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The Timberwolves Dominate The Thunder In Game 3 · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: I created a new rule for myself. If a team
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  Speaker 1: goes up by forty two points, I get to film
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  Speaker 1: my video early. I get to film my video earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Forty two point lead with a minute and fifty seconds
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  Speaker 1: left in the third quarter, I'm assuming that after this
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  Speaker 1: time out, coach Mark Dayton now was gonna a bench
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  Speaker 1: of starters to get ready for gating before. But what
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  Speaker 1: a response for the Minnesota Timbules and a series that
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  Speaker 1: felt like it was over. I mean, it was definitely
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  Speaker 1: gonna be over if they go down No.
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  Speaker 2: Three.
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  Speaker 1: They came out with a level of intensity. They came
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  Speaker 1: out with a new scheme that we're gonna talk about.
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  Speaker 1: And I love when the team is down by two
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  Speaker 1: because they just have to try almost everything. They have
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  Speaker 1: to just say that, hey man, sometimes the majority of
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  Speaker 1: the times the better team is gonna win the series.
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  Speaker 1: But at least we could go out saying that we
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  Speaker 1: didn't leave no stone unturned. Today's stone that they flipped
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  Speaker 1: over for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: It's Terrence Sandon Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Chicago's very oh Man having an impact
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  Speaker 1: man having an impact of this game.
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  Speaker 2: Great defense, great transition.
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  Speaker 1: He even hits up jump jump shots I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how much he'll play for the rest of the series.
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  Speaker 1: But that was something that coach mart Dayton Now didn't expect.
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  Speaker 1: He even tried to match to say, hey, you throw
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  Speaker 1: up rookie out there, I'm gonna throw a Rooki out there.
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  Speaker 1: A J Mitchell Lasa month AJ Mischew did not have
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  Speaker 1: the same level of impact. And I'm right, okay, So
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  Speaker 1: AJ Mitchell's back on the court. So yeah, they've been started.
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  Speaker 1: So this game is I mean, it was already over.
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  Speaker 1: It was forty two points, but it's like officially officially
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  Speaker 1: over now. So when I take my notes in these games,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the times I'll make an observation, I
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  Speaker 1: put a question mark. Sometimes a question mark is like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: during the next time, i'll rewind, go see if you
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  Speaker 1: saw that correctly, or halftime, go look at these things.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's like a prediction.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is what I saw through the first two minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and I wonder if this is going to be the
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  Speaker 1: theme or a consistent thing for the rest of this game.
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong on this first so let me read
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  Speaker 1: to you this question mark. I have Rudy Gobert unplayable again.
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  Speaker 1: Question mark, Boy, was I wrong because I thought this
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  Speaker 1: was his best defensive outing in like the last two
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  Speaker 1: series and we'll get to them. The reason I had
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  Speaker 1: this in my notes because the first couple offensive possessions
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  Speaker 1: from the Okac Thunder were going to Rudy Gobert, the
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  Speaker 1: first one being a four or five live that you
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  Speaker 1: see Okayce run occasionally, and then the next one being
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  Speaker 1: the Isaiah Hartenstaff floater, and then on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, Ridy Gobert tried the fucking dribbled the
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  Speaker 1: ball and he dribbled it off his knees and turned
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  Speaker 1: the ball over, and I'm like, yeah, this is not
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  Speaker 1: a good start. Get ready to learn nas read forty
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  Speaker 1: minutes or something. But he wasn't hitting shots until tonight either,
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  Speaker 1: so I just thought this might be another one of
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  Speaker 1: them games or he was going to be unplayable. But
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was amazing, Like by the time I
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  Speaker 1: finished these first three observations with him, I was like, oh, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong, because one thing that ridg go beer is
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  Speaker 1: amazing at. Yeah, obviously I've been to Rudy Gobert propaganda
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  Speaker 1: guy on YouTube for as long as I've been around here,
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  Speaker 1: but I can also say that he's been dogshit for
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  Speaker 1: like the last two games, and then a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the last series, and then a lot of the.
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  Speaker 2: Series before that.
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  Speaker 1: I try to be as optimal realistic as possible by
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  Speaker 1: recognizing that when Rigo Beert is good defensively, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: really really good.
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  Speaker 2: You saw that today.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing that made Rudy Gobert not so great
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  Speaker 1: over the last two games, outside of him being offensively challenged,
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  Speaker 1: was that OKC is such a great mid range shooting
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  Speaker 1: team that his normal level of defensive plans drop coverage
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  Speaker 1: is playing right into their hands because they're okay with
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  Speaker 1: hitting that mid range jump shot time and time again.
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  Speaker 1: You think about a game number too, Jalen Williams was
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  Speaker 1: absolutely disgusting in the area, and of course EMVP Shay
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  Speaker 1: is also there too. But in game number three, they
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  Speaker 1: decided to play Rudy go Beert up a lot higher.
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  Speaker 1: They decided to play everybody high tonight except for Shake
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  Speaker 1: Guise Alexander. I'm like, that's pretty interesting because Shay and
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  Speaker 1: Alexander's not an amazing three point shooter.
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  Speaker 2: He's aye, he could be aye, but that's not his
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  Speaker 2: bread and butter.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought they challenged him to take those shots
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  Speaker 1: today and made him extremely uncomfortable. They also just clogged
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  Speaker 1: up every single lane that Shay gives Alexander had saw
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  Speaker 1: for the last two games.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, somebody else beat us.
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  Speaker 1: Hey none of y'all really been shooting the ball that well,
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  Speaker 1: So like, let's really see what it's about. And I
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  Speaker 1: do believe that, you know, this is just one small
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  Speaker 1: observation that Chet Homer's lack of jump shooting over this
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  Speaker 1: playoff run has bit them in the in the butt
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  Speaker 1: more than it has not. In some of this game.
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  Speaker 1: They were just saying, shoot it, shoot it. That's a
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  Speaker 1: shot we want you to take. And I'm confident that
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  Speaker 1: eventually that would be an amazing shot for check but
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  Speaker 1: throughout the course of his playoffs that hasn't been the case.
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  Speaker 1: So they clogged up these this paint. They run the
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  Speaker 1: pick and roll, and they had not for the first
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  Speaker 1: two oh first two games.
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay, let me take the back.
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  Speaker 1: They had done it, but just done it sporadically where
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  Speaker 1: they just brought Rudy Gobert or whoever was guarding the
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  Speaker 1: bigger roll to the levels. So now it's just the
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  Speaker 1: two guys trap at Shay gives Alexander well in the
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  Speaker 1: first quarter, I feel like we saw the worst quarter
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  Speaker 1: you'll ever see from saying, hell, this is the worst
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  Speaker 1: game you'll see from an MVP level player like Shay
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  Speaker 1: gives is Alexander, a guy that doesn't turn the ball
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  Speaker 1: over very often, a guy that normally gets to the
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  Speaker 1: spots that he wants to get to time and time again.
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  Speaker 2: Just couldn't do that today.
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  Speaker 1: And because of that, if he's gonna turn the ball
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  Speaker 1: over and he can't get to his spots, he's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be as impactful as the first two games of
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  Speaker 1: the series. I thought this was just a master class
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  Speaker 1: of making this team thinking. I feel like in the
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  Speaker 1: first two games ain't really do that too much.
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  Speaker 2: It was great. It was an absolutely great thing.
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  Speaker 1: And the shooting has to come to Like I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you think about the last series as well, right
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  Speaker 1: you talking about them versus differ nuggets.
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  Speaker 2: The shooting was a big thing.
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  Speaker 1: Who's gonna step up without if a Shay gives Lexander
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  Speaker 1: the last series, j Duff shot twenty two percent from three,
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  Speaker 1: chet Holmer shot this. Everybody shot the ball poorly, But
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  Speaker 1: in the first two games of the series, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have thought that was a case from Minnesota side, because
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  Speaker 1: they was guarding up as if this team t is
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  Speaker 1: a great three point shooting team, which they really have
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  Speaker 1: not been since the first round.
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  Speaker 2: Of the playoffs. So we go see if y'all get
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  Speaker 2: his some shots to say, man, we gonna throw.
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  Speaker 1: Because one thing that they did at the end of
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  Speaker 1: last game game number two, is they did start to
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  Speaker 1: show those two bodies as shay like pretty much all
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  Speaker 1: the time. And then that's when you saw Minnesota going
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  Speaker 1: that little run and it was like, oh, this they
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  Speaker 1: making it really interesting. It wasn't really that interesting, but
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  Speaker 1: they had found just a little bit of something to something.
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  Speaker 1: I also thought that they ran that small ball line
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  Speaker 1: up a lot at the end of that fourth courd
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  Speaker 1: in minutes in ok see in game number two, they'd
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  Speaker 1: really run that too much to night because they didn't
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  Speaker 1: really need to because Rudy Gobert was so damn good defensively,
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  Speaker 1: Jada mcdaine's was so great defensively, And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to hell, I'm five and a half minutes into
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  Speaker 1: this video and they ain't mentioned the fucking guy Anthony Edwards.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about a guy just just continue to learn
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  Speaker 1: with his surroundings and adjust to what the opposing team
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  Speaker 1: is throwing at him. His final box score thirty points,
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  Speaker 1: nine rebounds, six assists, two steals. But this was such
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  Speaker 1: a phenomenal game. Some of the finishes that he had
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  Speaker 1: in this one were insane. Some of the he said
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  Speaker 1: he had offensively was so on sane. In the defense.
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  Speaker 1: The defense, we always know that he can turn it
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  Speaker 1: up defensively, but this was one of them. I will
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  Speaker 1: not lose this game type of performances from Anthony Edwards,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought it was great. On the contrast to that,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's been rare in this series where
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  Speaker 1: you got an amazing Anthony Edwards game and also an
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  Speaker 1: amazing Julius Random game. You got both of those teams
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  Speaker 1: simultaneously today as Julius Randal gives them twenty four on
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  Speaker 1: sixty percent shooting overall, I just felt like everybody stepped
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  Speaker 1: up and even mentioned it on the broadcast that the
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  Speaker 1: role players played better at home, and you saw that.
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  Speaker 1: You just truly did see that because nas Reed, who
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  Speaker 1: was zero for eleven through the first two games of
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  Speaker 1: this series, when it comes to three point shooting, hit
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  Speaker 1: two threes tonight Terrence Shannon again. Now he has fifteen points,
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  Speaker 1: so he's hooping again on this game, and I can't
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  Speaker 1: even see right now.
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  Speaker 2: So this was just oh my god, Rob Billeham check.
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  Speaker 1: There, and at the end of video we got to
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  Speaker 1: see Rob who But just overall, this is an amazing,
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  Speaker 1: amazing response from a team that had their back against
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  Speaker 1: the wall and they were calm, cool, collected. The crowd
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  Speaker 1: was electric, which was amazing. And I wonder what coach
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  Speaker 1: Mark datonall tries to do to start getting them before
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  Speaker 1: to prevent this from going to a two two series,
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  Speaker 1: because you really do want to take one of these
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  Speaker 1: on the road if you are okay. See at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the second half he ran with Isaiah Joe
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  Speaker 1: instead of Isaiah Hartenstein. So trying to figure out maybe
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  Speaker 1: if this jump shooting. I mean they were down by
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  Speaker 1: thirty some point, so yeah, maybe we just need somebody
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  Speaker 1: that can shooting there. But wonder if that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be more of a game plan as they go forward.
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  Speaker 1: Would they stick with the double big lineup to start
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  Speaker 1: off with and keep running them a bunch of minutes together.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota did an amazing job of the nying ball on
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  Speaker 1: those high ball screens, the high dribble handoffs between Dub
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  Speaker 1: and whoever the center might be at the time, with
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  Speaker 1: it be Heart or Hartenstein or chet Holmgern. I thought
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  Speaker 1: they did an amazing job there, and they was doing
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  Speaker 1: that pretty much on every handoff. Excep for seg gives
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  Speaker 1: Alexander because you played too high on that, and you
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  Speaker 1: played deny on that if he gets around at corners gig.
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  Speaker 1: So they again opted to play back a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought this was again a master player. I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to rewatch that first quarter and only the
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  Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball for Minnesota, because I thought
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  Speaker 1: this was as good as they've played in this series.
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  Speaker 1: Know that this team's ceiling defensively is so damn high.
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  Speaker 1: They just didn't really showcase that a ton in the
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  Speaker 1: first two games. They would give you a little stretches,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't like a full a this is who
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  Speaker 1: we are and we gonna turn up from that. And
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  Speaker 1: now the jump shot was fall. I mean they shot
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  Speaker 1: fifty one percent from three as of right now. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if those have been skewed since I started
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  Speaker 1: this video, but fifty one percent from three. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be hard to be the team that's doing that if
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  Speaker 1: they taking thirty five plus three, so.
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  Speaker 2: An amazing, amazing bounce back.
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  Speaker 1: And I wonder can they hold this momentum to what's
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  Speaker 1: today is Saturday to Monday's night game. Do we get
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  Speaker 1: a Monday game or do they try to break them
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  Speaker 1: up again? Nope, Monday game. I don't know how they're
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  Speaker 1: playing these things because sometimes we get the three three
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  Speaker 1: day break, one time we get the one game break,
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  Speaker 1: one day break.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But defense electric okay See is not a high turnover team,
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  Speaker 1: and even tonight the turnover numbers thirteen. But I felt
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  Speaker 1: like when the Minnesota tim was one of their biggest run,
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  Speaker 1: when they played their best ball, that's when they turned
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  Speaker 1: the ball over a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm talking about okay See.
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  Speaker 1: And then you did get a couple times where okay
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  Speaker 1: See was starting to figure it out at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the third quarter and then dub would like drible
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  Speaker 1: off his knee and just like that, the momentum shifted
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  Speaker 1: it and now they were on an eleven two run
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  Speaker 1: and that has swung back to an eleven oh run
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  Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Timbuls. They had answers, they had answers
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  Speaker 1: on top of answers, and they were ready. And now
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  Speaker 1: the time is for you know, Dub, who had been
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  Speaker 1: amazing through the first two games, to step up again
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  Speaker 1: because now Shaye's about to have it even harder for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the series because Jade mcdamme'sy just figured
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  Speaker 1: some things out and the team has figured some things out,
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  Speaker 1: so it's time from check.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for Dub to do it together.
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  Speaker 1: Even though I think they had a twenty twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: game like in game one or so, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to overreact too much on this one, but I'm happy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy because the way this was going from both
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  Speaker 1: sides of these damn conference finals. I ain't know if
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  Speaker 1: these is gonna be short series or not. Man, And
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  Speaker 1: if they play like this again, this ain't gonna be
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  Speaker 1: no short series.