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Cavs One Win Away as James Harden Delivers and LeBron James and Lakers Future Remains Uncertain · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to The Daily Play with Joey Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me. Make sure you hit
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  Speaker 1: subscribe and follow us on social at the Daily Play,
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  Speaker 1: Joy Taylor. Look at James Harden. Okay, I love a
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  Speaker 1: little story twist. The calves the deep to win Game
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  Speaker 1: five in Detroit. They have a chance to close out
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  Speaker 1: the Pistons. On Saturday in Cleveland's Harden had thirty points
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  Speaker 1: in a dramatic overtime win and sold the Detroit fans'
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  Speaker 1: hearts right out of their chest. Harden and Donovan Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: were great. Max Streuss shout out heat culture was everywhere
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  Speaker 1: they did. Trail Cleveland one oh three ninety four or
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  Speaker 1: three minutes remaining. They closed out regulation on a nine
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  Speaker 1: to zero runs force overtime, outscored Detroit fourteen ten and overtime,
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  Speaker 1: and closed out the game twenty three on a twenty
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  Speaker 1: three ten run struf showed some love to Harden after
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  Speaker 1: the win, saying he's a pros pro. You don't become
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  Speaker 1: one of the best players in this game has ever
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  Speaker 1: seen without showing up every day.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of hard and praise. I listen. I
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  Speaker 2: like seeing great players have big moments.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, the story with James Harden would be that you
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  Speaker 1: would like to see this more consistently, but hey, you're
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason. You're trying to win a championship. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: gets it done. It doesn't need to be every night,
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  Speaker 1: as long as it's the night that matter. And this
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  Speaker 1: is the postseason. This is the questions that we've had
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  Speaker 1: about James Harden, and that is a great answer.
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  Speaker 2: This series is going exactly how I.
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  Speaker 1: Thought it was, not necessarily with Harden, but it's going long.
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  Speaker 1: I thought this would be a very evenly matched series.
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  Speaker 1: I think this says a lot about what's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen in the Eastern Conference Finals for whoever ends up
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  Speaker 1: making it there.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's down to the wire.
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  Speaker 1: You have a Game six win or go home, and
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  Speaker 1: could force a Game seven, which we all love me personally,
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  Speaker 1: so I think this is all very exciting. This series
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  Speaker 1: was exactly what I thought it was, which was a
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  Speaker 1: very evenly matched series. The Calves have now won on
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  Speaker 1: the road, which they hadn't done, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think I think we're in for great Eastern Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 1: So the Lakers season ended in a sweep, but Lebron's
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  Speaker 1: future is up in the air.
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  Speaker 2: According to a recent report, there.
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  Speaker 1: Was a moment during the season where an ESPN report
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  Speaker 1: where GM, Rob Polinka and Lebron's relationship may have fractured.
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  Speaker 2: The Lakers beat the Cavs.
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  Speaker 1: For Lebron's and ninety ninth career win playoffs and regular
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  Speaker 1: season combined that passed Kareem for most ever, but Polenka
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  Speaker 1: came to the locker room to give JJ Reddick a
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  Speaker 1: game ball for his one hundred win as a coach.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much I make of these reports.
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  Speaker 1: He did play the rest of the season without a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of drama. Him and JJ Redick seem to
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  Speaker 1: have a great relationship. It also came on a night
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  Speaker 1: when Luca topped fifteen thousand career points and Ruey Hatchimore
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  Speaker 1: reached five hundred. So it's like, how many game balls
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  Speaker 1: are you giving out here? You know, there's some criticism
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  Speaker 1: about Lebron James time with the Lakers.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's been successful.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've entered an era where you aren't going
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  Speaker 1: to win championship after championship. I know I'm saying this
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  Speaker 1: not knowing if OKC is going to win another championship.
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  Speaker 2: But we've gotten a.
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  Speaker 1: Little spoiled with all of that, with the Warriors, with
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  Speaker 1: the heat, and I think that winning a championship, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about the bubble. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hear about it. Like it was what
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  Speaker 1: it was. They want a championship. No one's putting an
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  Speaker 1: asterisk by it. If it was so easy, why didn't
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  Speaker 1: everyone else do it? And you can't tell me that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't care, Lebron said, obviously we fell a little short.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not looking at my years of disappointment, that's for
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  Speaker 2: damn sure.
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  Speaker 1: I was putting some positions I've never played in my career,
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  Speaker 1: actually in my life.
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  Speaker 2: I've never been a third option in my life.
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  Speaker 1: So to be able to thrive in that role for
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  Speaker 1: the period of time and then step back into the
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  Speaker 1: role that I've been accustomed to with over my career
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  Speaker 1: and being able to thrive that was pretty cool for
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  Speaker 1: me at this stage in my career. I agree, what
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  Speaker 1: Lebron has done this year has been remarkable. It's really
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  Speaker 1: disappointing that Austin Reeves and Luka Doncic got hurt heading
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  Speaker 1: into the postseason, like you didn't have Luca in the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Whether they would have beat the thunder or not, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but I certainly don't think they would have
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  Speaker 1: gone swept. And Lebron had to move into a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of different roles this year, and as far as I'm concerned,
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  Speaker 1: he did that successfully.
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  Speaker 2: And there's not a lot of players on Earth, if any.
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  Speaker 1: Who would be able to do that ego list and
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  Speaker 1: to be able to switch back and forth the.
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  Speaker 2: Way that he did.
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  Speaker 1: So they have a lot of decisions to make. They
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  Speaker 1: got to figure out what they're doing with Austin Reeves.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Lebron's got to decide on his future. But
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a very interesting offseason for the Lakers.
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  Speaker 2: So let's talk a little football. Some rookies. Carson Beck
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  Speaker 2: very experienced quarterback. He's twenty four years old.
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  Speaker 1: He played forty three college games at two high profile schools,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia and obviously my Miami Hurricanes, and took them to
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  Speaker 1: a national championship game. Well he didn't take them there alone,
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  Speaker 1: but he was a quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes played
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  Speaker 1: in a national championship game.
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  Speaker 2: His coach with the.
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals Mike Lafleur is seeing a lot of value in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six third round pick for the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: He has seen, he said, It's not like he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: attached to the tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like he hasn't been in twelve personnel.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like he hasn't been under center, done a
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  Speaker 1: play action fake, or even take a snap under center
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of guys. So I wouldn't say the
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  Speaker 1: comfortability of playing under center, playing in the gun, playing
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  Speaker 1: with different formations, motions and stuff like that. It's not
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  Speaker 1: the nd a'll be all by any means, but there
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  Speaker 1: is definitely a tie. You'd say, yeah, that's the guy
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  Speaker 1: that's actually done some of that over the guy who hasn't.
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  Speaker 2: They have a very.
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  Speaker 1: They have a very interesting depth chart a Jacoby Brissett
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  Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew Carson Beck. I mean, in my opinion, if
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  Speaker 1: Carson Beck ends up winning out the job, that's a
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  Speaker 1: great steal for the Cardinals. And listen, the Cardinals every
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  Speaker 1: single year, they have a ton of talent everywhere. They've
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  Speaker 1: got Marvin Harrison Junior, like, they've got talent all across
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  Speaker 1: the board, Jeremiah Love, and they never seem to be
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  Speaker 1: able to put it together. So they're a very interesting
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  Speaker 1: team with the talent that they have assembled.
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  Speaker 2: They're in a new era. Kyler Murray has gone.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that Carson Beck has a lot of
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  Speaker 1: college experience. I tend to like quarterbacks who are who
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of college experience. Some people think that
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  Speaker 1: they've reached their peak. I don't agree. I think the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback position is the hardest position to evaluate, maybe in sports.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see, but I think it's a very good
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  Speaker 1: chance that he could end up winning that starting job
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  Speaker 1: in Arizona throughout the NFL off season in camp.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us, have a great weekend.
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