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The Timberwolves Steal Game 2 vs The Nuggets... · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Another banger banger night in the Association. Y'all. We got
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  Speaker 1: a couple one one splits. They say a series don't
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  Speaker 1: don't start into a road team takes a game. When
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota went into went into Dinver to the game Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: went into. They make them into the game. Those series
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  Speaker 1: Deficsali started, the Cavs series has gotta started. They're up
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  Speaker 1: two old, but damn it's an impressive two old. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about it all in a finite way. I
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting o just straight up near a thirty year
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  Speaker 1: old man with two kids and a wife. The game
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  Speaker 1: wrapping up at twelve thirty Central time is kind of
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  Speaker 1: nuts to me. I gotta be up to get to
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  Speaker 1: the office at seven in the morning, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: even have a like a normal job, So I can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine if you're like a on Central Time or Eastern
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  Speaker 1: Standard Time and you have to be up four to
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  Speaker 1: nine to five and the game is wrapping up at
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  Speaker 1: one point thirty. You didn't watch the end of this game,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a phenomenal game. And if you did
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  Speaker 1: watch the end of this game, you're gonna be tad
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  Speaker 1: as hell in the morning. So NBA give it just dollar,
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  Speaker 1: we don't need a nine to thirty ten. Let's give
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  Speaker 1: us to eight thirty ten, ay thirty ten kits every
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  Speaker 1: solves everything? And has this always been a case and
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  Speaker 1: I just forgot? Or is it just NBC doing this
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  Speaker 1: coast to coasting where the second game is always starting
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  Speaker 1: at nine to thirty ten o'clock. I don't know. Minnesota though,
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  Speaker 1: who Game one was an interesting one for them, where
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  Speaker 1: they started off the first quarter guns blazed and boom boom,
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  Speaker 1: hitting all the shots, running Denver off the court, released
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  Speaker 1: that would it felt like actually did end up being
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  Speaker 1: away right. Yolkis goes to the bench in this first stent,
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  Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets bench do a great job of holding
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  Speaker 1: it down. Then eventually Denver start getting getting things going.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought that Denver last game Game of WORE
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  Speaker 1: probably played like a B minus game, and a B
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  Speaker 1: minus game was enough to beat Minnesota in game one,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, ooh, that's not a good sign.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards is out there labor. Ooh, that's not a
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  Speaker 1: good sign. But in game number two, when they were based,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like they were laying down down by nineteen points.
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  Speaker 1: Early in this game, they fought back, They clawed back
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  Speaker 1: and eventually took this lead and made it a game
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  Speaker 1: and stole the game. You know, a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: early possessions it felt like was Anthony ever was trying
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  Speaker 1: to get his legs Underneathilm taking long shots. Yolkis goes
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  Speaker 1: to the bench and then all of a sudden, when
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  Speaker 1: you know they're by nineteen points, Denver is, we're getting
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  Speaker 1: basket or points at the basket, points at the basket,
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  Speaker 1: points at the basket. It got to a stretch with
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Rostrada was putting his head down to get into
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  Speaker 1: the rim. It's like yes, okay, And he even had
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  Speaker 1: a part. We tweaked this knee again, which is some
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  Speaker 1: scary stuff, but ultimately end up closing this game and
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  Speaker 1: ended up helping him get this win. Huge, huge comeback
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  Speaker 1: from Minnesota. Man down the stretch for Denver. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna call it a fumble. I'm going straight up call
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  Speaker 1: it a fumble. Two best players, Jamal Murray and the
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  Speaker 1: Koli Jokich, who are just two of the best players
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  Speaker 1: in the game. Both of them are gonna make all
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  Speaker 1: NBA appearances, right, Yoki's gonna be an All NBA first team,
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Murray might be second, teen, thirdeen down to stretch
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  Speaker 1: empty possessions, and that's not the way Denver has been historically.
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  Speaker 1: We made a video about a month or two back
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  Speaker 1: basically saying that I'm starting to get worried about the
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  Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets, and a lot of that video is me
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  Speaker 1: talking about how throughout the Yokich and Murray era, at
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  Speaker 1: least the good versions of them, they had always been
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  Speaker 1: a phenomenal clutch team. We knew that when it was
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  Speaker 1: down to the nitty gritty five minutes to go, two
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  Speaker 1: minutes to go, one minute ago, that two man game
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  Speaker 1: between Yokics and Murdray's going generate some open looks, some
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  Speaker 1: good looks. That was not the case tonight, right The
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  Speaker 1: one possession that's gonna stand out, and if whatever happens
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  Speaker 1: in the series, if Denver ends up losing, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if one with series anything can happened. If Denver loses,
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  Speaker 1: the one possession that's gonna be ingrained in my mind
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  Speaker 1: for a very long time is when Jokic is eight
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  Speaker 1: feet away from the basket and float to range. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of taking the floater he passed to Christian Brown. Now
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that make Nikola jokicch a
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  Speaker 1: special ball player. Like there's a lot of reason why
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  Speaker 1: he's not consensus anymore, but for a while he was
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  Speaker 1: consensus the best player in the world. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: why he had held one of the reasons he had
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  Speaker 1: held that for a long time for me is that
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  Speaker 1: he had a go to shot that virtually did not
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  Speaker 1: miss the same way Shay's Mitt Raine jump shot slash
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  Speaker 1: get into the basket. He's a guard that shoots fifty
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  Speaker 1: five percent on twos. Jokic that float to range is
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  Speaker 1: a shot that he makes a thousand times out of
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  Speaker 1: one thousand and two. And for whatever reason, right now,
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  Speaker 1: when that team needed that basket more than anything, he
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  Speaker 1: found a congested Christian Brown who draws a foul. So
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  Speaker 1: not an empty possession, But we're putting the game a
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  Speaker 1: Christian Brown's hands. When this is a shot I've made
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  Speaker 1: all season long. And then the game's got over, right,
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  Speaker 1: you still have another opportunity to make this a game.
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  Speaker 1: Pick and roll Jamal Murray and Nicole okicch Jamal Murray
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  Speaker 1: gets to switch on to Rudy Gobert and in the
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  Speaker 1: game they're down by three with eleven seconds ago, Jamal
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  Speaker 1: Murray takes a heavily contested long two pointer. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: how it ended. So the two guys that had an
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  Speaker 1: ultra clutch all seas like I think on my own
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  Speaker 1: personal ballot, I didn't even know if the NBA has
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  Speaker 1: announced a top three for clutch play here, because nobody
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  Speaker 1: really cares about that. Jamal Murray was one of the
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  Speaker 1: top three clutches players this season on my personal ballot,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean anything. And in this day, in this performance,
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  Speaker 1: they got bad look after bad look. Aaron Gordon hit
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  Speaker 1: a big time three, right everybody else that felt like
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  Speaker 1: we were performing well enough again other than those free
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  Speaker 1: throws that were missed down the stretcher for Denver. But
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  Speaker 1: the two players that you count on the most to
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  Speaker 1: make possessions matter did not make possessions matter, and that
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  Speaker 1: really did hurt them in this one. On the other side,
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  Speaker 1: I thought that Rudy Gobert, though he was in foucher
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of it. This is a second game
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  Speaker 1: in a row. They're like, again, you're not stopping Jokics
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  Speaker 1: one on one. That's we know that It's never been
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  Speaker 1: the case. Nobody's ever been able to do, except for
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  Speaker 1: I guess Alas Carusso for seven minutes in Game seven
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  Speaker 1: of last year's playoffs. Rudy Gobert has done as good
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  Speaker 1: of a job an individual coverage against NICOLEA Jokics as
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  Speaker 1: I've really seen anybody really do. And down to stretching
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  Speaker 1: this one, yeah, he got gam don't want so you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you a top defensive offic gonna be. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of the reason why I've always been a big
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  Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert fan, because though he didn't end this game
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  Speaker 1: with any blocks, if you really are watching the way
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  Speaker 1: the defense transforms or Rudy is out there, you become
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  Speaker 1: a person that admires his defensive impact, right and in
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  Speaker 1: this one against maybe the best player in the world,
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  Speaker 1: he held his own and prevented Jolkic, especially down the stretch,
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  Speaker 1: from getting good looks and extra opportunities and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Jada McDaniel, same thing man, one of those guys. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna make all defensive again. He
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  Speaker 1: seems like a guy that always borders all defensive second
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  Speaker 1: team gets a votes and maybe not make it phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: Down to stretching this one as well man. So they
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  Speaker 1: just had a lot of productions, production from players, and
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  Speaker 1: it's so crazy. I think they foiled five three point
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  Speaker 1: shooters today and I think three or four of those
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  Speaker 1: or four point play opportunity, So like this just felt
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  Speaker 1: like a game that they stole. Dante DiVincenzo was a
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  Speaker 1: plus twenty today. I didn't even really he was a
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  Speaker 1: plus twenty and thirty minutes. Again, plus minus don't tell
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  Speaker 1: you everything, but god damn was when the second highest
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  Speaker 1: plus minuson team is six and you are plus twenty,
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  Speaker 1: they gotta show something. In debbit, the eye test kind
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  Speaker 1: of felt that way. Big shot out the big shot.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that one thing that makes Dante a
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  Speaker 1: really valuable guy outside of just the overall three point shooting,
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  Speaker 1: where like if you give him an open look you
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  Speaker 1: can might you might as well cast it in for three,
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  Speaker 1: is that his playmaking has elevated every single year. Feels
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  Speaker 1: like Julius Randall, I thought was not good in Gain
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  Speaker 1: of one and this one. On both sides of the floor.
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  Speaker 1: You saw his intensity, you know, he came out, took
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  Speaker 1: a couple of shots on to try to get his
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  Speaker 1: feet wet, and I thought, down the defensively, he really
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  Speaker 1: played hard and like he also got into foul trouble.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought that he was playing really decent defense
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  Speaker 1: on Jokicic two in this one before they had to
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  Speaker 1: switch him off because he was in foul trouble and
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  Speaker 1: all so huge win from Minnesota right after game one.
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  Speaker 1: You never want to close the door after game one.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be crazy to do that. But based on Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Edwards's knee and the effort level down the stretch, it
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  Speaker 1: was like, ooh, now we got ourselves a series. And
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  Speaker 1: as y'all know, these recaps are just my initial reactions
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  Speaker 1: to things. A lot of times I rewatch stuff and
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  Speaker 1: then again in the morning, I got a whole another
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  Speaker 1: podcast tape, and so I gotta talk about this again
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  Speaker 1: and maybe a little bit more depth. So go tune
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  Speaker 1: into that pod. Next game, the Knicks crumbled. Oh man, man, man, hell,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't got no dog in this fight. I was
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  Speaker 1: having a lot of fun watching this, So for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it just felt like a normal Knicks game.
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  Speaker 1: Carthony Town is just so impressive the last two performances.
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  Speaker 1: I will say I thought that in game number one,
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  Speaker 1: even though he didn't really start to score for real
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  Speaker 1: to like the fourth quarter. I thought his impact was
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  Speaker 1: really decent, screen setting, hockey assists, so on and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: and this one even better until we got to the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter where the brother did not touch the ball.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like that's one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: happens a lot with the New York Knicks. You have
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  Speaker 1: one of the clutchest players in the league, and Jayallen
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  Speaker 1: Brunton on your team, so you wanna want to ride
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  Speaker 1: him through through all the adversity of late games. But
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta let the big fella be the big fella,
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  Speaker 1: especially in a game like this where he had it going,
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  Speaker 1: but it was all Jalen Brunton all the time. And
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  Speaker 1: though JB hit a lot of good shots, that's one
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  Speaker 1: of the real like one of the stagnations of their
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  Speaker 1: offense is one of the reasons why they struggled to
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  Speaker 1: close out this game. Mike Brown did some interesting stuff
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  Speaker 1: in this one. I'll be interested as a positive. I
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  Speaker 1: guess it's still up in the air on whether or
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  Speaker 1: not the Knicks had a time out. I saw E
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  Speaker 1: I and EGO on the call a saend the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: would definitely call the time out here they did it,
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  Speaker 1: and mickail Bridge went on and took that terrible shot.
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  Speaker 1: And then I was looking up on Twitter and they say, no,
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks didn't have a time out. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: whether he had a time out or not. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: completely sure. But in the let me let me talk
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  Speaker 1: about this in two different ways. In the world where
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  Speaker 1: he did have a timeout and thenn't call it, I
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  Speaker 1: could see people be a very critical of it. And
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  Speaker 1: I can understand that because Michel Bridges missed the shot
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't a good look. Why don't we slow
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  Speaker 1: things now call time out every team? Don't have Steph
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  Speaker 1: Curry against OKC back in twenty six I forget what
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  Speaker 1: year it was where you could just not call time out.
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  Speaker 1: He could hit him forty five foot shots a game.
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  Speaker 1: Game you but also down the stretching this one, the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks stationary half court defense was causing problems for
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks. So again, in this hypothetical world where they
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  Speaker 1: do have a timeout and he didn't call it, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of understand of letting the chips fall with their mate,
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  Speaker 1: because we have struggled to just score off their balls
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  Speaker 1: in the first place. They had a possession a few
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  Speaker 1: times before that where Mike Brown did call a timeout,
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  Speaker 1: it was ten seconds left on the shot clock, and
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  Speaker 1: he drew up a play and they basically got a
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  Speaker 1: shot clock valation out of a timeout, right. I think
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  Speaker 1: it ended up being an old John Andobe bad shot
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  Speaker 1: that hit the rim, but ultimately led to Atlanta getting
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  Speaker 1: the ball immediately. So in his mind, again, assuming they
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  Speaker 1: did have a time out, maybe it is better that
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: we just go while they're not back and we're not back,
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  Speaker 1: we just let basketball play now in the word that
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  Speaker 1: they don't have a timeout, Josh Harp found an open man.
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  Speaker 1: But on the other side, streaking down the right side
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  Speaker 1: of the court, was the guy that actually won clutch
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  Speaker 1: player to your last season. So, like you know, you've
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  Speaker 1: made a decision. And with Cal Bridges is always and
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  Speaker 1: I mean always going to take the MIDI Now, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a ton of time to get to the
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  Speaker 1: basket and Jalen Johnson was there, but I just knew
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  Speaker 1: that when that ball hit his hands, the shot that
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  Speaker 1: he takes every game all gang long was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the shot that he takes. So back to Mike Brown,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Brown played this a little bit in game of
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  Speaker 1: a one. It didn't hurt them too much in Game one.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't see and I'm not even a coach.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Brown knows he's forgotten more basketball than I will
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  Speaker 1: ever know at the end of the day. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: a guy that sits in his room and watch and
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  Speaker 1: take notes. I don't know how you can run any
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  Speaker 1: lineups as the New York Knicks that don't have Jaylen
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  Speaker 1: Brunson or Cartony talented. You just I mean, you're you're
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  Speaker 1: a deep team, a talented team, but you're not that
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  Speaker 1: damn deep. You're not that damn talented. We take two
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  Speaker 1: all Oliba caliber offensive players off the court for eight minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I think I ended up being eleven total minutes where
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  Speaker 1: those guy neither one of those guys was on the court,
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  Speaker 1: which is mind blowing. Just stagger just like every other
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  Speaker 1: star duo in the NBA history. Just stagger them. There
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  Speaker 1: should never be a time a big Cat and jayleb
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  Speaker 1: Brunson or not in the courts. And they lost those
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  Speaker 1: minutes by a lot, and maybe I think it might
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  Speaker 1: have been eight total minutes. And they lost those minutes
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  Speaker 1: by eleven not eleven minutes. And they lost by eight.
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  Speaker 1: One of those numbers is right. So that is like
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  Speaker 1: one of the biggest things. And you know, things happen
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  Speaker 1: like Season McCollum. You know, I was thinking to myself
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  Speaker 1: and I think CJ talked about this this postgame interview
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  Speaker 1: about he can't be a villain, and I truly do
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  Speaker 1: believe the season McCullum is too nice of a guy
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  Speaker 1: to be a villain. Even fuck CJ. McCullum. Chance, don't
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  Speaker 1: hit like a fuck Tree Young. That's trade and young.
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  Speaker 1: That's two total syllables for his entire name. CJ. McCullum.
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  Speaker 1: That's too long of a chant. So you can't make
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  Speaker 1: him the villain. You just can't. You gotta five somebody
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  Speaker 1: else on the team. You can't say mogag because he
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  Speaker 1: got injured, but Mogan that's too syllable. It gotta be
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  Speaker 1: a too syllable Tony, Tony Bradley, Corey kissed ah nah.
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  Speaker 1: Fuck the Hawks keep it simple, you know. But Season McCollum,
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  Speaker 1: down to stretch my goodness. Talk about the main questions
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  Speaker 1: you can have about the New York Nicks. Can you
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  Speaker 1: win a championship when you got this deficion of a
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  Speaker 1: guard defensively and on the back end you got Ca
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Towns. Could you win a championship? Damn it? A
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: game like this make your question it because CJ. McCollum
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  Speaker 1: is putting that boy Jaylen brust in the matches him
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  Speaker 1: in that baby bang Ce McCollum smack out. So they
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: won this game where all star Jalen Johnson did not
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  Speaker 1: play particularly well. Right, A lot of his buckets came
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  Speaker 1: and transition. Some of them came at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game where it didn't really matter. It's a twenty
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  Speaker 1: point per game scored to Kells and the Walker also
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  Speaker 1: did not have a good offensive game. I shall say
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  Speaker 1: Dyson Daniels Pace couldn't even close the game because of
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  Speaker 1: the lack of offensive production from him, and they were
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  Speaker 1: still able to go into the Garden and win this
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: game behind CJ. McCullum and Jonathan Kaminga. I thought that
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  Speaker 1: a game number one, or not just game number one,
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  Speaker 1: just the entirety of the Jonathan Minga experiences he has
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  Speaker 1: come to Atlanta is a is a mixed bag of
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: why the hell is he doing that? And I understand
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  Speaker 1: why he's doing that? And today was I understand why
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  Speaker 1: he's doing this stept for one of the threes he
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  Speaker 1: took with twenty two seconds on the shock like it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you might, You're not Steph Curry, You're not
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  Speaker 1: just even as teammate anymore. To make that green light
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  Speaker 1: really a thing, huge win for Atlanta one of the
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  Speaker 1: major factors going into the series that I thought was
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: really really interesting. And if you watch the POT, you've
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: heard me say this, but I know everybody here doesn't
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: watch the pod. The last time they played against each other,
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  Speaker 1: right in the regular season, great game. That was a
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  Speaker 1: game that ended with Sison McCullum through the half course
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  Speaker 1: shot up and it went in, but it was on
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  Speaker 1: his fingertips and it didn't count. The Atlanta Hawks at
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  Speaker 1: one point opted to put wings on car Anthony Towns,
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  Speaker 1: and that made it very interesting for me because when
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  Speaker 1: they did that, Mike Brown and the New York Knicks
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  Speaker 1: went on to run a ton of pick and roll
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  Speaker 1: with car Anthony Towns and Jalen Brunson in this game,
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: just like in Game of one, they started off with
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Carnthony Town's being guarded by a big but down the
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: stretch at one point, Quinn Snyder's flipped it. He flipped
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: it to be a wing instead of a big, and
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: the offense just stopped happening for the New York Knicks. Now,
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: I don't think that stuff you try to run for
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: the entirety of the forty eight minutes. I think it's
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: something you gotta come back to. But I thought that
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: was an amazing adjustment when he made it for Quinn Snyder,
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: So shout out to him. And we got ourselves a
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: seer man. Mogag gets injured and Tony Bradley, who just
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: got signed four days ago, plays a quarterworth of back
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: twelve minutes. He played a quarterworth of basketball today and
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: guess what didn't hurt the team. He had the stat
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: line of two points, one turnover, one block, one steal,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: one assists, one rebound. Talk about it now, it would
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: have been better if you only had one point. But
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: huge game for Atlanta. It's still crazy to me that.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: And Yaka Kang was just straight up a three point shooter. Lastly,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: we definitely not spend as much time on this game
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: than the first two. The Cavaliers continue to take care
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: of business. Gets to Toronto Raptors. We talked about brandon
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Ingram in his post game interview saying that coach went
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: to use me as a screener and that's one of
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: the reasons why I only took one shot, and I
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: told y'all straight up, I'm not buying this shit. And
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: in game number two, he took fifteen shots and he
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: missed almost all of them. Drive it off his fit
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: a couple different times, bad passes. It was just overall
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: not a good brandon Ingram game. And he is there
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: one of their offensive endiness. I gotta give a lot
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: of credit to RJ. Barrett because in the half court
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: offensively tonight, he was amazing. Scottie Barnes tried to make
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: a semi transition and tried to make fast breaks happen
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: even off makes, and you gotta admired that because that's
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: one of the only ways this team can really put
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: up much of a fight. But in game number one,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: they got a great shooting performance from everybody, and in
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: game number two, they did not have anybody shoot the
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: ball well from three, and they just don't have the talent.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Yakaperda gets benched, and it makes sense cause he's just
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: not He can't guard James Harden on the pick and roll.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: He just can't. He's too slow. So when James is
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: putting him in at them actions, there's he's not adding
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: any value to to the defense. So coming out of halftime,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: they say, Hey, the rook the rookie like Cala Murray
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Boys has been phenomened. We're gonna We're gonna go out
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: with the rook And I thought that mattered, right. They
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: had a couple of big runs in this game when
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray Boys was just the Sol five men, if
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: you will out there, and there was some interesting stuff
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: that Darko was trying to do. But at the end
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: of the day, the two best offensive players in the
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: series play on the same team. James Harden another phenomenal game.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell just pin him in for thirty every playoff
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: game at this point, you know, And because James Harden
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: is solely through as a as a creator and Donavin
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Mitchell is still seeing secondary defenders, Evan Mobley is able
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: to drop twenty five points on Meggie fishing numbers because
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: it just becomes that easy for them. And they had
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: this game where like Max Drews hits two three sammure
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: like the others didn't even shoot well kean Ellis was
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: over four for three and they still really took care
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: of business. It was only one small spot where it's like, oh,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: here come the Raptors. It never happened. So up two
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: oh and like we said earlier, the series may not
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: start until the home team loses or the orld team wins,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and the Calves are just taking care of business at home.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: They got to go into Toronto and get a win
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: before I guess this series starts. But I think it.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I can't say it's over, but it feels like, you know,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: they just don't have the offensive punch to really hang.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: And it's not even saying that the Calves offensive punch
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: has been Here's one hundred and fifty point. Today they
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: held them to one fifteen, which I think is a
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: pretty decent defensive game for them. They just don't have
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: the offense. They just don't have the offense. Man just
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: out to the Calves man. They're on the right side
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: of the bracket. And I ain't trying to put the
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this saying wrong again. Put the carrots
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: before the horse. But like, if they take care of
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: business against Toronto and in the next round they got
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Detroit or Orlando, because that or Orlando is a real possibility.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Now you might think Calves hmm,