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Shaq Likes the Warriors 1st Round Matchup vs. Rockets: 'Experience over youth' | Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: The Grizzlies don't play again until Friday, so it's late
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday now Wednesday, Thursday. You guys know better than I do,
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  Speaker 1: when you're dealing with that kind of an injury, it'll.
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  Speaker 2: Be sore tonight and tomorrow. Get plenty of treatment, stem
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  Speaker 2: ice and things like that, but you know they're going home.
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  Speaker 2: So he finished the game, So I mean he got
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  Speaker 2: spraining ankle. That's all you can say. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you got to think about this.
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  Speaker 3: You hate in those off days that you're rehabbing instead
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  Speaker 3: of like fine tuning, like getting you know, if you
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  Speaker 3: want to get your shot, just getting a little more consistent,
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  Speaker 3: get your body ready to play. But when you in
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  Speaker 3: the you know, in the treatment room, you know you're
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  Speaker 3: not part of that. And so that's the only thing
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  Speaker 3: that could, you know, be something difficult in a long.
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  Speaker 4: The next game he wants to play, he will play.
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  Speaker 4: He's a dog. Four words, I see hot man up.
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  Speaker 1: Tim Conley was in my ear. I don't know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what was said.
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  Speaker 4: I said, hot man up. I see hot man.
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  Speaker 1: I could have I could have predicted four words.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just checking check.
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  Speaker 3: I've never needed because when I run to the bus,
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  Speaker 3: I do not need.
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  Speaker 4: Icy high, I know because of the fire.
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  Speaker 1: Meantime, the Golden State Warriors move on to take on
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets, and these guys met five times this season,
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  Speaker 1: had that extra meeting because of the knockout round.
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  Speaker 4: Game and the one that didn't count.
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  Speaker 1: No, that one counted in a knockout round. So they
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  Speaker 1: so they met five times and Golden State winning three
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  Speaker 1: of those. Uh Included in the Rockets victory was one
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  Speaker 1: that snapped their fifteen game losing streak against.
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  Speaker 3: Well two yeah, one and one, said Jimmy Butler. If
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  Speaker 3: you read their first line.
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  Speaker 2: I was listening to Ernie.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't read that.
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  Speaker 4: That's always your first mistake.
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  Speaker 1: Just read the graphic. Don't listen to Ernie.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: I still like the Rockets in that series, do you?
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  Speaker 1: I do listen to some of these scores in that
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  Speaker 1: season series one one in overtime ninety nine to ninety three,
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  Speaker 1: ninety one, ninety one oh five ninety eight, and the
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  Speaker 1: biggest margin was ten one oh six ninety six for
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets win on April sixth. That's the game that
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  Speaker 1: Steph had three points on just one of ten. But
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  Speaker 1: tonight Steph goes for over thirty. Butler goes for over thirty.
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  Speaker 1: They did that on the final day of the regular
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  Speaker 1: season that lost to the Clippers in overtime. They do
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  Speaker 1: it now when they play in tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I said before the game. You know, these guys
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  Speaker 4: when they have to focus, they always find a way
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  Speaker 4: to get it done. Jimmy Butler first time playing with
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  Speaker 4: this team in the playoffs. Situation really turned in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Jimmy thirty eight. Steph didn't play great, but he played
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  Speaker 4: well enough. He had some timely threes there with you know,
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  Speaker 4: under under four or five minutes left, and everybody played well.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, kudos to Memphis because they kept fighting.
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  Speaker 4: Young and the young, energetic team. But you know when
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  Speaker 4: you got guys like Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler who
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  Speaker 4: had that playoff experience a series, I like Golden State
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  Speaker 4: over Houston. I like experience over here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's hard for me to go against the Rocket. However,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you really look at the second half
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  Speaker 3: of the season since also break, the Golden State Warrior
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  Speaker 3: is a twenty one and seven. They're not a seventh seed.
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  Speaker 3: They're not with Jimmy Butler, They're not playing like a
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  Speaker 3: seventh seed. They're playing like a three steed. It's like
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  Speaker 3: a team that had.
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  Speaker 1: The second best record in the Western Conference after the
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  Speaker 1: all start.
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  Speaker 3: So this is this is a difficult This will be
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  Speaker 3: a lot of difficulty for it.
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  Speaker 4: But I do think.
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  Speaker 3: That this will be the series that Emi Adoka changes
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Green into what Jayleen he did with Jalen Brown,
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  Speaker 3: helping him god getting him to that next level and
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  Speaker 3: being more consistent because the guy Jalen Green is a
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  Speaker 3: guy who can get thirty points one night and get
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  Speaker 3: nine the next.
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  Speaker 4: Now he's got to work on that. I don't compare
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  Speaker 4: to Brown.
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  Speaker 3: I think he this is a series that he will
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  Speaker 3: be consistent and that will take the Rockets over.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be the rockets first appearance in the playoffs since
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  Speaker 1: since the bubble in twenty twenty. He will have home court,
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  Speaker 1: but it is against a veteran, laden, experienced Golden State team.