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Speaker 1: Good morning, swim World. It's Saturday, May thirteenth, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: That's okay. I'm jumping on here to share some thoughts

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Speaker 1: let's make that happen. Hello, Hello, Hello again. Some quick

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Speaker 1: thoughts on last night's two games. We'll start with the

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Speaker 1: Miami Heat topping the Knicks ninety six ninety two, close one.

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Speaker 1: They take care of business in six games, headed to

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Speaker 1: the Conference Finals for the tenth time in their franchise history,

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Speaker 1: seventh time in the last thirteen years, third time in

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Speaker 1: the past four seasons, which is pretty wild. So they're

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Speaker 1: gonna play Game one either in Boston or Philadelphia starting

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. And as I'm sure you know by now,

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Speaker 1: they are the second number eight seed in NBA history

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Speaker 1: to go as deep as the Conference finals, joining the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: How ironic who pulled it off back in nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: What a game though very close. Like I said, let's

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Speaker 1: just jump right to the end. Not surprising that it's close.

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Speaker 1: That's what the Heat do. Thirty two clutch wins in

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Speaker 1: the regular season, which Schumann says was tied for the

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Speaker 1: second most over the last nine years. So they've just

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Speaker 1: play a whole lot of these close games. Nicks cut

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Speaker 1: it to what two points they were down six, We

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Speaker 1: get the elbow there to Brunson's face, So in one

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Speaker 1: possession it's a two point game. Jimmy Butler missed is

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Speaker 1: a jumper. The Knicks have the ball, a chance to tie,

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Speaker 1: a chance to take the lead, to force a game

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Speaker 1: seven in Madison Square Garden, Brunson on fire all game,

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Speaker 1: goes away from the screen coming from Heart that he

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Speaker 1: as they had been doing there, throws a double at him,

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Speaker 1: just leaving guys. Who cares anybody but brunts In and

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Speaker 1: he stepped through that trap, runs and did and he

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Speaker 1: could have kicked it out to Heart up top. He's

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Speaker 1: wide open again. The heat of just completely left him.

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Speaker 1: For good reason. The guy went ice cold in the

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Speaker 1: postseason from deep six to twenty seven from three point

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Speaker 1: range after remember in the regular season when he came

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Speaker 1: over to the Knicks, the guy couldn't miss. Instead, brunts

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Speaker 1: In sees you know, Randall screaming through the lane coming

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Speaker 1: and too many hands, too many bodies and Lowry comes

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Speaker 1: up with the ball. It was just it was deflating

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Speaker 1: to see Brunson go out like that, Like you almost

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Speaker 1: wish he had just taken a three, taken the jumper,

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Speaker 1: forced the action a little bit more because he was

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Speaker 1: spectacular forty one points fourteen to twenty two shooting. Just

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Speaker 1: didn't help that everybody else on his team sucked in

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Speaker 1: Game six, the rest of the Knicks fifty one points,

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Speaker 1: so he had forty one Jalen Brunson, the rest of

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Speaker 1: them had fifty one on thirteen for forty nine shooting, oh,

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Speaker 1: twenty seven percent for the rest of his guys there. So,

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Speaker 1: like I said, just a bummer of a way to

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Speaker 1: go out for Brunson in particular, just at play at

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Speaker 1: the end, because man, he was dragging this team potentially

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Speaker 1: to a Game seven like he had done over these

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Speaker 1: for Miami, Bam, I thought particularly played awesome in this one.

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Speaker 1: He had twenty three points nine boards. Did a great

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Speaker 1: job actually, when you think about it, in this series

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Speaker 1: most part, and Spoe after the game set it felt

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Speaker 1: like he had seventeen rebounds, not nine rebounds. I agree

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Speaker 1: with that. And do you remember when I was saying

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Speaker 1: Got some blowback from Knicks fan someone did point out

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Speaker 1: the series, or maybe they even saying the first round.

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Speaker 1: But Bam was exactly what I was talking about. He

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Speaker 1: had some massive rebounds down the stretch in a close,

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Speaker 1: close game, some bit like two or three just went

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Speaker 1: and got him, and that's what I'm talking I was like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's one thing. You know, filled the box score with

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Speaker 1: eleven or twelve rebounds. How about those ones with two

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Speaker 1: minutes ago, when you're exhausted and everybody's like fighting for it,

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Speaker 1: who comes up with those? He was huge. He had

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Speaker 1: that big dunk too, with like a minute ago, which

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Speaker 1: was like the perfect example of everybody always screaming at

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Speaker 1: their television for these big guys to like just go

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Speaker 1: Eaton with it. And he did. So that was big.

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Speaker 1: I thought he played great downstretch and Kyle Lowry the groat,

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Speaker 1: the greatest raptor of all time. Another productive game off

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Speaker 1: the bench, eleven points, game highs of nine assists, three steals.

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Speaker 1: He had thirty four assists in this series. He had

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Speaker 1: more steals than turnovers. And the one where he pickpocketed RJ. Barrett,

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Speaker 1: that was big. That was like with two thirty to go,

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Speaker 1: just well, chef's kiss from Kyle Lowry, helping and contributing

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Speaker 1: in this series to go along with your superstar in

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, and like I said, bam playing at a

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Speaker 1: pretty good level. So good game, good good season from

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Speaker 1: the Knicks. I mean no doubt I think it was.

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Speaker 1: Ziller pointed out in his newsletter this morning. This was

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Speaker 1: a team that was starting Evan Fournier the start of

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Speaker 1: the year, cam Reddish remember him. He was playing key minutes.

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Speaker 1: They tried so to to be you know, a game

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Speaker 1: or two from the Conference finals. Is it is pretty

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Speaker 1: damn good. It was just nobody could score besides Brunson

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Speaker 1: the Heat like their defense like obviously flipping in and

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Speaker 1: out of zwe loading up on Brunson, especially at the

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Speaker 1: end there, like we talked about like holy crap, like

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Speaker 1: they were just part sure Randall. Honestly, Marj Barrett, you

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Speaker 1: don't got to go in in game six, he was

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Speaker 1: one to ten. I think the box score said so

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Speaker 1: it was Brunson trying to drag him there. But Miami,

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Speaker 1: damn Goodwin. And I can't believe this eight seed here

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Speaker 1: is going to another conference finals, I said on Playback

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Speaker 1: the night with Tasks. I brought this up with my

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Speaker 1: buddy Gritch. We were watching this one last night. The

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Speaker 1: Heat have three of the remaining four players because the

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Speaker 1: sixers are technically still alive here. They have Game seven

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. They have three of the four players in

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Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference that have won a championship. That's it,

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Speaker 1: there's only four of them. Lowry Kevin Love Haslam, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's there right on Miami, basically a coach, but he's there.

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Speaker 1: And then PJ Tucker, I am pretty sure is the

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Speaker 1: only other guys like of these four teams will now

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Speaker 1: three teams left that has a championship. So they got

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Speaker 1: that pit agree there with Lowry and a little love

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Speaker 1: and Haslam of course and all his rings just sort

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Speaker 1: of wild. Obviously in the West there's a whole lot

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Speaker 1: more well cut in half now with the Warriors losing,

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Speaker 1: but great, great fun series, I mean an ugly series

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Speaker 1: at times, but the heat going there and we will

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Speaker 1: wait to see who they play with. Sunday's lone Game

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Speaker 1: seven now just Philly in Boston, three point thirty start.

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Speaker 1: So all you Succession fans, I know you're a stack.

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Speaker 1: I know, Mike zekerion Is, Hey, it was worried. You

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Speaker 1: know we're gonna have a day game seven. Now we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a night game seven. How am I gonna

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Speaker 1: watch Succession? What am I gonna do? Well, now you

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Speaker 1: don't need to worry about it. You're gonna have all

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Speaker 1: your Mother's Day festivities in the morning. Then you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have a little game seven baby on the on the

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Speaker 1: TV at three thirty Eastern, and then you've got your

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Speaker 1: Succession at night. Perfect, perfect, Little Sunday might have to

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Speaker 1: swing by the home depot, all right. As for the

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Speaker 1: other game, Lebron's Lakers eliminate the champion Warriors one twenty

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Speaker 1: one excuse me, one twenty two to one on one

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Speaker 1: blowout there in Game six to go back to the

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Speaker 1: conference finals. It is Bubble deja vu, especially if Boston

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Speaker 1: wins on Sunday, all four teams from the Bubble in

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Speaker 1: the Conference finals would be there. Again, Zilla asked, actually,

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Speaker 1: if the Celtics win in Game seven and we have

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Speaker 1: these exact teams from the bubble Conference finals, do those

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Speaker 1: teams get more credit for their successes in the bubble

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Speaker 1: like in retrospect? And he even wonders, does the bubble

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Speaker 1: Lakers championship get burnished by extension? It's a worthless but

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Speaker 1: fun thought exercise, So chew on that one. But as

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Speaker 1: for the game, pretty dominant stuff here from the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: The AP report starts six months after six months, in

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Speaker 1: a day after the Lakers fell to two to and

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Speaker 1: ten to start the regular season, they emphatically eliminated the

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Speaker 1: defending champions to reach the Western Conference Finals. That's pretty crazy.

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Speaker 1: They started two and ten and they are The Lakers

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Speaker 1: are the first team from the Western Conference to eliminate

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Speaker 1: Steph Clay and Draymond in the Steve Kerr era there,

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Speaker 1: and when you think about how they did it with

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Speaker 1: Lebron being when he was on the bench in this

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Speaker 1: series and the Lakers not struggle at all. They were

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Speaker 1: plus forty two. According to Michael the Podpina, I saw,

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Speaker 1: that's wild. But Lebron decided, Okay, now's the time to

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Speaker 1: have a really good game and put this team away.

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Speaker 1: Scored a team high thirty points. He had a nine boards,

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Speaker 1: game high nine assists, shot ten to fourteen from the field.

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Speaker 1: I thought he went back to like Lebron bully ball

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Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean, just like attacking Wiggins, get

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Speaker 1: into his left hand, finishing inside there like that was like,

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Speaker 1: oh that was Lebron of a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: It felt like made eight of eleven free throws as well.

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Speaker 1: He scored the first two points of the game when

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Speaker 1: he cut back door on Wiggins, who sort of slipped

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Speaker 1: eighty found him and then I think it was the

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Speaker 1: next Lakers possession. He just like I said, walked around Wiggins.

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Speaker 1: There was very little resistance there. Hit the left handed layup.

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Speaker 1: I think that just got him going seeing the ball

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Speaker 1: go through early, because then midway through the first quarter

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Speaker 1: stepped into an in rhythm wide open three pointer, and

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Speaker 1: when that went down, you're like, oh, this is going

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Speaker 1: to be this could be one of those games where

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Speaker 1: he's got he's feeling the three a little bit, he's

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Speaker 1: obviously attacking the rim and sort of spiraled out of

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Speaker 1: he almost that was like not just an impersonation of

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