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The Pacers Just Out Thunder d The Thunder... · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: I'm struggling, y'all. Game three the NBA Finals just wrapped up.
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  Speaker 1: The final scores one sixteen to one oh seven. A
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  Speaker 1: banger of a game. I'm really struggling, struggling trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what I call this game. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: easy to be like, hey man, benevn Matherin played twenty
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  Speaker 1: two minutes. He had twenty seven points, joining company of
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  Speaker 1: Minu Janobili and I think Jason Terry for coming off
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  Speaker 1: the bitch drop at twenty five plus an NBA Finals
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  Speaker 1: It's a crazy stat in under twenty five minutes. It's
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  Speaker 1: easy to say it's the Bennet Mathering game, right, But
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  Speaker 1: there's a part of me.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get at the TJ McConnell.
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  Speaker 1: Tes mccon's had maybe the loudest ten point performance in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals history.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I'm being hyperbolic. I'm excited, baby. This supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be a series that wasn't supposed to be good.
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  Speaker 2: We got two banger of games out of three. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: TJ McConnell came into this game and his first stint
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  Speaker 1: just electrified the crowds. What TJ McConnell does almost to
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  Speaker 1: a fault sometimes, but that's what he does. He had
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  Speaker 1: five steals. Three of those steals, y'all are off inbound plays.
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  Speaker 1: We gonna talk about, Okay, see turnovers tonight, but they
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  Speaker 1: played an uncharacteristic brand of basketball for at least to
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  Speaker 1: a second quarter in the fourth quarter, but uncharacteristic brand
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  Speaker 1: of basketball. TJ McConnell got three steals tonight off a
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  Speaker 1: Maine basket and bound play. The last one was damn
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  Speaker 1: near poetic. He gets to the basket. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: guarded by like dub He pumped fixed three times.
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  Speaker 2: He missed a shot.
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  Speaker 1: Boom, It gets tipped out to Nimar Nimh is six
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  Speaker 1: feet away from the basket, and I'm telling you that
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  Speaker 1: six foot jump shot is one of the toughest shots
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  Speaker 1: you could take.
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  Speaker 2: Bro.
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  Speaker 1: You're not close enough to lay it up. He had
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  Speaker 1: no momentum going towards the basket. It's not a float
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  Speaker 1: of range. So it's like, we gotta pull up and
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  Speaker 1: shoot a full last jump shot from six feet away.
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  Speaker 2: Cash Alice Ruster said, we gotta go, we gotta go.
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  Speaker 2: We got numbers. If we go. He throws inbounds at boom. TJ.
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  Speaker 1: McConnell just like the best dB in in NFL history.
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  Speaker 1: Who is that the beast dB in NFL history? Peanut Tillman,
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  Speaker 1: bearl down. He looked like Pnut Tillman.
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  Speaker 2: Oh fuck it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we respect the hell out of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Mathter game. He was everything in the bag of chip.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what I want to do, It's not
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  Speaker 1: just call him the Ben at the Matter game.
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  Speaker 2: Can we use it?
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  Speaker 1: Can we talk about it like the Great Hill, Jason
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  Speaker 1: kidd Rickitty, the co Rikidy Years, the Code Game three
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  Speaker 1: at the NBA Finals is TJ McConnell and Ben math
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  Speaker 1: Demmit it's boyd?
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  Speaker 2: Where they great tonight?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know if there's words to
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  Speaker 1: explain type of scoring that Ben Matherin was able to do.
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  Speaker 1: And there was times throughout this playoffs, not specifically this series,
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  Speaker 1: where Ben Mathrows given this team nothing, nothing, his fearlessness,
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  Speaker 1: his ability to get to the free throw line is
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  Speaker 1: so underrated for a team and the Pacers that just
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  Speaker 1: so far through the first two games just haven't been
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  Speaker 1: able to win the free throw battle. Even tonight they
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  Speaker 1: didn't win the free throw battle. But for him to
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  Speaker 1: not only attempt a free throws he had more than Shae. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he had more points than Shade. He had more free
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  Speaker 1: throws in Shade. Like, what world are we living in
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  Speaker 1: where he attempted more free throws than one of the
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  Speaker 1: most bald, dominant I'm gonna get you type players that
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  Speaker 1: we know insane, Ben mathtering game while we was standing
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  Speaker 1: on the pacers. There's been a lot of conversations about
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  Speaker 1: Terry's Halliburton. Right between game number two and gain number three,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's asking the same stupid question. And the only reason
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  Speaker 1: is stupid because nobody cares. Nobody is he a superstar?
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  Speaker 1: He is not superst that it's not relevant to anything.
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  Speaker 2: Damn it. They're in the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: The conversation around him is he superstars? He nod his
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  Speaker 1: aggression levels and so on and so forth. After game
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  Speaker 1: number two he goes to the posie and he says,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta be better at figuring out the defense faster,
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  Speaker 1: and his level of aggression was so much better tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely loved it. I didn't like the way he
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  Speaker 2: talked about it than the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, though, he took three shots in the
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  Speaker 1: first couple of minutes, and you would have thought that, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, he never takes shots ever the way
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  Speaker 1: they was talking on in the broadcast, but the shout
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  Speaker 1: outs if my gout he hit four to three. Some
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  Speaker 1: of those threes were like one of those threes at
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  Speaker 1: least at the top of the gee he shot it,
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  Speaker 1: and he was sprinting back on defense because he knew
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  Speaker 1: he was cast.
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  Speaker 2: The floater was working. He did get down.
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  Speaker 1: He'll touch the paint a lot today. He still has
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  Speaker 1: an attempt at a free throw through three games, which
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  Speaker 1: is nuts to me. They did have a play lateness
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  Speaker 1: game where Dor hit him on the arm. I thought
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  Speaker 1: deserve free throws, but at that point they were playing
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  Speaker 1: a free throw game. Anyway, it wouldn't have mattered. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he's attempted to free throw so far
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  Speaker 1: in this posting, in this UH player or this finals,
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  Speaker 1: which is still kind of insane. Part of that is,
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  Speaker 1: of course him not getting two feet in, and some
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  Speaker 1: of that is like miscall here there. But great game
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  Speaker 1: from him, and I'm gonna read you moles turners that
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  Speaker 1: line nine points, two rebounds, three to eleven from the field,
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  Speaker 1: five blocks, two turns. Nothing too dramatic, right, you know?
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  Speaker 1: In history, this game, this game three for Miles Turner
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  Speaker 1: might get lost because we're just gonna be looking at
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  Speaker 1: the box score. I thought Myles Turner in that fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: shut the faucet off on chat on, drivers on. He
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  Speaker 1: played so good for a guy that again through our history,
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be looked at a nine point two rebound performance.
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  Speaker 1: This is such a great game for the Pacers because
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  Speaker 1: I did feel like even in Game one that they won,
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  Speaker 1: that they let ok See determine everything.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: They did go in though two big runs and eventually
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  Speaker 1: hit a game mine from Tyre's Halliburn, but like again
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  Speaker 1: oka See fans walked out of like damn, we fumbled
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  Speaker 1: another one, just like we did Game one against Denver,
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  Speaker 1: but like we controlled this game for so much. They're
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  Speaker 1: showing a graphic that the Pacers had only had the
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  Speaker 1: lead before this game for like two minutes time. The pace,
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  Speaker 1: the way the game was being played, the intensity on
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the floor, all of that had been
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  Speaker 1: determined by Okac through the first two games. This is
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  Speaker 1: the first game in the series where I feel like
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  Speaker 1: they played Pacers basketball, And it's got to be scary
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  Speaker 1: for It's got to be scary for the Thunder because
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  Speaker 1: they've been able to basically mold the every series that
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  Speaker 1: they've played based on what they want. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: first time where they got kicked in the mouth and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh shit, oh man, Shay is seeing two
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  Speaker 1: bodies every single time. Shaye and Game number two played
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  Speaker 1: a near flawless performance. You talked about it, how he
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  Speaker 1: had thirty four.
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  Speaker 2: He had eight.
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  Speaker 1: Assists, five steal steel stocks, and five rebounds. He was great,
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  Speaker 1: decision making was on as a plus. Today was not
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  Speaker 1: one of them days. They sent help, But I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they sent help. They sent lay health, they sent
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  Speaker 1: early help. They really made the brother think and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it felt like he was thinking a little bit too much,
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  Speaker 1: which is obviously not something you want to do. They
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  Speaker 1: did such a good job of keeping him off the line,
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  Speaker 1: which is a big This is a hard thing to
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  Speaker 1: do for Shay gives in Again, he's a manipulator of defenses.
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  Speaker 1: So for him to finish this game with six free throws,
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  Speaker 1: you feel so great about that. He had six free
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  Speaker 1: throws and six turnovers. Again, he had seventeen turnovers as
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  Speaker 1: a team. That's the most they've had all postseason long
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  Speaker 1: and half of those or more than half of those,
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  Speaker 1: ten of those are between their two primary ball handles,
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  Speaker 1: and Shay gives Alexander and Dub. Some of the passes
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  Speaker 1: they do tonight were lazy. Hey, man, if Tyre's Halliburton
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  Speaker 1: is jumping your pass multiple times, maybe we should add
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  Speaker 1: some more zip to it, right, you know, throwing that
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  Speaker 1: late help As soon as they basically and as much
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  Speaker 1: as I'm giving credit to Mathurin and TJ McConnell, I
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  Speaker 1: think the Pacers win this game based on the defense tonight. Again,
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  Speaker 1: you need those offensive performances, but the defense is what
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  Speaker 1: caused them to win this game in my personal opinion.
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  Speaker 1: And they were swarming Shaye the same way this same
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  Speaker 1: OKC team has been swarming Jamal yokichis Anthony Edwards and
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  Speaker 1: so on and so forth. You turn your back for
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  Speaker 1: a split second, I dare you to spind defender there turnover.
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  Speaker 1: It was again the Pacers determining everything, And I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was maybe the biggest determinive factor in all of this. Man,
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  Speaker 1: for them to have these levels of performances, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, in order for them, if I'm being candid
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  Speaker 1: to you, in order for them to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and really have a great chance to win this series.
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  Speaker 2: I thought one of the things.
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  Speaker 1: That had to be there with they had to shoot
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  Speaker 1: a ton of threes and make a ton of threes.
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  Speaker 1: And you start in the game one, right, they won
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  Speaker 1: a three point battle by like twenty one points. I
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  Speaker 1: think they made seven more threes than Okay, seeing game
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  Speaker 1: number one game number two that was in the case
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  Speaker 1: end up losing. Tonight, they won a game where they
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  Speaker 1: hit ten threes and okay, see hit I'm saying, okay,
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  Speaker 1: see hit more threes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, see hit ten. They hit nine. So it's like
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  Speaker 2: opening up.
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  Speaker 1: A bunch of different possibilities to what this team could
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  Speaker 1: potentially do in the series if like in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: I thought they needed to do this, and they still
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  Speaker 1: won a game and they didn't do that thing again.
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  Speaker 1: This series has been about punching and retaliating to punches,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought that after game one, Markdino made some
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  Speaker 1: great adjustments for game number two, and I wonder what
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  Speaker 1: those adjustments look.
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  Speaker 2: Like for game three.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily for us as NBA fans, we don't have to
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  Speaker 1: wait three days in between games anymore. They're giving us
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  Speaker 1: game game four on Friday right, So just like boom
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  Speaker 1: right here with again.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there's so much more that we can
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  Speaker 1: talk about. Pascal Siakam got a few switches early into
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  Speaker 1: the game, which Shade got his first foul, and he
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  Speaker 1: took advantage of those. I think of the first four shots,
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  Speaker 1: he had three of them. Over the first five shots
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  Speaker 1: he had four of them. That level of gresson never
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  Speaker 1: really went away. He was still fighting, competing. I thought, okay,
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  Speaker 1: he actually did a pretty good job of preventing him
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of cases, but this was one of
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  Speaker 1: them games where okay, see you look back on him like, damn,
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  Speaker 1: that's not us and we can't allow that to be
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  Speaker 1: the case again. And then one more time this series
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  Speaker 1: is fucking another. Shaye did not have a performance again.
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  Speaker 1: Chet was not good today.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: He started off he had fifteen points early on, but
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  Speaker 1: likes outside of that not necessarily doing it. And one
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  Speaker 1: of my major criticisms for OKC for the last two years,
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  Speaker 1: and I know I've brung it up a couple different
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  Speaker 1: times with to be on here of the podcast, I
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  Speaker 1: don't really remember, is there lack of three point volume
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  Speaker 1: and in a game where you're not winning the turnover
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  Speaker 1: battle in the game where you know so and so
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  Speaker 1: was happening. I just feel like they should be able
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  Speaker 1: to get more threes up man, because this might be
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  Speaker 1: stupid to say, but if you take away the six
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  Speaker 1: chet Homern missed threes.
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  Speaker 2: They shot very well from three.
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  Speaker 1: How can we generate more threes is said Joe side
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  Speaker 1: step three, one of the door threes. He shot that
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  Speaker 1: shot so high that it went above the camera and
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  Speaker 1: came in like a missile, like a torpede.
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  Speaker 2: They just splash.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell's gonna have it for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the series, But for the Pacers or
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  Speaker 1: for the OKC Thunder to be minus seven, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: favorites to win this and to be down to one
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  Speaker 1: is so intriguing to me. Obviously, they mentioned on the
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  Speaker 1: broadcast they've been here before, right, They were down two
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  Speaker 1: one to the different Nuggets that went to seven, but
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  Speaker 1: they won and seven.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not here. I'm not a north Stradamus.
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  Speaker 1: I would be a gazillionaire if I could predict the future,
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  Speaker 1: because I would just gamble all damn day. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell is going to happen next.
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  Speaker 1: But all I care about is the product that's in
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  Speaker 1: front of us. And again, two of those three games
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  Speaker 1: have been amazing, and I can't wait to wake up
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow and rewatch some of these things and figure out
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  Speaker 1: exactly what the OKC Thunder can do differently for Game
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  Speaker 1: them before, or what the Pacers can build on for
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  Speaker 1: game four, because one of the things is like, you
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  Speaker 1: can't get too stuck in what was working, especially against
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  Speaker 1: these two good teams. Right, we can't say, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: working game um A three, So we just need to
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  Speaker 1: run it back at game them before because teams are
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  Speaker 1: smarter than that. So you need to have a counter
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  Speaker 1: punch to the team that's having the CounterPunch.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we threw all of this help at Shay.
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  Speaker 1: We did this, and we did that, and maybe we
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  Speaker 1: do it just a little bit different because now they're
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  Speaker 1: preparing for us to do it this way. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: believe where we're at, man, I cannot believe what we
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: are at. One of the most improbable playoff series in
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  Speaker 1: so far, it has had an improbable outcome through three games.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know what you think about this one.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait