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Living in Loserville: Preview & Pick Minnesota Timberwolves vs. OKC Thunder! Keys To The Series? · The Rope A Dope Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Minnesota basketball fans. Welcome back to the Living and Loserville Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Chris Carlson. We are live on
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday night, and now we officially know who the
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  Speaker 1: Timberwolves are playing, and that of course is Oklahoma City,
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  Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder. They are the favorites. I saw
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  Speaker 1: a tweet now just saying that sentence, can you know,
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  Speaker 1: be a bad thing as far as lies and misinformation. However,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if this is true. It said that, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it was just the Western Conference Final that
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  Speaker 1: they have like the the biggest it's like the largest
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  Speaker 1: gap when it comes to odds ever over the Timberwolves.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I'm a Timberwolves fan. I try to
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  Speaker 1: be somewhat non biased as a fan and kind of
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  Speaker 1: a part time media member, but that kind of blows
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  Speaker 1: me away. I think that's Vegas is Vegas, don't get
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  Speaker 1: me wrong, but it kind of feels a little disrespectful
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  Speaker 1: considering they just got of it out of a seven
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  Speaker 1: game series. But I'll have to do a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more research on that if that is in fact a
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  Speaker 1: true statement. I knew they were the clean favorite, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Even I think it was when that series was three
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  Speaker 1: to two, the thunder her up and so I knew
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  Speaker 1: because they kind of had the odds for Denver and
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City going against Minnesota once Minnesota advanced last Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: and it was about a fifty to fifty even you know, odds.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're just a slight favorite. Both of them
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  Speaker 1: are minus nobody had a plus number, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I guess on on the same side, Minnesota fans this
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  Speaker 1: year and coming off of last year's playoffs would be like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: that's bullshit. We should be a larger favorite. So and
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  Speaker 1: it has been what six straight against them or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, so that obviously plays into it. But in
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  Speaker 1: the same breath, I like that we're underdogs because think
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  Speaker 1: about it, our team, in our best player ant, we've
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  Speaker 1: won six in a row. We won what three out
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  Speaker 1: of four in Denver to win that series, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we've won six in a row. Now against Denver, you
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  Speaker 1: know that would probably have our result in having our
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  Speaker 1: guard down, especially game one like we just did if
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  Speaker 1: you remember correctly, in game one in this series. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what I think about that. I understand,
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  Speaker 1: like analytically, point differential and all this stuff. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not trying to act like point differential doesn't mean anything.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, okay, SE is like on paper the
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  Speaker 1: best regular season team almost you know it's up there.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it's not. But the way people talk about it
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  Speaker 1: mostly analytically though, and like I said, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times the eye tests. You can look up the stats
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  Speaker 1: and go, oh, yeah, that's about right right. Sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 1: things surprise you or whatever. But I like it. I
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  Speaker 1: love that we start on the road. I love that
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  Speaker 1: worthy underdog because it suits us best. It just does,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it just does. So we will kind of
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  Speaker 1: when I say we, it's just me today, but we're
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  Speaker 1: we are going to get this through together, right, We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk it through, even though it's a one
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  Speaker 1: sided conversation with myself. We're gonna talk through a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of the Laker stuff, I know, or the Golden
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  Speaker 1: this it's been so long I forgot who the hell
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  Speaker 1: we played the Golden State kind of how the last
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  Speaker 1: few games, and just talk a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 1: Life got in the way last Sunday. I did mean
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  Speaker 1: to do a show, but I had to work much
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  Speaker 1: later than expected, and I was just the way this
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  Speaker 1: series was going. It was like, all right, we're up
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  Speaker 1: three to one. Why do a show and then have
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  Speaker 1: to turn right around or even do it at this
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  Speaker 1: last Thursday? Okay, great wrap up Golden State and then
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  Speaker 1: you know, two days later to a show. So I figure,
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  Speaker 1: why not just get a fresh start. So obviously Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: and everybody, you know, I'm a night out, but everybody's
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  Speaker 1: pretty happy about you know, the seven thirty starts. I
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  Speaker 1: think there's even a seven start if I remember correctly. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so we're going to talk a little bit about the
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  Speaker 1: Golden State series, you know, and clearly that would have
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  Speaker 1: been a much more difficult series with Steph. I'm not saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you lose the series, per se. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: just base it off that game one because that Game
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  Speaker 1: one was kind of like the Timberwolves. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: came out lacking, they came out without urgency, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that'll be the case in this series. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll kind of talk about how we got here with
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  Speaker 1: the five game stuff and in some of the keys
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  Speaker 1: to it, and I'll and I'll do a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of my notes from the games, trying not to bore
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  Speaker 1: you too much with that and then preview and predict,
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  Speaker 1: not just preview, but this podcast predicts. And yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a shot out there the series,
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  Speaker 1: on the bat back too much, right, And you could
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  Speaker 1: kind of tell maybe it was because they've kind of
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  Speaker 1: been there, done that a little bit and then kind
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  Speaker 1: of not got smoked. They didn't get smoked in the
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  Speaker 1: even though it was only five games against Dallas, the
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  Speaker 1: first three games they get, they didn't get smoked. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they just didn't execute offensively. Obviously. We know Kat struggled
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  Speaker 1: from three in that in that series. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 1: because Curry you know, left that game one. But they
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  Speaker 1: were they were happy, but they weren't freaking out. They
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  Speaker 1: weren't popping champagne, not like you do that. What is
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  Speaker 1: the only sport you do that? Each round is baseball, right,
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  Speaker 1: which I always I know it's a long season, but
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  Speaker 1: that always rubbed me the wrong way, and let you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I liked it. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: they did seem more business like. After that Game one,
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  Speaker 1: they knew Kurry was out. Obviously you didn't know if
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to come back. Game six, it
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  Speaker 1: was likely not the case, but you had an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: there that these next four games, you know, you got
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  Speaker 1: to handle business, whether it's ugly, whether it's pretty, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's a mix of it. And it kind of was
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  Speaker 1: you have to take care of business. You just you
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  Speaker 1: just do, and they did. They did, so that is
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  Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. So I do. I
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  Speaker 1: do think the experience kind of that hunger, kind of
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  Speaker 1: that focus. It sounds you know from Finch anyway, it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like in the practices they've been very business like.
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  Speaker 1: I think the whole thing last year really helps us
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  Speaker 1: as far as experience. Now OKC has experience and they
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  Speaker 1: got to the second round lost a Dallas last year.
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  Speaker 1: They just got done facing a former shamp a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago right from Denver. Not the same squad
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  Speaker 1: as they had that year, but still a very fierce
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  Speaker 1: competitive team. It went seven games, so they're probably getting
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  Speaker 1: something out of that too. But either way, it's not
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  Speaker 1: like we kind of blew our load. Let's put it
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  Speaker 1: that way, because we know that seven game series the
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  Speaker 1: way it played out, to be down three to two
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  Speaker 1: after being up to oh on the road and to
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  Speaker 1: dramatically have a comeback, you know, in that seventh game,
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  Speaker 1: it took a lot onto us and and we had
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  Speaker 1: to go right into it, right into that next series.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what OKAC has to do. Now. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't necessarily we get a little sip of water. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't necessarily it wasn't that, it wasn't that you know,
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  Speaker 1: where they did this dramatic comeback or whatever. But I
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  Speaker 1: still had to go seven. And they're a young team
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  Speaker 1: for the most part. But it can be mentally and
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  Speaker 1: physically right not to get that extra day or two.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, it's every other day from here
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  Speaker 1: on out in this series. Obviously, knock on wood, if
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  Speaker 1: you make the finals, you get gaps in there. But
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  Speaker 1: and just in case it goes Sunday, June first game seven,
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  Speaker 1: there would be three days off because it would start
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  Speaker 1: the fifth, Thursday. Is that the fourth or the fifth? First? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, it'd be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday off. So it's
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  Speaker 1: the fifth. So even if we went seven, we'd at
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  Speaker 1: least get some time off. But that's neither here or there.
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  Speaker 1: Here I am getting ahead of it. I'd say, I
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  Speaker 1: just obviously we're in a better spot. We know, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't beat a top level team, per se. Now, that
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  Speaker 1: team in Golden State played really great defense, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that was a very good experience. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: once you lose Curry, it's you know, it's tough to
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  Speaker 1: duplicate that. Now, Kaminga was acting like he was putting
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  Speaker 1: up Curry numbers at times, maybe not three, but just
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  Speaker 1: in general then seemed like he couldn't miss a damn shot.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, the big flip in these last two
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  Speaker 1: series has been crunch time, right, putch the up up
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  Speaker 1: or down by five five minutes remaining what were we
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  Speaker 1: like twenty two and twenty six or some just horrible record.
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  Speaker 1: We were garbage in it. And we've turned that around,
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty damn impressive, and we needed to do that.
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  Speaker 1: In that Game three, you know, Green had picked up
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  Speaker 1: a fifth foul and it was a tight, tight game,
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  Speaker 1: and they had like somewhere in the fourth quarter they
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  Speaker 1: had like thirty bench points, and I mean they Golden State.
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  Speaker 1: But it was it was tight. It was very tight.
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  Speaker 1: With four fifty six left, it was eighty four or
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven, eighty four or something like that. It was
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  Speaker 1: a very tight game. And you know, Rudy was hitting
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  Speaker 1: his free throws. That's something that he kind of turned around.
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  Speaker 1: He had a bad stretch early in the season of
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  Speaker 1: it with his free throws, but then he did tighten
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  Speaker 1: up when it came to that. But yeah, eighty seven,
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  Speaker 1: eighty four, three fifty eight to go. Jaden hits a
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  Speaker 1: three very late in the shot clock. Rudy did get
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  Speaker 1: a charge to get his fifth fall, but Randall passed
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  Speaker 1: the Rudy for an N one dunk. Of course, you
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  Speaker 1: know healed came right back and it hit a three.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Randall drove, he had a nice drive.
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  Speaker 1: He also hit a three. He was up to a
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  Speaker 1: triple double at that point. Ant went off in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. In fact, he really started to Game three.
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  Speaker 1: In Game four, he went off in the second halfs
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  Speaker 1: whereas you know, not so good when it came to points. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: in the early going game four Nas had some foul issues.
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  Speaker 1: They were getting a ton of offensive rebounds. I think
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  Speaker 1: in the first half they had nine offensive rebounds, and
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  Speaker 1: and once again Tim Roves are having some some issues
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  Speaker 1: with his zone. It seemed like Randall showed up and
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  Speaker 1: started getting it go in the second I think he
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  Speaker 1: had fourteen and a half in that game. But it
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  Speaker 1: was it was a tight game. It was a very
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  Speaker 1: tight game for quite some time, and then it kind
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  Speaker 1: of like late third they blew it open a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and what nuts, you know, at the five thirty mark,
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  Speaker 1: he had fourteen points. In the fourth it was eighty
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  Speaker 1: to sixty eight. The rebounding and the defense in the
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  Speaker 1: second half from Jayden didn't he have Like he had
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  Speaker 1: like one or two I think it was one rebound
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  Speaker 1: in the first half, and then he ended up with
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of them and they were hitting their threes.
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  Speaker 1: Aunt did get in a little bit of foul problems.
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  Speaker 1: He actually picked up his fifth foul fairly early in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. But we had I think it was
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  Speaker 1: like a nineteen to two run something like that, and
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  Speaker 1: really blew open that that game for ninety seven to
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven. And of course we had early turnovers, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, Aunt picked up some foul, his fifth foul,
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  Speaker 1: but then so early turnovers. But then they controlled the
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  Speaker 1: court like it was like, all right, some turnovers, but
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  Speaker 1: we got it. But then the bench for Golden State
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  Speaker 1: made a run. And I gotta admit, like that that
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  Speaker 1: last few minutes, I never felt like they were gonna
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  Speaker 1: win it per se, but it was getting shaky. And
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  Speaker 1: for that to be one seventeen to one it did
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  Speaker 1: it is very misleading, let's put it that way. But
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  Speaker 1: they they got the job done. Alton, right, that was
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  Speaker 1: the big thing. The closed out game Punky with turnovers.
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  Speaker 1: Randall was like, hey, I got it. I'll turn it
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  Speaker 1: over early and even know and then he tightened up
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  Speaker 1: and then Aunt and I would say, Nas, those two
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter were just like turn the ball over,
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  Speaker 1: especially Nas just throwing silly stuff. But I think although
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  Speaker 1: he had twelve assists, not trying to take away anything
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  Speaker 1: from from Ant there, but I believe let me double check, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: seven turnovers, So that's still a lot of turnovers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're asking me so, which you are asking me,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm just saying it, I guess, but anyway, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Rudy was definitely active early again another closeout game where
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  Speaker 1: he was very active and you could tell Amazon his
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  Speaker 1: assist game, and Dante was hitting threes and we had
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  Speaker 1: a thirty to twenty three lead at half or at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the quarter. First quarter, Dante had like
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  Speaker 1: a nasty two handed dunk and it was thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: to twenty nine very early in the second, and then
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  Speaker 1: some sloppy play, you know, some sloppy play came into it.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of back and forth though, because Rudy, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: he was five of five ten points, Randall had fifteen
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  Speaker 1: points on six and nine shooting. They closed like with
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  Speaker 1: a seventeen to five run or something, so they were
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  Speaker 1: up sixty two to forty seven. Randall had a nice
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  Speaker 1: end one to close. Conley was going crazy. He had
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  Speaker 1: eight points three or four. Then he hit another three,
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  Speaker 1: forcing Golden State to you know, take a time out.
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  Speaker 1: So it felt really good at half, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the thing, I almost almost started talking shit.
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  Speaker 1: So twenty assist in the first half. The ball was moving,
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  Speaker 1: and when the ball moves, obviously we know good things
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  Speaker 1: to happen, and especially for Ant, but both and in Random.
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  Speaker 1: But when the ball moves early, it can come back
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  Speaker 1: to Ant or Random, but especially Ant, and he can
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  Speaker 1: get more catching shoots and he get just it's just better.
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  Speaker 1: It's just better overall. As we know now, if you're
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: on a heater, that's different, right, But sometimes Ant we'll
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: just heat check, just the heat check, and it's like, hey, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: you're oh of eight from three. You don't need the
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: heat check. We're in the playoffs. But you know, we
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: started out pretty damn well. More Rudy dunks, Randall was
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  Speaker 1: really going off. It was eighty four to sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Late in that third quarter, Ant was up to nine
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  Speaker 1: assist Randall on nine of twelve from the field, twenty
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  Speaker 1: one points, and we really blew it up ninety three
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  Speaker 1: to seventy two to close that quarter. Now it did
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  Speaker 1: Golden State. You know, they started grinding. We had some
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: early just stilly turnovers and Nas. I think in this
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  Speaker 1: one too, where you're like dude and Aunt where you're
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  Speaker 1: just wonder, what in the fuck are you doing? You know,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: they got it to like nine, then Aunt hit three
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  Speaker 1: and I think Jaden had a steal in that dunk.
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  Speaker 1: If I remember correctly, but I thought, well, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: lose their shit completely, right, so that was a positive.
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  Speaker 1: But also Randall, he had eight points in that fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and it felt like most of them were like very needed,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: you know, like it was like it came at a
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  Speaker 1: great time, you know. And so we closed out the series,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, who knows what would have happened
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  Speaker 1: win or lose the series with Curry. And there were
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: times where, you know, the term played with your food.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: We did play with our food at times, and I
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: don't know if we would have played with the food
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  Speaker 1: is long at times if Curry was in the game,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: because we just would have been sharper. But that said,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: we didn't come out you know, the first game. It's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: not about sharp, right, it's about like it's not that
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: they didn't play hard, but like it just seemed like
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: they weren't ready to match the intensity. And I remember
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: saying this on the NBA Playoff Banter podcast, which by
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the way, will be tomorrow night. I remember saying that,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: you know, like these heading into this second round, that
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  Speaker 1: the teams that are off six and seven games ultimately
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: it'll probably affect them in the series. But in the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: short term meaning game one. It's kind of like you're hot.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And if someone if someone like the terms are out
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: for five, six games or days, I should say, you know,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: there could be a little issue. And I and I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: use the example of the playing uh or not the play, well,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the playing a little bit actually you do see that,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: but the the play for the NCAA tournament, right, and
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: how we've seen like an eleven seed go really far,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: but it's like you just played, you just played, boom,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: You're in. You know. It's so there is something to
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: be said about that. But ultimately I think going seven
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: or seven games will help them. You know, there's just
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: no I don't care if they're younger not. It's all
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: about your legs. And and and even said that after
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: that seven game series of Denver and he went to
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: go the next day, he was like, you know, they're
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: having a little practice and he said his legs were gone.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: So he's like, well, this is this isn't probably gonna
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: go so well, you know, and like I said, was
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: very strong for scoring, especially in games thre in game four,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: kind of up and down on defense though, either really
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: all the way into it or not so much. And
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: that kind of that kind of was him in those
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: games A couple of those games, and I remember maybe
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: it was, I can't remember. I was game four, Game
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: three where Finch, you know, chewed him out saying, dude,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: what's going on? Like the first half you guys are
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: just giving up. There was some bad bad defensive plays obviously,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: or just lacking not necessarily defensive plays, but just you know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: just lack of defense, lack of Hey, dude, that's your
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: guy out backdoor, you know, like picking somebody up. And
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you know, when we one of the keys is gonna
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: be shooting right, we're a better shooting team than them,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: especially from the outside, right from three like ya a
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: fair amount by a country mile, like they would say
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: in the UK. And but we got to knock him down.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And when we don't knock him down, then you're on
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: a three on three or you're you're either way, no
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: matter if you have numbers or not, you're not set.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And so you have to pick people up. And that
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: is that could be an issue for us, and that
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: is something that we're gonna have to watch out for it.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: But overall, though Aunt was pretty damn solid. Julius Random though,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: for me, was the MVP on both sides of the ball,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: playing that point forward, timely buckets, timely passes, the way
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: he uh the way he drew the attention and then
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: kicked it out. And that is the one thing about
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: you know about Randall at the four compared to Cat,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: He's quicker footed. He's just a better four. It's just
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: in general, offensively and defensively. You know, we Cat was
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: up there this year when it came to like end ones,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: not even just centers, like he was the year before
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Rudy came here where he led the league and end
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: ones for centers, he was one of the top end
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: ones uh N one getters, if that makes sense, in
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the league. So he's a My point is he's much
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: quicker off the dribble when a center's playing him right
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: as we know, and he's just not as good as
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: power for it. He's just not. And and also you
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: know Rudy's in the damn lane, so like he just
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Randall's just a better power forward in a variety of ways.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: But also now when it comes to passing, he fits
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: our system better for passing, you know, whether you're backing
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: somebody down, whether you're off the dribble, and the defense
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: collapse to kick it out to a three and they're
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: wide open. And it's been working really well. Right, It's
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: really good at drawing it, and he doesn't draw as
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: many offensive falls. He doesn't fall as much over all
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: this cat as we've even seen it when he's having
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: great games. Sometimes a thirty five point game in the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: playoffs could have been his if he just would have
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: been healthy. I think you could say that in at
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: least one, if not two of these games that he
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: just played, you know, in the Boston series. So he's
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: been phenomenal and like I said, on both sides of
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the ball. And he just like I said, he does
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: it when he he offensive rebounds really well and he
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: gets followed a lot in that spot. So he's just
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: he's kind of not kind of he's put it all
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: together Randall for us on both sides of the BAM.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I think he was the MVP of
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: this series. I really do. So he was phenomenal. Right,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I thought McDaniels was very sturdy, right, rebound, strong, two
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: way play, still scoring, you know, Ever since we needed
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: more out of him once Dante and then eventually Randall
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: went out, and then even when Randall and Rudy were
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: out when we had him at the four. Actually, it's
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: kind of interesting because we had two games where Nas
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: was the five and Rudy or sorry, McDaniels was the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: four against ok see, so that will be a feature
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: that we can definite. We know we can go small,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: but we proved it on the court against them that
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: we can go small. So I did think McDaniels was
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: just steady, real steady eddie instead of like you know,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: him randomly hitting four or five threes like we've seen him.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I think he had a game where he hit like
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: six and nine or something last year where he'll get
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: hot from three, but it just won't happen that much obviously.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: But the cool thing is, even you know, when we
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: needed him more to be offensive, he really answered that
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: bell and he did it not just cutting to the
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: basket or corner threes, but he did it in his
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: own mid range way. And it's really about either straight off,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: you know, straight up dribble driving and getting to the hoop,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: or just dribbling in enough to where you're within like
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: eight feet and just raise up because no one really
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: can shot block you straight up. Not a many anyway,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: and then we've been playing these small excuse me, we've
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: been we've been running the centers off the court in
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: these first two series. That's something you can say about
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Rudy and he has said it. McDaniel's saying, hey man,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: when they took that dude off, I was the tallest
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: dude on the court, you know, And that's true. So
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: his mid range game, he's really leaned into it. And
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I wanted to see as Dante came back from more
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: scoring and of course as Randall came back and get
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: our starting lineup back and everything, you know, the full
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: strength was he going to be able to keep that up?
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And he did. And it's not like a great thing
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: that he wasn't shooting. He wasn't hitting threes at that time,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: but it didn't matter. In fact, it's better in a
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: sense that it wasn't just some kind of oh I
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: got hot for a couple of games, but it wasn't
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: really wasn't real right, wasn't something he could depend on.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Whereas he still if you look at you know, parts
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: of January and February or whatever, like his three point
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: shot didn't all of a sudden start falling right. But
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: he still scored like and I want to say, was
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: it February or January, I can't remember now, but he
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: he scored like eighteen points a game. You know, so
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: he was really really sturdy, and magically he has somehow
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: not falled as much. I mean the previous years we
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: had the like top five, top six, two guys McDaniels
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: and kat in the top five or top six of fouling.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you're a great defensive team, you're gonna
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: follow more. It just happens. But like it was as
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: excess Rudy. You know, he was steadied defensively. He got
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: better at the free throw line as the series went on,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and when he was in there his on and off
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: defensive you know, analytics and some of these matchups that
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: always gonna get cooked and all that, he wasn't really
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: getting cooked. You know, he really wasn't. And he didn't
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: go twenty you know, seven and twenty four or something
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: like that, but he did have a very good closing
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: game and he had these little spurts where he was
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: making him pay, and you know it'd be interesting to see.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Obviously they're not going to approach, you know, like they're
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: not going to approach putting little guys on Rudy all
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the time like they just did with Jokic. We saw that,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you know, this last part of the series, Caruso was
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: on him. It's a whole different beast with the Yolkicic obviously,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: but it will be interesting to see, you know, how
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: big of a role Rudy can play because they do
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: have two bigs now, you know, they do have two
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: legit bigs, Conley and Dante. Are they turning the core them?
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: You know, I would lend itself to Conley maybe doing
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: what he can do. Obviously, coming off what sixteen points,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: eight assist or whatever, he was hitting it. He was
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: hitting some clutch shots right when we needed it. But
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Dante got it going. And even though him and Alexander
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Walker hit their threes are way off, Dante's still been
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: able to get like four or five assists here and there,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and you know what I mean, Like he still has
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: been pretty solid even though he is shooting just god awful.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: He did have thirteen points in this close out game,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: four steels, six assists, only took seven shots too, So
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: are they turning the corner? Like I said, Conley's much
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: healthier than he was going in the conference final this year.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: But he's only gonna give you so much, right, He's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: clearly been past his prime for a while. But Dante
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: needs the needs to be better offensively, especially just shooting
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the three, I mean, and he is very capable, you know,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: he's very capable of it, and so I expect him
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: to to turn that corner Alexander Walker. Don't get me wrong,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I'd say nas in nah, I think you know Dante
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: in there too. It's just been inconsistent. He had that
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: twenty point game and then he had an al right game,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: but he also had two games in a five game
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: series where he didn't get a point. Nas defense and
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: turnovers has been funky, but he still will hit like
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: buckets when we need it. Not necessarily, oh the fourth
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: quarter clutch and all that, but just in general, because
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean those those late late in the quarter,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: early in the second or fourth quarter, those are really key.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: And he has been in the lineup for some that
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: and you know, we've seen more than one time Must
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: make a run without Ant in the game, and we
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: actually saw that down the stretch of the season too.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: So Alexander Walker needs to play better in nas, like
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I said, sometimes defensively, it's kind of like scratching my head.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: And a lot of folks are talking about and I've
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: talked about it too, about maybe the future is Randal
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and NOAs together. Obviously that'd be trading Rudy and you'd
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: have to get like a solid rim protector rebounder in there,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: just a solid one. Nothing that you'd have to start,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: but you'd have to have one in there because neither
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: of those guys are protecting the rim on, you know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: like on a consistent basis. But so both of those
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: guys are very capable of having a great series too,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: but we you know, we just need need more of them,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: need more out of it. And you know, kind of
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: just actually saw multiple people tweet this and they said,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: we just have to be eight and six and we'd
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: win the championship. And when you hear that, you go, man, eight,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: And I mean you could go, you know, you could obviously,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know, that's just crazy. Now you could lose
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: your first you know, four out of five out of
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: the you know, and you're not even in there. But eight,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like eight and six is like, man,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: that is fucking doable. But literally everybody has that right
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: eight and six and you win the championship. But just
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: to hear it, you're like, damn, dude, that's that's not
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: that tough, you know, but that's just a silly way
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: to look at it, to be honest with you. You know,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Rudy just kind of lining up the series your preview
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: and predicting it Rudy will be needed. Obviously he hasn't
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: been as needed in these first two series because they've
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: been small balling the shit out of us. But once again,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: it's never been about Rudy getting played out the Ford floor,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: excuse me, defensively. It's always been him offensively getting played
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: off the floor. Really hasn't been defensively. And even when
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: you look at that five game series with Dallas last year,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: those first three games and could have, would have, should have,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: but they were all winnable. We could have been up
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: two to one or down one to two, not down
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: three zero. Then, like I said, could have, would have,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: should It doesn't matter ultimately, but it wasn't that we want.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: We weren't what we It wasn't defensively, it wasn't all
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: we couldn't stop Luca Lucas just gonna fucking get his dude.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: But it was all about not executing on the offensive
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: side down the stretch of a game. That's actually what
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: it was about, because as we know, we had a
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: rule change that actually helped us in a game. You know,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs that you know, Kyrie bumped McDaniels and
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: that there's a good chance that Luca play wouldn't even
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: look like that because they wouldn't have had the time
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: and it would have been different and blah blah blah.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: But Rudy's going to be needed. If we can make
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: it back to this series, He's going to be needed again.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: So that's something that will be interesting to see and
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: see if they can activate him intelligently right because the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: first year he was here, and even at times the
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: last two years, the Timberwolves have either, you know, right away,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: we pushed it too much, like you know, finding him
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: in the post way too many times and it just
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: look like shit. But there's also many times that he's
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: wide open for a dunk and we just don't see him.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: It's not just an it's just not you know whatever,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: It just but we miss them a lot for dunks
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: every every single game, and of course you're gonna miss
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: them from time to time, but literally multiple times a game.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I mean maybe maybe if someone at home wants to
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: keep track of it. It's a lot. It's actually a lot.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: So it's finding that you know that in between you
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: don't want to feature him whatsoever. But if he's got
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: a little dude on him, you got to make them
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: pay and at least try to get in the ball
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and don't do any kind of funky pass to him
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: or you know what I mean. And we'll see a
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: lot of times you can kind of tell, you know how,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: where it's where his head's at, where he's at aggressively,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: where he's at with holding on the goddamn ball. You know,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: like you kind of know fairly early with him, like, oh,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: this might be a rooty game, dude, you know so,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: But Rudy's gonna need to be here and be active,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Like I said, Nah and Dante,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: we're gonna need those guys. We're gonna need those guys
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: on defense. Who's really gonna need those guys on defense
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: and just overall, but especially on defense. Nah, is the
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: hell of a defender, you know, s g a McDaniel's like,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: we gotta we got a couple of guys that we're
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: gonna use on on s g A will be interesting
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: to see, you know who they put con Lee on.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a dort I don't know, we'll we'll see.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: One of the biggest things, just the obvious thing if
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: you've ever even watched an Oklahoma City game, is turnovers, right, turnovers,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Like they do a great job of both forcing turnovers
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: and then manning turnovers on offense, and that's key. And
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: we were sloppy in this last series. Really we had
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of turnovers. And then when
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: we talk about turnovers or them limiting turnovers, you're getting
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: off the ball pretty early on our side of it, right,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: moving the damn ball. But also it's been more physical
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: per usual as far as being more physical, allowing more
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: physicality in the playoffs. But this year it's even up
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: a notch. They have allowed it more, so you wonder,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: you know, even though we had that crazy comeback and
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: we won it in overtime in that game against Okay see,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: you know many of us remember Finch saying it, it's
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: basically fucking irritating to play this team. You know, and
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: we had the chant at Home Free. You throw a merchant,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: you know, like Sga is good at fucking getting fouls.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: He just is. And you know, there's there's a variety
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: of high level dudes that just get know how to
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: get fouls and whether they're flopping or not, they just
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: do and they are but they just they just know
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: how to do it. Dude. They're just or if you
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: have a you know, a fourth fall or a fifth
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: foul or you're one fall away from the bonus. You know,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: they know if someone's gonna put their hand there, they're
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: just gonna they're just gonna rip through and get a
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: follow easy foul. You know. So it's being like on
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: focus on, plugged into this. But I will say this,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: as we know with this team and especially Ant and
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: his decision making, we've really thrived with these days off.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if they'll come out cold
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: as shit again, I don't know, I mean to be fair,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Like we didn't come out cold against the Lakers Memembory.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: We hit with like twenty one threes, you know, so
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: game one so and some of that is will okay,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: see you know, like switch a lot because they're very
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: confident in their defensive you know players in general, Will
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: they blitz or will it be more like you know
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the old boxes and elbow right feel the like get ready,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: So he can't just have a free you know, lane
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: can't have a free path to the to the who
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: and they do have some guys that can protect, which
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: we haven't had in these last two games or two series.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't, I don't know. Or if they
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: go zone right, I mean, why wouldn't you mix in
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: some zone against our dumbasses at times? Right? I would?
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: So I think the boxes and elbows where they're really
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: protecting shit saying you know, we're going to cheat this way,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: so you can't just come in mixing the zone. But
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: also in switching, I think they'll switch a lot. I
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: think the most common thing they'll do is boxes and
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: elbows or just switch a lot. It just be confident
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: that they're a hell of a defensive team. Now, I'm
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: not saying they'll never blitz him, and because I think
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: they will, but he we did see an improvement, you
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: know with that pass through the double and it usually
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: right right around the elbow, right around the nail free
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: throw area, right, it was it was the passes like
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: right there and then it in a lot of times
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: it's Alexander Walker or somebody else, and they were able to,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: you know, keep the ball moving. So I did notice
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: on the flip side, Denver having success in the zone.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: See Mike Conley would probably appreciate some zone. And we've
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: always we've not always, but we've had a hybrid of
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: like drop, like Rudy's in drop and everybody else is
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: like in high wall, you know, like very aggressive. So
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: we we are very that's the one thing. We're very
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: We're versatile now on offense and defense, which is something
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: that you can, you know, you could say we we
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: haven't been and even the year before Rudy we were
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: up there. And defense, we're a pretty solid defensive team.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: But the style of the high wall and just going
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: crazy with Vando and everybody running around speaking of boxes
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: and elbows like but that wasn't sustainable to do for
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: a whole season or a whole series because it just
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: wears you the fuck out. So but they're a damn
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: good off a defensive team. Are they as good as
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: we were last year? I don't think so. But analytically
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: they're like the best thing ever. You know, that's what
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the computers say. And then you know with Rudy, you know,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: will they go small on Rudy to try to hide
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: somebody or you know, we're on Randall too. You know,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I wonder, I wonder exactly what's gonna happen. There a
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: lot of people I've heard talking about this throughout the week,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: thinking that especially when it's three to two, but just
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: kind of thinking that, okay, see would win either way.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: You know a lot of them talked about Williams will
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: beyond them, a lot of them. You know, I've heard
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: a variety. The Randall thing is kind of interesting. I
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: will say that who is going to guard Randall? I think,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: you know, my guess is that it will be Williams.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: That's that's who I'm guessing. But I don't know, you know,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: And then who's whose ant getna guard? Is he gonna guard? Uh?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe you know, is he gonna guard Williams
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: in the starting lineup? Or would they put him on
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: like I don't know, someone ran him like like home
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Grin or or Dort or you know, that's the thing
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: they like us with McDaniels, they do have Dort and
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: so it is nice to be able to have a
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: guy like dort In, to have a guy like Cruso
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: to to just be like, you're taking on an ant dude,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: that's your job this series. So yeah, it'll be the
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: matchups will be very interesting to see. I will say this,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Heartenstein has actually played pretty decent against Rudy kind of
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: going through the games. And it's regular season, right, it's
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: regular season. We know if any team knows, we know
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: right that that shit ultimately doesn't matter. I mean, remember
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Phoenix just kicked our ass like throughout the year. But
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: then the last was it the last game of the
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: season where they just whooped us and then we got
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: five days off and we're like, all right, cool, we're
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: gonna sweep you. You know. So the game won. I
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: think it was right around New Year's okay, see one
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: one thirteen, one oh five. The Wolves had count them
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: twenty three turnovers. NA had five Randall and NAS had four.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: NAS had a great game up the bench, nineteen points,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: but twenty three turnovers. Honestly, you're you're gonna turn the
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: ball over obviously, but if we're if we can keep
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: it like below say fourteen or something like that, now,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: but we could win a game and you know, have
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: eighteen of them. But like, as long as we don't
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: get into that, seventeen eighteen, maybe anywhere from like sixteen
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: to twenty seventeen to twenty two seventeen sounds like a lot. Yeah,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: it is, especially if the team's not turning the ball
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: over like they tend not to do. But we just
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: we have to figure that shit out. And this is
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: where it's a big challenge, you know, for the offensive
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: as a whole, but especially for and and especially for Randam.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: And I would throw in mister we don't, you know,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: call a play, mister Finch, because if shit's not going
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: their way, then we got to tighten up and we
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: gotta be more we got we gotta be more organized,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: however that may be. And literally I just saw a
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: little you know, they're doing a bunch of interviews, like
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: press conference stuff with all the players and the coach
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: and and it's like, well, as long as you play
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: hard defense, he'll let you do whatever you want on offense.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: That's what he said about Finch, And it's fucking true.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: And I've always said he gives his players. These players,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: not Chris Paul or you know, someone that can like
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: a maestro of basketball Lebron and Luca and you know,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: not those guys. He gives guys that You're like, hey, dude,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: what you got a leasha on that thing? Dude, you
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: need to fucking pull pull that thing in. So, yeah, dude,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: if we keep turning the damn ball over, we need
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: to be more organized, we need to play call, we
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: need to do something. And so let you know that's
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: gonna be something. They're Game two one, sixteen to one
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: oh one. And by the way, getting into point differential,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: it was two to two, but point different A lot
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: of analytics around that stat. You know, I think we
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: had the series by three. So there you go. We're
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: gonna win the series because we have a point differential
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: of three. But in that game, first of all, no Rooty,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: no Random, no Dante. Okay, so you had Nas at
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: the center, McDaniels at the four lot. Jalen Williams played
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: really well, twenty points eight to seventeen. Okay, see was
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: seven of twenty nine from three, and we held SGA
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: to six of twenty one from the field. He did
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: if you can believe it, he got to the free
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: throw line. He was eleven of eleven from the free
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: throw line. Now and on the flip side, we won
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: the game by fifteen, but he was three or twelve
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: from three. He did get to the free throw line
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: ten of eleven, but he was five of eighteen overall,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Like I said, three thirteen or three of twelve from three,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: So they didn't should the ball well from three. They're
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: not great three point shooters on average. I say that,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: but they have a game where they hit like eighteen
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: against us, but actually so game three. So it's one one,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: game three, Oklahoma wins. The Oklahoma City wins that one
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: thirty one twenty three. The Timberwolves did have eighteen threes
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: in that game. I still think there was no uh,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: still think there was no Rudy and uh and Randall
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: in this one. Nasen and Jaden shined. Those two shined
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: in this season series. And I think actually, speaking of zone,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they got in the zone in the
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter in that game, because remember that was like
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: the crazy comeback. I think was twenty four points in
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, twenty five overall. We had been down
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: in the second quarter of the game four. Oh wait,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: hold on, I totally just skip games DENI SGA in
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: the in the game they won, he was thirteen to
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: twenty four. I'm talking about Game three, he was thirteen
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: to twenty four to thirty seven points. He did turn
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: the ball over five times. They shot fifty nine percent.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: And here here's what I was talking about. Nineteen threes
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: they hit in this game, nineteen and thirty five. Now
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: we hit eighteen, but and had five turnovers. And maybe
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: that was the game that they actually win zone on us.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: But I believe we went zone in the fourth quarter.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: That helped spark that. I think I wrote that down
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: in some notes there. Yes, that crazy comeback. And this
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: is game four of the season series. Second quarter thirty
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: two to seventeen, the thunder right fourth quarter forty one
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: to nineteen. They made it up all right. There only
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: thirteen turnovers. Like I said, it was that huge crazy comeback. Naw,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Shannon Dilly, I call Dilly, Rob Dillingham Dilly. They all
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: did really well, like I said, Nas and Jaden had
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: some really great games in this season series. So it's
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: two to two. You know, we we remember Game three
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: in Game four a lot because we either beat him
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: or we pushed them without a full squad, and you
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: know Jay, like I said, Jayden really becoming dependable as
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: just an overall player, but especially offensively dependable. Not getting
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: as many falls either, and there's gonna be some games
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: where he gets the fall problems NAS. And I'd say
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: NAS probably hasn't those balls. I don't know that for
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: a fact, but I bet you it's up there for
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the playoffs anyway. But but Nas, he had that great
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: stretch and then he kind of you know, up and
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: down since then, and he had like that crazy game
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: was a game won against the Lakers. He actually had
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: a really good game win I think against Golden State too.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: But he just has to tighten up overall. That that's
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: a big thing. He just has to tighten up overall,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: and the team does as well. And I could sit
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: there and talk about this, talk about that. But when
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: push comes to shove, man, you know, be smart with
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: the turnovers, right, and you know, their biggest thing when
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: you talk about Oklahoma City, we've talked about the on
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: the NBA podcast that we do here under Ropodove Radio.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: A lot of times it's been SGA and then who
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: the hell's gonna step up? And in the playoffs, you know,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Williams is averaging nineteen points, just a little down from
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: his season average. You know, he's shooting forty two percent
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: from the field, shooting twenty four from three. I think
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Caruso is their hottest three point shooter, and maybe Wallace.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: We're not that great at three point shooting right now either.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: But so on the surface, when you look at well
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Home gruns At, you know, averaging sixteen points, Hertenstein ten points,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: like a cruse of nine door eight, like just but
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: does he have enough help? In my point, and in
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: this series with Jalen Williams, like you know, it's been
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: up and down, Like let's be honest, Like he had
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: a ten point game, he had a six point game,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: he went off in that overtime game that they lost,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: he had thirty two points, but then, like I said,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: followed up with a ten point game. So and then
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: I gotta admit this kind of feels like so in
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: that last series he was sixteen, seventeen, thirty two, ten, eighteen,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: six and twenty four right and from three it was
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: two to nine, three, three of seven, five, two of five,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: four and two of five. Some of his shooting just
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: from the field eleven of twenty one pretty good, five
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: of twenty, five of fourteen, three of sixteen today, ten
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: of seventeen. So is he going like it sounds weird,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: but Jalen Williams, who is kind of big, but he's
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: a little skinny. He's six I think he's like six
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: five six six four six five sixty six somewhere in there.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: He's a little thin, but he is long. And you
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: wonder if they're going to go with him, you know,
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: on Randall, or they go with one of the bigs
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: on Randall. And this is gonna be key for both
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: At and Randall. Can they get off the ball? Can
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: they involve their teammates. Can they take advantage of matchups
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: when it's there? That's something Julius has done a phenomenal
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: job at and to be fair, and has done a
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: pretty damn good job of getting off the ball early
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: and Randall and others bringing the ball up and getting
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: the ball to him in different spots. So, I mean,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: do they have enough help? Last year SGA, they had
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: some good performances but overall not enough. This year it
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: kind of felt like they weren't gonna have enough, but
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: they ultimately did. Now I gotta give credit to Denver
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: for playing excuse me, better defense. Pretty much everybody plays
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: better defense in the in the playoffs though, but they did.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: They were a better defensive team. They found a way
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: to get some points off their bench. Westbrook, you know,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: was either really good or like, what in the fuck
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: are you doing, dude? You know, it was one of those.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: I think his his plus minus was like minus eighty
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: three or minus I can't remember the name. I can't
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: remember the number for the series, but it's bad. So
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: my point is they you know, I talk about how,
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: you know, Nah and Dante have to fucking wake up
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: from three, because they do. But we're a deeper team.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: But how much deeper really? Though this time around it's
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: a it's obviously a lot tighter. We we haven't been
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: playing teams that were that deep. But when you can
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: bring Caruso and Wiggins and Wallace even that Joe dude,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: obviously the other Williams like they are deep too, and
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: and Caruso is probably there, well, he is their best
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: bench player. And he's been you know, he's been in
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: a player, he's been in, he's been around, let's put
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: it that way. And for being off the bench, he
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: was in double figures the last four games. Some of
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: it's just timely, but a lot of signs when they
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: make it run. You'll see him on the court, you know,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: and you know with dort Caros, Caruso, Carrosso in somebody
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: else that they'll throw at and you know, and just
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: gotta be baseent man, And you know I'm rambling. Let's
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: be honest. I'm fucking rambling now. I'm just gonna keep
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: going over the same old dumb shit I'm talking about.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: It's prediction time. I get the Wolves in three, No
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: Wolves at eleven. I have the TIMBERWL. Okay, so I
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: still have. I haven't done the research, you know, Like
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: I said about that tweet about like the largest here,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: actually let me pull it up real quick that we're
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: basically the biggest underdogs of all time. So this comes
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: from the daily Wolves. Don't quote me on this ship
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: the thunder of the highest favorite team in NBA Western
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Conference Finals history going into their matchup versus the Wolves
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: highest favored team. Does that mean hold on the highest
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: favored team? You know how you read something and then
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: you're like, wait a second, I read that wrong. The
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: highest favorite Okay, so they the history part got me
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: though I first read it saying, yeah, they are, they've
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: been the they have the best odds to win the championship.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: But this is saying in the history, so they have
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: the largest gap pass between two teams according to the
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Daily Wolves. Right, that's fucking crazy, dude. That's like, that's
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: downright disrespectful dude. Like I said earlier, we did get
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: a three point margin. Though I mentioned that, No, they
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: should be favorites. I'm not saying they shouldn't be favorites.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: They should now in clutch time, they haven't been as good. Now.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying they haven't won tight games, because of
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: course they have. The Game six was really close until
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: it wasn't right. They won a game. They hit a
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: couple buckets down the stretch and were able to win
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Game five pretty cleanly, but it was a tight game.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: They lost an overtime game, they lost the first game.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: So they haven't been all that great in clutch either
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: or not. I shouldn't say either because we're four and
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: oh and clutch. So will that carry over? Are we?
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: You know, we're playing our the best defensive team in
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: the league on paper, But there's just something about like
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: when we're disrespected. When we're the underdog, it really bodes
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: wealth for us. And you know, can we win game
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: one again? You know, like we have the Memphis series obviously,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: last year Denver series, we won the first two games
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: the Lakers series on the road to win the Western
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: Conference Finals, and I guess become the biggest underdog to
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: ever win in the Western Conference Final. I don't think
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: that's true. We will have to win the first one
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: of the first two games. We're not the best at home,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: but we are getting better as we saw now. I
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: said that we lost game one at home with home court, right,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: So I think being the underdog, I would tell I
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: would show aunt that tweet every other hour and be like, dude,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: do you realize that we are the lowest rated team
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: against the highest rated you know what you know? Or
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: the the biggest underdog ever. That's what this fucking tweet says. Man,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: So get pissed off now, I'm rambling, like I said. Okay,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: So if I think it's it's closer to a fifty
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: to fifty, then I hear a lot of people saying
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: seventy thirty. I don't agree with seventy thirty. Sixty forty.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: You could sell me on I'm closer to like, you know,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: like like fifty seven point five. No, I'm I'm closer.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's fifty to fifty, but I think
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: it's a lot closer to a fifty to fifty. I
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: would put a sixty forty in down maybe fifty five
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: forty five whatever, you know. I think that they're an
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: experienced team now, no doubt. But they you know, they
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: just got by a team that is not as deep
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: as us. That team was really banged up, especially, I
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: mean Porter Is. You can't totally lie on him anyway,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: but what you can do is get like some big
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: games out of him, maybe two of them where he'll
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: just go off right, he'll hit a bunch of threes,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: but then other times not as much. We do a
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  Speaker 1: good job against But I think Gordon was such a
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  Speaker 1: key and Gordon was hurt. You know, it wasn't much
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  Speaker 1: of a game obviously today. But long story short, I'm
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: picking the Wolves. I'm picking the Wolves. What I was
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: trying to say is like it's very like cliche to
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: be like, dude, it's a tough It's gonna be a
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: tough series. Just seven games Bro. But if we were
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: to go to Game three one to one, then I
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: think there's a possibility of closing out Game six. But
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  Speaker 1: this team, I'm gonna say Wolves in seven because of
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: this team, where we could be up three to two,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: you know, going into game six and we're like, yep, dude,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: here we go. We're going to the finals, and then
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: we just get beat, you know, like you mother efforts
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  Speaker 1: and then turn right around and play great. You know,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: like we lost that first game to Golden State Boom
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  Speaker 1: one four in a row. We saw that, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: losing to the the B team of Indie and then
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: playing pretty good, right losing to Milwaukee Boom, turn right
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  Speaker 1: around and beat a team in Memphis who was hot
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  Speaker 1: at the time. So yeah, that's my story. I'm sticking
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: to it. Let's see Tuesday, Thursday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Monday.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the next time we're gonna
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: do a game or a show Monday. Let's see Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe I'll do it after game four. I don't know,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: it'll be next week for sure. I don't like to
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: do it on a on a you know, on a
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: day where they have a game. Obviously it's it's just
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: not it's not cool. It's not cool to do. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back maybe after like four games. I'm not
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: solely sure when I'll be back, but I will be back,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: damn it. Uh maybe Tuesday night, maybe Thursday. Not obviously
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: not this week, but next week. So within somewhere somewhere
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: in there, I'm gonna try to do a show. I
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: wouldn't doubt if it's not this Thursday, but next Thursday.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know. As you can see, I'm very confused.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna try to do a show. I'll do
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: another show before the end of the series, that for sure,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna try to fit one in. I
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: may have to do two shows next Tuesday, I don't know.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: But either way, enjoy the series and remember, as a fan, dude,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: we don't want the players doing this because that as
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: a fan, soak this up, you know, soak it up
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  Speaker 1: like it feels great. Don't get too high and mighty,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: don't get too confident. Don't be underwhelming though. Don't be like,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: oh we're gonna lose bro, We're down one zip or
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: you know, we're down fifteen, you know, we're getting our ass.
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  Speaker 1: Like this team does bounce back even when it I
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: mean even when they were winning three, losing three, winning three,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: losing three. You know, like this team does have a
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: lot of fight back. And it feels like they have
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: more you know, tools to fix the parts. You know,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: like they have more tools in the in the in
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: the in the the toolbox. That was bad anyway, I better.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: I think that's a sign that you needed to shut
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: it down. Wolves and seven. Just enjoy it though the
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: shit doesn't happen much. Enjoy it. I can't believe that
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: shouts out the Kat that he made the Conference final
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: two and shots out to the Knicks. Dude, they're they're
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: fun to watch about that Pacers team. Oh boy, I
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: really like these matchups. By the way, I think the
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: NBA would want the Knicks in Minnesota because we know
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: large markets, we know small markets. But people don't know
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: is there's mid markets TV market and google that NBA
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: TV market and you'll see that we may be perceived
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: as flyover country in like one of the smallest markets
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: in the entire country, but we are not. Look at Detroit,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: look at Miami, look at some teams that you think,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: huh wow, we have more TV homes than them. And
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to. NBA TV market. We're
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: a mid size market and AUNT these last two years
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: has gotten great ratings. Most of the games these last
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: two years has improved upon the previous slot from the
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: previous year. I'm not saying it's you know, New York
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: in LA or obviously Boston LA, because the rivalry and
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: speaking of rivalry, I mean New York in Indy go
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: back to the nineties, dude, that shit. Okay, I'm doing
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: a Minnesota Goodbye. My apologies for people that are listening
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: to this podcast outside of Minnesota. It's called a Minnesota Goodbye.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: So let's say you're in a restaurant right and you're talking.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: Time you get up, you start talking talking talk, Or
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: if you're at someone's house, you're at the front door,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: you're talking, you're talking to the driveway, you start talking
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: about the house or the grass or some shit. And
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: then you're in the car and the shotgun windows rolled
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: down and you're talking and you're talking. And that's what
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: I'm doing right now. I'm doing in Minnesota. Goobye. So
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: I'm going to shut this thing down, have a great week.