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The OKC Thunder Are Going To The NBA Finals · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: The OKC thunder are heading to the NBA Finals. Boy
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  Speaker 1: oh boy, did they come out and gain of a
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  Speaker 1: file and put the foot on the throat. They showed
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  Speaker 1: a graphic at one point in this game and it
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  Speaker 1: said the Minnesota Timberwolves had fifteen made field goals and
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  Speaker 1: fifteen damn turnovers to match. Talk about the legendary defense,
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  Speaker 1: and we've been talking about it forever, but damn, this
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  Speaker 1: is one of them things. And we've also mentioned how
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  Speaker 1: home court advantage hasn't really mattered much. In the post,
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  Speaker 1: he said, yeah, it has just in Oka. See the
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  Speaker 1: Garden don't really get that level of pop and win
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  Speaker 1: or energy from the team to match the crowd. No
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  Speaker 1: other place has really done that except for OKC, where
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  Speaker 1: they now have only lost one playoff game this entire run.
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  Speaker 1: This team is ridiculous, and we've been saying that, we've
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  Speaker 1: been preaching it, but even then, there were so many skeptics.
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  Speaker 1: There were so many people that had question marks, and
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  Speaker 1: some of them were real question marks, and I can't
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  Speaker 1: look past but I feel like they've answered almost every
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  Speaker 1: single one of them, and there are four games away
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  Speaker 1: from potentially raising the Larry O'Brian trophy. We got to
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to the Minnesota Timbols. I think on tomorrow's podcast,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go more in depth about what could potentially
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  Speaker 1: be next for them, But it definitely felt like they
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  Speaker 1: came out into this game with the idea that this
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  Speaker 1: is where the series ends. You think about last game
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  Speaker 1: with them being this close to pulling off, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and tying up the series too two with Nikhil Jaden
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  Speaker 1: and Dante all having big performances, but Anthony Edwards and
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  Speaker 1: Julius Randall not coming along for the ride. I can
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  Speaker 1: understand how that will be demoralized and you have to
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  Speaker 1: come two days later to Okay See to try to
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  Speaker 1: get the spirit back up. I don't think they were
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  Speaker 1: able to do that. So again, I think I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about the more tomorrow because I do want to
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  Speaker 1: spend more of the time shining light on the Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City Thunder because they've been able to do and be
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  Speaker 1: as good as I anticipated. They just tweeted me a
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  Speaker 1: clip of me talking about the OKAC Thunder before the
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  Speaker 1: season started. We're talking about preseason, and my exact quote was,
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  Speaker 1: I like almost everything about the OKAC Thunder. My first
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  Speaker 1: thing was, like, my Finals prediction was Thunders versus Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously the Celtics didn't get there, but the Thunder thing
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  Speaker 1: I felt pretty damn good about. Even though the Western
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  Speaker 1: Conference is that insane, right, they had pretty much answered
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  Speaker 1: all of the questions, at least in my mind going
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  Speaker 1: into this season. You think about them going back to
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  Speaker 1: their series against Dallas last year, they were missing three
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  Speaker 1: point shooting, and they didn't really address that. They're actually
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  Speaker 1: on pace to be one of the worst three point
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  Speaker 1: shooting teams to win a championship if they do end
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  Speaker 1: up winning a championship, which is some interesting stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: think they be bottom three since two thousand if I'm
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  Speaker 1: not mistaken. But the three point shooter was a thing,
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  Speaker 1: the rebounder was a thing, and the biggest question was
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  Speaker 1: could their number two guy be a number two guy shakers.
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  Speaker 1: Alexander's been the number one guy in like two playoff
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  Speaker 1: runs at this point, and he has been as consistent
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  Speaker 1: as ever. Whether you like watching, you hate watching, you
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  Speaker 1: think he has a great whistle, whatever, whatever, you have
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  Speaker 1: to admit that this guy is good to give his
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  Speaker 1: team thirty a night, regardless of what coverage you throw
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  Speaker 1: at him. I mean, you do have thees like in
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  Speaker 1: game number three that was where he had fourteen points
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, but more times than not, he's given you
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  Speaker 1: thirty points and he's doing it effectively. So the question
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  Speaker 1: turned into will Dubb be ready? And I thought that
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  Speaker 1: last year there were many times in the Dallas Maverick
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  Speaker 1: series where his team desperately needed him to look like
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  Speaker 1: a number two, but he wasn't necessarily ready for it.
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  Speaker 1: Last series for six games, who were like, damn, this
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  Speaker 1: could be in for ok see because Dub is shooting
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  Speaker 1: thirty percent of the field, he's shooting twenty two percent
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  Speaker 1: from three, and they really need something like that. They
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  Speaker 1: need him to step up because check Homger wasn't playing
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  Speaker 1: as good as he could play either. And then game
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  Speaker 1: number seven, j Dubb answered every question you could possibly
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  Speaker 1: ask about him when you look back at his stat
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  Speaker 1: line overall through that series, it won't tell the full
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  Speaker 1: story about him being you know, really bad for well
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  Speaker 1: five of six games. He did have the thirty point
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  Speaker 1: game in there, and then him having that game number seven.
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  Speaker 1: But since that game number seven, j Dubb has been
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  Speaker 1: basically all of the accolades that he has accomplished for
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  Speaker 1: the regular season, he has now carried those over for
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. With him being an All Star, with him
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  Speaker 1: being an All Defensive player, and with him being an
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  Speaker 1: All NBA player. You're seeing it. You saw it for
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  Speaker 1: the entirety of this series. The rebounding aspect, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I remember over the last three series between Memphis, Denver,
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  Speaker 1: and then Minnesota, if I cared about the other team
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  Speaker 1: crashing the offensive glass like we saw them get toe
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  Speaker 1: up at in the regular season and in the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Last year. Sam Presty went into this offseason and said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we need a big Isaia Hartenstein's had a great run
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  Speaker 1: for the Knicks. Let's overpay him for his value. But
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  Speaker 1: we can afford to do that right now. There's a
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  Speaker 1: team that's thirsty to give up an All defensive caliber
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  Speaker 1: player in Alys Caruz, so let's just give him a
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  Speaker 1: scrap player that we don't even like our sales and
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  Speaker 1: Josh Giddy, I think you can still be great. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. They did everything right, and one thing people
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  Speaker 1: are remember is that they've been able to draft so
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  Speaker 1: fucking well in the Sam Presty era. Obviously you got
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  Speaker 1: the election Poko Shepskis and the Uzman Jane picks occasionally,
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  Speaker 1: but outside of that, Jack and j Dubber the same
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  Speaker 1: draft class, wasn't it pick number two and pick number twelve,
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  Speaker 1: pick number eleven or something like that. This year they
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  Speaker 1: drafted aj Mitchell, who like is a real ballplayer as
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  Speaker 1: a as a rookie and I can't imagine how good
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  Speaker 1: he could be as a role player next year. And
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  Speaker 1: then they got the dude in Nicolo Topicch who was
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  Speaker 1: a top five protected pick before he got injured. He's
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  Speaker 1: just chilling. This team is poised to do. Like you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about it being a parody era. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to act like just because they're in the finals
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  Speaker 1: right now that means the next year they're gonna make it.
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  Speaker 1: Next year they're gonna win, But because they still have
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  Speaker 1: to win four more games for even to have the
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  Speaker 1: conversation about the winning this year. But they are more
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  Speaker 1: equipped than any of the previous champions to do it again.
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  Speaker 1: They are more equip I'm gonna say again, they are
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  Speaker 1: more equipped to do it again more than any other
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  Speaker 1: recent champion. And that is insane to say because as
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  Speaker 1: good as chet Holm Gunny is right now, think about this.
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  Speaker 1: As good as chet Holm Genny is right now, he's
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  Speaker 1: damn good. He's he's already one of the best defensive
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  Speaker 1: players in the league, and he is probably the worst
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  Speaker 1: he ever be. He's in the finals. What what come on? Man?
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  Speaker 1: Nobody loves and open three more when they're up by
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  Speaker 1: forty the moudor at home. You see, I just I
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  Speaker 1: can't sing the praise this and you know, people have
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  Speaker 1: called me a thunder Glazer this entire season, But the
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  Speaker 1: reality is, I just I just saw this team as
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  Speaker 1: many people did. I'm not on the island by myself.
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  Speaker 1: Majority of people looked at this OKAYC team. What they
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  Speaker 1: did last year is being a one seam like they
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  Speaker 1: could carry that over and get better. But I just
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  Speaker 1: saw them as a team that was so well equipped
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  Speaker 1: to pretty much answer any question. A team through with
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  Speaker 1: them and so far with seeing that to be true.
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  Speaker 1: And they are four games away. There are four fucking
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  Speaker 1: games away from winning the NBA Championship and they would
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  Speaker 1: be one of the youngest teams to do it. That's nuts.
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  Speaker 1: And it made me think, like, is this team the anomaly? Right?
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  Speaker 1: You think about you know, teams having the average age
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  Speaker 1: of being like twenty eight to thirty four, where they're
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  Speaker 1: real rotation players when it comes to NBA Championships. Is
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  Speaker 1: this team the anomaly or as a part of it
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  Speaker 1: being the parody eraror if you will, or this new age?
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  Speaker 1: Will we see more teams be relatively young and win early.
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  Speaker 1: I came to the Cluses and this is the anomaly team.
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  Speaker 1: They have an all time guy in Shay. Call it
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  Speaker 1: what you want. He's an all time guy. I know,
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  Speaker 1: so again people don't like him whatever, he is an
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  Speaker 1: all time player. Already. They have an all time kind
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  Speaker 1: of defender and Chet and he's it's very early on
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  Speaker 1: so I'm projecting here, but like, there's a world where
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  Speaker 1: Chet stays healthy for ten years. He's a ten time
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  Speaker 1: All defensive player and Dub's amazing as well. And for
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  Speaker 1: them to have the casings off the bench. It's just
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  Speaker 1: I don't know they're going to the finals and in
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  Speaker 1: this game, you know we did obviously you can tell
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  Speaker 1: I'm not at home. Keys. We shot our episode of
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  Speaker 1: our TV show tonight, so we all watch this game together.
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  Speaker 1: And we got notebooks whatever, well I got my phone
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  Speaker 1: taken notes because I don't bring no book out of
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  Speaker 1: the house. And by the third minute, I stopped taking
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  Speaker 1: notes because we kind of looked at each other and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is it. Right. We could talk schematically, but like why,
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  Speaker 1: because this is it When you force a team to
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  Speaker 1: have four turnovers in the first two minutes, what do
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  Speaker 1: you you know what I'm saying. They've been able to
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  Speaker 1: put their foot on throats and close out these games,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that is very important for a young
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  Speaker 1: team and not about to go into a series again,
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  Speaker 1: probably versus the Pacers, and I think this could be
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  Speaker 1: a really good matchup because there has not been a
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  Speaker 1: team yet just yet, and maybe this changes that their
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  Speaker 1: lead guard has been able to say, hmm, I had
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  Speaker 1: a good series against this defense, and yah, I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about this version of defense, not last year's version of
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  Speaker 1: the defense. Whether it be Jah who said he was
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  Speaker 1: figuring it out. But whether it be Jah, whether it
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  Speaker 1: be Jamal Murray had I think he had one really
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  Speaker 1: good game in this series. Whether it be Joh, Jamal
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  Speaker 1: Murray or Anthony Edwards, none of these guys have been
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  Speaker 1: able to penetrate this defense. And obviously the head of
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  Speaker 1: their snake in Indiana is Tyre's Halliburn, who is a
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  Speaker 1: different kind of guard than the guys that I mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: So I wonder if again I'm projected, because that series
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  Speaker 1: stently closed and I'm gonna have a week's like to
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  Speaker 1: think about this if they close out the game tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if the play style of Tyre's Haliberty being
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  Speaker 1: different than what Anthony Edwards does or what John Morant
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  Speaker 1: does or what Jamal Murray does, if that shifts some
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  Speaker 1: things for okay? See, not completely sure? Okay, See he
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  Speaker 1: was completely okay with giving up corner threes his entire series,
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  Speaker 1: AARONI Smith shooting fifty percent and three. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you want to get that one off. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know, I don't know. I'm again
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  Speaker 1: I'm leaning very very heavy. Okay, see, but I think
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  Speaker 1: it could be very interesting quickly because I have not
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  Speaker 1: been on Twitter, but I can recognize that the conversation
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  Speaker 1: around the Minnesota Timbers are going to be widely negative.
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  Speaker 1: And again I'm going to do a deep dive about
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  Speaker 1: this on the podcast. I don't know a world where
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  Speaker 1: they could do some things this offseason where they would
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  Speaker 1: be better than this OKAC team, let me say that.
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  Speaker 1: But also I don't think that they should be over
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  Speaker 1: panicking about losing to a potentially historic team. It feels
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  Speaker 1: very similar to what I said with the last series
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  Speaker 1: versus Denver, especially seeing how okay See took care of
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  Speaker 1: business in this series, that like, maybe Denver is closer
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  Speaker 1: than we all anticipated, right with them taking them to seven.
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  Speaker 1: I think that Minnesota is still a really good team.
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  Speaker 1: And if you told me this was a conference finals
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  Speaker 1: rematch next year, I wouldn't call you crazy. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly what they would do, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they should hold their head low because they lost
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  Speaker 1: this series, because I genuinely do believe that OKC was
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  Speaker 1: just that much better than the competition in the Western Conference.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, NBA Finals here they come.