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The Denver Nuggets Force Another Game 7 · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Q the Za Zappachunia Clip.
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  Speaker 2: We got a Game seven coming up, Ladies and gentlemen
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday, Nuggets versus Thunder and OKAC. I cannot wait.
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  Speaker 2: Game um A six was one nineteen to one oh seven.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about it a little while ago. The differ
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  Speaker 2: Nuggets always find a way. I just before I hit record,
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  Speaker 2: I just went back to look because I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: to myself, now I feel like I've seen one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Game seven is from the Kole Jokiccha Company. This is
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  Speaker 2: about to be their seventh Game seven. Is a core
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  Speaker 2: that should be scary if you're an OKAC Thunder fan.
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  Speaker 2: This is their seventh Game seven with this core. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: eighteen twenty nineteen, they have two series. They after one
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  Speaker 2: against San Antonio, they lose one to Portland the next
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  Speaker 2: year and above we y'all remember the three one comebacks
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  Speaker 2: versus the Jazz and the Clippers, right so that's four
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  Speaker 2: right there. And then we had one last year in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: That was the game that they blew to Anthony Everards
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  Speaker 2: and Company. They had one last roundie as the Clippers,
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  Speaker 2: and now they got this one. This team just loves
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  Speaker 2: a lengthy series. I guess at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: and that you could tell that they care they won it.
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  Speaker 2: This was one of the weird games going into it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know what to expect because we got the
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  Speaker 2: notification that Jamal Murray was sick. And you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can have an MJ flu game or you can have
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  Speaker 2: an absolute stinker. I know, I personally hate doing my
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  Speaker 2: job when I'm sick. I couldn't imagine having to run
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  Speaker 2: for forty fucking minutes and Jamal Murray, I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: which side of the coin it would be. And he
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  Speaker 2: was phenomenal today. They said that he was going through
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  Speaker 2: ivs to keep his fluids up, so on and so forth,
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  Speaker 2: and when they they zoomed in on him on the court,
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  Speaker 2: get like his nose was red and like he's going
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  Speaker 2: through some stuff. And he still gave them a great,
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  Speaker 2: great performance. You know, there was a time in his
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  Speaker 2: game in the third quarter or at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the third quarter, you know we're going to the fourth
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just I'm thinking about the last couple of games,
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  Speaker 2: how how lacklustered the Deer Nuggets offense had become in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter over the last couple games. So even
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  Speaker 2: though they had the momentum in the lead and everything.
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  Speaker 2: I was a little bit worried that they wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: able to close it out, and they one was because
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  Speaker 2: it was the other side of the thing, the other
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  Speaker 2: team that just struggled down the stretch. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure out how many points they had in that fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 2: third quarter. I guess it don't really matter. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: have enough. Let's just say that they did not have
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  Speaker 2: enough points in that fourth quarter. In this team, this
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  Speaker 2: differ nugget team, find a way. Like I mentioned, Jamal Murray,
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  Speaker 2: sickness gives you twenty five, eight and seven some big
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  Speaker 2: old shots. Nicola Jokis looks like the best player in
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  Speaker 2: the world. Some of the shots that he hit just
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  Speaker 2: taking what the defense is given him. Right, there were
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  Speaker 2: times where they decided to go under screens and he hadn't.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't shoot a lot of three points today opposed
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  Speaker 2: to like a couple of games ago, he shot ten.
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  Speaker 2: But the one three pointer that he hit, he had
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  Speaker 2: recognized that, Okay, we're doing this little screen in action
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  Speaker 2: and they're going under on my screens. I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 2: what they can, what they give you. I'm gonna hit
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  Speaker 2: this big time three here and time and time again.
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  Speaker 2: They'd let him get his positioning and he found a
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  Speaker 2: way to create for himself and others. And that was
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that Okay, he had done a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good job of throughout the course of the series,
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  Speaker 2: eliminating his ability to pass. I think last game he
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  Speaker 2: ended up with just five assists, but he had twenty potentials.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: His teammates around him didn't hit their shots today. Those
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  Speaker 2: guys hit some of those shots. You know, if Nikola
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  Speaker 2: Yoki is gonna like the best player in the world
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  Speaker 2: and Jamal Murray is gonna like the best Robin, the
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  Speaker 2: question is always after that, who else is here for us?
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  Speaker 2: Will it be Aaron? Will it be MPJ? Will it
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  Speaker 2: be Christian Brown? Will it this guy? Would it be Brody?
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  Speaker 2: Would it be whoever? Today? There's a couple, but the
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  Speaker 2: number one guy was my boy. Julian Strawther comes in,
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  Speaker 2: goes on his own personal eight to oh run. He
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  Speaker 2: had seventeen total points in the series leading up to
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  Speaker 2: Game six. He had fifteenth tonight. He was electric, he
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  Speaker 2: was amazing. He hit a shot and the crowd went
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  Speaker 2: went loud, and I promise you that home court event
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  Speaker 2: is in Denver is a real thing, and you felt
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  Speaker 2: it tonight. Christian Brown played a phenomenal game on both
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  Speaker 2: sides of the fourth all things considered. Where he's getting
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  Speaker 2: to the basket, he hitting this shot and if you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have two people step up like that, this team
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  Speaker 2: is extremely tough to beat. And they had that today
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  Speaker 2: and they needed it because I thought that first stretch
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  Speaker 2: that Russell Westbrook played, and I love Brody, it was
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  Speaker 2: one of the roughest stretches I've seen from him in
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  Speaker 2: his postseason.
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  Speaker 1: It was bad.
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  Speaker 2: It was like three turnovers and three minutes. It was
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  Speaker 2: a misbunny at the rim. He made up for it
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  Speaker 2: somewhat in the second half, where he was all energy,
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  Speaker 2: flying and getting offensive rebounds and tapping the ball out
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  Speaker 2: so on and so forth. But that first stint, I
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  Speaker 2: was a little afraid for them because when he checked in,
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  Speaker 2: they had the lead and by the time time you
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  Speaker 2: checked out, okay see had the league right it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was real rough for him, but eventually again he
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  Speaker 2: made some value out of his minutes by getting some
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  Speaker 2: offensive rebounds down to stretch.
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  Speaker 1: Sawing and so forth.
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  Speaker 2: This team is again seven going into the seventh Game seven.
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  Speaker 2: This is about to be a huge moment for the
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  Speaker 2: OKC Thunder, a huge, huge moment. You know, they're one
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  Speaker 2: of the youngest teams of basketball, and that was one
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  Speaker 2: thing that I'm willing to discount because to me, this
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  Speaker 2: team is different than any other young team we've really seen.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's always hey man, they.
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  Speaker 2: Too young to win it, too young, and they might
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  Speaker 2: it might end up being true on Sunday when they
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  Speaker 2: play against each other. But I look past that because
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  Speaker 2: I saw who this team was in the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: I saw, you know, them earn a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: their stripes last year, losing in the second round, and
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  Speaker 2: so on and so forth. But this team has never
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  Speaker 2: been in the game seven like this. And we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about going against a team with the most experience imaginable
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  Speaker 2: in a Game seven, and that team with the experience
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  Speaker 2: happens to also have the best player in the world.
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  Speaker 2: It's a scary moment from the Thunder perspective, but it's
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  Speaker 2: going to show you so much, going to show you
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  Speaker 2: as a team so much. At the end of day,
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  Speaker 2: you want to went into goddamn championship. You're not here
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  Speaker 2: to look for oh who are on our cores this
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  Speaker 2: and that. No, you want to win a championship, but
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  Speaker 2: it will show you some things. Because tonight your MVP,
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  Speaker 2: Shays Alexander was great. There was one moment that I
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  Speaker 2: absolutely hated, and damn it, it might have been the most
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  Speaker 2: important moment of the entire game. You're up by twelve points,
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  Speaker 2: you already have three fouls in this half. You turn
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  Speaker 2: the ball over and you do and you commit a pointless, pointless,
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  Speaker 2: pointless foul, and now you have four fouls going into
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  Speaker 2: the second half, and after your coach has to bench
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  Speaker 2: you because no way I'll leave you on the court
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  Speaker 2: for this last two minutes. If you have four foules,
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  Speaker 2: the different Nuggets going to run. And now our twelve
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  Speaker 2: point lead is only three. And the only reason this
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  Speaker 2: three is because lou Door hit a buzzer beat in
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  Speaker 2: and three to go into half. Like Shay was great tonight,
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  Speaker 2: but that was the one thing that shifted the momentum
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  Speaker 2: in this game. And we're talking about the first half, right,
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  Speaker 2: Anything could have shifted the momentum, but that was the thing.
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  Speaker 2: When he went to the bench with that foul, and
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  Speaker 2: we saw people come in and hitting the shots and
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  Speaker 2: so on and so forth, and they weren't the non
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  Speaker 2: shave minutes tonight awful.
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  Speaker 1: That is a time where dubb has to step up.
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  Speaker 2: He did it, He missed dunks, he did this, he
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  Speaker 2: did that, He ended up with Tennis says seven rebounds
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  Speaker 2: and tried to do I thought, actually, I thought his
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  Speaker 2: defense tonight, what's the mixing, I'll say that right here.
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  Speaker 2: But he struggled to put the ball in the basket
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  Speaker 2: when his team really needed him to. So we talk
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  Speaker 2: about this being a huge Game seven for their core
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  Speaker 2: and for their future. Sam Presty has to look at
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  Speaker 2: this very close and figure out, hmm, hypothetically, if we lose,
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  Speaker 2: what does that mean for this core.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's easy, like, oh, they're one of the
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  Speaker 1: youngest things a basketball. We run it back. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: The Denver Nuggets didn't give a damn about anybody else
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  Speaker 2: offensively tonight outside of the potential MVP Shay gives Alexander.
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  Speaker 1: That's not good regardless.
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  Speaker 2: If you're almost a seventy win team in the regular season,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way you feel comfortable, feel like you are
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  Speaker 2: going to be able to win a championship of multiple championships.
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  Speaker 2: If the opposing team is willing to let your second
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  Speaker 2: all star shoot, and don't give a damn. You're not
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  Speaker 2: gonna win a championship if the second, the third, the
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  Speaker 2: fourth player are not reliable offensively tonight. You can load
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  Speaker 2: up all you want in the Koliokis, but guess what
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  Speaker 2: our robin, our robin who's dealing with some.
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  Speaker 1: Type of illness, he'll be there to step up.
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  Speaker 2: And we had a game early in the series where
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  Speaker 2: dub was to want to step up and Shay wasn't
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  Speaker 2: there to help. Right, But in a game seven, coming
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  Speaker 2: off this game six, they're going to learn a lot
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  Speaker 2: about who they are as a team, who they are
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  Speaker 2: as a core, and what changes should be dealt this offseason.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a position I would want to be
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  Speaker 2: in if I'm the Thunder. Honestly, could they win, absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: But this is the last team I personally would want
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  Speaker 2: to see in a seventh a game seven. Nikolioki is
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  Speaker 2: the last person I would want to see in the
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  Speaker 2: game seven. And the one thing that they had tonight
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  Speaker 2: is they were able The Nuggets were able to get
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  Speaker 2: your guys into.
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  Speaker 1: Foul trouble again.
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  Speaker 2: Four first high fouls from Shay in the second half,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't foul at all, but he gave up a
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  Speaker 2: few layups just because he didn't want to pick up
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  Speaker 2: that fifth foul.
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  Speaker 1: That's a dangerous thing.
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  Speaker 2: And early in the third quarter, the Nuggets recognize that
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  Speaker 2: they went right at them two times in a row
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  Speaker 2: just to start the quarter, just because we know that
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  Speaker 2: he don't want to pick up number five, because that
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  Speaker 2: puts Mark Dayton on a weird situation. Are we gonna
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  Speaker 2: let him play the entire second a half? He got
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  Speaker 2: five thousands, inevitable that he might pick up another one,
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  Speaker 2: So they win at him a few times, and he
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  Speaker 2: gets into it because he don't want to pick up
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  Speaker 2: that fifth one, because he recognizes he needs to be
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  Speaker 2: on the court all they considered. So if I give
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  Speaker 2: up this lay up here, so be it, because my
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  Speaker 2: team can't score if I'm not there with them. So
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  Speaker 2: you get Shay into foul trouble ascoos to pick up
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  Speaker 2: some fouls later in the game when they were fouling
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  Speaker 2: the things.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not looking at this five fouls.
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  Speaker 2: But like Jay willis in foul trouble, Isaiah Hartenstein's a
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  Speaker 2: foul trouble and now they can't play as physical as
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  Speaker 2: they normally do. It's a good scheme, I mean, you're
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  Speaker 2: really putting a lot of trust into the references to
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  Speaker 2: call the fouls that are necessary.
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  Speaker 1: But it worked out tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot, like, I can't wait to rewatch this game
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  Speaker 2: and just look at how open the looks were for
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  Speaker 2: anybody not named Shake Gilges Alexander can't be the case.
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  Speaker 2: So I cannot wait for this game, seven man, I cannot.
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  Speaker 2: This was a run heavy game. At one point in
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  Speaker 2: the first half. This is when Shay ended up picking
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  Speaker 2: up his foule. With two minutes of five seconds ago,
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  Speaker 2: they had a twelve point lead, and then towards the
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  Speaker 2: end of the thing, the Nuggets almost had a twenty
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  Speaker 2: point lead. So this is a huge pendulum swing in
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  Speaker 2: the second half. Well, I have the numbers here. In
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  Speaker 2: the third quarter, okayc scored twenty one to the Denver
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  Speaker 2: Nuggets is thirty two, and then in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 2: it was a four point win for the Denver Nuggets.
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  Speaker 2: It is not enough that twenty one points really really
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  Speaker 2: hurt them in this one, and it keeps boiling down
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  Speaker 2: for the second year in a row to the same
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  Speaker 2: things to the same things. I remember we're at the
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  Speaker 2: deadline and we're all having conversations about like, Okay, what
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  Speaker 2: can oka see?
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  Speaker 1: This team is legendary right now.
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  Speaker 2: They're on pace to win this many games, on pace
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  Speaker 2: to be the best defensive team ever relatively, and it's like,
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  Speaker 2: what could they use? And Neantwo was more shooting, but
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  Speaker 2: it's like, oh, things are moving so well, do you
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  Speaker 2: want to break up part of this court to just
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  Speaker 2: add an extra shooter? They continue to struggle from three,
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  Speaker 2: the same thing from last year, like, hey, we feel undersized,
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  Speaker 2: and they picked up by Zaiah Harnstein, who's been able
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  Speaker 2: to get things done on the night to night basis.
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  Speaker 2: But in the second half, I felt like because of
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  Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook's Russell Westbrook's energy and so on and so forth,
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  Speaker 2: that they were able to get out rebounded or get
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  Speaker 2: loose some of them hustle plays from the rebounding part
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  Speaker 2: of it. It feels like we're going through the same
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  Speaker 2: cycle that we went through last year. And the thing
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  Speaker 2: is they don't on the other side of things. They
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  Speaker 2: don't have anybody that's like, at least off the top
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  Speaker 2: of my head, they're the shooting lights out this series.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Porter Junior had missed what eleven in a row
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  Speaker 2: before he hit his first one in this game. Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Gordon had been a phenomenal shooter in the last series.
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  Speaker 2: He ain't really shot at that whale throughout the course.
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  Speaker 1: Of this entire year. They ain't say.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, what I'm saying, it's not the same is when PJ.
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  Speaker 2: Washington did last year. This is gonna be tough man again.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even that they can win it, because they
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  Speaker 2: have the talent to win it. But this is just
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  Speaker 2: the last team I would want to see in this predicament,
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  Speaker 2: just the last team I would want to see. Somebody's
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  Speaker 2: got to be there. Somebody outside of Shae has got
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  Speaker 2: to be there. And I'm not against Shaye. You getting
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  Speaker 2: more than your thirty one thirty two, baby. This this
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  Speaker 2: is where legends are made. These Game sevens. We've seen
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  Speaker 2: what that other side could do. We've seen them in
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  Speaker 2: Game sevens. Who are you as a team. We're about
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  Speaker 2: to find out on Sunday.