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Speaker 1: barbershop quartet who only does Imagine Dragons songs?

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Speaker 2: Really, really, you know a lot of these barbershop quartets

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Speaker 2: nowadays just stick to the whole boring classics, and we.

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Speaker 3: Like to do songs by the Kings of pap Rock.

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Speaker 4: Here the Thunder.

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Speaker 2: The first time I heard Imagine Dragons, I was thinking

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Speaker 2: It would sound a lot better if there were no instruments.

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Speaker 4: I think my favorite song is Demons, but I'm biased

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Speaker 4: because that's when I have my soul. It's where my

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Speaker 4: demons hide.

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Speaker 1: It's where my demons hide. Good morning, Sweld and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the No Dames podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Monday,

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Speaker 1: May twentieth, twenty twenty four. I'm jay E Skeets here

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Speaker 1: in the Classic Factory and alongside me, as always Task.

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Speaker 1: Lots to break down. The final four is set. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you right off the jump, We're gonna do our

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Speaker 1: Conference finals previews on tomorrow's podcast, So check that out

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Speaker 1: tomorrow on Tuesday. But let's recap these game sevens on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to the Mavericks going to the conference finals

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Speaker 1: beaten the Thunder on Saturday night. But we got to

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Speaker 1: start with the Wolves, yes, overcoming a twenty point deficit

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Speaker 1: think about it, this series, it was over like four

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Speaker 4: What do you think? Yeah, many wouldn't let themselves die.

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Speaker 4: That was an impressive third quarter, second half, especially considering

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Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards was six of twenty four in this game.

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Speaker 4: That's bad. It's just this entire team and how they

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Speaker 4: six minutes into this game, he had a huge block

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Speaker 4: of Aaron Gordon. That guy is always over. The guy

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Speaker 4: because this does change his legacy with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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Speaker 4: This was a big, big performance from him, obviously, twenty

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Speaker 4: three points and twelve rebounds and fighting Jokic being a

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Speaker 3: You're right about Test, Tass, You're right about Cat. He's

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Speaker 1: Was this the greatest victory in Wolve's history.

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Speaker 1: You consider it's game seven and they're on the road

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Speaker 1: it was just like suffocating defensively. It's sort of cool

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Speaker 1: long and that's how they did it. And big part

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Speaker 1: was putting ant on Jamal Murray. I mean, he was

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Speaker 1: hitting those wild only like Jamal Murray like shots where

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Speaker 1: he's rising up high and just hitting tough, difficult jumpers,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, they put ant on them. And

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Speaker 1: this team, and yeah, it probably is their greatest victory

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Speaker 1: in Wolfe's history. It's just crazy to say, because there

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the fact that they beat the defending champs in

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Speaker 4: conference finals. That was a little different. Yeah, this is unexpected,

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Speaker 4: have got it back, he didn't. Rudy missed and then possession,

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Speaker 4: Rudy got an offensive rebound and Anthony Edwards was there.

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Speaker 4: because Anthony Edwards said, I shut down Jamal Murray?

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Speaker 4: there's no doubt. And J McDaniel's was on him all lot.

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Speaker 1: McDaniel's twenty three points, Rudy Gobert obviously hitting some crazy

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Speaker 1: That's what finched that. After the game, the Nuggets tongues

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they needed a bonus, just somebody to help out

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Speaker 4: Jamal and Nicolo Kitchen. It seemed like last year obviously,

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Speaker 4: highlighting Justin Holliday's best moment in this game was a

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Speaker 1: It feels like there wasn't too many hard feelings after

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Speaker 1: And this guy, you know, and I do believe him.

430
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Speaker 1: He's like tells us every time like, oh yeah, I

431
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Speaker 1: could just you know, I could take a bowling forty

432
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Speaker 1: eight hours be the best bowler in the world type

433
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Speaker 1: of thing. Like this guy truly believes this stuff. So

434
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Speaker 1: I just thought that was cool that he had an impact,

435
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Speaker 1: obviously in a game where he didn't shoot all that

436
00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,160
Speaker 1: well and he's a score first and foremal that's.

437
00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,680
Speaker 3: What you gotta do. Kobe Bryant in his game seven

438
00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,719
Speaker 3: six for twenty four also had fifteen rebounds right one

439
00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,200
Speaker 3: finals MVP. People were very excited when he won that finals,

440
00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,600
Speaker 3: if I'm remembering correctly, But yeah, it was great. By Aunt.

441
00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,960
Speaker 3: The guy's just a great leader for a gut such

442
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Speaker 3: a young player. Yeah, you know, in a play as

443
00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,560
Speaker 3: six for twenty four game, but still have an impact.

444
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Speaker 1: It's huge.

445
00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,359
Speaker 3: And then postgame he's like Carl Anthony Towns, he's the

446
00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,480
Speaker 3: best big in the league. Jade McDaniels, you're getting the

447
00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,600
Speaker 3: game ball, big Rude. I love seeing you hit fadeaway jumpers.

448
00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,399
Speaker 3: Like he hypes up his guys so much. They already

449
00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,480
Speaker 3: believe in him, but now he's like, I believe in you,

450
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Speaker 3: so they believe even more.

451
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

452
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a belief flywheel just keeps going and going.

453
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Speaker 4: And going absolutely, absolutely, And he's learned to be this guy.

454
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Speaker 4: He wasn't that guy before. If there was any problems

455
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Speaker 4: between him and a teammate. He didn't really get along

456
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Speaker 4: with Rudy all that well. But it'll shout out big Rue.

457
00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,879
Speaker 4: As he said after the game, he's learned to be

458
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Speaker 4: that guy. And it was clear he.

459
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Speaker 1: Learned pretty damn quickly. Yeah, in the NBA in twenty

460
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,560
Speaker 1: two being the lead dog, and that's what happened this year.

461
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Speaker 1: It was like, clearly it's your team right where it

462
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Speaker 1: was maybe a little bit of more like, yeah, he's

463
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Speaker 1: really young. Is it really his team? Uh No, I

464
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Speaker 1: mean he put that to bed, this guy. Okay, it's

465
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Speaker 1: your team, we follow you now.

466
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Speaker 4: Yeah. So no, he has learned in this couple of

467
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Speaker 4: years now, since Rudy's been there, since Towns has now

468
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Speaker 4: moved into the second seed in terms of their packing order. Yeah,

469
00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,240
Speaker 4: he's learned here. And it's her four for him. Right.

470
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Speaker 4: It feels like he was he just started yesterday, but

471
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Speaker 4: he has. He's grown real, real quick. And it's like

472
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Speaker 4: I pointed out about Jane McDonald's he is Jane McDaniel's

473
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Speaker 4: biggest cheerleader, and he keeps on calling him the best

474
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Speaker 4: player in this game, the key player in this game.

475
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Speaker 1: And after Game six, I think I said it on

476
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Speaker 1: the show. He's like he said in his postgame press conference,

477
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Speaker 1: when he plays, well, we can't lose. Yeah, and here's

478
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Speaker 1: another great game.

479
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Speaker 4: It's Aaron Gordon like for the Dencker Nuggets when they

480
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Speaker 4: come through, no doubt, yep.

481
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Speaker 1: Anything else on entertaining Game seven there in Denver.

482
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Speaker 3: Tailor two halves, I don't know if I said that

483
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Speaker 3: it was one. It really was like like all my notes.

484
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Speaker 3: Soccery Blu said.

485
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Speaker 4: It well, it was.

486
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Speaker 1: It was nice that the one thing you didn't say

487
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Speaker 1: what you usually do is you know, twenty point leads

488
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Speaker 1: are fake.

489
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Speaker 3: First athletes, first athletes about caught. Thank you for proving

490
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Speaker 3: my points.

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Speaker 4: That was the third quarter lead. And if there's any

492
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Speaker 4: fitting basket to start the run with, it was Carl

493
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Speaker 4: to Rudy Gobert for a dunk though the big man,

494
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Speaker 4: big man that they've set up here to be able

495
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Speaker 4: to beat the Nuggets. That's fitting. I guess if you

496
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Speaker 4: want to start the role the tape of how it started,

497
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Speaker 4: how that twenty deficit became well, what was it, I

498
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Speaker 4: mean sixty two thirty run to end this.

499
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Speaker 1: Game or something like that. It was a one point

500
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Speaker 1: game as they got into the fourth, I mean they

501
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Speaker 1: basically eliminated the entire lead.

502
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they won the third quarter by fourteen.

503
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Speaker 1: Yeah, incredible win.

504
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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 1: We will preview the Minnesota Timberwolves versus the Dallas Mavericks

506
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Speaker 1: and the conference finals on tomorrow's show, but let's keep

507
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Speaker 1: recapping the games. Let's go to the first game on Sunday,

508
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Speaker 1: Pacers beating the Knicks one thirty one oh nine in

509
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Speaker 1: Game seven. They're going to the Eastern Conference Finals. The

510
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Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers surprise team. So yeah, we had history being

511
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Speaker 1: made in the Wolves game. You know, the largest comeback

512
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Speaker 1: from halftime in a Game seven in history. Well, this one,

513
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Speaker 1: we had the Pacers doing their own record performance. Indiana

514
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,399
Speaker 1: shot seventy six point three percent from the field in

515
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Speaker 1: the first half and sixty seven point one percent overall

516
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Speaker 1: in that big win. Both marks the highest ever in

517
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Speaker 1: an NBA playoff game, not Game seven, playoff game period.

518
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: They could not miss for stretches of this game. We

519
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Speaker 1: basically for the entirety of this game. But tik, let's

520
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Speaker 1: start with you. How shocked were you by this?

521
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is honestly shocking to come out like

522
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Speaker 3: That's because when you're thinking about a Game seven going in,

523
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 3: you're like, this is gonna be ugly, there's gonna be nerves,

524
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,679
Speaker 3: nobody's gonna be able to make a shot. And then

525
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 3: Indiana scored thirty nine points on twenty one shots in

526
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Speaker 3: the first quarter, went seven for nine from three. Tyre's

527
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Speaker 3: Halliburton had fourteen points. Pacers got up big, so of

528
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 3: course he was talking trash to everybody around. It was

529
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Speaker 3: awesome for the Pacers to come in and blow out

530
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Speaker 3: the Knicks. Here. The Knicks lost both games that were

531
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Speaker 3: at three thirty. They don't want to play in the afternoon. Sorry, sorry,

532
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 3: you're such a big name team that we got to

533
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Speaker 3: get you in in the afternoon. It's not good for

534
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Speaker 3: the next especially in this series when they were running

535
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Speaker 3: out of players, eventually ran out of Jalen Brunson even

536
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Speaker 3: in this one, which is a really tough for them

537
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Speaker 3: breaking his hand, I suppose. But yeah, I thought this

538
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 3: was just awesome from the Pacers. Siakam came out determined

539
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Speaker 3: to at least like get the Pacers into the game.

540
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Speaker 3: I thought, you know, he was pretty big in the

541
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Speaker 3: first quarter, and then Halliburton was on fire looking for

542
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Speaker 3: his offense. The shooting was contagious and it turned into

543
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Speaker 3: a blowout. You don't see a lot of game sevens

544
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Speaker 3: like this where the road team comes in and just

545
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 3: shoots the light It lights out. So very impressive from

546
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Speaker 3: the Pacers because just like the Timberwolves, they were buried

547
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Speaker 3: once upon a time, YEP, came back with a blowout

548
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Speaker 3: and another blot.

549
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I know people will start to point at

550
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Speaker 4: the Jalen Brunton injury as to why this Pacers team

551
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 4: won there's no chance that that was it. They're up

552
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 4: fifteen at half, and when Jalen Brunson left late in

553
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 4: the third quarter, it was basically fifteen as well. He

554
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 4: was out when he was fourteen, when it was fourteen,

555
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 4: and then they had a free throw as he left,

556
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Speaker 4: so it was fifteen. Basically, this Pacers team just wouldn't stop.

557
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Speaker 4: You mentioned Siakam hitting his first five shots. Of course,

558
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 4: that was huge just to have these guys who have

559
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 4: been there, done that, had the experience, and there's so

560
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 4: many moments to look at in this game as to

561
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Speaker 4: how they kept going because you just don't see Game seven's,

562
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Speaker 4: like you said, blowouts from our road team said, we're

563
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 4: talking about two games here where the road team beat

564
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Speaker 4: the home team in game seven that should have everything

565
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Speaker 4: going with them, but they just wouldn't stop. Those are

566
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Speaker 4: real records that you just said. Sixty seven percent, that's crazy. Yeah,

567
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Speaker 4: for an entire game. Okay, maybe after the half we

568
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 4: all thought, okay, maybe the Pacers slowed down. Maybe because

569
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Speaker 4: we've watched a lot of basketball games and there hasn't

570
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 4: been one that hits two out of every three shots

571
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Speaker 4: for an entire game. I mean, that is that's freaking

572
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 4: hard to do. But Siakam was awesome, like Nedbard chipping

573
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Speaker 4: in Nei Smith had eleven point third quarter. What to

574
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 4: give that was part of his nineteen miles turner. I

575
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Speaker 4: think when the Knicks got it to single digits in

576
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Speaker 4: the third quarter to keep it slight.

577
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Speaker 3: Point.

578
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he had. He had a big three. Uh,

579
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Speaker 4: that was monstrous, but Tyres Halburton, Yeah, he What was

580
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 4: interesting was that he didn't start this game hot by

581
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Speaker 4: any means. He did not score until that fan got

582
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Speaker 4: in his face. Four minutes left in the first quarter.

583
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Speaker 4: He hits a three in front of a fan. He

584
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Speaker 4: turns around, he says something directly to him. Next possession,

585
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 4: he scores points again. Next possession, scores, next qession, scores

586
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 4: four straight possessions, eleven straight points. The next day time out.

587
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Speaker 4: That gave a great app They should have, but Haliburton said,

588
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Speaker 4: absolutely not. Keep him there. He literally, to quote Haliburton,

589
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 4: he went up to the fan and said, you talk

590
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 4: that shit because it was good. It was good. Shit

591
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 4: for it. He came back in, he had another three,

592
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 4: and from across the floor he pointed to him again.

593
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 4: That's fourteen points at the end of the first quarter,

594
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 4: fourteen points within four minutes. Those were his first fourteen

595
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Speaker 4: points that were of his twenty six points total in

596
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Speaker 4: this game. Though he loved it, He loved that fan.

597
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 4: Whoever that fan was, kudos to you from the nan Pascers,

598
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,959
Speaker 4: but from the New York Knicks not so good.

599
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Speaker 1: Has Fred Katz interviewed this fan yet? Do we know

600
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Speaker 1: more details on the fan that got Haliburton going twenty

601
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Speaker 1: six points ten to seventeen, shooting six to twelve from

602
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Speaker 1: deep and then Haliburton leaving the garden with the hoodie

603
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 1: was an image of Reggie Miller with his hands around

604
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Speaker 1: his neck, you know, taunting Spike Lee in the playoffs

605
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: some thirty years ago. He was rocking that on the

606
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Speaker 1: podium after feeling pretty good.

607
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 4: He said he just wanted a comfy sweater for the airplane.

608
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 3: Yeh, Knicks fans work like to mention he didn't wear

609
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Speaker 3: it in the game. I mean, Bobby Port has called

610
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 3: him a front runner. They've heard that a lot. Yeah,

611
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 3: ever since. I don't think it's totally.

612
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: False either true true, you mean you want to see

613
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: it on him coming in, Yes, but then again, he

614
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: also kicked their ass and was really good in this

615
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: like you said, with all those threes early it was

616
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: a game though in that third quarter there, you know,

617
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Speaker 1: they came out the Knicks. They were down Bay at half.

618
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Speaker 1: They scored the first seven points out of the break.

619
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Speaker 1: They had a twelve three run. Again it was like

620
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Speaker 1: six or seven points, and then the Knicks committed I

621
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: think three straight turnovers that were just back breaking, and

622
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Speaker 1: that pushed the lead back to eighty four seventy for Indiana.

623
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Speaker 1: And then yeah, Jalen Brunson breaks his hand. He's gone.

624
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Speaker 3: Oh.

625
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: Jianna Noby played in this game. Hit two shots within

626
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 1: the first couple of minutes, but like could barely move.

627
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 3: He didn't look good at all.

628
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: No, my god, and so they pull him out. We

629
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: didn't see him again after what four or five minutes

630
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: of action. And Josh Hart obviously has the injury from

631
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Speaker 1: game six. Now he gives it a go. He plays

632
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: thirty seven minutes, but he missed. I did he hit

633
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: a jumper? I don't remember him hitting like a shot

634
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: from sort of outside the paint. Maybe that was a

635
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: part of the the ab injury there. So they're like

636
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 1: they started just frunning out of guys, which was sort

637
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,120
Speaker 1: of how this entire postseason, even their season to some extent, went.

638
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't want to discredit the Pacers here.

639
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: They beat a hobble team, no doubt, and maybe it's

640
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 1: a different outcome if all these guys or even some

641
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: of these guys are playing for the Knicks. But man,

642
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: that that I keep going back to the Andrew nemhard

643
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 1: shot from Game three. That's the series, So prayer the

644
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: thirty one foot bomb. Haliburton gives him the grenade at

645
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 1: the end of the shot log, he like fumbles the

646
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 1: damn thing and then knocks it in. He doesn't hit

647
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: that there, maybe lose or down three to zero and

648
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: it's around.

649
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 3: And Near was having a terrible game. Yeah, he didn't

650
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 3: Eve want to shoot the three, but it was like

651
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 3: clock was running down. Somebody has to shoot it, and

652
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 3: it went in. Snaved off elimination basically and ended up

653
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 3: winning it in the end. I saw Reggie Miller was

654
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 3: a taunting Josh Hart on Instagram afterwards, saying the series

655
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 3: completely turned after you trash talk me. Yeah, were up

656
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 3: two zero.

657
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: Regie's getting in on it. He was Reggie. Reggie was

658
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: good in this series, I guess. But TJ McConnell was also.

659
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: He was amazing in this one. Again, he was a

660
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: part of that turnover sequence there right where he got

661
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: the steal and shucked it over his head to a

662
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: Nie Smith there for that end one twelve points, some

663
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: assists for twenty three minutes. This guy was not afraid

664
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: of playing in medicines hard.

665
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of miraculous things. The fact that

666
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 4: Reggie wasn't even on the call in this game, but

667
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 4: he's still calling people trash. He had to do the

668
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 4: night game, he had to do the Denver Minnesota game.

669
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 4: But I like how we're highlighting the Pacers because they're

670
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 4: they're literally unstoppable. The fact that each game was won

671
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 4: by the home team in this series until this game,

672
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 4: until the Pacers stole it from them, and TJ McConnell,

673
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 4: it is odd because you know it's common. You know,

674
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 4: he is going to apply pressure when you're inbounding the

675
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 4: ball underneath your hoop at some point in the game.

676
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 4: But he did it again. He stole it again, and

677
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 4: even later than that, I thought, there, you know, there

678
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 4: could be here a chance for the next to get going.

679
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 4: The Knicks had the ball, they had a fast break going,

680
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 4: but TJ swiped Alec Burks again and was able to

681
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 4: turn that into a score the other way. T J

682
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 4: McConnell was really big in the series. Really, there's so

683
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 4: many guys. There's so many guys who performed for the Pacers.

684
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,959
Speaker 4: And that was the story during the regular season. All

685
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 4: this team is deep, Oh they can do it, and

686
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 4: then we all questioned can they play hard enough on defense?

687
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 4: Can they do that? They hadn't at times, and apparently

688
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 4: after the n season tournament they figured it out. They

689
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 4: figured out how to be a different team, and they were.

690
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 4: They really were. They were a playoff team. They're going

691
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 4: to the conference finals.

692
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Speaker 1: There was a lot of Alc Berks in this one.

693
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: He played great. I mean even looked like maybe this

694
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: would be a game where he could sort of get

695
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: the team back into it. But in the fourth quarter

696
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: of a game seven, we had Alec Burks and Precious

697
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: a Chew a pick and roll action from the Knicks.

698
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: This is how depleted this roster was. I mean, that

699
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: was the action that they were running.

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00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 4: Alcburg's pretty good, man. They played twenty six points off

701
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 4: the bench.

702
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: He played great, but I mean, you don't you don't

703
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: want that to have to be happening.

704
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 3: Really, sixty five points combined from Burke's and de Vincenzo.

705
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: Well, he was trying to Smith, Holy, yeah, that guy

706
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: was just gunning from three? Did he had nine? Three

707
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: point nine?

708
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 3: Fifteen?

709
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 4: Very good?

710
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: But yeah, just they couldn't they couldn't get stops. Only

711
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: four teams have ever scored one hundred and thirty points

712
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: in a game seven prior to Sunday, and all of

713
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: them needed at least thirty eight free throw attempts, like

714
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: you had to go to a line a lot, right

715
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: to get those numbers. The Pacers needed sixteen free throw

716
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: attempts like they just couldn't miss shots. And you're right,

717
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: it was contagious after Halliburton started knocking in threes? Did

718
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: nemhard miss? I don't think so. Obviously Siakam started hot

719
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: turn it at his part, McConnell, Ni Smith, everybody that

720
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: contributed for that team. And so they're going on here

721
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: to the conference finals to take on the Celtics playing

722
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: with house money. Yes me Smith, revenge series well, and

723
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: we'll see again. We'll preview that on tomorrow's show. But

724
00:31:55,800 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: anything else from this game, uh, nope, Okay.

725
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 3: Nicks minus sixty three in two Sunday afternoon games. That's tough.

726
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: That's tough. That's tough. Yeah, we we we mentioned that.

727
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: Remember we were looking at the schedule, like, oh, it

728
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: depends what happens there. They could have another afternoon game there.

729
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: They probably don't want. That didn't go well last time.

730
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: Sure enough, it didn't didn't again, that's I mean, especially

731
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: when you're losing guys left and right.

732
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 4: Here.

733
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Speaker 1: The og man like, kudos to him forgiving it ago

734
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: and honestly, thankfully they took him out like he was like, yeah,

735
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: I realy move he's playing. First contract scored, the second

736
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: one was like, well the hell did he score that?

737
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: From the corner. Couldn't get like any elevation or any separation,

738
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: couldn't move.

739
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 3: But even Tims is like this guy can't play. Yeah, yeah,

740
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 3: that's how bad he was moving. Halliburton, is he the

741
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 3: biggest Nicks villain since Reggie Miller retired?

742
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: Yes, love you.

743
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 3: Trey Young and Halliburton are tier one. Yeah, I believe

744
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 3: for Nicks villains since two thousand and five. After that,

745
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 3: probably Jim Dolan and Isaiah Thomas and Phil Jackson are

746
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 3: slow in as the next tier. Then I'm going with

747
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two Julius Randall, a Nick himself who was

748
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 3: giving thumbs downs to the crowd. Yeap, he bounced back.

749
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 3: He had some solid years for the next and then

750
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 3: you know, Lebron has to be in the mix, just

751
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 3: because I feel like he's done some good stuff in

752
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden since I guess you would probably throw

753
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 3: some stars in there as well. Steph Curry had some

754
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 3: big games yeah in MSG as well, But uh yeah,

755
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 3: Nick's villain is a cool player to be.

756
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody loves the.

757
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 3: Knicks villain, especially the Knicks fans.

758
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, now Knicks fans love Nicks villains too, but they

759
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: do they still chan't try young. I mean, it's like ridiculous.

760
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 4: It's like a villain overcoming you do you want to

761
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 4: cheer him on? Well, if he looks cool, I think

762
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 4: that's the bonus points of a guy who went scores

763
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 4: in a lot in MSG usually has the mask on.

764
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,479
Speaker 4: There's been a couple guys, not a lot of them,

765
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 4: but the villain with the black mask, the plastic mask.

766
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 4: I thought the Knicks had so much going for them

767
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 4: in that this felt like the most of their alumni,

768
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 4: the most of their former players in these playoffs. Just

769
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 4: watching everybody gets you. Amari Stodemeyer's in the house, obviously,

770
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 4: John Starks and Vernon kg They've all been there. But

771
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 4: it just felt like, okay, okay o g an Andobi

772
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 4: hits his first two shots. This is like Willis Reid.

773
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 4: This is like exactly like him. But uh yeah, where

774
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 4: the team stops. Yeah.

775
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell is a fun villain too. You know, he

776
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: played really well in this series. It's it's Haliburton over him,

777
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: there's no doubt. But let's give him a little love there. Oh,

778
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: minor little villain role.

779
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 3: Stream team throwing. Kristaps porzingis in the mix. Oh well,

780
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 3: that was like those were like the biggest games for

781
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 3: the Knicks. Nicks versus Dallas against I guess that was

782
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 3: like their super Bowl for a couple of years.

783
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 1: That's true.

784
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 3: That's good.

785
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, okay, PACER's moving on again. We will

786
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: break down that series on tomorrow show when we do

787
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: both of the Conference Finals previews and predictions. But let's

788
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: talk about the thunder Mavericks Game six Saturday night. This

789
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: one ends with PJ. Washington at the free throw line.

790
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: HiT's the first two. I think they touched a lot

791
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: of rim and backboard if I remember correctly. They were

792
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: not switches by any means, but they dropped. He purposely

793
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: misses the last one because the thunder can't advance the

794
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: ball and they just had to throw up a prayer

795
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: at the end. But they beat them, one to seventeen,

796
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: one to sixteen, Dallas going to the Western Conference Finals.

797
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: Awesome fourth quarter. We had a lot of lead changes late.

798
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: We had a couple ties obviously in the final five minutes.

799
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: But what were your takeaways, Tea?

800
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 4: That was That was a bonker's fourth quarter. Just to

801
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 4: end this game. It was coming from everywhere. PJ. Washington

802
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 4: hit a three with four minutes left. That was his

803
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 4: first make, his first three make as well of this game.

804
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 4: And then Jalen Williams splash. Then Kyrie Irving's three pointer

805
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 4: that was a bounce and oh my five feet over

806
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,240
Speaker 4: top of the rim, and then Sga stepped back. Okay,

807
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 4: that's what he does. And then PJ Washington another three.

808
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 4: He made two shots in this game, and there are

809
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 4: two huge ones within the last four minutes. Then the

810
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 4: Derek Jones junior fade away. I mean it didn't stop.

811
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 4: It didn't stop. SJA step back three. Then he had

812
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 4: a tech free throw. That's still puzzling to me how

813
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 4: he had a tech free throws because there was a

814
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 4: foul before the inbound happened, so he went and did that.

815
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 4: And then Chad Holmgren threw down an alley up that

816
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 4: was a beautiful set up from SGA. So it's a

817
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 4: one point lead for Oka. See. And then it ended

818
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 4: with such a weird play where Luca was backing down

819
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,959
Speaker 4: his defender. No problem, he looked good because he's backing

820
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 4: down loud Dort. He's in the lane. Loud Dort kind

821
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 4: of maybe pulled the chair a tiny bit. But to

822
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 4: see Doncic turn Sga come in for a look like

823
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 4: a swipe, and Doncic losed the ball, but he still

824
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 4: maintained enough poise to dribble once after losing the ball,

825
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 4: dribble once and just chuck it in one motion to

826
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 4: PJ Washington for the free throws. Uh, and then put

827
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 4: to the corner where he gets fedah exactly where he

828
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,919
Speaker 4: got fouled, and they had to review it to see

829
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 4: if it was a foul, and it was a foul

830
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 4: and then Jalen Williams had a shot because we watched

831
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 4: him at the end of the first quarter he had

832
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 4: a monster of a bomb, so I thought, there's a

833
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 4: chance that he does this again just because it was such.

834
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 4: It was bananas. The end of that game was bananas

835
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 4: from everywhere.

836
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was the old to challenge or not to

837
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: challenge though, and that was a huge decision from from

838
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: Mark Dagnall and the thunderstaff there because it was like

839
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: Sga got ball on PJ. Washington in the corner, but

840
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: he got arm as well. But it was like, do

841
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: we use the challenge, maybe he gets overturned. My god,

842
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: we're up one, but hold on, we're using this, then

843
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: that means we are not advancing it because that timeout's gone.

844
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:34,800
Speaker 1: There's only going to be two and a half seconds

845
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 1: and we're not going to get like a really good

846
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: look at this. Damned if you do, Dan, if you

847
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: don't a little bit. But obviously did challenge. They kept

848
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: the call as it was because there was arm. He

849
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: got his arm there after touching the ball and yeah,

850
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,439
Speaker 1: hit the two out of three big big free throws

851
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: too from PJ. Washington still had to hit it fro Yes,

852
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, it was perfectly missed. I mean

853
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: it was damned if you do and damned if you don't,

854
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: because I mean, they got the call right and they

855
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: lost the yeah, the timeout. So it all comes down

856
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: to shake Gill just Alexander just got.

857
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 3: A little too loose. Yep, shouldn't have challenged that hard.

858
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:09,959
Speaker 3: You know, it's a pretty simple decision to say, now

859
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 3: he's opening the corner, you're making a play for it.

860
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 3: You almost make the play, but also make him make

861
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 3: the shot rather than giving him free throws.

862
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: I think that's basically what he said after the game.

863
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: He's like, Yep, I just shouldn't have failed him, yep.

864
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: And it was like a big part of it though,

865
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: probably is like the reason you're obviously trying to get

866
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: out there. He had he'd hit two massive ones PJ.

867
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: Washington and had been incredible in the first part of

868
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 1: this whole series. Then sort of went ice cold. But yeah,

869
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: oh my god, what a game, though. What else you

870
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: got from this?

871
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 3: I mean, beauty fourth quarter until the last minute.

872
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 4: I hate it.

873
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 3: I hate it when we have eleven minutes of beautiful

874
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 3: fourth quarter basketball and then we get it away from

875
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 3: the playfoul a moving screen in the review it ruins everything, Yeah,

876
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 3: it really does. But it was still cool to see

877
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 3: Derek Lively I thought was awesome throughout this entire series,

878
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 3: especially in this one. Twelve points, fifteen boards, three assists,

879
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 3: a steal and a block played the last twelve minutes

880
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 3: of the fourth quarter eight points, six rebounds. You see

881
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 3: him afterwards like looking to the heavens. That was a

882
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 3: pretty special moment, I thought. The physicality he brought in

883
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 3: this series, the interior defense. Him and Chet both rookie centers.

884
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 3: Lively I'll playing Chet, I thought in this series.

885
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 4: Though.

886
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 3: Chet did have a pretty solid game in this one,

887
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 3: scoring twenty one points. We finally saw a second half

888
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving explosion eighteen points and three assists in the

889
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 3: second half for him, clearly looking for his offense. The

890
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 3: MAVs just got good performances out of everybody they needed

891
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 3: good performances from. Luca was good, Kyrie was good. Another

892
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 3: role guys came through when it mattered.

893
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: Derek Jones Junior once again really really good for them.

894
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: That key sequence of this game, you have four to

895
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: twenty three remaining, Dallas down four Kyrie misses a jumper

896
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,479
Speaker 1: Derek Lively second rebounds, gets fouled, he makes the first,

897
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: he misses the second, Washington grabs the rebound, and then

898
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 1: it hits a results in a three, and right there,

899
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,720
Speaker 1: you know, that four point lead for OKC is gone.

900
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: That was absolutely huge. Kyrie. Now fourteen to zero in

901
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: close out games and we'll play in the conference finals

902
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: for the first time since twenty seventeen with Cleveland and

903
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: closeout games. It's just amazing, queenstat.

904
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, because that's what they're saying when they opened the broadcast.

905
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 4: This guy has overcome the most games that he could

906
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 4: get eliminated on, or excuse me that he could.

907
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: He put a team away fourteen, the closer man, fourteen.

908
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 4: I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it.

909
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: And they're luck man. The thunder rup big in this

910
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: game too, looked like they were setting themselves up for

911
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: a game seven. Yeah, Dallas stuck with it.

912
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 4: Yeah. The second quarter kind of hurt. Okay. See, they

913
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 4: had a couple of miss layups or Isaiah Joe and

914
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 4: Jaylen Williams back to back, and they went a long

915
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 4: running that second quarter without scores. But then they came

916
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 4: back and they kept fighting, and then they got to

917
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter when Derek Lively really was huge. And

918
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 4: this guy is twenty years old, and this is why

919
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 4: you tank. It worked out for them, That's why they

920
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 4: tanked to get him last year. They got him at

921
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 4: twenty years old as a rook playing every single fourth

922
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 4: quarter minute. Yeah, the eight point six sports three fouls

923
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 4: to throw it, throw some throw his body around was key,

924
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 4: and that they have two guys that they can obviously

925
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 4: put in there as a guy coming off the bench. Yeah,

926
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 4: he was awesome.

927
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 3: He's got to tip your cap to Nico Harrison. He's

928
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 3: really done a good job in the past. Basically year

929
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 3: they brought in Kyrie. Anybody could have got Kyrie. Last year.

930
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 3: Wasn't hard to get him. They were the team that

931
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 3: went for PJ. Washington and Daniel Gafford actually got help

932
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 3: from the Thunder to make those deals happen. Kind of

933
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 3: came back and bit them. Derek Lively, like you mentioned,

934
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 3: they tanked to get him, awesome. He was better in

935
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 3: the playoffs than he was during the regular season. He

936
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 3: was good in the regular season. He'll make an All

937
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 3: Rookie team today. And then Derek Jones Junior they found

938
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 3: him as a veteran minimum. The guy is starting playoff games,

939
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 3: score and twenty in multiple games, playing the best defense

940
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 3: on the perimeter of anybody in the Mavericks. Those are

941
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,720
Speaker 3: four huge moves that totally worked out for the Mavericks

942
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 3: and it's why they are back in the Conference finals

943
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 3: for the second time in three years. The first one

944
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 3: felt fluky. This one doesn't feel ass fluky.

945
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 4: Now, Yeah, and that's why they're all saying this team

946
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 4: is better. This team is better. It feels like more

947
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 4: of a cohesive team, everybody together, fighting and scrapping. Like

948
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 4: you just mentioned Derek Jones Jr. On a minimum and

949
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 4: no one would really expect him to be fading away

950
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 4: hitting shots from the mid range as time goes down.

951
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 4: But incredible performances from a lot of their guys to

952
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 4: support the big two and just get it done.

953
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty cool that two of the teams

954
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: in the Conference finals were really aggressive at the trade

955
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: deadline and made big moves that obviously helped them get there.

956
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: You said Dallas's moves that they just did the gafferd

957
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: and PJ. Washington, and then the Siakam trade was massive

958
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: for the Pacers. And how he played obviously down the

959
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: stretch for them and into the postseasons. Well, it's cool.

960
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 1: That's got them, help them get them to the final four.

961
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: Here was this a I guess, how would you grade

962
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: OKC season? Was this a disappointing season? Or is that

963
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: silly to even suggest that? I guess the better question

964
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: is how would you grade it? Overall?

965
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 3: I would give them an A.

966
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay?

967
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 3: They finished first in the Western Conference, a very competitive

968
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 3: Western Conference, fifty seven wins. They won a playoff series.

969
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 3: They hadn't been to the playoffs with this version of

970
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,439
Speaker 3: the team. It came down to a foul in Game six,

971
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 3: you know, to easily force the Game seven. I think

972
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 3: this is great for the Thunder, especially considering coming into

973
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 3: the season they were like, we got to finish our breakfast,

974
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 3: we got to make the playoffs, and see what kind

975
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 3: of shortcomings we have, Right, everybody pinned what their shortcomings

976
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 3: were going to be. Those were exactly the shortcomings. So

977
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,399
Speaker 3: now you can go forward trying to figure out what's

978
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 3: going to be best for you. And I mean like

979
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 3: everybody's like, they gotta do this move, they gotta do

980
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 3: this move, they gotta do this move. Certain things they

981
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 3: do need. They need more shooting, they need more size.

982
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,240
Speaker 3: But also this is such a young team. Their players

983
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 3: are going to get better. Check Holmgren is going to

984
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 3: get a muscle on his body at some point, He's

985
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,720
Speaker 3: going to get a faster release from three. Jalen Williams

986
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 3: is going to become a better catch and shoot three

987
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 3: point shooter. So internal development is going to be just

988
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 3: as big for the Thunder as is bringing in whoever

989
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 3: with all these picks they got.

990
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, they can just let Gordon Hayward go. I mean,

991
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 4: that's a big contract where they are saving a lot

992
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 4: of money. And uh, just some notes from this game.

993
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 4: I saw Gordon Hayward's smile. Don't usually see him small,

994
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 4: but walking off the court after the first half, big smile.

995
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 4: Tony Brothers referee, big smile, especially after Mark Dagnall went

996
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 4: up to him after a foul early on. He said,

997
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 4: that's bullshit, and Tony Brothers just smiled. That's cool. You

998
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 4: get to swear in the postseason. That's what I'm starting

999
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 4: to discover here because Halliburton swear Mark Dagnell. I don't

1000
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 4: think Diagnell ever swears, but he did to Tony Brothers.

1001
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 4: He couldn't Tony Bros. Couldn't stop smiling in this game.

1002
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 4: He just loved it. It was a fun environment, obviously,

1003
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 4: but yes it is a win for Okay, see great

1004
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 4: great start to this game that way that it looked

1005
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 4: like Daniel Gafford won the opening tip and Shaye jumped

1006
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 4: in way and just tipped it to his guy Jalen

1007
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 4: Williams for a dunk to start this game. It was

1008
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 4: a fun game. A little too much video reviewing. You're

1009
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 4: right about that trick. That was a little unfortunate. But

1010
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 4: Dagnel had to do that. I guess I guess he didn't.

1011
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: He didn't have to.

1012
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 4: He didn't tell.

1013
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: It's a tough call, man. I mean you're obviously turning

1014
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: to your star player, Well did you foulow him? Did

1015
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: you get all the ball? They're trying look at it,

1016
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: they're trying to see their replay reviews and all their

1017
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,240
Speaker 1: camera angles, and you got to make a quick decision.

1018
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: We all get that, but you know, you still like

1019
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:11,240
Speaker 1: it was. It wasn't like zero point five seconds where okay,

1020
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: you advance the ball. It's like, okay, you're still throwing

1021
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: up a prayer. It's something. It's something where there's a

1022
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: little you know, a set, a play, a pick something

1023
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: to maybe unlock a guy for what Then even if

1024
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: he hits all three, you know, you still have chance

1025
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: to tie this thing or even win this thing on

1026
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: a three. But it's it's I don't know, that's a

1027
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 1: tough one.

1028
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 4: I get it.

1029
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 3: I got it.

1030
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a part of like you're icing him a

1031
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 1: little bit as well. You know, PJ. Washington had a

1032
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: step there after waiting for the lengthy review. I don't

1033
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: know if that was a part of the equation.

1034
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 4: Probably not.

1035
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 1: But he knocked him in again. Man, it hit a lot.

1036
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: Those things hit a whole lot before they dropped in.

1037
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 1: But all that matters is they go in, yeah.

1038
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 4: Because if they go the other way. Shay had an

1039
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:52,919
Speaker 4: effective game from three point lane. He most his most

1040
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 4: three point shots this postseason, hitting four threes in this one,

1041
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 4: because that's not the type of thing he does a lot.

1042
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 4: But he was hang on in this one. Hit won

1043
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 4: late in this game, so you could look at it

1044
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 4: and say, we're giving it to that dude, right, and

1045
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 4: then he's going to shoot no matter what. It would

1046
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 4: probably have it have been a deep shot. So he

1047
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 4: was just awesome at the end, though, I mean that

1048
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 4: kind of gets overshadowed that he was damn good. He's

1049
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 4: fourteen of twenty five in this game for thirty six points.

1050
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: And that goes back to what you were saying, TK,

1051
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: You're gonna feel pretty good. I would think if you're

1052
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: a thunderfan of like, you just saw Shay as the

1053
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 1: lead guy in a postseason here in two series, and

1054
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: you're not left going, oh, I don't know, I don't

1055
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: know if this guy's got it. I don't know if

1056
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: he could be a lead dog. Carry I was like,

1057
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: you feel pretty damn good how he performed for a

1058
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,919
Speaker 1: majority of the postseason. You're like, Okay, yeah, loud, let's

1059
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: let's probably giddy is probably gone obviously. Gordon Hayward, who

1060
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw his comments after the game,

1061
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 1: he believes he should have got more shots, needed more opportunity,

1062
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: more opportunity, which I had everybody rolling their eyes a

1063
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: little bit. You turned into Ben Simmons out there.

1064
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 4: Man.

1065
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: You weren't shooting it, man, Okay, but anyway, they're gonna

1066
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: do the little things here. I guess the course was

1067
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: around the deadline. We figured this would be a limitation

1068
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: of theirs rebounding size, and they could have went and

1069
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: done something. Could they have gotten gafferd Could they have

1070
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 1: gotten what.

1071
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 3: They could have easily gotten? Washing? Sure, they could have

1072
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 3: easily gotten the two guys to beat them.

1073
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: And they slow play it and they're they're thinking it

1074
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: seems like is let's see though, Let's see what we're

1075
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: like in a postseason before we start making all these moves.

1076
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: And you would think they would do something now because

1077
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 1: you have the talent there to obviously be one of

1078
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,280
Speaker 1: the best teams in the league for the foreseeable future

1079
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: with this at least the core of your three guys.

1080
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 1: Anything else from Dallas Thunder.

1081
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 4: I shoved my notes in there. Opening tip was great.

1082
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 4: Tony Brothers smiling was great for me. Anyways, you know

1083
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 4: we are You mentioned all the guys that are going

1084
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 4: to develop. Kayson Wallace also is going to be awesome

1085
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 4: at some point.

1086
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had a rough sire though he did. He

1087
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: came in there and it was turnover city with him.

1088
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: He was frantic. He's young. He's young. But this is

1089
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: why you got to get these reps and see how

1090
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,359
Speaker 1: they do and see how they bounce back next year

1091
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: and yeah, they're gonna be one of the still the

1092
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: elite teams in this league, just like you know the

1093
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: Nuggets should be as well. They're like, these are still

1094
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: gonna be teams that are vying for a championship moving forward. Here,

1095
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: you just got it. You gotta tinker, you gotta and

1096
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: things gotta break your way. And that means loose balls.

1097
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: That means shots that don't drop. That k everyone was crazy.

1098
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: That goes way up in the air and drops. There's

1099
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: a little bit of luck involved here, but there's no

1100
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: reason to like, oh, blow it up. No, no, you're

1101
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: not thinking that with either of these teams. So Eastern

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00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: Conference Finals Game one Pacer Celtics Tuesday night and then

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00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals Game one Mavericks Wolves on Wednesday. We

1104
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: were saying before the show, is this the most Eastern

1105
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: based conference finals of all time? We got like no

1106
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: West Coast team, which is great for US East Coasters

1107
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: with eight and eight thirty starts here. What did you

1108
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: say the last time we think we had teams sort

1109
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: of like what is it is that Central Division?

1110
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 3: Central time zone?

1111
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, central time zone? Yes, thank you, I'm thinking

1112
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: them uptons in the Central Division? Was what Spurs Grizzlies

1113
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen.

1114
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 3: Was that the Western twenty thirteen with Spurs Grizzlies in

1115
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 3: the Western Conference finals and Heat Pacers in the Eastern.

1116
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: So we got Minnesota and Dallas here, so it's right

1117
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: down the middle. Baby, all right, we'll we'll recap those

1118
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: on tomorrow show. Can't wait for that. Before we go,

1119
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: let's get to tweeted the night.

1120
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 4: Tweet Out the Night Wow twitt.

1121
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: Okay podcast listeners, come check this out on YouTube because

1122
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: there's a photo involved. Author Hanif abduurrah Kieb tweeted this

1123
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: over the weekend. That had me laughing. The original Timberwolve's

1124
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: logo looks like a dog that can't believe it's being

1125
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: asked for a divorce. You gotta go see the old

1126
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: Wolves logo. Maybe you can picture it, podcast listeners, we're

1127
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: talking about the old Doug West Wolves logo. So just

1128
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: a funny tweet had me howlan over the weekend. Really yes,

1129
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 1: pun intended. And by the way, this this spins into

1130
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 1: nicely something I was wondering this morning. I asked Twitter.

1131
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: I asked Wolves fans, what is Minnesota's record this year

1132
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: when they're in those clean Wolves throwbacks and the people

1133
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: came through. I'll give some credit to Tim Reynolds, he said,

1134
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:19,280
Speaker 1: when they're wearing those those clean white just throwback Wolves jerseys.

1135
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: They're twenty one to nine this season, thirteen and three

1136
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: on the road, and are still perfect, I believe here

1137
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: in the playoffs at four and oh, so they don't

1138
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: lose a whole lot in those nice, nice jerseys. So,

1139
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I always wonder, like, are the jerseys like

1140
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: set already for the conference finals matchups between the Dallas Mavericks,

1141
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: Like can Minnesota be like, no, We're only wearing these jerseys,

1142
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: Like how does that work? There probably is some rule

1143
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 1: you can't. You got to like mix it up.

1144
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 4: A little bit.

1145
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 3: I don't remember. The Suns were always wearing their Black

1146
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 3: Valley jerseys during the playoffs, so I think they get to.

1147
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: You get to have some say in it. And maybe

1148
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 1: that depends on that on the other team as well,

1149
00:50:57,880 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: Like there are color sets. I don't know.

1150
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't know who decides, but they decide

1151
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 4: now before the conference finals, like they.

1152
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: Set them all yes, yes, yeah, yeah.

1153
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, it's interesting with the black ones. It

1154
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 4: depends on what the other team is wearing. I guess

1155
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 4: they can get away with the valleys because they're blacks

1156
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 4: against everything that the Timberwolves wore.

1157
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: You would just think to me, it would be okay,

1158
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: home team when we're setting our jersey schedule, like home

1159
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: team picks what are you wearing, and then that will

1160
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: dictate what the other team probably has to wear. So

1161
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: if the road, to excuse me, if the home team

1162
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 1: wants to go with their colors, which we see a

1163
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: lot of times, then maybe you can wear that that

1164
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,879
Speaker 1: white on the road. And they should because they're damn

1165
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: good in it.

1166
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll wear them sometimes. But the schedule of uniforms

1167
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 3: hasn't dropped on locker vision. Okay, just quite yet. Okay,

1168
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 3: but the original Minnesota Timberwolves that wore these white uniforms

1169
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 3: never made the playoffs, so already more successful and this crazy.

1170
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 4: Yeah Doug West than Sam Mitchell.

1171
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, and Tony Campbell nice, yeah, who else?

1172
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 3: Well, Tom Googliato was there, right, he came for one

1173
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 3: season on the Queens and then they went to the

1174
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 3: right right the trees.

1175
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: They Yeah, so good stuff there. Fun tweet before we go.

1176
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: If you want more of my voice, I am on

1177
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: the latest is this good podcast with Mattio and JD.

1178
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,359
Speaker 1: I guess I'm laughing quite a bit in this one

1179
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: as we do some handshakes. Wow. Yeah, we talked about

1180
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:25,479
Speaker 1: handshakes whether or not. Yeah we did so. Oh yeah.

1181
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: The big talk about I don't love when someone Okay,

1182
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: when you go in for like the dap, like I'm

1183
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:38,240
Speaker 1: a big let's not high five, but let's tap it up, handshake,

1184
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, and then bring it

1185
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: into the hug.

1186
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 3: Right.

1187
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: Some people they think they want to hug and they

1188
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: don't want to do that, so they're like nah, they

1189
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 1: almost like no, man, we're hugging. And I'm always like, yeah,

1190
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna get to the hug. Does that

1191
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: make sense? I explained a better on Is this good?

1192
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1193
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're like get out of here with that.

1194
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 2: We're hugging it out. Like they think that you're you're

1195
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 2: going for the works, you're going for.

1196
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: The we're doing it all.

1197
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing it all. We're dapping it up, we're

1198
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,799
Speaker 2: doing we're clasping hands and we're are hugging it out.

1199
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 2: Dick to dick ass to say yeah, but they don't

1200
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 2: get it like that it's like, oh no.

1201
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, we're hugging here, and you're right. I'm like,

1202
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: I know we're going to hug. Yeah, we're gonna get there.

1203
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: It's a dance. You're taking the lead.

1204
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 4: You just have to get in there. It's all a

1205
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 4: choreographed maneuver.

1206
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're doing about twenty minutes on this, on this,

1207
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: So if you're into that, go check that out.

1208
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,479
Speaker 3: But don't you have different standards for who you're hugging

1209
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 3: and do your hands?

1210
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about that for sure. Yeah, this we

1211
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: were saying. I made it clear like this is not

1212
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: a stranger, this is like someone, this is your bro,

1213
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: this is a family member or whatever. Whatever. Yeah, is

1214
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: this good? Talking about handshakes?

1215
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 3: Talking about handshakes?

1216
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 4: Fun? All right?

1217
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 3: Another quick note here protocol in the stream team said

1218
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 3: can't wait for a Wolves No Dunks T shirt?

1219
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 4: It's long overdue.

1220
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 3: Oh, I would say, we kind of owe you Wolves

1221
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:02,400
Speaker 3: and a Mavericks. I don't think we have a Mavericks one.

1222
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 1: I don't believe we do. No, no, no, no, you're right.

1223
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 1: We have Celtics. We have the pacers already, so yeah,

1224
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: we gotta get to work on that.

1225
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, the only time we made a Wolves like shirt,

1226
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 4: it was all Star based. It was because Dallas had

1227
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 4: an All Star game there, but it wasn't Mavericks. It

1228
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 4: was a long time. This is when it was snowing

1229
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:30,359
Speaker 4: in Dallas. In there, Les, Yeah, it's snow song.

1230
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll get on that break and tea. I know

1231
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: you're listening. Let's start making some gear for those Western

1232
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: Conference finalists. We will be doing our previous tomorrow, so

1233
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:39,839
Speaker 1: we'll see you here at ten am Eastern. Until then,

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00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 1: Clipper Rose.

1235
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 3: You heard it here first, have a great time, turn up.

1236
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 3: Love you guys, awesome.

1237
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us, and remember. Okay, so the jerseys

1238
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 4: have not been announced, but for the Conference finals, some

1239
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 4: of the game start times have been announced, but not

1240
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 4: all of them. A little skeptical here, A little skeptical.

1241
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:59,439
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't you just plan them all out? It looks

1242
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,839
Speaker 4: like they've gone. But through game four of all of them,

1243
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 4: basically game four of each series.

1244
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 3: All the other ones are if necessaries.

1245
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know what time is going to start?

1246
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 4: I have them skeptical, but I shouldn't be skeptical. But

1247
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 4: it's just, you know, maybe there's gonna be a weird

1248
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 4: nine thirty start. Let's get those West Coasters watching the game.

1249
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: You know what you can deal with ninth. I just

1250
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: don't want to see a tent. I don't want to

1251
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: see a tent. You keep it before that work.

1252
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 4: You're not hugging silver, no, no, no no, You're just gonna handshake.

1253
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:34,720
Speaker 1: Handshake, looking in the eyes, all right. Race the day, people,