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Speaker 2: All right, welcome to Hoops Tonight Here at the Volume,

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Speaker 2: Happy Saturday, one last time everybody. Round two coverage of

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Speaker 2: the NBA Playoffs. Here, Hoops Tonight is brought to you

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Speaker 2: feels like I just watched a complete repeat mirror image

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Speaker 2: of Game two of this series. The Warriors come out

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Speaker 2: and then the avalanche comes from the more desperate team.

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Speaker 2: Bunch of things I want to dive in here, specifically

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Speaker 2: let's talk some basketball. So series continues to follow a

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Speaker 2: familiar trend. The Lakers actually won a little bit more

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: So for the Lakers on the defensive end, it's Anthony

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Speaker 2: unbelievably important for them to play with downhill force, and

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Speaker 2: that mainly comes down to D'Angelo, Russell, Lebron, James, Anthony Davis,

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Speaker 2: And guess what, I promise you guys, because I follow

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Speaker 1: But the team that plays with Forrest gets the whistle.

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Speaker 2: If you play super physically aggressive on both ends of

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Speaker 2: The Lakers were the more aggressive team in Game three.

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Speaker 1: That's how it works. And then there's like a little

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Speaker 2: You can't like Anthony' already be coming and you'd be

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Speaker 2: And that's the thing, whereas if you just play physical

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Speaker 1: Make him make it.

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Speaker 2: If I'm a Warriors fan, I love that Austin Reeves

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some nights it won't get called. There will be

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Speaker 2: So guess what, There's going to be a free throw

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Speaker 2: probably won't get called because they're letting everything go around

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Speaker 2: I thought they all played better. D'angela Russell was amazing

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Speaker 2: to get Ruey Hatchimura switched on to him. They even

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Speaker 2: some good looks for guys like Dante DiVincenzo just by

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Speaker 2: running a guard to guard screen and drawing multiple defenders.

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Speaker 2: So I think that's the next counter for the Warriors

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Speaker 2: is straight ISO for Steph against Austin Reeves when he's

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Speaker 2: guarding him, and then start to hunt individual Laker defenders

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Speaker 2: and guard to guards screens. Next, stay out of out trouble,

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Speaker 2: like just be a step be quicker with your reactions,

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Speaker 2: stay in position, play.

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Speaker 1: With more force. You'll get a better whistle.

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Speaker 2: And if you do so, then Draymond Green can stay

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Speaker 2: on the floor for longer and have a bigger impact

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Speaker 2: on the game. And then the other thing I'd like

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Speaker 2: I want to see Andrew Wiggins look to be more

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Speaker 2: aggressive as a score. Lebron James really struggles with his

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Speaker 2: foot speed on the perimeter and he beat him off

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Speaker 2: the dribble a bunch tonight. Hit some jumpers in his face.

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Speaker 2: That's another guy too that you can run some guard

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Speaker 2: to guard screens. Lebron is kind of notorious for switching

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Speaker 2: screens with no effort, right, So call Austin Reeve, can

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Speaker 2: have have Wiggans run a ball screen with Steph setting it,

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Speaker 2: and then you'll probably get switched with Wiggins onto Austin Reeves.

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Speaker 2: And then Wiggins can go to work on Austin Reeves

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Speaker 2: like you're gonna be able to find good matchups there.

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Speaker 2: And I think I think the Warriors need to start

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Speaker 2: hunting opportunities where Anthony Davis is just on the back

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Speaker 2: line and then from there you can drive and kick

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Speaker 2: them a couple times and hopefully pull Anthony Davis away

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Speaker 2: from the paint. But if Anthony Davis is going to

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Speaker 2: be that good defensively on those hedges, I'm just not

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Speaker 2: sure they're going to be able to score.

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Speaker 1: On the Lakers front.

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Speaker 2: I like the hedge and recover as long as Anthony

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Speaker 2: Davis plays that active. If he doesn't, it could be

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Speaker 2: a problem. So again, that coverage is super dangerous. It

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Speaker 2: requires other worldly effort from Anthony Davis. I'd like to

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Speaker 2: see Lebron James in the post war they did it

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Speaker 2: a little bit tonight, more than they have in previous

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Speaker 2: games in the series, but I think they can go

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Speaker 2: there even more. Maintain defensive effort. Biggest weakness for this team.

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Speaker 2: Will not be surprised if the Warriors kind of got

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Speaker 2: up to an early lead and kind of stiff armed

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Speaker 2: the Lakers throughout Game four, because they have a tendency

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Speaker 2: to be inconsistent with their defensive effort and then keep

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Speaker 2: playing with downhill force on offense to try to attack

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Speaker 2: the Warriors' bigs and get them in foul trouble again,

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Speaker 2: which obviously was a big pathway to their success tonight. Wow,

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Speaker 2: what a series this has been so far. I know

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Speaker 2: the blowouts can give you a little boring sometimes, but

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Speaker 2: you know, for you know, just from a basketball chess

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Speaker 2: mats perspective, it's been super interesting and it's been interesting

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Speaker 2: to watch the up and down nature of the play

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Speaker 2: of the stars. All Right, guys, that is all we

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Speaker 2: have for today. I believe we're coming back tomorrow to

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Speaker 2: do a chase three point segment. I'll probably just do

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Speaker 2: a film study on three of the series, but if not,

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Speaker 2: we'll be back on Monday night. I think we're going

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Speaker 2: every night basically for the next three weeks, so keep

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Speaker 2: an eye on the Twitter feed for show announcements and

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Speaker 2: show links and things along those lines. I appreciate you, guys,

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Speaker 2: and I'll see you today.

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