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Speaker 2: pack show for you guys tonight. We're hitting Wolves Warriors

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Speaker 3: Here. You get a really.

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Speaker 2: Celtics Knicks. Over the course of the last two games,

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Speaker 2: Yokic is having the greatest game of his life. Game three,

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Speaker 2: Like we talked Jamal Murray great rhythm Game three, jokicnot

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Speaker 2: Jokics great rhythm. In game one, Murray not right. You

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Speaker 2: In game two, Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown consistently kind

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Speaker 2: That's what that type of position, a bona fide great

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Speaker 2: like a core basketball philosophy, their willingness to create advantages

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Speaker 2: and working extremely well. We've all seen the Celtics win

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00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 2: exactly that type of game one hundred times over the

436
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,000
Speaker 2: last couple of years. They came right out and hit

437
00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,919
Speaker 2: six of their first seven threes, and they were the

438
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,120
Speaker 2: same types of shots they were missing in the first

439
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,200
Speaker 2: two games. Tatum hits a pull up three and against

440
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,840
Speaker 2: drop coverage. Jalen Brown same Shoty bricks at the tail

441
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,439
Speaker 2: end of Game two that dropped coverage three right at

442
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 2: the top of the key, hits it to start this game.

443
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,920
Speaker 2: Derek White hits like a contested step back three in

444
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 2: a late clock situation. Kat sinks in a little too

445
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 2: far off Al Horford swing pass. There's a contest, but

446
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 2: Horford knocks down that mildly contested three that he was

447
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,919
Speaker 2: missing in the first two games of the series. You

448
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 2: could feel the confidence dynamic completely swing after that happened.

449
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,399
Speaker 2: Boston only had one thirty point quarter in the entire

450
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 2: series before today. Then they had two back to back

451
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 2: thirty five point quarters. To start today's game, Peyton Pritchard

452
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,920
Speaker 2: exploded for twenty three points. The Celtics offense hummed at

453
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,240
Speaker 2: the level we knew they were capable of humming at

454
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,879
Speaker 2: because we've seen it one hundred times. They got that

455
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 2: engine going. New York just folded from there. And by

456
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 2: the way, Boston's defense was incredible. We're about to talk

457
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,200
Speaker 2: about that in a minute. But New York also just

458
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,440
Speaker 2: kind of lost their confidence and played some really poor

459
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 2: offensive basketball. Brunton all the way down. Kat was the

460
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,199
Speaker 2: guy hitting a couple shots early in the game, but

461
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 2: he was the primary defense of culprit. No one was

462
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,960
Speaker 2: really playing well. Mkhale and o g were both at rhythm.

463
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 2: Josh Hart's first couple catch and shoot threes were like

464
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,240
Speaker 2: very clearly, very short, right out of his hand, Like

465
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,679
Speaker 2: you could just tell. Everybody was like shook by the

466
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 2: way that Boston was playing, and they were just never

467
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 2: able to recover. Now, again, there will be different types

468
00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,280
Speaker 2: of games in this series. Let's shelf that con set

469
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 2: for just a second. I want to just shout out

470
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 2: Boston's defense. I thought down the line, everyone was great,

471
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 2: Tatum and Brown switching in and out of action with

472
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,400
Speaker 2: pressure and physicality efforts at the rim from Derek White.

473
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 2: Drew Holliday did another great job on Jalen Brunson tonight.

474
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,879
Speaker 2: But I want to specifically highlight the Biggs because I

475
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 2: thought Horford, Porzingis, and Cornett were all amazing in this game.

476
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,680
Speaker 2: Cornett continues to impress he's become like a legitimate playoff

477
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 2: rotation piece for this team, especially in the universe forar

478
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 2: Houser is injured. But like, all three of the bigs

479
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 2: just kicked New York's butt on both ends as athletes.

480
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 2: They combined for six blocks with their efforts around the rim.

481
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 2: Horford and Cornett had five offensive rebounds. Those dudes were

482
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 2: throwing people around like rag dolls to try to find

483
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 2: offensive rebounding opportunities. I just thought all three of those

484
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 2: guys played with more force than the New York front

485
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 2: court and really controlled this game. I mean, like this

486
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 2: was the first game of the series where the Mitchell

487
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 2: Robinson minutes did not New York's way. They just got

488
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 2: physically dominated while also throwing a great offensive punch, and

489
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:11,120
Speaker 2: the result is thirty point lead, completely insurmountable. Yeah, there's

490
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 2: a couple of third quarter pushes from the Knicks, but

491
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 2: when you're pushing down from thirty one, it's different than

492
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,479
Speaker 2: when you're pushing down from twenty. The eight to zero

493
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 2: run doesn't cut the lead to twelve and let light

494
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 2: the crowd on fire.

495
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 3: The eight to zero run.

496
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 2: Cuts the lead to twenty three, and it's a bigger

497
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 2: lead than it was even in those peak moments in

498
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 2: Game one in Game two. Now, looking forward in this series,

499
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,880
Speaker 2: a couple of things for the Knicks. I still think

500
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 2: they're conceding too many openings. What I mean by that

501
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 2: is like in their natural ball screen coverages when they're

502
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 2: hedging and recovering with Brunson, but mainly the drop with Kat,

503
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 2: they're getting fried in those situations. They were giving up

504
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 2: quality looks in those situations in the first two games,

505
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 2: they just weren't going in. They have consistently been better

506
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 2: in this series when they've just switched and contain the ball.

507
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 2: Simple stat to demonstrate this tonight, the Celtics shredded the

508
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 2: Nickson pick and roll. They got an offensive rating over

509
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 2: one twenty, including passes on ball screens where they were

510
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 2: using some sort of traditional ball screen coverage post ups

511
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 2: and ISOs. Boston ran twenty seven post ups and ISOs

512
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,360
Speaker 2: in this game and got just sixteen points out of them.

513
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 2: It's very clear in the numbers that when they switch

514
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 2: and contain like there was a like there are examples

515
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 2: where you know, Tatum's got cat on the wing, and

516
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 2: they just kind of gap off of him pretty well,

517
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 2: and he's kind of sitting up there stunting, and they

518
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 2: just throw a swing pass and get out of it.

519
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 2: Like they're not doing a good job hunting these things

520
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 2: one on one. They're just taking advantage of the natural openings, like, Oh,

521
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 2: you're going to concede a pick and pop three to Horford.

522
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 3: That's going in.

523
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 2: Oh you're gonna sit back the cat like in a

524
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 2: deep drop coverage against Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. Like, Yeah,

525
00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 2: they've been missing their pull up threes in this series,

526
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,199
Speaker 2: but they're sht capable of making them, and so I

527
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 2: still think their pathway moving forward is switch contain, bait

528
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 2: them into those poor isolation decisions. And then for the Celtics,

529
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 2: as I mentioned, there will be very different types of

530
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 2: games in this series, just purely jump shooting. Result Boston

531
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 2: got one point two eight points per jump shot tonight,

532
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 2: the Knicks got zero point eighty five. Another simple way

533
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 2: to explain that is over the course of one hundred

534
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 2: jump shots, the Celtics produced at a rate of forty

535
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 2: three points more per one hundred jump shots than the Knicks.

536
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 2: They out shot the shit out of them tonight. Okay,

537
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 2: that will probably happen again in this series. Like I

538
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 2: think we all could probably agree, this series is going

539
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 2: at least six and there's gonna be another game in

540
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 2: this series where Boston just does what they did tonight

541
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 2: and you basically just shake their hand and say congrats

542
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 2: on the win. But there will be different types of games.

543
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 2: There will be a game, for instance, where the Knicks

544
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 2: just shoot better, and if they do, it's a closer game,

545
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 2: and if they do, there's more pressure on some of

546
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 2: these tougher shots that's Boston's taking. And it's very possible

547
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 2: that they find themselves in a situation where they go

548
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 2: cold and the Knicks get a bunch of momentum in

549
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 2: it's early fourth quarter, and all of a sudden, that

550
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 2: thirteen point third quarter lead for Boston is down to five.

551
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 2: The crowd is raucous. There's a timeout called Boston goes

552
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 2: in their next couple of possessions, misses a couple of threes,

553
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 2: and it's.

554
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 3: Like, what do you do now?

555
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 2: Because if you allow that situation to play out and

556
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 2: you stay cold like you did in the first two games,

557
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what kind of large volume production you're

558
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 2: getting from your three point shot, if you can't score

559
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,719
Speaker 2: on those key possessions late while Jalen Brunson has been

560
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 2: the best closer in the league this season, and he's

561
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 2: killing you on the other end of the four and

562
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 2: so that's where I want to see what Boston does.

563
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 2: There will be there if Boston's gonna win the series,

564
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 2: they got to win four out of five games. I

565
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 2: find it highly unlikely that they just shoot the piss

566
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 2: out of the basketball for straight times and win the series.

567
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 2: Maybe they do, but I think if Boston's gonna win

568
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 2: this series, they're gonna have to win another one of

569
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 2: those ugly rock fights. And I'll just be really curious

570
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 2: to see what Boston's attack looks like when they end

571
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 2: up in that situation. All right, Jackson, Let's do a

572
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 2: solid ten minutes of questions here.

573
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 3: Let's do it.

574
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 4: First question, Well, all of our questions are basically about

575
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 4: the Warriors Wolves. First question, POD's was awful tonight, shot

576
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 4: one of ten and only had two assists. Should the

577
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 4: Warriors shorten his minutes?

578
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 2: So I this is complicated because I saw a lot

579
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: of people saying stuff about how about how Pozemski was

580
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 2: playing throughout the game, and I think it's more nuanced

581
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 2: than I'm seeing on Twitter, Like I'm seeing people that

582
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 2: are just saying he sucks, and then.

583
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 3: I'm seeing, you know, I'm seeing.

584
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 2: Tim Legler talk about how he's being, you know, amazing

585
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 2: in all these other ways, and I'm seeing Pojemski being

586
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 2: really effective in every single way except for offense, and

587
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 2: on that offensive end of the floor, I still think

588
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 2: there's some poor shot selection going on. Like, on the

589
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 2: one hand, you have to empower him a little bit

590
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 2: to where because without Steph you need offensive production. There's

591
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 2: got to be a certain amount of leash that he has.

592
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 2: But there were like three or four shots he took

593
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 2: tonight where I was like, that's not the one you

594
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 2: need to pay like, And so you need to acknowledge

595
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 2: that he's defending like crazy, and he's rebounding extremely well,

596
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 2: and he's making good connective passing leads. But I would

597
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 2: love to see him trim like two or three of

598
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 2: those bad shots out. Another way to another way to

599
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 2: look at it, guys, is like this game was winnable

600
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 2: three or four possessions go a different way. You win

601
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 2: if instead of a seven point lead, you get it

602
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: up to thirteen, you probably win. And so I just

603
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 2: think that there's a there's still a little bit of

604
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 2: refinement Jackson, And you mentioned to me before we went live,

605
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 2: like the just a couple of mistakes Kaminga made late,

606
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 2: like just hesitating on that last little catch in the

607
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 2: middle of the lane that allowed him to get stripped

608
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 2: before he went up, Just like little tiny things that

609
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 2: could make a big difference over the course of the series.

610
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough.

611
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 4: It's easy to nitpick pause, but to your point, when

612
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 4: Steph is out, you kind of got to just say

613
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 4: play free to everybody, right, you can't be like, you

614
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 4: can't be encouraging people to pass up open shots. Really

615
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 4: you're you're struggling to create offense, and it doesn't mean to

616
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 4: take bad shots, but you can't be trying to limit

617
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 4: your players, especially ones like Pods who are usually operating

618
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 4: off someone off in a sort of secondary sort of situation.

619
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 4: There were a couple very very open threes that he

620
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 4: missed that would have been big run extenders for the Warriors,

621
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 4: And I can definitely understand getting upset that feeling like

622
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 4: he needs to make those but the the critique about

623
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 4: the assist number, he's not tripped playing tree youngbo, No, No,

624
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 4: he is. He's important to their offensive flow even though

625
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 4: he needs to make more shots, and he led the

626
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 4: team in rebound. So like it or not, this is

627
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 4: sort of with Moses Moody playing that's bad, especially like

628
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 4: you don't have a lot of options.

629
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 3: What are supposed to do?

630
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 4: Who are supposed to get more minutes to if you're

631
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 4: taking away pods, if you're dropping his minutes, you know

632
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 4: what I mean.

633
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 2: And he was minus two and thirty nine minutes. Like again,

634
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 2: he's one for ten from the field. There's he takes

635
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 2: two or three better shots or like passes up on

636
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 2: two or three bad ones. To your point, hit a

637
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 2: couple of those run extending type of threes. All of

638
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 2: a sudden, he's playing a fantastic game. And we're talking

639
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 2: about like kind of like a like a special game

640
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 2: in his career. The big thing that I'm seeing on film,

641
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 2: he's shooting a little bit of a flat ball right now,

642
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 2: so he's getting some unfortunate bounces and this dude is

643
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 2: getting clean opportunities in the mid range for floaters.

644
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 3: He has got to get that floater, polished up.

645
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 2: That needs to be a shot that he can hit

646
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 2: consistently because that's there for him. But once once again

647
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 2: with the floater, he's shooting it flat and so he's

648
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 2: not getting very good roles on it.

649
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 4: And I think we got also remember that he is

650
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 4: a still a very very despite him playing kind of

651
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 4: not a not young style of game. He plays a

652
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 4: very veteran game. For the most part, I think he

653
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 4: is still a very very twenty two. He's younger than

654
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 4: a and he had and because of that, he's gonna

655
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 4: have some really good like he had some a couple

656
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 4: two games, I want to say, in the Houston series

657
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 4: where he was cashing all of his mid range pull ups,

658
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 4: he's hitting those awkward step throughs, he's getting people up

659
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 4: in the air. And then he had a couple of

660
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 4: games where he shot really poorly. And that's for a

661
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 4: guy who's no one is expecting to become a high high,

662
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 4: high level scorer like I just don't think that's really

663
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 4: in his range of outcomes, even though I think he's

664
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 4: a very good player. That's what's gonna happen to a

665
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,719
Speaker 4: guy who's in his what is the third year, like

666
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 4: it just sort of he's.

667
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 2: Got such good lift and his he's got a nice

668
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 2: compact release to where like I do think he could

669
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 2: be a very good catch and shoot player eventually me too.

670
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 3: It's there, It's there. It just it's and that's the thing,

671
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,479
Speaker 3: like this is with Pods.

672
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought up his age because I think

673
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 2: I think there's a he does just play like Vet

674
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 2: and he's been one of the guys that's consistently been

675
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 2: and Steve's like kind of inner circle of guys that

676
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 2: he trusts, and he's he gets so much more leeway

677
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 2: for poor shooting result than Moody does because he's just

678
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 2: such an impact in all these different areas. But like, ultimately,

679
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 2: like this is a development process and in the same way,

680
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 2: like I feel like Austin Reeves has to make substantial

681
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: improvements in terms of his strength, dealing with like bigger

682
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 2: physical players and holding up better defensively. With Pods, it's

683
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 2: becoming a more consistent offensive player.

684
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 3: We saw it.

685
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 2: I mean we watched that chunk of games there towards

686
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 2: the end of the season. There was like a multi

687
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 2: month stretch where Pods shot like forty two percent from

688
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 2: three and was getting buckets and having some really big games,

689
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 2: and so it's in there. But as we always talk about,

690
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 2: it's like the the hot stretches for younger players tend

691
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 2: to be shorter and the slumps tend to be longer.

692
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 2: And part of being a VET is like extending your

693
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 2: success and limiting your failure and failure, and it just

694
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 2: takes time. It just takes time to figure that stuff

695
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 2: out for sure.

696
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 4: Next question about Anthony Edwards. Do you think with Ant

697
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 4: was having a difficult time figuring out the defense in

698
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 4: the first half or did he have low focus or intensity?

699
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 4: I believe Ant has a focus issue sometimes when there's

700
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 4: no pressure. What do you feel like was going wrong

701
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 4: for Ant in the first half compared to the second

702
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 4: In general?

703
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 2: I felt like it was a combination of two things.

704
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 2: The ball pressure just kind of rushing him into like

705
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: kind of like attacks without a plan, so to speak.

706
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 2: And then the jump shot. Like the Ant's jump shot.

707
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 2: He's a very good jump shooter, but he can go

708
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 2: through kind of like extended stretches where it's like a

709
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 2: little flat and he's leaving it short and it just

710
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 2: is like a little bit off. And I think like

711
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 2: some of that is natural, like you shoot yourself out

712
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 2: of a slump and then suddenly the shots start to

713
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 2: go down, And that's very much what happened in that

714
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 2: second half. But my biggest thing with him moving forward

715
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 2: is just like having a little bit more of like

716
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 2: a controlled approach to his drives. It almost reminds me

717
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 2: of like watching the young Lebron and young Wade type athletes,

718
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 2: where like they kind of just only know one speed

719
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 2: going downhill, but then all of them when they got older,

720
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,720
Speaker 2: they became these guys that would put guys in jail

721
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 2: and do some more methodical work in the middle of

722
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 2: the floor. And that's really the big thing for me

723
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 2: with An and his growth is I think he just

724
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 2: has to become a guy. He's never going to be

725
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 2: able to process moving at that speed. He's too fast.

726
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 2: He's too fast for his own good. Like he's got

727
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 2: to find a way to like, oh, I see it, seem,

728
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 2: I'm going for it. But if I don't see it seem,

729
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 2: don't just go and then improvise because that's where he

730
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 2: ends up trying to knife through three bodies and he

731
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 2: smokes a layup. It's like if you see an opening

732
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 2: and you see congestion behind it, beat your man off

733
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 2: the dribble, get him stuck on your side or behind you,

734
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 2: and let the play develop, and they're going to be

735
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 2: easier opportunities that come from that. I think it's all

736
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: just part of his growth process.

737
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 4: I think that young Lebron and Wade comparison is so true.

738
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 4: And I was thinking about it just in comparison to

739
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 4: someone like Luca who has never been a superstar athletes.

740
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 4: So he's forced if he's gonna be, you know, a

741
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 4: high level player, which he is, obviously, to play that

742
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 4: stop and start, have the change and pays master all

743
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 4: of the sort of nuances of playing offense, where when

744
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 4: you're Anthony Edwards you haven't had to until right now.

745
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 4: Basically you've been able to just be a super athlete

746
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 4: and a great shooter. And that gets you pretty frickin' fass.

747
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 4: It does, and that and and he's also very young,

748
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 4: and so now he's reaching a point where he if

749
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 4: he wants to take the next step, he's gonna have

750
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 4: to do those things.

751
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 3: And I don't doubt he's going to. That's the that's

752
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 3: the fun thing with Anthony Edws.

753
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 2: We were literally talking about this last night, like he's

754
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 2: so far from where he's going to be. Like, this

755
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 2: kid's gonna get so much better. It's like he's what

756
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 2: twenty three played up. Yeah, he played like very much

757
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 2: like a ram his head into the brick wall type

758
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 2: of game tonight and still had thirty six. So like

759
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 2: there's a there's there's just a version of this kid's

760
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 2: career that could go to Like I, I do not

761
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 2: know how good it can be, but I do know

762
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 2: that he can be the best player in the league.

763
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 3: Will he get there?

764
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 2: I don't know, but like I, he legitimately has that potential.

765
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 2: He's that type of special athlete that dunk on lou

766
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 2: there's like a the dunky miss the one he missed

767
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 2: on Trace Jackson Davis, the two hand like cockback, like

768
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 2: like like.

769
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,240
Speaker 3: Dude, that was from Oh my god.

770
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 2: That like he we were talking about this last night

771
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 2: with respect to like Donovan Mitchell. There's like athletic and

772
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 2: then there's transcendently athletic, and it's just one of those

773
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 2: guys and that just means that any skill development is

774
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 2: going to leap him up another level. It's like, how

775
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,280
Speaker 2: did he produce at this playoff level in his playoff career.

776
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,280
Speaker 3: He's just been a steady.

777
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 2: Forty three point shooter in his playoff career like that,

778
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 2: because he gets such great lift in separation. Once he

779
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 2: adds the methodical processing and all that stuff and all

780
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 2: the in between game, it's just gonna the skuy's.

781
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 3: The limit for him, for sure. Let's say one more

782
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 3: question and then we'll go over to playback.

783
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 4: If the Wolves win Game four, do you think Steph

784
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 4: will push himself to come back maybe a little earlier

785
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:55,439
Speaker 4: than he should with their.

786
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 3: Season on the line. Obviously you can't come to his brain.

787
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 2: No, you know, if Steph, if the Wolf lose Game four,

788
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 2: I shut Steph down for the season, and that the

789
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 2: reasoning is pretty simple. Like the Warriors made it pretty

790
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 2: clear to Steph by all indications after they made the

791
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler trade that this was a two year window

792
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 2: that they were gonna try this year and that they

793
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 2: would try again next year. They have the assets at

794
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 2: their disposal to make a substantial move this summer to

795
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,919
Speaker 2: anchor them with even more talent. They can go get

796
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 2: a you know, potentially a guy like a Cam Johnson,

797
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 2: or they could go get like a or like a

798
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 2: Patrick Williams from Chicago something like that, Like they can

799
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 2: go get a good player that can be useful for

800
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 2: this team and and and and potentially have more firepower

801
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 2: for this setting. Next year, I think we'll even look

802
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 2: I think we'll even see them look for I think

803
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 2: Cam Johnson is just such an obvious fit because it

804
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 2: kind of checks two boxes. It's like the it's the

805
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 2: clear three that they desperately need in terms of just

806
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 2: like that rangy athlete that can guard the ball, but

807
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 2: also that provides a legitimate scoring pop instead of inconsistent

808
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 2: role player like maybe Pods is making a shot today

809
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. It's like Cam, Cam's gonna average twenty

810
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 2: points a game for you.

811
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 4: Cam's just a better version of Buddy Hoult.

812
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:07,959
Speaker 3: Kind of absolutely great.

813
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 2: That's a great point looking at how useful Buddy's been

814
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 2: in this offense, Like.

815
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 3: So he's been so good, Yeah, and like that, that

816
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 3: would be the.

817
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 2: Buddy Heal's trajectory from his early career to what he's

818
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 2: done for Golden State, where like last year, in addition

819
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 2: to him just being a guy that was a frustrating

820
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 2: player for his entire career, it was it two years

821
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 2: ago that he played for Philly or was it last year.

822
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 3: I think it was last year.

823
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, the the series where he steps in for Philly

824
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 2: and everyone's like, man, Buddy Heel, it's like useless in

825
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 2: the playoffs, Like what does he do?

826
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: Like?

827
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 2: And he's been like legitimately reliably good night tonight for

828
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 2: them for the last couple of weeks in a way

829
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 2: that's been really important. And so if they can take

830
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 2: Buddy Heel, which to your point is just literally a

831
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 2: lesser player than Cam Johnson in every single way and

832
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 2: turn him into like a core part of their five

833
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 2: best players in these lineups, then you can only imagine

834
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 2: what a guy like Cam could do. But the point is,

835
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 2: if you go down three to one, you're not winning

836
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 2: Game five that Minnesota without Steph, even if you did,

837
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 2: like he's got to turn around and play again and

838
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 2: again and again and go right into the next round.

839
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 2: Like your best case scenario is coming back from down

840
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,720
Speaker 2: three to one and winning in a Game seven before

841
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 2: you roll up either into the Denver Nuggets will beat

842
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 2: you up on the inside or the Oklahoma City Thunder

843
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 2: will beat you up on the outside. There's just like

844
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 2: no version of that that like Steph is gonna be

845
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 2: near the peak of his ability where he needs to

846
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 2: be to be good enough to win that that type

847
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 2: of stretch of games. And so at that point, you

848
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 2: cut your losses, You let Steph get a good summer rehab,

849
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 2: no chance of re injuring that hamstring. We've seen a

850
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 2: lot of examples in NBA history of like dudes hurting

851
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,280
Speaker 2: their hamstring and then not being the same, like Devin Booker,

852
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 2: like James Harden like, but a lot of that is

853
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 2: like them trying to come back and play and re

854
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 2: injuring it and re injuring it and re injuring it,

855
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 2: and so like there's a version of this where Steph

856
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 2: could get one hundred percent recovery and then you're just

857
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 2: a better basketball team next year. I do think, And

858
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 2: let me ask you this, Jackson, before we move over

859
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 2: to playback. Do you think the Warriors have done enough

860
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 2: to this point. Let's say they lose Game four and

861
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 2: they lose Game five, do you think the Warriors have

862
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:10,760
Speaker 2: done enough at this to this point to justify making

863
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 2: a really aggressive trade this summer and going for it

864
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 2: next year.

865
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 3: I do. I think so too. I do.

866
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 2: This defense is real, It's so real. Their defense is real.

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Speaker 2: Steph has proven that he can still reach that level

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Speaker 2: in this postseason. Jimmy Butler has as well every time

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Speaker 2: that they've needed him to do. So there's you know,

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Speaker 2: there's there's just there's still Like we talked about the

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Speaker 2: young players, Moody and Pajemski and Trace Jackson, Davis and

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Speaker 2: all those guys getting another year, Quintin post getting another year.

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Speaker 2: You know, you make another nice move on the margins,

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Speaker 2: you make a bigger trade. This is absolutely a team

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Speaker 2: that has some legitimate chance next year, and so everything

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Speaker 2: has to be a calculated risk. I wouldn't bring Steph

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Speaker 2: back under any circumstances unless it's Game six, and like

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Speaker 2: it's unless the series gets pushed to game six. That's

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Speaker 2: the only scenario where I would consider it. All right, guys,

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Speaker 2: that's all we have for tonight. As far as YouTube,

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Speaker 2: hang out and talk hoops for a little bit longer.

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