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Speaker 1: let's talk some basketball. So you know, it's funny. I
Speaker 1: was thinking as I was getting ready for the show,
Speaker 1: this game tonight just kind of felt like a microcosm
Speaker 1: of the last few years, or I should say this
Speaker 1: entire you know, half decade that Lebron has been with
Speaker 1: the Lakers, because it's been just a whole lot of
Speaker 1: mediocrity and incompetence that Lebron has been covering for. I'm
Speaker 1: watching a team that doesn't have any two way athletes
Speaker 1: on the perimeter, Guys that can defend and rebound at
Speaker 1: a high level while also being a plus offensive player
Speaker 1: that aren't Lebron James and Anthony Davis. That was a
Speaker 1: problem we knew of after the Denver Nugget series, and
Speaker 1: the front office was unable to solve that problem over
Speaker 1: the offseason and chose to not solve that problem over
Speaker 1: this deadline. I'm watching a team that tactically doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to have any idea how to deal with the switching defense,
Speaker 1: which we'll talk about in a little bit when we
Speaker 1: get more into the x's and o's, and Lebron just
Speaker 1: single handedly saves them from themselves they're down the stretch
Speaker 1: of that fourth quarter. And it's so interesting to me
Speaker 1: over the years, whether it's Lebron bringing Anthony Davis to
Speaker 1: town obviously, what he brings to the table as a
Speaker 1: basketball player and as a basketball mind in his ability
Speaker 1: to solve the chess match that's taking place on the
Speaker 1: court time and time again. It's incompetence that Lebron turns
Speaker 1: into results, and it's just crazy. It's honestly a bummer
Speaker 1: to me that he's in this type of situation where
Speaker 1: it requires him doing absurd stuff like this to win,
Speaker 1: while many of his peers at the top of the
Speaker 1: league are playing on teams and for organizations that just
Speaker 1: do a better job setting their star players up to succeed.
Speaker 1: It's a little discouraging, but at the same time, it's
Speaker 1: a testament to Lebron's greatness. And I just thought tonight
Speaker 1: that game was just a microcosm of everything that we
Speaker 1: saw from the Lakers over the course of this last
Speaker 1: half decade. Now, this game had a really interesting tactical
Speaker 1: dynamic that was taking place. The Lakers really struggled for
Speaker 1: the first three quarters and change as they went down
Speaker 1: by I think twenty plus there in the early part
Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter. Now, the question is why why
Speaker 1: were the Lakers struggling so much early? There were three
Speaker 1: things that I want to kind of draw attention to.
Speaker 1: First of all, the Lakers roster, because they don't have
Speaker 1: athletes on the perimeter, and they're one guy who really
Speaker 1: they are two guys that really can create an advantage
Speaker 1: in terms of like individual greatness as athletes are Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis and Lebron James right, and Anthony Davis was being
Speaker 1: schemed out of this game by the Clippers in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, which we'll talk about. And then Lebron
Speaker 1: on because he's older, you know, he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: have to try to hit the gas all the damn
Speaker 1: time to try to inflict his physical will on the game.
Speaker 1: All of the other guys, even though they're young, they're
Speaker 1: all skill oriented players that primarily rely on advantage situations.
Speaker 1: Guys like Osa Reeves, Dangel Russell, even Spencer didn't witty
Speaker 1: to a certain extent. Ruey has got a little bit
Speaker 1: of physical, overwhelming stuff that he brings to the table.
Speaker 1: But obviously he's a player that has some limitations. But
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of guys that require advantage situations
Speaker 1: to succeed. So against traditional NBA coverages, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of baked in advantage situations. So if you run
Speaker 1: a ball screen and a team has a scheme set
Speaker 1: up where their guard is chasing over the top and
Speaker 1: they have a big man sitting in a drop coverage,
Speaker 1: there is a baked in driving lane. Dangel Russell knows
Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn the corner here because the guy who's
Speaker 1: guarding me is his scheme is to go over the
Speaker 1: top of the screen. Same thing goes for Austin Reeve, right,
Speaker 1: and that's where you see D'anngela Russell be the pick
Speaker 1: and roll maestro that we know he can be. That's
Speaker 1: where we've seen Austin Reeves take leaps as a pick
Speaker 1: and roll playmaker over the course of this season compared
Speaker 1: to where he was early in the season. But when
Speaker 1: you face a team like the Clippers and they switch
Speaker 1: as much as they do, all of a sudden, those
Speaker 1: baked in openings aren't there anymore. Instead of Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: d'angela Russell coming off of a ball screen into a
Speaker 1: like a schemed in driving lane, instead, he's meeting another
Speaker 1: defender right away, and that defender is another athlete on
Speaker 1: the perimeter that can guard. That's one of the strengths
Speaker 1: of the Clippers roster, right, which is why they switch
Speaker 1: as much as they do. And so what ends up
Speaker 1: happening so often for the Lakers in these environments as
Speaker 1: they run into a team that does a lot of switching,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, there's just a lot of
Speaker 1: dribbling around on the perimeter, and no one's able to
Speaker 1: get the ball into the paint. No one's able to
Speaker 1: draw a second defender to get the ball into rotation
Speaker 1: so that those guys can work with an advantage. Again,
Speaker 1: there's multiple ways to work with an advantage. We talked
Speaker 1: about the baked in ones in the coverage, but the
Speaker 1: other big one is if you can bring two guys
Speaker 1: to the basketball in some way, shape or former. That's
Speaker 1: a double team in the post, a double team on
Speaker 1: the perimeter, or even driving and engaging a help defender.
Speaker 1: Then when you start swinging the ball around like in
Speaker 1: a driving kick situation. Now Austin Reez or Daniel Russell
Speaker 1: or Torrian Prince or whatever is catching the ball on
Speaker 1: the perimeter with a guy sprinting at him, Now he
Speaker 1: has an advantage because if he doesn't sprint out at him,
Speaker 1: he can shoot the three. If he does sprint out
Speaker 1: at him, he can pick an angle, beat him off
Speaker 1: the dribble, and make the next play from there, whether
Speaker 1: that's finishing the play or making that next pass to
Speaker 1: the next closeout guy. Right. So like literally when they're
Speaker 1: in rotation, they can look really skilled. And the Laker
Speaker 1: offense has looked awesome over the course of the last
Speaker 1: month or so in large part because they have so
Speaker 1: much offensive skill on the floor. But what they don't
Speaker 1: have are offensive players that are like root force athletes
Speaker 1: that can beat matchups consistently in a one on one setting.
Speaker 1: Except for Lebron James and Anthony Davis, and so early
Speaker 1: in the game, it was a lot of passivity. Lebron
Speaker 1: himself was kind of pass I thought in that second
Speaker 1: quarter run when Anthony Davis was in foul trouble, he
Speaker 1: was kind of in chill mode a little bit, totally
Speaker 1: get it, thirty nine years old. He's waiting to see
Speaker 1: when he needs to hit the gas. Right, Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: was in foul trouble. In addition to that, he picked
Speaker 1: up his second foul being physically aggressive with a rip
Speaker 1: through to the left on Mason Plumley. Mason Plumley did
Speaker 1: a nice job sliding his feet, taking the contact in
Speaker 1: the chest and taking a charge. So now even Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis is being a little physically passive. And then on
Speaker 1: the other end of the floor, the Clippers were getting
Speaker 1: awesome stuff because early in the game, Lebron wasn't guarding Kawhi,
Speaker 1: so he was taking advantage of Ruiya Chimura, taking advantage
Speaker 1: of Torrean Prince, just killing those guys in individual like
Speaker 1: individual basketball. And then in that second quarter run when
Speaker 1: the Clippers took their lead, it was a combination of
Speaker 1: James Harden picking on Jackson Hayes in pick and roll
Speaker 1: and week on ball defense. Right, So as James Harden's
Speaker 1: coming downhill, Jackson Hayes is in this deep drop coverage
Speaker 1: and Harden's just killing him with the classic like low
Speaker 1: gather where he just kind of dribbles the ball and
Speaker 1: kind of exposes his arms out and he tries to
Speaker 1: bait the big man into raking across his arms so
Speaker 1: that he can go up and finish. And he was
Speaker 1: killing Jackson Hayes. So as the Clippers were pulling away,
Speaker 1: it was like James Harden and pick and roll generating
Speaker 1: all these quality shots and then on the other end
Speaker 1: of the floor the clipper switching, just stagnating the Lakers
Speaker 1: and causing all of these problems. But that dynamic flipped
Speaker 1: there in that fourth quarter, and there were two major
Speaker 1: factors that I thought led to that dynamic flipping. First,
Speaker 1: what was, in my opinion, a smart adjustment from Darvin hand.
Speaker 1: He brings Jackson Hayes into that lineup to start the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and he starts blitzing hardened pick and rolls
Speaker 1: instead of dropping. Now again pick and roll drop guards
Speaker 1: chasing over the top. Big man's waiting in the lane.
Speaker 1: So there's the baked in driving lane like we talked
Speaker 1: about earlier. Harden's really good at working with that. Right
Speaker 1: a blitz, the guard's still chasing over the top, but
Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes is meeting Harden at the other side of
Speaker 1: the screen, and they are trapping him and trying to
Speaker 1: make that over the top past difficult. Now, offensively, what
Speaker 1: do you do to be a blitz? You've got to
Speaker 1: get the ball over the top to the big man
Speaker 1: rolling to the basket in that short roll situation, and
Speaker 1: he's got to make reads four on three and pick
Speaker 1: the team apart. This was smart by the Lakers because
Speaker 1: it was Mason Plumbley, who is by far the best
Speaker 1: athlete among all of the Clippers centers that they have.
Speaker 1: So Plumbley immediately just just has a complete meltdown against
Speaker 1: the Lakers blitz and has no idea how to handle
Speaker 1: those four on threes. The Lakers start turning the Clippers over,
Speaker 1: getting out in transition, they start having all this success.
Speaker 1: As a result, the Clippers had to Tyloo, had to
Speaker 1: take Mason Plumley out of the game and bring in
Speaker 1: Daniel Tye, who's a much better offensive player than Mason Plumbley,
Speaker 1: but is nowhere near the athlete and defender that Mason
Speaker 1: Plumbley is. From there, Lebron started picking on Daniel Tye
Speaker 1: and switches, and again when it comes to when it
Speaker 1: comes to this switching defense, there's a bunch of different
Speaker 1: ways that you can attack it tactically, and we're not
Speaker 1: gonna get into that tonight just for time's sake, but
Speaker 1: one of the best ways to do it is just
Speaker 1: pick on matchups. And if you can pick on matchups,
Speaker 1: you can either score one on one or start to
Speaker 1: draw multiple defenders into the equation. Lebron starts picking on
Speaker 1: daniel Tyson switches and is hitting his step back three
Speaker 1: as he's cooking daniel Tyson switches. That's not only scoring points,
Speaker 1: but that's putting Tylu in a predicament where now he's like, Ah,
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do. We gotta do something. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start just openly doubling Lebron thirty feet from
Speaker 1: the basket. So now they're doubling Lebron. What do the
Speaker 1: Lakers have on the other side of that? A four
Speaker 1: on three? Except for who's operating that four on three?
Speaker 1: D'Angelo Russell, Austin Reeves, Ruya Tamura, Anthony Davis, a bunch
Speaker 1: of really skilled offensive players and they all are in
Speaker 1: advantage situations. Now. One of the things that was really
Speaker 1: smart that Dlo was doing. We talked about the short role,
Speaker 1: right so you set the ball screen, you're all right
Speaker 1: there to the top of the key. What Dlo was doing,
Speaker 1: he was making himself available in the middle of the floor,
Speaker 1: so instead of just standing out on the perimeter, as
Speaker 1: soon as Lebron got doubled, he would flash to the
Speaker 1: middle of the floor and then he was making the
Speaker 1: kickout pass from there. He made the kickout pass to Ruy. Right,
Speaker 1: Ruey has a wide open three. He misses it, but
Speaker 1: there's another mismatch because Lebron switched or because the ball
Speaker 1: screen switched Tice onto Lebron. Now Anthony Davis has Kawhi
Speaker 1: on him and as a result, he's by far the
Speaker 1: biggest player around the rim. He had multiple offensive rebounds
Speaker 1: down the stretch, gets a big offensive rebound, he gets
Speaker 1: worked back around Ruey. Hachi Mura makes the next three.
Speaker 1: Another double team of Lebron at the top of the
Speaker 1: key to D'Angelo Russell to Ruey in the corner, hard
Speaker 1: close out. Ruey rips baseline and gets that up and
Speaker 1: under and finishes on the other side of the rim.
Speaker 1: Again an advantage situation. He's working with the player closing
Speaker 1: out at him. He was able to get that because
Speaker 1: Lebron was torching Tice in switches, which was bringing the
Speaker 1: double teams. You could guys can kind of get the drift.
Speaker 1: And then one of the biggest plays of the game
Speaker 1: was that skip pass to Lebron or from Lebron to
Speaker 1: d Lo when he had another double team, and Delo
Speaker 1: hit what's called a no dip jumper. So a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that catch, you know, regardless of where you
Speaker 1: throw the ball, they have like a muscle memory for
Speaker 1: their jump shot, and their muscle memory starts from like
Speaker 1: down in their shooting pocket, like down here, So if
Speaker 1: the pass doesn't get like right into the shooting pocket,
Speaker 1: they can have some issues. And even some guys even
Speaker 1: on the catch, they need to like set their rhythm,
Speaker 1: so they'll like take a step and like kind of
Speaker 1: like reset their shooting pocket and then they'll go up.
Speaker 1: But the best shooters in the world, their shooting release
Speaker 1: starts from up here, so no matter where they catch,
Speaker 1: they can catch from up here and go right into
Speaker 1: the pocket. They can catch down here, go right up
Speaker 1: into the pocket. They catch out here go right up
Speaker 1: into the pocket. Or hell, that pass from Lebron literally
Speaker 1: hit him up here and he just caught it and
Speaker 1: shot it. That's what the best shooters in the world
Speaker 1: can do. And D'Angelo Russell, again when he has an advantage,
Speaker 1: is one of the more skilled offensive players in the
Speaker 1: league that can make plays out of that. And so
Speaker 1: all of it fundamentally came down to the Lakers blitzing
Speaker 1: Mason Plumbley off the floor, and then Lebron just absolutely
Speaker 1: flam banging Daniel Tye and forcing double teams so that
Speaker 1: they can get the defense into rotation. I thought it was.
Speaker 1: It was one of one of the craziest, the craziest
Speaker 1: like single handed, you know, superstar efforts to turn around
Speaker 1: a basketball game that I've ever seen. The Lakers looked
Speaker 1: completely lifeless. They looked like they didn't believe they can win.
Speaker 1: They looked like they were on the verge of falling
Speaker 1: apart completely, and Lebron pulled them back from the brink.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. And then the other thing on the
Speaker 1: defensive end of the floor, the Lakers continued solid blitzing
Speaker 1: even after Tyson came into the game, solid blitzing and
Speaker 1: rotating on the back end. Just again, once belief is
Speaker 1: a huge part of this. You gotta believe in what
Speaker 1: you're doing. If you believe in what you're doing, you'll
Speaker 1: play hard. If you don't believe in what you're doing,
Speaker 1: you won't play hard. And that was what was happening
Speaker 1: to the Lakers early. They weren't scoring, they couldn't get it, like,
Speaker 1: it all just fell apart for them in the effort
Speaker 1: and energy parts in the game down the stretch, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Lebron just injected like a giant shot
Speaker 1: of belief into the team. Now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're giving a defensive effort and intensity that they just
Speaker 1: didn't give earlier in the game. So they were blitzing
Speaker 1: and rotating the hard and pick and rolls really well.
Speaker 1: And then Lebron James, you know, it's funny at this
Speaker 1: phase of his career, because of his age, he's not
Speaker 1: quick enough to deal with the super super fast players
Speaker 1: in the league. But Kawhi Leonard is another power player,
Speaker 1: and Lebron can do a lot to disrupt Kawhi's power
Speaker 1: related game. And one of the things they were doing,
Speaker 1: Kawhi was bringing up, you know, like other Clipper guards
Speaker 1: into the screening action to try to attack to Angela Russell.
Speaker 1: The Lakers were just hedging and recovering, right, so Lebron
Speaker 1: would step back, dl would hedge, Delo would recover, Lebron
Speaker 1: would sprint back up to Kawhi and he'd get there
Speaker 1: before he could load up into his shot, and Kawi
Speaker 1: broke forre you a couple of times out of set
Speaker 1: actions for the Clippers down the stretch, but Lebron did
Speaker 1: a really really good job on him, including some off
Speaker 1: ball deny and then on the biggest play of the
Speaker 1: game when the Lakers are up to why he is
Speaker 1: not going to go to the bully ball on Lebron.
Speaker 1: He knows that's not going to work on Lebron, so
Speaker 1: he goes to a really tough left shoulder fade along
Speaker 1: the baseline. Lebron gets a great contest, it's way short,
Speaker 1: and the Lakers come out with the win. Just unbelievable
Speaker 1: stuff from Lebron. James. I continue to be completely amazed
Speaker 1: by what he's able to do at this phase of
Speaker 1: his career. He is flat out better than he was
Speaker 1: last year. Just flat out better than he was last year.
Speaker 1: In year twenty one, it doesn't even make any sense.
Speaker 1: One last Laker I wanted to shout out. I thought
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, even through the dregs of the game when
Speaker 1: things were really not going well, he was one of
Speaker 1: the big elements to keeping the Lakers involved in this game.
Speaker 1: He was really active at the point of attack, active
Speaker 1: with his hands, forcing deflections, forcing turnovers, and then he
Speaker 1: was consistently the guy that was beating the Clippers down
Speaker 1: the floor in transition. I feel like he had four
Speaker 1: or five runouts in this game. Austin reeves defensive playmaking
Speaker 1: was a big part of why this was in a
Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty point game. During some of the
Speaker 1: middle portions of the game. You know, he missed a
Speaker 1: couple shots late, and he wasn't one of the guys
Speaker 1: who was super active on the offensive end during that
Speaker 1: late game comeback, but he was a huge reason why
Speaker 1: that comeback comeback was even possible with some of the
Speaker 1: playmaking that he had during the middle of the game,
Speaker 1: particularly on the defensive end of the floor. And then lastly,
Speaker 1: just a big picture with the Lakers, Lebron's jump shot
Speaker 1: was always something that I was super encouraged about with
Speaker 1: this Lakers team. This year, he just trusts it and
Speaker 1: is so much more confident with it than he was
Speaker 1: last year. Last year, who was like one of the
Speaker 1: worst seasons of this phase of his career as a
Speaker 1: jump shooter, this season is like one of the best
Speaker 1: seasons of his entire career as a jump shooter. That
Speaker 1: was something that gave me a lot of optimism about
Speaker 1: this team. That was why I wanted the Lakers to
Speaker 1: make some sort of trade at the deadline to bring
Speaker 1: in a two way athlete. It was because of the
Speaker 1: fact that I believed that this was worth investing in.
Speaker 1: And now here's the thing. If Jared Vanderbilt can't come back,
Speaker 1: this Laker team, in my opinion, has only a very,
Speaker 1: very very minuscule chance of winning the title. I just
Speaker 1: do not think they are good enough in terms of
Speaker 1: two way talent on the perimeter. But that's your case.
Speaker 1: The case is Lebron is still insane. Anthony Davis brings
Speaker 1: you incredible two way play. You have this skill guard corps,
Speaker 1: and then Jared Vanderbilt brings basically that do everything Swiss
Speaker 1: army knife athlete on the perimeter. I can guard the
Speaker 1: other team's best player, help you clean up the defensive glass.
Speaker 1: They even figured out a bunch of stuff over the
Speaker 1: course of January, the end of January, in early February,
Speaker 1: to like find a way to get Jared Aderbilt, Jared
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt involved more offensively without having to just spot him
Speaker 1: up at the three point line, more cutting and screening
Speaker 1: and moving and getting him around the basket. They had
Speaker 1: a bunch of double figure scoring games that they got
Speaker 1: out of him. That's the case. Lebron brings you, you know,
Speaker 1: top five to six player in the world type of play.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis does the same. You get Jared Vanderbilt back healthy,
Speaker 1: bringing you that do everything for and then Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: and Dandela Russell bring the skill the skill core. There's
Speaker 1: just a tiny, tiny, tiny light there at the end
Speaker 1: of the tunnel. That's what the light looks like. And
Speaker 1: it's just a question of whether or not they can
Speaker 1: stay locked in long enough and believe in it long
Speaker 1: enough to have a chance when they actually get to
Speaker 1: that point. And we'll see, we'll see what they can
Speaker 1: do over the course of the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: But they have a game the tail end of a
Speaker 1: back to back tomorrow against Washington. That win tonight is
Speaker 1: gigantic on that front because it goes from splitting a
Speaker 1: back to back to turning it into a two and
Speaker 1: oh stretch. And you're about to have a bunch of
Speaker 1: home games against good teams, but a bunch of home games.
Speaker 1: And one of the things with these home games for
Speaker 1: the Lakers is they do tend to bring the effort eventually,
Speaker 1: even if it's not early in the game. Something about
Speaker 1: that Laker home crowd just just gets them to fight
Speaker 1: in a way that at least down the stretch, in
Speaker 1: a way that sometimes they struggle with on the road.
Speaker 1: And so again, tiny little light at the end of
Speaker 1: the tunnel, there's gonna be a question of whether or
Speaker 1: not the Lakers can get there. On the Clippers front,
Speaker 1: being down Paul George obviously is a severe lack takes
Speaker 1: away from your playmaking versatility, right, Like it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where you kind of run out of bodies, right,
Speaker 1: So like, if you're blitzing James Harden picking rolls and
Speaker 1: you have the personnel to do so, and Lebron's doing
Speaker 1: a good job on Kawhi Leonard, but Paul George is
Speaker 1: drawing a lesser defender. That's where or if Paul George
Speaker 1: brings the better defender that's on Harden over to Paul George.
Speaker 1: Now Harden's got a better, a weaker defender on him.
Speaker 1: That's where you have just an additional option to go
Speaker 1: to offensively in a quarter where you only scored sixteen points. Also,
Speaker 1: Avika Zubats is your best combination of like size and
Speaker 1: length and offensive skill. Not quite then, obviously not the
Speaker 1: athlete that Mason Plumbley is, but he's bigger and longer
Speaker 1: than Daniel Tice's and he's a much better player that
Speaker 1: can operate in the short role and do more damage
Speaker 1: on the offensive glass and those blitz because like again,
Speaker 1: if you blitz Anthony Davis or the big man has
Speaker 1: to come further out from the basket. Right in that situation,
Speaker 1: that's where you can have rebounding issues on the back line.
Speaker 1: That's where Zubach could have some success. Right, the Lakers
Speaker 1: got more of the contested rebounds down the stretch by
Speaker 1: virtue of Zubatch not being out there. And then lastly
Speaker 1: on the Clippers front, a Clippers front, sometimes you just
Speaker 1: get Lebron like he's at worst the second best player
Speaker 1: of all time, the best player, depending on who you ask.
Speaker 1: I think it's razor thin margin between him and MJ.
Speaker 1: Sometimes Lebron James just does Lebron James things and you lose.
Speaker 1: And so I don't really take too much away from
Speaker 1: the Clippers on this front. They're going through a little
Speaker 1: bit of a lull right now. Their defense isn't as
Speaker 1: good as it typically is, they're dealing with some injuries,
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't overthink it. But it just goes to
Speaker 1: show you just like all these contenders, they need to
Speaker 1: be healthy in order to reach their individual ceiling. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: that is all I have for tonight. We're going to
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow night after the final buzzer of Nick's
Speaker 1: Warriors live on YouTube, so I'll see you guys. Then
Speaker 1: I'll see you guys. Then we also have a video
Speaker 1: coming out tomorrow morning going over some Champ ancient betting
Speaker 1: odds stuff opportunities as well as MVP stuff, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the Philadelphia seventy six ers for a
Speaker 1: little bit, so that'll be in tomorrow's video. As always,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you guys, and I'll see you that
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