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Kawhi Leonard Just Saved The Clippers Season... · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes a game is so good that I kind of
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  Speaker 1: forget that I'm supposed to be analyzing the game. That's
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  Speaker 1: what happened in this Nuggets versus Clippers game. I'm usually
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  Speaker 1: taking my notes. About halfway through the fourth corner, I
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  Speaker 1: was just locked in forgetting.
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  Speaker 2: About what my job was.
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  Speaker 1: I love when we see one of the ogs because
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  Speaker 1: that's what Kawhi Lennard is at this point. Turn back
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  Speaker 1: the clocks and just have a legendary performance. You do
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  Speaker 1: not want to go down though two. I know they
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  Speaker 1: always say a series as a start into a role
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  Speaker 1: team loses, but I don't care if you would end
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  Speaker 1: up going down two to oh in Denver, the series
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  Speaker 1: is probably over. So the fact that Kawhi Leonard was
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  Speaker 1: able to go into Denver. Let me see what this
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  Speaker 1: final satelline is. Thirty nine five assists, three rebounds, fifteen
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  Speaker 1: to nineteen from the field. Oh my goodness. All right,
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  Speaker 1: gonna Cloud nine, though not because of the outcome of
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  Speaker 1: the game, but because again we got to see a
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  Speaker 1: leegend Ericawhile in the game.
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  Speaker 2: So I always love game twos.
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  Speaker 1: Game twos are my favorite of every single series because
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  Speaker 1: we get to see what happens in game one, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm always curious what will the losing team do to adjust?
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  Speaker 1: Will the team that won the game run the same
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  Speaker 1: thing or use the same scheme that won them Game
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  Speaker 1: number one? Or they anticipating on anticipating the team that
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  Speaker 1: lost to make some adjustments, so we make an adjustment,
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  Speaker 1: be proactors, said the reactive. So I always loved that,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought in game number one, one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons why the Clippers lost, if you watch that, you
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  Speaker 1: know that it was a lot of the hustle stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It was the Nuggets killing the offensive glass, them getting
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  Speaker 1: second chance opportunities, and more than anything, it was the
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  Speaker 1: Clippers turning that god damn ball over.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought through the first quarter and half of
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  Speaker 2: this game they looked offen for the Clippers.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like the Clippers said for good who they
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  Speaker 1: was going against, because the Nuggets are the number one
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  Speaker 1: fast break team in all the basketball and they.
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  Speaker 2: Were just turning it over, turning it over, turning it over.
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  Speaker 1: And just like in game number one, we saw the
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets kind of flipped the switch. That's what happened with
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers or at the end of the game, the
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  Speaker 1: total turnoffs is only eleven, and I swear to you
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  Speaker 1: ain't got the numbers in front of me, but I
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  Speaker 1: feel like at least eight of those was happening in
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  Speaker 1: that first half before they ended up flipping and switch.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm a firm believer that if you if you
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  Speaker 1: don't turn the ball, if you get shot to the ball,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have a better tea as of winning the games,
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  Speaker 1: especially against a team like this that really pride themselves
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  Speaker 1: on having some of the best fast break or the
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  Speaker 1: best fast break offense and basketball. There were times where
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  Speaker 1: Zubasu had a really solid game overall where he was
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  Speaker 1: instead of catching the ball, he was tapping it out
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  Speaker 1: to the perimeter, which would normally work, but he's going
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  Speaker 1: against the Nuggets, and Christian Brown will get that ball
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  Speaker 1: and he will go, or Jamal Murray will get that
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  Speaker 1: ball and he will go. So I thought that when
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  Speaker 1: they really settled in, it was cool. I thought in
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  Speaker 1: game number one, Norman Powell kind of got lost out there.
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  Speaker 1: And this was actually a question I had to myself
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  Speaker 1: a game number two. It's like, if Norman Powell is
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  Speaker 1: not scoring, what is your alternative?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: And Norman Palell hit a couple of big shots down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch and he got really I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: call him emotional, but hype after hitting shot because he
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  Speaker 1: ended up five for fourteen at one point I think
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  Speaker 1: he was oh eight to start the game.
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  Speaker 2: It was something real crazy like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I was asking myself, if Norman Power is not
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  Speaker 1: scoring the ball, what values he provided and if he's
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  Speaker 1: not providing much value, what are the alternatives? And now
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the bench and I'm like, Ooh, dered
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  Speaker 1: Jones Junior ain't necessarily had a really good series, And
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to have Derick Jones junior, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to have Chris dunnol the court together. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the advanced that say, but in my mind,
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  Speaker 1: that lack of spacing is just playing into the Dinver
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  Speaker 1: Nugget Hans, a team that throughout the playoffs through these
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  Speaker 1: two games have been pretty decent defensively, but just don't
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  Speaker 1: have the defensive reputation as they used to. You can't
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  Speaker 1: really bring in Bogdanovan's right now because bogdanovits is I
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  Speaker 1: don't he scored yet, So they roll with their guy
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  Speaker 1: nor Power, and it ended up working out at the
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  Speaker 1: end of it because he hit a couple of big shots.
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  Speaker 1: But in Game of one, I thought he didn't really
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  Speaker 1: provide anything right, And I think that in order for
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers to win this series and win a potential
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  Speaker 1: series after this, you need Norman Power to maybe not
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  Speaker 1: be the guy that was in the running for most
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  Speaker 1: improved Player before he would down his injury, but just
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  Speaker 1: be an effective player because and a lot of this game,
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  Speaker 1: on the game number one two, he had Jamal Murray
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  Speaker 1: on the weakest defender on the court on him, So
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  Speaker 1: it's like, how do we get him involved? Is it
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  Speaker 1: him running the high ball screens? It's like we got
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  Speaker 1: James Harden and we got Kawhi Lenond. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if we want to use him that way. Do we
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  Speaker 1: want to run a secondary options? Do we run and
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  Speaker 1: running off screens? And they tried very early on to
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  Speaker 1: get him going. I think he took what the first
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  Speaker 1: five shots of the game for the Clippers, and it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we understand that. Y'all made it a point of emphasis
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that Norman Powell was involved, and he
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  Speaker 1: was involved again. He eventually hit a big old shot,
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  Speaker 1: but it was it was Kawhi. While things was going
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  Speaker 1: weird where they were turning their god damn ball over
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  Speaker 1: early on, the one thing that was consistent was Kawhi Leonard.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just the thing that I love the most
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  Speaker 1: about Kawhi Leonard's game is then when he's on, he's
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  Speaker 1: like on on. You know, like some players when they're on,
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  Speaker 1: they might miss three shots and then they hit six, and.
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  Speaker 2: Then they hit they missed three.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, Kawhi Leonard when he is dialed in, they
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  Speaker 1: called him to ain't boy because he does not miss.
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  Speaker 2: And we got that.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't matter if they was throwing single coverse, they
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  Speaker 1: was throwing double coverage. Well, he got to catch a
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  Speaker 1: shoot opportunity where it was late in the shot clock.
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  Speaker 1: He had to crave for himself. It did not matter
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  Speaker 1: for why, and he got out there and he made
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  Speaker 1: some big time buckets and big time shots.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Again, not rooted for anybody, but damn it when I
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  Speaker 1: see one of my guys like Kawhi Lenard do his thing,
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  Speaker 1: because not only they hit the big shot to go
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  Speaker 1: up three with less than a minutes ago, he got
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  Speaker 1: to steal and Yokis this was not a great Yokics game.
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  Speaker 1: Still the best player in the world, but you gotta
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  Speaker 1: be critical where you can. Yolkis turning that ball over
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  Speaker 1: and like you want to get him slight pass because
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  Speaker 1: he played every single second of the second half. I mean, hell,
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  Speaker 1: after Christian Brown threw up that week as shot and
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  Speaker 1: Yolkis got through offensive rebound he missed as well. He
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  Speaker 1: just immediately went down to his knees because I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he is extremely gassed after playing every single second of
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  Speaker 1: the second half. So with thirty seconds ago, he throws
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  Speaker 1: that pass, Kawhi Leonard gets it. One thing I didn't like,
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  Speaker 1: and they actually mentioned this on the broadcast, is that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't. The Clippers were like, We're just gonna hold
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  Speaker 1: the ball. He's gonna hold the ball. Whatever happens happens,
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  Speaker 1: and it ended up being a James Harden miss, and
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  Speaker 1: luckily again, I thought Christian Brown got a decent look
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  Speaker 1: at it. But I think that all the time with
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  Speaker 1: something like this happens where a team neglects to call
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  Speaker 1: a time out and they don't end up scoring, the
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  Speaker 1: number one question is gonna be why didn't add on
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  Speaker 1: and call timeout? I have to rewatch the play, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: but did they have numbers?
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  Speaker 2: Again?
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  Speaker 1: At one point I turned off my analytical thing and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, ooh, this game is too good.
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  Speaker 2: Did they have numbers?
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  Speaker 1: Did they feel like they had the advantage right that
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  Speaker 1: they have a mismatch that they really enjoyed there because
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  Speaker 1: they did have timeouts here? And I'm usually a firm
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  Speaker 1: believer of like, if you have the ball and you're
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  Speaker 1: down by one possession and you have time, I would
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  Speaker 1: rather you draw up something.
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  Speaker 2: I think that that shot that Steph.
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  Speaker 1: Curry hit against OKC all the years ago kind of
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  Speaker 1: tweaked all of our brain chemistry to think that not
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  Speaker 1: taking a timeout is more useful because it does give
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  Speaker 1: the opposing team an opportunity to also use that timeout
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  Speaker 1: and scheme defensively for whatever you want to build up.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe just having that on the fly, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: we trust these dudes saying works In this case, it
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  Speaker 1: did not. Yokic final stat line is twenty six twelve ten.
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  Speaker 1: It just wasn't a traditional Yokics game because of the turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: and some of them were just real bad. Some of
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  Speaker 1: them were offensive foul. Some of them was the bad
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  Speaker 1: pass game by Kawhi Leonard. But a lot of this
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  Speaker 1: game is I'm watching it, I guess this is like
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  Speaker 1: this is like three year old criticism of Jokic, but
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  Speaker 1: it kind of showed again today in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Is that I just wanted to see him be more
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  Speaker 1: aggressive offensively. I mentioned this on the podcast. Usually listening
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  Speaker 1: to the podcast, one of the reasons why Nicole Yoki
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  Speaker 1: is the best in the world is because his bread
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  Speaker 1: and mother shot is one that goes in sixty five
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  Speaker 1: percent of the time when he gets it by himself
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  Speaker 1: on the block or he gets it seven feet from
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  Speaker 1: the rim. His little push shot is money, money, money,
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  Speaker 1: And I truly do believe they could have went to
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit more. Now, one thing that the
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  Speaker 1: Clippers didn't end up doing anytime Yokis turned his back,
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  Speaker 1: a second defender was coming, and eventually he ended up
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  Speaker 1: recognizing that. But it did end up to a few turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: right Chris Dunne using that boat light of speed, just
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  Speaker 1: coming out and diving in and getting that ball and
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  Speaker 1: being a fast break opportunity for them. So not an
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  Speaker 1: amazing Yokics game. Jamal Murray played very well early on,
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  Speaker 1: you know him being in his flu game. We saw
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  Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior get benched the game number one, and
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  Speaker 1: always wonder when a player it's bench what type of
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  Speaker 1: game will he provide. I thought he was pretty good here.
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  Speaker 1: He ended up hurting the shoulder, didn't get bitch because
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  Speaker 1: of the shoulder injury, and they went with Russ down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Brody had a couple of big shots.
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  Speaker 1: I guess Brody in the in the in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: so far, he's shooting like ridiculously well from three, So
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  Speaker 1: shout out to him.
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  Speaker 2: Christian Brown.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he ended up missing that big shot, but
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  Speaker 1: I just thought ultimately he wasn't really that impactful. I
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  Speaker 1: think one of his baskets was again that fast break
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  Speaker 1: opportunity early in the first quarter and then the May three,
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  Speaker 1: and that was.
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  Speaker 2: That was kind of it.
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  Speaker 1: We did get to see some DeAndre Jordan today, which
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  Speaker 1: was the first time in the series, because I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if Adamant kind of predicted that, like I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to play Jokic every single second in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: so we need somebody to just play this five minute
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  Speaker 1: stemp like historically, because DeAndre Jordan is not good at
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  Speaker 1: basketball anymore. When Jokics got off the floor, they went
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  Speaker 1: with that small ball lineup, and they didn't really do
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  Speaker 1: that this night, which was interesting to me because I
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  Speaker 1: do believe that small ball line up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the own of all numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Will tell you that Jokic when he goes to the
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  Speaker 1: bench is gonna be awful. But I think that small
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  Speaker 1: ball lineup, it's just going to be better than any
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  Speaker 1: line of DeAndre Jordan is.
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  Speaker 2: A part of.
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  Speaker 1: But they went with DJ again, We're talking about a
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  Speaker 1: five minute stent and that was pretty much it. We
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  Speaker 1: got a great Kawhi Linder game. I thought Zoobox is
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  Speaker 1: pretty good here. I think a lot of this series
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  Speaker 1: is going to boil down to some of the three
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  Speaker 1: point shooting that you're going to see from the Clippers.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm talking about the Chris Dunn looks because he's
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  Speaker 1: got to be open for the entirety of the series.
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  Speaker 1: He was one of four today, or dear Jones Junior
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  Speaker 1: who was oz too, or Norman Powell who was two
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  Speaker 1: or four. Like that three point shooting from the others
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  Speaker 1: is going to be really, really crucial to this series.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm half we got one one because I really
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  Speaker 1: want seven games of the series.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Game one was electric overtime. Game Game two almost went
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  Speaker 1: into overtime as well. This is amazing, amazing hoops. It
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of nuggets until it wasn't and the
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  Speaker 1: Clippers ended up pulling out with that victory. On the
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  Speaker 1: other thing, the early game we saw the Pistons going
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  Speaker 1: to Madison Square Garden to get a win. Now in
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  Speaker 1: game number one, I mentioned we did our recap that, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I had a bunch of notes about game number one,
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  Speaker 1: and none of it really mattered because they the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: one on the twenty onun So, like nothing that really
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  Speaker 1: happened before that matters, and nothing that really happened after
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  Speaker 1: that matter because the Knicks head did that thing. This
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  Speaker 1: final game is one hundred ninety four and one thing
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  Speaker 1: I will say I'm loving so far that the postseason
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  Speaker 1: has been so slow paced and has been so defensive oriented.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely love the grittiness of majority of the games
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  Speaker 1: we've seen so far with three days into the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: but Kay Cunningham was a goddamn monster today, absolute monster.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty three and twelve.
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  Speaker 1: And I just love the fact that he was willing
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  Speaker 1: to pick on pretty much anybody, but more specifically Karnthony Towns,
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  Speaker 1: where there was many possessions where Kay Cunningham had the
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  Speaker 1: ball calling four screen on the left wing and just
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  Speaker 1: getting around the corner two baseline of Carnthony Towns because
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have the footspeed to get over there. To
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  Speaker 1: Kay Cunningham, and it was his basket after the basket
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  Speaker 1: after basket. I thought he played this very well until
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  Speaker 1: we got to the point where the Pisses at the
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  Speaker 1: same thing they did last night or two nights ago
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  Speaker 1: with they just couldn't do anything offensively and the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: struggled to this time around to turn those missed opportunities
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  Speaker 1: from the Pistons into real game I mean, at one point,
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  Speaker 1: I think they were down by what fifteen, yeah, fifteen
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  Speaker 1: with five minutes left in the third quarter. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what we did get to see that run that the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks went on. It was a nineteen to six run,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't have enough. They got a good look
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  Speaker 1: for Mikil Bridges down the stretch, it just didn't go in.
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  Speaker 1: They got a good look from jay Len Bronton, it
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  Speaker 1: just didn't go in. And the Pistons ended up taking
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  Speaker 1: that win. I think they just beat what a seventeen
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  Speaker 1: years drought. I think they said on the broadcast the
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  Speaker 1: last time they won a playoff game was seventeen years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Some of y'all weren't even born yet. That's crazy. Dennis
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  Speaker 1: Shrewder was amazing in this one because nobody else really
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  Speaker 1: showed up outside of Shooter and then Toby who had
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  Speaker 1: that bad twenty four second violation. But other than that,
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Toby had another good game. It was Dennis Shrewder, Jalen Duram.
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  Speaker 1: I keep saying it was hit or miss.
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  Speaker 2: It was hit or miss.
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  Speaker 1: Even though be ball Paul Reid had a couple bone
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  Speaker 1: Bone had turnovers. I didn't really mind his minutes, like
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah Stewart objectively would have been better than those opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: But like I didn't mind the little stints that we
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  Speaker 1: got from Paul Reid, and this was just this is
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  Speaker 1: just a good win from them, because you got to
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  Speaker 1: think about it like this. The Pistons tonight shot twenty
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  Speaker 1: two percent from three in one a basketball game. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: two percent from three in one a basketball game. They
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  Speaker 1: got to the line, they were super physical on both
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  Speaker 1: sides of the floor, and it is what it is
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  Speaker 1: for the Knicks. One thing that really bothered me, there
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  Speaker 1: was a few things that bought me from Nick's perspective.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing is that I think I saw too
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  Speaker 1: many lineups from Tom Thibodeau that only had one starter.
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  Speaker 1: In Tom Tibodau historically just a guy that's gonna run
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  Speaker 1: his guys, right. You got Brunton at forty four, Michael
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Bridges at thirty eight, Josh Hart at forty forty two
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  Speaker 1: for O John and Nobi, and thirty three. Talk about
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: minutes minutes far for his starting five. But it's something
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  Speaker 1: about the way he's delegating those minutes that bothers me
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Right, there were a few lineups or
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Canthony Towns was on the court as a sole starter.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't have the numbers to prove this, but
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  Speaker 1: in that stretch, the pistons were pretty good and the
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: knicks were not.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, if we're gonnays, I just feel like
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: we can miss a match.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to play Jaylen Brust a forty
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: four minutes, probably not that smart, But if you want
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  Speaker 1: to do that, so be it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have him and Kat on the.
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  Speaker 1: Floor together, or let's have Cat and Bridges on the
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  Speaker 1: floor together while the other dudes rest and then while
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  Speaker 1: they get they two minute rests.
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  Speaker 2: We do that like there has to be a better way.
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  Speaker 1: And some of these lineups we're talking about, like Landry Shaman,
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  Speaker 1: Cameron Payn came in and just filed the hell out
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  Speaker 1: of everybody that didn couldn't play no more and his
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: mouse and Brice who's car. Anthony Towns were like four
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  Speaker 1: of the guards around him, And I just thought they
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: lacked size, they laf athleticism in those lineups, and ultimately
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they lost those minutes.
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  Speaker 2: That was the first gripe.
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  Speaker 1: The second gripe is and this is something I've said
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: earlier in the season, but now it matters more because
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: we're in the goddamn playoffs. The Knicks are too fucking
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: talented as a basketball team. They're starting five has so
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: much offensive firepower for it to be so stagnant. I
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: understand Jaylen Bronson is an amazing isolation player, but godly,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: it can't be Karl Anthony Towns, Mchel Bridges, Old, johnn
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  Speaker 1: Nobe and Josh Hart just sitting here watching him get
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: bumped one hundred times by Asar Thompson or get bumped
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: one hundred times by this guy.
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  Speaker 2: That guy Carthony Town's. One of his.
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  Speaker 1: Biggest things is that he's one of the best shooting
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: fives in the history of this sport. I thought they
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: benefited pretty well in the first game from the stretch
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  Speaker 1: ability of Carthnny Towns. He got two three pointers tonight. Hell,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: he didn't score in the second half. That's a cat
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  Speaker 1: thinking as a toime debittal think in my personal opinion,
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  Speaker 1: because I thought that the times that Carney Town's got
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: touches down the stretches like, oh, I'm big and Tobias
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  Speaker 1: Harris is small, give me the ball on the block,
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  Speaker 1: which is like yeah, in theory, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: But you also can score on all three levels.
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  Speaker 1: You have done it for what nine years now, So
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I would have loved to see Carnthony Towns get other
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: opportunities offensively outside this being give me that ball on
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  Speaker 1: the block and I'm gona back them down on back
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  Speaker 1: them down. Oh here's Lehill. Oh shit, what am I
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: supposed to do? And then he goes up for a
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: layup or he passes it out. It's got to be
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: more opportunities for this weapon of Karthony Town. Like Carney
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Town is probably gonna make an All LIBA team this season.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: It ain't because you posted them up once every two courts.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: It's because you let him rock out a little bit. Yeah,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: you can have some bone head turnofs from Carthony Towns
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  Speaker 1: if you let him do that, but like it's worth
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  Speaker 1: it at the end of the day. Also, there was
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: one foul where Cardony Towns bumped to sar Thompson on
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: the baseline, and I'm like, that's such a stupid foul
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  Speaker 1: for Carthony Towns. And he always has a bad fouls,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: but like in this time, in this place, why'd you
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: bump them? So that's those are my biggest gripes. From
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Nick's perspective, it has not been a pretty offensive series
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: for anybody in this one, I guess, but like specifically
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: for the Knicks.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see whether will.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: And Game number one, your cat attempted only three threes
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: in this one?
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  Speaker 2: Why do I feel like it was more than that?
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Either way, just him being able to score on all
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: three levels has to be has to be utilized a
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: little bit more, and I don't think they got that tonight.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: So we'll see what ends up happening from time Tobeau.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Will he make any adjustments? I don't know. Again, he
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: was the coach of my favorite team for a bunch
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: of time, and I can't say I've seen a bunch
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: of adjustments. From what he's good at. He's really good
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: at it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the piss has scored one hundred points, and
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: any other night giving up one hundred points is a dub.
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  Speaker 2: But it's the playoffs, and one hundred.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Points could be a lot if your team can't match
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: that hundred. So two really good games tomorrow. We got
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: three games, and this is just me, this is first
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: world problems. I hate when we got three games and
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: two of them tip off, right, after each other, especially
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: mean for the playoffs, because how am I supposed to
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: really dive into Bucks versus Pacers If right behind it
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: is Grizzies versus Thunder, You're probably like Kenny, Grizzy versus
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Thunder gonna be a blout, But damn, and I still
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: gotta watch it. I'm still supposed to watch it. And
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: last year, before we get out of here, I'm gonna
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: remind you of my podcast. I think I referenced it earlier.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: This Kenny Fild channel is for the reactionary the game
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: just ended. I'm using my podcast as like this. This
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: more overarching conversations about these series give me an opportunity
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the next day to rewatch some of these games. So
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: if you want like a broader scale and maybe more analysis,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: if you will, the podcast is one hundred percent away
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: a small ball with Ken you each on YouTube, Spotify
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: all of those plays. So so yeah, man, playoff hoops
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: amazing