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NBA Playoff Recap; Plus Live Reaction to Lakers/Nuggets Game 5! · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to another episode, episode number forty
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five of the so called sports analyst. Josh. How you doing. I'm
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doing good man, just enjoying some basketball. Had a good productive day watching
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the Lakers and Nuggets. To duke it out right now, Yeah, no,
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we're gonna be multitasking right here, doing doing two of our jobs at
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once. Oh yeah. And then, Josh, I know this off topic,
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but I saw that post of at five am. This is me at
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five am after the cycling class. I'm not I'm not gonna lie. No
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shade to some of those other people. They kind of looked a little fucked
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up. I'm not gonna lie after that cycling class. Yeah, I'm not.
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They look pretty dead. I don't think I look good. I just
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looked like dang, I just sweated, like yeah, yeah, no for
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real. But all right, before those john't know i'd be training for triathlons
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and stuff like that, so I'd be cycling, running, swimming and doing
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the whole thing. So yes, yes, but all right, before we
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and get into it. So these last two episodes they've been NFL podcast,
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but we're going back to NBA and we're gonna just give a quick recap of
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what's happened so far, and we're gonna start in the Eastern Conference between the
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Boston Celtics and Miami Heat before we get into the exact games. Just how
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you're feeling from this series, Josh. Honestly, Phil, I feel like
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it should be going this way. But I do think the Miami Heat are
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playing a lot better than people think that they are playing based off score,
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Like if you really watch the games, like they're trying, like they're trying
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really hard with what they got. Eric Sposer's picking up a game plan,
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They're playing good defense. They try storming back too much to handle a loaded
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Boston Celtics team to a depleted Miami Heat team without Jimmy Butler, And we
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saw it in what specific game and game two where yeah, they absolutely the
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game plan worked perfectly. Is so it just It sucks that the he are
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not at their full strength, but the Celtics are just cruising by in some
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of these games, and that that's the reason they're the number one seeds.
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Yeah. I I think Game two there was just an aberration. I said,
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Miami, they're gonna win a game. But they also made twenty three
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threes instead of franchise record, and I think that was more just the Boston
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Celtics being disengaged. If the Boston Celtics are engaged and they're and they're giving
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playoff effort, they're gonna beat the Miami Heat easily, which they've done in
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game one, game three, in Game four, and it the score,
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it it doesn't do any justice, but it shows how good the Boston Celtics
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are. And they have a chance ants on Wednesday to wrap up the series
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because they're up three to one right now, and and so I think they're
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gonna do that. I don't know about you, Josh. Do you think
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that that they're gonna wrap up this series? Yeah? I can see them
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wrapping it up. I think the I think the Heat may put up a
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good fight because every spos is gonna come out come out firing. Of course,
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no, Christops Perzinga's more than likely for Boston in the nickt game,
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so they that may be where Bam kind of shines a little bit more,
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even though Christops not a great defender, but it's still someone in front of
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you at the end of the day. But I can the Celtics. I
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think they will close it out in game five. All right, and we're
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back and we were talking about or we just finished up with the Boston Celtics
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and Miami Heat series. Now we're going on to the New York Knicks versus
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the Sixers. The Knicks are up three to one in this series right now,
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have a chance to close out Tuesday. Josh, how have you been
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feeling about this series? You picked the Knicks, so how are you feeling.
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I'm feeling. Like I said it, you can't rely only on Jalen
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Brunson, but damn it, let's rely only on Jalen Brunton because he is
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doing everything and anything he possibly can to win these games. Game four drop
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forty eight points, basically averaging thirty two points per game I think in this
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series. Yeah, so he's out. He's out performing Joelanbid. He's easily
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the best player on the court night in, night out, night out in
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this series, and he's just showing up for his team when they need him
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the most and big shout. I think Mitchell Robinson has held his own quite
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well against Joel and Bbie. I understand joelan BID's always gonna get his,
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but based off like on the boards and disrupting some shots that I think Mitchell
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Robinson's playing a good role in this series. Yeah, no, he is.
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And one thing that I thought is that the Knicks role players were gonna
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be out played by the Sixers role players, and that's been the exact opposite.
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Josh Harden game one and even in Game two. Those were big guys
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right there, Dante DiVincenzo and Jalen Brunson. He was gonna get his no
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matter what. And I know people they're gonna say, Joel Embiid, well,
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he he's injured. He's still a top five player when injured. Jalen
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Brunson he's reaching that top five level. And it just sucks because Josh,
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you know this. I was high on the Knicks the entire year, then
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I switched up on it. I'm not gonna switch back now. I could
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see I could see the Sixers somewhat coming back here. I'm not what I
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was the opposite. Yeah, yeah, we just switched sides. That's what
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we pretty much did. But I think the way this series is going so
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far, I say, New York in seven, I really think that Philly
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is gonna win these next two games here. I know New York it's gonna
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be a hostile crowd, but I think it's gonna get back to Game seven
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and the Knicks are gonna find a way to pull this off. What are
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you thinking, Josh, I think Spike Lee and Tyree's Max he get in
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a fight before the Sixers win the next two games. I think it's done
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in five. Okay, Okay, anything else you want to say from this
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one? No, this shouts out Jalen Brunson. Dog, you know I
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ain't never seen I'm not even gonna talk about it. Move on to the
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next one. Yeah, okay, yeah, let's just move on to the
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next one. All right. So this one, it's a three seed in
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Milwaukee Bucks versus the six seed Indiana Pacers. And the Pacers they're up three
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to one in this series, and obviously Giannis hasn't played. Damn got hurt
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in Game four early but still played. But Josh, how are you feeling
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in this one? This is just the age of the Milwaukee Bucks showing here.
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Just injuries are catching up at the wrong moments between all players. Chris
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Middleton, Dame Dalla Jannis hasn't even played, and it's just it's not helping
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this team out at all. Even I think last game they didn't even play
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with any of them, right, Damian Lillar didn't even play in Game four?
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Yeah, yeah, he didn't play in Game four. Yeah, So
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they didn't even have either of them, and the Pacers were just playing great
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basketball. Miles Turner had a big game in Game four, Tyres Halliburn's controlling
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the offense, hitting big threes when he needs to hit big threes. And
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the Pacers are just coming out on top of this series. It's all the
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tips are falling for them. Yeah, no, they are. And it's
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just I picked the Pacers to win in six and I'm still standing on that.
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I just think that just Yiannis not being back, This is just me
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speaking. You're you're not gonna want to rush Giannis back just for a series,
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even though they're in a not necessarily must win situation. But they kind
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of had some expectations this season. But you don't risk that. You're just
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better off just wait until next year. But Tyre's Halliburton. He's proving he
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is, in my opinion, a top three point guard in the league right
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now. He is, and he's not even completely healthy. So imagine if
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feels healthy, he'd be he'd be a full scorer. And we kind of
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saw a glimpse of that in Game four. But the biggest thing is that
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the Pacers they're hitting their threes. They're hit like like what Michael Porter Jr.
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Did right now. But the Pacers, if they hit their threes,
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the Bucks they have no chance. They don't. So yeah, I'm standing
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by. I'm saying Pacers and six, how do you feel about this one?
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Yeah? I can agree. I think the Pacers in six is quite
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is what's gonna happen. I know I was having the Bucks win this series,
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but you know, the Pacers are playing good basketball, they're capitalizing on
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the eras of the other team, and honestly, Milwaukee's defense it kind of
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improved a little bit, but it's just not enough to stop certain players.
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Yeah, all right, well let's go to move on to the closest series
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as far as here in the Eastern Conference, the last one the Cleveland Cavaliers
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versus the Orlando Magic, which this series it's tied two to two and all
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of the home teams they've won their games. So how are you feeling on
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this one? Who wins the best out of three? Here? Oh my
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gosh, this is a good series. Both teams are just blowing each other
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out one way or the other. Or Game two with I guess kind of
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close ten point differential. But honestly, how I'm feeling, I don't know
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how I'm filling with this series. It's just I kind of it's they're just
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both balling right now. They both playing great at home. The Wagner brothers
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had a big game last game, both of them stepped up for the Magic
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to secure a dub because they're not just solely relying on Apollo or even like
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Jonathan, Isaac's been playing great defensively, but everyone both these teams are playing
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great as a whole. It's just it's just hard to say who's gonna come
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out on top in the end. I kind of lean towards the Magic just
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a little bit right now. It could swing the other way once they go
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back to Cleveland. So I'm thinking that the home teams are gonna win out
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here. As much as I want to pick the Magic here, Pollow is
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my guy, but I can't do it. I just think that the home
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teams, they just have so much advantage. And I'll say this, the
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Magic's defense has been very consistent this entire time, and and that that's why
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they're in this series. But I just think that they're that the Calves have
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more playoff experience here and they're just gonna find a way to get it done.
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And if I had to pick as of right now, I'm not talking
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about in the future Donovan Mitchell or Paulo ban Carrol, I'd have to go
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with Donovan Mitchell here. So that's what I'm gonna have to say. And
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I just think that the pathway for the Magic is the Orlando Magic. They're
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a very athletic team, and if they just cause force for the Calves,
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it's gonna wreck havoc. And don't let the Magic win this this game,
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this game, what is it tomorrow? Yeah, to Tuesday. Yeah,
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So if they win that game, the Magic They're gonna close out this series,
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and I stand by that. So, so what are you leaning towards
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Calves or Magic right here? Do you think it's going full seven? I
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think it does go full seven, and then I'll go with Cleveland. I
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think I agree with you. All the home teams are gonna secure doves in
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this and I think Cleveland will close it out in game seven. My bad,
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I had to fix my charger. My charger kind of messed up here.
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But no, you're good, You're good. But yeah, all right,
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let's go, let's go to move difficulties. Yeah, yeah, no,
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we're not gonna edit this out. We're gonna just we're just gonna keep
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it rolling, keep it rolling. But all right, next we have right
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here is the Western Conference, which is a Oklahoma City Thunder versus the New
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Orleans Pelicans, and what's the Thunder? They officially move into the second round
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and they sweep the Pelicans. So overall this series, were you surprised or
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did it go exactly how you expected? No? I wasn't surprised. The
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Thunder have been a great team all around the whole season, knocking down three
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pointers, great defense behind SGA and Chet's had a really good big series.
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I will admit that he's played very well. And then the Pelicans without Zion
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Williamson, you're having that physical presence that that just kind of strikes spear into
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the other team. It hurts this team quite a bit because there's nothing.
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I don't think the Pelicans are a bad team. They just not a good
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enough team to hang with the Thunder for his whole series, and that showed
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in four straight games. Yeah, so game one, it was kind of
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scary for the Thunder. I thought, holy crap, this is about to
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be a dogfight of a series. Potentially Zion comes back game six or game
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seven, and who knows what happens from there. But after that, the
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Thunder they just took control and they showed why they're the one seed. They
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took care of business. But the biggest thing for me, like you mentioned,
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Chet Holmgren, he set the tone defensively. I know they have j
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dubb Sga lou Dort, Lou Dort, he did a damn good job this
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series on brandon ingram so just shout out to him. But Chet Holmgren,
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he set the and that's their biggest weakness right there, as far as rebounding
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and interior defense and if he can play like this the entire series, I
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could see this potentially being a finals run right here. If anything, this
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gave me more hope for the Thunder because they took care of business so easily,
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and obviously Sga he does SGA things. I think Game one after well
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it wasn't a buzzer beater, but Sja he just took over down the stretch.
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That kind of just killed all of the Pelicans' confidence right there. So
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yeah, but I know we're gonna get into the MAVs and Clippers in a
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second, but just just no injuries based or whatever. Who would you like
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more of the Thunder versus the Clippers or Maps right now? No injuries,
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Well, just based on how it's going right now. I would love to
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see it. It's tough, that's tough. Yeah, I don't like Kawhi
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Leonards, So I'd rather see the Mavericks versus the Thunder play and I want
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to and I can't believe I would go for the Mavericks in two straight series.
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I don't know why I'm doing it, and I hate the Mavericks.
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I hate there were Houston Rockets me being a Spurs fan, but I just
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like Luca, and I like Kyrie Irving even more so it'd be something cool
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to see, to see like Luca and Kyrie versus Oklahoma City Thunder and just
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see what could happen. Mm hm, So I'm must I'm musa say this.
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So MAVs and Clippers, we're gonna get into that in a second.
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As far as who would think who we think is gonna win or how it's
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shaping up. But I like the Thunder versus both of those guys right there,
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or both of those teams. Yeah, I do, Yeah, both
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teams would be nice. I just I would prefer to see the Mavericks.
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I just don't want to see Kwhi Leonard succeed all time hater for real.
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But all right, I am, so we're gonna skip this two and seven
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seed right now because since it's going live, we could kind of get our
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instant reaction in a second as far as the Nuggets Lakers since it started the
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fourth quarter. So we're gonna go ahead and go on to the other the
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other series that's been clinch which is the Timberwolves versus the Suns, and what
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the Timberwolves They swept the Suns and surprising fashion at least to me. So,
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Josh, I know you picked the timber Wolves to win, but did
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you expect them to win like this? No? I expected it to be
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in six or seven. I didn't expect it to be a gentleman's not even
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a gentleman's. They just swept them. There, they're out, They're out
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the house, They're they're in the dust pan and the trash can already.
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Like the Timberwolves dominated this entire series, not only defensively but offensively. Anthony
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Edwards played at a whole different level he set himself. I don't feel no
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pressure because I've never been here before. So I'm just playing basketball right now.
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And that damn it. That dude is probably playing the best basketball on
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the planet possibly at this moment for his team. And he's just stepping up
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big. And then Rudy Gobert is playing great defense. This whole team all
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around is Nick hil Walker, Alexander nas Reed, Karl Anthony Towns had a
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big, big final games three and four to secure Everything's just clicking for the
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Timberwolves. But for the Suns, man, I think we're gonna see a
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lot of changes. I just don't think that the Phoenix Suns could keep putting
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effort after effort into these teams. I even said it at the beginning of
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the season. Their depth wasn't enough to keep up with teams in the Western
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Conference. Sure, you can have all the stars at the top, but
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these stars don't even play great defense. You need to have those those pieces
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around you who will be able to take some pressure off of you, and
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that they just don't have that for those Phoenix Suns, and they rely too
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much on their on their heavy hitters, and this is what happens. You
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get swept by by a complete team. So my whole logic as far as
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with the Suns winning this series was Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. They're the
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two best players in this series. And Anthony Edwards he had something to say
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about it. And it's great to see what Anthony Edwards did in this series.
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He took over the entire time and he was clearly the best player in
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this series, clearly. And Okay, I'm not gonna really say much about
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Kevin Durant because at the end of the day, he is in year seventeen,
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thirty six years, thirty six years old. I know he's still playing
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at a superstar level. But it depends on everybody else. And that everybody
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else I'm kind of talking about here is a big acquisition of the offseason,
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and that was Bradley Bill. Bradley Bill throughout the entire series sixteen and a
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half points a game, four and a half assists, and then as far
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as his field goal percentage, it was forty four percent. You're guaranteeing fifty
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million dollars to him the next three years, and that's the best thing you
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could do. And Okay, I can't even necessarily blame this on Frank Vogel
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and the coach. This is just me thinking, how can you construct a
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roster and say this is going to be the best offensive team ever and you
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hire a defensive coach? Why do you do that? And you don't even
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have no perimeter defenders or no good defenders on that team. Kevin Durant,
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he's a solid defender, use off nerd get solid defender. But that's not
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that shouldn't be the base of your defense here. So I think this goes
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back down to the front office here. So and another thing is that Kevin
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Durant, Devin Booker, Bradley build when they were all on the floor minus
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fifty one plus minus. So that's just say everything one hundred and ninety four
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million dollars committed to those three players, and you have a minus fifty one
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plus minus. And also to mention the next five years, you have no
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draft picks. So as much as there needs to be changes done, there
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can't be changes done. There can't. So and also one more thing,
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I saw this Roman round on Twitter, Josh, Jason Tatum or Anthony Edwards,
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who do you want your franchise from this point forward? Anthony Edwards.
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You could have asked me this at the beginning of the season, I would
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have said, Anthony Edwards really really yeah, Oh man, I'm just not
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big on Jason Tatum. Dude, I'm just not big on him. Like,
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I just feel like Anthony Edwards has a different type of dog and I'm
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not. Jason Tatum just doesn't. And he's not gonna take Kobe after the
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game. So I'm going with h Anthony Edwards. Okay, Well, I'm
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okay, I'm gonna lean towards Jason Tatum. I know you. I don't
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know if you saw the group chat that we have between Alfred my dad,
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you and me. But I said Jason Tatum because he's the more polished player
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right now. But Anthony Edwards definitely has more upside I'll say that. But
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yeah, I think his potential is way higher. I don't know. I
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just think what he can do athletically, Jason Tatum can even do, yeah,
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and then so and then and eventually his shot is going to become knocked
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down. He's it's gonna have to if he wants to turn into that superstar
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that we know he can be. And he's already good defensively. So yeah,
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I think I'm taking Anthony Edwards all right. Well I'm I'm not mad
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at that, but all right, this next one right here, or the
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second to last one, it's the Dallas Mavericks and the Los Angeles Clippers,
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in which yesterday's game was a damn great game. This series is like two
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to two best of best of three right here. So Josh, who's winning
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this series? And how have you feeling? How have you felt about this
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series so far? I feel like this series has been very fun to watch.
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We're just seeing all time great just play each other back and forth.
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And if you think, and I think it's gonna go down to a game
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seven, and I think the Mavericks will take it. I do think that
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even last game, they were the better team on the court. They got
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down early, but they stormed all the way back. I do think it
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was just fatigue at the end of the game while they lost. You can
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only do so much after being down thirty one and you come all the way
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back. I'm pretty sure your team's gonna be pretty tired after that. And
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Kyrie Irving. I get Luca Luka, Doncics, great, great player,
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he night in night out, consistent, dog, should be MVP this year.
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But what Kyrie Irving is doing in this series is just at a different
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level. Kyrie Irving is being probably the best finisher around the basket in NBA
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history. He's up there and he's showing that in full and full spectrum in
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this entire game. And he's knocking down big threes when they matter. And
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then just look at the other side. James Harden's turning back the clock quite
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a bit, Russell Westbrook's turning back the clock. They're just great players playing
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great and honestly, we talked about it earlier, the Clippers are playing better
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without Kawhi Lennard as a whole, as a team, as a unit,
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Paul George is stepping up in a different way. They're just taking on the
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rules that they have to take on without a Kawhi Leonard on the court.
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Yeah. No, I agree with you, and I think Game four,
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like you said, the Mavericks are definitely the better team, just being down
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thirty one and in the third quarter, they just went all out and they
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were gassed by the fourth quarter and they still almost won this game. And
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I think why they play better without Kawhi Leonard the Clippers is they become a
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because they become a team centric. Oh what's the best way I want to
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put this, So they play team ball. They don't become as ISO ball
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as they usually are because when Kawhi, there's a big difference. It's Kawhi
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he gets his turns, then PG, then then James Harden, and that's
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how it usually goes. But when it's just them PG, PG, James
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Harden and even Russell Westbrook like you mentioned, I think you mentioned it yesterday
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when we're on the phone, James Harden and Russell Westbrook, they like to
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pass the ball, so that just gets more people involved and the Clippers shooting
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sixty two sixty three percent from three. I don't think that's gonna happen that
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many more times in this series. So and I think that I think that
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the MAVs they close us out in six. I think so I can see
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it getting to seven games. But I think the Mavericks they're gonna treat this
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Game five on Wednesday like a Game seven right here. They're gonna say,
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we can't afford to get this back to the Clippers arena or Crypto. So
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this is gonna be very important for them. And I think they're gonna come
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out with a bunch of urgency here. So I say, I say mas
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and six here, Masen six. And another thing that I really like from
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the MAVs here is that Kyrie irving down the stretch, down the stretch as
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far as in game three. In Game four, he's really really starting to
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put an imprint on this game. And I feel like you're finally starting to
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see him. We've seen it towards a backshit stretch of the All Star break,
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but he's finally getting comfortable in the offense and becoming sometimes the main scorer
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he is because Luca. He's getting double. He's getting triple teams sometimes,
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so you need a guy like Kyrie Irving to step up. This is why
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you get him last year, last year in the trade. So yeah,
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but okay, I don't know if you want to get to the Lakers and
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Nuggets series right now, or we could do we could do blind rankings,
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or we could do a guest the player here, I guess the player.
24:34
Okay, So just because like we kind of react to this game live while
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it's happening and then give our out look on the series because the series could
24:42
be over at the end of this game. So yeah, you talk about
24:45
it and then say when it's over, and then you know there's still like
24:48
eight minutes seven minutes left game Yeah, about eight eight minutes left. So
24:52
yeah, So okay, so we're going to each have We're going to each
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have eight questions to Yes, a player, Okay, do you do you
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have a pin of paper with you? I'm pretty sure you do. Right.
25:03
It's just like just like waddle or whatever. Wait, what you never
25:10
played that NFL one where they guess the player and like they give you like
25:15
the like their position high Uh year they were drafted. Oh really, no,
25:22
division, it's pretty cool. Me and Brecken and like my friend,
25:27
our friend Damien. We play it quite a bit when when we would hang
25:30
out. Really Oh, okay, we could do that for NFL next time.
25:34
But all right, we're gonna do somebody in the playoffs here. It
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could be any player. We each have ten questions, so if you want
25:41
to write your player down, or let me think of a player right here?
25:47
All right? Is it gonna be some outstanding hard player or is it
25:52
gonna be like what are we doing here? It's gonna it's gonna be Okay,
25:56
this one is medium difficulty. Alright, medium difficulty. I'll take you.
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All right, it's somebody you know? Okay, Okay, do you
26:07
got yours? Hold on, hold on, I'm trying to think. I
26:12
don't know why I went blak. Yeah, I got mine. I'm circling
26:15
mine, just so you know. I'm I'm not changing it up here.
26:19
All right, we can do it. Okay. Do you want to go
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first? Or do you want me to go first? Well? I just
26:26
I just asked a question and you say yes or no? Yeah, you
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have ten questions and I have ten questions. Is he okay? Is he
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in the Western Conference? No? Okay. So he's in the East.
26:38
Okay. Is your player in the Eastern Conference? No? No, okay,
26:45
he's in the West. Okay. Mmm? Is his team on the
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top four four seeded team? Is he on a top four seeded team?
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Yes? He is. Wonder is your Is your player a starter? Yes?
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Okay, starter in the West? All right, hold on me,
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and they wrote down. I don't know why I went blank on who the
27:19
top four teams are? Now, yeah, you're good, you're good.
27:26
Oh, Lakers took the lead again. All right, yeah, what what's
27:33
your question? I think I know what my question is going to be next,
27:36
all right, but if we guess it, that's over, right,
27:40
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's over Yeah, all right. Mm hmmm,
27:52
crap, don't think about it too hard. Is he uh? Is
27:57
he a point guard? No, he's not a point guard? Damn it
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is your Is your player a shooting guard majority of the time? Yes,
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majority of the time? Okay, yeah, like ninety flight Yeah. Yeah,
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he's interesting, interesting, interesting, he is a shooting guard. No?
28:27
Good, good book? Lo mm hmmm. Is is my guy considered?
28:36
Is your guy considered a big man? No? Okay, okay,
28:41
okay, so he's not a point guard. He's not a big he's so
28:47
he's not a big man, so shooting guards or okay, does your player?
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Does your player average over twenty points a game? Oh, I don't,
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let me check. It's on the brink. Let me look, yeah
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do hell uh no, he doesn't know. He doesn't average twenty points a
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game. No, okay, well, well the way that you thought about
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it, it seems like it's close. It's on the brink then okay,
29:30
no, no, no, well it's I thought it would have been on
29:33
the brink, but it's a it's around like sixteen point three games. Okay,
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you shouldn't have given me that information. But yeah, I shouldn't have.
29:41
But that's all right. I'm I'm not gonna look it up just so
29:47
we won't be cheating. So yeah, yeah, okay, okay, I'm
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kind of narrowing mine down right now. Is my player above thirty or under
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thirty? Ooh, player above thirty? Okay, let me see he's under
30:17
thirty. Okay, okay. Is your player on a is your player on
30:25
a team that has been eliminated already? No? Okay, so that takes
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out no sun's or pels. Okay, so it's not Chris Middleton's is he
30:45
is he thirty? I'm trying to think this is tough. How many questions
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have I asked? One? You've asked? This would be your sixth question?
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Four or five? Six? Okay? Is he a starter? Yeah?
31:12
He's a starter? Okay, Okay, that didn't help me narrow down
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ship. All right, this one. I'm a kind of hmm let me
31:26
see, let me see mm hmm. Okay, this is my sixth question
31:34
right here? Is their team currently winning a series or winning the series?
31:44
No? No, they're losing the series, right yeah? God, Oh
31:51
my gosh, that was crazy? That? What's crazy? Jamal Murray just
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dunked over Lebron? What the hell kind of shot was that? How did
32:07
Austin Reeves make that? Okay, this game is getting crazy? Now?
32:12
Is he getting dune it again? Oh? My bad? Shoot? Okay,
32:23
okay, I got this. I got this. I know who the
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player is. Who is it? Well, you gotta ask your question first.
32:30
I can't. I can't jump ahead. Oh I thought you were gonna
32:34
guess. I might just guess it. No, okay, is he the
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best player on his team? No? No, definitely not. Okay,
32:45
Okay, is your is your player Austin Reeves. Yeah, bam, got
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it. Got it is your player, Dante DiVincenzo. No, dang it,
33:00
Okay, you're on the right team. I'm on the right team.
33:05
Is it Max Strews. Yeah, it's Max Strews. Yeah. I would
33:08
have never guessed that, really, you want to play another one? I
33:13
mean no, I would have never like I would have eventually like I just
33:15
got to him. Yeah yeah, well like I would have. I was
33:19
just thinking starter, like I was thinking like for sure, like oh,
33:22
like a for sure, for sure type of guy. Yeah, yeah,
33:28
cool, all right, we I went done DiVincenzo. First. That wasn't
33:34
a bad pick right there. That wasn't a bad pick right there. That
33:37
was actually a pretty good guess, all right, player? Yeah, No,
33:42
I need to think of another player here. Did you want to do
33:45
this one? Medium difficulty again? I don't know, Yeah, this is
33:52
tough. I don't know what a medium difficulty is that me either. Let's
33:57
pick a player. It was like a reason noble player. Yeah, not
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like I don't know, like, what's a weird player to pick? I
34:08
don't know, like a freaking Terence Man Yeah, like yeah, nothing like
34:15
that. You know what I got it. This one should be pretty easy
34:22
right here. I feel like that. I feel like this one should be
34:29
pretty easy. Okay, all right, okay, I'll go first. Is
34:35
your player in the Eastern Conference? No? Oh yeah, no, no
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he isn't. No he's not. Okay, he's in the West again,
34:45
all right? Is your player in the Eastern Conference? Yes, he is
34:55
in the Eastern Conference? Okay, okay, your players in the West?
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Okay? Does your player or is your player a center? No? No,
35:13
he's not a center. I feel like that was a bad guess.
35:16
It was just a shot in the dark there. I was just saying if
35:20
I was on a heat check or not. Is your player a starter or
35:24
a bench player? He's a starter, He's a starter. Okay, does
35:35
your player or has your player ever been an All Star? Yes? Okay,
35:59
has my player ever been has your player ever been an All Star?
36:01
Yes? He has? Okay, okay, okay, so in the West,
36:08
not a center been an All Star. I feel like I feel like
36:13
this is a big clue right here. Is he black? Yeah? I
36:21
should have asked that for the last one. I would have got it right
36:23
away. But all right, is your player a starter? No? No,
36:32
not a starter? Not a starter, been an all star, okay,
36:39
in the West, not a center. There's Russ, there's Is.
36:50
Is this player a big man? No? Or is he like a waiver
36:58
in between? I don't know how that works? Then? What what do
37:01
you consider a big game like? Let's say small for power forward, I
37:09
mean not small for center power forwards. Okay, no, no, no,
37:14
okay, well, okay, maybe he could be considered a big man.
37:17
Maybe. Okay, Okay, I feel like you're getting close. I
37:25
want to ask one more question. M hmm. Okay, because I feel
37:35
like you know who my player is. I feel like you do. Okay,
37:43
is your player in the Mavericks and Clippers series? Yes, okay,
37:49
I I got it. I got it. I got it. That might
37:51
be crap, that might be right there. I knew I should have I
37:54
knew I should have picked it. I should have trust win. Is it
38:00
Kellyubray? No, it's not, dang it is yours? Is yours?
38:06
Russell Westbrook? Yeah? Damn? See who's who is yours? Paulo Bank
38:14
Carrol? Uh. I wouldn't have guessed that. I don't know because I
38:20
thought I was. I don't know what I consider him. Honestly, that's
38:22
what I was saying that was like, no, he can be he can
38:27
be a big When you said he wavered between he can be a big man,
38:29
I was like, Kelly Aubrey fits that, he's a starter. He's
38:31
in the Eastern Conference. Well, he hasn't been an All Star, so
38:36
never mind, yea, yeah, never mind. Yeah. I thought you
38:39
knew right away was an All Star. See I wouldn't have. Oh you
38:44
didn't know Paula was All Star. I knew he was, but like that
38:46
didn't register in my mind. You know. I was thought like Joel embiid
38:51
Oh, okay, I get you. You're thinking of the high name.
38:55
Yeah, okay, all right, Well, while we're kind of waiting right
39:00
here, we're not going to do another blind rankings because there's three minutes left
39:06
in this Lakers and Denver series right here, So let's just give a quick
39:12
recap over how this series it has been going. So Okay, how this
39:15
series has been going? Josh, how do you how do you feel It's
39:20
it's three to one right now depending on this game, it's tied right now.
39:22
So how have you felt about this series? I feel like it's just
39:29
a lot of missed opportunity by the Los Angeles Lakers to capitalize on their big
39:31
leads that they have had in this series. And it's not on the fault
39:37
of Ad or Lebron. They've played great. I think AD has probably played
39:40
the best series in his entire career, So it's not on them too.
39:46
I think I saw a stat between the first like three games they both combined
39:51
for one hundred and like sixty points or seventy points or something like that,
39:55
And yes, the team barely had that. I didn't even have that.
39:59
Everyone else ne to step up, like Austin Reeves and Rui Hachamara and D'Angelo
40:04
Ross have all been very inconsistent in the series, and I think it's really
40:07
hurting this Lakers team, who should probably be tied or up in this series.
40:09
And I agree with you one hundred percent. In Game two, that
40:13
was the biggest game that was lost, the biggest opportunity. Obviously, you
40:16
were up twenty and they came back. But the biggest thing is just a
40:20
third quarter. That's just been the biggest thing for them in the third quarter
40:23
that they've been giving up these leads. I think they have a plus thirty
40:27
nine in the plus minus in the third quarter so that's when they take over.
40:30
But yeah, oh, Jokic just made a tough bucket right there.
40:34
But yeah, it was so last year in the Western Conference Finals, the
40:39
biggest thing was Jamal Murray and Nicola Jokic outplayed Anthony Davis and Lebron James.
40:45
And if anything, Ad and Lebron they've been out playing those two. Obviously,
40:51
Yokici's doing his thing. But Ad, oh, you're a little bit
40:55
ahead, but I don't mind. Oh, okay. Austin Reeves ad thirty
41:00
and a half points, sixteen rebounds, four assists, a block and a
41:06
half. Lebron twenty seven points, six rebounds, eight assists, two steals,
41:09
almost a block and a half as well compared to Jokice right here,
41:15
who obviously Jokic he's doing, he's doing. Yokic stings twenty nine points,
41:21
fifteen rebounds, ten assists, are still and a half. And then Jamal
41:24
Murray who's twenty one and a half points, five or five rebounds, seven
41:30
assists. But Michael Porter j has really stepped up in this series here.
41:35
But all right, oh no, you're good, you're good, You're okay,
41:40
right, It is okay. Now that we talked about that right there.
41:44
Let's just watch this final minute and a half and just give yeah,
41:46
just a live reaction. We haven't done this on the pod before, but
41:51
it's just something something different right here. Okay, So it's one fifteen left
41:58
in the game, one oh four to one oh three right now, Oh
42:01
damn, big boards. That was a big rebound. Oh that's clutch.
42:09
Yeah, that was a big that's clutch. Aaron Gordon had a big clutch
42:13
one o four. Right now, the Nuggets are up and the Lakers they're
42:19
potentially about to be eliminated right here often taking it. Oh barely miss barely
42:27
miss, barely missed. Okay, yeah, yeah, no, they need
42:34
to stop this. This is a very big stop right here. Oh yep,
42:40
that Lakers. Wait, I'm ahead now, wait, I'm ahead.
42:44
I'm ahead a lot right now. I don't know, Oh my goodness,
42:51
are you highlight? I don't know how I jumped so far ahead of me,
42:57
Like, don't don't ask me why. Okay, is Lebron rolling the
43:04
fall down the court? Okay? Okay, yeah, okay, Michael Porters
43:10
guarding him right now? Okay, got the wreck, No, he got
43:17
first, he got there. We go, Okay, I don't know the
43:22
last one. Okay, twenty six point three seconds left in this ball game.
43:27
Lebron's going to the line down to and a big thing right here is
43:30
that they have well I know there's only a second and point three left,
43:37
but you still Lakers crazy. The reason we'll see. Okay, first free
43:45
throw right here, let's see makes it? Okay. I think we're on
43:52
the same right, we're on the same tory. Prince just checked in,
43:54
right, Yeah, yeah, we're for yeah, D'Angelo Russell. Oh,
44:00
Russell's coming out. Well, yeah, you're you're just wanting to play defense
44:04
right here. All right, let's see Lebron he makes this one right here.
44:08
I know, Skip Bayless, he's probably getting ready to tweet right now.
44:13
Made them topball game. Oh, they're not calling the timeout. They're
44:16
not calling the timeout. Jamal is just that dude. They didn't have no
44:21
timeouts. Okay, So the Denver Nuggets just have officially won this series four
44:27
to one. So I think this was very much needed for the Nuggets here
44:31
because you didn't want to play with your food and the Timberwolves, who they're
44:36
getting rest right now, they're gonna have that advantage right there. But the
44:39
tember Wolves. They match up pretty well with the Nuggets. So who do
44:45
you think? Okay, because it's going to be Nuggets and Timberwolves, who
44:49
do you think is winning this series? I know this is just really quick.
44:52
It's just it's a live reaction, but just off the top right now,
44:54
who's winning this series? I can't pay against the Nuggets two series in
45:00
a row, even though I love Anthony Edwards. I'm probably gonna have to
45:05
go with the Nuggets. Okay, So Nuggets and seven, So yeah,
45:09
I can't go against the Nuggets two series in a row. Okay, So
45:15
I think the Tembolves. They really do matchup well with the with the Denver
45:21
Nuggets, And if Anthony Edwards can continue to do this and they have the
45:27
perimeter defenders, I think that the Timberwolves are gonna win this series here,
45:32
and and I say that very confidently because not necessarily that the Nuggets EA have
45:37
been playing bad. But you can't you can't do the same thing what you
45:43
did with the Lakers compared to the Timberwolves. The Timberwolves they're a lockdown defense,
45:47
and and if you give a big big leads a twelve point lead,
45:52
a twenty point lead, then another eleven point lead. The tim Wolves are
45:57
gonna win those games. They know how to close games and that that's been
46:00
their biggest issue. But they've somewhat gotten this solved. So I'm gonna say
46:05
that the Minnesota Tembolves they're gonna win this series against the Nuggets. And I
46:08
say in I say in six, I say if it goes back to seven,
46:13
Denver, They're definitely gonna get it. But as far as anything to
46:17
take away from this Lakers and Nuggets series, what did you want to take
46:22
anything else away or No, I just think I don't put this on Lebron
46:30
or ad for this series at all. I think it really came down to
46:34
the role players just not stepping up or stepping up way too late. Austin
46:37
Reeves had nine points alone in the fourth quarter, but the rest of the
46:42
game it was kind of tough. D'Angelo Russell, outside of two games in
46:45
this series, didn't really play well. And just the Nuggets are just a
46:49
better team all they around. They can they can show up when it matters
46:52
the most. They have that championship pedigree. Jamal Murray's just a different type
46:54
of guy when the playoffs starts, and yeah, Jamal Murray is just big
46:59
shot making here and with that three seconds left, and I know if you
47:05
just ses, yeah, that is two game winners. Yeah, but again
47:13
it's kind of similar to last year as far as just the Nuggets. They
47:17
know how to out execute anyone in the fourth quarter and and and that goes
47:22
to seem right, Oh, I had my mic on mute the entire time.
47:31
But Jamal Murray with those thirty two points, even on a calf strain,
47:36
he really needed this because you need that extra rest because this is going
47:40
to be a physical series between the timber Wolves and Nuggets. So yeah,
47:45
just props to the Nuggets for winning. But this is why they're they're the
47:49
defending chaps. So yeah, but did you want to say anything else?
47:57
No, I think we capped everything. We're gonna probably have a but still
48:00
coming out in another episode in a couple of days, just as more series
48:04
start to come to an end. Honestly, that was a I don't know
48:08
what more Lebron and Ady could have done for the Nuggets too. For to
48:13
tribuating the Nuggets, it just came down to, yeah, no, no
48:15
question, all right, before we get out of here, I just want
48:20
to do one thing of blind rankins here, just one thing. Okay,
48:24
so some of these players they may not be in the playoffs. They may
48:28
or may not be in the playoffs, But all right, we're just gonna
48:30
go how it is. Tyrese Hallibird, he's the first person. Okay,
48:37
I agree with you. Here three, Jalen Brunson. Is this one based
48:45
on how the playoffs are going? I mean, he has an MVP can
48:53
Cannon this year, but we can still get embid. Yeah, yeah,
48:57
that's true. That's true, that's true. You know, all right?
49:00
Put him at two? All right? Jason Tatum, we have to put
49:05
him four here, right? WHOA? But is he He's not worse,
49:14
but I wouldn't based on how it's going right now. Brunton, he's playing
49:23
way better than Tyree's and Jason Tatum four. Yeah, we can do four,
49:31
all right. This next one right here is actually his teammate Jalen Brown.
49:36
This may end up being a playoff edition one five number one is okay,
49:46
Jalen Williams or J Dubb. So this ended up being a playoff edition,
49:52
So I don't know. J Dubb, Jalen Brunton, Tyres Jason Tatum,
49:57
Jaylen Brown. So maybe we should have put j T one. Huh,
50:04
let's do one more. Yeah, we should have put bruns and one.
50:07
Yeah, no, but it's all good. One more okay, yeah,
50:12
okay, let's go Okay, hopefully we get the same thing as far
50:15
as playoff edition. One more, okay, Zion Williamson, Yeah, when
50:23
healthy? Three? Okay, Russell Westbrook, this is a four or five.
50:31
Four. I say four even because even if the player we get for
50:37
four that we could change. We could change it to all time out the
50:42
last seconds, so it doesn't even matter, all right, l one one,
50:52
I don't know why I have a feeling Sja Luca, I don't know.
51:00
Okay, yeah, but when healthy, Yeah, that's true, that's
51:05
true. All right. One, we can't go wrong with that, Okay,
51:09
Paul George, we have to put him to right. Okay, we
51:14
need a five, We need a five, yeah to dis Jontay Murray.
51:17
Okay, yeah, this was a perfect. Yeah, this is a perfect
51:23
perfect perfect. But all right, is there anything else you want to say
51:29
before we get out of here? Josh, Now, y'all just keep watching
51:37
this basketball games, tune into some of the ending series, so y'all can
51:40
yessigate with sir, yes, sir. Yeah, we're gonna have an episode
51:44
coming out soon as far as for the second round predictions, because this has
51:47
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51:52
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