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4-21-26 Hour 1 - Nugs blow it to T-Wolves in Game 2/"All the bad defenders" on the Nugs/Horrible NBC broadcast · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Caine on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna call a time out. Inbound goes over to
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  Speaker 2: Jamal Murray. Nuggets are down by three. Murray across the timeline.
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  Speaker 2: He gets a pick from Yokich, turns the corner, takes
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  Speaker 2: a twoe. That one's no good, rebound down to de Vincenzo,
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  Speaker 2: alt to pass off over to Randall five seconds left.
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  Speaker 2: De Vincenzo dunk and the Denver Nuggets will lose Game
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  Speaker 2: number two in Round number one final tonight here against
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  Speaker 2: the Minnesota Timberwolves. Denver led by nineteen, end up losing
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  Speaker 2: by five one nineteen to one fourteen, and the best
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  Speaker 2: of seven series is all square at one win apiece.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I've seen this one.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen this one.
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  Speaker 4: This is a classic. All right, let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: The Nuggets lose last night in a very difficult game.
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  Speaker 3: You take this big lead early only to give it
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  Speaker 3: right back in the second and Vic, I think I
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  Speaker 3: know where you're gonna go this morning. And I'm happy
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  Speaker 3: about this because I think you and me in moj
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  Speaker 3: We're all gonna be focused on different things, but that
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  Speaker 3: means there's no meat left on the bone to pick.
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  Speaker 4: You're assuming you know what I'm gonna say.
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  Speaker 3: I think I know what's gonna bother you the most
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  Speaker 3: about last night, I think, but I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 3: bothered me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, And this is uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is maybe a smaller detail to others,
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  Speaker 3: but it's something I mentioned before.
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  Speaker 4: Even with the.
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  Speaker 3: Nuggets having a superb start to the game where everybody's
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  Speaker 3: getting in shooting making.
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  Speaker 4: And one.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like late in the game, Jokic was trying
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  Speaker 3: to find his shot because he didn't shoot early. And
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  Speaker 3: I've talked about this before. This isn't a game in January.
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  Speaker 3: This isn't a game in November. I know that this
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  Speaker 3: is sort of his mo it's I want to get
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  Speaker 3: others involved. I don't care how much I score. I
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  Speaker 3: care how much he's putting up shots early in games
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  Speaker 3: when it's the playoffs, because you need to be in
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  Speaker 3: a rhythm. And I watched him airball two different threes
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  Speaker 3: in the second half because it felt like he was
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  Speaker 3: looking to find it. And then late in the game
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  Speaker 3: when you need a bucket. He's got a patented floater
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  Speaker 3: that he makes ninety nine times out of one hundred
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  Speaker 3: that he passes up to give the CB. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying the reason for that is that he wasn't involved early,
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  Speaker 3: but I do think it's a factor, and that stuff
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  Speaker 3: is what bothers me, is that he needs to I
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  Speaker 3: heard on the broadcast Rudy Gobert is doing a great
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  Speaker 3: job of shutting down Joker. Joker wasn't taking shots. He
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  Speaker 3: wasn't shooting. It's hard or it's easy to defend somebody
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  Speaker 3: when he's not shooting. But Vick, he's too important, too
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  Speaker 3: good of an offensive player. Did not be active in
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  Speaker 3: the scoring hard to me early, and I think it
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  Speaker 3: affected him, Like, um, here's.
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  Speaker 5: My thoughts, and I'll go counter to what you just said.
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  Speaker 5: I have no problem with Joker taking four shots in
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  Speaker 5: the first half, especially in the first quarter when you're
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  Speaker 5: up by nineteen points. If it didn't work, I'd have
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  Speaker 5: a problem with it. They were up by nineteen points.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care if he never shoots. If your team
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  Speaker 5: is up by nineteen points, whatever you're doing offensively is working.
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  Speaker 5: And whatever they did offensively down the stretch did not work.
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  Speaker 5: We've seen Joker take time to get into the offense.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think that's the issue. The issue for me
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  Speaker 5: toughen up, man, toughen up. That team out toughed you,
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  Speaker 5: that team out scrapped you, that team out hustled you,
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  Speaker 5: that team out punked you. That's what I want to
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  Speaker 5: talk about. I needed three and second chance points. There
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  Speaker 5: were moments during that game I wrote a couple of
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  Speaker 5: things down. I'm like, what just for the ward? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: the record?
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  Speaker 3: I thought your thing would be twenty to three and
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  Speaker 3: second chance points. Great.
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  Speaker 5: That my guess, Well, that's that's hustle. That's want to
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there are so many things I want to
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  Speaker 5: talk about. Where let's start here Mark Moser. And by
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  Speaker 5: the way, this series is just getting started.
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  Speaker 3: Okay for anybody who's.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, it is not dooming. The Nuggets are toast,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to hear that crap. We've seen this
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  Speaker 5: story before, We've here's Here's where I'm concerned though, Here's
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  Speaker 5: where I'm concerned against this specific team Minnesota. Is there
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  Speaker 5: any lead that's safe if you're the Denver Nuggets. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I want you to think about something twice in the
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  Speaker 5: history of Nuggets basketball.
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  Speaker 3: Only twice have.
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  Speaker 5: They ever blown the lead of nineteen plus in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: Ever in the history of Nuggets basketball have they ever
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  Speaker 5: given up a lead in the playoffs in which they
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  Speaker 5: led by nineteen or more. Both times at home to
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  Speaker 5: the Minnesota Timberwolves. They could be up by sixty and
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  Speaker 5: I'd show concern. That's a problem. That's a problem. I
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  Speaker 5: don't understand how they gave that lead away so quickly,
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  Speaker 5: so easily, so I without any pushback at all.
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  Speaker 4: It was unreal.
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  Speaker 5: I'm watching the second quarter devolve into a I don't
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  Speaker 5: know what, and it felt very much like Game seven.
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  Speaker 4: They did it not remind you, guys of Game seven
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  Speaker 4: two thousand, did it?
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  Speaker 3: Did?
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  Speaker 4: Vick?
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  Speaker 6: I also thought, you're two big stars down the stretch.
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  Speaker 6: First of all, the lack of execution late was startling
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  Speaker 6: to me. You're you're multiple trips up the floor and
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  Speaker 6: you come up empty. There was a time I said, oh,
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  Speaker 6: they got to have a stop here, and they did, Okay, good,
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  Speaker 6: and I stopped there. But then you're coming up empty
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  Speaker 6: multiple times down on the floor. And I don't know
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  Speaker 6: about you, but to me, I thought the joker looked tired.
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  Speaker 6: I thought Jamal, no, they were, but I think that
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  Speaker 6: just affected their entire game.
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  Speaker 4: They were agreed. Jabal played forty three.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, when those shots are coming up short like that,
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  Speaker 6: or you're air bawling, that's legs, man, that's not that's
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  Speaker 6: nothing else but legs.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have your legs underneath you.
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  Speaker 3: So if if we just want to get there or
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  Speaker 3: get here now, that's fine. But I mentioned this heading
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  Speaker 3: into the playoffs, you spent an entire offseason redoing a
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  Speaker 3: core that won you a championship. For one purpose, you
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  Speaker 3: traded Porter Why to create depth because you were missing that,
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  Speaker 3: and then you played a game that looked very sam
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  Speaker 3: to the last four playoff runs, which is you're using
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  Speaker 3: essentially seven guys, and I'm like, the whole purpose to
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  Speaker 3: making that move was.
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  Speaker 4: To have depth.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to hear the guys were tired at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the game, because that means you aren't
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  Speaker 3: using the thing that you invested in in the offseason.
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  Speaker 4: Not an excuse.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, if anybody uses oh they were fatigued, you
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  Speaker 5: don't know what you're watching, because this is the NBA.
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  Speaker 4: And Anthony Edwards played the game forty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: On a bad knee.
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  Speaker 4: And if you're gonna blame the fatigue.
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  Speaker 5: Thing when you're at home and you're up by nineteen,
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  Speaker 5: get out of here, Get out of here.
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  Speaker 4: That knee looked pretty good last night.
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  Speaker 3: That one bucket as the game went on, Yes, he
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  Speaker 3: was ham he was like laboring around two minutes into
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  Speaker 3: the game. Yeah, but let me explain that one explosion
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  Speaker 3: to the bucket where he slices through three guys and
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  Speaker 3: the left handed lay in.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, he's fine, a nice sleeve, He's fine. It
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  Speaker 6: looked fine to me. I don't I'm not in his body.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know how that knee feels, but he looked
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  Speaker 6: fine to me. It's just a it's a frustrating, disappointing
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  Speaker 6: game because he had such a big leader, really sure,
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  Speaker 6: and you just for the first time in about i
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  Speaker 6: want to say, about a month, you did not execute
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  Speaker 6: down the stretch at all.
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  Speaker 4: There were at all.
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  Speaker 3: Look, this is basketball. A fourteen point lead after the
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  Speaker 3: first first quarter is not going to last. Teams are
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  Speaker 3: going to make a run back. I knew Minnesota would
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  Speaker 3: cut it down to some sort of whatever, of course,
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  Speaker 3: but I thought it'd be six points or eight points.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think the game would well, essentially that they
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  Speaker 3: were leading by three going in a halftime until Jamal
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  Speaker 3: hit the heave. But to go back to this, do
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  Speaker 3: you know who played last night? If you want to
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  Speaker 3: ignore the three minutes of Jannis Valanciunas, it was two
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  Speaker 3: vet minimum contracts in a two way contract.
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  Speaker 4: That could have been on the roster last year.
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  Speaker 3: Those guys could have been here even if you didn't
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  Speaker 3: make the trade. The guys that you're trying to put together.
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  Speaker 3: As far as we need depth on this roster, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know why Strather hasn't played a minute yet this
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  Speaker 3: this postseason through two games, but I can't have Adaman
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  Speaker 3: said it after the game. Yeah, uh, those guys are
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  Speaker 3: really tired at the end. Why you have the ability
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  Speaker 3: to go ten deep if you want to, but you
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  Speaker 3: can't panic for like two minutes when they go on
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a run because jokers sitting down.
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  Speaker 4: And I heard people talking about this with you, well,
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  Speaker 4: hang on, hang on, okay.
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  Speaker 3: I heard people talking about this that this run from
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  Speaker 3: the Timberwolves started when Yokis went to the bench, and
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  Speaker 3: that's true, it did, But why did they have thirty
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  Speaker 3: nine points? In the second because they stopped taking jumpers
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  Speaker 3: and they went to the rim. Yokich, isn't stopping somebody
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  Speaker 3: driving to the rim. We know that he's not a
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  Speaker 3: rim protector. They were gonna get that regardless, that's jok
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  Speaker 3: It's going to the bench. Isn't stopping Anthony Edwards from
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  Speaker 3: getting a layup. That's not on him, That's not on
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  Speaker 3: you know what I'm talking about, Like, Yeah, that's not
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  Speaker 3: gonna stop because Joker are still on the floor.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, game changed.
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  Speaker 5: They were up by nineteen with eleven minutes left in
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  Speaker 5: the second quarter, nineteen point lead. Jamal Murray made a
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  Speaker 5: jumper and there up in nine nineteen. It took Minnesota
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  Speaker 5: exactly let me look here, exactly five minutes of game
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  Speaker 5: time to take a nineteen point lead and cut it
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  Speaker 5: to one.
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  Speaker 4: And then they took the lead shortly after that. It
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  Speaker 4: took them.
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking at this and I'm saying, oh my god,
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  Speaker 5: how quickly they cut into that.
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  Speaker 3: Not only cut into it.
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  Speaker 5: There was nothing the Nuggets could do as they were coming.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what I fear now. I fear that Minnesota,
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  Speaker 5: because they don't have any deficit, they're worried about none
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  Speaker 5: not against Denver, especially in Denver. What lead is safe
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  Speaker 5: against this team? And how do you fend off anything
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  Speaker 5: like that?
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  Speaker 4: Meltdowns?
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  Speaker 3: How do you?
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  Speaker 4: How do you deal with that?
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  Speaker 5: The minutes by Jonas Valence Schunis last night were some
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  Speaker 5: of the worst minutes I've ever seen in the playoff game.
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  Speaker 4: They were very few, though, at least they were very few.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you want to do? Agreed? I completely agree with you.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me, but what did you want them? Did you?
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  Speaker 4: Did you watch? You got to get him off the court.
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  Speaker 4: I know, That's what I'm saying. At least change the game.
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  Speaker 4: Was like he played fifteen It was a I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he was he was a minus four in
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  Speaker 3: the minutes he was on there. I know it didn't
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  Speaker 3: look right. Oh no, no, no, it changed the game, But
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  Speaker 3: vic they didn't. They didn't score fifteen straight when he
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  Speaker 3: was out there. They understood, but they had to get
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  Speaker 3: him off the court. I understand. Yeah, I get it.
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  Speaker 4: He had three thousand, like thirty seconds change everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that one uh what was the one foul that
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  Speaker 3: they put on him where he was grabbing his he
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  Speaker 3: put his hands in his face and he's like, are
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  Speaker 3: you kidding me?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember. They got whistle happy. They did.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of those foules were ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: But the point is because he couldn't play more than
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  Speaker 5: three minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Then Null gets had to go was small again. They
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  Speaker 4: couldn't deal with and they got they got eaten up
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  Speaker 4: and see it changed everything.
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  Speaker 5: It changed, the strategy changed, the game, change a game. Listen, man,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't know what you do moving forward there.
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  Speaker 5: I just don't know what do you play him?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you try again?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? And no offense to the peacock.
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  Speaker 3: Oh dude, I'll get to them later. NBC was driving
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  Speaker 3: me nuts, like I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't hear the game, but I got a lot
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: of people texting me saying, what is that?
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  Speaker 3: No offense to the pecock. We'll get to the actual broadcast.
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: I can't do eight forty five ft fifty anymore?
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  Speaker 4: No, wait, I don't want to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'll say it because I have a huge beef
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  Speaker 3: of what they did last night.
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  Speaker 4: And then you know when we come back.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, these these games are very emotional, and for those
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  Speaker 5: of you who continue to be emotional.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not here. I don't know about you, guys.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not here to massage your fears or your emotions.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not here to do that.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you here to tell you how I feel.
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  Speaker 5: And if the Denver Nuggets when we come back, if
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  Speaker 5: they cannot get motivated by what a Minnesota player.
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  Speaker 4: Had to say about them after the mouth mouthy.
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  Speaker 5: If they cannot somehow bubble up, muster some emotion, some
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  Speaker 5: motivation after this, I got nothing for you.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll get to that in just a second. Not
• 13:44
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  Speaker 5: There's one guy, and it's been since twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 5: when he tried to dunk late, and it's been the
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  Speaker 5: same story the guy.
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, why guy's different? Go ahead, but I know
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  Speaker 6: your guy. Yeah, your guys are painting my tail too.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a fan of Jaden McDaniels.
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: I'm not a fan of Chris Finch. I do not
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  Speaker 6: like that guy I saw.
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  Speaker 4: Playing the coaches things. You know, what shut it?
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  Speaker 6: Then he all he did, right, all he did was
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  Speaker 6: sit and bitch ships king.
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  Speaker 3: Fred Nury, Oh my god, why against you, Nanny?
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  Speaker 4: And then last night he's asked about free throws.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, you know what, I ain't talking about that.
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  Speaker 4: That's why he did. It's a big phony. The guy's
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: a big phony. That's what he is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you call.
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  Speaker 4: Him whatever you want. It worked, didn't work. They just
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  Speaker 4: didn't tell us much. They just they called it both ways.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, they called some ridiculous calls. But it worked. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's what you do. That's what you know. Phil Jackson
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  Speaker 3: used to do that all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Pat Riley used to do it all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Steve Kerr does it all the time.
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  Speaker 5: You get a bad whistle, you talk about it in
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  Speaker 5: the host game press conference, you yap about it, yap
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  Speaker 5: about it, yap about it, You put it into the
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  Speaker 5: minds of the officials, and then you get changes and
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  Speaker 5: happens all the time. I mean, I get it, you
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  Speaker 5: don't like him, but I've never seen a player Jade McDaniels.
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  Speaker 5: It's one thing to think about another team, but to
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  Speaker 5: say it out loud. I believed he said last this
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  Speaker 5: dude is something else.
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  Speaker 4: Man. I'll give him credit though, I'll give him credit.
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  Speaker 3: He plays hard. He's a good player. He plays hard.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: There was one this really threw me for a loop.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: And we're about to hear some sound here that, in
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: my opinion, is some of the most explosive stuff.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I've ever heard.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Bill I mean, if you can't billboard this, yeah, I've
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: never heard anything.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Well, you can't bill board anything ever ever.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: But before we get to it, I want to there
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: was there was a play last night and I'm watching
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: with Dempson Marlowe and it happened in I think late
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: third early four where Jaden McDaniels who was guarding He
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: was guarding Jamal most of the night and man, he
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: was making him work, full court, round picks, making him work,
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: and he's tireless. Jaden McDaniel's just keeps going. He's guarding
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Aaron Gordon who's bringing the ball up. Aaron Gordon's at
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: the foul line extended and Jade McDaniels is right in
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: his chest.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Making him turn.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: He still has the ball in his hands, crosses half court,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: he gets to about the three point line and McDaniels
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: is not relenting yet.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: He's still right there, right in his face.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: You know, he's not backing up, and I'm thinking to myself,
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: all right, here's the moment, and it's a clear out
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: where Aaron is going to back this guy up and
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: just bullyball him outweighs him by what fifteen to twenty pounds.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: A lot more than that he's got out weighing by
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: like thirty.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: So this guy's in his face.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: He's basically trying to say, come on, what you got
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: and instead Aaron pulls up for three that doesn't hit
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: the iron, and I'm thinking to myself, what are we doing.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: You're playing right into their game plan. You're playing right
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: into it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: It was just one specific play that the dogged nature
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: of the Tea Wolves and the fact that the name
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: of the t Wolves is perfect for them because it
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: is they got a dogged nature about him.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: It worked. They got exactly what they wanted out of that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Before we get to.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: The comments as well, Julius Randall that one trip down
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: the floor for Marie in the fourth quarter and they're like, okay, Jamal,
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: let's go go one on one, do your thing, and
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: so he starts probing the left side and he I
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: mean he's doing the I mean it's dribbling his fast
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: as he can't. He could not get by Randall. He
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: had to finally give up and kick it out. And
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: I'm like, man, if you can't solve this guy one
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: on one, that's fine, that's fine.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: But everybody else is just sort of standing around Aaron
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Jamal do his thing.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: I mean, they got away from what made them successful.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Aaron made a big three lesson to cut it to one. Clutch.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: He's a clutch three point shooter. Clutch, clutch, clutch.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: In fact, if you guys go back and look at
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: the replay, do you remember that shot by by Jamal
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: with like thirteen seconds left, he takes a two. Yeah,
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: go back and look, go back and look at Aaron
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Gordon in the corner, wide open. And when Jamal took
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: that shot, Aaron was not happy.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, nonplussed. Well, that's just waiting for the ball. Not
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: to mention, it's just I know, you're down three, you
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: can get a two foul again, get.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: The ball back.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: That's a bad shot, Man's that's awful, right in front
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: of the three point line, face away, contested, like, yeah,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: it's an awful shot.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: And you know Jamal's confident he can make those, but
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: he wasn't making anything. Joker should have shot the floater.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: We know this the execution down the stretch. But AG's
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: in the corner. He had just he had a three
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: to cut it to one. He was feeling it and
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: he's waiting for the ball and never comes his way.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: He was met.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: However, I don't know how many times I've said I've
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: said it this year.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Aaron doesn't look right.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: He's not He doesn't look himself physically, physically, not shooting physically. Well,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: is that you guys see the same thing I see?
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Or No, Ag was bad last night?
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: He was. He's not been great. It's not about being bad.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: It's not about playing bad.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: It's not it's he doesn't look like he's comfortable pushing
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: his body to places.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Well, that's what I'm saying. Maybe he's not vic.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's very I can't blame him if he's
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: not comfortable doing that, because he's done that on multiple
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: occasions this year and his body's let him down.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: The reason why Jokic can have such a long career,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: the reason why Lebron's career is such a marvel, is
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: because Ag plays with an athletic push.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: That's what his game is.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: It's he will out athlete you because he's big, he's physical,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: and he can do all the other things that you need, jump, run,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: all of that. When you're hobbled with injuries like he suffered,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: it takes away not just that your athleticism, but kind
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: of your identity as a basketball player. And that's the
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: issue for him. Now, you were you were hinting at this,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: vic Jade McDaniels after the game. I've never heard a
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: player speak this openly after the second game of a
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: series like this.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Before ever life, moj I mean, you're older than I am,
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: but I've.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Been in this business thirty six eight years. Today is
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: not the day for me to catch strays.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, you're gonna catch them regardless.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: I'll sit there and be old. Mo You know the
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: brittle haired Mosure, slow healing Mosure. Listen to me, Did
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: you turn me?
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: Vick?
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Did you hear what Moser did during his Rocky Mountain
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Men's clinic Reid, he said, don't sit there and be old.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: Thirty six years of doing this, right, I've never heard
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: something so bold, Yeah, out of a player's mouth. After
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: game two of a series that's deadlocked at one apiece.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: It's not like he said this after the series is over. No,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: it's not like he said this when it's three.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Nothing.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: He said this into an open microphone.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: And by the way, when you hear this, ask yourself,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: is he just speaking the truth?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Is he exaggerating? Is he trying to get what?
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Is this exactly?
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: But what Jaden McDaniels said last night about the Nuggets
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: and the way they defend, well, listen for yourself.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: Go out Yoki, Jamal, all the bad defenders, Tim Hardaway,
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: Cam Johnson, Aaron Gordon.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: The whole team. I just go at him.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they're all bad defenders. They don't got people that
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: could defend the ram and if he is there, he
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: showed more athletic than them, and just gotta be able
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: to finish.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: When we do.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: I mean, take your pick on who he just lit
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: up there, Take your pick on everybody. He just took
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: the entire Nuggets starting five. He took the best player
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: in the world. He took every player and said.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I mean nothing. He didn't say the Nuggets are bad defensively,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: which is and it's if he said that alone. Hey,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: the team that we're playing is a bad defensive team.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: You're already giving them some material.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: He called each one out.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Individually, one by one, and for everybody's saying, well, he's
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: not wrong, he's not wrong, he's not wrong. The point
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: here is not whether he's right or wrong. Of course,
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: jokers not a rent protector. Are you guys all blind?
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Of course he's not. Of course, the Nuggets lack defensi
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: vacuumen they give up one hundred and twenty one points.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: They were ranked twenty first in the league. Of course
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: this is obvious. That's the But the question here, the
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: question is why in God's name would you say that
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: in a one to one series?
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Because Jade McDaniels likes to say things when things go
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: well for him.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: He does this all the.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Time and get angry with you. Yes, don't go well,
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: and when things go right, he likes to spout. He's
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: a powder and a spouder. He really like if they
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: win a basketball game.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Jade McDaniels is the first guy that wants to get
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: in front of a mic and start banging his chest around.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? You know what he likes
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: to do. He likes to pout and spout with a
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: bunch of fake clout.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Okay, So if you are the Denver Nuggets, give it up.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: If you're David Adelman or whatever, I'm not in one
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: of those moods today, motions me either. If you're David
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Adelman and the Nuggets, what do you do with this content?
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: Well, if you forget about David Adelman, if you're a
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: player in that room and you have this guy calling
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: you out individually by a name, say, they're all bad defenders,
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: all of them.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I'll go right out of them. And he went down
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: the entire basically the starting five, did he not? Yeah,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: now more than that starting seven.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: I mean he went right at them and said, I
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: just just take the ball out them.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: They can't defend. And if they're there, we're more more
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: athletic than they are.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Anyway.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's it's a pretty obnoxious thing to say.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: If you're if that doesn't spur you on as a player,
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: as a human being, as a prideful professional, and you
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: don't deserve that's exactly right, exactly right.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: If the Denver Nuggets, and I'm gonna say this right
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: now it is Tuesday morning, If the Denver Nuggets don't
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: respond with something directly at Jaden McDaniels directly at him.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Sorry, I've lost faith.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: I just look, man, it's do you agree with me? Yes?
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: The issue, And I'm not saying you have to do
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: anything cheap. I'm not alluding to that saying when he
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: has the ball and he's coming at you coming downhill, what.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Are you gonna do about it?
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: I'm telling you, ifvic personal pride has to take over,
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: it has to. If it doesn't. For number one, if
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: it doesn't, I'm gonna be shocked. Number two, if it doesn't,
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna be incredibly disappointed. And number three, if it doesn't,
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: series is over.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Well. Number three, if it doesn't, they don't have the
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: right makeup.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: It's correct because I'm not sure what else could motivate
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: that is correct.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: So I mentioned this in the appetizer because the game
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: was late. We're all in a little sleep and the
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: game made us angry. There's gonna be a tone this
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: morning that isn't great. I still think, by the way,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: I think the Nuggets still win the series. But here's
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: a little fact for you. The Nuggets under Nikola Jokic
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: have played sixteen game twos.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: What's their record.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: They're bad.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: They've lost in the last few They're bad. The one
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: game two they won was the one against LA with
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Jamal Murray hit shot. Other than that, I think there's
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: seven and nine.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, you know what it is.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: It's very much indicative of holding leads this team.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: And I said it again to Marlow and Dempse.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: When they built a big lead in the first quarter,
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: everybody's like.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, nope, don't like it.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: In what world, guys, In what world does somebody like
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: me not revel in the home team getting a big
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: lead in the first quarter. I was more fearful of
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: that lead than I was anything else.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Why. I don't know. Well, look, I they got a big.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Lead, and I looked over and I told Marlow, I said,
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: it's the worst thing that could happen right there, that's
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: the worst thing that can happen.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's the worst thing that can happen.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: The issue is, you know, you have to understand in basketball,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: and I know that you guys get this, but just
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: for the people listening, basketball, very rarely if the team
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: gets out to a big lead, does it stay that way? Okay, Okay,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: see is maybe the only team in the league that
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: can have like run. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: I get a thing.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: But here's what I'm saying.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Here's the problem when the Nuggets do this. The Nuggets
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: come out, they'll get a big lead, or they'll go
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: in a big run, and the opposing team is going
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: to go on a run. Usually what that means is
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: they cut it in half, they cut it to three possessions.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: The Nuggets give it all back like everything again. They
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: should have entered halftime down three after being up fourteen.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: After the first they got lucky to tie. Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: it's not giving up leads. It's the rapid nature in
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: which you melt down while leading. The Nuggets wore up
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: nineteen points with eleven minutes to go in the second quarter,
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: nineteen points with eleven minutes to go. They were down
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: one with five and a half to go. That's less
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: than six minutes. Yeah, in less than six minutes of action,
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: they blew a nineteen point lead at home.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: That's not giving up a lead, that's just stopping. Yeah.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: And there's I think there's a whole bunch of different
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: factors to what went wrong last night. That look, I
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: think can be corrected, but it's gonna take a I
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: think a shift in mentality heading into Game three. So
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: we'll get to that in just a little bit. It
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: is a playoff ticket Tuesday. We're giving you the chance
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: to go to tonight's game against LA before the series shifts
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: back to Los Angeles. The keyword for this hour is
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: NOAs you want to talk to Patry and a.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Z yeah because everybody's spelling it wrong.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Nas in your first and last sea and a Z
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: three ozh three three five four nine two five, So
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: go ahead and text that for a chance to win.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Now a lot more to breakdown with this game. Got
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: a preview Game two of the Abs and Kings coming
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: up tonight as long or as well as I need
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: because vic you you didn't see this, you would be
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: unaware of it. What NBC did to start the game
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: last night, which was incredibly frustrating. That we'll get to
• 30:27
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• 30:29
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• 30:33
  Speaker 3: dot com. That's Will Heightwins dot com. All right, Vic,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: let me explain something to you, because you were doing
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: your own pregame show, and right before the uh, when
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: you guys wrapped up, I flipped it over to NBC
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: watched the end of a really good Hawks and Knicks game.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Really good game.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: That's another CJ McCollum just goes nuts at the end
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: of that game.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Huge shots. We're built different. I was watching all the
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: hockey well the the game was about to start.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: It was eight forty, Like, are you one of those
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: guys that's gonna guilt everybody for not watching what you watch? No, No,
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, like the it was eight forty at night,
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: the game was supposed to start.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know what time it was.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Dull hole, I was there.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: So anyway, Vic, I'm watching the end of this really
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: cool game. I'm like, Oh, it's a close game. They're
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: gonna start this the Nuggets a little bit later. Great,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: And so I see the end of it.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Hawks win.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: They go to the floor, they do this like two
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: minute interview with CJ McCollum. They kick it back to
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: the studio, break down the game for a few minutes,
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: then they go to commercial that commercial lasted because I
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: timed it three and a half minutes, and you know
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: what they did.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: They joined the Nuggets at five five with.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Nine thirty remaining in the first quarter. And all I
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: could think to myself is, you paid a gigantic sum
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: of money to broadcast these games.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: Why the hell would you not?
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: You say, CJ, great game, thanks for the interview, will
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: take you to tip off for the Nuggets and t
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Wolve's Game two, you know, the most competitive series probably
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: in this first round. They took three and a half
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: minutes to go to commercial and enjoined live in the
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: middle of it. That was the starting point of that,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: by the way, ridiculous.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: So who are you so before we get to the
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: bottom of this, who are you blaming? Are you blaming
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: the NBA? Are you blaming NBC? One million percent?
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: NBC, TNT did this all the time, okay. Tn T
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: would always have the games that were back to back,
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: one would run a little bit late, and they'd be like, hey,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: heck of a game, congrats to the Thunder for winning.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Will take you out to wherever like immediately.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: NBC paid a ton of money. They're gonna make that
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: money up through advertising.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Exactly right, I'm just gonna say, Brad, they gotta get
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: that money back. So now it's not the NBC. It's
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: not NBC's fault.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Yes, it is, No T.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: T and T didn't do it because they didn't pay
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: the same because they didn't pay seventy eight billion dollars.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Not my problem. You don't understand the finances. I understand
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: the finance.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do you who's it fr You don't have
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: to because I understand it. Here's what I'm telling you.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: They have a responsibility to bring me my game.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: They didn't even mention. And here's the other thing, here's
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: my other problem.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Wait, they didn't even say the game is now tipping off,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: go to Peacock.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: They didn't even say that.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Most y'all ask you who's your fault, the NBA or NBC.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: It's the NBA. It's he doesn't understand how this works,
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: the NBA.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: And I'm already in hot water with the NBA for
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: for criticizing this.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: And I don't care.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: I don't care.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Fire me, I don't care. You jacked up, You messed up.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: You assumed that the fans would chase the product no
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: matter what, and the fans are livid over what you've
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: done in this first round and the way you've processed
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: all these games on different networks, on different channels.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: You can't even find the games.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Half the time.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: You messed up.
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: You chase the money, You got the money, and now
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: you have what happened last night?
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: How many different apps? How many different apps do you
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: have to watch everything?
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I have a ton, but I just want to be
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: clear on something. I understand the nature of business. The
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: money they paid and they need to get their advertisers
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: in the make up for it.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: I get all that.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: When you're watching college football, you know when the Buffs
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: will play like a late game on ESPN, and it's
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: they only show it if the game before it gets
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: done right. But let's say that game is running a
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: little bit late.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: What does ESPN do? Puts it on ESPN two.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: They'll put a ticker down there and says, hey, if
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: you want to watch the beginning of that game, it's
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: on ESPNU until this game is over.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: I tell you, even mentioned that tip buff was happening.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: I thought they were waiting for it. They handled it poorly.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, though. Those commercials are running, whether you
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: like it or not. But just let me know. Let
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: me know that the game's fine. But those those.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: Five minutes of commercials, because they paid seventy six million dollars,
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: And I'm not saying that it's right. I agree with
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: you on the nature of how they did it. I
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: agree with you, but I'm telling you, because they paid
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: the piper to put those games on the air, they're
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: running the hell out of those commercial spots.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Most please explain to him how this works. I think
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: he knows how it works. I just don't. I just
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: don't think he likes it. No, you don't have to
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: like it.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: No, they don't blame don't blame the the strip, don't
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: blame NBC, don't blame Amazon, don't blame those people are
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: just doing what they want.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: He allowed them to.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Do on They one thousand percent have a responsibility to
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: tell me the game is tipping off and I if
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: I want to see the very beginning, I gotta go
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: watch somewhere else.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: They didn't say that.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: I thought they went to commercial because they were just
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: leading up the tip.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: I ran anything.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: I ran into Tim Conley last night at halftime, and
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: we're walking and he looks at me and says, this
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: is the best series of the first round. No, correct, agree?
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: So you're taking the best series of the first round.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: And now I speak of the NBA and their television partners,
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: and what are you doing with the best television, the
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: best series.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: You're throwing it at eight at night?
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Went Now half the country.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Is asleep and can't watch it.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Who's at fault most for that?
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Who's it? Ultimately? Who's at fault for that moment? The
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: NBA is the NBA.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: The NBA.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Is at fault for that now, not an elevision. Hang
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: on a second, the league that made the deal.
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: If I say, the getting rid of Inside the NBA,
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: it's one of my biggest sports, telling them, who's a
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: faults of that motion?
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: What's the NBA? But if I say, who purposely went
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: out of its way to make sure that Inside the
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: NBA would not be the same show anymore? The NBA
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: the NBA. So I don't want to hear the NBA
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: killed itself. But hang on a second.
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: VIC if I say, if I say I really miss
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: Inside the NBA, I can't believe the league, you know,
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: took away and then sort of shut down the best
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: show it's ever had in the history of the League.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: I'm in trouble for that. I get it. I do.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: I get do I get in trouble for that. I'm
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: just telling you what. They're very sensitive to it. Why
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: are they sensitive to it? They're the ones that did it.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: They're very most We got in trouble. It's the one
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: time we've ever been in trouble on this on this show.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: We wrote a letter.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: One time.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: We've been in trouble. One time on this show, we
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: wrote a letter to Adams.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm gonna say I'm going to say that I
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: miss Inside the NBA. I think it's the greatest basketball
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: show in the history of television.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: They had some other issues last night. Look, I know
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: this is all subjective. Wasn't a huge fan of the
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: actual broadcast of the game. It was Scalabrini, Austin Rivers,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: and I don't know who they play by play guy
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: was play by play guy.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: It was fine. You know, you know he thessed in Minnesota.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Played by play.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Guy isn't people have talked about there was a slant
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: on that.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: I realized that the guy calling the game for the
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: national broadcast, and I didn't hear it. He does a
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: great body. I thought he does a great job. I'm
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: not listen, this is not an affront on how he
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: called the game. I'm just telling you it would be
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: like Moser calling the AVS game for NBC.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Does bring to national games for the next Yes, yes,
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: but breings, I mean yes, brings.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: But they did have another issue.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: They when the first half got done, Jamal hit the three,
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: they did that little mini toss to the studio saying,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: here's what's coming up at halftime, and Maria Taylor's microphone
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: just wasn't on. What you heard was music, And I'm
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: just like, it's going on.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Here, Listen, I can't. I am not.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: For those of you who think I'm defending NBC, I'm not.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: I'm not defending them one bit. I didn't watch the show.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: I didn't watch it.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Again. I'm I'm defending why it's happened.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: The reason you got screwed as viewers last night, the
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: core reason you got screwed is not NBC. The core
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: reason you got screwed is the NBA. They chose to
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: take these first round games, which were by the way, local,
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: They were all local. They used to be on Altitude,
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: they used to be on Minnesota, and they decided let's.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Put them all on Nashville. What I'm saying is where
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: they really messed up and made me angry was they
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: didn't tell me the game was starting.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: They didn't do that.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: They just threw it to commercials, like what a great
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: game over here at Madison Square. Five minutes later, I
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: was waiting for the game to start, and I realized
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: the game.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Was already five. But I thought that I thought it
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: was on me. That's why I put it when it
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: was five or five. I thought that. I'm like, did
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: I I must have screwed? What it is? Did I
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: hit the button when I went to take a pee?
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: What did I do wrong?
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: What they should what they should have done, and said,
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: the Nuggets is about to tip off.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: We're gonna throw it back to the studio. If you
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: want to catch the.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Very beginning of the game, you can watch it on
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: peacock or whatever. But they didn't say a word about it.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: And I just came back three minutes into the game,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: and I was like, what the hell just happened?
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: The fact that they're taking game five now Game five,
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: which is going to be another decisive game of the
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: best first round in the NBA Playoffs number one series
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: of the NBA playffs and they're putting that game also
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: at eight thirty on NBC. What does that tell you?
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: What does that tell you? They're taking half the country
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: and saying.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: We don't care. It's weird. It is weird. Weird.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: No, it's a weird decisions ridiculous. It's a weird decision
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: just to be like, hey, we have the best series
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: of the opening round, good luck.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: What's more than ridiculous? Abhorrent? The fact that listen, listen.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: The NBA messed up. Now.
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure they can fix it. I've had conversations
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: with people. Can you give the games back to the
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: to the local crews. I don't know what they should
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: have done? Is this here's a quick fix. Okay, you
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: want to broadcast these games on national television because the
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: national guys page you seventy six billion.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: You want more bang for your buck, then at least
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: use the hometown cruise for each side of the broadcast.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: That's a fair.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Exchange, right, Yeah, that's a fair Why do you have
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: to bring in another You heard the criticism from people, Yeah,
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: EJ is going to be between the benches tonight for
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: our game.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: I thought he was coaching to use basketball team.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was kind of funny. Huh.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: He said a couple of things last night that really
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: pissed me off, Like what like when he was the
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: best defenseman in the world. Huh that he had favored
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: the best defensive pair in the league. Uh huh. I'm
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: gonna rip.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Out his chest hairs tonight.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: If he wants that shirt cut low, his chest hairs
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: are going to feel it. I do want to break
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: down game two tonight because here's what's interesting. We mentioned
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: this after Game one.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: Really is doing a great job.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm a little later when we get back to nights,
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: I'm a little worried that their core play call, what
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: they do best and what they've done best for ten years,
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: has reached its limit.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: There's a question about it. There's a question about it.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: But when we come back. I did want to talk
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: a little bit about game two tonight for the Abs
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: and the Kings, and.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: We mentioned this after game one.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: It does kind of feel like I think LA played
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: about as good a game as they could in Game one.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: The way that they're.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Going to win is exactly what Game one looked like
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: and then getting a bounce and they didn't get that
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: in game one. So is there anything more they can
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: do tonight at Ballerreine for game two. We'll get to
• 42:40
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