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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up, straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight

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Speaker 2: Fire for Wednesday. May first, totally cal May is in

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Speaker 2: full swing. This is the beautiful month of college graduation,

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Speaker 2: although it's a dicey time to talk about that right now,

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Speaker 2: given all that's going on on these college campuses. May

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Speaker 2: is always a great weather month and be a playoffs.

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Speaker 2: You've got Mother's Day weekend, You've got the beginning of

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Speaker 2: summer unofficially right with Memorial Day weekend. But before we

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Speaker 2: get to all that, April went out with a bang

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Speaker 2: in another absolute thriller between the Knicks and the seventy

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Speaker 2: six Ers. This has been really one of the great

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Speaker 2: playoff series we've seen in quite some time. It has

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Speaker 2: to be up there from drama and just dislike between

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Speaker 2: the two teams and fourth quarter heroics, overtime craziness, folks,

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Speaker 2: This was one of those games last night. Now listen,

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Speaker 2: if you listened to the pod yesterday, you heard me.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think I like Sixers first quarter, I

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Speaker 2: think I like Knicks first half, Knicks full game, and

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Speaker 2: you know, seventy six Ers come out strong as you

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Speaker 2: knew they would off that loss at home. Win the

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Speaker 2: first quarter, Nick storm back with an eighteen to two run.

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Speaker 2: Nick Nurse is too cool for school to call time out.

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Speaker 2: Nicks up at the half. I'm flowing. Your boy is

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Speaker 2: vibing out. I went to my son's middle school volleyball game.

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Speaker 2: They trailed for they lost his step for the first

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Speaker 2: time all season, come back and win. I'm tracking the

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Speaker 2: next game there was how do I say this delicately

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Speaker 2: a kid on my son's volleyball team his dad works

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Speaker 2: with the Lakers in the front office. And my wife's like, hey,

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Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, right, no shot of that. Anyways,

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Speaker 2: my son's team pulls out the win, Knicks take the

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Speaker 2: leaded half. I'm like, this is a day. It's just

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Speaker 2: what a start. I also told you, guys, Calves will

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Speaker 2: come out first quarter, Calves take the lee when and

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Bets are just dominating and I'm just

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Speaker 2: the Knicks are up six with like twenty eight seconds left.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, lock it up, baby, Nicks are gonna cover.

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Speaker 2: Nicks are gonna take out and bead. I'm starting to

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Speaker 2: workshop my ideas for what to say about the sixers

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Speaker 2: and this collapse, and then Tyrese Maxie happens. And if

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Speaker 2: you guys remember Reggie Miller going postal late against the

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Speaker 2: Knicks and throwing up the choke sign to Spike Lee

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Speaker 2: and the New York Knicks. Basically, Tyrese Maxey did that

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Speaker 2: and down six with twenty eight seconds left. Somehow, Tyrese

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Speaker 2: Maxey hits a three and draws the foul from Mitchell Robinson.

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Speaker 2: They went at Robinson late. It was rough to watch

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Speaker 2: pick and roll, and Maxie just dominated afterward. In what

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Speaker 2: is just an awesome quote from Mitchell Robinson cover the

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Speaker 2: kid's ears. I have to take it like a man.

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Speaker 2: I fucked up. That's Mitchell Robinson's quote after the foul

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Speaker 2: on Maxi. So a four point play and you're like,

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Speaker 2: oh my gosh. The leads cut from six to two,

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Speaker 2: know what to do. You got a foul. Now, we

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Speaker 2: saw this in the NCAA tournament. We've seen this in

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Speaker 2: NBA playoff games, folks. I don't you know, I coach

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Speaker 2: my kids in youth sports. We haven't had this come

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Speaker 2: make the three. We saw this with Pacers Bucks Chris

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Speaker 2: Middleton twice twice hit threes when the Pacers could have

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Speaker 2: reports that his back is injured from carrying Joel Embiid

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Speaker 2: me last night on social media. That's what they do.

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Speaker 2: You know, when you bang on him on this podcast,

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Speaker 2: a huge Embiid fan. He has been a colossal letdown. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I did pick Ben Simmons. I would build around Ben

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Speaker 2: when Embid gets to a conference finals, I'll let you

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Speaker 2: And Joel Embiid was not good in this game. The

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Speaker 2: counting numbers, Oh, he got a triple double. What are

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Speaker 2: you talking about? Jay bed at nineteen points, sixteen boards,

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Speaker 2: man his flowers. Okay, all right, well that's just guys

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Speaker 2: in arguments. Okay, here's the reality. Joel Embid nineteen points

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Speaker 2: it was Iron Eagle. I Egels said. That's ten turnovers

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Speaker 2: year against the Celtics in Game seven just basically totally

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Speaker 2: just did nothing. They got smoked against the Hawks in Philly.

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Speaker 2: You guys will remember that one the classic Ben Simmons

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Speaker 2: you and I can agree. Tyrese Maxie is carrying the Sixers.

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Speaker 2: He was everything for this team. I mean, remember they

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Speaker 2: And he was phenomenal. I waited seven minutes to get

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Speaker 2: to my guy, Jalen Brunson. Listen, good game at a

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Speaker 2: He got whacked in the face by Embiid. Not his

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Speaker 2: finest effort, but you know he was. He was picked

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Speaker 2: up by the kid McBride, who came off the bench,

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Speaker 2: Devincenzo struggled from deep one of seven. I like him.

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Speaker 2: He's a nice player. But just listen to these minute

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Speaker 2: totals for the Knicks. Josh Hart fifty three minutes, Jalen

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Speaker 2: MAXI played fifty two. But I don't know who comes

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Speaker 2: out of this more more hurting the Knicks who choked

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Speaker 2: over here pumping up the Knicks every day, brunching over

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Speaker 2: takes I can back up. I stand by all of it. Well, Jay, Uh,

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Speaker 2: but they've got two more chances to get it right. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I love Patrick Ewing. And then of course Magic Johnson,

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Speaker 2: Stark's one of the most painful nights as a sports

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Speaker 2: admit Game seven Warriors calves. You guys know, I like Lebron,

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Speaker 2: But this one hurt. This next one. They blew the cover.

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Speaker 2: The other game that was actually finally interesting. In a

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Speaker 2: We head into tonight's games not that appealing to open

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Speaker 2: first round as favorites when Kawhi barely plays what And

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Speaker 2: that's where you get in one of these scenarios where

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Speaker 2: it's like, huh oh interesting, Maybe there's something there, maybe,

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Speaker 2: just maybe it's more interesting if the Clippers win and

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Speaker 2: extinguish the MAVs. I don't know. Kyrie unhappy ask out.

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Speaker 2: Lucas says, Guys, you try Brunts and you try Porzingis,

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Speaker 2: you try Kyrie. This doesn't work. I'm out. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Nobody knows. That's interesting. I just I want to see

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Speaker 2: Luke in the playoffs, you know, like I we need

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Speaker 2: Luka Doncic in the playoffs. That's the bottom line. He's

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Speaker 2: too good. I don't know that we need hardener PG.

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Speaker 2: So a quick look at the line for tomorrow, I

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Speaker 2: am seeing Celtics fourteen and MAVs favored by three.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: I did not anticipate that. So the market's telling you

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Speaker 2: the MAVs are the side right, They're favored on the road.

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Speaker 2: Luka probable no Kawhi, MAVs play these heart stopping games.

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Speaker 2: Weird deep, Oh man, it might happen. It might just

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Speaker 2: be a Mav Celtics money line is not gonna pay

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Speaker 2: much at all, but I think that's probably your best

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Speaker 2: bet moneyline parlay mav Celtics. Sorry, and looking ahead to Thursday,

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Speaker 2: Sixers open is three and a half point favorites. Looking

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Speaker 2: ahead to Saturday, I guess yeah. Saturday, Denver four point

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Speaker 2: favorites at home against Minnesota. Interesting because if memory serves,

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Speaker 2: they were seven point favorites against the Lakers at home

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Speaker 2: in Game one. They covered. I think they pulled away

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Speaker 2: late to get the cover. That's saying Minnesota is not

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Speaker 2: that much better than the Lakers. Huh. Interesting. I'll need

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Speaker 2: to let that marinate a little bit more. My inclination

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Speaker 2: is Minnesota is going to be live in the series.

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Speaker 2: My problem is everybody's saying that, and I know that

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Speaker 2: more applies to the NFL. But these are the Denver Nuggets. Okay,

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Speaker 2: we're talking about the defending champs. They I know they

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Speaker 2: struggled with the Lakers, but that's Lebron and ad Minnesota

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Speaker 2: has Anthony Edwards and whom. Like. I know, we like Gobert,

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Speaker 2: we like Kat, but come on, you think Kat's gonna

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Speaker 2: take it to Aaron Gordon, Michael Port I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Tell me who. Let's see who. The five best players

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Speaker 2: in the series are number one, Yokich, number two, Anthony Edwards,

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Speaker 2: number three, Jamal Murray number four. I think Gobert may

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Speaker 2: be more valuable than towns because of the rim protection.

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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you. The Suns missed what felt like

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Speaker 2: a billion shots at the layup because Gobert altered a lot.

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Speaker 2: And then his town's better than Michael Porter Junior. I mean,

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Speaker 2: did you see Michael Porter Junior's numbers against the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this guy who was remember, big time, big

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Speaker 2: time a high school prospect, has the back surgery, was good,

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Speaker 2: I think for a year or like half a season

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Speaker 2: at Missouri, didn't play much, but was good. And then

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Speaker 2: you know he's taken a little time, but he's now

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Speaker 2: twenty five years old. Here's here's what he did against

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Speaker 2: the Lakers. Twenty two and eight, okay, which sounds fine.

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Speaker 2: But he shot fifty five percent from the field, forty

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Speaker 2: eight percent from three, and that's on eight three is

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Speaker 2: a game, and seventy six percent from the line. So

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Speaker 2: if you remember last year, if you go back to

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Speaker 2: last year's conference finals, there was some concern that he was,

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Speaker 2: you know, a bit of a chuck or a bit

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Speaker 2: of a liability. Last year again, in the sweep against

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Speaker 2: the Lakers, averaged fifteen and nine, okay, that bumped up

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Speaker 2: to twenty two and eight. In the finals is where

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Speaker 2: he struggled. Against the Miami he averaged nine points a game,

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Speaker 2: shot thirty two percent from the field, fourteen percent from three.

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Speaker 2: So in the finals, Michael Porter junior struggle. He's a

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Speaker 2: different guy this year. And when you when you make

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Speaker 2: him your fourth best player, goodness, gracious, I just don't

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Speaker 2: know how that you know. I I think I'm probably

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Speaker 2: rooting Minnesota. I have small Minnesota futures, not a lot,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, game one, I would probably just go Denver

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Speaker 2: against the spread. It's Denver. It's game one, don't overthink it.

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Speaker 2: We can do zigzags here at theory for game two.

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Speaker 2: Very curious how Anthony Edwards is defended kcp's you know,

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Speaker 2: not one hundred percent because of the ankle. That Peyton

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Speaker 2: Watson is interesting, He's a really, really good defender. NBA

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Speaker 2: playoffs are getting total fire. We'll do more NFL and

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Speaker 2: who knows what else. But I'm I'm greatly enjoying these playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Hope you are too, back at it tomorrow. Talk to

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Speaker 2: you then.