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The Pistons Force Game 7, Spurs Walk To Conference Finals · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Zaz Opportunitia said it best man. Game seven. There's no
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  Speaker 1: two words that are better in sports.
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  Speaker 2: Than game seven. And the Detroit Pistons today force the
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  Speaker 2: game seven. Well out West, the San Antonio Spurs put
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  Speaker 2: the SmackDown to advance to the conference finals against the
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder. Two of the youngest teams in the league,
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  Speaker 2: two of the best teams in the league, going head
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  Speaker 2: to head to see who will represent that conference in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA Finals. Our first recap is some time, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll explain that later in the video. But before we
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  Speaker 2: get into talking about the Detroit Pistons taking Game six
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  Speaker 2: a huge, huge win for the Cleveland Cavaliers for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of different reasons. It gives them two opportunities to
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  Speaker 2: win one game to advance to the first Conference Finals
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  Speaker 2: since Lebron James, and it was their first road win
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  Speaker 2: of the entirety of the playoffs. WI sounds crazy to
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  Speaker 2: say aloud that it took that long, but they were
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  Speaker 2: able to do it, and they had a really good game.
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  Speaker 2: They started to really figure things out over the last
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  Speaker 2: or three games where they ran more pick and roll
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  Speaker 2: than they did in the previous games, and in the
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  Speaker 2: previous series, they allowed Evan Mobley as the role man
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  Speaker 2: to be a passer out of that, and I thought
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  Speaker 2: he had some of his best games of the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: But even with them thinking or me thinking that maybe
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  Speaker 2: they figure something out against the Detroit Pistons team, there
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  Speaker 2: was nothing that they have done to make me feel
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  Speaker 2: like I should close the book completely on the Pistons,
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  Speaker 2: the piss that just came back from down three one
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  Speaker 2: in their previous series. So they showed us that they
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  Speaker 2: could come into a game back against the wall and
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  Speaker 2: make things happen. And they went into Cleveland and really handily,
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  Speaker 2: like had this game. A lot of it ended up
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  Speaker 2: being in the third quarter where they really pulled away
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  Speaker 2: from it. And I think it's a special thing for
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  Speaker 2: the Pistons to win this game without k Cunningham meeting
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  Speaker 2: to draw forty five points or thirty nine points, something
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  Speaker 2: he's done a lot of the times throughout this series.
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  Speaker 2: I love that from the very beginning of this series
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  Speaker 2: that JB. Bickerstaff has not been set to a specific rotation.
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  Speaker 2: He has been experimenting. He has been trying to find
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  Speaker 2: combinations that work. Is basically what you have to do,
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  Speaker 2: especially when Jayalen Dura wasn't playing so well or Dackie Robinson.
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  Speaker 2: This is a game with lower back tightness or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You have to see what Karrosiver can give you. You
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  Speaker 2: have to see when Marcus Sasser could give you. And
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  Speaker 2: Marcus Sass was pretty damn good today. So I've been
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  Speaker 2: loving some of the combinations we've been seeing from Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a huge, huge win, and I do want
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  Speaker 2: to say, welcome to the playoffs. Jalen Dura. Now, granted
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  Speaker 2: he only scored fifteen points today, but I promise you
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  Speaker 2: this was by far his best game of the entire postseason.
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  Speaker 2: It is a lot less than his what nineteen point
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  Speaker 2: per game average he had in the regular season. But
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  Speaker 2: there's multiple times within this game while I watched and say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that was a Jalen duram we saw in the regular season,
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  Speaker 2: whether it be him getting a nice post touch and
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  Speaker 2: doing a little spinbull for a layup, or getting an
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  Speaker 2: offensive rebound and not having his first instinct be let
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  Speaker 2: me kick it out, even though he did a few
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  Speaker 2: different times, but his first instinct being let me be
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  Speaker 2: the aggressive player that I had been. He had got
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  Speaker 2: one finish and he flexed on him. I say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: that's Jalen Durrant, So that's cool. Hopefully for their sake,
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  Speaker 2: this is just the start of him really really figuring
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  Speaker 2: it out. But I forget whose podcast I was listen to,
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  Speaker 2: and they were given Jalen during a lot of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of I don't know, not use the word credit,
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  Speaker 2: but lee way with this playoff series run because Orlando
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  Speaker 2: Magic are one of the best DEFENSEI teams in the league.
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  Speaker 2: And then they now he's going against you know, a
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  Speaker 2: former dpoy and Evan Mobley and another really good defensive
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  Speaker 2: center in Jared Allen. So yes, it is super disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: But who knows if the advance will he be able
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  Speaker 2: to have a normal Jalen during type performances if they
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  Speaker 2: go against New York Knicks, who've been phenomenal in the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs defensively, but track record says that, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: are not the greatest I think in the regular season,
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  Speaker 2: maybe like number seven, So maybe I need to take
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  Speaker 2: that back, but maybe that front line is a little
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  Speaker 2: bit thinner than some of the last two teams they
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  Speaker 2: played against. I just want to say, full transparency, I
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  Speaker 2: started recording this video when it was nine minutes left
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  Speaker 2: at the end of this in the Spurs Timberwols game,
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  Speaker 2: they were about thirty and I'm just like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: need to sit here and wait for this. And Julian
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  Speaker 2: Champinnee just hit another three in its talking to the
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  Speaker 2: a Ron. He's talking to a Rod specifically, sorry about
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  Speaker 2: that a Ron so shut out to the Detroit Pistons man.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say this, sar Thompson is one of
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  Speaker 2: the biggest minuteses we have in basketball when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to like looking at the posing player, even if it's
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  Speaker 2: a guy bringing the ball up against him or him
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  Speaker 2: sneaking in.
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  Speaker 1: He was straight up rip the ball out of your hand.
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  Speaker 2: There's been times in this series, or I guess tonight
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  Speaker 2: in the other series as well, where you just see
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  Speaker 2: some ridiculously freakish athletic players. A two hindred volleyball spike
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  Speaker 2: from Asar Thompson was crazy. Some of the just straight
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  Speaker 2: up taking James Harden passes with one hand felt like
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  Speaker 2: he had some superpowers and so on. But the fifth
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  Speaker 2: foul that he got in this game. Again, luckily for
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  Speaker 2: the Pistons, they end up winning this one, so it
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  Speaker 2: didn't matter. Even though he didn't play with the last
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  Speaker 2: half or many minutes of this one, he's in foul
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  Speaker 2: trump the entire time. That fifth foul in a game
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  Speaker 2: like this, I personally don't think that's something you should
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  Speaker 2: be calling, but luckily it didn't come back to bite
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  Speaker 2: them and they do force a game seven.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Reid has been electric man since.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I guess since anytime Javy bigestav has
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  Speaker 2: called his number.
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  Speaker 1: He's been ready to hoop.
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  Speaker 2: Even in the one game with the Calves when on
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  Speaker 2: that what twenty twenty one oh run, The guy that
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  Speaker 2: ended that twenty one over run was Paul Reid and
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  Speaker 2: he was hanging on the rim and flexing even like
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  Speaker 2: they weren't just giving up twenty one straight points.
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  Speaker 1: But he's ready for those type of moments, which is huge.
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  Speaker 2: I think it is interesting that we continue to see
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  Speaker 2: Isaia Stewart's minutes go down and down. In one of
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  Speaker 2: the last games he played, okay amount of minutes was
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  Speaker 2: because he hit those two threes back to back and
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  Speaker 2: that was enough to keep him on the floor. But
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  Speaker 2: JB is figuring out that, Hey, Durham was pretty solid today,
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  Speaker 2: and Paul Reid just brings a level of energy that
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe Isaiah Stewart doesn't really bring, which
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  Speaker 2: is kind of crazy to sail out throughout this playoff
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  Speaker 2: run when they've had a bunch of wins. It had
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  Speaker 2: been Tobias Harris, right, Tobias Harris comes in. He has
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  Speaker 2: seven straight games with twenty plus points, but this is
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  Speaker 2: another game with Tobias Harris wasn't really completely there and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people stepped up from Danis Jenkins. So again, Karris,
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  Speaker 2: le Verb, Duncke Robson being back in in fourth threes
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  Speaker 2: is huge. This pisso Seane is one of those that like,
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  Speaker 2: if they have a really good shoot to night, because
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  Speaker 2: of how elite they are defensively, it's just going to
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  Speaker 2: be a hard team to beat. And they won this
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  Speaker 2: one and they force Game seven where they will go
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  Speaker 2: back home. So side to the Pistols, but we do
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  Speaker 2: have to talk about the Calves. Now. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 2: to write the obituary for the Cleveland Cavaliers because well,
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  Speaker 2: they still do have another game, and we've seen that
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  Speaker 2: they can win a very important game. Donald Mitchell said
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  Speaker 2: he can't wait for it, and you know he's expecting
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  Speaker 2: to see a bunch of Cavs fans in attendance, and
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  Speaker 2: I guess the commute between these two cities.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't they crazy to see some Calves fans?
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  Speaker 2: But I do think we start at Donovan Mitchell when
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  Speaker 2: you talk about this game six of twenty from the field,
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  Speaker 2: only eighteen points and the entire time I'm watching this
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  Speaker 2: because I wouldn't go out on the limit say this
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  Speaker 2: whole series, going into game seven, we've only really got
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  Speaker 2: one normal to really great Donovan Mitchell half right, that
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  Speaker 2: was the half that he had what thirty nine points
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  Speaker 2: a couple of games goo, which is huge. He was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, Okay, that is a guy that might get
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  Speaker 2: to my OLL NBA First Team votes this season. But
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  Speaker 2: for the most part of this series.
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  Speaker 1: He's just been not good.
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  Speaker 2: And this one sucks because again it's a close our
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  Speaker 2: situation on your home floor and you've struggled, you struggled
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  Speaker 2: to win on the road, but it was who was it?
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  Speaker 1: Howard Beck shout out to Howard Beck, who I met.
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  Speaker 2: Once in twenty eighteen, and that was like my first
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  Speaker 2: experience for like an NBA right that I was reading
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  Speaker 2: at the time, and Howard Beck has said something that
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  Speaker 2: I had to go back to watch because I missed it.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of their last game, y'all know, last game,
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  Speaker 2: James Harden comes up, clutch big baskets down the stretch,
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  Speaker 2: gets to ot, hit some free throws, and in a
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  Speaker 2: postgame interview, he's getting interviewed and Donna Mitchell walks up
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  Speaker 2: to him and say, don't worry, I got you. And
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  Speaker 2: the way Beck interpreted this was like, hey, man, James
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  Speaker 2: Harden was gas for a lot of this game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Don Mitchell's gas for a lot of this game.
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  Speaker 2: So he relied on James harder and that was Donovan
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  Speaker 2: Mitchell telling him, hey, I got us next game, don't
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  Speaker 2: you worry.
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  Speaker 1: And he did it.
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  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have him.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm usually guy that gives a lot of players
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  Speaker 2: lee way when it comes to the posts because there's
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  Speaker 2: so many different factors into winning or losing basketball games.
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  Speaker 2: The anti don I won't use your anti Dommentaru, but
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  Speaker 2: Donovi Mitchell. People that don't believe Dona Minchell can be
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  Speaker 2: your best player on a championship level team. We'll look
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  Speaker 2: at games like this as an example why all this
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  Speaker 2: game I'm watching and I'm thinking about this clip from
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  Speaker 2: Caitlyn Cooper's podcast from last year where the Indiana Pacers
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  Speaker 2: played against the Cleveland Cavaliers, and that she's basically laying
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  Speaker 2: out why the Indiana Pacers are completely okay with allowing
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  Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell to be the lead guy in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the time single coverages really boiling down to Donovan
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  Speaker 2: Mitchell just is not a good enough passer.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he is that much of a threat. We know
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  Speaker 1: he can explode to go for thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Nine points and a half, which he did a couple
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  Speaker 2: of games ago, but on a possession by possession basis,
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  Speaker 2: because he's not that good of a passer or he's
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  Speaker 2: not that good of a secondary playmaker, we feel okay
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  Speaker 2: with taking our chances. And I'm watching this and I'm
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  Speaker 2: seeing that when he gets the ball and his time
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  Speaker 2: to orchestrate things, because when you don't got the ball,
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  Speaker 2: he's kind of sitting in the corner and let James
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  Speaker 2: Harden rock out. Because James Harden is a system. Every
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  Speaker 2: one of these possessions is them. They're getting outside of
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  Speaker 2: the pick and roll what it is Dona Mitchell and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of these possessions them just straight up hunting
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  Speaker 2: a Danis Jenkins or a Duncan Robinson. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that should be the only way we
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  Speaker 2: can orchestrate offense with Donovan Mitchell having the ball. Like, yes, again,
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  Speaker 2: sark Thoms was thirty dpo. Why that is a hard
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  Speaker 2: brother to score on. But we can't use eighteen seconds
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  Speaker 2: of the clock to get the perfect mismatch and still
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  Speaker 2: settle for a step back three on Tobias Harris that misses.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the only thing that's running through my mind
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  Speaker 2: and the entirety of this. And though James Harden was
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  Speaker 2: not great today, he was the better of the two.
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  Speaker 2: This is supposed to be Donovan Mitchell's team with James
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  Speaker 2: Harden being a supplementary piece, a piece to say, hey, James,
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  Speaker 2: we struggled when it was just where it was no
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  Speaker 2: me on the court. You have been able to rock
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  Speaker 2: out your entire career for better or for worse. We
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  Speaker 2: need you to do that. But now it's kind of like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: James is our best player right now.
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  Speaker 1: How is it that possible? Because James has not been great,
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  Speaker 1: but somehow we walk out of this game. We had eight.
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  Speaker 2: Turnovers in twenty three points and you're like, yeah, those
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  Speaker 2: a turnover suck. But he's somehow is not the worst
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  Speaker 2: player up two because Donald Mitchell has continued to have
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  Speaker 2: a wonder one assistant turnover ratio, and I ain't looked
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  Speaker 2: at the numbers, I'm gonna guess that he probably has
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  Speaker 2: a negative assistant turnover ratio for this series. And if
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  Speaker 2: it's not negative, then damn it might be positive by
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  Speaker 2: just one or two. And that's just not good enough
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  Speaker 2: for a lead or even a secondary guard these other
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  Speaker 2: teams that have lead guards. Even if Kay Cunningham has
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  Speaker 2: turned the ball over seven times a game, which he
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  Speaker 2: did again today, we know that he is able to
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  Speaker 2: make that big skip pass.
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  Speaker 1: When it matters, and Donvin Mitchell has yet to do
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  Speaker 1: that in his.
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  Speaker 2: Career, and that probably is one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 2: we might get to the point where they get eliminated
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  Speaker 2: in the seven or they might get eliminated in the
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  Speaker 2: conference finals. And I'm saying all this, there's still a
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  Speaker 2: chance they make it to the goddamn finals. But this
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  Speaker 2: is what I'm thinking about when I'm watching these games.
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  Speaker 2: Evan Mobley didn't get a really opportunity to play really
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  Speaker 2: out of a short role in this one. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he was bad. I don't think Jared Allen was
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  Speaker 2: bad either. I do think it it was down to
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  Speaker 2: the fact that the Detroit Pistons is such a phenomenal
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  Speaker 2: defensive team. They hit their three pointers and our star
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  Speaker 2: player Donald Mitchell had one of his worst games of
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  Speaker 2: the postseason. So we'll see what happens in Game seven.
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  Speaker 2: It is back in Detroit, and if I had to
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  Speaker 2: make a prediction, I would predict Detroit winning at home
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  Speaker 2: in Game seven, just like they did in the next
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  Speaker 2: in the last series, which will be a complete turnaround
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  Speaker 2: if they made it to the conference finals after being
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  Speaker 2: down three months, win eight seed just last week, but
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  Speaker 2: shut out of the Pissons.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it's a fun team to.
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  Speaker 2: Watch when they got things going and the shots are falling,
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  Speaker 2: switching gears. As I'm looking on my screen, both teams
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  Speaker 2: have pulled their starters, so it is it is over.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: The Minnesota Timwills have been eliminated from playoff contention. Shout
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  Speaker 2: out to them. You know, they dealt with a lot
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: over the last couple of weeks, from Anthony Epward's coming
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  Speaker 2: in and being injured, to Nati DiVincenzo getting injured, to
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  Speaker 2: Ioula Sumo getting injured at one point in the series.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was a really tough series for them.
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  Speaker 2: They gave us a couple really solid games, and that's
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  Speaker 2: all we can really appreciate. I look back, got look
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  Speaker 2: back on this series or this season for them, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll think about Round one versus.
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  Speaker 1: Denver as the underdog and going into those games and winning.
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  Speaker 2: I'll think about Rudy Gobert having one of his most
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  Speaker 2: dominant defensive performances on the highest stage.
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  Speaker 1: But on account to that, in Round.
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  Speaker 2: Two, unfortunately, I don't think our boy Rudy Gobert was
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  Speaker 2: very good. I think this is a really, really, really
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  Speaker 2: tough matchup of him, not just women Yama by himself,
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  Speaker 2: but all of the rim pressure that is being created
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  Speaker 2: from the San Antonio Spurs all series long. It's just
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  Speaker 2: tough for a guy like Rudy Gobert. And I think
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  Speaker 2: Game five might have been one of his worst playoff games.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know five years, like I was watching
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  Speaker 2: that like goly he is getting torched on all accounts,
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  Speaker 2: and luckily he had so much praise from last series
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  Speaker 2: that nobody's really talking about how bad Rudy Gobert was
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  Speaker 2: in Game five because now all you're gonna think about
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  Speaker 2: is him versus Jokics, But him versus Winby was a
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  Speaker 2: lot worse. And it is so funny how the difference
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  Speaker 2: of styles between the two teams can take a guy
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  Speaker 2: that won four dpo wise to make him be less
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  Speaker 2: impactful defensively. Hell, in this game, I ain't even realize
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  Speaker 2: the brother was in twenty one minutes, he ain't scored
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  Speaker 2: a single point, which is I guess not that crazy
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: for to go Bear. But he also only had three
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: rebounds in this time, so he went from on cloud
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: nine to oh snap, he ain't looking a great. Minnesota's
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: gonna have an interesting offseason. Man.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: This team is built for the now.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: And you know, they made two conference finals in the
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: last three years, and they were two games away from
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: making it three years in a row.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: But we can all take a.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: Look at this roster and say, hey, even next season,
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: if both teams are healthy, they can't beat the Spurs.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: They can't beat Okay, see, so what's the next thing.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Julius Randall had a horrific series.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: He was one of eight today.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know what he averaged for this entire series,
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: but my goodness, there's many times in this one where
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: I'm just like, I don't even know how you can
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: bring the brother back.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie to you, that's how bad he
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: was in this series.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: And one thing I do appreciate y'all know we'd be
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: trying to enjoy basketball round here, is that Anthony vers recognized.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: And this is a Game six, and damn it, I'm
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: gonna go down with the ship. I'm gonna take twenty
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: shots in the first half, and if I miss him,
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: I miss him. And that's just the way we're gonna
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: do things. I don't want, you know, somebody off the
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: bench to determine our sea in our series. And you know,
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: early in this game they were playing single coverage against him,
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: which was different from the entirety of the rest of
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: the series. About halfway through the first or second quarter,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: they start to throw those two. And I truly do
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: think that Anthony Erwards is getting better and better every
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: single season. We're dealing with that double pressure. We saw
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: it in the series versus the Lakers. Was that last
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: year two years ago, the year that Jada McDaniels went
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: off against Luca. I guess they had to be last
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: season where they would sending two at him and he
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: was navigating they win that series. Again, he ain't having
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: this crazy playmaking nine assists ten assist games, but I
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: do think he's tackling those a little bit better than
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: maybe the other guy that we talked about in Donvald
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Mitchell from the last series. So Jada McDaniels had a
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: really good first round this one, he had a really
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: good third quarter, but ultimately was not enough.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I think it does hurt that Io.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: You could definitely just tail straight up that Io was
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: not completely healthy when he did play Terrence Shannon Junior.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: The playoff run gave him a lot of burn and
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: gave them a lot of good moments, but ultimately their
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: season is over. But I do want to talk about
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: the Spurs team because my goodness, I don't know them,
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: and OKC is gonna be like, hopefully the best series
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: we've had in quite some time, and it's Santa locause
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: we've had a couple of seven game series this year,
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: and we literally had a game seven in the NBA
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Finals last season that was really good. But these two
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: teams have been the two most dominant teams the entirety
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: of the regular season and the entirety of the postseason.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Okay see still has not lost a game, and you
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: think about the games that the Spurs have lost. They
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: lost game one of this series where women Yama missed
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: every single shot he put up. They lost another game
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: when women Yama got ejected, and then they lost the
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: game against Portland with women Yama hit his head against
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: the floor.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: So like other than that, they've been just a dominant
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: ass team. So this is gonna be a battle. We
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: got two day.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: I think a game one would be Monday, so I
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: got a couple of days to think about it. Y'all
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: know the sananton Your Spurs dominated in the regular season.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: But I think Okac is really excited for this matchup
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: because they want to prove that his levels to the
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: regular season versus postseason. But this team is so special
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: man to have a young core of Dylan Harper Stefan
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: cast to fit the wiberdyam and that's not discounting who
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: was really good dear Fox today or Julie Champagne who
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: does not miss threes. But to have your three, damn,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: that feels disrespect for the Dean Fox sat this but
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: your three most important players to be this young, it's
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: just a special thing. And maybe we become numb to
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: it because just last season the team that won a
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: championship had three super young superstars as well. But like
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Dylan Harper literally is a rookie going toe to toe
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: with Anthony Edwards. It literally is a rookie putting a
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: former All defensive guy and Jada mcgaine's into the cups
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: straight up shouldering to him. And I think what differentiates
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: this team from all these other teams is they put
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: so much pressure on the rind between Castle, between Harper
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: and then something not enough.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: For Dean Fox.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: But sometimes er Fox can still get into that mode
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: and oh snap, we got a seven to seven stretch
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: five that pulls this opposed to center out of there.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: So it really is single coverage a lot of times
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: with these guards getting downhill. It really is a special thing.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: And don't get me started. If Stefan House was gonna
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: start off a game shootings four for four from three.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: What are you supposed to do? How do you take
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: away this offense? If you know that when wom Miyama's
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: on the court, we have an eighty seven defensive rating.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: It's a special team, man. We've got to see, truly
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: two special teams go head to head and we gonna
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: find out if we are in the Oka se era
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: or the parody era is still a thing? They got,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: They just get so much, so many great minutes of
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: productions across the board. Even today, Harrison Barnes came in
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: and gave them good minutes defensively. They had a couple
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: offensive rebounds that led to Harrison Barnes getting another open three.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: This team, I don't know, man. I hope this ends
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: up being.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: The series that I'm anticipating because these two teams match
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: up so very well. Do y'all remember when Check and
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Wimby were both I guess technically rookies because Chet missed
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: that first official season and the NBA had the rivalry
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Week and it ends up being those two guys against
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: each other, and they were like.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Hey, is levels to this? And it truly is level
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: to this.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Win Byama is arguably what the second best player in
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the world, third best player in the world depending on
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: where you have it, and Check is not that, but
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: he's still a DPO whack candidate and another All NBA
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Cali player, so it is levels to it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: But we're about to see these two teams s goo
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: against each.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Other for the first time in the postseason, and hopefully
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: this is the first of many because their youth versus
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: their youth, it's a class of Titans and I can
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: not wait. I won't be one of those people that
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: said this is the NBA Finals, right. I will put
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: respect on Detroit, I will put respect on Cleveland, I
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: will put respect on New York to say that those
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: three teams do have a chance if they make it
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: to the finals. Because even think about last year, Okay, see,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: we thought was gonna run away with it and then
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: the Pacers took them to seven and Halliburn to its Achilles,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: and who knows what would have happened they if he.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Didn't So that was a lot. It's been a minute.
• 19:41
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• 19:43
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• 19:46
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• 19:48
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• 19:50
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• 19:52
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• 19:55
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• 19:57
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• 19:58
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• 20:00
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• 20:03
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• 20:06
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• 20:09
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• 20:12
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• 20:19
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• 20:22
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• 20:25
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• 20:25
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• 20:26
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• 20:29
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• 20:31
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• 20:34
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• 20:36
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• 20:37
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• 20:39
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• 20:41
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• 20:44
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• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Regards to the circumstances, as I started to climb the
• 20:48
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• 20:50
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• 20:53
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• 20:56
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• 20:58
  Speaker 2: said it off to say. Going into this postseason, I
• 21:02
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• 21:04
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• 21:07
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• 21:09
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• 21:12
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• 21:15
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• 21:20
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• 21:22
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• 21:25
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• 21:29
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• 21:31
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• 21:33
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• 21:35
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• 21:36
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• 21:39
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• 21:42
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• 21:45
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• 21:47
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• 21:49
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• 21:52
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• 21:55
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• 21:58
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• 22:02
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• 22:05
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• 22:06
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• 22:08
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• 22:11
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• 22:14
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• 22:19
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• 22:20
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• 22:24
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• 22:27
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• 22:28
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• 22:35
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• 22:40
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• 22:43
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• 22:46
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• 22:48
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• 22:55
  Speaker 1: But I want to fill those shoes. I want to
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• 22:58
  Speaker 2: But it's easy to get in to your own head
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• 23:15
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• 23:17
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• 23:20
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• 23:23
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• 23:26
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  Speaker 1: And if I'm.
• 23:30
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• 23:33
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• 23:35
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• 23:38
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• 23:40
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• 23:43
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• 23:46
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• 23:48
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• 23:50
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• 23:53
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• 23:54
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• 23:59
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• 24:01
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• 24:03
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• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So I could go into that a thousandth time, but
• 24:07
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• 24:10
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• 24:14
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• 24:18
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• 24:19
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• 24:20
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