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My Goodness, Jalen Brunson… · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Twenty two points. Twenty two That was the lead the
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  Speaker 1: Calves had in this game with seven minutes and fifty
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  Speaker 1: two seconds left. They lost by eleven. They were up
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  Speaker 1: by twenty two points with about eight minutes to go,
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  Speaker 1: and they lost by eleven. One of the biggest collapses
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  Speaker 1: you'll ever see in the postseason, one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: comebacks you'll ever see in the postseason. My goodness, this
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  Speaker 1: might be one of the shortest recaps you have, because
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  Speaker 1: for three and a half quarters of it, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: writing notes about how great the Cleveland Cavaliers look. You
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  Speaker 1: would have never guessed. Just two days ago they just
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  Speaker 1: played a game seven Detroit, hopped on the red. I
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  Speaker 1: ended up in New York City to play against the
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  Speaker 1: hot well not the hottest seam with league' My god,
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  Speaker 1: you show his first thing, You'll say, to play against
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  Speaker 1: one of the hottest teams left. I was so ready
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  Speaker 1: to give all the big ups to Donovan Mitchell because
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  Speaker 1: I just knew he was having a good time. First
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  Speaker 1: round he got Scottie Barnes and Kylin Murray Boyles. I
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  Speaker 1: can't do nothing. Second round he gets a sord Thomson.
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  Speaker 1: I can't nothing. And now It's like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: you could get the switches of Jalen Brunton and Carton
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  Speaker 1: the Towns and a picker Broland. He was feasting for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of his game. I was so ready to
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  Speaker 1: talk about Sam Merrill having another time where he looked
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  Speaker 1: like a star role player in his role. I really
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed what I was seeing from Evan Mowgley. Defensively, they
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  Speaker 1: generated every shot they wanted to in the first three
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  Speaker 1: and a half quarters. I thought that this time here
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  Speaker 1: Karthony Towns looked awful Defensively. I think that Jalen Brunton,
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  Speaker 1: of course, was getting hunted but not holding his own.
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  Speaker 1: And then the shift happened, and then Jalen Brunton turned
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  Speaker 1: into Superman whoever you want to get I dead ass,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm watching this game in my office like I
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  Speaker 1: normally do. When Jalen Brunton had already scored eight straight
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  Speaker 1: points and then he hit the step back three over hardened,
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  Speaker 1: I belly laughed, straight up, belly laughed. My wife asked me,
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  Speaker 1: what's so funny? Like I was watching TikTok So, watching
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  Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle or or classic Martin Lawrence, But no, I
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  Speaker 1: was laughing at the fact that this man is six
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  Speaker 1: foot one and he is tearing up a team when
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  Speaker 1: he was down by twenty two points with seven minutes
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  Speaker 1: and fifty two seconds left. That's one of the best
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  Speaker 1: heaters you gonna see. All things consider fourth quarter over time.
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  Speaker 1: I was genuinely surprised that that twenty two point lead
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  Speaker 1: ended up decimate descipe, you know the word I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 1: Before Kenny Akinson started to call time and also be
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  Speaker 1: fort Kenny Akxon started to make some adjustments for Kenny
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  Speaker 1: Akxon tried to do this. It was just straight up
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunton on an island with James Harden and we
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  Speaker 1: talked about it all postseason. On hell, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about it for the last two years of
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  Speaker 1: James Harden. He does not stand in front of anybody.
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  Speaker 1: His former defense is letting you get past him and
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  Speaker 1: him reaching around trying to get that swipe steel or
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  Speaker 1: that back steal. And he actually I was so pissed
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  Speaker 1: off him early in this game, but they were up
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  Speaker 1: about so much that I ain't writing in my notes.
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  Speaker 1: But now it's just reminded at me now that they
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  Speaker 1: lost i'mna bring it u at times like that. James
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  Speaker 1: Harden is almost forty years old. The man is he's
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  Speaker 1: oh he and it's never like he was a super
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  Speaker 1: great defender. But at the end of the day, he's
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  Speaker 1: a super old NBA player. So him not being able
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  Speaker 1: to stand in front of Jalen Bronson, fine, him not
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  Speaker 1: being able to stay in front of Kate Cunningham, fine.
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  Speaker 1: But there was a play where Karl Anthony Towns hit
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  Speaker 1: the ball on the left wing and Carlington Towns walked
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  Speaker 1: his way right past James Harden, not bullied him, not
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  Speaker 1: using any contact, just straight up walk past, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just like, oh my goodness. But I think James Harden
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  Speaker 1: actually did use that wrap around steel thing and he
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  Speaker 1: did poke it loose, but it still landed in the
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  Speaker 1: hands of someone else in the Knick score. But for
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  Speaker 1: him to be on an island like that, I listen.
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  Speaker 1: My level of basketball playing was super low sophomore year,
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  Speaker 1: and I barely played sophomore year, barely played sophomore year.
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  Speaker 1: The level of embarrassment I would have if I was
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  Speaker 1: on an island and a dude was cooking me time
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  Speaker 1: and time again. I'm not the type to ask for
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  Speaker 1: a sub about but I'm the type to act like
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  Speaker 1: my ankle hurt. That's yeah, I'm that tight. That didn't
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  Speaker 1: happened for James. I was really as I was going
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  Speaker 1: through and watching the greatness that is Jaylen bronceon the
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  Speaker 1: entire time. I'm also simultaneously disappointed in Kenny Atkinson for
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  Speaker 1: not doing a goddamn thing throughout the entirety of this run.
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  Speaker 1: I think he used one of his two timeouts during
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  Speaker 1: this one, or maybe that's not true. He may have
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  Speaker 1: had two timeouts leading into their last possession with sam
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  Speaker 1: Meryrol missed the toilet bowl shot, and then I bet
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  Speaker 1: he's really pissed. I bet Cavs fans are really pissed,
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  Speaker 1: not just because they lost his game, not just because
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  Speaker 1: they blew their lead, but because in overtime when he
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  Speaker 1: finally sub back in Max Streus, guess what Max shustdon't do.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't concede the switch on the screen. Bro. I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about it for years. One of my least favorite
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  Speaker 1: things is how easily teams and players can see the
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  Speaker 1: switch when you know that's what they're going for. Jaylen
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  Speaker 1: Bronton just scored let me quick, let me open up
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  Speaker 1: my app real quick. Fourth quartery, he scored fifteen. Over time,
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  Speaker 1: you only score two. I don't know why. Maybe it
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  Speaker 1: all sink together. Score betweens overtime and fourth thirtyer scored
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  Speaker 1: seventeen points all back, getting his favorable matchup. He's just
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  Speaker 1: gonna give it to him every single time and hope
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  Speaker 1: that he missed. He didn't miss. He just straight up
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  Speaker 1: didn't miss. And then Max Struz, who had been a
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  Speaker 1: competitive defensive player all last series, in the series before that,
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  Speaker 1: it was on the bench, and he finally gets in
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  Speaker 1: in the last two minute. First of all, I think
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  Speaker 1: he had the three to make it like a six
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  Speaker 1: point game, and then he did not concede the switch
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  Speaker 1: and got the ball out of Jaylen Brons his hands.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine if he was playing instead of Jared Allen, who
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  Speaker 1: there was no advantage that was. This is what you
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  Speaker 1: have to continue. And I'm not trying to tell kittyaks
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  Speaker 1: out of coach. I mean, my goodness, he's an amazing coach,
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  Speaker 1: as we know. But this is what the playoffs are about.
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  Speaker 1: The playoffs are about finding the advantages and maximizing your advantages.
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  Speaker 1: And with Jared Allen and Evan Mobley on the court
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch, because at times in this game that
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  Speaker 1: duo was playing really amazing together, but at times down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch, they weren't creating any extra possessions by going
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  Speaker 1: extra big. They weren't getting stops by being extra big.
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  Speaker 1: So why don't we go to the other direction. Why
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  Speaker 1: not get our most competitive defensive player out there, the
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  Speaker 1: guard their superstar. It took way too long to yank
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  Speaker 1: Jared Allen out of this one, way too long to
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  Speaker 1: yank him out of this game, and eventually did, and
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  Speaker 1: it was just it was just too late. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of the conversations is gonna be Jaylen Bronson, and for
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  Speaker 1: good reason. The guy was ridiculous again. Seventeen points between
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and overtime. Just steady, steady guy, and
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  Speaker 1: just some of the shot making shot taken, even the
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  Speaker 1: times he's trying to draw contact and trying to draw
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  Speaker 1: fouts and the not calling, and he's still has the
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the mental, I don't know geometry to
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  Speaker 1: hit the backboard the exact way that needs to be
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  Speaker 1: done while he's trying to also draw contact high off
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  Speaker 1: the glass, slow off the glass off of over here,
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  Speaker 1: off over here. He truly is a pleasure to truly
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  Speaker 1: truly is so he is gonna be the guy that
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  Speaker 1: gets talked about the most today and for good reason.
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  Speaker 1: But I also want to give credit to so many
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  Speaker 1: other people throughout this run. It's not just about putting
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  Speaker 1: the ball in the basket, it's about preventing the other
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  Speaker 1: team from doing that too, right O. Giananoviy was phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: defensively in this one. I mean, we know that he's
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  Speaker 1: probably gonna make All Defensive team. Whenever the hell they
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  Speaker 1: announced it. I don't winning they announced it all in
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  Speaker 1: being all defensive. I have no idea he's probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: make it. And this is his first game in two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: they mentioned on the broadcast. And offensively, there were times
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  Speaker 1: where you looked at him he ain't got the same bounce.
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  Speaker 1: I think one time he tried to catch a post
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  Speaker 1: that didn't really do it. But defensively he was all
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  Speaker 1: letting the bag of chips. And also Landry goddamn shammit
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  Speaker 1: Lanji Shammitt was fighting through, he was denying ball. He
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  Speaker 1: was amazing in this one. Seventeen minutes plus twenty five
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  Speaker 1: in those seventeen minutes, he had two big o' threes,
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  Speaker 1: another one of them toilet ball threes that falls through
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  Speaker 1: and one and he didn't have to take like they
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  Speaker 1: could have just wasted a little bit more time, but
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  Speaker 1: he felt the confidence in his own shot. He took
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  Speaker 1: the three and bang it was down. So, of course
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  Speaker 1: defense is as a team thing, but those two guys
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  Speaker 1: stood out to me in that fourth quarter about their
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  Speaker 1: aggression level and how they were preventing the other star
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  Speaker 1: players from doing the things they had done for the
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  Speaker 1: first three quarters of this. So shout out to those twos.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a car Anthony Towns game. Let me
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  Speaker 1: check the group chat, because the group chat was going. Board.
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  Speaker 1: The group chat was going I said, some Towns is playing,
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: so goddamn goofy right now. I can't take it. That
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  Speaker 1: was my first text to them at nine to nineteen
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  Speaker 1: watching his game, and I came off the top of
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  Speaker 1: my mind remember exactly what he did, but if I
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  Speaker 1: had to guess, it was him hard driving to the rim,
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  Speaker 1: not getting the call, falling onto the camera people and
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  Speaker 1: kicking his legs up and not getting back on defense.
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  Speaker 1: One of them led to a Donova Mitchew three on
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  Speaker 1: the wing that just like killed a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: momentum that the Knicks were having. And then when the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks were in their run, he grabbed Jared Allen's arm
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  Speaker 1: on an offensive foul when they were in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of like an eleven to one run. And I'm just like, bro,
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  Speaker 1: some of the fouls, the turnovers, all of it, Like
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  Speaker 1: this was a This was not the Carton Towns. We
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  Speaker 1: just watched the last series or the series before that,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm hoping this is just just roster because they
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  Speaker 1: had him played it with nine games, nine days or
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  Speaker 1: whatever a because that was just not good. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to give any credit down the stretch, like
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned O Johnnan Nooby and Lanza Shamus defense, Carnton
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  Speaker 1: Town still held the back end of this one, as
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  Speaker 1: everybody just kind of watched James hard and dribble, including
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  Speaker 1: the superstar on their team, Dono Minchew, who I just
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know what happens here. I thought he
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  Speaker 1: was playing such a great game, even I think through
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  Speaker 1: the first three quarters he had six steels. He ends
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  Speaker 1: with six steals, his career high in any game he's
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  Speaker 1: played at the professional level. But I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: he happened in these games for Don Dona. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he just gets gassed or whatever, but I
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  Speaker 1: just want him to have the ball down the stretching
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  Speaker 1: close games over James Harden. I mean, you can play
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  Speaker 1: it by ear fill out the game, but James Harden
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  Speaker 1: was just bad tonight and Don Minchell was not. So
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  Speaker 1: I just want the ball in his hands a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe that's just me being selfish and
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  Speaker 1: wanting to see the best player had the ball in
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  Speaker 1: the best moments. I like the aggression from Evam Mobley.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit too many threes in this one.
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  Speaker 1: He was really trying though, he was really trying. He
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  Speaker 1: was cleaning the glass and everything. Mike Breen had a
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  Speaker 1: pre bangload up on that Sam Merril shot. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: saying all of this about the Nixon their amazing comeback
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  Speaker 1: and all, but it was one shot that went like this,
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  Speaker 1: went down and then came out. Mike Breen on the
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  Speaker 1: call says, Meryl for three boo rims out. You heard
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  Speaker 1: the He was about the man he might have called
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  Speaker 1: the biggest bang of the night because he had already
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  Speaker 1: called one earlier and it rolled out, and that's what
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: basketball is. That's this league. Man. You go from being
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  Speaker 1: on cloud nine because we're going into the top seed
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  Speaker 1: and we're winning through three and a half quarters, so,
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: oh my god, we're about to blow this game. So,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, our best shooter, one of our best shooters,
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  Speaker 1: has a wide open look and he might it might
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  Speaker 1: go in too, Oh my goodness. And overtime, how would
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  Speaker 1: say scoring overtime? Let me quickly look at this, and
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  Speaker 1: overtime they or three points to the fourteen for the
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: New York Knicks. So, oh, Michil Bridges, I'm sorry, Michale
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: Mchal Bridges. In the fourth quarter. He ended up having
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  Speaker 1: six points in this one, and two of those threes.
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  Speaker 1: One was in the corner, one was above the break,
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  Speaker 1: huge trees back. I think they were within like a
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  Speaker 1: possession of each other. I love the aggression we're getting
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  Speaker 1: from him. Again. You all know he's gone through that slump,
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  Speaker 1: that mental slump at the end of the regular season
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  Speaker 1: and leading into the postseason where like I think one
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  Speaker 1: of the games he literally scored zero points and everybody
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: was conversating about five first round picks, and this one
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was pretty damn good. The two threes
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  Speaker 1: that he hit super super impactful. The thing I just
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  Speaker 1: love about what Michel is doing right now is some
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: of the times he's literally putting his head down to
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  Speaker 1: get into the basket. He has a he still does
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  Speaker 1: have that fear of getting to the foul line for
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  Speaker 1: whatever reason. One of the times he got to the
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  Speaker 1: basket and did this double clutch that he didn't need
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  Speaker 1: to do because there was a defender there that might
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  Speaker 1: have contested it. I don't know what. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he has this the fear of contact or the
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  Speaker 1: fear of the free throw line, whatever, but he never
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  Speaker 1: wants to go there. But it hadn't it hadn't mattered
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  Speaker 1: in this game alone. So he was great. Mitchell. They
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: went to hacker Mitch at part of this game. That's
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: always gonna be something you have to deal with. He
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: was too of eight from the free throw line, but
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: he did give some good energy on the glass. As always,
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Aks was trying stuff. We did get to see
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  Speaker 1: Kean Ellis playing this one a couple turno was one
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  Speaker 1: in the corner where just slid off his hands when
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  Speaker 1: it was like one second on the shot clock. Surprise,
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: he didn't see Thomas Bryant because my goodness, is Kenny
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: Akuson love to play Thomas Brian in game one to
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  Speaker 1: game two as a series, and then he eventually finds
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: out by game three Thomas Brian should probably not be
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: played in the series. But we got zero minutes in
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: that today, Steve in the right direction, zero minutes of
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: Jalen Tyson as well. I just realized that, Okay, New
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: York Knicks ridiculous. Jalen Brunson. I've always had an affinity
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: for small guards as someone that was not was small,
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: that is small, and did play the guard position once
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: upon a time. I'm trying to think of my my,
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: my personal Amount Rushmore, no disrespect is Zeke, who is
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  Speaker 1: an all times small guard. But I didn't get to
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: see Zeke. My Mount Rushmore small guards has to be
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Chris Paul of course, Alan Iverson of course, Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 1: of course. And then who's that last guy. I'm gonna
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: leave that one up to y'all. Y'all let me know
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: who should be on that Mount Rushmore of small guards.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: Let's say, over the last twenty six years. Make it
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: easy so people ain'ting, Oh, you should have had Tiny Archibald.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: I wasn't around for Tiny Archibald, damn it. But it
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: probably should be Tiny Archibald because they literally gave him
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: the nickname tiny. And now that I say that, tiny Archibald,
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: how how how tiny was Tiny Archibald six' one. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty, that's pretty deecy sixty. Oh no, he deserved
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: tiny archsball. He was one hundred and fifty pounds playing
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  Speaker 1: in this Oh my goodness, he was one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty pounds. He made three All NBA first teams as
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty pounds NBA player, and he was
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: getting He shot eleven free throws a game one year.
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  Speaker 1: He was getting his ass beat. I need to go
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: buy some Tiny Archiball film. Do they got it? From
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three? I don't know. South to jaylen Bronci
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  Speaker 1: dog straight, straight, straight up killer