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Pacers Force Game 7 and Shock Everyone · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: We are going to a game seven ladies and gentlemen. Wow, Wow, Wow,
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Speaker 1: James Johnson just got ejected from an NBA game. Everything
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Speaker 1: is going amazing right now. What a performance from the
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Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 1: These dudes will not go down without a fight. These
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Speaker 1: dudes will fight, fight, fight. They never say die. Whatever
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Speaker 1: you want to say about the Indiana Pacers, that's who
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Speaker 1: they are. A series that not a lot of people
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Speaker 1: expected to go the distance is going the distance. I
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Speaker 1: cannot wait for Sunday. Today's game was like one of
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Speaker 1: the greatest. Like I was thinking about it when they
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Speaker 1: were about twenty two, because it was like, they're about
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Speaker 1: twenty two. If they go out and close this game,
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Speaker 1: where would this game rank amongst their greatest playoff game
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Speaker 1: so far? Right, it's not gonna be number one, cause
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Speaker 1: I think that when you're down by eight points or
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Speaker 1: thirty seconds ago and you come back to win a game,
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Speaker 1: that's gonna be number one. But considering all of the circumstances,
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Speaker 1: considering all the stakes in this game, this gotta be
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Speaker 1: really high on the list. The YOKC Thunder had just
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Speaker 1: won the last two games of this series, one of
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Speaker 1: them you let go of the rope and Okase he
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Speaker 1: stole it in the next one ju p so goddamn
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Speaker 1: well that people were asking if he's Scottie Pippot like that,
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Speaker 1: what was going on in this series? And then not
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Speaker 1: only just that your star player, Tyre's Halliburton has a
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Speaker 1: cap string so bad that everybody's important that if this
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Speaker 1: was January, he wouldn't play tonight or tomorrow or next week,
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Speaker 1: you know, like he would be out for a significant
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Speaker 1: amount of time. All of that combined for not just
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Speaker 1: you to win this game, but to really put belt
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Speaker 1: to ass. Ben shepperd here to three, to go a bat,
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Speaker 1: thirty to going to the fourth quarter and that was it.
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Speaker 1: So final scorers won away to ninety one. But that
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Speaker 1: ain't really what it was, you know what I'm saying. Okay,
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Speaker 1: See's bench guys came in, got a little bit of momentum,
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Speaker 1: but it really was a real belta ass performance from
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Speaker 1: the Indiana Pacers. And this was just them taking care
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Speaker 1: of business on pretty much every single metric that you could.
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Speaker 1: The Indiana Pacers are not a team that you want
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Speaker 1: to let get out and run, and both of these
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Speaker 1: teams do an amazing job of running themselves, but also
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Speaker 1: preventing other teams running so much so that some of
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Speaker 1: these games, some of these teams have had two fast
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Speaker 1: break points, four fast break points. These are two of
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Speaker 1: the fastest paced teams and two teams they get out
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Speaker 1: the break the best and Nope.
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Speaker 2: So far the series, it hasn't been the case. Today.
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Speaker 2: The Indiana Pacers won that twenty two to eleven.
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Speaker 1: Part of that is because they just had the OKC
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Speaker 1: Thunder turn the ball over more than they pretty much
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Speaker 1: ever done all season long. I think this is their
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Speaker 1: second highest turnover game of the entire season. Of course,
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Speaker 1: turnovers in a lot of cases end up turning into
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Speaker 1: fast pack points. The three point battle, OK see just
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Speaker 1: struggle from three, which is something they've done forever. And
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Speaker 1: guess what Indiana had like a little magnet ball at
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Speaker 1: that little magnet ball over the Indiana Pacers, and I
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Speaker 1: thought that they did such a phenomenal job not allowing
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Speaker 1: the OKC Thunder to get into anything. I think the
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Speaker 1: defense is what's gonna stand out the most out of
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Speaker 1: anything that you could take away from game number six
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Speaker 1: because somebody said, I said the name I video this
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Speaker 1: after like game number three or game number four, but
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Speaker 1: the Indiana Pacers really out Okay seed, Okay, see, anytime
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Speaker 1: Shay got to the nail, or anytime Shae got to
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Speaker 1: the free throw line and wanted to spin and try
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Speaker 1: to figure out things out, they had people digging in
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Speaker 1: on him.
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Speaker 2: And this was a horrible shape orformance. So we're gonna
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Speaker 2: get to that in the second.
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Speaker 1: I think part of that is really because this Pacer
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Speaker 1: defense was really able to raise up the ante. I
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Speaker 1: got a text in the middle of this game from
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Speaker 1: a family friend that's not a huge NBA fan but
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Speaker 1: happened to be watching the finals stay or hockey person.
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Speaker 1: Hockey was over anyway, and they asked, and I don't
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Speaker 1: even know if I really have to answer this, but
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna answer it the way I answer him. How
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Speaker 1: can the team look better with their star player being
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Speaker 1: hobbled than they did when he wasn't. And the thing
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Speaker 1: that I explained, tried to explain to him, And again,
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Speaker 1: I don't even know if I truly believe this, but
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Speaker 1: damn it, somebody asked a question.
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Speaker 2: I gave my opinion.
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Speaker 1: Then, when your star player, any player for that matter,
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Speaker 1: an important player, goes out with an injury in the
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Speaker 1: middle of a basketball game, and I guess in game
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Speaker 1: of a five it was the beginning of a basketball game.
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Speaker 2: Tried to play through it gave.
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Speaker 1: Us his worst performance of the entire playoffs. I thought
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Speaker 1: he was amazing. Don't give a damn that he scored
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Speaker 1: fourteen only fourteen points and.
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Speaker 2: They gave from him.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, when a player goes out with an injury in
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Speaker 1: the midst of a game, you have no time to react,
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Speaker 1: in no time to adjust. You have to play the
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Speaker 1: game plan that you set up. So even though he's
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Speaker 1: hobbled and he can't do this, he can't do that. Damn,
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Speaker 1: we still gotta run our office to him because that's
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Speaker 1: what we know the best. But when you have this
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Speaker 1: happen and then you get three days in between games,
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Speaker 1: we can prepare ourselves as the Indiana Pacers to play
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Speaker 1: as if Tyr's Halliburton is hobbled, and I thought they
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Speaker 1: did a phenomenal job of that. I think they also,
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Speaker 1: like probably shot him up with the same stuff they
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Speaker 1: shot Jaylen Brunton up. Wh Jaylen Brusse rode his ankle
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Speaker 1: against the Pistons, bro Jaylor Brusseter ran down the damn
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Speaker 1: ran down the tunnel like Willis Reid and came out
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Speaker 1: and gave a banger. I feel like Halliburnon must have
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Speaker 1: been off the your digs and he was playing through it. It.
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Speaker 1: I ain't seen no hobble, no hop they was taping
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Speaker 1: him up on the sideline, but he looked great to
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Speaker 1: me today.
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Speaker 2: I just I really love this.
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Speaker 1: Pacer team because of the diplomatic offense like Pascal fourteen shots,
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Speaker 1: Obi Top and twelve tyres for twelve, TJ McConnell twelve
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Speaker 1: was we're gonna get the teas of Conna. This team
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Speaker 1: just plays by committee, so that if the fourteen to
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Speaker 1: five and two that Tarre's head doesn't really seem like
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Speaker 1: a lot. But the reason why I think it is
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Speaker 1: so It's not a special game, don't get me wrong,
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Speaker 1: but compared to some of the other games he's had
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Speaker 1: in the series, this one is great for a few
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Speaker 1: different reasons.
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Speaker 2: I thought, again, we're gonna mention the defense at the
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Speaker 2: end of Pacers.
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Speaker 1: His anticipation on the defensive side of the ball was
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Speaker 1: so amazing.
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Speaker 2: You think about him being out.
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Speaker 1: There with a hobbled leg and YadA YadA YadA, opposing
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Speaker 1: team try to attack you.
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Speaker 2: As much as they can.
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Speaker 1: I thought he held his own some of the plays
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Speaker 1: that he made defensively lad to them having this twenty
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Speaker 1: two point fast break. And one of the plays that
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Speaker 1: he made might be the play of the entire postseason,
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Speaker 1: for the entire finals, depending on what happened in Game seven,
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Speaker 1: when he throws the signature of Tarrey's halibird no look,
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Speaker 1: but he said no look for a split second, just
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Speaker 1: no look long enough for nobody or for you to
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Speaker 1: get your Instagram picture. But like to Pascal Siyaka boom
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Speaker 1: on Jalen Williams, so I thought he played well on
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Speaker 1: both sides of the four today, but not only that
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Speaker 1: that he had been struggling to shoot, not even just
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Speaker 1: just this series. I think he went into this game
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Speaker 1: shooting like thirty two percent from three, which is not
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Speaker 1: a Halliburn thing. He's been pretty much a career forty
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Speaker 1: percent three point shooter. He had three threes tonight, And
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Speaker 1: if he can hold some of that three point shooter
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Speaker 1: for game of A seven, this again series that has
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Speaker 1: been super unpredictable, might even get even more unpredictable. So
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Speaker 1: shout out to Tyres Halliburton, TJ mcconnor. T J McConnell
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Speaker 1: is a one of one type of player. You know,
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Speaker 1: people were trying to figure out on Twitter, like who
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Speaker 1: does he remind you of a guy that comes off
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Speaker 1: the bench, a short point guard to come off the
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Speaker 1: bench and can impact the game as much as he
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Speaker 1: does at his size, And I ain't got no answer.
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Speaker 1: He really truly is a one to one because pretty
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Speaker 1: much every single home game they had, he's come in
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Speaker 1: and giving them performances, either if it was the ten
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Speaker 1: to five and five game, the five steals that he
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Speaker 1: had with the three inbound steals, or the last game
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Speaker 1: which I wish you would have played a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: He has been amazing and I hope that one day
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Speaker 1: they retire that jersey, they give him his own day
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Speaker 1: for holiday. Not todaydamn it, this is our day, but
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Speaker 1: he gets another day on the calendar for his own
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Speaker 1: personal holiday in Indiana because he has been that important
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Speaker 1: to the team for a team that sometimes has like
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Speaker 1: not enough energy. He can just check in and be like,
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Speaker 1: I'm TJ McConnell on thedotyse things and he's breaking down
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Speaker 1: all defensive caliber defenders. Bro. It makes no sense to
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Speaker 1: me the man has thirty nast dribbles a game where
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Speaker 1: he's breaking down his defender and getting underneath the basket
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Speaker 1: to figure out what's gonna happen next, and he's so
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Speaker 1: good at his six foot jumper.
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Speaker 2: What Mark you said about Teach McConnell.
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Speaker 1: None of this stuff is new, but the fact that
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Speaker 1: it's happened on the NBA Final stage against a team
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Speaker 1: that was the best defensive team of all time.
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Speaker 2: It's really impressive.
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Speaker 1: There's so many great performances tonight that, like this box
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Speaker 1: score is not gonna stand out. Pascal Siakam's sixteen, thirteen
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Speaker 1: and three don't tell a story of Pascal Siakam, who
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Speaker 1: has been an amazing defender all season long. I thought, tonight,
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Speaker 1: again everybody raked it up, but like Pascal, tonight was elite.
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Speaker 1: I thought this was just like a loud defensive performance
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Speaker 1: even though he only had one stock today, a loud
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Speaker 1: defensive Pascal Siaka performance, and that you needed that man
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Speaker 1: nim Har. He's been tasked all series along with Garden Shade,
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Speaker 1: so I've given him the pass on like the inefficiencies
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Speaker 1: offensively on him not being able to find his offensive
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Speaker 1: touch tonight, they needed him to find the offensive touch,
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Speaker 1: considering Tyres Halliburton was gonna be hobbled, and he hit
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Speaker 1: those two threes in the first court, and I'm like, yup,
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Speaker 1: he'll be okay, this is gonna be a good offensive
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Speaker 1: game for me. Ended up with seventeen points and Nobi
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Speaker 1: Toapic comes in his two threes in his first thing, Like,
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Speaker 1: they just had everybody play well. And I don't even
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Speaker 1: really know what happened in the fourth quarter because it
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Speaker 1: didn't matter. Ben Schwery hit that three to go about
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Speaker 1: thirty going into the fourth and then aj mitricheck to
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Speaker 1: the game. I said, yup, it's tame for me to
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Speaker 1: start looking through my notes to figure out what the
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Speaker 1: hell I want to talk about. First, James Johnson got ejected.
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Speaker 1: Who would have thought the game basketball is such a
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Speaker 1: great thing? But yeah, they played such an amazing game
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Speaker 1: back against the wall. Okay, See, turning the ball over
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Speaker 1: this many times is so surprising me. Again, I'm tipping
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Speaker 1: the cap because the Pacers defense was so amazing recognizing
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Speaker 1: what's at stake for them, because if you lose tonight,
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Speaker 1: the goddamn season is over. And this whole legendary Cinderella
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Speaker 1: run ends to nothing, and those Cinderella runs usually end
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Speaker 1: to nothing but a great story. They don't want that
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Speaker 1: to be them. They want to be the rare Cinderella
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Speaker 1: run that actually ends up getting the prints. How's I
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Speaker 1: don't remember the story of Cinderella, but you get what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. They didn't want to lose tonight.
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Speaker 2: Oka se played so uncharacteristic that it kind of scares me. Again,
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Speaker 2: we're going into a game seven.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be an okay, See, they rarely lose their
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they're gonna be heavy favorite for Game seven,
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Speaker 1: and they probably should be. But dare I say it
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Speaker 1: felt like the lights were maybe a little bit too
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Speaker 1: bright for this young team tonight because that pacer, that
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Speaker 1: pace of crowd, like legitimate one of one man.
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Speaker 2: They up about.
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Speaker 1: Twenty eight points in the third quarter and you look
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Speaker 1: into the crowd and they it's still not a single
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Speaker 1: body sitting down. They're chatting, oh be top, like one
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Speaker 1: of one crowd. I felt as though maybe life's a
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Speaker 1: little bit too great. I don't know what percentage said
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Speaker 1: is them or percentage of just the Pacers having the
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Speaker 1: better will tonight and the better defensive scheme and the
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Speaker 1: better everything tonight.
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Speaker 2: But it was so bad.
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Speaker 1: This is one of the sloppiest shade games you'll ever see,
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Speaker 1: ever see. And I thought that he tried to force
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Speaker 1: the issue maybe a little bit more than what I
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Speaker 1: would have wanted. Part of that is probably nobody else
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Speaker 1: could score on the team, and it's like, I gotta
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Speaker 1: do this. With some of the turnovers that he had, again,
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Speaker 1: it's them just diving in on him when he turns
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Speaker 1: his back, you know, trying to create for himself for
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Speaker 1: YadA yad yadam third quarter. One of the possessions that
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Speaker 1: he had early third quarter, I'm like, bro, who's space jammed?
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Speaker 1: Hey gives Alexander today when he gets into the paint
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Speaker 1: and you know, Shay, he got a couple different options
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Speaker 1: when he get two feet in, it's go straight up
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Speaker 1: for la, it's playing to some contract. I try to
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Speaker 1: get it and one is faded in the way. Amazing
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Speaker 1: at all three of those things. Try to maybe overcompensate
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Speaker 1: because he jumped up into the air six feet away
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Speaker 1: from the basket and tried to dump it down to
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Speaker 1: a six to three Cason Wallace, who's under the basket
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Speaker 1: with Moles turning right on his back.
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Speaker 2: What that ain't shay, I'm man caseon.
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Speaker 1: Wallace dropped the ball so goddamn fast dropped the ball
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Speaker 1: like I ain't even supposed to be here right now?
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Speaker 1: Why are you passing me the ball? And yeah, they
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Speaker 1: just played a sloppy, sloppy game. It's another one of
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Speaker 1: them Chet Homger games. Bro this okay, this great defensive team. Okay,
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Speaker 1: see is not a great defensive team, an legendarily great defensive.
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Speaker 2: Team if Chet Holmer is not on the floor. All
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Speaker 2: the numbers say that, the eye test say that's so
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Speaker 2: on and so forth.
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Speaker 1: But the offense for Chat has been so atrocious that
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Speaker 1: it's like.
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Speaker 2: Like it's make I don't care who wins these games.
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Speaker 2: I am like pulling my hair out.
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Speaker 1: Luckily, for check the other center of Vis Turner play
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Speaker 1: Damnar just as bad. So it's like I for an eye,
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Speaker 1: I guess, But man, this Chat offensive game. He get
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Speaker 1: one of the first buckets of the game and Doris
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Speaker 1: Burger's like, that's just seven foot YadA YadA making that play.
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Speaker 1: He didn't even play this season because of that hip injury.
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Speaker 1: And I really do think that hip injury is preventing
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Speaker 1: him from having the same reps as some of these
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Speaker 1: other people in the series. But boy, when it's bad
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Speaker 1: for Chat, it looks really really bad. And I thought
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Speaker 1: tonight was one of those Knights where it looked really
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Speaker 1: really bad. They lost a turnover battle, they lost the
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Speaker 1: fast break battle, they lost a second chance battle. They
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Speaker 1: won the points in the painter. Shout out to them
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Speaker 1: for that, but it's that's kind of what they do.
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Speaker 1: They're not a great three point shoot team, and they
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Speaker 1: ended up with thirty may threes. Let me figure out
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Speaker 1: where it was before first quarter, The win a six
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Speaker 1: second quarter, the oh five, third quarter, the two of nine,
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Speaker 1: and they took ten threes in the fourth where it
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Speaker 1: didn't matter. So they that's one of my biggest complaints
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Speaker 1: about Okay, see, if I have any it's that a
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Speaker 1: lot of the times they don't start to try to
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Speaker 1: get the threes up until the back against the wall,
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Speaker 1: and by that time it's a little bit to a
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Speaker 1: lay game. These other teams they fire. Let me let
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Speaker 1: me see what Indiana pacey, and they end up hitting
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Speaker 1: fifteen threes. First quarter, they attempted fourteenth. They took the
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Speaker 1: fourteenth threes in the first quarter. I don't even need
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Speaker 1: to see the rest. They took the fourteen threes in
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Speaker 1: the first quarter. Man, it's gonna be hard to catch
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Speaker 1: up with those things, especially if oka See has the
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Speaker 1: magnet ball, which is something it felt like they had tonight.
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Speaker 2: What a great performance from the Pacers.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that you know, if you read
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Speaker 1: through the articles of the super super smart NBA minds
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Speaker 1: that are writing right now, or you listen to the
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Speaker 1: really smart people, they were talking about how Okac has
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Speaker 1: been taking advantage of the Indiana Pacers bat starting their
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Speaker 1: offense so very high, started.
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Speaker 2: With a pick and roll from Shaye to get them down.
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Speaker 1: He'll spread the defense out and you're kind of at
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Speaker 1: the mercy of Shay at that moment in time, and
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Speaker 1: you have to count if you're okay see on Shade
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Speaker 1: making the right decision, and he had been doing it
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Speaker 1: at least in the last game. Today, the Pacers didn't
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Speaker 1: allow them to do that. And I can't wait to
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Speaker 1: rewatch some of these possessions, but at least in real time,
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Speaker 1: it didn't fit like Okac was really able to do
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Speaker 1: what they did in these last couple of games. One
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Speaker 1: of my biggest complaints outside of the three point shooting
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Speaker 1: when it comes to Oka, see is that man, this
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Speaker 1: can just get ball watching. Like, I know that they're
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Speaker 1: running a lot of sets outside of timeouts, you know,
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Speaker 1: aots and you know, sideline out of bounds, basedline out
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Speaker 1: of bounds a lot of times to end up getting
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Speaker 1: good looks. I know, I said Joe ended up getting
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Speaker 1: a three. I don't know if he made it, but
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Speaker 1: outside of a timeout. Also, coach Mark waited so very
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Speaker 1: long to call the time out in that second quarter
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Speaker 1: when things were avalanche either way, but in just their
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Speaker 1: normal half court offense. I wish I had the capabilities
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Speaker 1: to do the Google not the Googles, but I had
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Speaker 1: like second spectrum. What I can see what percentage of
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Speaker 1: the Thunders offense tonight was organized versus freelance? If I
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Speaker 1: had to guess, at least if we can discount the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, If I had to guess, I would guess
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Speaker 1: it was eighty five fifteen just straight up freelancing and
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Speaker 1: eyes on shade, Shay, save us Shay do this, and
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Speaker 1: it didn't allow for them to have a great game.
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Speaker 1: So we're going to Game seven. I cannot be more excited.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like I'm may be missing
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Speaker 1: some notes here.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm done. I'll see yall. Game seven