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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So this game was

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Speaker 1: unbelievably bizarre. I missed it last night. I had a

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Speaker 1: Lamb or Patrick Baldwin Junior are gonna be playing those minutes.

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Speaker 1: And like, I saw this a lot with Lakers fans

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Speaker 1: but Anthony Davis is hurt and they don't have any forwards.

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Speaker 1: And so really you're asking a bunch of veteran minimum

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Speaker 1: It's just a lot to ask, and so slotting becomes

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Speaker 1: a problem. You take a max player like Andrew Wiggins

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Speaker 1: probably is better off the bench, but now he's starting,

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Speaker 1: as a guy who's a fringe NBA player, Like, it's

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Speaker 1: just you're asking too much. There's very few teams in

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Speaker 1: be able to survive in those situations. And even when

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Speaker 1: they do go to their depth, there's gonna be some limitations.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins and Steph Curry are the best players on

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Speaker 1: the team, and without them, they're going to struggle to win.

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Speaker 1: That's just a fact. But you've got to get the

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Speaker 1: ones you can get, the ones like that Houston Rockets game,

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Speaker 1: you've got to get and just floated as best as

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Speaker 1: you can, and then when everyone comes back, you've really

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Speaker 1: got to hit the jets and just cross your fingers

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Speaker 1: and hope everyone stays healthy. All right, guys, that's all

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Speaker 1: I have for today. We have six or Celtics tonight.

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Speaker 1: We're not covering that tonight, but we are covering it

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Speaker 1: tomorrow after the final buzzer of Mavericks Lakers, So we'll

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Speaker 1: be hitting Mavericks, Lakers six, or Celtics, and I'll look

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Speaker 1: around at the schedule and see if there's one or

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Speaker 1: two other games that are worth covering. As always, I

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Speaker 1: sincerely appreciate your guys support and I'll see you next time.

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