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Knicks vs. Spurs NBA Finals Set; SGA Calls Season a Failure; McCaffery Needs Less Touches in San Fran · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: at the Daily Play Joy Taylor. So we have arrived.
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  Speaker 1: We have arrived at the NBA Finals. I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is the matchup we all kind of wanted,
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  Speaker 1: of course, unless you're a Oklahoma City Thunder fan. But
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  Speaker 1: the defending champions have fallen and the Spurs are the
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  Speaker 1: winners of the Western Conference. They went on the road
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  Speaker 1: and took down the defending champs in Oklahoma City in
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  Speaker 1: a very very tough environment one eleven, one h three,
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  Speaker 1: Game seven on Saturday night. Unbelievable watch obviously, Western Conference
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  Speaker 1: Finals MVP Wemby led the charge twenty two points, seven rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: Julian Champaney who had twenty points, including sixth clutch three pointers.
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  Speaker 2: Shay did everything he could.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he had a game high thirty five points
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  Speaker 1: and nine assists, didn't have Jayalen Williams and didn't get
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  Speaker 1: much help outside of that. Webby was understandably incredibly emotional
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  Speaker 1: after the game.
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  Speaker 2: He's very expressive.
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  Speaker 1: As a player anyway, but it's always refreshing to see
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  Speaker 1: a young player that emotional and that I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say that they don't care, you know, but to
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  Speaker 1: be able to express yourself in that way, which he's
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  Speaker 1: been very very clear he's not going to hold back
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  Speaker 1: his emotions. He was trying to process the moment. He said,
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  Speaker 1: this feeling, I can't explain it.
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  Speaker 2: It's so powerful.
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  Speaker 1: We knew what we were up against with the champions
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  Speaker 1: in their building, but the players did what they've been
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  Speaker 1: doing all year and they met the biggest moment. So
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  Speaker 1: we've stayed together when they made their runs. Now we
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to play for the whole thing. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, SGA was great tonight twelve was twenty one
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  Speaker 1: or great in game seven thirty five points twelve to
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  Speaker 1: twenty one shooting, but Chet did not contribute four points
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  Speaker 1: four rebounds.
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  Speaker 2: That's not going to get it done in a game seven.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, the real story outside of Wemby and
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  Speaker 1: Shay doing with stars is San Antonio's rebuilt backcourt. The
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Fox contributed with five assists, Dylan Harper twelve points,
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  Speaker 1: lots of energy off the bench, and the Thunder had
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  Speaker 1: not lost back to back playoff games in two years.
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  Speaker 1: So it is really impressive what the Spurs were able
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  Speaker 1: to do. Like I said, Champanee twenty points defonn Castle
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  Speaker 1: at sixteen points.
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  Speaker 2: It was. It was really a.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say a dominant performance by performance
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  Speaker 1: by the Spurs, but they really held it together and
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  Speaker 1: showed their maturity in this game. So now you have
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  Speaker 1: a NBA Finals number three, number three matchup. The Knicks
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  Speaker 1: did finish the season with a regular season with a
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  Speaker 1: better record than the Spurs fifty three and twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: Spurs fifty to thirty two. So the road to Silary
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  Speaker 1: O'Brian runs through Manhattan. Game one is Thursday night at
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, which is going to be an unbelievable environment.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what I feel like the fans wanted
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  Speaker 1: and certainly what I wanted.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's what the NBA wanted.
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  Speaker 1: The Thunder had kind of become villains towards the end
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  Speaker 1: of that series for a variety of reasons, and that's
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  Speaker 1: how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: You get to the top and then everybody turns on you.
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  Speaker 1: But I really enjoyed watching the maturity of the Spurs
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  Speaker 1: throughout the postseason and I'm really looking forward to what
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  Speaker 1: will certainly be a physical matchup between the Knicks and
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs.
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  Speaker 2: The Knicks have.
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  Speaker 1: Had quite a few days off, so I would expect
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  Speaker 1: them to be a little rusty in Game one, but
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  Speaker 1: they are going to come.
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  Speaker 2: Out with a lot of energy. So let's talk a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about Shay.
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  Speaker 1: After being eliminated by the Spurs in Game seven, he
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  Speaker 1: did not sugarcoat how he feels about the end of
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  Speaker 1: their season.
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  Speaker 2: They did have a lot of injuries and he had
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  Speaker 2: to put the team on his back.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty five point performance in Game seven, two time league MVP,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not interested in moral victories. When he was
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  Speaker 1: asked about what it means to fall short of going
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  Speaker 1: back to the finals, he said it was a failure.
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  Speaker 2: I failed at my goal. I didn't achieve what I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to achieve.
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  Speaker 1: But through those experiences, I learned the most about myself
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  Speaker 1: and make the greatest amount of increases in my career.
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  Speaker 2: When I fail and.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get it when I want, I look at this
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  Speaker 1: as no difference. I didn't get where I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go this season. There's a reason for that. Now I
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  Speaker 1: have to look at that reason and try and make
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  Speaker 1: sure it never happens again in Thunder for the one
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  Speaker 1: seed defending champions back to back the MVP in SGA, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is a failure.
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  Speaker 2: If you have checked all.
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  Speaker 1: Those boxes and you don't get back to the NBA Finals,
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  Speaker 1: it's a failure.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a zero sum game when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: these things, and when you are what could potentially be
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  Speaker 1: a dynasty run. If they get back to the finals
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  Speaker 1: again next year, which I have no reason to believe
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  Speaker 1: that they won't be competing for a championship again next year,
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  Speaker 1: then this won't be looked at as a failure. But
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  Speaker 1: for the current state, yeah it is. They were expected
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  Speaker 1: to go back and defend themselves. They are not in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals so that they can't and I know
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  Speaker 1: they were dealing with injuries, but the expectations are what
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  Speaker 1: they are. He dropped a forty percent shooting in the
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  Speaker 1: series because of Wemby, and he didn't make any excuses
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  Speaker 1: for it, didn't make any excuses for the injuries, didn't
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  Speaker 1: make any excuses for Chat disappearing. He said, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: perform my greatest either, and the Spurs defense really showed up.
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  Speaker 2: He had a huge efficiency dip.
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  Speaker 1: He averaged thirty one points per game on fifty five
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  Speaker 1: percent shooting during the regular season against San Antonio fell
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  Speaker 1: to twenty five point nine percent, twenty five point nine
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  Speaker 1: points per game and forty point nine percent shooting.
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  Speaker 2: That is the effect of Wemby.
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  Speaker 1: And what the Spurs were able to do defensively against them,
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  Speaker 1: I think paired with the fact that it kind of
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  Speaker 1: fell on him and they were dealing with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of injuries. So all in all, back to back MVP
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  Speaker 1: season for as the number one seed, all of those
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  Speaker 1: things are incredible accomplishments. But with those accomplishments come expectations,
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  Speaker 1: and the expectations were that they were going to go
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  Speaker 1: back to the finals and play for another championship, and
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  Speaker 1: now they're going home. So I'm okay with him saying
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  Speaker 1: it's a failure because I'm sure he does consider it
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  Speaker 1: to be a failure, and as a champion and somebody
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  Speaker 1: that is at the top of the league, the expectations
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be anything less than a championship.
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  Speaker 2: So let'salk a little NFL.
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  Speaker 1: The Niners are facing a very interesting hurdle this season
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  Speaker 1: because they have to balance the workload of Christian McCaffrey.
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  Speaker 1: He led the NFL with four hundred and thirteen touches
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  Speaker 1: last year. Now, Shanahan has stated that the team needs
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  Speaker 1: to find him more breathers. But after OTA's McCaffrey did
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  Speaker 1: not like the idea of being a bubble wrapped on
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  Speaker 1: gain days. He compared himself to an elite NBA shooter
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  Speaker 1: who can't be put on a limit. Their rookie has
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  Speaker 1: already been signed, sidelined till the end camp with a
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  Speaker 1: torn pectoral muscle, Isaac Garendo, and that puts a lot
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  Speaker 1: more pressure on CMC and he said that Sunday's a
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  Speaker 1: non negotiable. I think the workload in our sport is
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  Speaker 1: really monitoring and practice, not in games. We played seventeen
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  Speaker 1: regular season games a year and everyone's livelihoods on the line.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldtend Sunday, You've got to do whatever it takes
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  Speaker 1: to win. And that's not a coach's job. You don't
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  Speaker 1: tell a three point shooter you only gets six three today.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to gameplays, I think you prepare yourself
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  Speaker 1: for playing every snap.
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  Speaker 2: I like this comparison in theory, but.
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  Speaker 1: A three point shooter is not getting hit, then it's
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  Speaker 1: not playing the running back position. So in the past
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  Speaker 1: one of years, only eight players have eclipsed four hundred
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  Speaker 1: touches in a season, and the drop off the next
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  Speaker 1: year is historically brutal. And we already know that injuries
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  Speaker 1: have been a part of Christian McCaffrey's career and his
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  Speaker 1: efficiency dried up late. He averaged a career low three
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  Speaker 1: point nine yards per carey as a nine er, and
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  Speaker 1: they posted their fewest explosive runs since Shanahan got there
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  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. So the idea of him putting another
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  Speaker 1: season like he just did up and it leading to
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  Speaker 1: success for him or for the Niners is unrealistic. This
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  Speaker 1: is the third time in his career he is trying
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  Speaker 1: to follow up a season with two thousand plus scrimmage yards.
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  Speaker 1: In the previous two and twenty twenty and twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four injuries which led to a combined seven games played
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  Speaker 1: in those seasons.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't like this. They're already dealing with injuries
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  Speaker 2: with their.
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  Speaker 1: With what was supposed to be the guy to take
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  Speaker 1: some of this off of his plate, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be relying on rookies.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine they will try and make.
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  Speaker 1: A move early to bring someone else into help with
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  Speaker 1: this situation. But yeah, a, it's not realistic to ask
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  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey to do this, and as we know, he
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  Speaker 1: is such a huge part of what makes them successful.
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  Speaker 1: So the whole thing does make me a little nervous.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to text players from themselves. The math
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  Speaker 1: is a math on this one though, So they're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to try and find someone to help him
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  Speaker 1: out with the workload, because shooting threes and running the
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  Speaker 1: ball in the NFL are not the same thing.
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