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Speaker 2: Just to show you the scene at Oracle Arena in Oakland,

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Speaker 2: the home standing Golden State Warriors take the floor better

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Speaker 2: than twenty thousand going wild, and there Webelieved shirts as

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Speaker 2: Golden State tries to do what's never been done in

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Speaker 2: NBA history. And number eight bes and number one and

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Speaker 3: For the first time in this series, Wary really shirts

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Speaker 4: Scorelets stretch when they're.

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Speaker 5: Outscore by fifty's huts.

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Speaker 6: How don't they got to come out using energy of

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Speaker 4: Really attack and regain that's lost that right out if

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Speaker 4: you discovered to this morning. Fraction comes straight away for three,

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Speaker 4: Barns runs the floor. Lease it for Traction, who fires?

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Speaker 7: There's Bars State eighteen on acture by the Warriors.

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Speaker 1: Those were some of the most memorable moments from the

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Speaker 1: We Believe Warriors the two thousand and six oh seventeen

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Speaker 1: that displayed the full potential of Fay Area basketball in

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Speaker 1: one historic first round playoff series. I'm Israel Gucierrez and

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Speaker 1: this is dub Dynastic led by Baron Davis. Jason Richardson

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Speaker 1: and a play required midseason from Indiana Stephen Jackson. The

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Speaker 1: eight seeded Warriors upset the top seeded Dallas Mavericks with

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Speaker 1: that year's MVP, Dirk Nooviski in six games.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I've ever seen a better crowd either, Barby,

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Speaker 4: in my entire career of playing and watching.

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Speaker 8: Basketball, even at the college level.

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe this is something you'd see.

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Speaker 9: It, you'd kill Cameron Indoor Stadium at.

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Speaker 1: Duke or something.

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Speaker 10: But I've fre seen.

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Speaker 9: An entire crowd stand a whole second half. Never seen that.

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Speaker 4: It does have that the collegiate atmosphere. The record crowd

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Speaker 4: for the Warriors betther than twenty thousand, a building that

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Speaker 4: provides much emotion and energy, and that's been right from

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Speaker 4: the opening tip.

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Speaker 1: The impact that team had on Warriors basketball is far

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Speaker 1: disproportionate to its actual accomplishments.

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Speaker 4: And we are final second the goal to start Warriors.

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Speaker 9: Hold off the greatest upset in the history of the

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Speaker 9: NBA playoffs.

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Speaker 4: That half of feed that's up Dallas covers two six

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Speaker 4: as for sin Fetti comes from above.

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Speaker 1: That Warriors team won forty two regular season games and

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Speaker 1: one playoff series. The following off season, the Warriors once

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Speaker 1: again broke up a beloved corps by trading Jason Richardson

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Speaker 1: on Draft Night for Brandon Wright. Then didn't make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: so that was it. There was no second playoff run,

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Speaker 1: yet that was one of the most embraced and still

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Speaker 1: one of the most discussed teams in Warriors history. Stephen

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Speaker 1: Jackson and Matt Barnes we Believe teammates, have had a

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Speaker 1: successful podcast, All the Smoke Together since twenty twenty. Kalina

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Speaker 1: Hazibuque was a rookie on that team and is now

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Speaker 1: the Warriors color analyst on their local TV broadcast. Mike Dunleavy,

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Speaker 1: who was sent to Indiana as part of that Jackson

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Speaker 1: is currently the Warriors general manager. And of the voices

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Speaker 1: heard in those highlights, one was legendary play by play

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Speaker 1: man Marv Albert and the other was Steve Kirk. He

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Speaker 1: Belief could only get those Warriors as far as the

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Speaker 1: second round, where they lost to Carlos Boozer, Darren Williams

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Speaker 1: and the much bigger Utah Jazz. The twenty fifteen Warriors

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Speaker 1: Mike Conley was running the point efficiently, and Tony Allen

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Speaker 5: Tony Allen what was steel and Alan ahead of the pack?

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Speaker 1: Allen had averaged two steals a game in the regular season,

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Speaker 9: He's letting us know First team All defense again.

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Speaker 1: Curry was particularly affected in those two Warriors losses, shooting

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Speaker 1: The Grizzlies have a two games to one lead and a.

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Speaker 9: He's gotten punched in the gun.

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Speaker 1: Allen was a menace and he needed to be addressed.

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Speaker 1: Steve Kerr's plan for this was to not address him

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Speaker 1: Andrew Boget was critical in this series the Warriors because

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Speaker 1: Gasole or Random also known as Zebo. But Kerr's plan

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Speaker 1: Bogot's orders were to still protect the paint at all costs,

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Speaker 10: Steve came to me and said, listen, we're thinking about

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Speaker 10: starting you on Tony Allen because my strength was back

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Speaker 10: line defense, communicate a quarterback, like dictating stuff, pointing, yelling, switching,

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Speaker 10: calling screens, protecting the hoop, just clogging out the paint.

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Speaker 10: But that strength is best suited when you're guarding. You

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Speaker 10: everyone's kind of like, okay, it kind of makes sense

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Speaker 10: on face value, but you never know how these things

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Speaker 10: are going to work till the game starts, and I

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Speaker 10: remember Game four, we start with it and I think

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Speaker 10: Tony Allen might have made his first shot. I think

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Speaker 10: he came down the floor. They ran their first play.

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Speaker 10: He caught the ball at the three. I was middle

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Speaker 10: Shoot it? He didn't shoot that one. They're around their play.

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Speaker 10: Their offense was all mucked up because the spacing was

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Speaker 10: he made it. I'm pretty sure he did.

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Speaker 1: I can help with that. Alan did make his first shot,

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Speaker 10: I was besting for us because he shot a few

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Speaker 10: more of them, bricked those, and he literally was unplayable to.

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Speaker 1: That Boget was exactly right this time. Allen missed three

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Speaker 1: the game, and finished Game four two of nine from

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Speaker 10: Their offense just didn't work because they had no room

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Speaker 1: Alan played just sixteen minutes in a game four Warriors win,

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Speaker 10: So taking him out was great for us offensively because

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Speaker 10: Steve Kirchess game of messing with their coaches, messing with lineups.

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Speaker 10: They've now subbed himut because they can't play because it

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Speaker 10: And now we've got claim Steph being guided by Colnley

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Speaker 1: The Grizzlies weren't a one man defensive operation. However, Gasolt

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Speaker 1: the group as a whole had the second best defensive

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Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. That meant Steph Clay and the Warriors

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Speaker 1: still needed to make an offensive adjustment. It wouldn't require

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Speaker 1: an entire rewrite of the playbook. It would, however, require patients, trust,

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Speaker 1: and most importantly, movement. Bruce Fraser as an assistant coach

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Speaker 1: Grizzlies as the moment Curry and Thompson unlocked what would

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Speaker 1: calling their games, relocation. Here's Fraser, who the team calls Q.

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Speaker 11: This is where Stuff had to grow and play. But

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Speaker 11: Memphis was a very very good defensive team and they

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Speaker 11: made it really hard for Steph and Clay and all

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Speaker 11: And that's where the relocation of his game started, where

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Speaker 11: and that was hard for him to be patient. But

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Speaker 11: we showed the clips to that and talked about you

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Speaker 11: know and stuff of all as a player. In that moment,

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Speaker 11: our team evolved to where the ball started to even

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Speaker 11: move more later in the clock, where we were getting

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Speaker 11: but I think the fact that we changed what they

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Speaker 4: Shot Clott down to four, Boga passes up a wide

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Speaker 9: I guess four.

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Speaker 12: I mean Jay Jager has to get a time out

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Speaker 3: Everything is working for Golden State defensively has been great.

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Speaker 9: Limits a Grizzlies to one shot and they're.

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Speaker 1: Let it start down the rabble, poor Memphis. Oh yes,

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Speaker 5: A town of basketball we saw a year long.

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Speaker 9: From Golden State.

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Speaker 1: Then in Game six, Curry sent the Grizz fishing for

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Speaker 12: Weeping trying to get the shot up.

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Speaker 3: No call that way.

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Speaker 7: Curry flicks it the other way?

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Speaker 6: A moleculous shot?

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Speaker 4: By telling the love little floor fifth.

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Speaker 9: So every stopped except for currys We gradually two ducks

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Speaker 1: The Warriors passed their first major postseason test, and for

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Speaker 3: I have said, it's the exact same thing. In sixteen

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Speaker 1: Golden State shot almost twice as many threes than Memphis

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Speaker 14: The one thing that we knew is as good as

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Speaker 14: they were going. If they hit three threes, we don't

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Speaker 1: Cases in point games one and two in twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 5: Parden, what fast does inside?

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Speaker 7: Joe shut up hair Coach's courage.

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Speaker 6: Curry p three Hard inside a currage.

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Speaker 1: With two minutes left, the Rockets were down by eleven.

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Speaker 1: In Game one, an oracle was rocking and then.

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Speaker 6: The reason the steal it somehow holds on Terry back

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Speaker 9: Per three puts it in two point.

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Speaker 1: Game With fourteen seconds remaining, the Rockets were suddenly within

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Speaker 1: the win, but Game two would be an even more

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Speaker 1: stressful finish for the Warriors. Despite leading by seventeen in

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Speaker 6: Hard Drives throws it up, Howard throws it down one point.

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Speaker 9: Game seven seconds ago, Hardens down the airside, dribbles in,

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Speaker 6: You can't get the shut up the horse down.

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Speaker 1: The game wayd win.

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Speaker 3: Believable.

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Speaker 7: We win Let's Court.

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Speaker 12: Any time to go to at a series is big.

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Speaker 15: We got to play better, though, so that's what we

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Speaker 1: Harden couldn't get off a shot against Golden State's defense,

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Speaker 1: After the break, the best team in the league faces

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Speaker 9: Praise you thought you wouldn't. You're not here in your lifetime,

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Speaker 9: but Golden State Warriors aren't going to the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 14: The Warriors team, I've been here for forty some years,

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Speaker 15: We should enjoy this, get recharged, refocused for their finals,

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Speaker 1: What exactly Steph Curry and the Warriors really needed to

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Speaker 1: And on the other side would be a player who'd

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Speaker 5: Win a loser draw.

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Speaker 15: We will give our best shot, and I will, as

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Speaker 1: That would be Lebron James. He just completed a run

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Speaker 1: Despite hoops experts across the nation mostly picking the Warriors

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Speaker 15: He looked across the court, and there's a guy that's

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Speaker 4: There's two of them.

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Speaker 14: The new experience didn't phase him at all. He went

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Speaker 14: You pick your brother up.

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Speaker 8: If you're down.

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Speaker 1: Rachel Nichols had been around every one of James's championship

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Speaker 16: It didn't feel in those finals, at least to me,

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 1: That was another thing. The Cavaliers newly formed Big three

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Speaker 1: for an unnecessarily aggressive Kelly Olnock. Love was fitting in

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Speaker 9: Ol and Love fighting for it, And this is gonna be.

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Speaker 10: Totally Love hurt.

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Speaker 12: Yes, he shoulder popped out. Yeah, he ran right right

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Speaker 1: That was a wrap for Love in the twenty fifteen postseason,

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Speaker 9: Screens at my Bass Golfe. Time of the key three

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Speaker 1: Midway through that overtime session. The Finals would suffer another

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Speaker 5: Kyrie Irving heard of himself all this play. It was

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Speaker 8: same page cohesion, and the Warriors certainly had that. So yeah,

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Speaker 8: I do look back and think what if, But certainly

437
00:24:46,749 --> 00:24:49,109
Speaker 8: over the course of time, and it transcends not just

438
00:24:49,189 --> 00:24:51,429
Speaker 8: in basketball, but in all of sports and every walk

439
00:24:51,429 --> 00:24:54,629
Speaker 8: of life. You know, it's it's natural to think that

440
00:24:54,789 --> 00:24:56,789
Speaker 8: and to go back and look at that. But that

441
00:24:56,909 --> 00:24:58,789
Speaker 8: started that rivalry from there on out.

442
00:24:59,149 --> 00:25:01,589
Speaker 1: The Warriors would go on to win Game one, holding

443
00:25:01,629 --> 00:25:05,109
Speaker 1: the suddenly stunned Calves to to Lebron James points in

444
00:25:05,149 --> 00:25:06,149
Speaker 1: the entire overtime.

445
00:25:07,469 --> 00:25:12,189
Speaker 6: James the rebound golden stickfull tip Game one.

446
00:25:12,949 --> 00:25:15,148
Speaker 9: As they finally score it overtime.

447
00:25:18,789 --> 00:25:21,429
Speaker 1: Certainly, this was all the Warriors would need to coast

448
00:25:21,429 --> 00:25:24,509
Speaker 1: to their first title in forty years. The King was

449
00:25:24,549 --> 00:25:27,869
Speaker 1: still around, but his main men kept falling and there

450
00:25:27,909 --> 00:25:29,789
Speaker 1: was no way he could carry this version of the

451
00:25:29,829 --> 00:25:31,069
Speaker 1: Calves past the Warriors.

452
00:25:31,189 --> 00:25:31,509
Speaker 10: Jugger.

453
00:25:31,749 --> 00:25:34,189
Speaker 9: Fifteen seconds left, the Warriors are down by two.

454
00:25:34,549 --> 00:25:35,469
Speaker 6: Curry off the screen.

455
00:25:35,829 --> 00:25:38,269
Speaker 9: Let's time a can of line to the rim lay.

456
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Speaker 6: For the first time in NBA history, the first two

457
00:25:43,869 --> 00:25:47,148
Speaker 6: games of the NBA Finals aren't going to overtime?

458
00:25:48,549 --> 00:25:52,869
Speaker 1: Wait, could he? Well, he'd at least needs someone to

459
00:25:52,909 --> 00:25:56,349
Speaker 1: step into Kyrie Irving's boy, someone who could impact the

460
00:25:56,429 --> 00:25:59,749
Speaker 1: game for forty or more minutes. Someone who could make

461
00:25:59,789 --> 00:26:03,829
Speaker 1: a timely basket or earned clutch free throws. Someone who

462
00:26:03,829 --> 00:26:06,589
Speaker 1: could make life difficult for Steph Curry and the Warriors

463
00:26:06,709 --> 00:26:12,469
Speaker 1: as a whole. That someone was naturally Matthew Delavdova.

464
00:26:12,589 --> 00:26:15,589
Speaker 5: Well, this game for Cleveland, it's been all about their defense.

465
00:26:15,749 --> 00:26:19,989
Speaker 5: Delavdova one of that defense, starting a place at Kyrie Irving.

466
00:26:20,349 --> 00:26:23,869
Speaker 1: Delhi, who'd played on the Australian national team alongside Warriors

467
00:26:23,949 --> 00:26:26,869
Speaker 1: big man Andrew Boget, averaged twenty minutes a game in

468
00:26:26,909 --> 00:26:30,589
Speaker 1: the regular season, and as the postseason continued, he showed

469
00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:33,269
Speaker 1: his value more and more, starting a pair of games

470
00:26:33,309 --> 00:26:36,629
Speaker 1: for Irving in the Conference finals, including a forty five minute,

471
00:26:36,709 --> 00:26:41,109
Speaker 1: seventeen point performance in a Game three overtime win. But

472
00:26:41,189 --> 00:26:44,869
Speaker 1: this would be an even more intense challenge and when

473
00:26:44,949 --> 00:26:47,469
Speaker 1: he knew would last the rest of the finals for him.

474
00:26:47,749 --> 00:26:50,908
Speaker 1: With Irving out and in Game two, he delivered the

475
00:26:50,949 --> 00:26:53,949
Speaker 1: type of performance that would make Delavadova one of the

476
00:26:53,989 --> 00:26:59,349
Speaker 1: sports most talked about players for about five days. Delhi

477
00:26:59,389 --> 00:27:03,109
Speaker 1: scored Game two's decisive points with free throws after getting

478
00:27:03,109 --> 00:27:05,629
Speaker 1: foul rebounding at James Jones miss.

479
00:27:05,629 --> 00:27:06,669
Speaker 5: James kicks it out.

480
00:27:06,789 --> 00:27:11,109
Speaker 6: James Jones missus Televandova on the file and he's found

481
00:27:11,149 --> 00:27:15,669
Speaker 6: on the shot attempt clutch free pros from Matthew Dellavedova.

482
00:27:18,149 --> 00:27:21,189
Speaker 1: He then played more stellar defense on Curry, who missed

483
00:27:21,189 --> 00:27:24,109
Speaker 1: a potential game winner and finished the game just five

484
00:27:24,149 --> 00:27:26,949
Speaker 1: of twenty three from the field for nineteen points.

485
00:27:27,349 --> 00:27:29,429
Speaker 5: Yigdala fights Curry.

486
00:27:30,229 --> 00:27:33,349
Speaker 6: Curry on the drive step back, puts it up airball,

487
00:27:33,469 --> 00:27:36,269
Speaker 6: James the rebound and they foul him immediately. With four

488
00:27:36,309 --> 00:27:40,469
Speaker 6: point four remaining, it's certainly not over yet, although Golden

489
00:27:40,469 --> 00:27:43,309
Speaker 6: State is at a timeouts. James will go to the

490
00:27:43,349 --> 00:27:44,069
Speaker 6: line for two.

491
00:27:44,749 --> 00:27:50,069
Speaker 1: But guess who coached Delhi again? Sure, Lebron James' thirty

492
00:27:50,149 --> 00:27:53,989
Speaker 1: nine point triple double was something, but Deli was cooking

493
00:27:54,029 --> 00:27:56,509
Speaker 1: defensively for forty three crucial minutes.

494
00:27:56,829 --> 00:28:00,388
Speaker 4: They've been so aggressive today and it's because of Della Vandova.

495
00:28:00,469 --> 00:28:01,509
Speaker 8: There's no doubt about it.

496
00:28:01,749 --> 00:28:05,549
Speaker 1: And in game three back in Eveland, the formula worked again.

497
00:28:06,109 --> 00:28:09,469
Speaker 1: Lebron took almost half his team shots and finished with

498
00:28:09,549 --> 00:28:13,669
Speaker 1: forty points, twelve rebounds, and eight assists, while Dela Vedova

499
00:28:13,749 --> 00:28:17,669
Speaker 1: logged another thirty nine minutes, scored twenty points, and helped

500
00:28:17,669 --> 00:28:21,509
Speaker 1: force Curry into six turnovers with his relentless pressure.

501
00:28:22,349 --> 00:28:25,989
Speaker 9: Back to Delvadova, tad to shoot behind, curried out, gabbling

502
00:28:26,149 --> 00:28:27,069
Speaker 9: off ballot.

503
00:28:26,789 --> 00:28:31,469
Speaker 6: Shooting perfuny bret to the jel Vadova was falling down

504
00:28:31,589 --> 00:28:35,709
Speaker 6: to his left garry lots of it stolen by James,

505
00:28:35,989 --> 00:28:41,189
Speaker 6: had foul by Tom took another extraordinary performance from Lebron James.

506
00:28:41,789 --> 00:28:44,869
Speaker 9: The Cleveland Gavaliers have taken the two games to one.

507
00:28:44,749 --> 00:28:47,909
Speaker 5: Lead near the NBA Finals.

508
00:28:48,269 --> 00:28:50,869
Speaker 1: And David Lee was thinking the same as the rest

509
00:28:50,909 --> 00:28:55,189
Speaker 1: of the viewing audience. Could Lebron really do this as well?

510
00:28:55,629 --> 00:28:56,469
Speaker 1: A big one?

511
00:28:56,909 --> 00:28:58,789
Speaker 12: I remember all was looking at each other in Game

512
00:28:58,869 --> 00:29:01,389
Speaker 12: three at halftime being like, is this guy who's gonna

513
00:29:01,389 --> 00:29:04,549
Speaker 12: beat us all on his own? He's got guys that

514
00:29:04,749 --> 00:29:06,709
Speaker 12: have averaged like six or eight points a game. He's

515
00:29:06,709 --> 00:29:09,789
Speaker 12: had Delavandova and these guys playing like they're all stars,

516
00:29:09,829 --> 00:29:12,829
Speaker 12: only because he is carrying so much in the load

517
00:29:13,509 --> 00:29:15,989
Speaker 12: that anytime he's not shooting, you're like, oh, thank god,

518
00:29:16,069 --> 00:29:17,829
Speaker 12: Lebron's not the one, you know, taking us to the

519
00:29:17,869 --> 00:29:20,189
Speaker 12: basket one on three and finishing and one right now,

520
00:29:20,469 --> 00:29:22,989
Speaker 12: So he's he played so well that he almost did

521
00:29:23,029 --> 00:29:25,349
Speaker 12: it on his own. But I mean, just one of

522
00:29:25,389 --> 00:29:28,469
Speaker 12: those guys that is is times. You know, I was

523
00:29:28,469 --> 00:29:30,189
Speaker 12: maybe a top twenty player in the league with those

524
00:29:30,189 --> 00:29:32,669
Speaker 12: All star gears. Guys like that are playing a whole

525
00:29:32,669 --> 00:29:34,429
Speaker 12: different game. Guys like him and stuff are playing a

526
00:29:34,469 --> 00:29:35,909
Speaker 12: whole different game than the rest of the guys in

527
00:29:35,909 --> 00:29:37,749
Speaker 12: the league, and it's pretty special to watch.

528
00:29:38,029 --> 00:29:41,709
Speaker 1: Delavdova's efforts were pretty awesome to watch too, even if

529
00:29:41,749 --> 00:29:45,469
Speaker 1: he was smudging the beautiful game Curry and the Warriors played.

530
00:29:46,029 --> 00:29:48,669
Speaker 1: Bo get knew his national team partner was capable of

531
00:29:48,709 --> 00:29:52,749
Speaker 1: this type of championship level assistance. He just wasn't sure

532
00:29:52,789 --> 00:29:55,429
Speaker 1: how sustainable it was. Here's Bogan.

533
00:29:55,709 --> 00:29:57,469
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, Deli was Deli. That's what he does.

534
00:29:57,549 --> 00:30:00,989
Speaker 10: He's all in defensively, and look, do I think he

535
00:30:01,069 --> 00:30:03,069
Speaker 10: completely shot down stiff No. I think he made a

536
00:30:03,109 --> 00:30:06,589
Speaker 10: lot high for him. And the finals physicality level goes

537
00:30:06,669 --> 00:30:08,189
Speaker 10: up even more than the playoffs, so I think there

538
00:30:08,229 --> 00:30:11,029
Speaker 10: was a lot more allowed. That plays right into Delhi's game.

539
00:30:11,309 --> 00:30:13,869
Speaker 10: You know, the problem was for the Cavs that Delhi

540
00:30:13,989 --> 00:30:17,389
Speaker 10: hadn't played those minutes all season, all of a sudden,

541
00:30:17,389 --> 00:30:19,869
Speaker 10: he's playing thirty five or forty at a high level.

542
00:30:19,909 --> 00:30:23,469
Speaker 10: I played with obviously the national team, and he's notorious

543
00:30:23,469 --> 00:30:26,349
Speaker 10: for cramping because he just he plays himself to exhaustion.

544
00:30:27,309 --> 00:30:29,829
Speaker 10: He won't slow down, like you'll just keep going and

545
00:30:29,829 --> 00:30:33,149
Speaker 10: then subs oppening locks up. And I think that's exactly

546
00:30:33,229 --> 00:30:35,149
Speaker 10: what happened. So after I think I think it was

547
00:30:35,189 --> 00:30:38,469
Speaker 10: Game three in Cleveland, he had to go to the hospital.

548
00:30:38,909 --> 00:30:42,309
Speaker 10: Some people don't know Jason round Steph for three games

549
00:30:42,469 --> 00:30:45,149
Speaker 10: and he ended up completely his body completely locked up

550
00:30:45,189 --> 00:30:48,509
Speaker 10: at Cass Facility in the whole tub, could a move,

551
00:30:48,629 --> 00:30:50,509
Speaker 10: had to get put on a stretcher, had to go

552
00:30:50,549 --> 00:30:52,029
Speaker 10: to the hospital and be on ivs.

553
00:30:52,709 --> 00:30:56,309
Speaker 1: After the break, the Warriors make a deadly change that

554
00:30:56,389 --> 00:30:59,469
Speaker 1: shifts the NBA Finals and how we view basketball.

555
00:30:59,629 --> 00:31:15,469
Speaker 10: Altoget it's compliment to Delhi, but it's also tells you

556
00:31:15,469 --> 00:31:17,349
Speaker 10: how it is to chase around Steph Carie for three

557
00:31:17,389 --> 00:31:19,149
Speaker 10: games and he just completely locked up. So he did

558
00:31:19,149 --> 00:31:21,309
Speaker 10: a fantastic job. But then you know, once he knew

559
00:31:21,389 --> 00:31:24,549
Speaker 10: what was going on behind the scenes, he just could

560
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:26,229
Speaker 10: have sustained it for six games. And I think he

561
00:31:26,309 --> 00:31:30,629
Speaker 10: was out of puff. The last couple of games.

562
00:31:29,549 --> 00:31:33,989
Speaker 1: Delly did indeed seem out of puff despite the refueling

563
00:31:33,989 --> 00:31:37,309
Speaker 1: at the hospital. The rest of the series, he shot

564
00:31:37,469 --> 00:31:40,069
Speaker 1: just five of twenty six from the field, and his

565
00:31:40,149 --> 00:31:42,789
Speaker 1: defense on Curry didn't match his efforts from the first

566
00:31:42,829 --> 00:31:45,549
Speaker 1: three games, but there was much more at play than

567
00:31:45,549 --> 00:31:49,949
Speaker 1: a reserve guard being dehydrated and fatigued. Much like the

568
00:31:49,989 --> 00:31:53,349
Speaker 1: Grizzly series, when the Warriors found themselves down two games

569
00:31:53,389 --> 00:31:56,189
Speaker 1: to one, it was a combined effort from the coaching

570
00:31:56,229 --> 00:32:00,189
Speaker 1: staff and the players that turned the tie. In Game three,

571
00:32:00,469 --> 00:32:04,069
Speaker 1: with the Warriors down seventeen and headed to another two deficit,

572
00:32:04,789 --> 00:32:08,269
Speaker 1: Kerr gave the Warriors a different look and gave David

573
00:32:08,349 --> 00:32:09,709
Speaker 1: Lee some marching orders.

574
00:32:09,949 --> 00:32:12,309
Speaker 12: Look, David, we're going to try to go small with

575
00:32:12,349 --> 00:32:14,309
Speaker 12: you at the five here and run some pick and

576
00:32:14,389 --> 00:32:16,829
Speaker 12: rolls and spread these guys out because they're not necessarily

577
00:32:16,829 --> 00:32:19,269
Speaker 12: beating us inside. But the matchups is aren't right. We

578
00:32:19,309 --> 00:32:21,069
Speaker 12: can't put our finger on it as a staff, but

579
00:32:21,829 --> 00:32:24,909
Speaker 12: go out there and just play free. And we almost

580
00:32:24,909 --> 00:32:26,549
Speaker 12: came back and won that game, and I had a

581
00:32:26,549 --> 00:32:29,509
Speaker 12: big fourth quarter there, but it was only because you

582
00:32:29,589 --> 00:32:33,589
Speaker 12: could see that when we went smaller and we had

583
00:32:33,709 --> 00:32:36,669
Speaker 12: basically one big and four Smalls or a pick and

584
00:32:36,749 --> 00:32:40,269
Speaker 12: roll with everybody spread. With our shooting, Cleveland seemed very

585
00:32:40,349 --> 00:32:42,909
Speaker 12: off balance. You had Lebron talking to Tristan, tell you

586
00:32:43,269 --> 00:32:45,509
Speaker 12: why are you covering here? And where was the rotation?

587
00:32:46,389 --> 00:32:48,949
Speaker 12: And so our coaching staff, you could see after the game,

588
00:32:49,029 --> 00:32:51,989
Speaker 12: was like, hey, we lost this one. We need to

589
00:32:51,989 --> 00:32:54,149
Speaker 12: be better in these categories, but I think we just

590
00:32:54,189 --> 00:32:55,069
Speaker 12: found something here.

591
00:32:57,189 --> 00:33:00,429
Speaker 1: That seventeen point deficit was down to one with two

592
00:33:00,549 --> 00:33:03,269
Speaker 1: forty five left in Game three before James and the

593
00:33:03,549 --> 00:33:08,429
Speaker 1: Haves eventually pulled it out. Long series, right, long series.

594
00:33:08,749 --> 00:33:11,709
Speaker 6: What's important is that we cheep building and we grow

595
00:33:12,229 --> 00:33:13,829
Speaker 6: every play, every procession.

596
00:33:14,149 --> 00:33:16,429
Speaker 10: Whether we win this game or not, we've got another

597
00:33:16,629 --> 00:33:17,589
Speaker 10: game in two days.

598
00:33:17,589 --> 00:33:20,189
Speaker 6: Well, let's get our toys, let's get our excames, let's

599
00:33:20,189 --> 00:33:20,829
Speaker 6: get our blame.

600
00:33:21,429 --> 00:33:24,389
Speaker 1: But after the game, with a suggestion coming from Kerr's

601
00:33:24,389 --> 00:33:27,789
Speaker 1: special assistant Nick Urrean, the Warriors made a switch to

602
00:33:27,829 --> 00:33:31,549
Speaker 1: their starting lineup based on that late success in Game three.

603
00:33:33,149 --> 00:33:36,989
Speaker 1: The Warriors often ended games with Andrea Guadala, Draymond Green,

604
00:33:37,229 --> 00:33:40,789
Speaker 1: and Harrison Barnes in the front court alongside the Splash Brothers.

605
00:33:41,189 --> 00:33:44,109
Speaker 1: It would be known as the Death lineup because of

606
00:33:44,149 --> 00:33:47,869
Speaker 1: its ability to put a nail in an opposing team's coffin.

607
00:33:48,749 --> 00:33:50,909
Speaker 1: That lineup had played together for one hundred and two

608
00:33:50,949 --> 00:33:54,029
Speaker 1: minutes during the regular season and sixty two minutes through

609
00:33:54,069 --> 00:33:57,829
Speaker 1: the first eighteen games of the playoffs. But now, with

610
00:33:57,989 --> 00:34:01,669
Speaker 1: Lebron James tearing up the Warriors, they'd look to start

611
00:34:01,709 --> 00:34:05,309
Speaker 1: games this way, and Andrea g Woodalo would need to

612
00:34:05,309 --> 00:34:08,549
Speaker 1: replace Boga in the starting lineup. Bogut had started all

613
00:34:08,589 --> 00:34:11,229
Speaker 1: but two regular season games he played in that season

614
00:34:11,589 --> 00:34:14,509
Speaker 1: and every playoff game to that point, so when Kerr

615
00:34:14,549 --> 00:34:18,709
Speaker 1: approached him prior to Game four, Boget had to face reality.

616
00:34:19,709 --> 00:34:22,389
Speaker 10: It's never a great conversation as a player when you

617
00:34:22,469 --> 00:34:24,989
Speaker 10: hear that you care being benched. You know, started every

618
00:34:25,029 --> 00:34:27,549
Speaker 10: game for the whole season, for the whole playoff run.

619
00:34:27,669 --> 00:34:29,589
Speaker 10: Cleveland didn't have a post up guy, right, so my

620
00:34:29,669 --> 00:34:32,149
Speaker 10: skill set of guarding a post and being tegnal defensively

621
00:34:32,429 --> 00:34:35,149
Speaker 10: was kind of limited. Offensively, I didn't have a great series,

622
00:34:35,669 --> 00:34:39,469
Speaker 10: So yeah, I mean they the numbers. The numbers said

623
00:34:39,509 --> 00:34:41,789
Speaker 10: all season the lineup of death or Death lineup was

624
00:34:41,829 --> 00:34:44,509
Speaker 10: a small ball lineup, drained one at the five and

625
00:34:44,509 --> 00:34:46,788
Speaker 10: Andre the four, so we always had that in our

626
00:34:46,789 --> 00:34:48,669
Speaker 10: back pocket. Whenever things would go Australia, we could go

627
00:34:48,709 --> 00:34:51,149
Speaker 10: to that lineup, and yes, Thed came to me. Look,

628
00:34:51,189 --> 00:34:52,788
Speaker 10: I wasn't happy at the time. I'm gonna be honest.

629
00:34:52,789 --> 00:34:54,949
Speaker 10: You know, when you hear those conversations, you're like, okay,

630
00:34:55,149 --> 00:34:58,629
Speaker 10: like all right, so on escape go cool. But once

631
00:34:58,669 --> 00:35:01,229
Speaker 10: I got out of my feelings and stopped thinking about me,

632
00:35:01,589 --> 00:35:04,229
Speaker 10: you think, ship, I'm in a championship series, been integral

633
00:35:04,229 --> 00:35:06,669
Speaker 10: part of this team, regardless game four we need to win.

634
00:35:07,589 --> 00:35:10,389
Speaker 10: It's obviously not working with me at the five. Let's

635
00:35:10,709 --> 00:35:13,669
Speaker 10: buy into it, you know, And after a night, have

636
00:35:13,749 --> 00:35:16,949
Speaker 10: a sleep, calm down, I realized you put your coach

637
00:35:16,989 --> 00:35:18,749
Speaker 10: and hat on. You're like, the method to the madness

638
00:35:18,829 --> 00:35:22,069
Speaker 10: is this lineup works. The number say it works, and

639
00:35:22,109 --> 00:35:25,909
Speaker 10: if we win a championship doing it, fantastic. You know.

640
00:35:26,509 --> 00:35:28,229
Speaker 10: If you don't win a championship doing it, then you

641
00:35:28,229 --> 00:35:30,709
Speaker 10: can be like, you know, not fair, blah blah blah.

642
00:35:30,869 --> 00:35:32,349
Speaker 10: But on the flip side, if I stayed in the

643
00:35:32,349 --> 00:35:35,549
Speaker 10: starting lineup and we lost that series, would I be happy? No?

644
00:35:35,909 --> 00:35:37,549
Speaker 10: But if I'm out of that lineup and we won

645
00:35:37,629 --> 00:35:40,669
Speaker 10: the series, It's a no brain of conversation I have,

646
00:35:40,829 --> 00:35:43,629
Speaker 10: Especially when you're reminiscing looking back, when you're in the moment,

647
00:35:43,629 --> 00:35:45,669
Speaker 10: it's a little bit different. It's a little bit bit

648
00:35:45,749 --> 00:35:48,949
Speaker 10: harsher reality because you're you know, it's like, oh, so

649
00:35:48,989 --> 00:35:52,429
Speaker 10: it's my fault. We're down one two, not necessarily, but

650
00:35:52,989 --> 00:35:54,469
Speaker 10: it's a part of it, right, So you actually have

651
00:35:54,509 --> 00:35:55,869
Speaker 10: to understand that and take it with your grain of

652
00:35:55,989 --> 00:35:56,788
Speaker 10: salt and then move on.

653
00:35:58,989 --> 00:36:02,109
Speaker 1: It also helped that Boget's replacement in the starting lineup,

654
00:36:02,149 --> 00:36:06,469
Speaker 1: Agwadala had our Aready made this exact sacrifice going to

655
00:36:06,509 --> 00:36:09,989
Speaker 1: the bench to begin the season. Adding to that, David

656
00:36:10,109 --> 00:36:12,549
Speaker 1: Lee never got his starting spot back when he returned

657
00:36:12,589 --> 00:36:15,429
Speaker 1: from injury in season, So who was Bogu to fight

658
00:36:15,509 --> 00:36:16,109
Speaker 1: this decision?

659
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Speaker 10: That was the other thing when you really think about it,

660
00:36:18,629 --> 00:36:20,629
Speaker 10: You're like, how can I sit here and cry about

661
00:36:20,669 --> 00:36:22,789
Speaker 10: things when other guys have dealt with the same stuff

662
00:36:22,789 --> 00:36:25,669
Speaker 10: and brought into it, And I know all those guys

663
00:36:25,669 --> 00:36:28,109
Speaker 10: were individually frustrated in the moment. It's how quick we

664
00:36:28,109 --> 00:36:30,109
Speaker 10: can get over that? And then you know, after one

665
00:36:30,189 --> 00:36:31,989
Speaker 10: game of it happening, you get over it and you

666
00:36:32,069 --> 00:36:35,268
Speaker 10: chief your teammates and you stand up. And I got

667
00:36:35,269 --> 00:36:37,149
Speaker 10: into a couple of those games late for three or

668
00:36:37,149 --> 00:36:39,909
Speaker 10: four minutes, and I was trying to crush some rebounds,

669
00:36:39,949 --> 00:36:42,268
Speaker 10: be physical, screen to whatever I need to do. But yeah,

670
00:36:42,309 --> 00:36:44,189
Speaker 10: the minute's minis thing definitely dried up. But that's a

671
00:36:44,189 --> 00:36:46,509
Speaker 10: part of sports, and you want to find those matchups.

672
00:36:46,629 --> 00:36:49,229
Speaker 1: Bogot would play a few minutes in Game four, but

673
00:36:49,269 --> 00:36:51,709
Speaker 1: no more after that. The move in the lineup was

674
00:36:51,749 --> 00:36:54,629
Speaker 1: somewhat modeled after what the Spurs did to Lebron's heat

675
00:36:54,669 --> 00:36:58,549
Speaker 1: in the twenty fourteen finals. With six foot eight bors

676
00:36:58,629 --> 00:37:02,069
Speaker 1: Dao at center. At times for San Antonio, the Spurs

677
00:37:02,109 --> 00:37:05,229
Speaker 1: offense would sing, swinging the ball around the court so

678
00:37:05,349 --> 00:37:10,229
Speaker 1: quickly the defense couldn't keep up. Draymond Green was effectively

679
00:37:10,469 --> 00:37:14,069
Speaker 1: the Boris Dia in this equation, but the Splash Brothers

680
00:37:14,229 --> 00:37:17,589
Speaker 1: were even deadlier shooters than the Spurs backcourt, and the

681
00:37:17,629 --> 00:37:20,629
Speaker 1: switching defense this lineup allowed the Warriors to play was

682
00:37:21,229 --> 00:37:26,469
Speaker 1: to keep with a death theme, suffocating at times. It

683
00:37:26,549 --> 00:37:29,629
Speaker 1: was the turning point in these finals, and it was

684
00:37:29,669 --> 00:37:32,469
Speaker 1: clear to everyone watching, including Nichols.

685
00:37:33,349 --> 00:37:35,549
Speaker 16: Then once the death lineup was in there, and it

686
00:37:35,629 --> 00:37:39,469
Speaker 16: really felt like strategically they were winning. They weren't winning

687
00:37:39,509 --> 00:37:42,669
Speaker 16: by default. They were winning because of their skill, because

688
00:37:42,709 --> 00:37:44,469
Speaker 16: of what Steph could do, because of what the rest

689
00:37:44,469 --> 00:37:46,949
Speaker 16: of the guys could do. Draymond obviously, in that new

690
00:37:46,989 --> 00:37:49,268
Speaker 16: role that he had at center, was making such a

691
00:37:49,309 --> 00:37:51,869
Speaker 16: huge difference and playing the position in a way that

692
00:37:51,989 --> 00:37:55,549
Speaker 16: was just felt so fresh and engaging. And Clay obviously

693
00:37:55,669 --> 00:37:59,589
Speaker 16: is an entergy onto a solar system unto himself. So

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Speaker 16: I think that not only did the actual series turn

695
00:38:02,949 --> 00:38:05,069
Speaker 16: when Steve made that coaching move, but a lot of

696
00:38:05,109 --> 00:38:07,229
Speaker 16: the feel if you're asking me about what it felt

697
00:38:07,269 --> 00:38:09,308
Speaker 16: like to be around the players in the locker room,

698
00:38:09,709 --> 00:38:12,389
Speaker 16: in the arenas, the way even the fans were reacting

699
00:38:12,549 --> 00:38:14,069
Speaker 16: really changed after that moment.

700
00:38:16,669 --> 00:38:19,989
Speaker 1: Kerr's choice to start Iguadala may have been the key decision,

701
00:38:20,589 --> 00:38:23,669
Speaker 1: but Iguodala still had to perform, and that meant not

702
00:38:23,709 --> 00:38:27,029
Speaker 1: only keeping the floor spaced by hitting three pointers when available,

703
00:38:27,549 --> 00:38:31,189
Speaker 1: but also defending the best player in this series, Lebron

704
00:38:31,269 --> 00:38:33,669
Speaker 1: James for most of his time out there.

705
00:38:33,629 --> 00:38:36,309
Speaker 5: Adreadala Adota five defensive players.

706
00:38:39,149 --> 00:38:42,949
Speaker 1: Iguadala wasn't a particularly deadly three point shooter, hitting just

707
00:38:43,029 --> 00:38:46,109
Speaker 1: thirty three percent for his career, but in this series,

708
00:38:46,509 --> 00:38:48,549
Speaker 1: he was forty percent from distance.

709
00:38:49,109 --> 00:38:52,989
Speaker 9: Rotation to Igodalla for triple is dow Brodre.

710
00:38:54,669 --> 00:38:58,509
Speaker 1: More importantly, he was able to spend more time defending James,

711
00:38:58,949 --> 00:39:01,589
Speaker 1: who shot just thirty nine percent over the last three

712
00:39:01,629 --> 00:39:06,349
Speaker 1: games of the series, an all around performance. Iguadala felt

713
00:39:06,389 --> 00:39:08,549
Speaker 1: coming for himself before the finals.

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Speaker 15: I remember before Game one and I was in the

715
00:39:12,109 --> 00:39:16,229
Speaker 15: gym every night, even after practices, kind of had this

716
00:39:16,349 --> 00:39:19,309
Speaker 15: blueprint laid out. I would make my mark on the finals.

717
00:39:19,789 --> 00:39:21,389
Speaker 15: So I was really gonna put my standpoint it. And

718
00:39:21,389 --> 00:39:24,029
Speaker 15: it's funny because my son said you're gonna get high

719
00:39:24,029 --> 00:39:26,309
Speaker 15: for the finals, and I laughed at him. I'm like,

720
00:39:26,389 --> 00:39:28,629
Speaker 15: you know, son, I'm just making sure I'm prepared to

721
00:39:28,749 --> 00:39:29,789
Speaker 15: being ready for in a moment.

722
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Speaker 1: And after the Finals, his preparation was rewarded with the

723
00:39:36,189 --> 00:39:39,869
Speaker 1: Finals MVP. To this day, some argue that Curry was

724
00:39:39,909 --> 00:39:43,149
Speaker 1: still worthy of the award, particularly after the thirty seven

725
00:39:43,189 --> 00:39:46,949
Speaker 1: points in the pivotal Game five, but Iguadala was voted

726
00:39:47,029 --> 00:39:50,348
Speaker 1: MVP by media members and it was exactly what Kerr

727
00:39:50,429 --> 00:39:52,949
Speaker 1: had in mind when he made the lineup switch.

728
00:39:55,669 --> 00:39:58,269
Speaker 13: For him to get Finals MVP. It was one of

729
00:39:58,349 --> 00:40:01,029
Speaker 13: my favorite moments that we've had since I've been here

730
00:40:01,269 --> 00:40:04,589
Speaker 13: is seeing him get the MVPs. It's everything you believe

731
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Speaker 13: in as a coach, but sacrifice and team leading to

732
00:40:08,949 --> 00:40:12,589
Speaker 13: individual awards. That's that was a perfect example.

733
00:40:13,349 --> 00:40:17,109
Speaker 2: This year's Bill Russell MVP is a player who didn't

734
00:40:17,109 --> 00:40:19,869
Speaker 2: start in a single game in Code's finals.

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Speaker 8: Faster, Oh my god.

736
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Speaker 1: The Warriors would win their first championship since nineteen seventy

737
00:40:31,069 --> 00:40:35,549
Speaker 1: five in six games on Cleveland's floor. In the clincher,

738
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Speaker 1: Steph had twenty five as did Iguadal and Draymond Green

739
00:40:40,069 --> 00:40:43,309
Speaker 1: managed a triple double and added three steals.

740
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Speaker 12: And it's over.

741
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Speaker 6: The championship is back in the Bay for the first

742
00:40:48,229 --> 00:40:50,069
Speaker 6: time in forty years.

743
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Speaker 1: It was so much more than ending a forty year draft.

744
00:40:54,549 --> 00:40:58,709
Speaker 1: This championship had a freshness to it in the super

745
00:40:58,709 --> 00:41:03,429
Speaker 1: team era. This smallish, organic group of scrappy yet skilled

746
00:41:03,509 --> 00:41:09,149
Speaker 1: players had just dominated an entire NBA season start to finish,

747
00:41:09,189 --> 00:41:10,789
Speaker 1: and almost no one saw it coming.

748
00:41:12,589 --> 00:41:15,789
Speaker 6: And the dream season is now complete, the goal of

749
00:41:15,909 --> 00:41:19,749
Speaker 6: State Warriors of They're twenty fifteen Nbaight champions.

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Speaker 1: There was one writer from the Bay Area who worked

751
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Speaker 1: for ESPN at the time, Ethan Sherwood Strauss, who predicted

752
00:41:26,469 --> 00:41:31,149
Speaker 1: this Warriors championship in the preseason. Maybe Strauss is from

753
00:41:31,149 --> 00:41:33,949
Speaker 1: the future because no one else predicted this that early.

754
00:41:34,709 --> 00:41:38,669
Speaker 1: By the time the championship actually happened, everyone else watching

755
00:41:38,869 --> 00:41:42,029
Speaker 1: had fully recognized what this Warriors team was.

756
00:41:42,829 --> 00:41:45,349
Speaker 16: It felt special, it really did. It's funny. I have

757
00:41:45,429 --> 00:41:47,469
Speaker 16: covered a lot of titles in a lot of different

758
00:41:47,509 --> 00:41:50,229
Speaker 16: sports at this point in my career, and I always

759
00:41:50,269 --> 00:41:53,029
Speaker 16: sort of knock it down into two categories. There are

760
00:41:53,069 --> 00:41:56,629
Speaker 16: the teams that are expected to win, and I don't

761
00:41:56,669 --> 00:41:58,389
Speaker 16: even mean the teams that are favored. I mean the

762
00:41:58,429 --> 00:42:01,069
Speaker 16: teams that have all the ingredients all season. People have

763
00:42:01,109 --> 00:42:03,549
Speaker 16: been saying they're in the conversation, they still have to

764
00:42:03,589 --> 00:42:05,909
Speaker 16: accomplish it, but they marched to the playoffs, they marched

765
00:42:05,909 --> 00:42:07,669
Speaker 16: to the title, and they do it, and they have

766
00:42:07,869 --> 00:42:10,149
Speaker 16: usually an MVP or a big name player or several

767
00:42:10,149 --> 00:42:13,509
Speaker 16: big name players, and it's sort of what we thought, right,

768
00:42:13,549 --> 00:42:15,389
Speaker 16: And those are great, and those titles are great. Then

769
00:42:15,429 --> 00:42:18,469
Speaker 16: there's the ones I call the magic titles, where you know,

770
00:42:18,629 --> 00:42:20,509
Speaker 16: I lived in New York and covered the New York

771
00:42:20,549 --> 00:42:22,389
Speaker 16: Giants for Sports Center for a while when I was

772
00:42:22,469 --> 00:42:26,509
Speaker 16: at ESPN and those two titles were magic titles. I mean,

773
00:42:26,589 --> 00:42:29,589
Speaker 16: you have to think about the Super Bowl Championship that

774
00:42:29,629 --> 00:42:32,349
Speaker 16: the New York Giants won. That was the teeth of

775
00:42:32,469 --> 00:42:35,829
Speaker 16: the nail of David Tyree on the top of a helmet,

776
00:42:36,149 --> 00:42:38,429
Speaker 16: you know, against the Patriots team that had run the

777
00:42:38,469 --> 00:42:41,629
Speaker 16: table that season. That's the magic version. The two thousand

778
00:42:41,629 --> 00:42:43,748
Speaker 16: and six Miami Heat title to me was a little

779
00:42:43,749 --> 00:42:45,949
Speaker 16: bit of the magic version. I think pat Riley Scotch

780
00:42:45,989 --> 00:42:48,709
Speaker 16: taped and Ferry Dust did that title together, and they

781
00:42:48,709 --> 00:42:51,589
Speaker 16: did it, and for me, the Warriors were they had

782
00:42:51,629 --> 00:42:53,788
Speaker 16: kind of a magic title in that way. That was

783
00:42:53,829 --> 00:42:56,949
Speaker 16: just sort of everything was new, everything was fresh, everything

784
00:42:56,989 --> 00:42:57,629
Speaker 16: was a surprise.

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00:43:00,749 --> 00:43:01,549
Speaker 8: Hours in.

786
00:43:06,989 --> 00:43:08,589
Speaker 9: It looks so much better person too.

787
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Speaker 16: Steep Kerr, through the strength of his staff, pulled out

788
00:43:21,829 --> 00:43:25,149
Speaker 16: that incredible deathline of Steph Curry. Was just this incredible

789
00:43:25,189 --> 00:43:28,828
Speaker 16: force and every time your TV practically vibrated watching him

790
00:43:28,949 --> 00:43:31,348
Speaker 16: and Mike Breen and the Bang Bang and the whole thing.

791
00:43:31,429 --> 00:43:33,589
Speaker 16: And you know, Steve Kerr was so funny to us

792
00:43:33,589 --> 00:43:35,788
Speaker 16: in the media and the by proxy the fans during

793
00:43:35,789 --> 00:43:37,789
Speaker 16: that time where he would talk about like, oh, I

794
00:43:37,829 --> 00:43:40,349
Speaker 16: would say bad shot, bad shot, bad shot from the

795
00:43:40,349 --> 00:43:44,069
Speaker 16: slidelines and then instead would get in good shot. You know,

796
00:43:44,469 --> 00:43:47,869
Speaker 16: it just it felt like one of these sort of

797
00:43:47,909 --> 00:43:50,868
Speaker 16: special runs. And even though you cannot say someone who

798
00:43:50,869 --> 00:43:53,308
Speaker 16: won the MVP is leading a Cinderella team, I would

799
00:43:53,309 --> 00:43:55,748
Speaker 16: never say that, it did feel a little bit with

800
00:43:55,869 --> 00:43:58,709
Speaker 16: Lebron being such a goliath, with this team coming a

801
00:43:58,709 --> 00:44:01,269
Speaker 16: little bit out of nowhere was Steve Kerr, who frankly

802
00:44:01,349 --> 00:44:04,709
Speaker 16: was a super popular coach who had won five titles

803
00:44:04,709 --> 00:44:06,748
Speaker 16: at that point as a player. It just felt like

804
00:44:06,789 --> 00:44:09,109
Speaker 16: all the ingredients were there to have this just feel

805
00:44:09,109 --> 00:44:11,429
Speaker 16: a little bit magic, and the players felt that way too.

806
00:44:11,549 --> 00:44:13,869
Speaker 16: I think afterward you can see their joy. You can

807
00:44:13,909 --> 00:44:15,589
Speaker 16: see it in the parade, you can see it in

808
00:44:15,589 --> 00:44:18,748
Speaker 16: the way they came back in twenty sixteen, and they

809
00:44:18,789 --> 00:44:21,029
Speaker 16: knew what they had there at that point, but they

810
00:44:21,029 --> 00:44:23,109
Speaker 16: were still fresh and young enough not to be jaded

811
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Speaker 16: by having it.

812
00:44:24,029 --> 00:44:26,989
Speaker 1: For David Lee, who arrived in Golden State when not

813
00:44:27,149 --> 00:44:30,348
Speaker 1: much was going well, had given up his starting role

814
00:44:30,389 --> 00:44:34,268
Speaker 1: before the championship season, and played sparingly in the last

815
00:44:34,309 --> 00:44:37,429
Speaker 1: two rounds of the playoffs, it still felt just as

816
00:44:37,549 --> 00:44:41,389
Speaker 1: satisfying to experience a title in an area so desperate

817
00:44:41,469 --> 00:44:42,709
Speaker 1: for basketball success.

818
00:44:43,029 --> 00:44:45,029
Speaker 12: I think where it really set in was we were

819
00:44:45,029 --> 00:44:47,949
Speaker 12: having that parade and over a million people in Oakland

820
00:44:47,989 --> 00:44:51,109
Speaker 12: showing up and being on floats, and you're like thinking

821
00:44:51,149 --> 00:44:53,469
Speaker 12: to yourself the whole time, like I'm used to watching

822
00:44:53,589 --> 00:44:55,789
Speaker 12: like you know, the Patriots or somebody do this in

823
00:44:55,829 --> 00:44:57,909
Speaker 12: the NFL, and you're watching it on TV, and now

824
00:44:57,949 --> 00:45:00,349
Speaker 12: we're the ones that are here and celebrating, and guys

825
00:45:00,349 --> 00:45:05,109
Speaker 12: are making speeches, and it's just it was so numbers.

826
00:45:05,509 --> 00:45:06,989
Speaker 8: We went in forty years?

827
00:45:07,189 --> 00:45:10,269
Speaker 6: Are you ready to celebrate when you're twenty fifteen?

828
00:45:10,829 --> 00:45:13,549
Speaker 13: And whoa jim.

829
00:45:21,669 --> 00:45:24,549
Speaker 1: It wasn't just the current champion Warriors riding down the

830
00:45:24,549 --> 00:45:27,949
Speaker 1: streets in the Bay. Warriors greats from the previous forty

831
00:45:28,029 --> 00:45:32,549
Speaker 1: years were in cars on floats celebrating the championship and

832
00:45:32,669 --> 00:45:34,269
Speaker 1: resetting Warriors history.

833
00:45:34,949 --> 00:45:35,829
Speaker 5: All of damnation.

834
00:45:37,029 --> 00:45:38,189
Speaker 7: We did it. We did it, so.

835
00:45:40,989 --> 00:45:42,629
Speaker 5: Let's celebrate, thank you very much.

836
00:45:43,229 --> 00:45:45,949
Speaker 1: There didn't seem to be any reason why this parade

837
00:45:45,989 --> 00:45:50,429
Speaker 1: couldn't continue past the twenty fifteen season. The Splash Brothers

838
00:45:50,469 --> 00:45:53,709
Speaker 1: were only entering their prime, Draymond Green still had a

839
00:45:53,789 --> 00:45:57,069
Speaker 1: leap to make as well, and Niquidala wasn't going anywhere.

840
00:45:57,749 --> 00:46:00,869
Speaker 1: The following season couldn't have much suffering involved, could it

841
00:46:01,909 --> 00:46:06,509
Speaker 1: actually for Steve occur and then eventually the entirety of

842
00:46:06,509 --> 00:46:11,309
Speaker 1: the Warriors. The twenty fifteen sixteen experience could only be

843
00:46:11,349 --> 00:46:20,748
Speaker 1: described that painful. I'm the next Dub Dynasty.

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00:46:21,509 --> 00:46:22,269
Speaker 16: Oh was terrible.

845
00:46:22,469 --> 00:46:24,869
Speaker 13: It was terrible. I mean I was thrilled for the team,

846
00:46:24,989 --> 00:46:27,429
Speaker 13: but I felt left out. You know, I'm laying at

847
00:46:27,469 --> 00:46:30,069
Speaker 13: home on my bed watching the Stoman and team one

848
00:46:30,229 --> 00:46:33,189
Speaker 13: night after night, and I'm not there to enjoy being

849
00:46:33,229 --> 00:46:34,268
Speaker 13: part of it. Yeah.

850
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Speaker 10: It was rough.

851
00:46:35,589 --> 00:46:37,589
Speaker 14: It's a complete out of body experience.

852
00:46:38,149 --> 00:46:41,069
Speaker 5: I don't plan it. It just was so shocking, and

853
00:46:41,149 --> 00:46:44,109
Speaker 5: it happened so quickly that I kind of lost my mind.

854
00:46:44,709 --> 00:46:46,549
Speaker 10: So plays in that locker room that wanted to go

855
00:46:46,589 --> 00:46:49,189
Speaker 10: for seventy three and nine, there were players that were like,

856
00:46:49,429 --> 00:46:50,309
Speaker 10: let's just be healthy.

857
00:46:51,029 --> 00:46:53,389
Speaker 11: He loves the show. He loves the moment. No moment's

858
00:46:53,389 --> 00:46:58,788
Speaker 11: too big for him. That's what he wants.

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