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The Pacers Are 1 Game Away From The NBA Finals · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: I remember the study that came out a few years
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  Speaker 1: ago that made the point that the way you start
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  Speaker 1: your NBA season is a better indicator to how your
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  Speaker 1: postseason would go. So if you start off as a
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  Speaker 1: really good team to the first two months usually in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason, you probably gonna see some level of success.
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  Speaker 1: It very rarely showed that if you end the season
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  Speaker 1: red hot, that would carry.
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  Speaker 2: On to the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons why I looked at the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers going into this playoffs, and even though they
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  Speaker 1: walk their way to the finish line, I saw them
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  Speaker 1: and be dominant for the first three months.
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  Speaker 2: Of the season said yeah, that was enough.
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  Speaker 1: That was a big enough sample size for me to
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  Speaker 1: think that when they lock in, they'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: at least compete for a championship.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen them. Boys went home in the second round.
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  Speaker 1: But every once in a while you see a team
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  Speaker 1: like the Indiana Pacers, and it made me rethink that
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  Speaker 1: whole study that I read. And I can't tell if
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  Speaker 1: maybe that data is now outdated, because even last year
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  Speaker 1: you saw the Dallas Mavericks do the exact same thing,
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  Speaker 1: right with the Mavericks and start the season so hot,
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  Speaker 1: but they ended so.
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  Speaker 2: Well and then they went to the NBA Finals. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that.
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  Speaker 1: Study is now outdated just two years later, or is
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  Speaker 1: what the Pacers doing right now in anomaly or what
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  Speaker 1: the Mavericks did last year is I don't really know,
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  Speaker 1: but we've watched this team since the beginning of the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: Just just dominate, just dominate.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, the OKC Thunder if they do match up against
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  Speaker 1: each other, I ain't count nobody out, damn it. If
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  Speaker 1: they do match up against each other in the finals,
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  Speaker 1: OKC will be the heavy favorite, But I feel less.
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  Speaker 1: I think I still pick the OKAC Thunder in that series.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, but I feel less. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know setting stone with that opinion as of right now.
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  Speaker 1: And to think that nobody saw this coming and again
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  Speaker 1: we make the indication for there Jay Ray first fourth
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  Speaker 1: best net rating team. This team is one of the
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  Speaker 1: best offensive teams, and they were the eighth best defense
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  Speaker 1: in that same time. For the right was kind of
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  Speaker 1: on the wall, but nobody believed it because we were
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  Speaker 1: so hell bent on the team that started off so
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  Speaker 1: good in the Cleveland Cavaliers and the reign of champions
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  Speaker 1: in the Boston Celtics. This team is one game away,
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  Speaker 1: and with't me doing these recaps almost every single night,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I've run out of things to kind
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  Speaker 1: of compliment them on, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I've talked nothing but praise with Tarre's
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  Speaker 1: Halliburn for a four month and a half. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it again though, because what what a performance from
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  Speaker 1: this When we were talking about gaming before on our
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  Speaker 1: numbers on the Board podcast. By the way, we dropped
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  Speaker 1: that two times a week on YouTube. We're also on
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  Speaker 1: TV two times a week. Did you know howd the
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  Speaker 1: TV show something? Y'all may not have known that, and
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about Obviously, Pierre is a Knicks fan,
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  Speaker 1: so he goes in with he had to be optimstic
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  Speaker 1: about a team after game number three, and he was
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  Speaker 1: talking about how the pressure shifts a little bit to
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  Speaker 1: the Pacers now that they blew a twenty point leader
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  Speaker 1: game three, and I push back on it because this
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  Speaker 1: team has just been able to lose a game three
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  Speaker 1: and bounce back amazingly.
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  Speaker 2: And what we just watched.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight, I mean, I don't know again, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what happens in the finals, or if they make the finals,
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  Speaker 1: or they blowed his lead three to one. But the
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  Speaker 1: performance that we just watched them, Tarry's Halliburn isn't all timer, man,
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  Speaker 1: it is indeed an all timer. Thirty two points, twelve rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen assists, four steals, zero turnoffs. I've said it once,
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  Speaker 1: I said again out it's something special about a player
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  Speaker 1: that you can put the ball in his hands as
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  Speaker 1: much as they put the ball in Tarre's Halliburn's hands
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  Speaker 1: for him to never turn the ball over. Think about
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  Speaker 1: it logically, like if you're star guy, the guy that
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  Speaker 1: holds the ball majority of the possessions, is it turning
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  Speaker 1: the ball over? That means as a team, you're probably
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  Speaker 1: not turning the ball over a lot. And it did
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  Speaker 1: go through a little stretch I don't remember if it
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  Speaker 1: was the end of the third quarter beginning of the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, where they had two straight possessions with a turnover.
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  Speaker 1: So the turnover numbers are eleven opposed to like and
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  Speaker 1: being single digits. If that little stretch didn't happen, but
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  Speaker 1: for him to come out and have this level of performance,
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  Speaker 1: I thought there was a little stretch in that second
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  Speaker 1: quarter where he got kind of complacent, I guess, and
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  Speaker 1: when he got the switch on Mitchell Robbs, I think
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  Speaker 1: he had took three straight threes or maybe five. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was five straight threes and he missed all
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  Speaker 1: of them. But eventually he got back to his bread
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  Speaker 1: and butter. And one thing I saw on Twitter people
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  Speaker 1: ask him during that stretch, like when he was getting
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  Speaker 1: the switch, that he wasn't attacking attack and attack of
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  Speaker 1: what was he doing.
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  Speaker 2: There were a few of the times where it's just
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. We're watching chess at the in to day.
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  Speaker 1: I know, at the end of the day, this is
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  Speaker 1: an orange low ball that's bouncing and you got to
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  Speaker 1: put in the cylinder.
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  Speaker 2: But we're watching teams.
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  Speaker 1: Both of these teams honestly just pick apart things that
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  Speaker 1: they think that they.
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  Speaker 2: Have the advantage on.
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  Speaker 1: So when you see that the Knicks are switching everything,
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  Speaker 1: and even if that means that Mitchell Robinson is now
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  Speaker 1: on an all NBA point guard, Tyre's Halliburt can pull
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  Speaker 1: up from that three. We see him drive to the
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  Speaker 1: paint on a couple of those possesses. But again he
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  Speaker 1: kind of laid back for a little bit and people
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  Speaker 1: were asking why did he get away from the thing
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  Speaker 1: that was just working so well in the last couple possessions.
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  Speaker 1: But then I look at him, like, oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: you pull away, Mitchell Robinson away from the rim against
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  Speaker 1: what Pasdal Siaka get that post tests He's got a
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  Speaker 1: small defender on him, and Pascal Siaka makes them pay again.
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  Speaker 2: This is chess.
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  Speaker 1: This is chess with some of the smartest players in
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  Speaker 1: our entire league and against Tyre's Halliburton is climbing up
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  Speaker 1: that list, slowly but surely as one of the supercomputers
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to processing the game of basketball. Never
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  Speaker 1: turned the ball over, making the right decision time and
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  Speaker 1: time again. Pascal siakam thirty points. He fished thirty points, amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Bennydigt Mathram had been basically unplayable since the day that
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  Speaker 1: he pushed the hell out of DeAndre Hunter. Since that day,
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  Speaker 1: I said I don't want to see him play. In
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  Speaker 1: Game four, I didn't want to see him playing. He
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  Speaker 1: had twenty, gave them good rebound and it ended up
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  Speaker 1: being two. But I feel like I remember that those
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  Speaker 1: two rebounds, gaining the good rebound and gave them good energy,
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  Speaker 1: and that's hard to do. Coming off the bad, bad
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  Speaker 1: performances that he had had. You know how we talked
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  Speaker 1: about in game number three the Knicks and same thing.
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  Speaker 1: The Minnesota Tembules wanted to make sure that they didn't
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  Speaker 1: leave no stone on turn. It ended up being Terren
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  Speaker 1: Shannon Junior ended up being Landry Shaman and the line
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  Speaker 1: right for the Knicks. Bennandig Mathers just gave them the
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  Speaker 1: performance that they just need. They just needed one game.
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  Speaker 1: They needed one Bennig Mater performance and that will be
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  Speaker 1: enough for them to have a comfortable lead, just like
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks needed one Landry Shaman game even though he
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  Speaker 1: only had three points, one Landry Shamman game, one really
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  Speaker 1: good dude McBride stretch, just for them to keep their
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  Speaker 1: season alive.
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  Speaker 2: All it takes a little bit. And that's why I
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  Speaker 2: was so disappointed last night.
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  Speaker 1: If we're going back to it, I have time to
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  Speaker 1: film a video because we were filming a TV show
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  Speaker 1: that the Minnesota Tembles got three great performances from world
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  Speaker 1: players and they didn't capitalize on it. All you need
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  Speaker 1: is that one performance and it get it. But the
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  Speaker 1: Pacers did. The Pacers haven't been in nig Maather come
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  Speaker 1: in and just played twelve points get to the line
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  Speaker 1: as much as he did, putting that pressure on the ram,
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  Speaker 1: putting that pressure on the rim, a place that if
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell Robbs is not on the court, the Knicks don't
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  Speaker 1: want you to put that pressure there. So he was
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  Speaker 1: a maze today, Nie Smith giving it a go on
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  Speaker 1: the bump ankle, Like, I don't have any I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I had a single negative note. No, obviously they
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  Speaker 1: didn't play the perfect game. They gave one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty one points, but like, I just felt like they
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  Speaker 1: were in more control the entirety of this game, so
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  Speaker 1: much so that a lot of notes that I had
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  Speaker 1: was more about the New York Knicks more than anything.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't want to give them the whole season
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  Speaker 1: is over thing because we've seen three one comebacks before.
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  Speaker 1: But I will say I feel pretty comfortable by saying
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  Speaker 1: that the Pacers are gonna win at least one of
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  Speaker 1: these next couple of games to put them in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 2: Insane? Can I just talk about one thing that pissed
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  Speaker 2: me off? Again?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm a neutral here. I don't care who wins.
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  Speaker 1: I got a friend both teams, So I don't I would.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see both of them be successful either way.
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  Speaker 1: The amount of times and I cannot wait to rewatch
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  Speaker 1: these specific possession because I should. I should have tallied
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  Speaker 1: them down once it looked like it was becoming a
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  Speaker 1: trem The amount of times the Knicks had a miscommunication
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  Speaker 1: and gave up an open look on a baseline at
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  Speaker 1: a bounce play as absolutely mind blown to me. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it felt like the Pacers best offense was just having
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  Speaker 1: the ball coming out of a dead ball. They had
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  Speaker 1: an Obi top hit the big shot at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game to ice it, obviously, but there were
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  Speaker 1: so many times where the Pacers just generated an amazing
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  Speaker 1: look on a sideline baseline at a bounce play, and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, obviously, that is one of the more constructed
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  Speaker 1: scenarios we have in basketball, right, because very rarely do
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  Speaker 1: you see somebody do a baseline out of bounds and
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  Speaker 1: they're not running something, but for the.
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  Speaker 2: Next to just give it up.
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  Speaker 1: Every at least it felt like every single time blows
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  Speaker 1: my mind, because again, this is an NBA team, not
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  Speaker 1: only an NBA team, this team and it got damn
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  Speaker 1: Conference Finals a word. The NBA Conference Finals team and
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  Speaker 1: they were just letting the Pacers do whatever they wanted
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  Speaker 1: on those possessions, and I'm just like excuse that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just like, man, that ball is out of the knicks
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  Speaker 1: count two points minimum for the pacer because they gonna
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  Speaker 1: run something to get them an open look out of
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  Speaker 1: this dead ball.
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  Speaker 2: It was mind blowing to me, absolutely mind blowing to me.
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  Speaker 1: One of the questions I got once on Twitter as
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  Speaker 1: I was just strolling through Twitter during halftime, somebody asked me,
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  Speaker 1: what do I think about the Jaylen Brunton plus minus?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not too sure what to make up a
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  Speaker 1: chess yet I feel like I have to go back
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  Speaker 1: and rewatch the majority of the series is obviously Jaalen
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  Speaker 1: Bunster doesn't have an amazing plus minus even in the
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  Speaker 1: last game, but they ended up winning.
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  Speaker 2: They went on their most team friendly stretcher.
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  Speaker 1: They had that run without him on the court, and
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  Speaker 1: if I were to give an opinion now without rewatching
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  Speaker 1: the film, I think it has something to do with
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  Speaker 1: them just having better defensive players on the court full stop,
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  Speaker 1: Because even though he had the stupidest double job of
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  Speaker 1: all time, the line right for the entirety of his
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  Speaker 1: career has had some of the best hands you'll get
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  Speaker 1: from a guard, right, so you got him in the court.
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  Speaker 1: And Andry Shalmon is not notoriously known as a good
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  Speaker 1: defensive player, but he's a competitor at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day on that side of the ball. And Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brunton is also a competitor, but he's just so much,
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  Speaker 1: so much smaller and so much easier to take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of on that side of the floor. So you think
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  Speaker 1: about them having these lineups where their traditional starting five
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  Speaker 1: is one of the worst line ups in the in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason so far. I just think about them having
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  Speaker 1: multiple players that I'm talking about at the at the
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  Speaker 1: one man in Jylen Bronton in the five minute Karnthony
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  Speaker 1: Towns that opposing teams.
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  Speaker 2: Could just go at.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I want to rewatch this film to see
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  Speaker 1: if that's the right opinion to have right now. But
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  Speaker 1: I did think that this was game number three though,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm kind of going back a little bit that
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  Speaker 1: Rick Carlile was kind of hoping that they got Jaylen
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  Speaker 1: Brunton back in that game early. And now Jaylen brust
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  Speaker 1: To checked in with a minute ago hit the big
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  Speaker 1: shot and then they end up winning the game and everything.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that they like they like when they
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  Speaker 1: have Carnthony Towns and Jaylen Brunton on the court together.
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  Speaker 1: Through the Pacers this man, Rick Carlile has been begging
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  Speaker 1: for pressures to two your minutes.
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  Speaker 2: He got it today.
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  Speaker 1: It was only two, but he got the pressures to
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  Speaker 1: two yr minutes. Finally he was askeding for Kevin Payne minutes.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing like mental gymnastics. It feel like for Tom
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  Speaker 1: Thibodeau the Pacers being one game away from the finals. Man,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense in my April fifteenth brain, but
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  Speaker 1: now on whatever day we're on, it makes total sense.
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  Speaker 1: This team has been so damn good and I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to get to thinking about the next series if
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  Speaker 1: they end up closing this one out. Halliburn career playoff performance,
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  Speaker 1: I think they said he joined only nikolea, jokicch and
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  Speaker 1: Big O as players that had thirty point fifteen assists
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  Speaker 1: zero turnover games.
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  Speaker 2: That's nuts. That's nuts. And I know that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you are a social media user, you
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  Speaker 1: see a lot of people complaining it about different things
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  Speaker 1: on both of these series or the entirety of the NBA. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I hope y'all are really appreciating the performances we are
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  Speaker 1: getting from these star players, because whether it be this
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  Speaker 1: run from Halliburn or the other series, the people that
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  Speaker 1: Shay gives Alexander performances we are getting where he is
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  Speaker 1: as consistent as can be. I hope y'all appreciating it,
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  Speaker 1: because it's just, I don't know, it's abnormal for us
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  Speaker 1: to be in this spot. We have four different newest
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  Speaker 1: stars competing to win a championship though, and obviously it's
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  Speaker 1: not a bad thing to have a Curry or Bron
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  Speaker 1: or kd or Yannas all of these dudes or yok
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  Speaker 1: at you notoriously are here. But it is something so
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  Speaker 1: special to me about us, about the crown. Somebody knew
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  Speaker 1: that's so dope. That is so dope, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: this Hallibird game, the Shaye game last night, the dub
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  Speaker 1: game last night, the performances we've got from Jay le
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  Speaker 1: Bronton going back to even like the Piston series. I
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  Speaker 1: just y'all know, my bread is enjoyed basketball, and I
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  Speaker 1: just that's what I do the most.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about y'all,