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Speaker 1: The Volume. All right, welcome to Hoops Tonight. Here at

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Speaker 1: the Volume, Happy Wednesday, everybody cover to the Eastern Conference Finals. Here.

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Speaker 1: Hoops Tonight is brought to you by Chase Freedom Unlimited.

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Speaker 1: How do you cash back? All right? Well, Jimmy Butler

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Speaker 1: did it again, dominating performance on the road in Boston

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Speaker 1: in Game one to steal and take home court advantage.

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Speaker 1: As we head into Game two with the Heat up

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Speaker 1: one game to nothing. I have picked every single playoff

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Speaker 1: series correctly in this postseason run, except for Miami in

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Speaker 1: the first round, except for Miami in the second round,

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Speaker 1: and I picked against them again in Round three. So

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Speaker 1: if you're a Heat fan, you should just be happy

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Speaker 1: that I keep picking against them, because I could not

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Speaker 1: be more wrong about this team as they continue to

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Speaker 1: impress night in and night out. You guys know the

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So, as we've said

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Speaker 1: so many times over the course of this postseason, the

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Speaker 1: reason why Jimmy Butler succeeds in the playoffs is this

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Speaker 1: combination of side strength and athleticism right, which helps him

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Speaker 1: get to his spots on offense, gets him physical mismatches

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Speaker 1: with his skill set in Basketball IQ, it turns him

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Speaker 1: into my personal favorite archetype of basketball player, which is

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Speaker 1: that big, rim pressuring and playmaking forward. That's why Lebron

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Speaker 1: James has been my favorite player of all time and

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Speaker 1: the game of basketball. It's why I think guys like

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Speaker 1: why he's been such a dependently great playoff player. He

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Speaker 1: defenders on the floor I've talked about this for years now,

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Speaker 1: but in the NBA playoffs, schematically, coaches just find a

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Speaker 1: way to slow down your pet actions in the plays

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Speaker 1: often than not, it kind of breaks down into matchups.

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Speaker 1: Like Golden State ran the most magnificent motion offense in

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Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, the teams can get in

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Speaker 1: specific matchups. Apart that no team is immune to that.

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Speaker 1: By the end of the day, when you're allowed as

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Speaker 1: matchup hunting more often than not. And what happened down

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Speaker 1: But here's the problem. Jason Tatum has gone from being

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the overall team shot chart

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Speaker 1: What was the second thing that I said that Miami

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Speaker 1: Spolstra had to scheme the Celtics into their worst tendencies,

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Speaker 1: As a result, like, for instance, like Jimmy Butler can

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Speaker 1: run into rim protection, right, So what he's taking are

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, Boston's offense is struggling. The announcers

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Speaker 1: so they run a five out spacing situation where Jason

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Speaker 1: Tatum gets Max s Truce on a switch. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: There's two players immediately on the wing and two players

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Speaker 1: What would Jimmy Butler have done in that exact same situation.

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Speaker 1: He gets a switch on Max Drews, Right, He's going

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Speaker 1: That's quality matchup hunting versus whatever the hell Jason Tatum

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Speaker 1: There's another possession later in the fourth quarter, Jason Tatum

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Speaker 1: I just have to chase him off the three point line.

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Speaker 1: That is my schematic responsibility, per the orders from Eric's Poulstra.

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Speaker 1: Tatum committed three consecutive turnovers in that fourth quarter. That's

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Speaker 1: the difference. When things bogged down, when the coaching removes

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Speaker 1: So maybe I'll just continue to be wrong for you guys.

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Speaker 1: But man, highly entertaining series. I'm having a lot of

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