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Lakers Take Game 2 to Even Series vs. Timberwolves _ Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: So difference between Game one and Game two a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things. But see a season low eighty five points
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  Speaker 1: from Minnesota tonight, but also Game one they hit twenty
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  Speaker 1: one threes, which is a franchised playoff record, and tonight
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  Speaker 1: just five, which is a season low.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was really just about intensity, because the
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  Speaker 2: way they played the first half was just like a
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  Speaker 2: team like, hey, we got to split, and then when
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  Speaker 2: they tried to turn it on, they were down so
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  Speaker 2: much they couldn't come back. And that was a different
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  Speaker 2: because I said, I'm not even worried. I said, I
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  Speaker 2: think the Laker's gonna win the game. I just want
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  Speaker 2: to see what type of team was Minnesota gonna get greedy?
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  Speaker 3: And then it was too late, they were down too much.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with Chuck. I don't think the Laker has
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  Speaker 3: played better today. I just think Minnesota played worse they did.
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  Speaker 3: The Lakers played about the same way they played in
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  Speaker 3: Game one, just the Minnesota timos just didn't raise their
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  Speaker 3: level and.
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  Speaker 4: The Minnesota did a bad job of keeping their emotions
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  Speaker 4: and shake. You know, they're talking about physicality. I thought
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  Speaker 4: now Nives was trying to be too physical and picked
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  Speaker 4: up four files in Game one. He wasn't being physical
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  Speaker 4: at all. He was staying out on the wing getting
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  Speaker 4: the open three. So you know, they have to learn
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  Speaker 4: how to keep their emotions and check in so called
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  Speaker 4: physical games.
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  Speaker 1: So when as we look back at it, you don't
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  Speaker 1: think there was anything to this Luka Doncic play.
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  Speaker 4: Probably was, but hey, this is the playoff, Ernie. I've
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  Speaker 4: seen people get dated.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I don't mind. I like physical basketball. This is
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  Speaker 2: a dirty play right here. I've seen your leg like
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  Speaker 2: somebody like that. I've seen this up with Kirk Remmers
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  Speaker 2: out there, and there's playoffs. Yeah, you know, you just
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  Speaker 2: can't do this right. Playoffs, you can't do that. That's
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  Speaker 2: a leg.
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  Speaker 1: Well, playoffs, Kenny, you're going to break the time.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was cheap, but not excessive playoffs things
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  Speaker 3: like that. It was a cheap play, but I don't
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  Speaker 3: think it was excessive. I don't think it would come
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  Speaker 3: out but it wasn't. I wasn't suspended. It was it
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  Speaker 3: was a dirty, but it wasn't excessive.
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  Speaker 1: I got you, uh t k who you got from
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  Speaker 1: from a moment ago, Anthony Edwards.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: And a physical battle out there tonight that first quarter
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  Speaker 1: did you guys just have a hard time get rolling
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  Speaker 1: right away?
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  Speaker 5: I can't even really remember what happened in the first
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  Speaker 5: quarter for real, for real, but we just couldn't get
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  Speaker 5: no stops. Yeah, we couldn't get no stops. So it
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  Speaker 5: was making a lot of tough shots too.
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  Speaker 6: And just said, can you tell us what happened to
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  Speaker 6: your shoulder there? And did that affect you early on
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  Speaker 6: in the game?
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  Speaker 5: Nah, I just got hit on the screen like early
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  Speaker 5: in the game. Yeah, what did you see?
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  Speaker 6: It seemed like the ball movement body movement was a
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  Speaker 6: little less today. What what kind of do you think
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  Speaker 6: contributed to that?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. It seemed like every time I caught
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  Speaker 5: the body kind of went like a in a in
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  Speaker 5: a zone in a sense. So it's kind of confusing
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  Speaker 5: at times. But we'll watch family be ready.
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  Speaker 6: Do you like how you guys responding the second half
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  Speaker 6: kind of getting back into it?
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, for sure, it was up what twenty something
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  Speaker 5: and we fought back and got back in the game.
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  Speaker 5: I think what hurt was when we cut it to
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  Speaker 5: like eleven and the third in the middle of the
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  Speaker 5: third and then they went on like a seven over run.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's what hurt more than anything.
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  Speaker 6: How do you just feel overall about the series going
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  Speaker 6: back one one?
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  Speaker 5: Great, we won in one. It's nothing better to be
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  Speaker 5: but to one o, But we wanted one.
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  Speaker 1: That first quarter, by the way, that he did not remember,
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  Speaker 1: thirty four to fifteen was the Lakers lead. That the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers scored sixty the rest of the way. So this
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  Speaker 1: is a team that averaged one hundred and thirteen during
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  Speaker 1: the year. They've scored ninety four and ninety five. If
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  Speaker 1: they are still it is one one as they go back.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Lakers. What the Lakers got to do,
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  Speaker 2: They got to change their offense. I think I think
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing. Remember last year when uh they
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  Speaker 2: went at Rudy that Luca Luca does have an advantage,
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  Speaker 2: but it slows the whole game down. And we were
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  Speaker 2: sitting back there watching they were going at Rudy like
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  Speaker 2: everybody was standing around. They were using up the whole
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  Speaker 2: shot clock. Because, like Kenny said, I don't think the
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  Speaker 2: Lakers played great tonight. I think Minnesota played didn't play
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  Speaker 2: as well, But I don't think the Lakers want to
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  Speaker 2: play every game we go at Rudy Gobert the whole time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and like we said, if you really look at it,
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  Speaker 3: and I had to check the statue, which which is different.
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  Speaker 3: But out of the eight quarters, Minnesota has really been
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  Speaker 3: better seven, you know, or close to it. They've been
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  Speaker 3: better seven out.
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  Speaker 4: Of the eight quarters.
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  Speaker 3: The Lakers, I think they did win one quarter by
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  Speaker 3: one point, but and then at the first.
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  Speaker 1: Quarter, form the first quarters, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the Lakers, you know, they do have to
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  Speaker 3: address what Charles is saying, because the ball does get
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  Speaker 3: a little too stagnant and there's a lot of reliability
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  Speaker 3: on Luca just just score over great defenders or not
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  Speaker 3: even great defenders, over defenders too many times.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you what do you think now as
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  Speaker 1: it goes goes to Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 4: It's nice with Chuck and Katy is saying, but they're
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  Speaker 4: not going to adjust. The game we were watching now
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  Speaker 4: is you take advantage of mismatches isoles and you shoot
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  Speaker 4: the three. Both teams shot twenty percent from three point.
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  Speaker 4: Minnesota has to control their emotions, play like they play
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  Speaker 4: in Game one, draw kick penetrate. The others have to
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  Speaker 4: step up. Nas Red was the hero in Game one.
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  Speaker 4: He only had nine points a day, so you know,
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  Speaker 4: you can't expect at and you know, all the other
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  Speaker 4: guys to do it when you got many guys like
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  Speaker 4: Jay mcdaimes and nas Reed step up. Julius had a
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  Speaker 4: great game.
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  Speaker 1: Today and Jayden had a great first game.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it did. So they're going home. They're comfortable. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, as far as switching up to the offense,
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  Speaker 4: that's not gonna have. They're gonna take advantage of the mismatch.
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna draw and kick, They're gonna shoot threes. That's
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  Speaker 4: just the way they play.
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  Speaker 1: First time all season the Lakers scored under one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and won the game. They're one to nine.