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Speaker 1: You know what's going on. Nine to noon radio is

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Speaker 2: It's a Wednesday, and we are all jam packed with

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Speaker 2: fun today and we have a box in the Box

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Speaker 2: tomorrow before the Wild Flyers game. Another Steels tarasacle in

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Speaker 3: Welcome home Bobby.

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Speaker 1: Break his first game with the Wild. Here on home

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Speaker 1: Lighty Rocks, what upstairs? Hit it free?

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Speaker 2: Nothing Minnesota Budsy Joe O'Donnell on the call. Excellent call

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Speaker 2: to Bobby Brink. Welcome home. Part of that shutout last

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Speaker 2: evening of the Utah Mammoth. The Wild lead the Western

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Speaker 2: Conference with eight shutouts. And tomorrow Heinz gorg Zy, Billy

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Speaker 2: g and Staylock all join in person at Tree Up

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Speaker 2: for Box in the Box. These very well, maybe the

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Speaker 2: good old days for nine to noon certainly are for

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Wild.

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Speaker 1: Order produces. I'm Paul Allen, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Joining us now is noted elite hockey mind Parker Fox.

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Speaker 2: Happy feelings in the air for the fiance with the

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Speaker 1: But we need to.

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Speaker 2: Turn this frown upside down with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Kind

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Speaker 2: of a ratty loss last night at the Lakers and

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Speaker 4: Good morning Pa. Yeah, happy to be here with you.

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Speaker 4: You're right, ratty loss. No Lebron James either in the

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Speaker 4: Laker roster last night. But it's a part of this

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Speaker 4: road trip you're going. You're hitting the California road trip.

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Speaker 4: You're playing three California teams, Golden State, LA Clippers and

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Speaker 1: You got to go to Oklahoma City. Are really tough games.

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Speaker 4: And to start the road trip off with a fourteen

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Speaker 1: Not what you want on a road trip. But nonethelast thing.

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Speaker 4: You got to regather and then tomorrow or actually tonight

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Speaker 2: coach of the Timberwolves, about thirty minutes from now. They

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Speaker 2: they are not making the simple plays simple. I mean

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Speaker 2: old man. It's like no bounce passes in the key,

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Speaker 1: They just didn't. They're not making the simple play simple.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this was a ten pm start, so I

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Speaker 4: missed the second half. And we talk about the third

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Speaker 4: many times in the end that first half is calling

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Speaker 4: then the third quarter is so important. We lose that

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Speaker 4: think you're right, pay It starts with the simple plays.

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Speaker 4: Guys like Julius, like Ant who have the ball in

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Speaker 4: because it's that easy. Once you play that long, just

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna bring that up with the coach in thirty minutes.

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Speaker 2: Also also to be presented, the Lakers had eleven offensive

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Speaker 4: It completely does. Your team is only as good as

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Speaker 4: maybe he is one for ten, but how can I

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Speaker 4: And I think that's something that's going to come with

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Speaker 2: Tough for me to pound on Anthony with a bad

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Speaker 2: that so many freaking times this year. If I'm Anthony Edwards,

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Speaker 2: I wonder how frustrated and he said it too. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean it's like I went pedal to the metal here,

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Speaker 4: Good teams have multiple options, right, and yes, good players

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Speaker 4: we're talking about seven game series here, and teams aren't.

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Speaker 1: It's not like they're not watching film.

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Speaker 4: It's not like they're not trying to stop things that

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Speaker 4: So one thing somebody's got to step up. But two,

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Speaker 4: think there's a lot of things Finch's going to have

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Speaker 4: better answers then I will, of course, But nonetheless, as

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Speaker 4: there's still ways you can impact winning that great point. Great,

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Speaker 4: that's an excellent point. At Parker Fox two four via

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Speaker 1: I'm Paul Allen.

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Speaker 2: It's the first day of the National Football League's league year.

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Speaker 1: Let's go so, I guess.

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Speaker 2: Ron Kyler watch this whole Max Crosby situation. It's I mean,

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Speaker 2: Everything worked out. Okay, so it's not it's it's unicorn esque,

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Speaker 2: Are are you on Kyler watch today? And if he's

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Speaker 1: Do we see him sign at three oh one pm?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, is there even another team in the mix?

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Speaker 4: So yeah, we're gonna get our call of duty all

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Speaker 1: Let's always close here.

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Speaker 2: Bam eighty three, Bam out of baio eighty three.

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Speaker 4: You know what's funny so many people have asked me

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Speaker 1: Like we're the rest helping him? Was the other team.

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Speaker 4: I watched the whole fourth quarter, and that was as

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Speaker 1: I watched the final five minute eighty.

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Speaker 4: Amazing Now he has the second most points in the

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Speaker 4: there's people we were talking conspiracy.

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Speaker 1: Row here, who was real I wanted to bring that

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm driving in and we got a couple of

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Speaker 1: As you were.

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Speaker 5: Talking about the wilt thing, it's if if a tree

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Speaker 2: Inclosing, it's we're in the age of rage and have

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Speaker 2: Because they purposely they're winning by twenty and chains they're

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Speaker 1: I have a good day. You're the best.

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Speaker 2: Tell the banker I say hello, and so we'll see

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Speaker 2: each other soon. Will love you, Love you, Bud Parker

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Speaker 2: What's on deck includes some Kyler Murray chap around the corner,

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Speaker 2: you know, just in case it happens this week. Finchy Finchy.

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Speaker 2: After that from Los Angeles. That'll take place about eighteen

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Speaker 2: frenzy and we close previewing and exciting day tomorrow from

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Speaker 2: treap in Saint Paul. It's Box in the Box nine

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Speaker 2: to noon, produced by Eric Nordquist and I'm Paul Allen.

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Speaker 2: A happy Wednesday to you, and thanks as always for

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Speaker 2: listening to f M one hundred point three kfan. Alrighty,

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Speaker 2: let's learn a little bit about somebody yours truly decided

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Speaker 2: recently to call Kyler the Creator. Hurry shot down three

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Speaker 3: Gap he got Kyler and Prona, and it's caught.

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Speaker 2: By Christian Kirk at the ten. Mackenzie Alexander got burned.

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Speaker 2: That's the only way to put it. I mean, Harrison

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Speaker 1: He got through.

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Speaker 2: Kyler got hit, got it off to Kirk down to

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Speaker 2: the six yard line, thirty five yard hit, first in

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Speaker 2: ball Kyler, Cole Murray bird in ten Arizona from the Bikings.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen three receivers in a triangle to the right. Kyler

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Speaker 1: Seven to six Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: Kyler, Cole Murray, Oh, Kyler the Creator, you know, In

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Speaker 2: let's learn some things about Kyler the Korea or Murrie.

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Speaker 1: Empty backfield.

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Speaker 2: Two receivers right, three out of the left, they're all

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Speaker 2: the season for young Kyler and it is twenty thirteen Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: Unlike Mad Producer, who is six foot one and a

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Speaker 1: I think just was signed by the Buffalo Bills. Yep.

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Speaker 2: Kyler threw for nearly seven hundred yards and most of

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Speaker 2: Christian Kirk and Kyler Murray our best friends. They played

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Speaker 2: After that, Kyler Murray transferred to Oklahoma for the twenty

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Speaker 2: In twenty seventeen, he backed up Baker Mayfield. And when

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Speaker 1: As Kyler goes to the Cards.

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Speaker 2: Through seven seasons in the National Football League with the

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Speaker 2: but it's a team game. Stay in your laying Paul out.

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Speaker 1: Go Kyler.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, Kyler Murray led the NFL in

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Speaker 2: the starter, what does everybody think of that? This is

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Speaker 2: a talkback Tuesday on a Wednesday because today is the

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Speaker 2: Chris Finch, coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, joins us from

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Speaker 2: and he joins us from southern California. Now it's about

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Speaker 2: fifty some odd degrees there now that they supposedly are

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Speaker 2: going to have like a heat advisory in California a

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Speaker 2: little later. And the reason I bring it up, Chris

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Speaker 2: is I know your morning walk guy, and it seems

462
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Speaker 2: like a nice morning to go for a walk and

463
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Speaker 2: just kind of contemplate what's going on in good morning?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, can I walk right into the Pacific Ocean and

465
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Speaker 3: keep walking? Come on, b No, it's yeah, it's so

466
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Speaker 3: nice out here. So but that's you know, that's.

467
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Speaker 2: Not why we're here.

468
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Speaker 3: When I here for the weather. We need to get

469
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Speaker 3: some wins. Yes, sir, it was not not a good

470
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Speaker 3: one for us.

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Speaker 2: Uh it's and and you know off Orlando than last night,

472
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Speaker 2: first two game, losing streaking a month. Uh, little little

473
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Speaker 2: did we know DeAndre Yayton had some Jim Jones. Uh

474
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Speaker 2: with those offensive rebounds to him. Did the did the

475
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Speaker 2: Lakers set the tone a bit in the first half

476
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Speaker 2: with the eleven offensive rebounds, Well, they certainly did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that was uh. I mean, neither team

478
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 3: played well as you saw. The other team could shoot

479
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Speaker 3: it and make it, and you know, they just managed

480
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Speaker 3: to get a lot of them back and give themselves

481
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Speaker 3: more opportunities. I thought we could have had a little

482
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Speaker 3: bit more of a cushion in that first half as

483
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Speaker 3: a result if we rebounded better, but we weren't able to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that that that you know, it's I'm glad you

485
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Speaker 2: said that, because the early part of the game last night,

486
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Speaker 2: you know, I thought was important and and it's not

487
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Speaker 2: that it guaranteed victory, but man, you know, because the

488
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Speaker 2: Lakers started hitting shots in the second half. But I mean,

489
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Speaker 2: you guys were an inch from taking like a fifteen

490
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Speaker 2: to two lead, you know what I mean, Oh.

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Speaker 3: For sure, And you have to take advantage of those situations,

492
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Speaker 3: and particularly in the game with the game against a

493
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Speaker 3: team like you know, like the Lakers, where Jis and

494
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Speaker 3: Reeves aren't going to you know, go five or six

495
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Speaker 3: for thirty or whatever they were for the in the

496
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Speaker 3: first half to bind. You know, they weren't going to

497
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Speaker 3: keep that up. They were going to make shots, They're

498
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Speaker 3: going to get to free throw line, they were going

499
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Speaker 3: to do their thing at some point.

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Speaker 5: You know.

501
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Speaker 3: I was hoping that we would be able to catch

502
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Speaker 3: an offensive rhythm too, and we never were able to

503
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Speaker 3: do that either.

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Speaker 2: So we we mentioned their center DeAndre Ayton, all right.

505
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Speaker 2: I mean he had five offensive rebounds, so he occasionally

506
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Speaker 2: will do that. I think it is the first time

507
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Speaker 2: he had that many in a month and change that

508
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Speaker 2: they've when they played the Wizards. Now Jake Laavia with

509
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Speaker 2: five offensive rebounds that I mean that probably or should

510
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Speaker 2: bug the guys in film study today, right.

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Speaker 3: Well, I would hope so bugs me. Bugged me last night,

512
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 3: you know, it just comes crashing in from the perimeter unchecked. Yes,

513
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 3: a lot of bad habits for us and revealed themselves

514
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Speaker 3: last night, you know, And you can't afford it at

515
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Speaker 3: the time of the year.

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Speaker 2: Off off, Chris off off last night and Orlando, are

517
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Speaker 2: you expecting a massive effort tonight against the Clippers who

518
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Speaker 2: are playing well and man, those guys get really stingy

519
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Speaker 2: on defense too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, we know what we know exactly what to

521
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Speaker 3: expect from them, and we just played them a little

522
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Speaker 3: over a week ago. As then no surprise there that

523
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Speaker 3: they didn't have Kawhi that night. To have him back

524
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Speaker 3: outstanding player, you know, not unlike Luca in the way

525
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Speaker 3: that you know, the offense is built around him and

526
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Speaker 3: you have to do a great job on him, and

527
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Speaker 3: and then I'll obviously take care of all the little

528
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 3: pieces elsewhere. Defensively, they're going to be crowded around the ball.

529
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Speaker 3: You have to use that to your advantage and against

530
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Speaker 3: them by moving it. I mean, we just the ball

531
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Speaker 3: is super sticky right now, and we just are fighting

532
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Speaker 3: the game and not making the easy play in the

533
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Speaker 3: easy pass. So so I would the good thing is, like,

534
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Speaker 3: you know, we're going to see a very similar style

535
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Speaker 3: game that we saw last night. So it would be

536
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 3: a great opportunity to take what we learned in film

537
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Speaker 3: today and put it back into action.

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Speaker 2: Kawhi, who I think went for forty one against you

539
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Speaker 2: guys recently or within the last month or whatever. That's

540
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Speaker 2: hop all right. Darius Garland who used to play for Cleveland.

541
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Speaker 2: You know, he had been hurt and then I think

542
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Speaker 2: he started to play now like what do you know

543
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 2: about Darius who can score? Darius Garland can score? Yeah, Like,

544
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Speaker 2: how are they fitting him in?

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Speaker 3: Well, he's been in pretty well early on. I mean,

546
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 3: gives them another gear to go to, gives them an

547
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Speaker 3: open court score. Uh, you know, pick and roll pick

548
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 3: and roll score, gives him another look. I think he's

549
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Speaker 3: a real good compliment next to Kawhi, and they have

550
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 3: a defense that's built to protect him. So nice pick

551
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Speaker 3: up by them. I think he's definitely a foundational piece

552
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Speaker 3: for them moving forward, and over time he'll settle in

553
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Speaker 3: here really well and do his thing. I think I

554
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Speaker 3: think he's a good player, really good player.

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Speaker 2: You you said after the game last night, Chris that

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Speaker 2: the early and you mentioned sticky earlier, but the early

557
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Speaker 2: ball movement needed to be better to win. H This

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Speaker 2: this may be domb I'm gonna try to phrase it

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Speaker 2: the best way. What was it almost like the Lakers

560
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 2: purposely put you guys in isolate, isolation situations, almost daring

561
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Speaker 2: you to pass more.

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Speaker 3: Sure they did, I mean that, you know, they they

563
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 3: just they absolutely dared us to pass more. I mean

564
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 3: that's what you do when you put you know, two

565
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 3: guys on the ball, sometimes three near the ball heavy

566
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Speaker 3: in the gaps, standing at the nail, and you know,

567
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 3: loading up when you have the ball on the side

568
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 3: of the floor against your main guys, you know, the

569
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 3: ball's got to see the other side of the floor.

570
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 3: Not rocket science. You know, the more you hold, the

571
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Speaker 3: more you dribbled. Generally, in my time in the NBA,

572
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 3: I never seen defenders just leave, you know, they they

573
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 3: they got to be forced to react, and we we

574
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Speaker 3: got to do a better job of that.

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Speaker 2: When when when you say the timber Wolves are very

576
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Speaker 2: out of rhythm offensively, is that something that can just

577
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Speaker 2: turn around, because honestly, I mean realistically, you have so

578
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Speaker 2: many gifted players.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, absolutely it can turn around. We've seen that.

580
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Speaker 3: You know, We've had moments where we've been out of

581
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Speaker 3: rhythm and then we can get it back. And it's

582
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Speaker 3: you know, it's it's the willingness and get the good

583
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 3: spacing play out of our early content that moved the

584
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Speaker 3: ball early that we talked about a minute ago. That

585
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 3: kind of fires up our engine. When we play faster,

586
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 3: we tend to be in a better rhythm. We played

587
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Speaker 3: super slow last night, and we have been playing slow

588
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 3: of late. All these things help you find your rhythm

589
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 3: and then you know, we have a lot of guys

590
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Speaker 3: that are gifted players, but you know they can't get

591
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,479
Speaker 3: themselves going all the time. Like that's just not how

592
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 3: it's going to be, you know, you know, whether it's

593
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 3: Aunt or Julius or Nas or Jayden or Dante, like,

594
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Speaker 3: you know, the ball's got to move and we got

595
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 3: to create open shots for each other and we're not

596
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 3: doing a good job of that right now. And to

597
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 3: be fair, when we have created open shots, they haven't

598
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Speaker 3: gone in. And that's that's that's that's led to a frustration.

599
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 3: I think too that you know we got to fight through.

600
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Speaker 2: Well that that's very interesting because then human nature gets

601
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 2: to greep in, right, because you're going to get individuals

602
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 2: trying to pull themselves out of funks and that's going

603
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 2: to mess with with with the team approach, right.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely no doubt about it. Exactly what's going on.

605
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, and I'm sure you know this, but trust.

606
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Speaker 2: The word trust was a common thread preach from some

607
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Speaker 2: of your players after the game last night. Dante, Rudy

608
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 2: and Julius Uh, they they intimated that we need to

609
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 2: better trust the game plan. Dante said, we can win

610
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Speaker 2: a lot of them because of how talented we are.

611
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Speaker 2: But he also and and Rudy did too, hit hard

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Speaker 2: on the importance of following the plan. And now here's

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Speaker 2: the bit that this has been a common refrain at

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Speaker 2: times with this with them this season, following the game plan.

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00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 2: When we follow the game plan, we're pretty good. How

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Speaker 2: do you guys get them to better trust the plan?

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Speaker 3: And well, it's a good question, I think. Uh, I

618
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 3: think sometimes you know, players come into the game thinking

619
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Speaker 3: that maybe it's the same, they're able to play the

620
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Speaker 3: same way that they did the night before. You know, uh,

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Speaker 3: the feel, basketball IQ, these things come into play, and

622
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 3: you got to be able to recognize that every night

623
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Speaker 3: might be a little bit different and oftentimes it is different,

624
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 3: and you got to lock in on those things. And

625
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 3: you know, we see that in the playoffs all the time.

626
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 3: Every series is drastically different than the night the one before,

627
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 3: and maybe, uh, you know, maybe in one series you

628
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 3: have it's set up great for a certain player to

629
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Speaker 3: have a you know, a great series, and maybe in

630
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 3: the next series it's not. And there's no different in

631
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 3: the regular season night to night, And so yeah, I

632
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 3: think they're they're right. You know, they know we fought offensively.

633
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 3: I wasn't worried about our defense last night, even though

634
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 3: there were lasses in it, But I was worried about

635
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 3: our offense going into the game. And there are certain

636
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 3: types of defense which give us problems and last night,

637
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 3: wanting tonight will be another one. So it's again a

638
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 3: great learning learning experience for us to go right back

639
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 3: into it and be better tonight.

640
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Speaker 2: Had the LA Lakers been playing that aggressively on defensive late,

641
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 2: I mean it was like a bunch of Michael Cooper's

642
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 2: ring incarnate out there.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

644
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think anyone would consider them to

645
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 3: be a top defense in the league on They have

646
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 3: some good players and their scheme is solid. But when

647
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 3: you play the way we played, you make it easier

648
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 3: for them to play good defense. Right, That's the point.

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Speaker 2: So so does that does that come back to? I

650
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Speaker 2: mean this this sounds rudimentary, but like making the simple

651
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Speaker 2: play simple, just make the simple simple? Is that their.

652
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Speaker 1: Fair?

653
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 3: Like this doesn't have to be a tricky game. I mean,

654
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 3: the whole notion of offense in the NBA in particular

655
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 3: is if you can get them to commit multiple players

656
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 3: to guard the ball, then then by nature math would

657
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 3: tell us that there's less elsewhere to guard your more players.

658
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 3: So just move it. I mean, that's the thing. And uh,

659
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 3: and we're all guilty of it. It's not just start

660
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 3: to you know, two main guys, it's everybody at the

661
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 3: moment is fighting that simple play, right.

662
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 2: A couple of quickies to close here for Timberwolves head

663
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 2: coach Chris Finch, thanks to Second Harvest, Heartland, two Harvest

664
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Speaker 2: dot Org and prize picks. Saturday against Orlando got out

665
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 2: of hand for sure. But that magic team, man, that

666
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 2: magic team is good and is getting better and and

667
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 2: I predict upset somebody in the first round. What do

668
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 2: you think about that pretty good magic team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they do have the makings of a team that

670
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 3: could make some noise in the playoffs. What's making them

671
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,280
Speaker 3: good right now is their defense. They're they're they're finding

672
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 3: their consistent defensive identity. They've always been good defensively in

673
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 3: the last few years, that's really what they've hung their

674
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 3: hat on. They've struggled to shoot the ball. Well, you know,

675
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 3: pains certainly helped them, but they're not. It's not like

676
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 3: they've and leaps in their three point shooting. This year.

677
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 3: But what they have done is they found some defense

678
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 3: right now.

679
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: Uh, last one on you guys.

680
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 2: Uh, it's it's maybe it shouldn't be just amazing to me,

681
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 2: but it is. And and we've talked about it for

682
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 2: a couple of years now. It's just amazing how not

683
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 2: only sometimes do your guys seem to thrive on drama,

684
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 2: but strangely they seem to crave it. Is that fair

685
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 2: or misguided?

686
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if it's fair or not.

687
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 3: I mean, it's listen, you know it's I think there's

688
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 3: a lot you know, there's a lot of there's a

689
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 3: lot of drama in the NBA on every team up

690
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 3: and down the league. So you know, we used to

691
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 3: always joke like, never under underestimate the drama on the

692
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 3: other team, you know. So, but you know, we're still young,

693
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 3: we're still learning our core and you know, we got

694
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 3: to get through these periods. But you know, got bounced back.

695
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 3: That's a great thing about the league. You all got

696
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 3: a chance to play the next.

697
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 2: Night or night after lastly, bamt at a BAIO eighty three.

698
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 2: I know you didn't see it. You probably saw some highlights.

699
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 2: Bam went for eighty three last night. That's that's fantastic, man.

700
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty pretty crazy.

701
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,959
Speaker 3: I mean that that's hard to do. Obviously, I didn't

702
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 3: see any of it, to be quite fair, so I

703
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 3: wouldn't know how they came about.

704
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't see the forty three three throws.

705
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 3: I don't think that would have been much fun to watch.

706
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 3: But all credit to him and congrats for a great night.

707
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 2: Yeah he In total, I think he shot eighty six times.

708
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 2: I mean field goals and free throws, bitch, is unheard of.

709
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 2: And what's interesting here is it's the second highest scoring

710
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 2: game in the history of the NBA, behind Wilt Chamberlain's

711
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,919
Speaker 2: one hundred against the New York Knicks. Is it true

712
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 2: that when Wilt with the Philadelphia Warriors had that one

713
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 2: hundred against the Knicks?

714
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: You were actually in attendance? I was not.

715
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 3: It was at Hershey Park Arena, which is right down

716
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 3: the street from where I grew up, So you've been

717
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 3: I played basketball in that arena, But it's not the

718
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 3: same night Wilt was playing.

719
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,479
Speaker 1: Might might not even have been born at that time.

720
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, let's have a rebirth with the winning this

721
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 2: evening and we will chat soon. Thank you, Chris yep

722
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 2: to see you about Chris Chris finch second Harvest Heartland

723
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Speaker 2: to Harvest Dot Oregon Prize picks uh Asnordo's prize picks go.

724
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 2: I don't know if tonight would be a great situation

725
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 2: to identify a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves for prize picks,

726
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 2: given you're looking to a mass points and rebounds and

727
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 2: assists and steals and blocks and things like that. It's

728
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 2: I mean Orlando, as Finchy said, and then you know

729
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 2: when Monday when when I talked about the game, it's

730
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 2: Orlando's defense is tough, man, It's just they're the Orlando Magic.

731
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 2: They haven't been fresh since they had Penny Hardaway shack

732
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 2: and Nick anders him, so nobody follows them. But they

733
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 2: are a rough and tumble, physical team. Last night last night,

734
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 2: man bugged me because the LA Lakers are not known

735
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 2: as a quality defensive team and they employ Luka Doncic

736
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 2: who couldn't care less about defense. Yeah, DeAndre Yaton, he's

737
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 2: not known for his defense either, But I mean they

738
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 2: locked us down at key times last night. Well, now

739
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 2: you're going to get to a Clippers team tonight where

740
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard is I don't know if it's still the

741
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 2: case at this stage of his career. One of the

742
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 2: best two way players in the history of the NBA.

743
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard his defense is the bomb, and the Clippers

744
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: play slow man. They want to win lower scoring games.

745
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 2: They want to beat you up, and they want to

746
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 2: get you frustrated and force you into an isolation game.

747
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think.

748
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 5: I can't remember the exact matchup, but the last time

749
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 5: they played, I don't think they broke ninety the Clippers.

750
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 5: I mean they want right absolutely to suck the air

751
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 5: out of that ball and out of that arena.

752
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just grind you to a nub. We've got

753
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 1: to get a victory tonight.

754
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 5: And when Kai man, when Kawi's he he's still a baller,

755
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 5: Kauai is awesome. Uh and and he's going to be

756
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,800
Speaker 5: and and I just can't I haven't seen enough of

757
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 5: it yet. I don't even have Kawhi and Garland even

758
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 5: played together. But that's a unique dynamic that they have

759
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 5: out there.

760
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: Kawhi doesn't talk much. No, he does not.

761
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 2: Think I've shared this with you before. It was one

762
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 2: of Fred Hoiberg's final games coaching the Chicago Bulls, and

763
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 2: the Vikings were in town to play the Bears the

764
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 2: next day.

765
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: So got with Freddie.

766
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 2: Freddie got me Spearfish and Johnny Extrom into the game.

767
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 2: We had we had some passes to go see Freddie

768
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 2: after the game. A so Bowels of United Center, Bowels

769
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 2: of United Center. They were playing the Raptors. Kawhi didn't

770
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 2: play all right, No Kawhi Leonard Raptors might have won

771
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 2: by fifty.

772
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: Okay.

773
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 2: At Chicago, we're set to go to the coach's office

774
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 2: and see fred So tough time. Spearfish and Extroom there there,

775
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 2: p R savvy and they're like, you know, this might

776
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 2: not be the greatest time. All right, let's just pop

777
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: our head in there. And hey, Fred, I mean his

778
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 2: face was it was rich. I mean, it's like, all right,

779
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,280
Speaker 2: all right, man, I love you. Tell Jackson and Sam

780
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 2: that I say hi, and likewise for Carol and Otabulator Christmas.

781
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 2: And then he got fired with him the next week,

782
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 2: which was terrible. But when I say cow doesn't doesn't

783
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 2: I mean God's cartoon character on the walk to Hoiberg's office,

784
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 2: I mean, in full flight selfie with Bobby Portis Hey,

785
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 2: Bobby Portas is playing for the Bulls. If Spearfish is

786
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 2: listening right now, he has the biggest smile on his

787
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 2: face because I walked up to Bobby Porters said, hey, Bobby,

788
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 2: I got all your albums. Man, gotta get a selfie.

789
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 2: So did a selfie with Bobby Portis.

790
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 5: Now, well, this has been raptors WITHAM And would Van

791
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 5: Vliet be in the mix?

792
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 2: I don't know about Van Vliet was in the mix,

793
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 2: might have torn him up that night, But I mean

794
00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:01,959
Speaker 2: I wanted to I wanted to meet Kawhi. I didn't

795
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 2: even he was on the bench, so I'm like, damn,

796
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 2: WHI might be down here. So we're walking to Hoiberg's

797
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 2: office in the bowels of United Center and basically on

798
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 2: his phone in a broom closet with a door open,

799
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 2: there's Kawhi Leonard And of course I stop and I go, Kawhi,

800
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 2: You're the bomb, and hen like puts his phone down

801
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 2: and goes.

802
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: I always love that. He groaned, all right, God bless brother,

803
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,720
Speaker 1: And I'll never forget that. Man awesome.

804
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what if you don't check Kawai the

805
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 2: right way tonight, No, you're going to be groaning to

806
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 2: a third consecutive loss.

807
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: Let's go how wo. Let's go how wo. Let's chat

808
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:50,879
Speaker 1: with UH.

809
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 2: Let's chat with Emma Johnson, one of our very favorites,

810
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 2: somebody I have known him for a little bit. He

811
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 2: UH led the nation in all purpose yards for you

812
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 2: or Nebraska corn Huskers last year the combine's done. He

813
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 2: was interviewed at the JW. Marriott in Indianapolis by at

814
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 2: least twenty teams, including the Minnesota Vikings. He's going to

815
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 2: chat about that. His walk up to the draft related

816
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 2: lot in life. And this is a running back who

817
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 2: a could be on the Minnesota Vikings. MB will be

818
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:28,839
Speaker 2: drafted most likely Friday, round two or three. I Emma

819
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 2: Johnson from the fighting City of Miami, joins nine to

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Speaker 2: noon next