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Thunder Sweep Suns as Pistons Face Upset; Cooper Flagg Wins Rookie of the Year · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, Welcome to the Day they played with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure to subscribe and follow us on social at
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  Speaker 1: the Daily Play Joy Taylor. It has been an exciting
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  Speaker 1: start to the NBA playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: And in the East. Ooh well boy.
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  Speaker 1: The number one seed Pistons lost Game four in Orlando
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  Speaker 1: to go down three to one to the eight seed
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  Speaker 1: Magic ninety four to eighty eight. Now, during the Pistons
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  Speaker 1: regular season, they had a dominant sixty win regular season.
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  Speaker 1: They were great, obviously, the number one team in the East,
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  Speaker 1: averaging one hundred and seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Point eight points per game.
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  Speaker 1: But but this is the first time that they've been
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  Speaker 1: held under ninety this season.
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  Speaker 2: It's the first time they've been held under ninety five
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  Speaker 2: this season.
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  Speaker 1: They were the class of the Eastern Conference all season long,
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  Speaker 1: and Kate Cunningham admitted that the team's complacency came back
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  Speaker 1: to bite them. He said, I feel like we came
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  Speaker 1: out a little too I don't know, tight, relaxed, whatever
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  Speaker 1: the word is. Maybe for some of us, we just
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  Speaker 1: didn't come out with the right energy. We gave them
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  Speaker 1: life early on and then we had to deal with
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  Speaker 1: that for the rest of the game. We were better instances,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't dig a hole like that. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think this is just an energy problem. I think that
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  Speaker 1: Kate is trying to protect his guys. But the reality
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  Speaker 1: is the Detroit Pistons have a math problem.
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  Speaker 2: This is a team that scored at least.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety five points in all eighty two regular season games
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  Speaker 1: and now they can't get to ninety. Now. They were
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  Speaker 1: near the bottom of the league in three point volume
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  Speaker 1: all year. They relied on bruising teams and the paints
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  Speaker 1: to win those games. Good defense, but in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: the paint gets packed.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be able to make adjustments.
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  Speaker 1: This was a question that people had about the Pistons
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  Speaker 1: all season long, was their scoring. And the Magic have
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  Speaker 1: figured it out. They have realized that Detroit cannot shoot.
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  Speaker 1: They've shut the gate and now the Pistons are out
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  Speaker 1: of ammunition. On top of that, the Pistons only got
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  Speaker 1: eighteen bench points.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean my takeaway that the Magic are.
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  Speaker 1: Going to lose this see this series, and this is
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  Speaker 1: why regular season basketball and postseason basketball are just not
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. You don't want to go all out
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  Speaker 1: for a regular season championship.
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  Speaker 2: You want to be able to be built for the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be able to adjust, and the Pistons
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  Speaker 1: just should not be in this situation as the number
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  Speaker 1: one seed in the East, and they're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a bouse early, which I think is pretty embarrassing. So also,
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  Speaker 1: the Thunder closed out the Suns in Phoenix for a
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  Speaker 1: first round sweep. I don't know if anyone can stop
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  Speaker 1: the Thunder. Look, we may have a budding dynasty. And
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  Speaker 1: I know everyone is not really going to like that,
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  Speaker 1: but that just might be the situation where SDA just
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  Speaker 1: put another exclamation points on an MVP caliber series and
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  Speaker 1: season A. You know, a sweep is always something that
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  Speaker 1: you can't argue. Is completely dominant, and he didn't just
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  Speaker 1: leave the team in scoring. He also just dismantled Phoenix,
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  Speaker 1: averaging over thirty three points and eight assists and shooting
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  Speaker 1: fifty five percent from the field. He's just reached a
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  Speaker 1: new level of efficiency that we only usually see from
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  Speaker 1: big men, and he's doing it as a guard. He
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  Speaker 1: looks like he is performing ballet on the court. Everything
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  Speaker 1: is just so easy for him at this point, and
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  Speaker 1: being a champion and being an MVP, he has this
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  Speaker 1: otherworldly confidence. He took everything that the Suns threw at him,
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  Speaker 1: and stride, double teams, traps Dylan Brooks.
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  Speaker 2: He just walks right through it.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're the Lakers of the Rockets sitting at
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  Speaker 1: home watching this, you've got to be nervous because the
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  Speaker 1: next round will be the winner of the Lakers Rockets series.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it will be the Lakers. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if either of them actually pose a threat to the Thunder.
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  Speaker 2: The Thunder just.
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  Speaker 1: Beat the Lakers by an average or forty points in
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  Speaker 1: their last two regular season meetings, and you know, they've
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  Speaker 1: got the ragning MVP, they've got an excellent roster, they've
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  Speaker 1: got the experience, they've got the confidence.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe if the Lakers can.
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  Speaker 1: Get Luca and Austin back, they'll have a chance. But look,
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  Speaker 1: they're both guys that have been out for a while
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  Speaker 1: dealing with injuries. Austin raves with an oblique strain. He
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  Speaker 1: might be back for this series. Luca could be back
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of round two.
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  Speaker 2: But even with.
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  Speaker 1: Luca and Austin available and healthy, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: they have enough to take down Okay, see, even with
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  Speaker 1: Lebron playing at an other worldly level, it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: really hard to imagine that. And then when you're taking
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  Speaker 1: into consideration what they've done in the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: The Thunder went four to zero against the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: They the SGA just dominates them twenty eight point three
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  Speaker 1: point seven point five assists and five rebounds and a
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  Speaker 1: plus thirty point five plus minus rating in those games.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I just think that if we're really
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about a team that is going to
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  Speaker 1: beat the Thunder, they have to be complete. They have
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  Speaker 1: to be clicking on all cylinders right now in the post.
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  Speaker 1: And I certainly don't think the Crockets are that. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can get back to the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers either. Ending on some good news, Cooper Flag has
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  Speaker 1: been named NBA Rookie of the Year.
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  Speaker 2: It was a very tight race.
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  Speaker 1: He edged out his former Duke teammates kahn Ca Nipple,
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  Speaker 1: who by.
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  Speaker 2: Only twenty six total voting points.
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  Speaker 1: Flag received fifty six first place votes to Canipples forty four.
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  Speaker 2: And he had a great season.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was It's exciting to watch the young
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  Speaker 1: guys come in and actually contribute. You know, my philosophy
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  Speaker 1: on rookies is, you know, if you can if you
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  Speaker 1: can carry over some of the spark from college or
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  Speaker 1: from wherever you played your year of basketball professionally into
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  Speaker 1: the league. That's a big deal to me because these
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  Speaker 1: are really young players coming into a league of grown
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  Speaker 1: men and your.
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  Speaker 2: Body's going to change.
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  Speaker 1: The amount of games which you play is more intense,
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  Speaker 1: the travel is more intense, the competition obviously is more intense,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, being able to come in and contribute
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  Speaker 1: the way that he did, I think was very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: He finished the season averaging twenty one points, six point
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  Speaker 1: seven rebounds on four point five assists, first rookie since
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan to lead his team in points, rebounds, assists.
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  Speaker 2: And steals.
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  Speaker 1: When you're in the conversation with someone like Michael Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you're going to have real consideration for an award.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper said, I think I was watching con just because
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  Speaker 1: he's one of my brothers. We have such a good connection.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be there for each other for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of our lives. I was watching was a fan
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  Speaker 1: as well, but there was obviously some competition at the
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  Speaker 1: same time.
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  Speaker 2: I also really love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love when guys care about these awards, especially when
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  Speaker 1: they're they're starting out as rookies. You can't expect a
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  Speaker 1: team like that to be truly competitive in the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, to look around the league, we're having
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  Speaker 1: conversations like us about or from Victor woman Yama.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're having it from Cooper Flag.
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  Speaker 1: Like the young guys caring about this and like having
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  Speaker 1: passion and competition. I think is great for the league
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  Speaker 1: as we're moving into this new generation of players where
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  Speaker 1: everyone complains about AAU and.
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  Speaker 2: These guys don't care.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, like he said, they're friends, their teammates, they
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  Speaker 1: care about each other, but he also wants to beat him,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that is a very positive.
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  Speaker 2: Thing for the league.
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  Speaker 1: It was between Cannipple vj edgecumb who I've loved to watch,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously Cooper Flag. So congrats to Cooper Flag NBA
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  Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year for the twenty twenty five twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six season. For more on this and other top
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