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The Thunder Are 1 Game Away From Being Champions · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Let's talk NBA Finals Game five, final score ended up
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  Speaker 1: being one twenty one nine. My apolygies is coming out
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later than what it normally would. We
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  Speaker 1: were filming the TV show at the beginning of the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter, and I wanted to make sure I watched
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter before I came here to talk to y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to TJ McConnell, you know, because before we
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  Speaker 1: started shooting, you know, we're going to halftime. I forget
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  Speaker 1: what the score was, but it's a it's a big
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  Speaker 1: lead for okay. See we look back and be like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, it's down the six. It's all TJ McConnell.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out. Shout out to him. You know. They just needed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for everybody else to come along for the ride.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that in a little minute, shouts
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  Speaker 1: Pascal Yakamas. Well, I think we have to start off
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  Speaker 1: by talking about dub J. Dubb just gave us not
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  Speaker 1: just the best performance of his postseason career, not just
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  Speaker 1: the best performance of his NBA Finals career, but the
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  Speaker 1: maybe the best basketball performance he has ever put on
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  Speaker 1: in his life. We talking about thirteen you we talked
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  Speaker 1: about high school, we talk about college, a good old
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  Speaker 1: forty ball in the NBA Finals in a game five,
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  Speaker 1: it's insane, insane work for points, six rebounds, for sists.
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  Speaker 1: And when I tell you, he showed every single tool
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  Speaker 1: in that bag. We talk about getting down, he'll finishing
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  Speaker 1: at the basket, drawing contact, playing through that contact, get
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  Speaker 1: into your mid range shots, hitting nose. And he did
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  Speaker 1: the thing that I asked him to do based on
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  Speaker 1: last game. He took threes today. Some of them just
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  Speaker 1: straight pull up three, some of them just catches. Shoot threes.
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  Speaker 1: He made three of them today. Hell, they made three
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  Speaker 1: as a team last game. Him, Lou Door, Aaron Wiggins
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  Speaker 1: and case it All gave them three plus threes tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Like that is how you you know they won last game,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, but that's how you really bounce back
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  Speaker 1: after really poor performance. Again a poor performance that they won.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember after Game four, I was saying that, man,
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  Speaker 1: this is a game for the Pace to win. And
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  Speaker 1: I bet that if they end up losing the series,
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  Speaker 1: switch me and close and closer to maybe that being
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  Speaker 1: a reality. If they lost the series, that game four
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  Speaker 1: blown game is gonna be the one that they look
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  Speaker 1: back on and say, damn, we could have had it
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  Speaker 1: because the three to one series is so much more
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  Speaker 1: different than the two to two series. In boom, OKC
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  Speaker 1: has two shots to win one game. They've been performing
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  Speaker 1: at home. Who's gonna be tough? My boy? D Mills
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  Speaker 1: has a saying, I mean a lot of people say this,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody says it more than Derek. He says role
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  Speaker 1: players play better at home, and boy did we see
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  Speaker 1: that today. Aaron Wiggins, who again after we talked about
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  Speaker 1: him game to before, he had such a poor first
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  Speaker 1: half that when he did check into the game in
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter, I had it in my notes why
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  Speaker 1: in this game he saved basketball. He saved the Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City Thunder four may threes. Cason Wallace was an zero
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  Speaker 1: four for three going into this game in this whole
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  Speaker 1: playoff series. He hit three big threes. In the defense,
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  Speaker 1: I think the defense is always gonna be the thing
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  Speaker 1: that we talk about the most with this OKC Thunder
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  Speaker 1: team because it was so staggering. There were times in
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  Speaker 1: this game, especially in the first half, where they were
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  Speaker 1: just the Pacers were just throwing the ball and turning
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  Speaker 1: the ball over where there were possessions at a time
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  Speaker 1: where the Pacers couldn't even get two feet into the arc,
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  Speaker 1: not two feet into the paint, legitimately holding them on
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  Speaker 1: the outskirts of the court and locking the ass up.
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  Speaker 1: Like again, it's a historic defense. I know I've said
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  Speaker 1: it a million different times, but I just I find
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  Speaker 1: it to be pleasurable to watch as a guy that
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  Speaker 1: has always loved great defensive teams. And even though Chat
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  Speaker 1: was poor from shooting today, his defense was so damn good. Shaye, Listen,
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  Speaker 1: we just talked about Dub's forty points and how amazing
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  Speaker 1: that was. That forty points was so loud and saw
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  Speaker 1: electric that Shae having thirty one, teen and six stocks
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  Speaker 1: nobody cares, nobody cares to every of the league just
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  Speaker 1: had a thirty point game because Dull played that good
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  Speaker 1: as well. So again, even though Chat didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: great offensive game, all both all of our big three
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  Speaker 1: are big three young players that we believe in the
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  Speaker 1: most swon this game and that scary stuff because it
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  Speaker 1: did feel like throughout the series we got we really
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  Speaker 1: got all three of them having like super positive impacts.
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  Speaker 1: You know, again, the chest scoring was dreadful today. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the hell has happened to him since
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  Speaker 1: he come back from his injury. Regardless, the offense was
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  Speaker 1: really there, but like he held it down. I mean even
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  Speaker 1: playing at the level playing through switches, which is something
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  Speaker 1: they did a lot in this game compared to some
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  Speaker 1: like the first three games. They found that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: down the stretching game of before, and they went to
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  Speaker 1: it quite a bit in this one. Isaiah Hartenstein's playmaking.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned it before. It's just such a luxury to
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  Speaker 1: have on this team that just last game had what
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  Speaker 1: eleven ten assists total. They ended today's game with twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: The ball was moving and SHA's ten assists was allowed
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  Speaker 1: one if you asked me, because you know, one of
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  Speaker 1: the criticisms that I have about these two guys, j
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  Speaker 1: Dubb and Shae, and it's a small criticism because they
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  Speaker 1: so damn electric, is so damn good, is that in
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  Speaker 1: times it does feel like it is y'all turn to
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  Speaker 1: do it, al Ai bet achyo Ochi, you is y'all
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  Speaker 1: turn to do alright, bet Ochi. Of SHA's ten assists,
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  Speaker 1: three of them went to dub and we had games
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  Speaker 1: at a time last series where both of them would
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  Speaker 1: end up with five assists each and none of them
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  Speaker 1: were to each other, so they weren't really playing off
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  Speaker 1: each other. And in this game again, at the end
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  Speaker 1: of last game, they kind of found some things where
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  Speaker 1: they were using Dubb as a screener and that's how
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  Speaker 1: we got the Nie Smith on to Shay and now
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  Speaker 1: we see them playing a little bit more in tandem.
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  Speaker 1: In this game five, I thought, I thought it was great,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't help but to say that this feels again,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta win one more game. So I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be premature, because the Pacers have showed us to
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  Speaker 1: desonating that compete better than almost anybody in basketball. But damn,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard for me to believe that the Pacers can
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  Speaker 1: beat this OKAYC team twice back to back. I did
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  Speaker 1: just have to go look it up. The Pacer. The
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  Speaker 1: OKC thunder have lost back to back games twice this season.
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  Speaker 1: One of them was just at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: year to the Lakers and the Houston Rockets, and one
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  Speaker 1: of them was earlier into the season, which I forget
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  Speaker 1: what those teams were, but like, that's not a lot.
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  Speaker 1: They've played over one hundred games so far this season.
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  Speaker 1: They played one hundred games and they've lost back to
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  Speaker 1: back games two times. That's uphill battle. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: the other side of things for the Indiana Pacers. I
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  Speaker 1: think Pascal Siakam was so amazing in that fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one of the Chris criticisms we had about
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  Speaker 1: them when they blew that lead in Game four was
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  Speaker 1: that p scials didn't touch the ball. I think he
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  Speaker 1: took one shot attempt, yet two total touches in the
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  Speaker 1: entire fourth quarter. That's just not the way you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: win this game. Because he is their best offensive score,
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  Speaker 1: I guess is the best we can really put it,
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  Speaker 1: and in this one, I thought that, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: they continue to get the game closer, uh, Pascal sia
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  Speaker 1: I can play the huge, huge part in that. But
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  Speaker 1: the conversation is obviously going to be about our boy,
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  Speaker 1: Tyre's Halliburn. And I'm watching this game and I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: about it. I'm thinking about it quite a bit. He
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  Speaker 1: finished his game with four total points, six assists, seven rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: three turnovers, three fouls. That's a final box score, zero
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  Speaker 1: field goals, four for four from the free throw line.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking about it. I think Tyre's Halliburton's biggest superpower at times,
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  Speaker 1: it's also his kryptonite. And what do I mean by that?
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  Speaker 1: Even though you know this this, let me look and
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  Speaker 1: see how many total turnovers Tyrese's head in this series.
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  Speaker 1: Tyre's Halliburton is one of the best assist of turnover
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  Speaker 1: players that we have in today's basketball, maybe number one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the exact stats. He is a guy
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  Speaker 1: that very rarely turns the ball over. So far in
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  Speaker 1: the series, Yeah, it's been it's been. Hell, it's been
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  Speaker 1: three turnovers, five turnovers, four turnovers, five turnovers in these
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  Speaker 1: these games. And I would assume, and then tonight he
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  Speaker 1: ended up with three. I would assume that's the most
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  Speaker 1: turnovers he's ever seen and ever had in a five
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  Speaker 1: game stretch. But before he went against this defense that
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  Speaker 1: is just so damn good. His biggest superpower is that
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  Speaker 1: he didn't turn the ball over. We talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the entirety of this playoff run is like him not
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  Speaker 1: turning the ball over. Him having the ball so much
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  Speaker 1: just means that we're getting a shot on rim more
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  Speaker 1: likely than not, and we're gonna finish with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of attempts. Hell, we got great shooters and Nie Smith
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  Speaker 1: and n them harden piece skills and even though MOUs Turner
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  Speaker 1: can't hit the side of a backboard right now, we
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  Speaker 1: usually have good shooters and if we get good shots
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  Speaker 1: on the board, then boom, we're gonna be able to score.
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  Speaker 1: While you might struggle to score, you might go on
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  Speaker 1: a stretch you can't score in three minutes. Because of
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  Speaker 1: our efficiency and that's not turning the ball over. As
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  Speaker 1: a team, we're gonna find a way to score more
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  Speaker 1: likely than not. But part of them doing that, and
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  Speaker 1: part of Tyree's being able to do that, is he
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  Speaker 1: is a low risk taker in a way. They're so
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  Speaker 1: damn good offensively as a team where like they kind
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  Speaker 1: of understand where each of them is going. Again before
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  Speaker 1: they saw this team that's gonna turn them over twenty
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  Speaker 1: times a game. They just know each other so that
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  Speaker 1: the ball is flying. But there's not a ton of
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  Speaker 1: risk taking. And I think that the kryptonite of that
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  Speaker 1: is that we don't see games or Tarry's halliburtn takes
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  Speaker 1: the risks. We don't see games where he plays a
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  Speaker 1: little bit outside of his body because that's that might
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  Speaker 1: be what the team needs in this moment in time.
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  Speaker 1: They lost this game by eleven points. Again, at one
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  Speaker 1: point it felt a lot longer, a lot bigger than
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  Speaker 1: eleven points, where they fought back and then okay see
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  Speaker 1: answered phenomenally in that fourth quarter. But if Halliburton has
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  Speaker 1: a normal Halliburton game, like a you know, season averages
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen to nine, whoever the hell it was, even
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  Speaker 1: if it's a little bit less than that, this is
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  Speaker 1: a game you walk out of there with the win.
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  Speaker 1: But because this team, the OKAC team, doesn't necessarily allow
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  Speaker 1: you to take those risks, and he's known as a
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  Speaker 1: somewhat of a non risk taker in a way, then
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  Speaker 1: it's the anti series for him. You know, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that when we turn on TV tomorrow, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the number one topic of conversation. Were Gonnayre gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: about Douve for a minute, they gonna talk about Shay
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  Speaker 1: and okay see be one game, it's gonna turn around
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  Speaker 1: the Blue Tarry Halliburton as the real field goals. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't even saying that they're wrong in that, because
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  Speaker 1: zero field goals is wild. But I think that my
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  Speaker 1: My one thing that I would love for my boy
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  Speaker 1: Reesa end up doing it, whether it's in this series
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  Speaker 1: or we talk about the future of his career, because
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  Speaker 1: the motherfucker's made to all NBA appearances already in his
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  Speaker 1: young career. I would love to see him just turn up,
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  Speaker 1: just just turn up the I don't know. I just
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  Speaker 1: want him to take more risks, want him to take
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  Speaker 1: more risks. And again, this may not be the series
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  Speaker 1: for that, because this damn teams they're going against us
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  Speaker 1: flying around to jump the pass and lanes and don't
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  Speaker 1: you dare turn your corn, turn your back. I mean
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  Speaker 1: the jump past Tyry's Halliburton make cool again, he can't
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  Speaker 1: jump past this series. He just can't. They're just But like,
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  Speaker 1: for the future of him and the future of this team,
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  Speaker 1: I would love him to just take a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more risks. That may mean that you turn the ball
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  Speaker 1: all over more than what we used to, but then
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  Speaker 1: it might be worth at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: We might have more thirty point games, you might have
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  Speaker 1: more twenty point games, you might have more forty point games,
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  Speaker 1: and so on and so forth, and it might be
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  Speaker 1: beneficial to the team long term. But who the hell
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  Speaker 1: of Mom'm just a dude on YouTube, but man, to
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  Speaker 1: have that TJ McConnell performance another great one. I remember
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  Speaker 1: this serious Fiftie McConnell, No matter what happens. To have
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  Speaker 1: another chief of McConnell's game like this and just need
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more from your guys and they just
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  Speaker 1: don't really step up. It's something, man, It's something. I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Shade did an amazing job punishing mouse Turner when he
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  Speaker 1: cat up to the level. That's something that you know
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  Speaker 1: he's been able to do a lot. But I think
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  Speaker 1: we should spend a lot of time shining the light
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  Speaker 1: on Dub and again shining the light on Shade. Last game,
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  Speaker 1: he had zero assists and again a won. By the
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  Speaker 1: way he had zero assists, he looked out of his
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  Speaker 1: wits until we got to the last three minutes of
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  Speaker 1: that game. And in this game, I thought that it
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  Speaker 1: may have started off a little bit slow as far
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  Speaker 1: as that decision making, but I thought that he eventually
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  Speaker 1: got to the point where he's making right decisions left
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  Speaker 1: and right. And if he's gonna make right decisions, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you can take away. If he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: make right decisions and the team is gonna shoot well
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  Speaker 1: from three. It's uphill battle, the thunder of one game
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  Speaker 1: away from being an NBA final of b ANBA champions Man,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of nuts. We are closer and close to
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  Speaker 1: the season being over. I don't want it to end,
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  Speaker 1: so come on, paces come on, give us a game seven. Man,
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  Speaker 1: we a had a game seven the NBA Finals. Wait
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  Speaker 1: some time, all right, I'm done.