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The OKC Thunder Have This ONE Advantange... · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: This game right here, Game three of the Western Conference
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Speaker 1: Finals is an NBA Championship caliber performance from our defending
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Speaker 1: NBA champion. Final score is one twenty three to oneh eight.
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Speaker 1: There's just a lot of things rocking against them in
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Speaker 1: this game. The first will being we find out that
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Speaker 1: dub is out. I know, y'all know he only played
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Speaker 1: seven minutes of game number two, they said he was
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Speaker 1: day to day. And a little bit before the game
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Speaker 1: tip off, we find out j Doub will not be
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Speaker 1: suiting up. That is an all NBA, All defensive caliber player,
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Speaker 1: just not giving you any minutes. Then the first game
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Speaker 1: of the road in the hostile San Antonio where the
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Speaker 1: crowd was electric the whole night, not all he's a
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Speaker 1: stat They start the game off Oklahoma City Thunder down
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Speaker 1: fifteen to zero. The Spurs are healthy for the first
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Speaker 1: time in forever. That's four different factors just right there.
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Speaker 1: And they come out there and oh the fifth factor,
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Speaker 1: Amy Peter the leagus hey gives I was in the
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Speaker 1: struggles from the field again. So five pretty big slash
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Speaker 1: major factors score against them and they still able to
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Speaker 1: do this. Now, recognize that the Oklahoma City Thunder are
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Speaker 1: the villains of the NBA. I think it's great for
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Speaker 1: the league when we have a villain. When I was
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Speaker 1: in high school, I hated the Miami Heap. They were
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Speaker 1: the villain of the league. And I kind of love
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Speaker 1: the idea that we have another villain. We haven't had
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Speaker 1: one since I guess, like the KD Warriors was a
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Speaker 1: villain to the league. Like the NBA fans just hated
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Speaker 1: that team because they had so much talent. The Oklanoa
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Speaker 1: City Thunder have turned themselves in the villain through you know,
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Speaker 1: the whistles or the defense, the aggression, the over the
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Speaker 1: top aggression, all of the other things have turned them
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Speaker 1: into a villain. But I can't help but to admire
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Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that they're able to do
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Speaker 1: as a collective. Not only have the Oklahoma City Thunder
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Speaker 1: a winner today because they literally won the game, the
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Speaker 1: biggest run of them all is Sam Presty. Sam Presty.
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Speaker 1: The best thing this team has ever had, outside of
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Speaker 1: having the MVP of the league is how many bodies
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Speaker 1: they truly have and how many people they have that
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Speaker 1: can contribute to a playoff game. They acquired at the
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Speaker 1: deadline jere McCain This is the Game three of the
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Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals, and jere McCain swung the game and
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Speaker 1: potentially swung the series. Game three is an important series
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Speaker 1: game when it's a one to one. He may have
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Speaker 1: swung this series with this performance. It cost him a
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Speaker 1: one late first round pick in a couple of seconds
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Speaker 1: to go get jere McCain finding Aj Mitchell, who didn't
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Speaker 1: have a great game today and also got into that scuffle.
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Speaker 1: But just in the I'm just looking big picture for
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Speaker 1: San Precy finding Aj Mitchell in the second round the
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Speaker 1: Alixe Carusso Trede, who I told y'all last video stop
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Speaker 1: hitting me about hit me up about, But damn, I'm
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Speaker 1: gona hit you up about it because I still can't
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Speaker 1: believe that through through three games, Carusso has given you
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Speaker 1: thirty seventeen and fifteen. Caruso hit a three today that
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Speaker 1: he was leaning like a leaning three in the corner,
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Speaker 1: not a stationary let me get my a feast set
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Speaker 1: and thinking about the acronym. No, no, no, no no. He
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Speaker 1: got the ball and was swinging to the right and
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Speaker 1: hit a three. I'm like, bro, what is happening? Shay
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Speaker 1: struggles from the field seven six of seventeen. But even
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Speaker 1: with that, it's just the thing I love the most
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Speaker 1: about Shay. And I've mentioned this before, but I know
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Speaker 1: that when we get into the playoffs there a lot
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Speaker 1: of new listeners and watchers. Hell, we've gained over like
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Speaker 1: twenty thousand subscribers since the playoffs will start. Thank you
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Speaker 1: for that. By the way, it's not just Shaye's ability
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Speaker 1: to hit shots. Today. He did not hit a ton
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Speaker 1: of shots. It's that there's not many things that you
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Speaker 1: can do against them to completely eliminate him in an
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Speaker 1: NBA game. One of the biggest things that you can
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Speaker 1: try is to get the ball out of his hands.
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Speaker 1: And that's what the That's what the Spurs did today.
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Speaker 1: They got the ball out of his hands, but very
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Speaker 1: rarely do they turn Does he turn the ball over?
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Speaker 1: Two turnovers on the day to twelve assists just straight
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Speaker 1: up five in the open man. A lot of credit
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Speaker 1: goes out to the shooters out there. Right. We already
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Speaker 1: talked about McCain and his big game and carew so
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Speaker 1: oh my god, Jaylen Williams had that net snapping time
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Speaker 1: and time again. The four point play might have been
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Speaker 1: the thing that wrapped it up. At the end of
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Now, even Cason Wallace came and hits
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Speaker 1: the shots, so he he just makes the right play.
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Speaker 1: And that seems like a very simple thing, and a
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Speaker 1: lot of times it is a very simple thing. But
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Speaker 1: to keep the offense going without the best one of
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Speaker 1: the best offensive players in the league scoring, it's a
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Speaker 1: special team thing. But Shae gets a lot of credit
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Speaker 1: to that as well. The entire of the postseason, the spurt.
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Speaker 1: Matter of fact, let me give you the exact number
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Speaker 1: because it might have shifted, But the entire of the postseason,
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Speaker 1: the San Antonial Spurs have logged a one oh six
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Speaker 1: defensive rating, which is only oh my god, the only
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Speaker 1: team better than them defensively in the postings so far.
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Speaker 1: Guess this team about to say, the New York Knicks. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: nine straight games won by the Knicks, for sure, but
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Speaker 1: it's been them, And when it was Wimby on floor,
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Speaker 1: that defensive rating was a one o one, right. The
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Speaker 1: fact that the Thunder just posted up a one to
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Speaker 1: twenty eight offensive rating in this game shows you how
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Speaker 1: good and how deep this team is. Their calling card
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Speaker 1: is always going to be the defensive side of the ball,
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Speaker 1: but then being able to do this offensively is the
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Speaker 1: reason why a lot of people going into the season
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Speaker 1: saw them as a team that can be the first
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Speaker 1: repeating champion since the Warriors. Right, the Warriors were the
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Speaker 1: last seed in the repeat champion So an amazing, amazing
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Speaker 1: game for the Oklahoma City Thunder. The only the only
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Speaker 1: real gripe I have is and it's not even a
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Speaker 1: Thunder problem, but I think it's a referee problem. That
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Speaker 1: third quarter was forty five minutes of real time. And
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Speaker 1: if you remember my recap video for a game number two,
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Speaker 1: I mentioned how you know Isaiah Hardenstouin's beating the hell
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Speaker 1: out of Victor in Miyama. And I said in that
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Speaker 1: video that I would assume that the Spurs gonna make
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Speaker 1: a super court cut and send them to the league
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Speaker 1: off and say, hey, they can't be doing that against
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Speaker 1: our players. And I do believe that the Thunder eased
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Speaker 1: off the gas a little bit when it comes to
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Speaker 1: that super ultra physical or maybe above physicality that you
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Speaker 1: saw in game number two, But also because we had
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Speaker 1: the two scuffles that happened in this game. Oh my
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Speaker 1: daughter gave me this, by the way, so you're gonna
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Speaker 1: see me where this maybe for the rest of my life.
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Speaker 1: Because we had the two scuffles in this game, I
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Speaker 1: think it made the ref say, like, oh, we we
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Speaker 1: can't have no physicality the rest of this quarter. We
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Speaker 1: have to blow every single thing. So I think that
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Speaker 1: the Spurs saw like twenty three throws in the third
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Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City, Thunder may have matched them or was
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Speaker 1: close to it. And I'm just sitting here watching like
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Speaker 1: this game has so much flow through the first two quarters,
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Speaker 1: and I guess especially game of one, this just has
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Speaker 1: so much flow that it just died in that third
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Speaker 1: quarter because they were basically calling every bump and bruise
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Speaker 1: and it became a little bit more than what it
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Speaker 1: should be. But I think that's again just them trying
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Speaker 1: to temper the emotions of the game because they were
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Speaker 1: the back to back players. Was Stefon Castle get the
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Speaker 1: breakaway steal and he goes up and he gets fouled
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Speaker 1: two different times. I thought the Caruso one was one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent just a clean, great defensive play to prevent
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Speaker 1: a guy from getting a breakaway lay up. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Sefon Castle unfortunately landed. It landed not the greatest way.
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Speaker 1: The second one, which was aj Mitchell. If I'm not mistaken,
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Speaker 1: that was the one that definitely I think that they
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Speaker 1: made the right call when make it of a flavor one,
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Speaker 1: but the Caruso one completely cool. We hit the groups
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Speaker 1: that or Pierre hit the groups that say and loudor
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Speaker 1: always finds a way to be in the mix because
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Speaker 1: if you reward that dear fox Ankle twist. I don't
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Speaker 1: think Dort did anything wrong. You know, sometimes a player
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Speaker 1: falls and then rolls and you could say, hmm, that
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Speaker 1: role feels kind of suspicious. I don't think Ludort just
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Speaker 1: went for a lose ball and this so happened that
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Speaker 1: Daron fox leg or Ankle got tweaked in it, which
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Speaker 1: is super unfortunate. But Dort is always in the vicinity
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Speaker 1: when shit is going down. It's like what I mean,
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Speaker 1: I know why he's in the vicinity a lot of
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Speaker 1: the times, but this time it was not by his
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Speaker 1: own doing. Not many turnovers in this game ten turnovers
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Speaker 1: total for the Thunder they actually turned the Spurs of
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Speaker 1: fifteen times was the lowest amount of turnovers the Spurs
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Speaker 1: have had in this series so far. But the big
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Speaker 1: thing is that the three point shooting seventeen Ay threes,
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Speaker 1: and I've said it for two years straight. If the
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Speaker 1: Thunder are gonna hit a good amount of their threes,
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Speaker 1: let's say thirty eight to forty something percent of their threes,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna be basically unbeatable. Because it's rare. They're gonna
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Speaker 1: lose a turnover battle, and in the traditional sense, Shay
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Speaker 1: is good for thirty. So if they're hitting forty percent
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Speaker 1: from three, not turning the ball over, and Shay's giving
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Speaker 1: you thirty, that's just the recipe to lose. The one
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Speaker 1: underlying thing that I think was really good from the
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Speaker 1: Thunder before we switch over to what the Spurs can
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Speaker 1: improve on for Game number four, is that they did
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Speaker 1: not allow the Spurs to get on that offensive glass.
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Speaker 1: The percentages were like thirty five thirty six percent and
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Speaker 1: game number one offensive rebound rate for the Spurs and
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Speaker 1: thirty three percent game number two. Last time I checked
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Speaker 1: them to see if this has been updated, ended up
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Speaker 1: being twenty four percent in this game, So dropping by
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Speaker 1: like ten percent, that's huge. That's that's a lot, and
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Speaker 1: I think part of that is because they continue to
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Speaker 1: stick one of the bigs on Victor Winmyama in this one,
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Speaker 1: and Caldon Johnson wasn't just available to do anything in
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Speaker 1: this game, first of all, except for foul But I
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Speaker 1: think in the first two games he can buy for
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Speaker 1: like five or six offensive boards, and he wasn't really
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Speaker 1: killing the glass like that. So I think that was
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Speaker 1: huge for them to close out possessions. That's the one
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Speaker 1: of the biggest parts of defense, as you know. But overall,
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Speaker 1: a championship level performance all things considered, shout out to
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Speaker 1: the Thunder two wins away from being back in the finals.
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Speaker 1: But I'm not shutting the door obviously on this Spurs team,
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Speaker 1: because as you know, they are extremely, extremely talented. My
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Speaker 1: gripe for them, and Winby does end up having twenty
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Speaker 1: six in this game, but I feel like his whole
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Speaker 1: twenty six is just so difficult, and I think mis
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Speaker 1: Johnson and the coaching staff over there can do a
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Speaker 1: better job of getting win Been Yama easier opportunities. And
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Speaker 1: Tariico was on the call today and he prefaced it
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Speaker 1: by saying like, hey, I understand this might sound like
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Speaker 1: a stupid question, but he asked Reggie and Jamal Crawford,
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Speaker 1: hey man, Weinby is half a foot taller than everybody
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Speaker 1: on the court and a foot taller than most people
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Speaker 1: on the court. Can we simply just kind of have
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Speaker 1: a flasks to the middle and throw him the ball?
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Speaker 1: And Reggie Miller said, yeah, we could do that every
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Speaker 1: single time. And I don't know, obviously, I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's that simple to do that every single time. But
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Speaker 1: I do think, like man, when beIN Yama could benefit
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Speaker 1: from some true things drawn up for him. I think
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Speaker 1: sometimes teams or coaches recognize that they have such a
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Speaker 1: talented offensive player that they think to themselves, need to
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Speaker 1: call his number because he is that good to go
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Speaker 1: get you twenty six in a game like this. But
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Speaker 1: sometimes I'm just like looking at the Oklahoma City Thunder
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Speaker 1: go on a run and then like Winnby checks in
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Speaker 1: because the run traditionally is not with maybe on the court,
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Speaker 1: Winby checks in, and instead of the first possession of
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Speaker 1: being like a ducky in and let Weinby cook to
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Speaker 1: stop the run, it becomes something extra. I'm just like man,
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Speaker 1: I would just love to get more women Yama down low,
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Speaker 1: or they're gonna have to be down low when min
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Speaker 1: Yama coming off something curling on the screen, putting them
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Speaker 1: in the pick and roll, throw them alive, just something
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Speaker 1: to make it more easy. I do like the fact
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Speaker 1: that he did have a decent, decent whistle, especially in
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Speaker 1: comparison to game number two, where he had to get
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Speaker 1: two to one or two free throws. This time he
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Speaker 1: ended up shooting ten. But they did a really good
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Speaker 1: job of keeping them off the offensive and defensive glass.
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Speaker 1: He probably could have had let's say eight or nine
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Speaker 1: rebounds because there are a lot of balls that just
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Speaker 1: went out of bounds and he'd let go out of
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Speaker 1: bounds so they can reset everything. But yeah, I just
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Speaker 1: wanted a little bit more of that. Sefan Castle was
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Speaker 1: not the greatest offensive player. You still do a pre
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Speaker 1: siate the type of pressure that he can put on
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Speaker 1: the rim, and I do think his role definitely changes
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Speaker 1: right when it is dear and Fox on the floor.
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Speaker 1: You don't see him have twenty turnovers through two games.
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Speaker 1: Actually you only have one today. Hey see, that's just
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Speaker 1: what happens when an off guard play off guard things.
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Speaker 1: But the jump shot was a falling. Again, appreciate the
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Speaker 1: rim pressure and I guess the decision making going up
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Speaker 1: higher Dylan Harper, you could tell that he just didn't
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Speaker 1: really have the legs, and I think a lot of
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Speaker 1: it has to do with him being questionable coming into
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Speaker 1: this game. Champagnee took a while before he hit his
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Speaker 1: first shot, which I think is a struggle. But a
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Speaker 1: lot of this boils down to the non winby minutes.
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Speaker 1: And I think that is a difference between these two
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Speaker 1: teams so far in this series because it has been
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Speaker 1: such a close series, is that the thunder do have
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Speaker 1: one of the deepest benches in the league, if not
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Speaker 1: the deepest bench in the league, while the Spurs today
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Speaker 1: had Dylan Harper back on the bench for the first time,
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Speaker 1: but until then basically didn't have anybody outside of Keldon
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Speaker 1: Johnson in theory. I mean, Keldon Johnson did within our
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Speaker 1: six minut of the year, but I don't think we've
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Speaker 1: had many real Keldon Johnson moments so far in this series.
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Speaker 1: And maybe it's just crossing, like slipping my mind, but
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's very good today. I don't think
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Speaker 1: he's very good in Game number two, and I don't
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Speaker 1: think he's very good in Game number one either, So
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Speaker 1: their bench is very lackluster in comparison. Right, Luke Cornett
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Speaker 1: checks into the game and immediately a lead that was
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Speaker 1: sixteen becomes a tie game in a matter of minutes.
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Speaker 1: I made the tweet about halftime, we're in the five
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Speaker 1: and a half minutes that when Benyama has set the
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Speaker 1: Spurs lost by nineteen points. And you think about the
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Speaker 1: opposite side of things where Jay Will, like we mentioned earlier,
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Speaker 1: can come into the game and hit five threes off
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Speaker 1: the bench. That is the difference right now between these
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Speaker 1: two teams to a couple games, at least one of
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Speaker 1: the major differences. So they still do have one game
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Speaker 1: at home they got. I think they got. They got
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Speaker 1: to got to get that one or the series will
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Speaker 1: be over in my personal opinion, and I don't put
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Speaker 1: it past them. I do think that miss Johnson the
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Speaker 1: company are smart enough to draw up some type of
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Speaker 1: game planning to win. I think it could be kind
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Speaker 1: of similar to like the way the Calves are feeling
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Speaker 1: after game number two of their City were like, you're
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Speaker 1: processing defensively? Was correct? Think about it. You got the
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Speaker 1: ball out of Shay Gives Alexander's hands, and yesterday you
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Speaker 1: got the ball out of jaylen brount his hands. Those
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Speaker 1: two guys are the killers of this team. You hope
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Speaker 1: that the guys that he's given the ball to don't
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Speaker 1: shoot great Josh Hart hit a shot in years If no,
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Speaker 1: this iss fects that. Sorry, Actually this is a really
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Speaker 1: good year for him. He's actually been amazing. But he
13:25
Speaker 1: had struggled at least in compared to the game. Boy, he
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Speaker 1: couldn't play in the fourth quarter in overtime, right, you
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Speaker 1: want to see him take all them shots. It just
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Speaker 1: so happened he had with five or six of them.
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Speaker 1: And this one you want Caruso h didn't take any shots,
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Speaker 1: even if he killed you in the game, won a game. Two.
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Speaker 1: You want jere McCain take these shots, even if Jery
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Speaker 1: Kane is just a good shooter. Overall, you'd rather it
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Speaker 1: be those guys. You'd rather be Dort, You'd rather be
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Speaker 1: Jay Will. You'd rather be those guys other than it
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Speaker 1: being Shaye. And this team wasn't an amazing three point
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Speaker 1: shooting team all season long. Actually, somehow they were better
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Speaker 1: than the Spurs on the full season. Either way, I
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Speaker 1: think the defensive processing was right. I just think, Okay,
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Speaker 1: see that a damn good job. And they're shot making tonight.
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Speaker 1: And you pair that with the differences in the bench.
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Speaker 1: That's how we get to down by fifteen in the
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Speaker 1: first quarter to winning the game by fifteen. So that
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Speaker 1: MA knows your think. Great game for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Speaker 1: I do want to say if I was gonna do
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Speaker 1: like an NBA Letterbox, Game number one of the series
14:23
Speaker 1: was a ten out of team and five. Wait, I
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Speaker 1: think Letterbox is stars, five star performance, five star game
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Speaker 1: from top to finish. It was everything could imagine an
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Speaker 1: NBA game. I think Game two is probably like a
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Speaker 1: seven point four. I think Game number three is probably
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Speaker 1: like a five. We're going in the road direction. Come on,
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Speaker 1: we need we need a banger overtime game and game
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Speaker 1: number four or ridiculous performance from one of the two superstars.
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Speaker 1: Something something has to give. I'm having fun, but this
14:48
Speaker 1: is like like a lot of TV shows, Season one
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Speaker 1: is to go and then they continue to make more seasons.
14:52
Speaker 1: You're like, why are they still going? How are we
14:54
Speaker 1: in season forty at the Simpsons when we probably should
14:58
Speaker 1: have stopped that season thirteen or something as roster, I
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Speaker 1: don't know,