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Speaker 1: We're gonna be hitting the Nuggets and the Kings and

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Speaker 1: the season. All right, let's talk some basketball. So Nuggets

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Speaker 1: Kings just an absolutely wild game. My wife ended up

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Speaker 1: having a girl's night with one of her friends last night,

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Speaker 1: so I got to just kind of sit down by

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Speaker 1: myself and watch basketball all night, and I chose two

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Speaker 1: games and chose Piston's Heat and I chose Nuggets Kings,

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Speaker 1: and both of them did not disappoint. The Nuggets come

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Speaker 1: out and just smack the Kings from the opening tip.

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Speaker 1: They go up by as many as twenty three points,

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Speaker 1: and then right at that beginning of the second quarter,

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Speaker 1: Denver just completely stops playing defense and it turns into

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Speaker 1: this really weird game where it's very up and down.

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Speaker 1: Both teams are getting shots up within the first seven

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Speaker 1: just giving up on the first move, and both guys

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Speaker 1: of felt like every team or every possession was just

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Speaker 1: easy for both offenses, and Denver allows eighty two points

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Speaker 1: in the second and third quarter. Twenty six of those

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Speaker 1: Darreon Fox and Sabonis kind of took over from there,

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Speaker 1: But then Sabonis hits a three on a pick and

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Speaker 1: And then, in classic Denver Nuggets fashion, they score on

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Speaker 1: Here's all seven of the possessions. Number one, Sabonis bites

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Speaker 1: was a crazy sequence on the final possession where Yokic

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Speaker 1: even with their uneven start and even with their obvious

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Speaker 1: the Nuggets can generate such insanely high quality shots that

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Speaker 1: the stretch of a game. I mean, I watched it

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Speaker 1: did hit that skip pass once, but Kay didn't want

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Speaker 1: to throw it. You know why Kate didn't want to

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Speaker 1: throw it because Asar Thompson is a mediocre at best shooter,

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Speaker 1: and so it's not what you want down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to have Usar Thompson shooting threes. And

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Speaker 1: so this is where he needs to make better use

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Speaker 1: of his talents as a cutter in those situations instead

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Speaker 1: of sitting in the weak side corner and waiting on

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Speaker 1: that pin and flare in the past to come over

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Speaker 1: the top. Just flash flash to the high post. If

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Speaker 1: you flash to the high post and you make yourself available,

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Speaker 1: you'll catch as soon as you can. You turn and

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Speaker 1: face the rim. When you turn and face the rim,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Duran's man is probably going to step up. If

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Speaker 1: he doesn't, you just shoot that little floater right in

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Speaker 1: front of the rim and you have a two on

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Speaker 1: one to get to the offensive glass. If he does show,

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Speaker 1: you're dropping it off to Jalen Duran for a dunk.

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Speaker 1: Make yourself available, cut move without the basketball. That's much

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Speaker 1: better use of your athleticism than to just go stand

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Speaker 1: in the corner where you're basically cutting the Miami Heat

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Speaker 1: a break. The Pistons in general were very stagnant down

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Speaker 1: the stretch of this game. Every time Caid was looking

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Speaker 1: to attack a matchup, everyone was just standing around. Even

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Speaker 1: on the possession where Cad did score at the end

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Speaker 1: of regulation, the two free throws that he hit, it

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Speaker 1: was a play where Drew Smith I think he was

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Speaker 1: attacking Jimmy. Drew Smith was on Asar Thompson, completely ignores

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Speaker 1: Lasar Thompson and goes in double teams. Cade just happens

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Speaker 1: to trip over him and he ends up getting two

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Speaker 1: foul shots, but like it was really stagnant, not a

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Speaker 1: lot of movement. As I was watching the game, I

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Speaker 1: was like, I bet you the Detroit Pistons are really

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Speaker 1: bad cutting team. I went to Synergy and yes they are.

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Speaker 1: They are twenty sixth in made baskets off of cuts

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Speaker 1: this year. That's a sign that they need to just

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Speaker 1: really improve their off ball movement. In overtime, Miami really

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Speaker 1: methodically walked them down, actually went up by eight. But

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Speaker 1: our second bit of foreshadowing comes into the occasion because

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Speaker 1: all night long, Cad Cunningham had been throwing these beautiful

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Speaker 1: kick ahead passes. In transition, he hits Tim Hardaway Junior

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Speaker 1: on the left wing, who just rises up into a

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Speaker 1: long like twenty seven footer and he nails it. All

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Speaker 1: night long, Caate had been beating nail help and overhelp

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Speaker 1: with swing passes. The second Tim Hardaway Junior three, Cad

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Speaker 1: drives Tim Hardaway Junior's man helps at the nail kickout passes.

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Speaker 1: Tim knocks down the three. That's the second one, and

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Speaker 1: then the third one another transition kickhead three on the

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Speaker 1: left wing that Tim Hardaway Junior hits just a textbook

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Speaker 1: example of just hunting the hot hand and just taking

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Speaker 1: the easy opportunities that were available there In transition, Bang

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Speaker 1: bang bang. All of a sudden, Detroit is up by

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Speaker 1: one point. Jimmy gets the lead back on a put

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Speaker 1: back after Bam misses this really weird kind of fadeaway

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Speaker 1: that I just don't know why he took. But then

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Speaker 1: Caid makes a really nice read on a Terry Rogier

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Speaker 1: a drive against Terry Rozier. It's kind of an interesting

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Speaker 1: play because I believe Jimmy was fixing his shoe, so

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Speaker 1: he's in the back court, so it's like a five

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Speaker 1: on foward for the Pistons. On offense, Caid starts to

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Speaker 1: drive down the right lane line and Tim Hardaway Junior

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Speaker 1: is wide open on the left wing, and Malik Beasley

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Speaker 1: is wide open on the right wing, and Bam had

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Speaker 1: a bio's in help, and BAM's like Tim just hit

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Speaker 1: three threes, so he's kind of lingering back towards Tim's

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Speaker 1: side and as a result, he's just a step late.

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Speaker 1: Cad identifies it, gets into Rogier's body and goes right

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Speaker 1: to the rim and makes a little bank shot. Bam

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Speaker 1: tries to come over and block it at the end,

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Speaker 1: but he's just a step late because he was worried

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Speaker 1: about that. Tim Hardaway junior piece really really smart read

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Speaker 1: from Cad to take an easy two right at the

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Speaker 1: rim rather than leaving it to shot variance at that point.

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Speaker 1: And then Tyler Harrow missed a couple of easy looks

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Speaker 1: down the stretch, and the Pistons ended up getting a win.

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Speaker 1: Kind of felt like the right team won, like the

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Speaker 1: Pistons outplayed them all night. There was just two crazy

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Speaker 1: shooting streaks, right, like Harrow goes crazy hot and turns

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Speaker 1: the surefire loss into an overtime win, and then Hardaway

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Speaker 1: gets super hot and turns the Surefire loss in overtime

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Speaker 1: to a Detroit win. But on the Detroit front, I thought,

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Speaker 1: I thought this was a great example of how much

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Speaker 1: the internal improvement is going to help the Pistons in

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Speaker 1: the long run. I heard Kaden op presser, I think

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Speaker 1: it was I think it was actually right after the

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Speaker 1: game last night, but he was talking about how you

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Speaker 1: can still get so much better, and he was talking

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Speaker 1: about how when he watches film, he just constantly see

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Speaker 1: things that like, man, I should have just done that,

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Speaker 1: or I should have just done this, and it's like

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Speaker 1: He's right, he still has so much to improve on,

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Speaker 1: Like he had a couple of turnovers in the final

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Speaker 1: five minutes of the fourth quarter, he lost track of

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler on a double team where he kind of

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Speaker 1: like spun back into him, or just his floor awareness

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Speaker 1: wasn't there, missed a couple of easy mid rangers down

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Speaker 1: the stretch, and regulation, Like, there's a lot of things

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Speaker 1: that he's gonna continue to get better at as time

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Speaker 1: goes on. Asar Thompson learning how to be a threat

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Speaker 1: off the ball, like we talked about, like screening and

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Speaker 1: cutting instead of always spotting up. Cade, by the way,

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Speaker 1: can really help with this coaching on the floor, like hey,

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Speaker 1: come on, man, flash to the high post, make yourself available.

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Speaker 1: We can do this easier. Jalen Duran just being sharper

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Speaker 1: with his running habits, like staying on those details throughout

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Speaker 1: the game. They just need a few more years of

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Speaker 1: playing serious basketball to cut more and more of those

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Speaker 1: mistakes out. And then lastly, you can see the natural

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Speaker 1: fit of off ball scoring with Cade. All night long,

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Speaker 1: Malik Beasley and Tim Hardaway Junior were capitalizing on really

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Speaker 1: smart kickout rads from Caid cutting am this is why

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Speaker 1: I've been talking about them drafting off ball scores. This

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Speaker 1: is where as they slip down the draft order as

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Speaker 1: they start to win more and more games. When you

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Speaker 1: get start picking in that seven to fifteen range, that's

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Speaker 1: where you have to start hunting the off ball scoring types,

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Speaker 1: the six to seven to six to nine role players

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Speaker 1: who at the D one level I've just been taking

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Speaker 1: catch and shoot threes, driving closeouts, and competing on the

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Speaker 1: defensive end of the flour. Those are the types of

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Speaker 1: guys they need to be hunting now to complement the

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Speaker 1: on ball scoring provided by Cad and Jaden. Again, just

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Speaker 1: supplementing with those types of off ball scorers to kind

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Speaker 1: of anchor them on the offensive end of the floor.

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Speaker 1: On the Miami Front, forget about all the wildness and

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Speaker 1: crunch time. They just couldn't guard Detroit in the first

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Speaker 1: three quarters. They got absolutely shredded in ball screens, they

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Speaker 1: got absolutely shredded in transition, and then on the other end,

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Speaker 1: they weren't really generating quality looks. Yeah, they went twelve

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Speaker 1: for forty three from three, but they only generated ten

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Speaker 1: unguarded catch and shoot jump shots in that whole game.

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Speaker 1: They typically generate fourteen which is top ten in the league,

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Speaker 1: but they were not generating them last night. But there

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Speaker 1: are two pieces of upside I have for Heat fans. One,

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Speaker 1: Tyler Harrow just continues to hit shots. Yes, he had

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Speaker 1: a bad shooting night overall, but again, he hit five

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Speaker 1: touch shots in the late fourth quarter that sent the

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Speaker 1: game to overtime. That's a real hot streak. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what's what's that thirteen points? Like it just on

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Speaker 1: shot making there down the stretch and on the season now,

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Speaker 1: like he's over forty one percent from three on over

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Speaker 1: ten attempts per game. Both are career highs a career

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Speaker 1: high forty eight percent from the field, a career high

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Speaker 1: sixty three percent for shooting. It's six point two percent

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Speaker 1: higher than his previous career high. He's their most reliable

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Speaker 1: and dependable offensive player, which is crazy because it simply

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Speaker 1: did not use to be the case. Very very optimistic

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Speaker 1: sign for the Miami Heat's future. Good timing too, because

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Speaker 1: I think this is a real pivot point for them

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Speaker 1: and Jimmy Butler just massively increased his trade value last night.

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Speaker 1: If a team like Phoenix or a team like Golden

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Speaker 1: State was on the fence, Jimmy just dropped a thirty

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Speaker 1: five nineteen to ten. Several huge buckets late did a

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Speaker 1: lot to help Miami get a chance to win that game.

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Speaker 1: Five steals in blocks in that game. Just such a

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Speaker 1: high impact player, a couple of pieces of upside for

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Speaker 1: the Miami Heat. All right, guys, that's all I have

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Speaker 1: for today. As always, as sincerely appreciate you guys for

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Speaker 1: supporting me and supporting the show. We'll be back tomorrow

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Speaker 1: with a breakdown of the nd Season Tournament championship game.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you guys. Then the volume