in seven.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was my official pick, and I guess
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  Speaker 1: it's not dead right, but a lot of those states
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  Speaker 1: it has changed. Right, the more I'm watching these series,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, man, having the best player on paper in
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  Speaker 1: the series hasn't really done much. This is a team
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  Speaker 1: oriented game, so much so that in this game J. J.
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  Speaker 1: Raddick was like, Hey, Gabe, Vincent, Hey Jackson Hayes, Hey
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Goodwin or Aint Vanderbilt, y'all can't play, man, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna run our guys to the end of time. Must
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  Speaker 1: win game. You do not want to go down three one.
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  Speaker 1: So Bron Doe, Reeves, Luca Ruie, y'all gotta play every
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  Speaker 1: single second in this half. And there were times in
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  Speaker 1: this game you can tell that they were gass, absolutely gassed.
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  Speaker 1: While the Wolves were kind of doing this platooning thing,
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  Speaker 1: not platooning or or having Rudy Gobert come in for
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  Speaker 1: two minutes, nas recome in before Rudy Gobert comes in
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  Speaker 1: for two This so like they always had some fresh
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  Speaker 1: legs on the court. And nas Reed hasn't missed a
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  Speaker 1: shot in the entire fourth quarter this series. Is what
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  Speaker 1: they said on the broadcast. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: missed one after that, but he's been so ridiculous and
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  Speaker 1: well rested when it comes to the fourth quarter. We
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  Speaker 1: have never seen Julius Randall care about basketball as much
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  Speaker 1: as he cares about basketball right now. On a game,
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  Speaker 1: a game basis whether they're winning, whether they lose. In
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  Speaker 1: you down in that chair and on both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the floor, he's been incredible, Right, You still have moments
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  Speaker 1: in time you're like, damn, Julius, you're gonna force that
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  Speaker 1: one up.
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  Speaker 2: But you live with that.
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  Speaker 1: If you're telling me that he's gonna have switches on
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  Speaker 1: Luka Doncics and hold his own and force a turnover
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  Speaker 1: here or there, insane stuff from him. Nazrie, like I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: big shots, but at the end of the game, it
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  Speaker 1: was him getting into Luca Dantis and Lebron James to
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  Speaker 1: force it to be Austin Reeves was the one to
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  Speaker 1: take this shot to end the game. Not one of
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  Speaker 1: your all NBA players, not one of your few to
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  Speaker 1: Hall of famers. It was Austin Reeves and Austin Reeves,
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  Speaker 1: for what is worth, wasn't having an amazing game in
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  Speaker 1: this one.
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  Speaker 2: So you live with that. You live for the results.
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  Speaker 1: And they've been well coached and they've been running well together.
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  Speaker 1: The second game in the row where they killed the
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  Speaker 1: offensive glass just hustle, place, hustle place, hustle players you
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  Speaker 1: can't even save from the lake of perspective. That's a
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  Speaker 1: size thing because weally go ban and getting them rebounds.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's the other guys getting into who let them
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  Speaker 1: in offensive rebounding.
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  Speaker 2: Today you got four from Anthony Everwards.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect game I mentioned, Oh no, this was the Rudy
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  Speaker 1: go up the offensive rebound game.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, Rudy, there we go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they've scored out of those offensive
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  Speaker 1: rebound because I don't remember a single one of them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have my notes, but yeah, they're killing their
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  Speaker 1: offensive glass right and that has been huge. But more
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  Speaker 1: than anything, the penetration to the paint and game number three,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards drove to the paint. I don't have the
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  Speaker 1: exact numbers, one hundred times ended up with zero free
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  Speaker 1: throw tips. Today he gets downhill in attempts seventeen Come
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  Speaker 1: on man, progression growth as an NBA player, The perfect game.
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  Speaker 1: Jaj mcdanie started off slow, eventually has some big old
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  Speaker 1: shots down the stretch, and we got to talk about
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  Speaker 1: a couple of plays that matted the most in my
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  Speaker 1: notes right here thirty seconds ago. For the second time
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  Speaker 1: in the last three weeks, we watched Lebron James throw
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  Speaker 1: a lazy, lazy inbound pass that led to a turnover,
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  Speaker 1: and that turnover was Jada McDaniels who got.
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  Speaker 2: It to Anthony Edwards.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards, they thought it was offered Anthony Edwards and
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  Speaker 1: that was the moment they replayed it and end up
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  Speaker 1: being a foul in Lebron James and the awards. Ice
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  Speaker 1: is the game with the free throws second game in
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  Speaker 1: a row or not second not said game roll. But
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  Speaker 1: the other time I think about was when Josh Geddy
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  Speaker 1: hit the half course. If you need to go revise
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  Speaker 1: Segary Roy said, that was a great moment, but Lebron
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  Speaker 1: James just throwing a lax of days ago pass out
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  Speaker 1: of a timeout and excusable for anybody, but definitely excusable
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  Speaker 1: for one of our goals.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Lebron played.
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  Speaker 1: Every single second in that second half, and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: score in the fourth quarter, but he had some really
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  Speaker 1: good defensive plays. Right, He had to chase down block
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  Speaker 1: who I think it was Danton Vincenzo on the back
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  Speaker 1: door cut and Lebron James just got his fingertips on
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  Speaker 1: top of it. So like, even Thoughbron didn't score in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, he had a really impactful game, nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: and in the fourth quarter, even when he didn't score,
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  Speaker 1: he had an input on this game.
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  Speaker 2: But that turnover, that turnover, that turnover.
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  Speaker 1: Not being able to get a shot up in that
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  Speaker 1: moment in time after Jada mcdame's just got the what
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  Speaker 1: dunker spot and one dunk where I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: to hear Austin Reeves is contesting a shot, there's a
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  Speaker 1: zero percent chance you're ever going to get that block.
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  Speaker 1: My boy even looked up how many blocks that Auster
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  Speaker 1: Reeves have this season. I think it was twenty four
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  Speaker 1: or twenty seven or something like that. You're better off
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  Speaker 1: just you're better off just letting them have it. You're
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  Speaker 1: better off just let them have it, because that and
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  Speaker 1: one puts them up by one, and now you playing
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  Speaker 1: from behind.
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  Speaker 2: Just let them have it and you walk down.
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  Speaker 1: We got thirty seconds to go or whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 1: to go get a bucket, and you got bucket getters
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  Speaker 1: on your team. But bad decision about Austin Reeves, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we had a couple of those, because
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  Speaker 1: I think he was getting his as roasted a lot
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  Speaker 1: in this game, just like Luca was getting his as
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  Speaker 1: roasted last game in this game as well. Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers have a lot to make up if they
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  Speaker 1: want to win the series. But I think that if
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  Speaker 1: they don't win the series, we have an idea of
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  Speaker 1: what type of play I mean, we already knew what
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  Speaker 1: type of players they need it, but like they really
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  Speaker 1: need some size. They really need some guys that were
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  Speaker 1: sitting in that chair outside of Dough. I mean, last
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  Speaker 1: game we talked about how Ry Hachimoor was a non
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  Speaker 1: factor on both sides of the floor. Today he gave
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  Speaker 1: them twenty three and unfortunately it didn't matter because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't walk out of here to win. And what the
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  Speaker 1: Temples have been able to do so very well in
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  Speaker 1: the series is allowing Luca to score. This is gonna
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  Speaker 1: sound weird, but this is not just a Luca Doncis thing,
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  Speaker 1: and it kind of goes for a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: guys that are known as premier playmakers as well. If
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  Speaker 1: you turn them into just a score, they lose so
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  Speaker 1: much value. If Luca Dontis is playing isolation ball and
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  Speaker 1: granted scoring thirty eight points, so be it right. It's
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  Speaker 1: when he gets you in rotation, when he generates open threes.
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  Speaker 1: It's those moments that hurt you more than if he
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  Speaker 1: has an individual scoring game. This is second time in
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  Speaker 1: a row. Let me look at these box scores. I
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  Speaker 1: think this is not in the row, but in these
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  Speaker 1: four games, and I'm the sake. In two of these
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  Speaker 1: he's had more turnovers and assists. Right game one, what
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  Speaker 1: do you have one assists? And in this game he
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  Speaker 1: only had two. They did an amazing job of just
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  Speaker 1: playing straight up. Hey, if Luca doncas beat you off
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  Speaker 1: the dribble, so be it.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be fine. And they've been able to.
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  Speaker 1: Have Jada McDaniels to get around those screens and then
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  Speaker 1: they've been completely okay when they did have switched moments
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  Speaker 1: with saying Julius Randall can hold his own because as
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  Speaker 1: great as of player Luca doncis is, he's not the
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  Speaker 1: quickest man of them all. It's not like it's Julius
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  Speaker 1: Randall gard than Darren Fox where the shiftiness and the
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  Speaker 1: quickness is gonna be the detriment to this defensive play.
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  Speaker 1: Lucas a strong ass guy with a good dripple package,
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  Speaker 1: but like, we feel okay on that switch, and if
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  Speaker 1: he happens to hit a step back three and he
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  Speaker 1: happens to go on a personal nine to ozer run,
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  Speaker 1: so be it.
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  Speaker 2: But we don't want him.
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  Speaker 1: To allow other players to really get their things gone.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want him to get Austin Reeves. I'm fifteen
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  Speaker 1: open three points. He had twelve of them, but fifteen
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  Speaker 1: open three pointers. I can't say he had twelve open
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  Speaker 1: because some of them was awful. So let Luca beat
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  Speaker 1: you through the scard. It is something that people did
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  Speaker 1: four years ago with Jokic when they had the stat
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  Speaker 1: years ago, Jokic's team was owing seven anytime he dropped,
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  Speaker 1: or forty more because they eliminated the others. And if
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy that's just killing you, one guy in
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  Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, it's not gonna be able
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  Speaker 1: to do it by himself. But one guy can do
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  Speaker 1: him by himself if he's generating shots for the others,
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  Speaker 1: and Luca hasn't been able to do that. They haven't
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  Speaker 1: been able to generate open looks for these other guys.
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  Speaker 1: They shot forty five percent from three this game and
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  Speaker 1: still ended up losing, or forty point five percent, it
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  Speaker 1: still ended up losing because they didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's a tough it's a tough one.
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  Speaker 2: It's really a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I want to go back and rewatch that
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter because they went into the fourth quarter with
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  Speaker 1: ten point lead, and I got to rewatch because one
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: of the biggest criticisms Lakers fans have with JJ Reddick's
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  Speaker 1: offense right now is that there are times where he
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  Speaker 1: completely goes away from any structured offense, any sets or anything,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just freelance hoops. And freelance hoops makes sense
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  Speaker 1: when you have Luca and Lebron James your team, but
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it don't. So I got to rewatch that entire
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter to figure out exactly what ended up happening there.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm forgetting to give love to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I gave left to Nasri, and I gave Jules Randa
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  Speaker 1: his love. I gave Anthony Vers his his love.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, yeah, let Luca beat you.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, man, this series might be over way cool, quicker
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  Speaker 1: than any of us expect. I said, Lakers and seven again,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: it's still in play. I don't feel good about Lakers
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  Speaker 1: or seven. I'll tell you tell you that. I know
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: some of these games has been closed. I just feel
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  Speaker 1: like the Wolves have been the better team. And I'm
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: still tugging pulland trying to figure out have they been
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: better coach in this series? Has Chris Finch out coached
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  Speaker 1: JJ Reddick so far?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know yet. I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I've to rewatched the footage.
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  Speaker 1: But it's got to hurt to play forty six minutes
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  Speaker 1: and forty six minutes for your top end dudes and
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  Speaker 1: still walk out with h L. The Wolves retain home court,
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  Speaker 1: they go into Staples Center. I mean, they get three
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  Speaker 1: chances to close this series. Man, it's hard for me
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  Speaker 1: to believe that they won't be able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But I've seen Lebron in this situation before, so like
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  Speaker 1: that's always what it walls down to. This series has
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  Speaker 1: been amazing. This game itself was amazing. Anthony Edwards. Big
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: time players make big time plays, the old cliche, and
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Verwas was a big time player.