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The Cleveland Cavaliers Losing Streak Is Interesting… · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Fandom is such a ridiculous thing. It's beautiful, but also
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  Speaker 1: it can be kind of crazy. The Cleveland Cavaliers won
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  Speaker 1: sixteen straight games recently from February fifth to March fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: They lost zero games, and if you look at a
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  Speaker 1: lot of those games, if you watch a lot of
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  Speaker 1: those games, you were recognize that not only were they
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  Speaker 1: winning games, they were blowing the doors off of team
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  Speaker 1: teams could not compete Cavalleanche after Cavalanch.
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  Speaker 2: But since that.
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  Speaker 1: Sixteen game win streak, they've now lost four in a
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  Speaker 1: row and calvs fandom is acting like the sky is falling.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I bring up the sixteen game win
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  Speaker 1: streak in the video where I'm talking about this four
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  Speaker 1: game loser streak.
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  Speaker 2: It is so easy to get bogged.
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  Speaker 1: Down by the lows of the lows and not really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate and remember the highs of the highs, like a
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  Speaker 1: sixteen game win streak was just going on a week ago,
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  Speaker 1: and now because they lost four in a row, people
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  Speaker 1: think it's over. And I'm not a Norse Tora Domas,
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  Speaker 1: I can't predict the future of hell. If I could,
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  Speaker 1: I would make a million dollars a day.
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  Speaker 2: Sports better.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if this four game loser streak
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  Speaker 1: is more of an indication of who they are versus
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  Speaker 1: a six eight game win streak, But I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it the less y'all know mean.
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  Speaker 2: I'm team enjoy basketball. I'm an extreme optimist.
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  Speaker 1: I've loved what I've seen from the Cleveland Cavaliers so
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  Speaker 1: far this season. I truly do believe them as a
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  Speaker 1: contending team, and this four game loser streak is not
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  Speaker 1: really detern me from that. But I want to remind you,
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  Speaker 1: as somebody that is a real watcher and studier of
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  Speaker 1: this game. I remember teams who eventually went on to
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  Speaker 1: win a championship going on similar loser streaks around the
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  Speaker 1: same time of the season. The Dinner Nuggets back in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. The days are nearly identical. From March
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  Speaker 1: eighth to March fourteenth, they lost four straight games to
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  Speaker 1: some sninky teams. This team, this different Nuggets team, went
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  Speaker 1: on to eventually win the championship. They lost in consecutive
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  Speaker 1: games to the Bulls, the Spurs, the Nets, and the
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  Speaker 1: Raptors that ain't good. The year before that, the eventual
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  Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors, the championship of that year went on
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  Speaker 1: their own personal five game loser streak around this time,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about end of February early March, and if
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  Speaker 1: you needed another example, the year before that, when the
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks won it, they also went on their personal
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  Speaker 1: five game loser streak. Now, again, I can't whether or
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  Speaker 1: not this four game loser streak is showing that the
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  Speaker 1: Calves are pretenders, but I do want to tail Calvs.
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  Speaker 1: Fans Relax. It is not the end of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Championship level team sometimes do this. But let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: what has been going on. And when I look at
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  Speaker 1: these four games, I want to say two of them,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not giving excuses for whatsoever, but at least in
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  Speaker 1: two of these some of this shot making that happened
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  Speaker 1: was ridiculous. I want y'all to rewatch that Calves versus
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  Speaker 1: Clippers game from a few nights ago. Is one that
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  Speaker 1: I did not get to see live. People on Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: Kenya you tapped in. I'm like, no, I'm not. But
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  Speaker 1: I watched it in the morning and they say, Keny,
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  Speaker 1: you in for a master class. Some of the shots
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  Speaker 1: that were being hit by Kawhi Leonard, some of the
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  Speaker 1: shots that were being hit by the Clippers. The Cavaliers
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  Speaker 1: were playing almost perfect defense, and it didn't matter tonight
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  Speaker 1: when I watched this game against the Suns, the Calves
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  Speaker 1: tried to go on their own personal run in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter to turn this game that it was a
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  Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty point deficit to almost a five point game.
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  Speaker 1: But then Kevin Durant hits a heavily count that Devin
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  Speaker 1: Booker hits a leaning contest to three. And that's not
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  Speaker 1: excusing these losses, because the reason you get into a
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  Speaker 1: twenty point deficit to a bad Suns team that's missing
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  Speaker 1: two starters and they're six man is because I do
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  Speaker 1: believe that they've lost some of that aggression on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. A lot of people look
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  Speaker 1: at January as the dog days of the NBA, Like
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  Speaker 1: before all start break, they tell you not to look
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  Speaker 1: into numbers and not to look in to what teams
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  Speaker 1: are doing because they're all just patially waiting to get
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  Speaker 1: that week break. I truly do believe that when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to this level of talented team like the Cleveland Cavaliers,
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  Speaker 1: a team that's head and shoulders above everybody in the
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  Speaker 1: Eastern Conference. As far as regular season record goes, I
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  Speaker 1: think that the dog days actually start around now.
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  Speaker 2: When you say, hey, we have a.
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  Speaker 1: Five game lead on the number two seat Celtics with
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  Speaker 1: fifteen games left, that is almost secure that we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have the one seed. So we kind of are taking
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  Speaker 1: our foot off the gas just a little bit. And
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  Speaker 1: I can feel that when I've watched them over these
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  Speaker 1: last couple of nights. And if you're gonna take your
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  Speaker 1: foot off the gas, you have to, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: compliment it or supplement it with the offense being elite,
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  Speaker 1: and that hasn't been what the Calves have been doing.
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  Speaker 1: In his four game losing streak, full stop Donvin Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: has not been good recently, and I'm only comparing him
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  Speaker 1: to himself. He has not hit the shots, have been
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  Speaker 1: a big time game changer in this four game losing.
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  Speaker 2: Streak and they're lost versus the Kings.
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  Speaker 1: He put together are a pretty solid third and fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: but other than that, he just hasn't really been the
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  Speaker 1: normal version of himself. So if Donovan Mitchell as our
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  Speaker 1: number one offensive guy is not having it going, and
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  Speaker 1: like obviously you want people to shoot through their slump,
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  Speaker 1: specifically guy like Donov Mitchell who could hit one shot
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  Speaker 1: and immediately be back on fire. But sometimes I do wonder,
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  Speaker 1: like late in these games, if it is close and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not the guy that's got it going, can I
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  Speaker 1: relax and let Evin Mobley do his job? Because Evan
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  Speaker 1: Mobley in the game against the Kings was the best
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  Speaker 1: player on the court by a wide margin. And now
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  Speaker 1: I think it's becoming more frequent with de Evin Mobley
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  Speaker 1: is the best player on the court for the Caves specifically,
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  Speaker 1: but game versus the Kings, he was the best.
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  Speaker 2: Player on the court. And one thing I remember.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see if I can find this play by
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  Speaker 1: play normal fourth quarter a stint for Evan Mobley. He
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  Speaker 1: gets subbed out early, he sits on a bench till
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  Speaker 1: like two to three minutes, and with four minutes some
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  Speaker 1: change left in the game, he checks back in and
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  Speaker 1: right now the Sacramento Kings have a two point lead.
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  Speaker 1: And quick reminder, at this point in the game, Evan
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  Speaker 1: Mobley has twenty nine points and he's only missed four
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  Speaker 1: shots on his way to twenty nine points. It's twenty nine,
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  Speaker 1: so only missed four shots. The first possession when he
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  Speaker 1: gets back into the game. He grabs a rebound and
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  Speaker 1: Evan Mobley has been doing this quite a bit so
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  Speaker 1: far this season. Takes a coast to coast, he misses it,
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  Speaker 1: gets his own put back boom. That is the last
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  Speaker 1: bucket Evan Mobley scores in this game. Tie game about
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  Speaker 1: four minutes to go, and basically for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: this game, Evan Mobley is uses a spacer. He is
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the wing or in the corner on some
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  Speaker 1: possessions and letting other people cook this case DeAndre Hunter,
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  Speaker 1: you and Demarty rows and on an island. Damar plays
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  Speaker 1: good defense. It's a miss. Then we get a seven
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  Speaker 1: minute review on a foul NBA type stuff. You know
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  Speaker 1: how that is. I remember there was another review after
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  Speaker 1: the review. Yeah, and that's pretty much it. He's never
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  Speaker 1: using the action for the rest of the game. He
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  Speaker 1: gets an offensive rebound later on just by sending the
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  Speaker 1: dunker spot, but a guy that had been the best
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  Speaker 1: player on the court for the entirety of the game
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  Speaker 1: gets zero touches with four minutes to go, and the
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  Speaker 1: Calves have done such an amazing job by producing cavalinses.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't know if that is it's when the
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  Speaker 1: Calves go on their own personal run. Sometimes it's like
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  Speaker 1: a fourteen oh run that I do believe that them
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  Speaker 1: knowing that they can potentially turn it on has been
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  Speaker 1: a detriment to the team at times.
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  Speaker 2: There's no world where they should be losing to the Suns.
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  Speaker 1: And if you talk about the bigger picture of it all,
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  Speaker 1: given the fact that the Suns have not been good
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  Speaker 1: this season, they're also missing some of their most critical players,
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  Speaker 1: and it felt like they started off this game with
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  Speaker 1: the idea that we're kind of chilling. We're just more talented.
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  Speaker 1: We're a deeper team than this Sun's team. So it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually we will be able to go on our run.
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  Speaker 1: And they were able to go on their run. It
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  Speaker 1: just so happened they were in so much of a
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  Speaker 1: deficit that the run didn't matter. And then it's got
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  Speaker 1: Kenny messing with the rotations. Kenny's out here doing stuff
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  Speaker 1: in this game that he ain't done. Javonte Green hadn't
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  Speaker 1: seen the floor, I think they said on the broadcast
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  Speaker 1: for the last games. Four out of the last five
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  Speaker 1: games he got a DNP. Well, he checked in early
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  Speaker 1: in the third quarter because they just needed somebody different
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  Speaker 1: that maybe would be able to put some pressure on
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  Speaker 1: the Suns. But I do think the number one thing
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  Speaker 1: about the Calves that has scared me all season long,
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  Speaker 1: but I think we're seeing it right now in this
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  Speaker 1: four game loser streak is a three point shooting variance.
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  Speaker 1: When the Cavaliers started the season off on their I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember was it twelve over? I forget how they
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  Speaker 1: started off the season. Let me double check that, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get these facts right. Yeah, I forgot
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  Speaker 1: fifteen to oh to start the season. The thing that
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  Speaker 1: scared me the most about their run we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about early on in the season, could the Calves be contenders?
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  Speaker 1: Are they pretended? YadA, YadA, YadA, was the three point
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  Speaker 1: shooting variants. They have been shooting historically great all season long,
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  Speaker 1: and my question was, will they ever come down to
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  Speaker 1: earth when it comes to shooting. Now we're sixty plus
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  Speaker 1: games in and you had to come to the realization, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if a team shoots this well for sixty games, it's
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  Speaker 1: probably just how good they shoot.
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  Speaker 2: That's just that's who they are now.
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  Speaker 1: And they get these last couple of games where the
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  Speaker 1: shooting has been bad and it scares you, right, he said, hmm,
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  Speaker 1: you know they're not gonna shoot thirty two percent every
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  Speaker 1: single game for the rest of the season. But this
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  Speaker 1: four game loser streak where they are shooting poorer that
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  Speaker 1: I will remind you how many games you need to
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  Speaker 1: lose in a seven game series, just four. So if
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  Speaker 1: they have this level of or this lack of shooting
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere in a postseason, they could just be
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  Speaker 1: eliminated just like that. And that could be the real
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  Speaker 1: catalyst to it all because we've seen the Calves continuously
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  Speaker 1: increase their three point frequency over the season. Now, it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of plateau kind of a bit because it can
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  Speaker 1: only get so high, but as the season went on,
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  Speaker 1: they were getting two percent more. When it comes to
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  Speaker 1: three point frequency, four percent more, six percent more, then
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  Speaker 1: eventually again it plate toad. So if we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a team that's gonna shoot a lot of threes, obviously
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  Speaker 1: we need those threes to go in. And if it's
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  Speaker 1: not going in, then what is our backup play? Because
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  Speaker 1: not only are they shooting it poorly doing this streak,
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  Speaker 1: the team that they're going against is scorching, scorching hot
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  Speaker 1: from three, like the Orlando Magic, the first loss on
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  Speaker 1: this losing streak.
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  Speaker 2: We know the Magic.
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  Speaker 1: They're the worst three point shooting team since ever since
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  Speaker 1: they started track at three points. I mean, I'm exaggerated,
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  Speaker 1: but that's how bad of the three point shooting team
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  Speaker 1: they are. They shot forty two percent from three in
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  Speaker 1: that one game versus the Calves that started their losing
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  Speaker 1: next game, when they win against the Clippers, the Clippers
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  Speaker 1: shot of a ridiculous forty six percent from three on
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  Speaker 1: thirty five attempts, and then tonight the Suns shot forty
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  Speaker 1: five percent on nearly on forty two threes, and they
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  Speaker 1: were giving threes up to people you want to give
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  Speaker 1: threes up to. There are many times in this game
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  Speaker 1: where Royce O'Neill had a wide open three, but that's
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  Speaker 1: the shot that the Calves have decided that they want
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  Speaker 1: to give up. Ryan Dunn is the negative shooter since
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  Speaker 1: the day he picked up a basketball. In this game,
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  Speaker 1: he shot two for five from three. So, like again,
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  Speaker 1: their three point shooting has dropped in this streak and
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  Speaker 1: the opposing three point shooting has been ridiculously good.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know that leaves us right.
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  Speaker 1: I still do believe in the Cavs as a team
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  Speaker 1: that can win a championship. I've never really put them
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  Speaker 1: as my number one team, but they are in the
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  Speaker 1: real conversation.
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  Speaker 2: They're in that group of elite level.
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  Speaker 1: Talent, and the questions is always gonna be can they
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  Speaker 1: continue to shoot as good as they shot all season long?
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  Speaker 1: Can they lock back in defensively when it matters the most,
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  Speaker 1: And can now boy Donovan Mitchew get back to the
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  Speaker 1: way he has been hooping earlier in the season. If
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  Speaker 1: you feel good about two of those three things, hell
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  Speaker 1: three of those three things, you would probably have them
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  Speaker 1: as a contender as well. I'm always on the side
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  Speaker 1: of optimism, like I just know sometimes it is of
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  Speaker 1: making this league. So a four game loser streak, as
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  Speaker 1: I gave you the examples earlier in the video, is
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  Speaker 1: not a death sentence, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: We need a little bit more time.