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The Thunder Punch Back Against The Spurs · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Game two of the Western Conference Finals just wrapped up
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Speaker 1: one two, one thirteen in favorite of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Speaker 1: We got a tie series here, ladies and gentlemen. I'm
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Speaker 1: always excited for game number twos because we look at
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Speaker 1: game number one and coaches decided this work. This didn't work.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna change this coverage. You're gonna do this. It's
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Speaker 1: a chess match at the end of the day, and
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Speaker 1: we got two of the better coaches in the league.
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Speaker 1: So I was excited to see what type of changes
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Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder do for women yam. I was
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Speaker 1: excited to see if the coverage shifts on Shake Gyildes
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Speaker 1: Alexander to prevent him from getting ahead of what they
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Speaker 1: did last game. Before getting to all of that, I
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Speaker 1: will say I mentioned for this is my most anticipated
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Speaker 1: series of my entire life. We have two sixty win teams,
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Speaker 1: we have two players that finish top three in MVP,
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Speaker 1: we have two of the youngest teams in the league.
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Speaker 1: We just have everything you can possibly imagine for a
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Speaker 1: conference finals matchup we have in this one. So I
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Speaker 1: was really excited going into him, and I'm still excited
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Speaker 1: after two games. But the injuries already. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: if the win gets sucked out of the sales because
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Speaker 1: of injury, I'm gonna be so pissed there. Foxes are
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Speaker 1: already missed two games, already missed two games. J Dubb,
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Speaker 1: whooper deal with hanmy injuries all season long, Left Handy
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Speaker 1: Party this season, right hand me party season, leaves after
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Speaker 1: seven minutes played in this one because of a hammy,
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Speaker 1: and then later in the game Dylan Harper goes down.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, bro, I just want a healthy seven
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Speaker 1: between the two best teams in the league. It's that
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Speaker 1: too much, he adds for basketball. Gods man, that's crit man.
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Speaker 1: I know it's probably unrealistic to expect all three of
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Speaker 1: them to play in Game three, especially like a handy
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Speaker 1: thing for J. Dubb. Anyway, I guess we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: the impact of those injuries later later in the video
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Speaker 1: if I remember whatever. Like I mentioned, I'm always in
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Speaker 1: game number two trying to figure out what type of
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Speaker 1: changes can be done. And I want to remind you
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Speaker 1: that these videos are my initial reaction, my recap to
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Speaker 1: the games and numbers on the board. Small Ball Kenny
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Speaker 1: Beachum and Serious XM Kenny Beach my hour every Monday.
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Speaker 1: Those are the places I may dive a little bit
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Speaker 1: deeper into things. So after the game Game number one,
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Speaker 1: I went on to Numbers on the Board and they
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Speaker 1: had a conversation with Pierre about the different things that
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Speaker 1: I think Oklahoma City Thunder they could do to I
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Speaker 1: don't know, not NULLI five Victor Wimbiyama, but that'll prevent
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Speaker 1: him from having a goddamn forty twenty game again. And
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Speaker 1: in my mind I was replaying the options in pros
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Speaker 1: and cons of having Victor Wmbinyama being guarded by chet Holmgerm,
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Speaker 1: and it may have seemed very simple in real time,
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Speaker 1: but I do believe that the con that I mentioned
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Speaker 1: in that episode would be would be something that could
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Speaker 1: really hurt the Oklahoma City thund and that cod was
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Speaker 1: if you have win Beanyama be guarded by chet Holmberm,
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Speaker 1: then they're just gonna run Victor Winmbinyama as a screener
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Speaker 1: for the entirety of the game, whether it be rolling,
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Speaker 1: whether it be popping, Because you know the aggression on
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Speaker 1: the guard side between Castle between Harper and the hypothetical
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Speaker 1: we were hoping that dearon Fox is back, but dearon Fox.
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Speaker 1: Those guys want to get rim pressure, want to get
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Speaker 1: rim pressure. And if you're pulling chet Holmgrin away from
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Speaker 1: the rim, because when Binyama is popping, then those guys
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Speaker 1: who are ultra aggressive just get downhill easier. And it
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Speaker 1: opened ups more opportunities from the fish at the rim,
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Speaker 1: and it was a more opportunity for death of a
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Speaker 1: sale and Julie Champenny who might be sitting in the corners.
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Speaker 1: So I'm like, hmm, even though it makes sense to
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Speaker 1: just go with chet Holmgren, maybe you don't want to
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Speaker 1: do that because the game of one, you remember they
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Speaker 1: went with dub They went with Caruso with the idea
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Speaker 1: of getting underneath him and pushing him away from the
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Speaker 1: basket and not allowing him to get much dribble penetration
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Speaker 1: because he puts the ball down. Caruso is a full
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Speaker 1: foot small than him. Just pick the balls. That didn't work,
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Speaker 1: as you know. But one thing I didn't think about
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Speaker 1: was Isaiah Hartenstein being the guy that could get the
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Speaker 1: wimby assignment. And the reason I didn't think about that
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Speaker 1: initially is just Hartensteyle was unplayable in game number one,
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Speaker 1: and though I didn't think he was gonna play zero
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Speaker 1: minutes for the rest of the series. I had to
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Speaker 1: think about him being a true, viable, viable option, not
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Speaker 1: defensively but offensively for the Oklahoma City Thunder to have
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Speaker 1: him played twenty five to thirty minutes. But now if
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Speaker 1: we're saying, hey, it's gonna be Isaiah Hartenstein guarded Victor
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Speaker 1: Wembiyama Chat, Homer can still roam. And that's what happened.
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Speaker 1: And credit to Isaiah Hartenstein for being able to be
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Speaker 1: playable in this one. Remember Hartstad played two minutes of
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Speaker 1: the first quarter and Game number one he was unplay
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Speaker 1: and again it wasn't because of his defense. It's because
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Speaker 1: his lack of spacing against that that okay, see, I'm
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Speaker 1: sorry that Spurs defensive team, that spacing that lacked. They're wrong,
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Speaker 1: just shrunk the court so much more for Shade and
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Speaker 1: shrunk the court so much more for Dubb that he
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Speaker 1: couldn't play. They'd rather roll in four guards and Chat
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Speaker 1: versus the double big lineup. But Hardenstein offensively made him
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Speaker 1: so viable. Three of his four shots were was a
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Speaker 1: little push out. One of them was either end of
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Speaker 1: third quarter or early fourth quarter with the Spurs are
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Speaker 1: on a run and it's that right baseline push shot,
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Speaker 1: and I just imagine how much of a kick to
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Speaker 1: the gut it is when you're trying to put together
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Speaker 1: run and Isaiah Hartenstein throws this nasty looking floater up above.
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Speaker 1: When Bediama to go in, there was a couple of
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Speaker 1: nice chet Homer Isaiah Hardenstein passes between the two that
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Speaker 1: led to easy buckets for one or the other. But
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Speaker 1: I do want to say one hundred percent confident that
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Speaker 1: the film team for the San Antonio Spurs about to
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Speaker 1: put together fifteen minute compilation is sent to the league.
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Speaker 1: Isaiah hart sign is grabbing victim beyond with the entire game.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna send this into the to the league. The
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Speaker 1: League's gonna send it to the team of refs that's
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Speaker 1: ref in the game um A three. And I promise
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Speaker 1: you Bill Hartenstein wasn't fouler for the majority of this game.
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Speaker 1: He's not gonna get away with it as much as
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Speaker 1: game um A three. That's just the reality the way
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Speaker 1: things go. He I'm filming this video before the pressers.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if Miss Johnson or whoever is
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Speaker 1: in the press or right now talking about the jersey.
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Speaker 1: It got so it got so crazy that on the
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Speaker 1: broadcast they're giving props to to Isac Hardtstein again, who
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Speaker 1: deserves props, and they say, look at this defensive play
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Speaker 1: and the defensive players just him grabbing Womby's jersey. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: bro y'all couldn't get a better example of his defense tonight.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, hey, when you're down one, oh, you
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Speaker 1: gotta do what you gotta do, even if it's ethical,
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Speaker 1: even if it's not ethical. And that one clip with
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Speaker 1: viral of check being uneth one stumping on Womby's foot
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Speaker 1: and game of a one, I don't know how I
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Speaker 1: missed at a real time and shout out to the
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Speaker 1: person that put that on the timeline. So Isaiah Hartstein
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Speaker 1: plays a better game and becomes playable in this one,
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Speaker 1: Shay gives Alexander or MVP looked like the MVP. He
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Speaker 1: looked like the best player on the court today, which
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Speaker 1: is saying a lot because even though when was taken
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Speaker 1: out a little bit more in comparison to his forty
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Speaker 1: twenty game, he said, a really good game, but I
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Speaker 1: thought that Shade looked like a better version, so he
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Speaker 1: looked like a normal game for shake Gils Alexander. And
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Speaker 1: that's what I was saying after game number one. Though
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Speaker 1: he did not have a good game one, I just
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Speaker 1: have so much confidence that he will be able to
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Speaker 1: figure it out. He's just that good of a player, right.
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Speaker 1: Every time he had a bad game in the postseason
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Speaker 1: last year, he backed that up with not just a
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Speaker 1: team win, but a good individual performance. And I thought
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Speaker 1: that's what he gave us today. I think his processing
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Speaker 1: when he's seeing the doubles, it's still really good. I
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Speaker 1: thought it was really good yesterday outside of like two
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Speaker 1: or three passes. And for God to be seeing this
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Speaker 1: much pressure on the daily and to only end up
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Speaker 1: this game with one turnover, that's one of the reasons
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Speaker 1: I really value schae gives Alexander de efficiency. Obviously as
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Speaker 1: a fifty percent shooter from the field in most cases,
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Speaker 1: obviously the free throw shooting is elite, but also for
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Speaker 1: him to be a league guard, he very rarely turns
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Speaker 1: it over. When he does turn it over, and like
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Speaker 1: in bunches, it becomes a lot. I remember one game
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Speaker 1: he had like seven of them things, and like, damn,
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Speaker 1: you can't go from one turnover to seven, just like that.
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Speaker 1: Tonight was one of the games where they sent a
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Speaker 1: lot of pressure. They were very physical and he only
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Speaker 1: turned the ball over one time. And I don't even
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Speaker 1: remember what that turnover was, honestly, So shout out to Shay,
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Speaker 1: big shot down to stretch. He had to tell his
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Speaker 1: guys to calm down. We've been here before. Let's let's
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Speaker 1: get this game done. Caruso again with another great shooting performance.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know, bro, actually no, I do know.
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Speaker 1: Stop tweeting at me about Alas Caruso. I love Ac.
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Speaker 1: I'm not the dude that traded for zero picks. And
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Speaker 1: the dude that traded for zero picks, he don't have
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Speaker 1: a job anymore. It's over. It's over, Okay, it's over. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it would be cool to get picks. If you remember
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Speaker 1: my frustration when the trade first happened, it was because
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Speaker 1: of them not getting any picks from a team that
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Speaker 1: had twenty three of them. But it's done. It's been
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Speaker 1: two years. It's been two years. God, Lee Caruso is
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Speaker 1: great though, all over the place. If he can hit, man,
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Speaker 1: I just don't know. He had two twenty point games
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Speaker 1: in the Finals last year, so I can't act like
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Speaker 1: him scoring seventeen points, a ninety and thirty thirty in
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Speaker 1: Game of one. It's not something he could replicate again
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Speaker 1: in this series. He's he's been that that good. I
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Speaker 1: thought Jeremy Kane gave them good minutes. It was a
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Speaker 1: really scary part at the beginning of the fourth quarter
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Speaker 1: because Dub was out with his injury, and because Chack,
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Speaker 1: who We're gonna get to chat again in a couple
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Speaker 1: of minutes here, and because Chat was getting his rest
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Speaker 1: and Shae was getting his rest. There was a line
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Speaker 1: up for the Thunder that had no aj Minchew, no Shade,
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Speaker 1: no j Dub, and no Chat. And I'm watching the
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Speaker 1: Spurs going I think like a seven o' run at
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Speaker 1: one point, and then Ben McCain calmed down by hitting
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Speaker 1: a big shot, so that was huge. Cason Waller's absolute
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Speaker 1: hound on Stefancastle will get to in a second. Absolute hound.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I admire your team, like
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Speaker 1: I guess both of these teams where you have players
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Speaker 1: where it's like I'm traditionally a starter in this league.
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Speaker 1: Cason Wallace started a shit ton over his last two years.
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Speaker 1: But right now that's not what our team needs it.
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Speaker 1: We're still They're still gonna go dor. I'm gonna get
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Speaker 1: more minuts in Dort. I don't mind coming off the bench. Cruso,
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Speaker 1: I don't mind coming off the bench. A J. Minchell's
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Speaker 1: at this point looks like a guard that can literally
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Speaker 1: start in his league on many many teams. I don't
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Speaker 1: mind coming off the bench. Harrison Barnes. I mean, he
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Speaker 1: probably not a start in twenty twenty six, but he
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Speaker 1: was a starter for all of his career, and he's
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Speaker 1: just like, I'm cool playing twelve minutes if that means
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Speaker 1: we're gonna want ball game. So I just admire a
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Speaker 1: team that has that level of camaraderie where like you
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Speaker 1: can get your spot taken and it ain't no big
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Speaker 1: deal because it's all with the idea of winning a
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Speaker 1: basketball game. Shout out to those guys. Let me look
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Speaker 1: at Let me quickly look at my note, because I
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Speaker 1: feel like there's something else about OKAC before I switched
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Speaker 1: gears to talk about this game for the San Antonio
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Speaker 1: Spurs in this one, Oh yeah, it's just so funny
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Speaker 1: to see because this is what the Oklahoma City Thunder
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Speaker 1: have done in like every one of their series where
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be like a pretty solid to elite three
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Speaker 1: point shooter on the opposing team that OKAC is not
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Speaker 1: going to contest a ton and in the first quarter
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Speaker 1: that was Devinvasel. They were just okay with living with
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Speaker 1: Denvasil getting three point shots. Shaye was very patient in
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Speaker 1: his double teams and though he ended with I don't
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Speaker 1: know how many assists was a total nine, he had
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Speaker 1: a couple of hockey assists early on that caught my eye.
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Speaker 1: And the offensive rebound thing is Sae Hernstadt also became
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Speaker 1: very valuable by cleaning the offensive class or shout to him.
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Speaker 1: Same thing with jere McCain. But there are many possessions
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Speaker 1: in this series for Oklahoma City Thunder on the defensive
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Speaker 1: rebound aside that blow my mind. Wenby, of course is
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Speaker 1: gonna get offensive boards. But sometimes it's not Wenby that's
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Speaker 1: doing the two to three put It was Keldon Johnson.
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Speaker 1: One time was Keildon versus Chat and Chat is trying
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Speaker 1: to contest and get rebounds. He failed there and nobody
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Speaker 1: else on the floor that was on the floor, okayse
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Speaker 1: he decided to go down there and try to crash
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Speaker 1: the glass and it led to a Kelton Johnson layup,
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Speaker 1: and I think that Caruso's shoulders kind of dropped after that.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, bro, you four feet away and it
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Speaker 1: ain't like you guarded Steph Curry where you can't leave
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Speaker 1: him even on the shot at tep. Go down there,
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Speaker 1: go grab a ball to two. The offensive rebounds were
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Speaker 1: a big, big thing for both of the teams. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so going back to the original thing about Isaiah Hardenstein
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Speaker 1: Garden and chet Holm guarding genban Yama opposed to it
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Speaker 1: being a small In Game one, Victor Wimbanyama took eighteen
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Speaker 1: shot attempts at the basket, not including shots that led
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Speaker 1: to free throws. Eighteen. You want to guess how many
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Speaker 1: shots in the restricted area he got in Game two? Five?
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Speaker 1: He was four or five. That's the difference in this one.
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Speaker 1: And Winby was good tonight. He just wasn't extra terrestrial.
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Speaker 1: I guess defensively he kind of always gonna be that.
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Speaker 1: But offensively, again, he was good, but he wasn't that.
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Speaker 1: And I wonder what the next step is for MS Johnson,
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Speaker 1: because I think there was a time in the second
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Speaker 1: round series versus Minnesota. While I'm watching this one and
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Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, I wish the Spurs just drew
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Speaker 1: up more for Wimby. He's getting it in a Florida offense,
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Speaker 1: which is cool, that's what great players are able to do.
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Speaker 1: But man, would it be great if they just drew
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Speaker 1: up a player two for him to get it going.
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Speaker 1: And I don't feel like that happened a ton in
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Speaker 1: this game. I feel like they was just like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna push me away. He shot two three points
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Speaker 1: a game number one, if you want to remind her,
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Speaker 1: he's one of two. In this one, it got all
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Speaker 1: the way up to seven. I think part of that
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Speaker 1: is because they struggled with getting him the ball when
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Speaker 1: he's close to the back again, eighteen shot attempts at
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Speaker 1: the rim versus five in game two. That's that's a
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Speaker 1: big Durrassic change, and it could be I would say drastic,
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Speaker 1: as in like dinosaurs, dramatic change, And that could be
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Speaker 1: something again that Miss Johnson and the company have to
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Speaker 1: remedy for game number three, which is a very pivotal
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Speaker 1: game in this series. We already mentioned Dylan Harper going
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Speaker 1: down as injury hurts my heart because Dylan Harper is
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite players in the league. Every game
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Speaker 1: I'm watched and he gets higher and higher on that list.
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Speaker 1: Jordan mclachley got real minutes because of course they were
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Speaker 1: missing point guard play with Dan Fox and they needed
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Speaker 1: another initiator. And then eventually again Dylan Harper went down,
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Speaker 1: so we got even more minutes of Jordan mclachay. And
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Speaker 1: I've said this years ago with j Mac when he
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Speaker 1: was I forget what t was, so he might have
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Speaker 1: been on Minnesota at this time, so maybe that was
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Speaker 1: last year. His shooting release is so weird. Every time
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Speaker 1: it goes in. I'm just amazed at the fact that
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Speaker 1: he got first, he got the shot off being that small,
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Speaker 1: and that he got that much ark and it just
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Speaker 1: dips in every single time. Savan Castle is an absolute
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Speaker 1: Doglet let me open up this conversation by saying that
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Speaker 1: he's an absolute dog. Another one of my favorite players
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Speaker 1: in the league to watch. Defensively, I mean, he tried
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Speaker 1: to boom on shape that then he guys a heartside.
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Speaker 1: It was a poster so nasty that like, I'm watching
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Speaker 1: again in my room here and my mouth was left
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Speaker 1: a Gape. I'm not gonna show you what it was
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Speaker 1: like because them it's the Internet and it's the Internet's forever.
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Speaker 1: But I'm looking at the screen at all, at the
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Speaker 1: fact that he was able to make that happen. Same
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Speaker 1: thing when Shay dropped Carter Bryan. By the way, Carter
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Speaker 1: Brian had three stumbles and then the three sixty mouth
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Speaker 1: left a game anyway, So Fancast was a done downhill
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Speaker 1: pressure again elite. It's super important, super important to everything
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Speaker 1: the Spurs want to do on both sides of the floor.
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Speaker 1: But my goodness, eleven turnovers in game one and nine
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Speaker 1: in Game two. I made the tweet after stird turnover
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Speaker 1: this game, he's gonna set the record for most turnovers
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Speaker 1: in a single series, and I don't even know what
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Speaker 1: that number is. I didn't have the chance to go
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Speaker 1: on Basketball River stat. He had to figure it out
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Speaker 1: whatever the hell is called. But he's got twenty turnovers
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Speaker 1: through two games, and points off turnovers is the way
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City thrives. In this game, Oh, I can't look her.
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Speaker 1: I got look at my phone. Points off turnovers. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, I didn't even know what I was points
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Speaker 1: off turnovers for the Spurs was ten points to Okay
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Speaker 1: Sees twenty seven. That's one of the major differences in
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Speaker 1: this one. The extra possessions generated by Okac from turnovers
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Speaker 1: and the team had twenty one and he had nine
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Speaker 1: of them. Winby has four, Harrison Barnes has two. You
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Speaker 1: ain't playing off that two turnovers. Carter bian has too.
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Speaker 1: You ain't playing off that two turnovers. I don't even
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Speaker 1: remember those. But the turnovers, and that's why let's get
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Speaker 1: to this last conversation. That's why the injuries matter so much.
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Speaker 1: Dylan Harper right now again, like I mentioned, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: stefodcast is really important to everything this team wants to do.
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Speaker 1: But if Dearon Fox is here, Castle's usege rate is
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Speaker 1: not as high as as it been over the last
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Speaker 1: two games. And you don't get I mean, he still
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Speaker 1: had a lot of hello turnover games the regular seasons,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't end up being twenty turnovers across two games.
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Speaker 1: If Darren Fox is here, they haven't. That is the
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Speaker 1: one spot of the game where I feel like they've
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Speaker 1: missed Dearon Fox the most. The steady point guard play
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Speaker 1: outside of the twenty year old Dylan Harper, because the
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Speaker 1: Aaron does have some turnoff things, but it ain't nearly
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Speaker 1: as much as the Foncastle. So I'm hoping for the
15:18
Speaker 1: sake of the Spurs and for the sake of the
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Speaker 1: series that we do get some darn Fox sooner rather
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Speaker 1: than later, because I think it just moves to Foncastle
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Speaker 1: over to the role that they he plays the best,
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Speaker 1: which is off ball and attacking off off of a
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Speaker 1: cut instead of just straight up creation by himself. And
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Speaker 1: then on the other side of things, when Dub went
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Speaker 1: down initially and they said he wasn't on the bench
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Speaker 1: and they didn't know exactly what went on, I was like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, Okay, so she's gonna really lose this series.
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Speaker 1: Leading into this for the last month or two when
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Speaker 1: the biggest question mark for the entire playoffs was Jada,
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Speaker 1: and I said that they can win their first two
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Speaker 1: series without him, but once we get to the conference finals,
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Speaker 1: and it might be the Spurs or it might be Denver,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna need Jay Dub. And I think I still
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Speaker 1: feel that way. So if if this handy thing is
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Speaker 1: something that's gonna prevent him from playing in a Game three,
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Speaker 1: Game four and so on, that I think Okay, see
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Speaker 1: can truly be in trouble, especially during Harper's injury. Is
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Speaker 1: nothing that's gonna hold him out for Game number three,
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Speaker 1: him defensively and offense. I mean, he was just all
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Speaker 1: defensive last year. It was just all NBA last year.
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Speaker 1: So that is just such a big blow to a
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Speaker 1: series like this. And I was explaining to the guys
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Speaker 1: in the chat that in my mind, I mean, maybe
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Speaker 1: it's just makes sense because he's the better player at
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Speaker 1: this point in their careers. Okay, see without Jdubb is
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Speaker 1: in way more trouble than the Spurs without darn Fox.
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Speaker 1: Because you think about a Castle, you think about again Harper,
16:42
Speaker 1: even the castle would have turned off. But still Harper
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Speaker 1: and Castle that they can patch together good point guard.
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Speaker 1: You cannot really patch together the JDub experience on both
16:51
Speaker 1: sides of the floor. You can try to. You can
16:53
Speaker 1: hope that Caruso hits this many threes, You can hope
16:55
Speaker 1: that jere McCain could do that, but they don't have
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Speaker 1: that physical size to fenceively that can change a game.
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Speaker 1: So my fingers just crossed that everybody gets healthy, even
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Speaker 1: if it is unrealistic. Shout out to the MVP for
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Speaker 1: looking like an MVP. I cannot wait to see what
17:13
Speaker 1: happens next because I could see a world where dayton
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Speaker 1: All comes off of that Isaiah Hardenstein Guarden winby twenty
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Speaker 1: four to seven thing because he knows that the Spurs
17:22
Speaker 1: have two days to really prep And I think that's
17:23
Speaker 1: kind of what happened against with Shae in today's game,
17:26
Speaker 1: that the coverages that Shay saw a lot of them,
17:29
Speaker 1: that you saw a game of one just went away
17:30
Speaker 1: and they win a different direction because they didn't want
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Speaker 1: Shade to get a whole day of film to break
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Speaker 1: it down and be prepared for us. So we got
17:36
Speaker 1: to try something different. And that's what it's about. Keep
17:38
Speaker 1: trying change the thing, giving them different looks, and that's
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Speaker 1: basketball maybe, and that's basketball