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The Timberwolves Just Made A Statement... · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about these NBA games. We got the Jaden
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  Speaker 1: McDaniel's game three. We got the Bucks keeping their season
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  Speaker 1: alive in the Orlando Magic holding the Boss of Celtis
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  Speaker 1: to what eleven points in the fourth quarter. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about all of that, But we did get a
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  Speaker 1: game of a three, the Jada McDaniel's game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's a coincidence of the two games
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  Speaker 1: that the Wolves have won in the series, our games
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  Speaker 1: where Jada McDaniels had a really good offensive performance in
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  Speaker 1: real time. You never really noticed this, but between February
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  Speaker 1: first and February twenty eighth, this is the time when
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  Speaker 1: Julius ran to plays zero games. He was out with
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  Speaker 1: his injury, and during that time we saw Jaden McDaniel's
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  Speaker 1: take a step up offensively.
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  Speaker 2: Hell I dropped the video during.
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  Speaker 1: This time, like, hey, is anybody watching what Jada McDaniel's
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  Speaker 1: doing right now? Because the first couple of years of
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  Speaker 1: his career, he had turned himself to a three and
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  Speaker 1: D wing, which is great, you get paid being a
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  Speaker 1: three and D wing, But he had to remind himself
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  Speaker 1: and remind the world that that's just not who I am.
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  Speaker 2: I know that's what my role has been here, but
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  Speaker 2: I can do so much more so.
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  Speaker 1: During that stretch where we're talking about Julius ren Of
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  Speaker 1: being out with his injury, mcdange's was averaging nineteen points
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  Speaker 1: per game, he was averaging eight and a half rebounds
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  Speaker 1: of three assists. That little stretch empowered him to be
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  Speaker 1: ready for stuff like this. Lucadanta's is there with the BGS.
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  Speaker 1: He's got his stomach flu, he's got something going on,
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  Speaker 1: and he is the primary defender on me say less.
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  Speaker 2: We gonna take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 1: And when you found out that Lukadanca was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: dealing with this stomach thing, I always have to ask myself,
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  Speaker 1: is this gonna be more of a flu gag type
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  Speaker 1: of thing where he still turn up and he still
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  Speaker 1: do his thing, or it's gonna be like a traditional
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  Speaker 1: I'm sick, I can't really go to work. The last
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  Speaker 1: time I had the beg's or I had a stomach bug,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't go to work.
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  Speaker 2: Me and my job is this.
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  Speaker 1: It is not even close to playing forty minutes in
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  Speaker 1: an NBA playoff game, And it ended up being in
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  Speaker 1: between the two options, a flu game or a bad game.
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  Speaker 2: It was a Lucadantis bad game.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he did give us a couple great moments where
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  Speaker 1: he hit the wing three over Julius Randa with seconds
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  Speaker 1: expiring on the shot clock, or he had the moment
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  Speaker 1: late in the fourth quarter where Chris Finch has done
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  Speaker 1: a pretty damn good job balance of his rotation for
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  Speaker 1: what is necessary. Right, the Minnesota Timbules are playing good basketball.
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  Speaker 1: They needed a few stops. They bring in Rudy Gobert
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  Speaker 1: and the very first play Rudy Gobert is back on
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  Speaker 1: the floor, Lucadantis draws a foul, and then the second
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  Speaker 1: play that they're on defense, Lucadantas scored and Chris Fins
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  Speaker 1: is like, never mind, get your ass of the game
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  Speaker 1: where you at nasried. So he gave us a couple
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  Speaker 1: of good things. But for the most part, this is
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  Speaker 1: a really bad Luca game. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: turn this into a Lugadantis trade thing. But I know somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: if Nico Harrison cares to watch basketball now that he's
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  Speaker 1: on vacation, he probably feels somewhat vindicated. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: that's somewhat unfair. But they were going at Luca Danti's
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  Speaker 1: had this entire game. We talked about it before that
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  Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Timblewolves to continue to win games in
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  Speaker 1: the series, they got to find a way to play
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  Speaker 1: their brand of basketball. I thought that when they stayed
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  Speaker 1: in the half court, it benefited the Lakers more than
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  Speaker 1: benefited them. You got to think about who's the star
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  Speaker 1: of these teams, right. Lucadantis has been able to be
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  Speaker 1: malleable throughout his career, but the majority of his career
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  Speaker 1: he has been the.
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  Speaker 2: Engine of a slow paced offensive team.
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  Speaker 1: I know when Kyrie got there with the Dallas Mavericks,
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  Speaker 1: the tempo went up more, but historically he's a slower
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  Speaker 1: paced player.
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  Speaker 2: Lebron James as forty years old.
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  Speaker 1: He could still get on the break and everything, but
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  Speaker 1: he's still forty years old. They really benefit from being
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  Speaker 1: a half court team, and it happened in Game number
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  Speaker 1: two and a game number three. I thought that the
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  Speaker 1: Wolves definitely took advantage of having the younger bodies and
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  Speaker 1: getting up and down the core. But more than anything,
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  Speaker 1: where they held their hat today was points in the paint.
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  Speaker 1: They were so aggressive getting downhill, whether it be Julius
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  Speaker 1: Randa or Anthony Ewards, and I know we started off
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  Speaker 1: by talking about Jade mcgain's as thirty Anthony Edwards another
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  Speaker 1: masterful performance where they were throwing two bodies, they were
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  Speaker 1: throwing laid help and you question what type of performance
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get from Anthony Ewards. And of the
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  Speaker 1: three games we gott of the series, two of them
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  Speaker 1: he was a master in the pick and roll.
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  Speaker 2: He was a master making those decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Today his final stat line is twenty nine eight and eight,
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  Speaker 1: a couple huge uo shots down the stritch, zero field
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  Speaker 1: goal free throw attempts, which is still crazy to me
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  Speaker 1: to considering how often he gets down hell, but only
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  Speaker 1: two turnovers and those eight assist could definitely be more
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  Speaker 1: because there are a few times he did drow in
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  Speaker 1: two guys, three bodies kicked it out and somebody missed
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  Speaker 1: a shot or failed to shoot his shots. Shout out
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  Speaker 1: to Dante Vincenzo, this is an amazing game. Julius Randal
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  Speaker 1: gives us another really good playoff performance. Oh are those
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  Speaker 1: monkeys getting off his back? Are we still gonna look
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  Speaker 1: at Julius round as a playoff droper?
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  Speaker 2: Again?
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about one game here, but like he has
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  Speaker 1: been pretty damn good in this series, and again Finch
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  Speaker 1: has done an amazing job balancing what is necessary in
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  Speaker 1: the time. In the first half, I thought Rudy Gobert
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  Speaker 1: did pretty damn good defensively, but god to see off offense.
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  Speaker 1: This is the same story we say every single game, right,
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  Speaker 1: He's so bad offensively that when you get that level
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  Speaker 1: of push from nas Reid who him and Dante in
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  Speaker 1: these last two games have been really struggling to not foul.
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  Speaker 1: They both ended up before in this one, but nas
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  Speaker 1: Reid hitting big time shots. We were in discrow watches
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  Speaker 1: in this game and my boy, p it was like,
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  Speaker 1: your Nasree might get the crown of Lakers killing. He
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  Speaker 1: only had eleven today, but I promise you it was
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  Speaker 1: allowed eleven. You know, so amazing, amazing game for the
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Timbools today, low turnover, really aggressive. They ended up
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers ended up hitting four more threes in the
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  Speaker 1: It didn't matter. Lebron put on his best game of
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. And I'm assuming that they just all talked about,
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  Speaker 1: hey man, this ain't gonna be a Luca Doctis game.
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  Speaker 1: He's dealing with this stuff. He's got the like everything
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  Speaker 1: is going on. We gonna need you to take us home,
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  Speaker 1: Bron Bron. And he went through that stretch we had
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  Speaker 1: like three straight threes. You're like, oh, bro, and he's
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  Speaker 1: about to hit that fourth whip and the ball falls
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  Speaker 1: out of his hands and I think that Jada McDaniel's
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  Speaker 1: got a d one layup on the other side. He
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  Speaker 1: did have the shot late in the game where he
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  Speaker 1: hit the side of the backboard from the right wing.
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  Speaker 2: That was tough. That's all. That was really tough.
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  Speaker 1: I know they're gonna continue to try running Jackson Hayes
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  Speaker 1: in the series. I just don't know how you can.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're at the point of the series where
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to see you're gonna see coaches
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  Speaker 1: make some huge use adjustments on the game the game basis.
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  Speaker 1: I think that the Lakers just have to completely hone
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  Speaker 1: in in a small ball because even in this nine
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  Speaker 1: minutes that Jackson Hay's played.
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  Speaker 2: It was awful. It was real. It was really really
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  Speaker 2: bad on both sides of the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Just lack of space saying, and they're not looking at
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  Speaker 1: him as a super lop threat as he may should be,
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  Speaker 1: and he's not doing anything. So I don't know I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying you should start these games with the small ball,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe just get rid of even what was it
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  Speaker 1: nine minutes. Maybe that's down the two dog, Maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: down to zero.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but being up to one is huge
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  Speaker 1: for the Wolves. They got another game at home. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's on Sunday. If I'm not mistaken, and I
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  Speaker 1: was somebody that picked the Lakers in this series, eived
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  Speaker 1: about the topian talent. I mean, the Wolves are the
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  Speaker 1: more complete team if you you gotta think about who
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers are like. This team is not built the
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  Speaker 1: round Luca. They just happened to acquire Luca. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: we were just a little bit too early or maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: It's still just so one to two series. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to jump the gun too much. This is still
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  Speaker 1: anybody series. But in the two games that the Wolves
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  Speaker 1: have won, they look pretty dominant. And even in the
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  Speaker 1: game that they lost, they really just lost one quarter,
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  Speaker 1: right That thirty four to fifteen quarter of Game number
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  Speaker 1: two was the reason they lost.
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  Speaker 2: In Game number two.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're a Wilsonian, you're probably feeling pretty damn good,
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  Speaker 1: even though you're only up to one you can squint
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, anything is really probably could be up
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  Speaker 1: three to zer.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, and that's huge. That was huge, so beautiful game, man.
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  Speaker 1: I know in the final score being a twelve point game,
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  Speaker 1: it was down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: It was really electric.
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  Speaker 1: Also, Reeves says some shots today, right, So that's good
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  Speaker 1: for the Lakers if you're trying to find some silver lines,
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  Speaker 1: because he was not hitting his three point shot at
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  Speaker 1: all in the first couple of games, and now he
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  Speaker 1: had a couple.
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  Speaker 2: So it is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure out exactly how can they
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  Speaker 1: empower Ruy Hachimore And maybe they can't.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they can't, right, but I think about them. He
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  Speaker 2: hit the first shot of the game. I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: And there are a few times where when Mike Conley
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  Speaker 1: was in the game, Mike Conlie is guarding him and
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  Speaker 1: they tried to give him a little post touched and
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  Speaker 1: then he got some help and I think he turned.
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  Speaker 2: The ball over on one of those plays. I just
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There's no other real options, right, It's not like you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to bench Ruyachimore. But so far in the
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  Speaker 1: series we haven't got nearly as good of ree had
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  Speaker 1: some more performances as they need to win this series
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  Speaker 1: or if it's not just this series, the next series
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  Speaker 1: or the next series after that. So shout out to
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  Speaker 1: the Wolves, big time game. I'm to go to the
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  Speaker 1: other game. The Bucks, you know, prevent themselves from going
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  Speaker 1: down three to zero. If you listen, a small ball
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  Speaker 1: kiddy beat him. I was saying, man, these are not
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  Speaker 1: looking good. When you have Kyle Kuzma on the court
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  Speaker 1: with Giannis and Brook Lopez, the offense and the defense
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely awful. And in this game, do I dare
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  Speaker 1: say that Doc Rivers made some adjustments. Brook Lopez barely played.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma barely played, I mean twenty one minutes, but
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  Speaker 1: he barely played.
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  Speaker 2: And they went in with a guy named Gary Trade Junior. Yo,
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  Speaker 2: you would have told me.
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  Speaker 1: You would have told me that there was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a game this series where Gary Tron Junior led
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  Speaker 1: all scores.
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  Speaker 2: I would have called you crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he tied with Giannis at thirty seven, but that
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  Speaker 1: third quarter, I think he had more points in the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter than the entire Pacers team, shot after shot
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  Speaker 1: after shot after shot, and you can call the fools
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  Speaker 1: goal if you will if you want to. At the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, they just descended this series. At
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, they gave themselves a chance
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  Speaker 1: to maybe make something happen. Bucks is six is still
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  Speaker 1: up in the air. Dame had his another really bad
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  Speaker 1: shooting night. But I thought the Dame was pretty damn
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  Speaker 1: good defensively today. Dare I say, And I'm not even
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: just looking at the fact he had two blocks. One
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  Speaker 1: of the blocks was on Pascal Yakam, but I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even looking at the stats, just like watching him fighting.
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  Speaker 1: This one was pretty damn good. So shout out, shout
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  Speaker 1: out to him, and shout out to the Bucks. You
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  Speaker 1: know they were turning over rated. For Tyrese Haliburton, I
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  Speaker 1: think that my one criticism from Tyres and I've said
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  Speaker 1: this for the last couple of years of his career,
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  Speaker 1: is that sometimes he will break down his defender, get
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  Speaker 1: to the paint and he immediately just think past and
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  Speaker 1: I noticed who he is is how he gets everybody available.
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  Speaker 1: Hell is how they become one of the best offensive
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  Speaker 1: basketball every single year. But I at times just want
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  Speaker 1: him to attempt to shot at the ren just do it,
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  Speaker 1: And I think, let me see if I can find
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  Speaker 1: these numbers right now. I remember looking at his cleaning
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  Speaker 1: the glass earlier in the season and maybe ad his shift,
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  Speaker 1: But like earlier in the season, I was looking at
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  Speaker 1: where his shots were coming from versus the rim, the
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  Speaker 1: mid range and the three point shot and his rim finishing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: his rim attempts have dropped off significantly his first year
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  Speaker 1: in Indiana. First full year, twenty eight percent of his
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  Speaker 1: shots came at the rim. Then last year was twenty
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  Speaker 1: two and this year's fourteen percent. And in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the number. I don't have to play,
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  Speaker 1: oh show playoffs stats seventeen percent. So he's attempted four
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  Speaker 1: field goals at the rim so far, he's drawn two fouls.
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  Speaker 1: So let's say six layups or dunk. He had a
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  Speaker 1: dunk in this game. That's just not gonna cut it.
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  Speaker 1: And again through the first two games it was working,
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  Speaker 1: but they were just times in this game where the
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  Speaker 1: Bucks are on their run and then he gets around
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  Speaker 1: that corner and it's immediately looking past when he probably
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  Speaker 1: should have been looking shot.
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  Speaker 2: So that's it.
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  Speaker 1: I like, I want this series to go far, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm not rooting for anybody obviously, but like you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Bucks going down the three would have been the
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  Speaker 1: end of the series.
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  Speaker 2: Let's be real.
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  Speaker 1: So them taking a game on their home court with
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  Speaker 1: that electric crowd, it's pretty good. They hit fifteen threes
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  Speaker 1: the team, and nine of them came from the hands
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  Speaker 1: of Gary Trent and four of them came from the
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  Speaker 1: hands of AJ Green.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like it was them guys, and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: But again, it's the playoffs, baby, all you want to
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  Speaker 1: do is win. It don't matter the methods. In the
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  Speaker 1: last game, and this was one of the games where
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  Speaker 1: I had half of an eye on the third quarter
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  Speaker 1: for the Celtics was like the worst basketball I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: And that's saying something because we've had some really bad
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  Speaker 1: playoff game playoff quarters in this but like, eleven points
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  Speaker 1: is obviously unacceptable. This is a great Jason Tatum game.
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  Speaker 1: He started off really, really hot. Eventually, not only did
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  Speaker 1: he cool off, everybody cooled off. No Drew Holliday in
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  Speaker 1: this one, and Drew Howlley has been pretty big in
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  Speaker 1: the series.
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  Speaker 2: We're not like a full.
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  Speaker 1: Game, but there have been spots in this series where
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  Speaker 1: four minute stretched jew high. They looks like the best
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  Speaker 1: player on the court. They definitely could have used him today.
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  Speaker 1: Porzingis is like Ozer for eleven from three so far
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  Speaker 1: and the series sim Houser still hasn't scored just yet.
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  Speaker 1: And the Orlando Magic keep the Celtics from scoring one
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  Speaker 1: hundred points. And if they play the only way the
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Orlando Magic win this series, which is two percent chance.
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  Speaker 1: They got to continue to hold the Celtis to under
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  Speaker 1: a hundred. That's the only way because them scoring one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they've scored one hundred two times in the
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  Speaker 1: last seven games. Smiles got to give a lot of
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  Speaker 1: credit to Palot, to give a lot of credit to Franz.
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  Speaker 2: But here's my notebook. I take my notes in me.
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  Speaker 1: Let me go to this game again. I had this
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  Speaker 1: with like just I was mostly watching Pacers Bucks. I
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  Speaker 1: thought that that is the most interesting series. But here's
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  Speaker 1: one of my few notes from this actual game. This
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  Speaker 1: is after Franz Wagner attempted that three at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game and end up being a long rebound
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  Speaker 1: at the Celtis end up getting I didn't like I
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  Speaker 1: could do the the rest. Should have put more time
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  Speaker 1: on the clock point three didn't feel like enough considering
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  Speaker 1: where it was. Anyway, my thing says, no way should
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  Speaker 1: Franz Wagner timp thirteen threes in a game.
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  Speaker 2: He had three of them. Yeah, but he should not
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  Speaker 2: be shooting thirteen threes, bro.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, I mean, I'm sure he believes he
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  Speaker 1: has too, because KCP has been a non factor offensively
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  Speaker 1: all series long. He was supposed to be your shooter.
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  Speaker 1: I almost called him Alec Black for whatever reason. Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Black is OH for four in this game. Yeah, Cole,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony is oh for one. He hit one, but his
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: foot was on the line, so obviously that on count.
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  Speaker 1: So they just need somebody to attend threes. They were
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  Speaker 1: eight for twenty eight from thirty two from three, and
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  Speaker 1: thirteen of those threes came from Franz.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I.
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  Speaker 1: Hate the hitch. Everybody hates the hitch, but that hitch
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  Speaker 1: is really nasty. And if he hits three, then you're like,
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  Speaker 1: okay for three or thirteen, it's a bit much.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, enough of that great gay day of playoff basketball.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just tired, so I'm gonna get