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Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright, a quick Monday

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Speaker 1: morning pod after what was a remarkable and unbelievable weekend

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Speaker 1: of NBA basketball, and also the weekend that almost assuredly

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Speaker 1: marked the end of the Los Angeles Lakers season. And

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Speaker 1: that's not even because I think necessarily they are drawing

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Speaker 1: dead to execute a three to one comeback. They're obviously

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Speaker 1: drawing very slim, but I don't think they are at

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Speaker 1: zero percent. However, the present they will get if they

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Speaker 1: somehow do execute a three to one comeback with a

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Speaker 1: rotation that clearly only has five players the head coach

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Speaker 1: trusts is either going to be the Golden State Warriors

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Speaker 1: or or the Houston Rockets, both of which present massive

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Speaker 1: problem for this team in this moment. And if you

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Speaker 1: were like me and you really thought this team's high

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Speaker 1: end was not just conference finals caliber, not just NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals caliber, but championship caliber, this weekend was a hard

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Speaker 1: punch in the face about that. And if you want

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Speaker 1: to chalk up Friday to man, Luca was sick and

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Speaker 1: played like it and didn't have it and they ran

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Speaker 1: out of gas at the end. Fine, but then Sunday

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Speaker 1: presented far more problems issues concerns that obviously, as they

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Speaker 1: now face elimination games for the rest of their season,

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Speaker 1: and the only way to not face elimination games the

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Speaker 1: rest of their season is to win three straight elimination

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Speaker 1: games and then get a fresh start after a seven

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Speaker 1: game war. Then you've got to be honest about what

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Speaker 1: we're seeing, and I want to be I want to

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Speaker 1: give credit words due Anthony Edwards is having his moment,

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Speaker 1: and I know people here want to hear, probably you know,

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Speaker 1: me talking about Lebron and Luca in the end of

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Speaker 1: that game, and we will. But Anthony Edwards forty three points,

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Speaker 1: forty three to nine and six, going to war with

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Speaker 1: Lebron throughout the game, suffering what the broadcast seemed to

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Speaker 1: think was a catastrophic injury, and Anthony in the moment

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Speaker 1: reacted like it was a catastrophic injury. Everyone's heart sank

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Speaker 1: when they saw it, and he pops up. It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: He plays forty four minutes, is brilliant in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: and that has been the key to this series, and

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Speaker 1: obviously the key to Game four is the Timberwolves, a

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Speaker 1: team that was not good in clutch situation closing out

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Speaker 1: games It's really where you thought the Lakers were going

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Speaker 1: to have a decided advantage in this series, was let

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Speaker 1: it be close late and have Lebron and Luca take over.

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Speaker 1: The opposite has happened. It's been close late the last

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Speaker 1: couple games. Lebron and Luca have been absolutely out of gas,

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Speaker 1: and Anthony Edwards has taken over Julius Randall exercising some

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Speaker 1: playoff demons, and now you're in a spot that I

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Speaker 1: don't think anyone anticipated, even the most ardent Timberwolves fans,

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Speaker 1: even after they took Game one. I don't think thought

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Speaker 1: it would be three to one in this fashion going

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Speaker 1: back to Los Angeles. And so let's get into Game four.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, we'll talk Steph was played one

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Speaker 1: of the most remarkable playoff games of his career this week,

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Speaker 1: and we'll get into that. Dame sadly, i mean tragically

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Speaker 1: that more tomorrow. And obviously Nuggets Clippers with a finish

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Speaker 1: for the ages, so we'll try to quickly hit on

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Speaker 1: all those. But where we have to start is with

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Speaker 1: JJ Reddick and I I am not going to act

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Speaker 1: as if JJ hasn't been awesome this year. He has.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not going to act as if the you

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Speaker 1: know that JJ Reddick is the problem for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Far from it. However, when a rookie head coach does

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Speaker 1: something that, according to you know, the stats and information, folks,

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Speaker 1: no coach has ever done in modern playoff history, maybe

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Speaker 1: in all of playoff history, which is play the exact

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Speaker 1: same five guys for the entirety of a second half

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Speaker 1: of a playoff game, and then those five guys are totally, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: unequivocally out of gas at the end. That's going to

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Speaker 1: be a story. And JJ was left without a lot

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Speaker 1: of great options. He decided after the opening couple minutes understandably,

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Speaker 1: he couldn't trust Jackson Hayes. I thought he would try

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Speaker 1: to steal a few minutes for Lebron or Luca with

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Speaker 1: Vanderbilt or Gabe or even Goodwin. He decided not to.

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Speaker 1: And he was in a weird spot because the Lakers

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Speaker 1: had that great third quarter which allowed them to go

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Speaker 1: Turbles by thirteen, and I think JJ's thought process was,

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Speaker 1: that's how what happened. Aunt kept coming down and making plays.

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Speaker 1: be the story of the game that Lebron after is

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Speaker 1: I think one hundred and fourth career playoff twenty points half,

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Speaker 1: plays a wildly efficient game twenty seven to twelve and eight,

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Speaker 1: and then makes the key defensive plays down the stretch

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Speaker 1: lead after the huge Austin Rui threes. But of course

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Speaker 1: that's not what happened, and you saw the fatigue kicking

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Speaker 1: in at various moments before the final couple of minutes

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Speaker 1: Luca got I think it was Jade McDaniels on his hip,

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Speaker 1: or maybe it was Julius had to lay up, missed it.

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Speaker 1: Lebron out of a time out, great play, had to

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Speaker 1: lay up, missed it, And I said it was Austin

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Speaker 1: and Ruy hit the three. Was Austin and Dorian Finney

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Speaker 1: Smith that hit the threes. But despite all of that,

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Speaker 1: it's Lakers up two with the ball after the Lebron

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Speaker 1: this is a keep you up at night restless, bad

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Speaker 1: sleep game because there's so many moments that you just wonder, man,

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Speaker 1: if they just do this a little bit better, change

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Speaker 1: one thing. And by the way, those moments existed in

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Speaker 1: the first half. I was watching the game with my

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Speaker 1: best friend and co worker at FS one, Danny Parkins,

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Speaker 1: over at his house, and the whole first half, even

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Speaker 1: in the first quarter when they were leading, I said

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Speaker 1: to him, four minutes left in the first quarter, Man,

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Speaker 1: they should be up thirteen, they should be up fifteen,

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Speaker 1: And this is gonna end up being a situation where

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Speaker 1: were only actually up four at the end of that quarter,

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Speaker 1: Then the second quarter the Timberwolves go on the run.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you're trailing at the half. Then

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Speaker 1: they do have that great third quarter, and now to

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Speaker 1: get back to where we were. The highest leverage possession

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Speaker 1: of the season for the Lakers ends up being no

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Speaker 1: real ball movement. Guys standing around Luca dribbling the ball

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Speaker 1: up to minute left, finds Lebron. Lebron takes an exhausted three,

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Speaker 1: and I understand like there is going to be a

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Speaker 1: carve out of folks that either why doesn't he drive there?

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Speaker 1: Or that focus on Lebron's fourth quarter zero points and

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Speaker 1: the turnover, which I'll get to in a moment, which

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Speaker 1: I understand, And I'm not even saying that's totally unfair.

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Speaker 1: I am saying that when the last two games Lebron

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Speaker 1: is played are the two greatest playoff games by a

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Speaker 1: super old guy in league history, I'm gonna have a

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Speaker 1: little bit of grace. But the Lebron three with fifty

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Speaker 1: four seconds left in that spot, you wonder, when JJ

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Speaker 1: sees that possession is going nowhere and sees how dead

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Speaker 1: everybody is, is that a time to use your final timeout?

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Speaker 1: Probably not. You probably don't want to use your last

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Speaker 1: time out in that spot. But if you get a

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Speaker 1: ball up to forty seconds left, the Lakers understand, just

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Speaker 1: can't allow a three. You don't allow a three, You're

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Speaker 1: and Austin makes his biggest mistake of the season, fouling Jaden.

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Speaker 1: McDaniels on it, no hope to alter the shot foul. Jaden,

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Speaker 1: to his credit, makes the free throw, and now all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're trailing for the first time in

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Speaker 1: basically the entirety of the second half after the opening

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Speaker 1: That's not true, you were trailing a couple minutes earlier.

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Speaker 1: But you're trailing with forty seconds left, down one with

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Speaker 1: the ball, Luca gets tripped. I don't think I'll be honest.

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Speaker 1: I disagree with JJ. I don't think it was a foul.

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Speaker 1: I think it was fine that they didn't call that.

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Speaker 1: Lebron with the bad inbounds pass and then this is

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Speaker 1: the one. I just hate the challenge the out of

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Anthony Edward's going to the line.

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Speaker 1: He was a killer. He makes both three throws, and

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Speaker 1: then the Lakers I thought got lucky that the Timberwolves

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Speaker 1: didn't foul Luke in the back court or foul lebron

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Speaker 1: As on the catch. Austin got a decent look, he

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Speaker 1: missed it. Now you're down three to one, and you

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Speaker 1: still see moments flashes from this team that show the

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Speaker 1: highest end. And I understand some folks are going to say, listen,

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Speaker 1: we knew this was a mismatched roster when you traded

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Speaker 1: I don't buy all that, or maybe I should buy it,

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Speaker 1: but I I knew all that. Going into these playoffs,

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Speaker 1: think that in close games late they would have the edge.

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Speaker 1: And they have. And I looked at the Lakers path

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Speaker 1: and I said, Okay, you have the Timberwolves in Round

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Speaker 1: a real path, a real path, and instead Friday Night

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Speaker 1: the end of thirteen to one run. Luca is sick

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Speaker 1: and pretty ineffective, and is once again awesome. Another eight

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Speaker 1: assist game for Friday Night. Jaden McDaniels has the game

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Speaker 1: of his life, almost all targeting. Luca Julius has another

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Speaker 1: good playoff game. You lose that fourth quarter by ten.

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Speaker 1: Lebron seems gassed the final few minutes there despite giving

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Speaker 1: you thirty eight, ten to four to two and two.

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Speaker 1: And then Sunday afternoon JJ goes for it, the smallest

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Speaker 1: interval between games they'll have all postseason, from a Friday

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Speaker 1: night to a Sunday afternoon. JJ understanding we have two

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Speaker 1: days off before Game five, gotta win. This goes for it.

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Speaker 1: Plays Austin, Luca, Ruey and Dorian All twenty four minutes

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Speaker 1: of the second half and they can't hit the tape

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Speaker 1: and can they win Wednesday? Yeah? They should. And if

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Speaker 1: you know, you got a shot Friday and then it's

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Speaker 1: a game seven in your building? Yeah? Maybe? But if

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Speaker 1: the goal for this Lakers team and this was the goal.

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Speaker 1: When you have Lebron James, I don't care that he's forty.

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Speaker 1: He is still unequivocally what top eight playoff guy right

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Speaker 1: now this moment, like I'm not I'm not sure the

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Speaker 1: what's the full list of guys this postseason who you'd

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Speaker 1: say either have been better you'd rather have in no

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Speaker 1: particular order, just going through the series, Tatum, Giannis, aunt

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Speaker 1: Ants earned it, Joker, Steph who I'll get to, there's

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Speaker 1: It was his just other worldly stamina from start to

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Speaker 1: to launch levels of cluelessness. The idea that all where's

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Speaker 1: Nick's commentary now on Warriors Rockets? I don't know, man,

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Speaker 1: Probably on the podcast, YouTube show or TV show that

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Speaker 1: probably get it there. But those folks that are upset

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Speaker 1: as if this game contradicts it. No, this game, if anything,

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Speaker 1: watch the commentary today we get on Steph Curry, it'll

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Speaker 1: just confirm it. When he's great, he's in the Goat

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Speaker 1: it is, and it's it. But when he's great, and

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Speaker 1: he has been great this postseason and he's thirty seven

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Speaker 1: I don't even want We'll do it on Tuesday. The

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Speaker 1: of next year are going to be felt throughout this offseason,

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Speaker 1: and you feel sick for Dame, and obviously people are

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Speaker 1: going to jump to what it means for you. Honest

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Speaker 1: Dame has a two year, one hundred and twelve million

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Speaker 1: worry about, obviously what this means for an all time

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Speaker 1: The other story from the weekend is the Clippers furious

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter comeback in a game much like the Laker

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Speaker 1: game where it was like, and we trust these five

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Speaker 1: guys were playing these five guys for the Nuggets, and

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Speaker 1: those five guys ran out of gas at the end,

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Speaker 1: but thanks to and I thought Jokers in a game

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Speaker 1: Joker was awesome. I mean he hit thirty six twenty

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Speaker 1: it was very unjoker, like, maybe you have that luxury

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Speaker 1: was shocked by that decision when it was clear it

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Speaker 1: Jamal doesn't have it tonight. Porter's injured, and I mean

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Speaker 1: Porter played tough and played well through the plate through

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Speaker 1: the injury, and you're not gonna trust Christian Brown and

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Speaker 1: that's spot and Aaron Gordon you're not gonna want to

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Speaker 1: play for. I get, so maybe it's more reasonable than

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Speaker 1: I thought. But the Aaron Gordon buzzer beating dunk to

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Speaker 1: tie a series rather than go down three to one

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Speaker 1: is really the stuff of legends. And it is such

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Speaker 1: it looked like they were going to It was such

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Speaker 1: a weird game, and that the first half is back

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Speaker 1: and forth the whole time, as tightly contested as you get.

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Speaker 1: Denver then absolutely blitzes them in the second half to

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Speaker 1: playoff game up twenty, and the Clippers then more than

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Speaker 1: chip away. The Clippers thanks to a great Norman Powell

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Speaker 1: game Zubach doing his thing on the offensive end, even

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Speaker 1: though he got absolutely crushed on the other end. Some

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Speaker 1: we're not worried about you, Clippers still in position to

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Speaker 1: entire complexion of that series. And now listen, maybe you

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Speaker 1: can say, oh, well, the Nuggets could have won and overtime.

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Speaker 1: They could have won and overtime, but they were so gassed.

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Speaker 1: It's the same way I felt once the Lakers went

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Speaker 1: both those free throws, the game's over, because even if

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Speaker 1: you just felt like that game was going to be

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Speaker 1: a rap in overtime. And that's how I felt when

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Speaker 1: I saw Jokic put up that shot. It's like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: well they're gonna lose. Aaron Gordon by maybe one one

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Speaker 1: hundredth of a second saves them, and now we have

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Speaker 1: a great series there in Oklahoma City, which I know

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Speaker 1: this is going to sound shitty, and Oklahoma City fans

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Speaker 1: are going to be upset as unimpressive in a sweep

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Speaker 1: as I can remember. It just didn't look the last

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Speaker 1: couple games the way you would have wanted it to look.

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Speaker 1: But maybe they felt correctly, like, man, we can play

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Speaker 1: our c minus game and the Memphis still can't take

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Speaker 1: a game from us, And they were right. So now

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have Oklahoma City resting and chilling watching what

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Speaker 1: is going to be a seven game slugfest between the

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Speaker 1: Clippers and the Nuggets. All Right, this was a little cathartic.

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Speaker 1: I don't I can't say I feel better, but maybe

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Speaker 1: a little bit, I don't know, less anxious about what

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Speaker 1: was a what if weekend for the Los Angeles Lakers,

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Speaker 1: Lebron and Luca. And we'll see how they look on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: but I'll remember this weekend as the weekend when the

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Speaker 1: Lakers championship hopes went to die. And God, nothing would

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Speaker 1: make me happier than a month from now. Folks sending

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Speaker 1: me this clip, Oh you lost faith? Look at them now.

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Speaker 1: I've never wanted to be wrong about a take more

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Speaker 1: than I want to be wrong about this one, but

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Speaker 1: that's It feels like the Lakers season ended this weekend

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Speaker 1: and it shouldn't have. All right, I'll see you guys

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Speaker 1: tomorrow with demands. What's right