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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up?

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Speaker 1: Straight fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntire, Straight Fire. Friday, June.

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Speaker 1: It's a big day in the NBA, folks, could be

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Speaker 1: it could be the final game of the NBA season.

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Speaker 1: And I know you'll say, wait, even if the Warriors

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Speaker 1: go down three one day, it's not over. It's over, folks.

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Speaker 1: You're not beating the Celtics team three times in a row.

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Speaker 1: This is the season coming down to a Friday night,

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Speaker 1: on the same night the Jurassic Park opens nationwide, the

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Speaker 1: final in the latest trilogy, and I can report thanks

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Speaker 1: to a buddy of mine, I was able to see

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Speaker 1: it little flex there on a Friday morning. But Jurassic

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Speaker 1: Park was excellent, just as you did envision it. Dinosaurs, loud, scary,

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Speaker 1: tens of moments. I thought it was good, like this

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Speaker 1: is on the heels of the same top gun, like

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Speaker 1: seeing movies in the theater is fun again. I saw

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Speaker 1: Jurassic Park in Imax and it was ear splittingly loud.

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Speaker 1: My daughter covered her ears for much of the movie,

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Speaker 1: but it wasn't as scary as we thought. For she's

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Speaker 1: a third grader, so you know, if you want to

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Speaker 1: take your kids, I would suggest it obviously, I would

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Speaker 1: say listen, stay home and watch the Warriors game, because

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Speaker 1: who knows. I mean, I don't want to make any

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Speaker 1: bold proclamations, but of the Warriors getting back to the

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Speaker 1: to the Celtics, and I don't know. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say the end of a dynasty, but to be

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Speaker 1: part of the dynasty, you've gotta get to the championship.

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Speaker 1: This will be their sixth and eight. If they don't

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Speaker 1: win tonight and they go down three one, it's a

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Speaker 1: rat folks. Short of a massive injury somewhere, it's just

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Speaker 1: not happening for the Warriors. So we're bringing in Eddie

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Speaker 1: House here shortly to talk about what it's like in Boston,

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Speaker 1: Divide the energy. He's obviously played for the Celtics, actually

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Speaker 1: played for the Heat as well, against Lebron with Lebron

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Speaker 1: he's gonna come on and break it down. He's kind

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Speaker 1: of with me, like Warriors, it's looking bleak all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden. It Celtics clearly the better team through three games.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they were the better team considerably in Game three,

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Speaker 1: with the exception of the third quarter avalanche. They were

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Speaker 1: not very good in Game two after they got the win.

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Speaker 1: In Game one, they were the better team in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter would have mattered. And Golden State really cannot

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Speaker 1: in in Game three. You cannot build this deep hole.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand the assistance to push tempo, but then

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Speaker 1: you look at the half court numbers and they can't

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Speaker 1: really score on this Boston team. It's like, okay, other

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Speaker 1: than Curry, who can create their own shot that will

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Speaker 1: lead to my best bet at the end, because I mean, frankly,

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Speaker 1: it's Curry a percent healthy. We don't know the line

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Speaker 1: opened a three and a half, it's up to four.

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Speaker 1: So early money is on Boston under the assumption I

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Speaker 1: suppose that curries docent. He's saying all the right things.

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Speaker 1: We don't know. We won't know till game time. As such,

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Speaker 1: I can't touch the total on either side. But to

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Speaker 1: bring on former NBA player Eddie House. Jason likes to

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Speaker 1: think he knows everything when it comes to sports. I

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Speaker 1: know what sports stands want, but for everything he doesn't.

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Speaker 1: He knows a guy who does. Let's just say I

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Speaker 1: All right, let's welcome into straight fire. A guy who

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Speaker 1: that today, Eddie House, How you doing, my man? I'm good,

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Speaker 1: Malcolm walking around Boston? Something good about that? All day

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Speaker 1: we're just talking about not just well you got the Celtics. Here?

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Speaker 1: Are you seeing these reports Eddie that Golden State Warriors

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Speaker 1: Boston a little aggressive? Come on, don't you think? Like?

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine, Eddie, you've played basketball a lot of places.

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Speaker 1: I put it like this, Okay, so this is how

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Speaker 1: So sometimes people get so deep rooted in in their

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Speaker 1: everybody's humans, and you know, treat people how you want

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Speaker 1: And obviously Arizona State is something that Arizona doesn't like,

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Speaker 1: Bowl and Tucson anyway, Yeah, everybody does. Ton stinks. Just kidding. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: let's get to the finals, uh, Eddie. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: a little disappointed because it looks like the Warriors don't

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Speaker 1: up in Game three, right, Wiggins at eighteen, Curry thirty one,

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Speaker 1: and they lose by sixteen. I mean, Draymond's giving him nothing.

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Speaker 1: I killed Draymond on the pod. I feel like he's

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Speaker 1: That he's killing him right now. Would you agree? I

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Speaker 1: if you're you're out there barking and you're putting up numbers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and from that point on, sometimes you need to learn, like,

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Speaker 1: We weren't expecting it to go this way. And once

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Speaker 1: he was into it with everybody. He had something to

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Speaker 1: say to Jayson Tatum, he had something to say to

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Speaker 1: Because offensively trash, I mean trash offensively. Defensively, he's not

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Speaker 1: He has to figure out how he can muck the

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Speaker 1: the strategy where if you play less Draymond, do you

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Speaker 1: I think you need a little more Looney. He is

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Speaker 1: so he misses a back door cut when he's supposed

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Speaker 1: a tough bad But at the same time, if you

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Speaker 1: now you can't miss those moments. You know, it's those

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Speaker 1: of the quick games, But other than that, I don't

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Speaker 1: see a path back in this for Golden State. Man. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Golden State's only chances to win a game four tomorrow, Um,

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Speaker 1: if they look go down three one. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say because I don't like doing that. That's a James.

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Speaker 1: But it's gonna be pretty damn hard for the Warriors

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Speaker 1: to win three games before this Celtics win one, especially

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Speaker 1: coming back to the Gardens back to back our playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Sorry sorry, play alright and we can start to wrap

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Speaker 1: up with this. Um. I think people are reaching a

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Speaker 1: little bit on this Curry legacy stuff. Right, I don't

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Speaker 1: know where you stand, but I don't think this finals

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Speaker 1: loss would hurt in air quotes Curry in any way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form. I'm of the belief that once you

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Speaker 1: get to a certain status, you can only help yourself, right,

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Speaker 1: You're only building on the greatness that you've done. But

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of people out there gonna say, hey,

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Speaker 1: they haven't won since Kevin Durant left. Where are you

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Speaker 1: on that? Well, they won before he got there, so

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Speaker 1: oh and they had an opportunity, and and look who

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Speaker 1: they lost to. They lost to Lebron, Right, so you

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Speaker 1: can't say that they just lost a team that they

446
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Speaker 1: did lose a Toronto too, But that played like ten

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Speaker 1: minutes in that series, and c and Clay got hurt

448
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Speaker 1: as well, So you say that that's a outlier, But no,

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Speaker 1: I think I think steps legacy is see Minute. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to worry about where he's at. Its about

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Speaker 1: where he where when he finishes a career, where he's

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Speaker 1: gonna end up at, Like right now, he's already see

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Speaker 1: Minute as one of the legends in the game, one

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Speaker 1: of the best to ever do it. Right, I got

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Speaker 1: him in top fifteen easily. Okay, moving forward, Kenny crack

456
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Speaker 1: into the top ten, top eight, And the only way

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Speaker 1: you do that is accumulated championships. In my book, um,

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Speaker 1: he has the records. That shows how great of a

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Speaker 1: player he already is. Right, winning championships is the thing

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Speaker 1: that he has to do. He has to start accumulating that.

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Speaker 1: So you get four championship, you start getting closer than

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Speaker 1: at five where Kobe is at, right, that where Magic

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Speaker 1: is at. You get to that next one, that's where

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Speaker 1: Jordan is at. Now, if you're able to get more

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Speaker 1: than that, then you start saying, I'm sitting at the

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Speaker 1: table with all of these greats, right, and it's a

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Speaker 1: small window for them. I just think that he's already

468
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Speaker 1: what what he is, and I think he's revolutionized the game.

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Speaker 1: He's changed the way the games play. He waged to

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Speaker 1: change the way the game is scouted. He's changed the

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Speaker 1: way the game is drafted, He's changed the way the

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Speaker 1: game has looked at. He's changed the rules of the game.

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Speaker 1: You know, So everything about what Steath has done is legendary.

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Speaker 1: And so I don't think that I'm with you where

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Speaker 1: he's already at a certain status. There's nothing by losing

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Speaker 1: the finals not gonna take you down. And I think

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Speaker 1: winning finals takes him up a notch, but he's already

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Speaker 1: where he's at. And final question, Boston, you know they

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Speaker 1: got a little fortunate, right, They did not have to

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Speaker 1: face Middleton. He got injured in the Milwaukee series. The Celtics, sorry,

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Speaker 1: the nets were a mess with the you know Ben

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Speaker 1: Simmons stuff and Joe Harris a great shooter Olympian he

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Speaker 1: didn't play. And then you know against Miami, it's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: they'd be a really really good Miami team. But I

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Speaker 1: don't is this kind of thing. Can Boston build off

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Speaker 1: this and get get hot and win multiple titles in

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Speaker 1: a row and they do that or not? I think

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Speaker 1: they can. I mean they have a young cord that's

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Speaker 1: extremely good. I mean it's extra talented. I mean Deef

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Speaker 1: as a player to the year, Markeut smart right, and

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Speaker 1: you know people can argue that or not, but he

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Speaker 1: is tough on defense. And because he's a guy that

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Speaker 1: can't get posted up, you don't have to help. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to double team when somebody tries to roll

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Speaker 1: him into post. He could hold his own. He can

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Speaker 1: guard his yard, and he could guard on the perimeter.

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Speaker 1: But Jayson Tatum is a rising superstar. He has a

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Speaker 1: chip opportunity to take that leap into superstar room. Right,

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Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown right now in our in front of us,

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Speaker 1: just saying, Hey, he's not the only one over here

501
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Speaker 1: that's that good. I think I'm just as good. I

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Speaker 1: just do it in a different way he doesn't. MA

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Speaker 1: and um So with that, yeah, with that core, you

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Speaker 1: could definitely build it. I mean, Rob Williams, Rob Williams

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Speaker 1: is still young. You got the rent protector, you have

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Speaker 1: the pieces, you have the wing scores, defenders, you have

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Speaker 1: the rint protective. Now you just put the pieces around

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Speaker 1: that and make sure that you know you keep building

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Speaker 1: towards what everybody is looking at it as is being

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Speaker 1: the best defensive team you can be and then sharing

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Speaker 1: the basketball and everybody having an opportunity to eat out here,

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Speaker 1: like everybody eats on this team, like when the ball

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Speaker 1: all hops there at their best and everybody does eat.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm gonna say this, you talk

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Speaker 1: about the path that the Celtics had, right, well, they

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Speaker 1: went through the everybody says that k D and Kyrie

517
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Speaker 1: was a mess or whatever, but no nobody was saying

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Speaker 1: that when you know they were playing. Everybody saying that

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Speaker 1: the Celtics probably alludes to that team because they are

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Speaker 1: the best, too skilled, the best skilled duo of all time, right,

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Speaker 1: and we made this coverage make them kind of look

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Speaker 1: average a little bit. You know, they didn't look great.

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Speaker 1: You know, Katie's best game, he took thirty one shots

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Speaker 1: to get his thirty one points. Kyrie had one good

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Speaker 1: game after that got shut down. You look at the

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee and everybody talked about, oh, everybody on the team,

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee shoots the three great. We know Middleton is missing,

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Speaker 1: but Milwaukee is still a dangerous team. They got Jhannest,

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Speaker 1: Johannese had his time, had his moments, but everybody else

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Speaker 1: got you know, got got short changed out there, even

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Speaker 1: Drew Holiday. Then you look at when we played against Miami,

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Speaker 1: was like, oh, Miami doesn't have anybody, but they were

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Speaker 1: the number one seed. So you go through the look,

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Speaker 1: you go through the the best skilled duo ever, You

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Speaker 1: go through the defending champs with the most dominant player ever.

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Speaker 1: Then you go through the number one seed that you

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Speaker 1: have in the East, and you win that game Game

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Speaker 1: seven on the road, after the Game seven at home

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Speaker 1: against the defending champs. That's battle tested. Then well let's

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Speaker 1: look the Warriors. Let's just talk about the Warriors, because

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Speaker 1: everybody their path, they had Yokis one guy that had

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Speaker 1: to defend two guys on their team, Hurt Murray and

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Speaker 1: Porter Jr. Then you go to a Jollis and Steven

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Speaker 1: Adams list team right, and a bunch of young guys

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Speaker 1: that you go through. Then you go to a one Luca,

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Speaker 1: one guy that you have to worry about defending, and

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Speaker 1: that's it. And everybody's like, oh, the Warriors are world beaters.

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Speaker 1: Come on, they had an easier path than anybody in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Denver by far was the worst team in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Wow, Eddie House leaving us with a powerful

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Speaker 1: rent there. I listen, we we have discussed that. I

552
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Speaker 1: think it's kind of who had the easier path. It's

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Speaker 1: it's but Eddie House might be doing a victory lap

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Speaker 1: if the Celtics wrap up this series here with with

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Speaker 1: a Game four win and go up three one. Eddie.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for taking the time, Man Fund. As always, thank you.

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563
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Speaker 1: good good stuff from Eddie House. Unless you're a Warriors fan. Now,

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Speaker 1: then you're just like, damn it, this is not good.

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Speaker 1: I liked working with Eddie at f S one. I've

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Speaker 1: done some radio with him, He's been on the podcast before.

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Speaker 1: Just a real guy, keeps it real. It doesn't pull

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Speaker 1: any punches. I kind of like and respect that, and

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Speaker 1: I tried to do the same. When it comes to gambling, folks,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. I have not bet the side.

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Speaker 1: I have not been the total um. I I don't

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Speaker 1: have a real true vibe on Curry's status. Now, maybe

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Speaker 1: Curry goes postal his I see his point totals, twenty

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Speaker 1: eight and a half shows you how much respect he gets.

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Speaker 1: Right highest point total on the board despite injuring his

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Speaker 1: ankle in Game three, and Tatum is second. Jalen Brown

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Speaker 1: bumped up to twenty four and a half points. I

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Speaker 1: look hard at that, but I'm passing on that. Clay,

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Speaker 1: by the way, was eighteen and a half. That was

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Speaker 1: one I felt really good about before Game three is

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Speaker 1: now twenty and a half. I think the guy you

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Speaker 1: gotta watch here, if he's gonna have a big game,

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Speaker 1: it's got to be Jordan Pool. Right, Curry can't create.

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Speaker 1: We know Clay can't. Wiggins coming off the bench out

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Speaker 1: of Porter is not doing that. Gary Payton Jr. Is

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Speaker 1: not doing that. It's got to be Jordan Pool. So

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Speaker 1: one bet I did make was Jordan Pool over one

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Speaker 1: and a half threes. If you remember Game two that

589
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Speaker 1: cashed easily, he ended up hitting five. The key is

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Speaker 1: he gets into the rotation. Um, Steve Kerr not gonna

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Speaker 1: have any options here, like this is the season. Is

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Speaker 1: this the time you tinker with Jonathan cominga up front?

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Speaker 1: Probably not, but you're gonna have to do it at

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Speaker 1: some point. You want to do it down three one fine.

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Speaker 1: I just I feel like Jordan Pool has to be

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Speaker 1: the guy. And if you look historically in these playoffs

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Speaker 1: when Pool has erupted early in the series, it's really

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Speaker 1: been a boon to Golden State, like finding that second

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Speaker 1: scorer who can just get a shot off against anybody.

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Speaker 1: And you heard Eddie House say, well, he's really tortured

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Speaker 1: Peyton Pritcher, and I was like, well in the second unit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I would like to see what he's got against

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Speaker 1: Marcus Smart, Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum. You know Pool can

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Speaker 1: get to the rim against anybody. Can they affect his

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Speaker 1: shot near the rim? He's he was the best free

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Speaker 1: throw shooter in the league this year. It's that sounds

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Speaker 1: very bleak when you're saying, hey, the Warriors need Jordan

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Speaker 1: Pool to really show up to extend the series to

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Speaker 1: to five or six games, and I'm sorry, not five,

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Speaker 1: it's a six or seven games. Is that doable for

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Speaker 1: Jordan Well, I don't know. Um, So for now, it's

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Speaker 1: just Pool over one and a half threes. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at the Tatum assists at four and a half. If

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Speaker 1: you listen closely to the Getty House talk, Golden State

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Speaker 1: has three options on defense. You just hug up your guy,

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Speaker 1: deal with the switches, and let them beat you with

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Speaker 1: a bunch of twos. You could do the doubles, which

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Speaker 1: leads to open threes for other people and assist for Tatum.

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Speaker 1: Or you could try the zone, which is a nightmare

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Speaker 1: and doesn't work against a good shooting team. My guess

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Speaker 1: is since it worked in game two, we don't see

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Speaker 1: any zone and we see a lot of the one

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Speaker 1: on one defending and Boston, let's see you make contested threes.

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Speaker 1: Lightning is not going to strike twice for Horford and

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Speaker 1: Derrick Whiton got in company. And I do wonder if

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Speaker 1: the quick turnaround just one day between games will impact

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Speaker 1: Horford because he is thirties six years old. So I

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Speaker 1: would look at Horford under Jordan Pool over threes and

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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum assists at four and a half. I think,

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Speaker 1: but Tatum gets to the rim, he's going to be

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Speaker 1: met with someone, whether it's Loo me, Draymond sitting on

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Speaker 1: the back line because he's not guarding Tatum anymore or

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Speaker 1: chasing Tatum. I should say, not even guarding chasing. And

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Speaker 1: I think Tatum will and sorry, I think Tatum will

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Speaker 1: end up with over five and a half assists. He's

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Speaker 1: just been great passing the basketball. Um, let's see weekend plans.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm probably gonna read about this uh

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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia golf situation. I actually had some friends texting

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Speaker 1: on the pot? And I was like, I hadn't thought

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Speaker 1: about it. But there are some days next week in

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Speaker 1: between NBA games. There's a little NBA draft coming up,

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Speaker 1: but golf could enter, could make an appearance on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: If you guys have any golf guests you want me

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Speaker 1: to get at. Yeah, I wouldn't mind tossing those names

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Speaker 1: in my way. I will be playing some soccer over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. I my son has a big basketball game

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Speaker 1: over the weekend, and I don't know. I might see

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Speaker 1: Top Gun again if time permits, we'll see. That's it

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Speaker 1: for me. Have a great weekend, everybody,