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4-27-26 Hour 1 - Nugs in a 3-1 hole vs TWolves/Nugs punked by McDaniels AGAIN/Avs complete the sweep · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 2: Anderson leaves it in the far corner for Adrian Campaign
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  Speaker 2: five seconds, four three two one check mate. Colorado cleans
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  Speaker 2: up the La Kings and sweeps them out of the
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  Speaker 2: Stanley Cup Playoffs, winning all four games. They win Game
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  Speaker 2: four by a final score of five to one.
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  Speaker 3: Layup on the other Oh Yochis was pissed off that
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  Speaker 3: McDaniels shot a layup.
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  Speaker 4: And now he is getting into it with them. Everybody
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  Speaker 4: just let the game go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure why McDaniel's the bonehead made a
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  Speaker 3: layup with one second left.
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  Speaker 4: What a dumb ass.
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  Speaker 3: And Joka trunks all the way across the floor to
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  Speaker 3: get into it with him.
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  Speaker 5: And Julius Randall was going after He had to be
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  Speaker 5: pulled out of the scrub. He was like going after
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  Speaker 5: Bruce Brown, Jay McDaniels of course class list, but he
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  Speaker 5: runs out Joker just sending the message. I was trying
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  Speaker 5: to watch Bones get in there, say there was anybody
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  Speaker 5: he wanted to go after.
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  Speaker 3: Well, just when you thought Jayden McDaniels couldn't be a
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  Speaker 3: bigger d bag he is now.
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  Speaker 4: I told you to go.
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  Speaker 6: I want you guys put your headphones on and really listen.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever heard of play by play
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  Speaker 4: guy like that.
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  Speaker 6: I had no idea most have you ever got caught
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  Speaker 6: somebody a dumb ass on.
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  Speaker 4: You know what? Hey, by the way, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: great call all your motion.
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  Speaker 7: You did an standing job, but on the cause, uh,
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  Speaker 7: what a dumb ass.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you something I can't. I can't. I
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  Speaker 4: can tell you I felt that way a lot. Sure.
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  Speaker 7: I cannot fathom the reaction he is getting from the
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  Speaker 7: Minnesota fan.
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  Speaker 4: Dude, I tweeted, I thought were just basic facts.
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  Speaker 7: I'm getting verbally assaulted, yeah by people in a minute.
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  Speaker 4: When did Minnesota become.
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  Speaker 7: Like, hey, look at me, I'm a badass, I'm a
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  Speaker 7: Minnesota fan. Well, when did they take on the life
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  Speaker 7: of Jaden McDaniels.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you, I'll tell you why, and you know what.
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  Speaker 6: Congrats to the Avs a sweep, moving on to the
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  Speaker 6: second round taking on Minnesota or Dallas.
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  Speaker 4: Whoever wins that series.
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  Speaker 6: They get a chance to kick their feet up for
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  Speaker 6: a bit, get rested, get healed up.
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  Speaker 4: Great for them. We'll get to you in a second.
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  Speaker 4: Here's why. It's the same reason Jada McDaniels did what
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  Speaker 4: he did at the end of the game. Oh they're
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  Speaker 4: feeling themselves. Man, here's what happened.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody's like mad about Jaden McDaniels, and I get my cause,
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  Speaker 6: and hey and Joker and everybody reacted the way they did.
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  Speaker 4: Think about this. It's worked.
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  Speaker 6: Jade McDaniels after the second game called you out by
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  Speaker 6: name and said you suck and you're soft, you you
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  Speaker 6: and you, and in game three you did nothing. Why
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  Speaker 6: the hell wouldn't he think I can just do this again.
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  Speaker 7: I don't disagree with one bit he called you out.
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  Speaker 7: You did not respond until the final second of Game four.
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  Speaker 4: If that response, if all of the energy.
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  Speaker 7: That the Denver Nuggets put into that final second of
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  Speaker 7: Game four, if they had used that in the first
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  Speaker 7: second of Game three, maybe we wouldn't be sitting here
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  Speaker 7: with the Nuggets on the brink of elimination. I could
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  Speaker 7: not agree with you more. This is not Jaden McDaniels. Nope,
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  Speaker 7: this is the Denver Nuggets and guys, I would think
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  Speaker 7: you would agree. If there's anybody who felt that they
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  Speaker 7: should have sent some sort.
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  Speaker 4: Of message, it's all of us.
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  Speaker 7: After game two, Oh yeah, when he talked about it
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  Speaker 7: was contensive. What did we say that they should do
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  Speaker 7: in game three? The first thing they should do in
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  Speaker 7: game three, as soon as that guy goes up down,
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  Speaker 7: put him down.
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  Speaker 6: And I'll tell you this, Vic, if you did if
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  Speaker 6: that first play that aliup Cam Johnson and puts him
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  Speaker 6: He's not doing that at the end of game four.
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  Speaker 6: I'm telling you that he's like he would think twice.
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  Speaker 7: And I don't want to hear this crap today about well,
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  Speaker 7: you know, to choose sports. I don't want to hear
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  Speaker 7: about sportsmanship. I don't want to hear about any of
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  Speaker 7: that crap. They punk you, He punked you, He got
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  Speaker 7: in your head. He's doing whatever the hell he wants,
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  Speaker 7: and you know what, he's been doing it for three years.
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  Speaker 7: Do something, And if you don't want to do something,
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  Speaker 7: it's on you. If this joker tried to do something, Listen,
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  Speaker 7: everyone's everybody's gonna rip joker.
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  Speaker 4: He's been ripped nationwide.
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  Speaker 7: Now, Okay, I got a lot to say about Nicole
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  Speaker 7: the Jokich and the Nuggets today.
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  Speaker 8: But let me.
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  Speaker 7: Start a lot of people who have always supported Joker,
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  Speaker 7: theyre ripping him for doing that. You know, it's out
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  Speaker 7: a character this and that. At least he's doing something.
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  Speaker 7: At least he's getting emotional because one flaw. The Nuggets
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  Speaker 7: have guys in this series and it really ticks me off.
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  Speaker 7: And I think I think it starts with David Adelman,
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  Speaker 7: and I would tell him to his face, you can't
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  Speaker 7: take emotion out of sports.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 7: So when I hear all of them the day after
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  Speaker 7: he said what he said and they all reacted unemotionally, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, we don't play that game.
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  Speaker 7: We just play no. No, Emotion is part of sports.
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  Speaker 7: Emotion is sports. If you eliminate emotion from sports, you're
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  Speaker 7: not a robot. You're not sent out there just to
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  Speaker 7: follow the the rules. According to Chad GP, you've got
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  Speaker 7: to play with emotion.
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  Speaker 6: Bro, it's fuel, it's fuel. I don't get it. And
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  Speaker 6: they got this game tonight. And here's what's crazy, mos,
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  Speaker 6: If you told me, I don't think I could give
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  Speaker 6: you a more tailor made spot for the Nuggets to
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  Speaker 6: tie the series at two two.
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  Speaker 4: So watching Saturday, I can't believe cos I told you
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  Speaker 4: I think it's awesome.
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  Speaker 8: I mean you can you can obviously see well you
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  Speaker 8: can't see it, but you can hear the frustration pouring
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  Speaker 8: out of him. Sure you know what's he's He's also
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  Speaker 8: not wrong about Jade McDaniels, but they're doing nothing about it.
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  Speaker 4: Again, listen, listen to what I'm saying last.
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  Speaker 7: I despise what he's done and everything the way I
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  Speaker 7: want one of those guys on my team, of course,
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  Speaker 7: And and two things can be true here. Guys, if
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  Speaker 7: you took came and said put him on the Nuggets time,
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  Speaker 7: let me know win, Yeah, give me him.
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  Speaker 4: It's okay to be hated.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, it's okay to be You need one of those guys, me,
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  Speaker 7: one of them.
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  Speaker 4: He is doing it, and he's doing it so well.
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  Speaker 4: He's doing it quietly. He's not even loud.
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  Speaker 7: He's not like Patrick Beverley or one of these freaks. Well,
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  Speaker 7: I think about it this way.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not saying you take it to this extent, But
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  Speaker 6: when I forget which Morris is it, Marcus or Markif
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  Speaker 6: which one hit Joker?
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  Speaker 4: Markif markif Mark?
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  Speaker 6: Keith was never going to hit Joker like that again
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  Speaker 6: that response, and if you responded a certain way in
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  Speaker 6: game three after what he said in Game two, Jade
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  Speaker 6: McDaniels wouldn't have done that at the end of Game four.
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  Speaker 6: But I can't think of a more tailor made situation
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  Speaker 6: for the Nuggets to tie a series two to two.
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  Speaker 6: And this is why it is so disappointing. If I
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  Speaker 6: gave you and we just know from the Nuggets over
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  Speaker 6: the past few years, when the Nuggets have their back
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  Speaker 6: against the wall, they usually respond like they had to
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  Speaker 6: win Game four. They had to, and I give you that.
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  Speaker 6: Dante even Cenza leaving a minute into the game with
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  Speaker 6: a brutal achilles injury, and then Anthony Edwards leaving before halftime.
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  Speaker 7: Anthony was one for eight before his injuries, so he
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  Speaker 7: was pretty insignificant in that game to begin with.
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  Speaker 4: He couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 6: When you watched that injury is the exact same thing
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  Speaker 6: that happened to Joker earlier this year.
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  Speaker 4: You knew he was done for the rest of this
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  Speaker 4: that's a month minimum, and then you played worse after
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  Speaker 4: all of that worse.
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  Speaker 8: I'm telling you what I this is me from LA watching.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, where did you watch? What floor were you on?
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  Speaker 4: Of flour fifteen bits supposed to say, carpet carpet.
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  Speaker 8: I watched in my room, and what were you doing
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  Speaker 8: while the game was going on and you were seeing
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  Speaker 8: the third quarter unfold? What were you doing when when
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  Speaker 8: Gobar left they went small and then Nuggets refused to
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  Speaker 8: go inside with the ball? What were you saying to
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  Speaker 8: your TV screen when you saw that unfold. I'm not
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  Speaker 8: gonna tell you what we were saying at studio.
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  Speaker 4: It's private, because that that to me is I I VIC.
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  Speaker 8: I was so flummixed by a number of things. That's
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  Speaker 8: one of them. And I thought to myself, it's seventy six,
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  Speaker 8: Let's say it's seventy six, seventy four, late third, you
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  Speaker 8: still have a lead. This particular Nuggets team. You know
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  Speaker 8: what they do. They have a tendency to fall apart quickly, spectacularly,
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  Speaker 8: and never get it back.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't.
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  Speaker 8: They don't like stem the tie. When they're when they're gone,
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  Speaker 8: when they're done, they're done. And like from seventy six
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  Speaker 8: seventy six, from that point on, VIC, they were done,
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  Speaker 8: absolutely done. It's like they rammed their car into the
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  Speaker 8: bridge imbutment all the wheels fell off, the doors fell
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  Speaker 8: down and they're just done. They I mean, they simply
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  Speaker 8: couldn't make a shot, they couldn't defend, they couldn't do anything.
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  Speaker 4: But here's the thing, man, this did really bother.
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  Speaker 8: But that blows my mind because that's not even in
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  Speaker 8: the losing years. That's not the mo of the Denver Nuggets.
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  Speaker 8: This is their new mo o, and it's it's shockingly scary.
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  Speaker 4: This In the post game, it was back and forth.
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  Speaker 6: I believe it is Brennan vote of d m VR
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  Speaker 6: with coach Atleman, and he talked about competitiveness. And here's
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  Speaker 6: the thing, man, is there a single person that you
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  Speaker 6: ask Nuggets fan, Wolves fan, NBA fan, why are you playing?
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  Speaker 4: I just came out of no way.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry, it didn't come out of nowhere. You had to
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  Speaker 8: click on something in order to get some Couterarella vision
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  Speaker 8: going on, Hey.
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  Speaker 4: Grandpa, can you turn that off? Thank you? But blame Nelly.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody would question this. Who has been and competitive doesn't
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  Speaker 6: mean the winning team, That's not what that means. No,
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  Speaker 6: who has been more competitive in this series? Who has
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  Speaker 6: played with a competitive fervor? It's been Minnesota. So this
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  Speaker 6: happens po's game.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think happened to this team's competitive spirit?
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  Speaker 4: Where did it go?
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  Speaker 9: You don't think we were competitive tonight.
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  Speaker 4: The last three game? It does doesn't seem like it
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  Speaker 4: to me. Do you think your groups?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah? I do.
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  Speaker 9: I thought were very competitive to night. And again I
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  Speaker 9: think it's hilarious that the narrative is offense doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 9: You shoot twenty four percent in the second half, it's
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  Speaker 9: hard to win. You know, I thought our guys played
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  Speaker 9: their ass off throughout that first half. I thought they
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  Speaker 9: maintained a physicality about them. And you give those guys credit.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, two guys off their bench had sixty points combined.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think that's from competitive spirit issues. That's two
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  Speaker 9: guys having a great night and us having a really
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  Speaker 9: tough second half offensively. The nine turners are thirteen points
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  Speaker 9: to twenty four percent. That's not a competitive thing. That's
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  Speaker 9: just having a really tough second half offensively with a
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  Speaker 9: chance to break the game open in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 8: That's how I saw it.
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  Speaker 6: Second game in a row, the Nuggets have lost, gotten punked.
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  Speaker 6: And whether it's the coach or Joker or Jamaal or
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  Speaker 6: whoever those are, the press conference, it says, well, we
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  Speaker 6: just didn't make shots.
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  Speaker 4: It's more than that.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you know, if we're going to debate that issue,
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  Speaker 7: my retort would be, listen, the guys wanted to win.
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  Speaker 7: That they're trying to be competitive. I understand the core
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  Speaker 7: of what he's saying. They're they're they're playing with energy,
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  Speaker 7: just not the right kind of energy. Here's my retort.
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  Speaker 7: You want a competitive move, you want the definition of competitive.
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  Speaker 4: The guy who called you out put him on his ass. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's I mean, I don't know how else to go
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  Speaker 4: about this. Is that is that competitive?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Is that is that mosture? Is that competitive?
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  Speaker 8: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: I'm just curious if that's competitive, Vick, what what have.
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  Speaker 8: We always said? Look, if your SHOT's not going in,
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  Speaker 8: that's gonna have to find a different way to win.
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  Speaker 8: And look, I know they're not the best defensive team
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  Speaker 8: in the world either, and I know they want to win.
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  Speaker 8: But if the SHOT's not going in, you can't allow
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  Speaker 8: a bucket on the other side, period, end of story.
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  Speaker 8: You better grind even harder. That's the way the game works.
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  Speaker 8: And they're they're they're put what they're doing is they're
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  Speaker 8: playing just like it's a tie, like it's a normal game.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, clearly the shots you shot twenty four percent
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  Speaker 8: in the second half, but they also scored thirty two
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  Speaker 8: and thirty I mean that's sixty two points. They scored
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  Speaker 8: more in the second half, yea, than they did in
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  Speaker 8: the first half when your shot wasn't going in.
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  Speaker 4: We have a lot.
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  Speaker 8: Why am I getting so.
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  Speaker 7: Hyped because you're gonna get like cos what got at
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  Speaker 7: the end of the game? I have a big I
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  Speaker 7: wrote down some stuff today. It's actually in my laptop.
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  Speaker 7: I never do this, but I wrote down why the
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  Speaker 7: Nuggets offense sucks?
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  Speaker 4: Right now?
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  Speaker 7: I wrote it down, Okay, so I'm gonna read what
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  Speaker 7: I wrote at some point during the show.
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  Speaker 8: Is this death by inches partner?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, unoticed here?
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  Speaker 7: Why the Nuggets offense suddenly has come to a screeching halt,
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  Speaker 7: the number one rated off in the league, one of
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  Speaker 7: the most productive efficient offenses in the history of the NBA.
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  Speaker 4: It was, Yes, looks like crap, Well my chair is short,
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  Speaker 4: you eat is short? Yeah? Le just a little guy
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  Speaker 4: over there, little Giles Philly here. So we'll get to
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  Speaker 4: that in just a second.
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  Speaker 6: Along with the Avs their sweep of LA, along with
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  Speaker 6: the draft, the new members of the Denver Broncos. We
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  Speaker 6: will talk about all of that in just a couple
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  Speaker 6: of minutes to grab all right, So listen, we're gonna
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  Speaker 6: do this a little bit different today. The Nuggets are
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  Speaker 6: fighting to stay in these playoffs and we want to
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  Speaker 6: hear from you, and here's your chance to win tickets
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  Speaker 6: today for tonight's game. Go to the voice on the
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  Speaker 6: people on the Altitude Sports Radio app and give us
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  Speaker 6: fifteen to twenty seconds of why you think the Nuggets
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  Speaker 6: are gonna win tonight.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we need. Why you think they're gonna win?
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  Speaker 8: Well, they have two major injuries in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: You can't just walk in and start talking. He's in
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the promo. You have no idea what
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  Speaker 4: I mean talking to me. You just walked in. How
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  Speaker 4: rou go on?
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  Speaker 6: So go to the Altitude Sports Radio app on your phone,
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  Speaker 6: tap the microphone at the bottom and send Nelly a
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  Speaker 6: message fifteen to twenty seconds why you think the Nuggets
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  Speaker 6: are gonna win. He will get all of these. By
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  Speaker 6: the way, we'll play a few on the air. If
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  Speaker 6: it doesn't get on the air, it doesn't mean you're.
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  Speaker 4: Not in the contest. You're still in.
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  Speaker 6: So go ahead and do that Altitude Sports radio app.
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  Speaker 6: Hit that microphone at the bottom and talk to Nelly.
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  Speaker 4: Have you always been that rude?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Pretty much.
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  Speaker 8: I had an important conversation there. Hey, real quick, but
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  Speaker 8: it's off air, odd number two.
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  Speaker 4: VIC.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know how else to put this. If you
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  Speaker 8: can't win without if you can't beat them when they
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  Speaker 8: don't have Antony Vincenzo.
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  Speaker 7: First of all, I said going into this series, when
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  Speaker 7: Minnesota was fully healthy, I said, this is a must
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  Speaker 7: win series, or changes are going to be made. I
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: remember telling you guys, this is a must win. If
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  Speaker 7: you even though you're down three games to one, and
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  Speaker 7: very rarely in the NBA mode, you come back.
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  Speaker 8: From three games to one, you've been given a gift.
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  Speaker 7: This gift is the gift that keeps on giving. Yep, there,
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  Speaker 7: entire backcourt is gone.
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  Speaker 4: It's gone.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's okay. De soon will put up fifty points tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Here's the problem. This does feel a lot like gosh,
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  Speaker 6: and I haven't used this term in a long time.
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  Speaker 6: This feels like a blueprint game. Here's what it means.
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  Speaker 6: If you don't win tonight, I think you kind of
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  Speaker 6: have to think about blowing up the entire thing and
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  Speaker 6: figuring out a new way to go about business.
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  Speaker 4: And that means major parts to this team. You need
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  Speaker 4: to think about moving on and doing something else. You
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  Speaker 4: know what I've noticed.
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: And tell me if you guys agree, moch, tell me
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: when you watch the games, when you're in your hotel
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: room just going nuts watching that game the other night,
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: these first four games. Here's the conclusion I've come to,
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: and I've sort of seen bits and pieces of this.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: The Nuggets look old, slow, They look old. They look
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: old and slow and just old.
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: They got little Moses in art though they are in
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: today's NBA game, where it's younger and younger every year.
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: I mean, look at the teams that I mean, look
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: at the ages of some of these teams. Look at
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: san Antonio right now.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, but Vic, I cannot live in the world
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: where the shelf life of an NBA team is twenty
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: seven years old.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: I'm just asking, and I'll ask. I can't do that.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: But when you watch them in this series against a
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: more athletic team, what do you think comes to mind?
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: I mean, the Nuggets are clearly more skilled, right, They've
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: got that department locked up. But athletically, they just look older.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: They can't get into their sets the way they normally
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: can against a team. Here's what I noticed too, why
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: the offense isn't working Number one. Number one, they're just
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: missing shots. They are miss david As missing shots they
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: normally make. The best three point shooting team in the
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: NBA is more than ten percent off their three point
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: shooting in this series.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: More than that. That's how poorly they're shooting from deep.
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: Vick and I would argue to you there are times
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: when Minnesota looks like they're really defending. Well it's a
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: pain and they're running that.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Chalk clock all the way down.
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: Okay, fine, but there are times when the Nuggets have
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: really good looks and they're still missing.
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: Exactly and I'm not buying into listen, they're missing key
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: players that know more of that. We're in the postseason now.
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: Guess what they were missing their entire starting backcourt. And
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: Io came in and scored forty three, so that that
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: excuse isn't going to work anymore. But here's what I noticed,
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: and you guys will go down the line. Jamal Murray
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: is dribble happy at times, and I.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: Know that Jadson kind is saying how much he's not
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: willing to run in actual law fence and just play
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: here a ball.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: I know that that we talked about maybe sending some
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: picks to free him up, right, Well, on too many
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: occasions he is so focused on trying to outduel Jade McDaniels,
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: who's wrapped on him like a blanket.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Right, he's a tortilla on top of Jamal Murray.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: He's so focused on winning that personal battle that the
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: offense goes to crap, yeah you guys see that.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: Or yes, yeah, it's when Jade McDaniels picks him up.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: He crosses half court and he's smothered and Jamal goes.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, well watch me hit this bucket. And it's
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: not he's not hitting a bucket.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: Well, it's taking too long for even to get into
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: the action because he's so focused on beating him one
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: on one. Listen, at some point you just got to say, hey,
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: he won this one. This guy's big, he's tall, he's long,
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: he's a really good def He gets around picks with ease.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: They they're sending picks, it doesn't matter, he's getting around
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: the picks.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Really, you're so right, he's really good at just breaking
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: through a pick. He's navigating the picks. It's it starts
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: right there, and I think, then what happens after that? Guys?
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Shoot the ball? Cam Johnson, shoot the ball? Yeah, yep,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: do you guys know? Do you guys see that?
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: Yes?
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Well, goud Man, you look at like the shot attempts
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: for these guys. It's another game. Christian Brown played thirty
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: four minutes. He took four shots. Shoot the ball. I mean,
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: it's the playoffs. Cam Johnson twenty seven minutes, six shots.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: But shoot, it's it's early in the game. I noticed this.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: It wasn't even late in the game. Right, ball's at
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: the three point line. It's not going to be wide
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: open every time. It's the playoffs. Guys are going to
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: be in your face shoot it. I don't know if
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: they're trying to be too perfect. That's what it looks
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: like to me. They're trying to get into these sets
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: and be perfect.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Like this is the typical let's look at the film
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: and let's do with that. This isn't what it's the playoffs.
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: Man. Yeah, it's ugly. That being said, I can't remember
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: the last time in my life in his life, where
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: Joker was a minus twenty in point differential one game
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: than a minus twelve the next game.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: Here's here's another problem that's happening here. These guys aren't
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: shooting the ball, So who gets the ball with eight
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: seconds on the shot clock and who's guarding him?
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: And then what has he got to do? It's like
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: you gotta here's to say something up. Here's this grenade
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: here you go. Well, and that's the other thing. I mean,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Joker has been let's just be honest.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: Well that's such a good way to put it, though.
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: It's like goof goofrog, goodfrount hair.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Take it. There's something something? Yeah, you know what Joker's
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: shooting in this series? Just take a guess.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: Joker is somebody who shoots around sixty percent from the floor.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: I would guess he's around thirty percent.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: Thirty nine percent, Yeah, not good, thirty nine. Guess what
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Jamal is shooting from the floor this series?
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Same less than that. Jamal is at thirty or was
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: it thirty seven?
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: Like if those two guys are shooting like that, you're
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: done for, Like there's nothing you can do and you
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: will get eaten up by Ioeda soon MoU and you'll
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: get eaten up by Kyle Anderson whoever's on the on
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: the floor.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: Okay, So this is where it goes back to that
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: passion and that competitive nature, and you can you can
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: show competitiveness even on the offensive end.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: It's not going to be perfect every time. You remember
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: when they won a championship, it wasn't perfect. Guys. They
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: won games that were ugly. Game five against Miami was ugly.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Get to the rim, get a foul, do something like.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Here's one thing I do want to say, as I
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: A lot of this is negative for the Nuggets, and
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: it should be. There's one guy I want to give
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: a huge shout out to God bless ag. I mean,
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: I know that he has not been great in this series,
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: but it is very obvious Fig. I don't know how
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: hurt he is, but he is very hurt when he
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: I don't think there's any business he had.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Playing in that game uh Saturday. He can't explode. He
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: couldn't even dunk now, he can't jump.
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: He had Jen McDaniels under the hoop on his on
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: his rear, and that would have resulted in a dunk.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: One hundred out of one hundred times couldn't explode. He
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: did get up and swat. He did man and he
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: did it off his opposite leg. I noticed that if
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: you go back and watch, you know one leg's got
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: the CAF issue correct. He's jumping off the opposite leg
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: for the second.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Year in a row, though.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: He is suffering an injury that I think is pretty
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: devastating that most guys would not be playing through. And
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: he feels like he has to. And that's what sucks
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: is that it's another year of I think Age is
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: so hurt he can't be productive, but he's like, what
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: else are we going to do?
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I have to try and pray. He's risking his career
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: out there. You know that for sure.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: You see Dante divincen to go down with an achilles
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: and calf issues, and achilles are connected that most Kevin
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: Durant Ssuay, they're connected. So you watch that that guy
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: goes out. Aaron Gordon is playing through this calf issue
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: and listen, that's another story as to why he's getting
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: hurt all the time now with these soft tissue injuries.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: That's another story for another day. I don't know his
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: body has betrayed him. The point is he doesn't care.
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: He wants to help and give him full credit for
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: one leg a one legged Aaron Gordon is trying to
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: play through that stuff. Yeah, but I think at some
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: point the Nuggets have to say, let's shut it down.
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: It just for his well, for his value and for
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: the team. You just can't count on Vic.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: Here's the thing. I'm in a really tough spot right now.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: I'm not so dumb as to think that the Nuggets
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: without Ag, without pe Watt can make a run to
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: the to the end. I'm not that dumb. You can't
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: get through San Antonio certainly. Okay, see without both those guys,
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: that's my opinion.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Well, Peyton Watson's not playing tonight, and well.
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: I'm just kidding, I'm cutting him out. But I'm just saying, VIC,
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: at the same time, when they're missing Aunt and they're
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: missing Devincenzo, they're missing their backcourt, and it's a real
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: opportunity for you to keep pushing this series.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: But I most I thought that in the middle of
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: Game four, and they played worse when left doesn't make sense.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: You know what, this team is a custom disorder, Like
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: all right, okay, we're good now.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: You know, And they sort of play to that level.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: You know, well, this is what do you guys hear
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Chris Finch.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: By the way, after the game, Chris Finch said this,
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: So this was based upon somebody asked him about the
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: end of the regular season how the team walls weren't
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: playing very well, and they basically said, coach, don't worry,
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: we'll flip the switch, switch the flip whatever once the
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: playoffs start.
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: Admittedly probably bored, you know, some immaturity of two long
• 25:37
  Speaker 11: runs in the playoffs.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: We thought we'd take a step forward there.
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: We did it, but they kept saying and that, you know,
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: they kept telling me, and it'll be different when we
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: get there, and game one wasn't any different.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: So we jumped their ass. Do they lied to us?
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: And they responded, you know, but we've still got a
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: lot of basketball to play yet. It's gonna be really
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: hard to get this next one, you know, given given
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: our circumstances, and you know what they're going to be about.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you the tone of that sounds a little
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: bit different than what I've heard on the Denver side.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: He said, after Game one, Hey, you guys told me
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: you guys were going to turn it up. I didn't
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: see that at all.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Well, you don't know what's being said behind closed doors.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I know what Adam is saying to the public. We're
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: just missing more than that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: I understand that. But what you're saying behind closed doors
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: is different than what you hit at the public.
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: I know for a fact that David Adelman is chewing
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: their asses. I know that for a fact and for
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: some reason. And I don't understand this whole thing with
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: McDaniels because it starts there.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: For me, it starts there.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: I know it's one player, one thing, but part of
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: me believes at the end of that game, when Nicola
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: Jokis charged McDaniels, he did it for three reasons. Number One,
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: he was pissed. Number One, he's got the longest memory
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: in the world, the memory of an elephant. He remembers
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty four Jaden McDaniel's trying to dunk at the
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: end of the game.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: He remembers that he does not forget that stuff. He
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: was mad about it, and that's in his memory bank.
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: Number Three, he knows that he needs to do something
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: to get his team going, Yeah, to wake them the
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: eck up, And maybe that was it because you know
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: what talking mean. Things that didn't work, getting beaten in
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: Game three, that didn't work, them losing their starting back
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: court that didn't work.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: What's it gonna take?
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: I don't know, Viking. I guess I get to the
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: point here where I feel like I'm being unfair. But
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: maybe I'm not. Number one. I wouldn't be a bad
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: person for just saying, you know what, they ain't gonna
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: do it this year.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: No, And if that's the case.
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: If that's the case, if it's just not meant to be, well,
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: is there anything that feels like it's meant to be
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: right now at all?
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Nothing?
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: I want to save that because there's so much room
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: to take that, okay, said the crossroads at which the
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: Nuggets are arriving, if that indeed holds true. Do I
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: believe they can win this series? You're damn right, I do.
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: It's tailor made for them to come back and win.
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: If they do not win this series and they lose
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: in the first round, however it happens, there are.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Going to be some changes made. Okay.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: That being said, I'm watching Christian Brown and I don't
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: care what he's getting paid per year in the future.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Okay, The actual.
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: Money total to me is none of my business, and
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: I don't care about good for him. All I care
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: about is how it impacts the basketball team and their
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: ability to do things.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: That's all I care about. It's a big effect.
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: And thirty four minutes eight points on two or four
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: shooting and a guy who right now appears timid out
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: there that ain't gonna that ain't worth thirty million bucks
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: a year.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: No, our twenty five excuse me against the cap?
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: Does that make sense? I mean, it's twenty five against
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: the cap. And I'm just like, got Lee c B
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: love you. You're still a young dude.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: You got plenty of runway left.
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: But man, you can't pitdle around for you know, for
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: eight points in thirty four minutes and it's kind of
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: goof around. I just now he's not doing it on purpose.
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: I'm just saying, you've got This team needs you to
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: be more productive. Everybody needs to be.
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: Let me ask you, guys, Nuggets fans, let me ask
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: you this question regarding tonight. Okay, so it's Game five tonight.
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: The Nuggets are favored by ten and a half. The
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: Nuggets should win this game going away. Should Now, they
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: may not they come down to a final shot. I
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: don't know, but they should win this game going away.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: Given all of the crap that they've gone through, the noise,
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: the fact that Minnesota is very understaffed right now, they
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: should home crowd all of it. What would forget the
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: fans because what we want to see and what they
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: want to see are different.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Thing.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: But I'm so tired of hearing, well, we got to
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: come out level headed and just you know, run the stuff.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: No, how about tonight come in like a bunch of
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: maniacs and do something crazy to start the game. How
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: about that attack? How about that attack?
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: How about instead of being level headed and just run this,
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: run the everybody, just do no huh huh, because that
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: hasn't worked.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: I need somebody to go full psycho. Do you agree?
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Or am I? Am I too emotionally invested here?
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: Because I think, look, man, it would bring an intensity
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: that just doesn't feel like it's been there. And maybe
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: that's the right word. It's not effort or what was
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: the competitiveness, it's intensity, because you're right, it just feels
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: like they're like, well, we don't want to ride the
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: highs and lows of the game.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: And want to stay even key. It's like, you know what,
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: sometimes you just got to go out and play pissed off.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Let me tell you about emotion.
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: So there's an arena full of Minnesota Tea Wolves fans
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: that watched their two guard go down for the rest
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: of the season and then their superstar go down before
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: the half. You could hear a pin drop there, a
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: pin drop. If there's ever a moment to capture the
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: emotion that's been voided by those injuries, that was.
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: It, Vic, that was that was it. I understand, But
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: do you know who took it?
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: They did well?
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: A guy who's a fourteen point a game guy went
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: for forty three. But Vic, what I'm trying to tell
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: you is we've been around pro sports for an awfully
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: long time and I say this about the NHL all
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: the time. Vic, you cannot manufacture that emotion if it's
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: not there.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, you can fake it, but fake only gets
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: you so far.
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: But this the reason I bring that up is this
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: team used to possess that I know I saw it,
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: I know we saw it. They made a championship run
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: with it. They were having fun, they were poised. The
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: one attribute that that I think it's changed about this team,
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: and I can't.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Figure out why.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: What's the one takeaway you had about the Nuggets when
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: things got close late?
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: What would they do they buckled down?
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they would on both ends.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: Yes, they had one of the best clutch defenses in
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: the NBA. Remember that their their offense was unstoppable. In
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: their lack of poise in the.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Fourth quarters right now is alarming, but it's not new.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: They did that for most of the year up until
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: the very end. They started to play better at the
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: end of games at the very end of the season.
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: And this is an excuse. I'm about to say something.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: Don't say, Vick, I'm just telling you. It's an observation.
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: They look tired.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, eight man rotation? Is it because they're only playing
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: eight guys? They lay down?
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: Yes?
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: Anyway, we'll get back to this in a second. Three
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: oh three, five, oh four oh nine two five. I
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: do want to get to your as most because they
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: took care business in a way that they should have.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: And it's exactly and they're in an enviable spot now
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: where Minnesota just ties up the series by scoring an
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: ot over the weekend. If that series goes seven, they
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: get a minimum of eight days off.
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: I'm going to make an argument when we come back
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: that you and especially him, cannot disagree with.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Get to It Next.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: Tonight is the next stop on the Altitude Sports Radio
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: playoff viewing tour. Surfside is riding the wave into Skippies
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: Bar and Grill on the corner of Iliffe in Quebec.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: We have awesome giveaways, including autographed Nuggets gear. Coach Sanford
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: is going to be getting everyone high to Burto is
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: gonna be broadcasting starting at six and you can cheer
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: on the Nuggets to a series extending wins. Skippy's Bar
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: and Grill is your one stop shop for all your
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: sporting event needs. See you at the corner of Ilift
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: in Quebec.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Tonight.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: Most Brett aftercare business in the way that a championship
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: level team should.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: That was a hell of a professional series.
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: I'm so glad you said that. I was talking to
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: Porker Kelly after the game waiting outside the bus talking
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: about it, and they just busted their humps. I'm like,
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: that's about as professionals series as you can win. Yep,
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: That's exactly what that was. That was a professional winning
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: team with a belief that's deep inside and a desire
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: and a work ethic going to work every single day.
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: Did you see when that that game wore on and
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: you knew it was going to happen eventually because the
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: Kings just had to throw all cushions and what happened
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: went ballistic.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: It looked like an as game.
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: And that far that is correct, because once it was
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: two to one, you're getting into the third period of
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: the King's like, well, we've got twenty minutes to save
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: our season. We got to try to score. We have
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: to try to score. That sounds crazy, I know we can,
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: but we got to try to score. And the said,
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: oh really, bang bang two goals in a row and
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: and it was over. You know, it's that and that's
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: why the But by the way, that's why the Kings
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: employed that style. Yes, not only in the first three games,
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: in the first half of that game. It's because that's
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: eight games. That's how they have to win.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I was just gonna say, I think
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: the Kings, and it's weird to say in a series
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: that you get sweat, but it does. It does have
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: the Darryl Sutter feel to it, like it's gonna be
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: a waste of eight days. They played I think as
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: well as they could have played against the Avs.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: I really for four straight games. It did feel that way,
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: like they were right there.
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: If they got to bounce that went their way, maybe
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: they get a win or two, and it just didn't matter.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: The moments would find.
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: The moment they decided to open things up. The ads
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: responded by, we're going to bang on you now. Yeah,
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: you want to play our style. We were forced to
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: play your style for the previous three and a half games.
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: We were forced to play in your neighborhood. Now you
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: were in our hood.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: You want to play like that? Okay, yeah, we're going
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: to bang there.
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: Used to be back in the day to get mail
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: from the east to the west.
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: You know what they did, right, the pony express called
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: the pony Express, but you know that mail delivery. Give
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: me a little yeah, tell us what the pony Express was.
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: Tell me you took a pony and you rode that
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: thing across there and you gave They went from they
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: went from post to post.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's rather called postman. Yeah.
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: They have they have new They have new ponies every stop.
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: Because the horse gets tired, the rider keeps going. Well,
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: when the Kings started to cheat a little bit and
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: you saw Brent Clark leading the rush into the zone,
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: that defense be like, okay, they're all bets are off.
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: Then thes just start counterpunching like this, they're on their pony.
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: They're on their ponies and they are going boom boom.
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: And then I mean Taves walks in above the dot
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: and just rips the top shelf. You're like, that's avalanche hawckey.
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: That's the way it's supposed to look. They got a
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: power play goal, got a power play goal from Nate
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: to start things out. You finally convert, you're over nine
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: to that point and you finally I mean.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: What do they do differently there? What did you notice anything?
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I mean they had well, they had great
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: putt movement, but there was there was no hesitation. Nate
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: just I mean, one time, get a hard and I
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: mean heart, pick hard, hard. You're not looking for anything special.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: Here's DJ Smith by the way, post game listening to this.
• 37:02
  Speaker 10: I think at the end of the day, we probably
• 37:03
  Speaker 10: lost this series to a really good hockey team. And
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: give them credit. It's not offense. They have offense. They
• 37:11
  Speaker 10: have lots. It's how well they check and how well
• 37:13
  Speaker 10: they defend. And I think when you talk about the Avalanche,
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: a lot of it goes by how much they score
• 37:19
  Speaker 10: and how good of players they have, give them credit
• 37:22
  Speaker 10: and their coaching stuff. How well they checked. To a man,
• 37:26
  Speaker 10: they didn't give us a breakaway in the series other
• 37:27
  Speaker 10: than a shorthanded one. They never gave us a two
• 37:31
  Speaker 10: on one other than a partial two on one. That's
• 37:33
  Speaker 10: incredible to do for four games.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: So listen.
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: I think the translation is this, because this tone is
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: much different than most that you would see after sweep.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: He just said, we played well.
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: They're just way better than You're, just way better than
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: those comments. Last night, I was listening to it while
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: I was chipping in putting because I'm working on my
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: short game. I was listening to that, and I'm thinking
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: to myself, now, I know why Jared Bednar is so
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: giddy when they win in tight checking, close games. That's
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: why he's so happy, because he's all about.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: That team defense. Sure, not just the blue line team defense.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: And they take pride in it, Yes, they take pride. Yes.
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: Let me also tell you what DJ Smith said, and
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna try it I'm just gonna have.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: To paraphrase here because I don't really have the exact quote,
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: but he.
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: Said, Look, he said, when we play our style, the
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: way we're going to have to win sometimes is we're
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: going to have to, you know, CounterPunch these guys because
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: they're going to get frustrated, they're going to try to
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: open it up themselves a little bit and they're going
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: to crack, and then we're going to take advantage of that.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: He said. But give the Avalanche credit. They never ever cracked.
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: No, they stayed disciplined for four straight games of sloppy, icky,
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: messy hockeys.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: And it says right here a lot and take the
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: bait correct.
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: A lot of times teams will crack when they don't
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: get the offense, they'll start to crack and they'll cheat.
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: And they didn't not one time that entire series. So
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: what it tells you, Vicause you've got you've got some
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: of the best players on planet Earth. You've got Nathan
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: McKinnon who won the Rocket isn't gonna be a hard
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: MVP finalist, right yep. You've got the best defensement of
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: the planet, kil mccaur. You've got one hundred point guy
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: now in martin Achius. You've got Nelson's, You've got Valves,
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: You've got Luckys, You've got Landy's, You've got all these guys.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: And you have now a goalie plane with supreme kind.
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: And you've got a goalie who's playing unbelievably well. And
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: that's not a fluke either. It's not like he's stealing.
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: He right now is just that good. But those guys
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: they're used to scoring. I mean they're used to, you know,
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: racking up goals. They're the highest scoring team in the
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: National Hockey League. It could be very easy to say, okay,
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: we're up two games to none. Hey man, let's just
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: try to get some more goals. About a they stuck
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: with it. That's discipline. That's discipline from the coaching staff
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: and discipline from the players who implemented the game plan.
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: And they people are like, why can't they have just
• 39:56
  Speaker 8: break through it? Well, you know they could try, and
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: maybe they could a little bit. I tell you the
• 40:00
  Speaker 8: definition of discipline. I'm watching the Kings on the power play.
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: Our Timmy Paneren's got the puck and Lecky will not
• 40:07
  Speaker 8: let him move. He had them in his personal jail cell.
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: You know Barney five, how he's he always stuck that
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: dude in jail. Yeah, that's what he did to Vicky.
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: Chased him all the way down the blue line and
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: stuffed him at the point and then they popped the
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: puck out.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: I mean he literally shadowed him hard.
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: And I said to Reiker, I'm like, Paneren's got to
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: get to the bench and go, like the hell, somebody
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: get this guy off me.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: You know what.
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: I look at Lecky and I watch him play. The
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: first thing that came to my mind is the Nuggets
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: need one of those? Can he play basketball?
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: Well he's like I guess you would have called him
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: like a Caruso Devincenzo.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: Would you agree the Nuggets need one of those? Yeah,
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: one of those guys. Yeah. Well here's the other thing.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: It's it's rare that over four straight games that you
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: could say this after each one, but you said how
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: well Wedgwood played in this series.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: Forsburgh I think was really good.
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: Too, Like he kept them from losing games five to
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: one and stuff like that. And so you look at
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: all this and it's literally an example of you get done.
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: And this happens very rarely now, And I think the
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: Kings just tipped the cap. They're like, you guys are
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: way better than we are, and I thought we played well.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: Didn't matter going into that game. Vic real quick though,
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: going into that game.
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: In this previous nine games, Forsburg was five and four,
• 41:24
  Speaker 8: but with like a one point nine to two and
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: a point nine to five six percentage, which are he
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: should be nine at all.
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: It's a picture that gives up on one run in
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: eight innings for five straight starts, and he's two and two,
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: and you're just like, what, correct?
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: That's correct.
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: I'm not here too to get too worried about things
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: when you when you sweep a series, but now you
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: await Dallas or many how many?
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: How many days waiting? Is too many days?
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: Like when do you like?
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: Okay, let's let's get back. I don't worry about that
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: with this team, all right, So that's not a concern
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: of yours.
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: Let's go the old Joe Sakic.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: Rest is a weapon, especially for the likes of Josh Manton.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: That's correct.
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: Look, I don't I don't want to be taking you know,
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: ten days off or anything like that. I don't. I
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: don't think that benefits you. But I think this team
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: could use a rest. I think Burns, could you, I mean, listen,
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: think about some of the guys who are up there,
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: Burns right playing good by the way. I love how
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: Jerry Bednar said the other day. He goes he's doing
• 42:22
  Speaker 8: things right now that I haven't seen it in a
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: couple of months or a little while, you know, a
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: while he wants it bad, you know, when the guy's
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: forty one years old. So I could I could use
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: a little rest for that guy. He love Josh Manson
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: getting bent over the board's body. Listen, he's a big dude.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: Right there over the dasher again, bent over the dasher.
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: Can you.
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: Can you just come up with a different You can't
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: say that I have a different terminot, a different way
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: to say that.
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: He got smashed along the dashing. He did and like
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: it well hash, I mean yeah, yeah, you yell or
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: with the on. I mean when he got dude, he
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: got crunched and he.
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: Just like you imagine a guy going to the hospital.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: What's wrong? I got bent over the dasher.
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: You know, if Bednar is gonna be on a Wednesday
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: at eight am, Dred Bednor's back normal time. Yeah, if
• 43:22
  Speaker 8: he said that, you wouldn't you wouldn't give him the business.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: I would think it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 8: I would think it. Yeah, well, when he said but
• 43:29
  Speaker 8: also if he said that every day. But if he
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: I'm not trying to but if he said, look, we
• 43:35
  Speaker 8: you know, we had really high quality dumps. Again, she
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: has said what she has said on the show before.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Again again I'm thinking it. Huh Okay.
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: Anyway, the point is is that they just here's my
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: argument though, when you said explode from the back end, yep, right,
• 43:53
  Speaker 8: here's my argument that neither of you can disagree with
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: this team. That series went about as good as it
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: possibly could. You think you're going to suffer injuries in
• 44:04
  Speaker 8: the postseason, You're gonna.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Have guys banged up.
• 44:09
  Speaker 8: Happened to Josh Manson, who's a huge cog in the
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: back end overall to be able to play that hard,
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: grind out style which is not your mo not fun
• 44:19
  Speaker 8: to do, but you do it anyway, and you eat
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: it and then you win anyway. Yeah, and now Jared
• 44:25
  Speaker 8: Benner made another great point here he goes, look, we
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: don't know who knows if we're fortunate enough to advance
• 44:31
  Speaker 8: on that may be the toughest defensive team we face
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: all postseason long, and he may be.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: Completely right about that. Now, I think offensively, other.
• 44:41
  Speaker 8: Teams are going to have a lot more coming at you,
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: so you're going to have to defend equally well. But
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: on the other side, your big guns have haven't even
• 44:50
  Speaker 8: gotten uncorked yet. And if you uncork those guys, or
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: a team allows you to uncork those guys because they
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: cannot defend as well as the LA Kings, this could
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: be a hell of a fun run.
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: A lot more to get to with the Avs and
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: the Nuggets. Do want to talk about the draft too.
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: One pick that I absolutely love from the Broncos over
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: the weekend, But you can one of the eighty.
• 45:13
  Speaker 8: Seven tight ends, it was not one of them. How
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: many tight ends are in the tight end room?
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: Now, we'll get to it in just a second.
• 45:19
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