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The Cleveland Cavaliers Dominate Game 7 · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 2: Just like that.
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Speaker 1: For the first time post Lebron James, the Calves have
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Speaker 1: done it. The Calves have made it to the Conference finals.
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Speaker 1: The lights being too bright. It's over because the two
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Speaker 1: game sevens. Jared Allen has been a dog. And yes,
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Speaker 1: the game was not the greatest of games. I know
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Speaker 1: that we always go into Game seven is hoping it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be down to the wire Mini Mono, Superstar versus Superstar,
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Speaker 1: last possession of the games.
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Speaker 2: So it's gonna termin it. Nah.
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Speaker 1: The Calves put bta, They put bta, y'all, and yes,
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Speaker 1: let me address the elephant the room.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I am looking dapper. My boy.
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Speaker 1: The Millly did get married. And I promise you I'm
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Speaker 1: not breaking any codes of friendship by being here recording
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Speaker 1: this recap. They all knew what my schedule looked like,
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Speaker 1: and actually the venue was like five minutes away from
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Speaker 1: the studio, so I told them I'm gonna dip off
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Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes. I gotta film this and something else,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna be right back. We're gonnah to keep
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Speaker 1: it shuffle, you know what I'm saying. Before I left,
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Speaker 1: it was dropping like this. All right, I'm gonna tell
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Speaker 1: the DJ runn that back because Kenny Beachman is back
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Speaker 1: in attended, So shout out to my boy love is great.
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Speaker 1: That's not for this show, though. You want to hear
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Speaker 1: me talk about the Cleveland Cavaliers. So before the series started,
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Speaker 1: I picked Cleveland Cavaliers in seven. And the reason I
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Speaker 1: picked that is because this is one of those teams
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Speaker 1: that no matter how bad it can look, because it
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Speaker 1: did look pretty bad and a lot of times in
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Speaker 1: this series versus the Toronto Raptors, there's just something about
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Speaker 1: the talent level on the team that made me feel
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Speaker 1: more comfortable with them over the one seeded Detroit Pistons team.
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Speaker 1: And this game seven was an exact example of the
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Speaker 1: type of ceiling the Caves can play with on the
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Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. Last game, a game of
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Speaker 1: a six, I was very very critical of this team
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Speaker 1: because they had an opportunity to close out a series
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Speaker 1: against the team that had what they showed us in
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Speaker 1: the last round. They are a competitive ass team. They
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Speaker 1: can be down three to one and win. And you
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Speaker 1: had a home game against this team back against the wall,
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Speaker 1: and you just didn't come out to play with any
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Speaker 1: ferocity star players to come out to play. Nobody came
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Speaker 1: out to play, so I gave them everything. I'm like, bro,
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Speaker 1: this is not it. But also on that video, if
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Speaker 1: you remember, I said, but they do still have another
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Speaker 1: opportunity to make things happen, and they made things happen.
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Speaker 1: I was very critical of Donovan Mitchell dada w mitche'
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Speaker 1: iss one of my favorite players in the league. And
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Speaker 1: I think that y'all could get that vibe too, because
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Speaker 1: I am pretty traditionally pretty. I don't know heavy handed
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Speaker 1: when it comes to talking about some of my favorite
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Speaker 1: players when they disappoint, because I got the utmost amount
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Speaker 1: of respect for these guys and expectations for these guys.
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Speaker 1: And in Game six, I thought that don Mitchell played
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Speaker 1: a really horrible game. And I thought that for the
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Speaker 1: majority of the postseason or in this series, he had
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Speaker 1: a really tough time. He had the one half we
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Speaker 1: scored thirty nine points. He had one more game I
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Speaker 1: think he ended up with thirty five. But in the games,
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Speaker 1: in the interim sit in the corner, the processing wasn't great,
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Speaker 1: so on and so forth. This Game seven was exactly
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Speaker 1: the type of Donovan Mitchell performers you need. This is
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Speaker 1: the type of game that could potentially shut up all
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Speaker 1: the doubters about him being the best player on the team.
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Speaker 1: I thought from the very early on the very first
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Speaker 1: possession of the game, his processing looked a lot better.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that bothered me that grinded my
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Speaker 1: gears in game six that a lot of times when
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Speaker 1: it was his turn to facilitate and his turn to
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Speaker 1: get things going, it boiled down to I'm going out
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Speaker 1: that try to get this mismatch and if I can't
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Speaker 1: get it, let's see what happens. And I thought he
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Speaker 1: did a really good job getting downhill early in this one.
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Speaker 1: One of my favorite possessions was that two of my
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Speaker 1: favorite possessions in this game were at the expensive if
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Speaker 1: my boy saw thompsonsar apologize for them, but again throughout
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Speaker 1: the couple the last game, the entire time when he
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Speaker 1: had a star on on him, it was like, I'm
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Speaker 1: not really interested in trying to create. In this one,
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Speaker 1: he gets past him and he throws one up to
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Speaker 1: Evan Mobley, who we get to in a little bit.
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Speaker 1: My next favorite possession is an Evan Mobley possession where
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Speaker 1: they had it where Sar Thompson was guarding him and
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Speaker 1: one thing that I just admire is when a big
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Speaker 1: fellas say this, dude, no matter if he is a
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Speaker 1: third number three and dpo wise, so on and so over,
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Speaker 1: he's smaller than me, I'm gonna put my shoulder now,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put his ass in the basket. And you
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Speaker 1: got that a few different times. I think that this
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Speaker 1: team is elevated when you get these big fellas going early.
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Speaker 1: Jared Allen another great Game seven, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: that is I think Dovin Mitchell started off this game
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Speaker 1: with three assists and I think two of those went
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Speaker 1: to Jared Allen and one of those went to Evan Mobley,
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Speaker 1: and that's what we want to see.
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Speaker 2: We talked about how the entirety of the.
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Speaker 1: Postseason, Dona Mitchell's assists were down and its assist a
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Speaker 1: turnover race show was god awful for a lead guard.
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Speaker 1: Eight assists and I'm looking at it. Zero turnovers in
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Speaker 1: this one. That's great, and a lot of that. He
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Speaker 1: is getting the big fellas, big fellas going. Sam Morel
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Speaker 1: texting to the game, and he likes to fire under
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Speaker 1: the team. Five may threes in the game seven is
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Speaker 1: something that a city like Cleveland will not forget you know,
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Speaker 1: they have been devoid of great performances post Lebron James
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Speaker 1: and for haves to have mister relevant Sam Merrill come
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Speaker 1: out there and hit those five threes and also get
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Speaker 1: to the foul line.
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Speaker 2: It's great.
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Speaker 1: And the defense showed this team is like a Jacklin
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Speaker 1: hide Man. One game, the defense is there, but the
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Speaker 1: offense is not. One game, the offense is there, but
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Speaker 1: the defense is not. And just so happened that in
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Speaker 1: the game seven they got both. I was interested to
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Speaker 1: see that Max Sdrus was gonna be starting for the
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Speaker 1: I think this might have been the first time this
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Speaker 1: entire series where Max Shrews ended up starting because it
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Speaker 1: had been Dan Wade, and Dan Wade had struggled with
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Speaker 1: his shot for the majorit this series, and they said,
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Speaker 1: hey man, though Max shoots and not have a great
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Speaker 1: stat line of you know, only nine points of one
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Speaker 1: to five from three, his impact goes deeper than just shooting.
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Speaker 1: And that's that's great for them. You know, the hustle plays,
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Speaker 1: the steals, the exit possessions, dive on the floor. You
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Speaker 1: felt all of that, and not just this game, but
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Speaker 1: a lot of the games leading up to this one.
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Speaker 1: I do want to revert back to Donovan Mitchell though,
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Speaker 1: because this was just I don't know. Again, as a
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Speaker 1: as a fan of hands, this is one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite postseason performances from him. You know what, did he
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Speaker 1: get the forty foot shot at the end one of
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Speaker 1: these quarters? That's how you should have known that it
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Speaker 1: was on. And they never really allowed the Detroit Pistons
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Speaker 1: to go on to run like some of the other
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Speaker 1: games that they won in the series. Was like, we
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Speaker 1: are the Cavs, We're doing this, but oh here come
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Speaker 1: to Detroit Pistons on their twelve two run to bring
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Speaker 1: it within four. They didn't let that happen at all.
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Speaker 1: We're at the wedding, We're like, this is what happened
5:47
Speaker 1: when basketball podcasters get married during season. We do the
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Speaker 1: reception like we do the ceremony. The reception goes on,
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Speaker 1: everybody eat and then all snapped the game bout the
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Speaker 1: tip off and there was no TV, so we were
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Speaker 1: all hugged around one singular cell phone to watch it,
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Speaker 1: and it was something.
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Speaker 2: I'll never forget.
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Speaker 1: I feel like that's something I'll never forget, even though
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Speaker 1: this game might end up being insignificant because the Cavs
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Speaker 1: might lose in the next round or whatever. I will
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Speaker 1: always remember that at Dare's wedding, not only did we
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Speaker 1: have a great time, but we were all just like,
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Speaker 1: oh man, they doing this to this And eventually eventually
6:17
Speaker 1: ninety percent of people that was trying to watch the
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Speaker 1: game walked away because it was a twenty five point game.
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Speaker 1: Very early, it's like, all right, let's go, let's go dance,
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Speaker 1: let's go get some shots, let's go do this. And
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Speaker 1: little on me was like, yeah, I'll I'll meet you
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Speaker 1: old there, I got, I got some videos to shoot.
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Speaker 1: Super short rotation from the Cleveland Cavalier today. At least
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Speaker 1: until the last couple of minutes of the game, they
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Speaker 1: really ran seven to eight players, so I think it's
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Speaker 1: really important. And Jared Ault again, you get him going
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Speaker 1: very early on. I think that his overall defensive impact
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Speaker 1: goes a long way. But going back to Evan Mobley,
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Speaker 1: this is one of those games you just hope for.
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Speaker 1: I know that it's always going to be a meme
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Speaker 1: about him being mister what eighteen and eight is what
6:51
Speaker 1: they call him, But eighteen and eight can look and
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Speaker 1: feel different, if that makes sense, right. There's some games
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Speaker 1: with eighteen and eighties, like, oh, he did that, but
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Speaker 1: some games eighteen and eight is crazy. At this game
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Speaker 1: he got more than that right the twenty one and twelve.
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Speaker 1: But in that first half, I'm watching Evan Moby look like,
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Speaker 1: you know, the player that a lot of us know
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Speaker 1: he can be on a nightly basis. He just needs
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Speaker 1: to keep that aggression going, that aggression going. So this
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Speaker 1: is a huge, huge win for the Cleveland Cavaliers, and
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Speaker 1: just like that, they got to turn over and go
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Speaker 1: against the New York Knicks. And I think, right I
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Speaker 1: would have to go back and look through their games
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Speaker 1: they played in the regular season. I think right now
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Speaker 1: I'm leaning towards the New York Knicks pretty pretty heavily,
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Speaker 1: I would say, but I do want to do a
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Speaker 1: little bit more research before I give it like a
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Speaker 1: Knickson six or Nixon seven. But what the Cavs just
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Speaker 1: showed us is that they do have a level of
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Speaker 1: getting through adversity, right to blow that Game six and
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Speaker 1: to come out in Game seven in a dangerous place.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sending dangerous because the fans over there in
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Speaker 1: Detroit are amazing, and to be able to from the
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Speaker 1: very early on shut them up. They show you that
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Speaker 1: they can win any series. When Jared Allen did say
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Speaker 1: the life or two Bright, it was in Madison Square Garden.
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Speaker 1: But that also is like four years ago, so I'm
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Speaker 1: not acting like he is. And they are the same
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Speaker 1: team then, And I'm just gonna say shout out to
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Speaker 1: James Harten. Wasn't his prettiest games. Actually it was very
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Speaker 1: far away from his prettiest game. But they won, and
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Speaker 1: that's where we'll leave it at. They won the game.
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Speaker 2: I'm in for Donovnchell on the flip side of it. Thanks.
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Speaker 1: What do we learn about the Detroit Pistons throughout the series?
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Speaker 1: We learned that they have a lot of fight. We
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Speaker 1: learned that they have a lot of dogs. We also
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Speaker 1: learned that Kay Cunningham needs a secondary offensive player alongside him.
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Speaker 1: I saw tweet the other day that said something along
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Speaker 1: the lines of Kay Cunningham and Anthony Edwards are the
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Speaker 1: only stars in the NBA that can say that they
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Speaker 1: don't have help. Somebody quotes tweeted that and Baksy said
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Speaker 1: defense is help, and I one hundred percent agree. I
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Speaker 1: think defense is help, but also Kate Cunningham needs offensive
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Speaker 1: help as well. It's time through out the series where
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Speaker 1: he was super phenomenal thirty nine points, forty five points
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Speaker 1: in the last series as the alpha offensive player in
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Speaker 1: this one, but then you have performances where you don't
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Speaker 1: get that. And luckily in game six, K Cunningham was
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Speaker 1: not the greatest version of himself, but he did have
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Speaker 1: you know, Marcus Sasser stepping up. Danis Jenkins was great
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Speaker 1: in game six, but you always wonder could they replicate
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Speaker 1: that in the game seven? Would it have to be
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Speaker 1: all K Cunningham, And unfortunately none of those guys were
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Speaker 1: really amazing today. Right cade was zero for seven from three.
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Speaker 1: Danis Jenkins got downhill look at him out which is important,
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Speaker 1: but for the most part, I can't look at him
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Speaker 1: as having a phenomenal game. Tobias Harris reverted back to
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Speaker 1: AH that Tobias Harris that had zero points and they
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Speaker 1: close out game. This time he did not have zero,
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Speaker 1: but he only had five free throws and no made
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Speaker 1: field goals. Ausar Thompson, you know, up and down series
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Speaker 1: offensively mostly down, but I think that the next the
9:47
Speaker 1: next step for Asar Thompson. As we're here, he did
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Speaker 1: hit a three in this one, which is like a
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Speaker 1: I think it was like two seconds on the side clock.
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Speaker 1: He actually called for in that corn and I was
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Speaker 1: happy to he called for, he took a three, he
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Speaker 1: hit it. I want to get to you to see
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Speaker 1: a star Thomson gets get better in his processing in
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Speaker 1: a sense, they're like I do think because of how
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Speaker 1: great he is defensively and how he can blow up
10:09
Speaker 1: defensive plays, you have to be extremely smart in order
10:12
Speaker 1: to predict some of the stuff he does defensively. I
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Speaker 1: want to see a lot of the intelligence well over
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Speaker 1: to the offensive side, and I would love for the
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Speaker 1: team around him to maybe evolve a little bit, to
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Speaker 1: add some extra shooting or some extra creation, because I
10:24
Speaker 1: do believe that it can allow a sar thoms to
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Speaker 1: be extra impactful offensively without being a scoring guy, as
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Speaker 1: a screener, as a dribble handoff guy, as a I
10:32
Speaker 1: don't want to use Draymond green light because I feel
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Speaker 1: like a lot of players that aren't great scores and
10:37
Speaker 1: can pass a little bit, we always try to say
10:38
Speaker 1: Draymond green light. But I do think there could be
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Speaker 1: something there throughout the course of his career, because you
10:43
Speaker 1: obviously know that he's thinking the game, but I think
10:45
Speaker 1: there's another level that he can go there as the
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Speaker 1: team gets better around him. Jalen Duran had an amazing
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Speaker 1: Game six to give it all back in Game seven
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Speaker 1: where like everybody was taking his lunch today. This is
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Speaker 1: gonna be a very interesting offseason for that reason alone.
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Speaker 1: He's ellis for so much amount of money because he's
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Speaker 1: probably gonna make All NBA today in a couple of
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Speaker 1: days when they announce it, and he could be up
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Speaker 1: to two hundred million dollars, and I just wonder what
11:08
Speaker 1: that number looks.
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Speaker 2: Like from the Detroit Pistons. I can understand one way
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Speaker 2: or another.
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Speaker 1: You can say, hey, he is twenty two to twenty
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Speaker 1: three years old and it's this second postseason and it
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Speaker 1: wasn't great, but we believe next season, you know, with
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Speaker 1: all this extra experience or the after that, that he
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Speaker 1: will be playing like he was in the regular season
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Speaker 1: the postseason. But I also can see the other side
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Speaker 1: that say, hey, how much money can you pay a
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Speaker 1: player that mostly is a third to maybe fourth option
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Speaker 1: offensively when it matters the most and the defense is good.
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Speaker 1: But it ain't like Chet Holmgren good. It ain't when
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Speaker 1: Ben Yama good or Rudy go bear Good. So is
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Speaker 1: that a two hundred million dollar player. And if you
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Speaker 1: are giving him two one hundred million, you already get
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Speaker 1: Kate Cunningham his extension.
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Speaker 2: What does that leave you with to build the next part.
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Speaker 1: There's some interesting names potentially on the market for them
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Speaker 1: if they wanted to go get secondary creation, because I
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Speaker 1: think that not only do they need to increase that
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Speaker 1: three point shooting, but they also just need somebody that
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Speaker 1: can create in the half court. That was one of
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Speaker 1: the reasons that even though Duncan Robinson was back, Danis
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Speaker 1: Jenkins state in that starting unit because he was one
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Speaker 1: of the guys, like I mentioned earlier, that can get
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Speaker 1: downhill and put other teams in rotation. It really is
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Speaker 1: Kate Cunningham and Jenkins that can do that. Karris the
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Speaker 1: vert can kind of do that at times, but I
12:21
Speaker 1: think Carris the season has been so much down more
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Speaker 1: than up that just having a CJ. McCullum, who will
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Speaker 1: hit free agency this offseason, or someone alone those last
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Speaker 1: can be interesting. I could also see them trying to
12:33
Speaker 1: buy in on straight up shooting. You know, I guess
12:36
Speaker 1: it's a draft combined a lot of people in the
12:38
Speaker 1: know were mentioned named Trey Murphy as a name that
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Speaker 1: could be Gott And I'm not saying that the Pistons
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Speaker 1: are calling for them, but like a guy like that
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Speaker 1: that can add some shooting on all levels of the
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Speaker 1: court could be pretty interesting. But I don't I can't
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Speaker 1: look at this season as a failure whatsoever. Did they
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Speaker 1: make it to the conference finals as the one seed,
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Speaker 1: the dominant regular SIS team. Know, but this team is
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Speaker 1: still one of the youngest in the league, and they
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Speaker 1: just show that they have a lot of heart in
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Speaker 1: a cord that you can trust.
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Speaker 2: For the most part. Outside of maybe Don were.
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Speaker 1: Kay Cunningham, anybody that was doubters of Kate. I mean
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Speaker 1: they probably doubted even more after the Game six and
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Speaker 1: Game seven, but he gave us so many moments in
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Speaker 1: that postseason. I think you kind of a jackass to
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Speaker 1: doubt the man to be the leader of a sixty
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Speaker 1: win team and to have forty five points with your
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Speaker 1: back against the wall in the series thirty nine and
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Speaker 1: another game. I don't know, I don't need to defen
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Speaker 1: Kate cut of down around here. Y'all know what how
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Speaker 1: talented he could be. But every course, every year of
13:32
Speaker 1: his career, He's got better throughout his career so far,
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Speaker 1: so who's to say he can't even be better next
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Speaker 1: year than he is this year. So very far away
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Speaker 1: from a loss of a season, very far away from
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Speaker 1: a from a l I'm interested to see what happens
13:46
Speaker 1: with like a Ron Holland. I'm not saying that they
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Speaker 1: would trade him, but there's so much redundancy between him
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Speaker 1: and Asar Thompson that you saw that very early in
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Speaker 1: the postseason. Let me see how many minutes they played together.
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Speaker 1: Because very I mean very very early in the postseason
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Speaker 1: you saw j Be just say something that we kind
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Speaker 1: of do in the regular season. These brothers cannot play
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Speaker 1: together now the regular season it matters a lot less
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Speaker 1: and you can't put together these weird, funky lineups that
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Speaker 1: teams aren't just over taxing and here or they're In
14:12
Speaker 1: the regular season, they played a total of two hundred
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Speaker 1: minutes together. They were a plus fifteen point six in
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Speaker 1: the regular season, mostly because that defensive rating was a
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Speaker 1: ninety four. And in the postseason they literally did not
14:23
Speaker 1: play a full minute together. They have less than one
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Speaker 1: minute play together in the postseason. That's so interesting to
14:28
Speaker 1: have two hundred minutes in the regular season for Coast
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Speaker 1: to be like, nah, we know this is not gonna work.
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Speaker 1: So congratulations to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Cannot wait to see
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Speaker 1: what they can do against the New York Knicks. I
14:37
Speaker 1: think both of those teams, New York and Cleveland, if
14:39
Speaker 1: we're gonna do like a thirty second preview or can't
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Speaker 1: be offensive juggernauts. I think the Knicks have been offensive
14:45
Speaker 1: juggernauts all postseason long, while the Calves dip into that
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Speaker 1: well every once in a while. But the best version
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Speaker 1: of both of these teams offensively, it's ridiculous. The Knicks
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Speaker 1: defense has been very amazing in the postseason. I wonder
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Speaker 1: how much of that may shift going against a team
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Speaker 1: with double ball over there. Ojiananobi is clear to play
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Speaker 1: Game one, which is gonna be interesting because he adds
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Speaker 1: so much layers, so many more layers for the Knicks
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Speaker 1: offense and defense, and they were just able to beat
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Speaker 1: another same bat fifty with him not playing. So again,
15:13
Speaker 1: I'm leaning heavily towards the New York Knicks first take
15:17
Speaker 1: Nixon six, but I want to go back and rewatch
15:19
Speaker 1: those games.
15:20
Speaker 2: Let me know what you think.
15:22
Speaker 1: I don't know man sounds my boy D mille man
15:24
Speaker 1: Ah that boys Mary love is great.