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NBA Opening Night Was A Classic… · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: It feels so good to be back. Now that we're
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Speaker 1: here the regular season, you know that the late night
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Speaker 1: recaps are here to stay. We got an absolute classic
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Speaker 1: to start the season. We're OKC the defending Champions or
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Speaker 1: Rings Ceremony Night win by one point in a double
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Speaker 1: overtime game. And the second leg of the night, we
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Speaker 1: saw Steph Curry or I guess maybe Jimmy Butler or
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Speaker 1: maybe Johnathan Gaminia and the Golden State Warriors go out
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Speaker 1: to LA and get a big time win. Of course,
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Speaker 1: we got to start off with the game of the night,
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Speaker 1: the two overtime game. This really is like best case
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Speaker 1: scenario for Adam Syria. You gotta think about it. This
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Speaker 1: is a Ring Ceremony game between two teams that a
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Speaker 1: lot of people deemed to be contenders. Obviously, one of
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Speaker 1: those teams is missing an all INBA player, but two
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Speaker 1: teams that deemed to be contenders by a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: We got a new broadcast and right partner in NBC,
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Speaker 1: and the game was a classic. That's like the perfect
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Speaker 1: combination for Adam Silver And I might be slightly biased
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Speaker 1: when I say this. I thought the production was pretty good.
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Speaker 1: I thought the broadcast team did pretty good, but again
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Speaker 1: I might be just a little biased. Shout out to
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Speaker 1: my coworker Michael Jeffrey Jordan. All right, let's get into
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Speaker 1: this game though, because again it was an absolute classic.
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Speaker 1: Before we even started, we found out the start lineup
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Speaker 1: for the Houston Rockets, right, no FEV and league going
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Speaker 1: into this one or I guess for the entirety of
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Speaker 1: the season. And the question was will they start rechepherd
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Speaker 1: very early on where they try to, you know, put
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Speaker 1: other people in position, And what we saw with it
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Speaker 1: was Avin Thompson at six to seven. We got three
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Speaker 1: guys at six to eleven between Jabari, Kevin Durant, and
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Speaker 1: Shin gun Well. I guess no, No, I think Steven
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Speaker 1: Adams is also classified as six to eleven, so four
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Speaker 1: six elevens and a six to seven guy in the
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Speaker 1: starting lineup, the largest lineup in NBA history according to
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Speaker 1: the track and Data. And the question was will their
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Speaker 1: their scheme or their game plan of beating you up
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Speaker 1: and getting hella offensive rebounds be good enough to beat
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Speaker 1: the OKC thunder here because we all recognized that lineup
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Speaker 1: doesn't have a ton of spacing, right, it doesn't have
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Speaker 1: great half court offense upside other than like give Kevin
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Speaker 1: Durant the ball and move out the way. At least
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Speaker 1: that's what we thought going into this game, and you
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Speaker 1: felt it early on, right we In the first six
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Speaker 1: minutes of the game, they had three possessions that just
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Speaker 1: went straight down to the last second. Some of them
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Speaker 1: ended up being turnover because the shot clock, and some
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Speaker 1: of them just like hoisting up shots, and it just
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Speaker 1: it looked really really ugly for them very early on.
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Speaker 1: It looks so ugly that I'm in Thompson ended up
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Speaker 1: taking seven threes in this game, and at one point
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Speaker 1: he was one of three, and it took one of
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Speaker 1: them three points away because one thing that I'm and
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Speaker 1: Thompson does to do a good job at is keeping
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Speaker 1: his damn feet behind the line. So they took a
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Speaker 1: three point away and made it a two, and OKC
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Speaker 1: was living with all of it. They were living with
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Speaker 1: all of it. They wanted I'm and Thompson to take
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Speaker 1: that shot. And I gotta give him some credit there,
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Speaker 1: because I mean, you want to continue to shoot through.
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Speaker 1: I can't even call him a slump. He's just he's
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Speaker 1: never really been a good three point shoot or anything.
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Speaker 1: But you want to get to the point where you
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Speaker 1: feel comfortable with that shot, because teams are gonna guard
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Speaker 1: this team this way. This is not like a oh,
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Speaker 1: this is a playoff matchup, and they had a lot
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Speaker 1: of time to scheme. No, every team that you go
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Speaker 1: against this season, if you're the Houston Rockets are gonna
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Speaker 1: guard i'm in Thompson like that. You don't want him
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Speaker 1: to get a handfull of steam in the half court
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Speaker 1: or in the full court. If you sit in the corner,
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Speaker 1: We're just not gonna guard him. We gotta make sure
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Speaker 1: that he don't hit us on the back door or
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Speaker 1: creep down the baseline, But if he's gonna sit in
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Speaker 1: that corner, so be it, and we just gonna clog
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Speaker 1: up everything else. And that's when the Huther Rockets ended
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Speaker 1: up doing it. It was a lot of clock possessions,
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Speaker 1: and they still ended up being like the winner of
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Speaker 1: this game for the majority of it, right because their
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Speaker 1: defense was so good preventing Shae from really getting going
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Speaker 1: until we got to late into this game, and okay,
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Speaker 1: see desperately needed Shade to get going, and then obviously
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Speaker 1: saw when he got it going. They ended up winning
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Speaker 1: this game. But there's a few things that really stood
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Speaker 1: out to me from the Houston Rocket side, and start
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Speaker 1: off with the positives, which is Alprinching Goon was an
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Speaker 1: absolute mon So I've talked about it for the last
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks until we got to the season that
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Speaker 1: I am all in an out Prinson Goon. I know,
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Speaker 1: I'm probably late to the party whatever, but after watching
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Speaker 1: him play overseas for Turkey this season and thinking about
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Speaker 1: this team, and I just saw that there was another
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Speaker 1: jump to be had for Alprinching Goon, and in this
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Speaker 1: game ended up with thirty nine eleven and seven two
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Speaker 1: steals in a block he had five three points, a
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Speaker 1: career high there. And one thing that I really admired
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Speaker 1: about his game today is when those possessions got bobbed
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Speaker 1: down and they had three to five seconds to make
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Speaker 1: something happen, which again happened a ton. He was a
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Speaker 1: good bailout player for them, whether it be drawing fouls
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Speaker 1: and get into the foul line in those last couple
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Speaker 1: of seconds or just getting the ball with the nail
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Speaker 1: and doing turnaround shots and cashing ths in. They really
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Speaker 1: need that. So that's one of the positives of the game.
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Speaker 1: There's a few big negatives though again we're talking about
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Speaker 1: game one of the eighty two game seasons. Undoubtedly the
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Speaker 1: playoff team, so they got more games after that two
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Speaker 1: and it is a newly constructed roster, if you will,
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Speaker 1: So I don't want to overreact to say it, oh man,
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Speaker 1: the offense can never get good, but because it was
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Speaker 1: so bogged down, there are some of these possessions that
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Speaker 1: were watching. I'm praying that Kevin Durant Jesco gets the ball.
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Speaker 1: He is one of the greatest scorers of all time.
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Speaker 1: We all recognize that. One of the reason you're trading
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Speaker 1: him are for performances like tonight. Right, they were not
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Speaker 1: a good clutch offense last season, and you got one
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Speaker 1: of the clutches and one of the best offensive systems
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Speaker 1: in the league. Go get the ball, and it never
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Speaker 1: really found him. Fourth quarter, Kevin Urrant attempted one shot.
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Speaker 1: In the rest of these possessions, He's sitting in the corner,
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Speaker 1: sitting in the wing. Overtime comes around. First overtime, zero
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Speaker 1: shot attempts to Kevin Durant, and this second overtime comes around,
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Speaker 1: he is one of two and he got to the
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Speaker 1: foul line. So this is it was pretty infuriating as
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Speaker 1: a as a neutral fan that's seeing this good performance
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Speaker 1: from these two teams. See Kevin Durant spend basically the
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Speaker 1: last twenty minutes of his game being a non factor
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Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. He knows who
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Speaker 1: he is. They know who he is. Whether it be
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Speaker 1: him not being aggressive, of them not being able to
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Speaker 1: throw a goddamn entry pass to him when he's trying
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Speaker 1: to get it at the elbow, whatever it may be,
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Speaker 1: there's no excuse for Kevin Durant to spend twenty minutes
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Speaker 1: at the end of his game with not being a
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Speaker 1: factor on the offensive side of the ball. He so
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Speaker 1: fucking gavin a rent. And if we get to the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter and Shingle's already on the burn right and
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Speaker 1: going into the fourth quarter, I forget how many points
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Speaker 1: he had. I don't have it here in my notes.
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Speaker 1: Nine points plus eight points plus two points. So now
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Speaker 1: he had nineteen points going to the fourth quarter. And
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Speaker 1: then it got down to the nitty gritty the last
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Speaker 1: six or seven minutes. I did it like them. That's
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Speaker 1: like the fourth time I've done six to seven on accident. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: I'm almost thirty, and then a lot of the offense
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Speaker 1: possessions ended up being like I'm and Thompson trying to
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Speaker 1: create for himself on the perimeter. I feel like there
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Speaker 1: was almost I don't want to say no because I
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Speaker 1: have to rewatch. Of course, we're talking about my live
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Speaker 1: reactions and my notes and everything, but it felt like
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Speaker 1: there was not a ton of actual plays being called
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Speaker 1: and not a ton of structure. We saw some stagger
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Speaker 1: screens for a Reed Shepherd, we saw some stagger screens
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Speaker 1: for like Kevin Durant coming off in curling a little bit,
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Speaker 1: but for the most part, I didn't feel like there
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Speaker 1: was a lot of organized ball. Well on Oka See
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Speaker 1: it was also not a ton of it, but because
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Speaker 1: of the way Houston was defending them, they ended up
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Speaker 1: generating a ton of just wide open threes, just off
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Speaker 1: a couple extra passes and things like that, and though
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Speaker 1: they did not shoot the ball well, I felt like
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Speaker 1: I walk away from this looking like Oka See Thunder
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Speaker 1: had a better offense. Right, So I'm in Tom's at
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Speaker 1: the top of the key, trying to create himself. Obviously
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Speaker 1: has the injury. I think it's like it's hammy or something.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully it's nothing too crazy. Maybe it's just a cramp
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Speaker 1: given that these guys have not played real basketball for
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Speaker 1: months and then the first time they get to play,
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Speaker 1: it's a game that goes to extra quarters, right, So
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Speaker 1: maybe it's just straight up cramping. But if I'm in
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Speaker 1: Thomson has to come off the court now, you bring
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Speaker 1: in one of the other down sides of date number
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Speaker 1: one for the Houston Rockets reach Shepard. The spotlight is
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Speaker 1: really bright on read right now right him being a
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Speaker 1: good to really good ballplayer is maybe one of the
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Speaker 1: ways you could say, if they're a contender or not, right,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna need somebody with his skill set to be
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Speaker 1: a productive ballplayer. And it just was it wasn't a
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Speaker 1: good knight for him. I don't sell all of the stock, right,
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Speaker 1: but it just wasn't a good knight for him whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: When they started to run that zone when he was
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Speaker 1: at the top end, and Shade really got it going
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Speaker 1: by targeting his side of the zone and just going
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Speaker 1: straight at him the first come possession season the game. Defensively,
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Speaker 1: Lou Door does that baseline spin move, which is one
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Speaker 1: of the coolest moves you've ever seen. Lou Door do
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Speaker 1: and one of the other one, Shaye gives Alexander on
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Speaker 1: the left wing, does like a behind the back move
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Speaker 1: they had reached. Shepperd was stumbling a little bit. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they ended up in the basket, but it
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Speaker 1: felt as though whenever he was on the court, it
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Speaker 1: made it was a priority for the OKC thunder to
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Speaker 1: look at him and say we're going at that, especially
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Speaker 1: if it was him and know and Thompson or him
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Speaker 1: Know tarre Easton, a guys that could come off the
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Speaker 1: help side and just really muck some things up without them,
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Speaker 1: and it's just read. It felt like it was eat
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Speaker 1: session for a shade. It was felt like it was
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Speaker 1: even Casey Wild. This got in on the action. So
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Speaker 1: there is a lot of growing to be done. And
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Speaker 1: obviously you don't sell a stock or anything. He is
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Speaker 1: such a young ball player, but this is one of
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Speaker 1: those teams that he's looking to compete. They talked about
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Speaker 1: it going into the season and it might be a
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Speaker 1: blessing to the Skies that frev Avliet is down. It's like,
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Speaker 1: I guess you could convince yourself with that. But also
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Speaker 1: Kevin Ryan is thirty seven years old and as miss
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Speaker 1: games over the last three years. This can't be a
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Speaker 1: gap year. You still have to try to compete as
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Speaker 1: much as you can, and Ree Shepherd is one of
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Speaker 1: the ways you can do that. Also, didn't like this
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Speaker 1: Tarre Easton game. I think it went under the radar
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Speaker 1: because Ree Shepherd was so bad in this one. But
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Speaker 1: there are so many times wheen Tarry east was just
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Speaker 1: pushed off his spot when he was dribbling, some of
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Speaker 1: them into the turnover, some of them in his shot
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Speaker 1: cluck violations. And then Tarry Easton one of the best
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Speaker 1: things about him is he's great at anticipating defensive offensive actions.
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Speaker 1: Was like jumpings and lanes, creating havoc that way. There
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Speaker 1: are a few times today where an OKC thunder player
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Speaker 1: just did a pass fake and Tari went flying and
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Speaker 1: it led to a five on four situation and it
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Speaker 1: got so bad that like he basically didn't play a
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Speaker 1: ton in the second half. I guess do you call
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Speaker 1: it two second halves if you played two overtimes. He
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Speaker 1: didn't play a single minute in overtime, only two minutes
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, So the last twenty or so
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Speaker 1: minutes not a ton of time for Tari Easton and
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Speaker 1: it's just not a good start overall again eighty two
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Speaker 1: game season. It would overact too much. But if there's
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Speaker 1: any silver line in to any of this, ol Freston
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Speaker 1: Go was an absolute monster on one of the best
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Speaker 1: defensive teams in all of basketball on all three levels,
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Speaker 1: literally on all three levels. So he was great, and
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Speaker 1: I don't think his defense was that bad tonight either.
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Speaker 1: Now let's get to the winning team, the OKC thunder
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Speaker 1: a game again. They just desperately need to say to
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Speaker 1: figure it out individually he did. I did not check
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Speaker 1: Twitter at all when we got to the overtime games.
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Speaker 1: I can imagine what they were seeing once we got
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Speaker 1: to the second overtime and Shaye ends up taking eight
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Speaker 1: free throws. But it's somebody that because we had halftime
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Speaker 1: in that Lakers Warriors game, watched all of those fouls,
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Speaker 1: good calls by the referees, like, I don't think he
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Speaker 1: can argue any one of them. And then the last
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Speaker 1: one that won this game is undoubtedly ifoul. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant will probably admit to that himself, where he
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Speaker 1: bent on a pump fake one of the Shay gives
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Speaker 1: Aaenda specials chet Holmer came out guns blazing where it's
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Speaker 1: like I think he started seven for seven from the field,
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Speaker 1: which is just great because he is one of the
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Speaker 1: keys that unlocks this team from not just being a
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Speaker 1: championship team like they were, but being a team that
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Speaker 1: can win multiple championships that could turn into a dynasty.
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Speaker 1: If he can reach that offensive ceiling that the majority
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Speaker 1: of us look at him and say, oh, you can
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Speaker 1: do that, then it's I don't know, it's really up,
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Speaker 1: you know. And today he ended up with twenty eight
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Speaker 1: seven and two and one of those overtime periods, he
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Speaker 1: was just straight up phenomenal. It really reminded me of
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Speaker 1: that one fourth quarter he had in the NBA Finals
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Speaker 1: where on both sides of the floor, making a big
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Speaker 1: defensive play and then also hitting some big time shots.
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Speaker 1: Some of the shots he hit coming across the paint
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Speaker 1: leaning was very Kevin Durant esque when he was being
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Speaker 1: guarded by Kevin Durant. I thought that was really cool.
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Speaker 1: Kason Walls because he used to be one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite players in all the basketball one of those rare,
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Speaker 1: bad decision making guys that jumped these passing lanes. He
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Speaker 1: also had a boom in his game. AJ Mitchell had
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Speaker 1: a phenomenal second quarter that didn't see the floor for
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Speaker 1: the third quarter but also made some plays and then
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Speaker 1: the fourth. Uh, it was just overall just a game
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Speaker 1: that started out really bad and you feel really good
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Speaker 1: about this wing win because ring ceremony night could be
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Speaker 1: like one of those ones, and you maybe not focus
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Speaker 1: too much on the game because it's such a big moment.
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Speaker 1: The banner was going up, you're getting your rings and
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, forget there's there's a basketball game, right So
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Speaker 1: it could go a lot of different directions. But think
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Speaker 1: about it this way, of your OKC fan. Your team
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Speaker 1: shot twenty five from three, you lost the free throw battle,
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Speaker 1: you gave up a ton of offensive offensive rebounds, you
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Speaker 1: were missing an All NBA player, and you still beat
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Speaker 1: another contender. That's just special stuff. Me and the guys
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Speaker 1: said a bat about whether or not Barnhauser was gonna play.
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Speaker 1: The man checked into the first quarter, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: damn Uzman Jang's time is up. It's game one. But
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Speaker 1: if Uzman Jang is losing minutes to the rookie Barnhauser
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Speaker 1: and then Chris young Blood played like a thirty six.
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Speaker 1: I think he played six seconds six seconds in the
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Speaker 1: first quarter. Overall, great game, an amazing start to the
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Speaker 1: NBA season. Officiating is probably gonna be a question. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: you got the end of the first first overtime with
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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant almost pulled a Chris Webber, but nobody saw
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Speaker 1: it other than everybody. Nobody saw it. But other than everybody,
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Speaker 1: the referees didn't see it. Book no timeouts and then obviously, okay,
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Speaker 1: she still goes on to win whatever, But great, great, great,
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Speaker 1: overall game. I feel like I'm for forgetting some stuff. Okay,
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Speaker 1: see switched their unit in the second half, something they
12:32
Speaker 1: did a ton of the postseason as well, where they
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Speaker 1: would start with double bigs to start the game. But
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Speaker 1: we get to the third quarter they run out alx
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Speaker 1: Carusso instead of Isaiah Hartenstein. I was actually surprised by
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Speaker 1: how many minutes we got to see where it was.
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Speaker 1: Only it was minutes when no iHeart or no chet
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Speaker 1: and it was Jay will I was surprised by that
12:48
Speaker 1: eventually had to happen because of foul trouble and everything,
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Speaker 1: but considering they were going against a team that felt
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Speaker 1: like exclusively is running double big between Shingoon Adams and Clincapella.
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Speaker 1: I was surprised see lineups with just Jay will and
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Speaker 1: I would have to go back and rewatch and see
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Speaker 1: how those lineup really performed. But overall phenomenal ball game. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's switch over to the second game of the night.
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Speaker 1: This one. I think majority of us didn't get into
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Speaker 1: it until it was eight minutes left in the second
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Speaker 1: quarter because we was all really onto that. Okay, see game.
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Speaker 1: I had on a different monitor, but I couldn't. I
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Speaker 1: can't say too much about the first quarter and a
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Speaker 1: half of this game, right, so let me let me
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Speaker 1: just jump in where I could. I saw before the
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Speaker 1: game that they were announcing that john Tha Comingo would start,
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Speaker 1: and I was just I was surprised. And then you
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Speaker 1: get to watching the game, you kind of understand it
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Speaker 1: that they could use somebody with just a little bit
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Speaker 1: of youth and a little bit of umph to his
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Speaker 1: ball play, and I would I walked away really impressed
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Speaker 1: with my boy Kaminga. Now I texted my producer Greg
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Speaker 1: on small Ball Kenny Beacham, who's a big words fan.
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Speaker 1: I say, Minga looks good. He said, he does. But
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Speaker 1: it's just one game. And yes, if you've been watching Cominga,
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Speaker 1: you'll have moments and stretches like this where he's doing
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Speaker 1: everything you want him to do and then boom, he
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Speaker 1: flipped his switch. Like, actually, I do want to io
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the time. I do want to
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Speaker 1: miss his rotation. I do. I don't think about passing.
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Speaker 1: But I thought he was pretty good defensively all things considered.
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Speaker 1: He was guarding Luca, who ended up with like, damn it, fifty.
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Speaker 1: It felt like I thought he was great on his
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Speaker 1: weak side rotations. I thought some of his playmaking when
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Speaker 1: he did get two feet into the paint was pretty good.
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Speaker 1: I thought he rebounded well. I was like, oh, Kamingo
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Speaker 1: real ball playing, huh, because you look at it and like,
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Speaker 1: at least last season you couldn't play John Kaminga alongside
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Speaker 1: Draymond Green and Jimmy Baler. There just wasn't enough spacing.
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Speaker 1: But if Kamena's gonna come out and hit four three pointers,
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Speaker 1: then that spacing is there, right. I Mean, it's probably
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Speaker 1: unrealistic to expect him to do this on the regular,
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Speaker 1: but I've seen his TikTok. The man been in the gym.
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Speaker 1: He's been in the gym. This is a really good
14:34
Speaker 1: win for the Golden State Warriors, man, because they had
14:37
Speaker 1: their foot of the gas the entire time. I know
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Speaker 1: that the Lakers one of their good little run at
14:41
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, which just feels like the Lakers are
14:43
Speaker 1: prone to, like having a four minute stretch where the
14:45
Speaker 1: defense finally looks decent and they you know, it was
14:47
Speaker 1: one possession where Steph Curry's on their left wing and
14:49
Speaker 1: he's trying to isol Luca and Lucason in that chair.
14:52
Speaker 1: They're prone to do that. But for the rest of
14:54
Speaker 1: the game, Oh my goodness, Jimmy Butler was phenomenal in
14:57
Speaker 1: this one. I love jim in the system because this
15:01
Speaker 1: is a team that throughout the entirety of the Steph
15:04
Speaker 1: Curry era, because they play so free flowing and they're
15:07
Speaker 1: trying to play a step ahead of their opposing team.
15:10
Speaker 1: They turn the ball over a ton. Jimmy Draymond and
15:14
Speaker 1: Curry and Pods and just all try to make these
15:17
Speaker 1: extra passes and so on. But Jimmy Butler is like,
15:21
Speaker 1: I won't call him a risk averse player, but he's
15:24
Speaker 1: just not a turnover prone player. He's one of those
15:26
Speaker 1: guys that, like when he has the ball, you expect
15:29
Speaker 1: a good possession to happen. And there were so many
15:31
Speaker 1: times where like the Lakers had to end up putting
15:34
Speaker 1: gave Vinson on him and he's like, I know we
15:36
Speaker 1: went to this championship together, but damn you two damn
15:38
Speaker 1: little So him getting sixteen from sixteen from the line
15:42
Speaker 1: and the hit him making plays. It's just something this
15:45
Speaker 1: team needs occasionally to just settle the hell down when
15:48
Speaker 1: they want to go on all stealiness all the time.
15:51
Speaker 1: So really enjoyed this game, but he healed with a
15:53
Speaker 1: great performance. It's like, Buddy's life is so good. If
15:56
Speaker 1: you think about it. His job is to come in
15:58
Speaker 1: and shoot three pointers, and I think too much about it,
16:00
Speaker 1: and he's one of the greatest three point shoot this's
16:02
Speaker 1: of all time. He's living his exact dream. So shout
16:05
Speaker 1: out to the Golden sag Wars for this. So and
16:06
Speaker 1: this is a really great win for the Lakers. Luca
16:10
Speaker 1: ends up with forty three, twelve and nine. Listen, this
16:16
Speaker 1: is day one of the seasons, so you don't want
16:17
Speaker 1: to overgat but if I'm being honest with you, I'm
16:21
Speaker 1: already tired of DeAndre eighting on the Lakers. Just one
16:25
Speaker 1: game man I watched preseason, didn't think too much about it,
16:28
Speaker 1: just one game. Man. I strongly dislike big man who
16:35
Speaker 1: don't hit on the screen, especially if they're not a
16:39
Speaker 1: like Gianni's don't hit on his screens. But he's so
16:42
Speaker 1: much of a force that as long as you get
16:44
Speaker 1: him the ball, it don't matter that he didn't hit
16:45
Speaker 1: on his screen. DeAndre Aiden won't hit on his screens.
16:48
Speaker 1: That he's setting high screens on Luca and then also
16:52
Speaker 1: stop twelve feet away from the basket instead of completing
16:54
Speaker 1: the role. There was a couple possession in this one,
16:56
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves trying to throw it up to him, but
16:58
Speaker 1: he stopped three steps too early, where he doesn't He's
17:01
Speaker 1: not even there for the lob. It's it's it's frustrating
17:06
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, because we watched DeAndre
17:08
Speaker 1: Aiden be really good. What was that three years ago?
17:10
Speaker 1: Four years ago? Where you know he's with the Phoenix
17:12
Speaker 1: Suns and he's always been more of a finesse big
17:15
Speaker 1: than a physical big. Who I understand that, but it
17:18
Speaker 1: feels like he just don't want any contact whatsoever. There
17:21
Speaker 1: should not be a seven footer that is that incorporated
17:24
Speaker 1: to the offense that gets to the foul line one time,
17:27
Speaker 1: it's really unacceptable. And because he is such a neess
17:31
Speaker 1: player and he's not a dirty work big, which Lucas
17:34
Speaker 1: like needs in a lot of cases, they find them
17:38
Speaker 1: theirselves just giving him post touches occasionally, and it's just
17:43
Speaker 1: not good Old. It's just not good over by Big.
17:45
Speaker 1: It's just not good over So it's it's it's about
17:48
Speaker 1: to be a long ride. If this is the way
17:50
Speaker 1: we're gonna get DeAndre Aiden for his eighty two game season. Man,
17:53
Speaker 1: I'm expecting it because they didn't play a ton together,
17:55
Speaker 1: Luca and DeAndre Aiden's that is. As long as they're
17:57
Speaker 1: getting a few reps here, it gets better. But guess
18:00
Speaker 1: what the team just lost to that is a playoff team.
18:02
Speaker 1: These other teams are ready to win ball games. You
18:04
Speaker 1: don't really have time to jail. You gotta find ways
18:07
Speaker 1: to win ball games. It also scares me that Luca
18:09
Speaker 1: had to play forty one minutes in this before it
18:11
Speaker 1: to be a competitive ball game, right if Austin Reeves
18:16
Speaker 1: or Luca Doncons didn't have the ball. It felt like
18:18
Speaker 1: me and the homie s hoooping. It's trashed. Only have
18:21
Speaker 1: two players that you trust to have the ball, and
18:24
Speaker 1: obviously Bron comes back in the changes, it becomes three,
18:26
Speaker 1: but it's not just three. It's Bron and Luca, so
18:29
Speaker 1: it's like a tier above that. But all the other
18:31
Speaker 1: dudes on the Ronster, if I'm the Warriors, I don't
18:34
Speaker 1: care if they're trying to create I literally don't care.
18:37
Speaker 1: Let's focus on trying to stop Luca. Let's focus on
18:40
Speaker 1: trying to stop Austin Reeves and let the chips fall
18:42
Speaker 1: what they may. And that's felt like what they were
18:44
Speaker 1: trying to do. Obviously, both those guys end up having
18:46
Speaker 1: really good individual performances because the other guys can't. You
18:49
Speaker 1: can't do much. Also, Luca phenomenal game, so frustrating to
18:56
Speaker 1: watch him when he's the guy that doesn't have the ball.
19:00
Speaker 1: How far out he's sitting, and he's sitting on the
19:03
Speaker 1: damn logo. It's like, I just want him to he
19:07
Speaker 1: don't have to move off the ball like he wore
19:10
Speaker 1: the el Stephen Curry. But I just wanted to be
19:13
Speaker 1: just get closer to the rim because it's not as
19:16
Speaker 1: though he's being face guarded out there, right, so it's
19:19
Speaker 1: not like you're now you're letting the other team play
19:21
Speaker 1: four on four necessarily. It's just something that has always
19:24
Speaker 1: been with Luca, and that's like as good of a
19:26
Speaker 1: player as he is, it always blows my mind. And
19:28
Speaker 1: I was hoping that in this game, you know, full
19:31
Speaker 1: offseason with JJ Reddick, that maybe they incorporated him a
19:34
Speaker 1: little bit more when he's off the ball again. Phenomenal game.
19:36
Speaker 1: I can't take that away from him. He was great.
19:38
Speaker 1: Some of the am once he hit this game was legendary,
19:41
Speaker 1: just just off that alone. But I do get frustrated
19:44
Speaker 1: with that. And then Jared Vanderbilt shot at three so
19:47
Speaker 1: damn bad that I ducked it. I felt like Al
19:49
Speaker 1: Horford I hit one of these. It was all air.
19:53
Speaker 1: I still absolutely love Golden State Warrior out of time outplay,
19:58
Speaker 1: even if they don't make the baskets. I can't wait
20:00
Speaker 1: to rewatch every one of them that they had. They're
20:02
Speaker 1: all just so beautiful, so many baseline Gary Payton possessions,
20:09
Speaker 1: and he also had a big man dunk in and
20:11
Speaker 1: so it was a great Warriors game, I gotta say.
20:13
Speaker 1: But it's just a few things that worry though Lakers
20:16
Speaker 1: that they gotta clean up. Luca was great, though, My goodness,
20:21
Speaker 1: does it feel weird to anybody else that Luca's on
20:23
Speaker 1: this tane? I don't know, he might be thirty two
20:25
Speaker 1: years old. I'm like, I can't believe Luca on this team.
20:28
Speaker 1: But I truly look at him like, damn, this dude
20:30
Speaker 1: really got traded, man, he really really really got traded. Anyway,
20:37
Speaker 1: I jhonathink A Mangarri mentioned, uh yeah, Seth Curry didn't
20:40
Speaker 1: have to do much tonight. Shoe came off like three times.
20:43
Speaker 1: By the way. I don't know what the new curzes is,
20:45
Speaker 1: but you gotta lace them up tighter or get back
20:47
Speaker 1: to the drawing board with him. But uh yeah, good
20:49
Speaker 1: good night. And then tomorrow we got three Oh my god, bro,
20:54
Speaker 1: do we have twelve games tomorrow? We have twelve games
20:57
Speaker 1: on tomorrow? How do we pick which ones to watch?
21:01
Speaker 1: Heat versus Magic? I'll probably watched because no Knicks versus calvs.
21:05
Speaker 1: This first game of the night, that's definitely one. You
21:06
Speaker 1: obviously got to watch the Bulls. If you're not crazy,
21:08
Speaker 1: you got to watch the Bulls. I don't know, a
21:10
Speaker 1: great night. I feel like there's more to be said,
21:12
Speaker 1: but I have to save it. Thank y'all so much
21:15
Speaker 1: for watching the NBA seasons here. I'm hyped. Bye,