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Speaker 4: Geez we come on, man, We've done this how many times?

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Speaker 4: I have creative license?

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Speaker 3: No, it's but it doesn't say it's ripped the knob

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Speaker 3: and rip off the knob of the radio of the

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Speaker 3: like it's skip.

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Speaker 4: It's implied you need rip the knob off.

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Speaker 3: You need more practice, not a game. Not a game,

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Speaker 3: not a game, you need more practice. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 3: about practice practice.

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Speaker 4: It's easy.

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Speaker 3: Rip the knob off. It's not that hard man. Rip

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Speaker 3: the knob off and do what.

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Speaker 4: I want to.

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Speaker 3: Knock it in and rip the knob off. In fact,

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Speaker 3: I don't know why don't have creative licens because no

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Speaker 3: one paid me, because I don't think rip off the

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Speaker 3: knob is actually proper English. I think rip the knob

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Speaker 3: off you're ripping What are you ripping off the knob?

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Speaker 4: You're not.

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Speaker 1: You don't rip off the knob. It's because you're saying, like,

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Speaker 1: are you ripping off the novel? Like the knob is

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Speaker 1: a gangster? Hey, ripping off the knob. Tonight, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go get all that gold, all those Kruger hands. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna show up somewhere with it. They're getting your knob

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Speaker 1: ripped off. That's gonna hurt.

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Speaker 4: It's not ten o'clock yet, from that would be problematic.

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Speaker 4: We're no question, we're not in safe harbor yet we

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Speaker 4: can I'm nick if you can hear the screens.

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Speaker 3: The Thunder lead the Tea Wolves right now three and

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Speaker 3: a half to go, one oh one eighty six. They

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Speaker 3: have sprinted out here in the fourth quarter. It's been

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Speaker 3: a big second half for Shay Gilders Alexander He's got

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Speaker 3: thirty one. Meanwhile, his supporting cast having big nights as well.

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Speaker 3: Chet's got fifteen and seven, You got seventeen and seven

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Speaker 1: It has been a typical Oklahoma City night. Will break

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Speaker 1: this down in detail coming up in about fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 4: Again, still three and a half left to go.

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Speaker 1: You never know, but it looks like the Thunder are

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Speaker 4: I think I do.

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Speaker 3: But we have to talk about hustle because now it's

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Speaker 3: become a thing with the Wan Soto not hustling for

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Speaker 3: the Mets. That now the Mets have had to figure

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Speaker 3: of his hustle. So tonight the Mets lose two nothing again,

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Speaker 3: dead from the neck up. The Mets can't hit right.

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Speaker 3: We stink, We're terrible, but firing anybody yet? The one no,

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Speaker 1: Ten games over five hundred, seat of ten games under

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Speaker 4: It's just fourteen runs in eight games. No one's hitting.

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Speaker 1: Like if three guys were hitting, it'd be fine, but

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Speaker 1: But Sodo's come under fire coming off of the series

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Speaker 1: Sodo did not hustle out of the box where he

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Speaker 1: a story last night, and Michael Kay, played by play

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Speaker 4: Doesn't have any sources in it.

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Speaker 1: And this is what really piss me off about this,

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Speaker 1: that soo. He says, Sodo is not happy. He wanted

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Speaker 1: that Michael Kay, Yankee play by play man, says this, Okay,

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Speaker 1: one that's obsessed with the Mets. Again, what if I

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Speaker 3: They're obsessed with suddenly winning the met beating the Mets

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Speaker 3: Series because it's all been oh, look and Sodo left

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Speaker 3: us and weird, we're better off without Sodo. And now

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Speaker 3: what pisses me off, is that when he said this,

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Speaker 3: It's not like no one's coming to the games. But

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Speaker 3: the fact that Michael Ka had to say and this

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Speaker 3: And then he said it three times. He had all

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Speaker 3: but this is what it but this will be denied.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, that's so irresponsible. I can't even tell

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Speaker 3: you he's coming on the air as a note of authority,

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Speaker 3: Like I'm an insider. I talk to people and this

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Speaker 3: it'll be denied. Adam Schefter, Jay Glazer, Ian Rappaport, don't

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Speaker 3: come out and say, hey, so and so is on.

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Speaker 3: You know, Kirk Cousins is really unhappy and wants off

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Speaker 3: of the Falcons. Now he'll deny this, and the Falcons

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Speaker 3: will deny it. But I've talked to people and Cousins

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Speaker 3: is not happy. He doesn't he's not happy with how

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Speaker 3: not happy how the Falcons dealt with him when when

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Speaker 1: They'll deny this, This will be denied. But this is

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Speaker 1: what he wants. He wants out, he wants a trade

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Speaker 1: he doesn't want He's not happy being the backup, even

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Speaker 1: though he said he's being the backup again.

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Speaker 4: They'll deny this, Like, what kind of report are you saying?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: Can I just say anything I want to? If I

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Speaker 1: the Yankees want to fire you as play by play man. Oh,

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Speaker 1: they'll deny it, but they want to fire you know,

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Speaker 1: people I talk to. Like, that's so irresponsible to say

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. Yet he throws it out there because again,

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Speaker 1: the Yankees are obsessed with the Mets, the Mets of

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Speaker 1: the new benchmark. They're still so bitter that Sodo chose

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Speaker 1: the Mets over the Yankees. And maybe Sodo is unhappy.

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna throw this out there because just maybe,

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Speaker 1: and I know it sound crazy, but maybe he's unhappy

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Speaker 1: because he ain't hitting and he's not doing interviews on

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night Baseball because I'm not hitting, I'm not playing well,

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Speaker 1: and I really want to find my way out of

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Speaker 1: this funk. I'm not happy because I'm not hitting, and

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Speaker 1: any player that is a star player is not happy

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Speaker 1: when they're not hitting. You can be happy for a

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Speaker 1: Sodo probably is upset because he's not hitting. But to

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Speaker 1: say you're miserable, it's been two months, you've been given

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Speaker 1: a bad mistake, but things have gone pretty well. And

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Speaker 1: now here's this report about and no hust and he's

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Speaker 1: because Carlos Mendoza says, potentially the not hustling was about

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Speaker 1: But of course you're gonna deal with kid gloves on

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Speaker 1: this because it's something that Hey, we don't want to

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Speaker 1: So here's this story, and it's really hot right now.

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Speaker 1: But it's been the Yankees, and the Yankees media has

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Speaker 1: that he's not happy, but likely he's not happy because

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Speaker 1: something that's happened in the past, but now there's more

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Speaker 1: Remember when that story was out there that Soda was

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Speaker 4: Remember that. That seems like it was three years ago,

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Speaker 4: just like the the e Bay show. Hey story, Wow,

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Speaker 4: that's gonna be a big deal.

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Speaker 1: In a month after that story broke, we never talked

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Speaker 1: about it like SODA's gonna hit. Everything's gonna be fine.

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Speaker 1: It's a big story right now. And I get why

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Speaker 1: they had to talk Tom about hustling, because you can't

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Speaker 1: not hustle in New York. That's not gonna work. I

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Speaker 1: understand it. But wow, this really seems like here's the

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Speaker 1: Yankees trying to here's Yankees media, Yankee fans trying to.

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Speaker 4: Just we we're obsessed.

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Speaker 1: We're throwing this out there. And when this is something

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be taken care of and in a month,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna forget that this is a story.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I will say this in a month's time,

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Speaker 3: whatever's going on with Want Soda, I'm still gonna have

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Speaker 3: more more questions on epay and show Hey than I.

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Speaker 4: Ever I ever, But well, we look at that, right.

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Speaker 3: Bob Klappish of New Jersey dot Com longtime reporter said, also,

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Speaker 3: you know there was a report of Mets hierarchy quote

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Speaker 3: concerned about SODA's lack.

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Speaker 4: Of enthusiasm for his new team.

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Speaker 3: To your point, could just be very much the I'm

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Speaker 3: in my head because I'm having a rough go at

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Speaker 3: the plate. Thought it would be an easier transition. Here's

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Speaker 3: the lineup all of those things, right you about Well,

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Speaker 3: it's a lot easier when you've got air and judge

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Speaker 3: hitting with you and so on and so forth. But

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Speaker 3: this is also where we get into the the problems, right,

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Speaker 3: we get some great information and stuff that gets ferreted

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, It is over Game one in Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: affecting things. Gobert was called for two falls pretty fast.

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Speaker 3: The second one was just a dumb reach in and

434
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Speaker 3: push what he didn't need to concede that you missed

435
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Speaker 3: the layup and move on, which forces you to the bench,

436
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Speaker 3: and we had to start seeing a deeper rotation. But

437
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Speaker 3: all of that to say, you know your point about SGA.

438
00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,679
Speaker 3: He stayed aggressive two of thirteen. But he lived at

439
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Speaker 3: the fall line and continued to live at the fall

440
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Speaker 3: line as the night wore on, and you saw no

441
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Speaker 3: answers outside of the early heroics from Julius Randall you

442
00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,240
Speaker 3: couldn't buy a bucket from the outside and.

443
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Speaker 1: Edwards five points in the third quarter when a four

444
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Speaker 1: point lead, went to a four point lead, went to

445
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Speaker 1: a ten point deposit, zero points in the fourth zero

446
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Speaker 1: zero zero. When his team needed him, when he needed

447
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Speaker 1: to be more, he disappeared. Can you sing Randy van

448
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Speaker 1: Warmer for thy?

449
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Speaker 3: Just when I needed you most? Five out of thirteen,

450
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Speaker 3: he took thirteen shots tonight. He took one shot in

451
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Speaker 3: the fourth quarter. He took thirteen shots. One when you're

452
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Speaker 3: down ten going to the fourth quarter, one he can't

453
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Speaker 3: take over with the consistency that SGA and other players

454
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Speaker 3: take over. Right, he can't take over like SGA does.

455
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Speaker 3: He can't take over like Jalen Brunson. He has moments

456
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Speaker 3: and he has games where wow, he's the best player

457
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Speaker 3: on the floor. He does and he is feeling it.

458
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Speaker 3: But the thing is is he's got to have it.

459
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Speaker 3: When you're not feeling it, you still got to find

460
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Speaker 3: a way. Right, you're the best player on the team.

461
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Speaker 3: If you're not feeling I'm sorry, you got to find

462
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Speaker 3: a way. Whether it is getting to the free throw line,

463
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Speaker 3: whether it's hey, I'm not gonna take threes, right, it's

464
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Speaker 3: not my night from three, whatever it's going to be,

465
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Speaker 3: you have to find a way. And and Edwards just

466
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Speaker 3: has games where he just doesn't try to do that.

467
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Speaker 3: And this is a game where down by ten going

468
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Speaker 3: to fourth, ye, Julius Trail did all he could. He

469
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Speaker 3: scored twenty points in the first f he got you

470
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Speaker 3: up by four, you had five threes. That's not gonna continue.

471
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Speaker 4: And and yet.

472
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Speaker 1: He became too much, too much of a wallflower, right,

473
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is why Ann Edwards. Everyone

474
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Speaker 1: wants to a crown of always a next Michael Jordan. No,

475
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Speaker 1: he has stretches where he is terrific. He has games

476
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Speaker 1: where he's unbelie but it's not consistent enough, and he

477
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Speaker 1: needs to be more consistent. And this is why I

478
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Speaker 1: picked the Thunder because I said, you're gonna get a

479
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Speaker 1: more consistently great series from SGA than Ann Edwards.

480
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Speaker 3: This has come up in the playoffs before. Remember it

481
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 3: was just ten days ago in the last series where

482
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Speaker 3: the tea walls were a little upset and Chris Finch

483
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Speaker 3: was upset with the effort he got from Ed Edwards

484
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Speaker 3: in an early log. So remember here, Oh you're not

485
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Speaker 3: hustling on that grounder. This was Chris Finch about a

486
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Speaker 3: week and a half ago, early on in the Nuggets series,

487
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Speaker 3: say hey, I need a little bit more out of you.

488
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Speaker 6: What is there to talk about? I mean, you're they're

489
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Speaker 6: they're the leader of the team, and you got to

490
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Speaker 6: come out and set the tone. You know in all

491
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Speaker 6: ways that that happens. And if it's if your SHOT's

492
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Speaker 6: not going like you, you still have to carry the energy,

493
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Speaker 6: you know. So I don't think there's if I got

494
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Speaker 6: to talk to guys about having the right energy coming

495
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Speaker 6: into opening around game opening the second round game. Then

496
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Speaker 6: you know we're not you know we're not on the

497
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Speaker 6: same page.

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Speaker 3: So I mean that's that was from ten days days ago,

499
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Speaker 3: and that's what you say tonight. Setting the tone being

500
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Speaker 3: a leader, being the guy to say we're gonna win

501
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 3: on my shoulders. Like he doesn't do that with the consistency.

502
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 3: Everybody knows it's his team. Jillius Randall's not going to

503
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,159
Speaker 3: get upset. Key Ride Goobert is not going to get

504
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 3: upset if this happens. Right, it's your team. Hey, you

505
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 3: gotta be the guy to do it. Your best player.

506
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 3: If you're gonna win in the playoffs for anything, your

507
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Speaker 3: best player needs to be your best player.

508
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Speaker 4: Well, it's like we talked about when the Warriors went down.

509
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 3: There was no fight out of Jimmy Butler, Right, a

510
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,679
Speaker 3: guy that you were expecting playoff Jimmy didn't appear, and

511
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:37,640
Speaker 3: he's leaving games with eight shots, ten shots. No, he's

512
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Speaker 3: supposed to be the guy with Steph Curry's sideline that

513
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Speaker 3: he's going to pick it up with. Anthony Edwards curious

514
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 3: here do we get any update because he did have

515
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 3: the ankle issue earlier in this game, but he played

516
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Speaker 3: thirty seven minutes, so you can only, you know, put

517
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Speaker 3: a small asterisk next to anything as we try to

518
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,919
Speaker 3: await anything there. But he's what two of five and

519
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Speaker 3: the third quarter and then zero for one in the fourth,

520
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,920
Speaker 3: still logging thirty seven minutes you had for his shots

521
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Speaker 3: of the night, he's five of thirteen. Julius Randall goes

522
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Speaker 3: nine to thirteen. Most of that damage done in that

523
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,679
Speaker 3: first quarter, and then Devincenzo was three or fourteen. His

524
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,120
Speaker 3: jump shot was absolutely broken because he had a lot

525
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Speaker 3: of wide open looks.

526
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Speaker 4: Because that's the other part of this. Will you shoot

527
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Speaker 4: his poorly? I don't know.

528
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Speaker 3: You've got guys closing out and attacking, and I get

529
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Speaker 3: that they shot thirty four point nine percent from the

530
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Speaker 3: field and a lot of those shots wide open looks.

531
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Speaker 3: So will it go the other way and you get

532
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:41,160
Speaker 3: some normalization maybe. But the Anthony Edwards thing you can't

533
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Speaker 3: solve no like that is that is the biggest enigma

534
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 3: in sports right now is to game the game, which

535
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Speaker 3: type of effort you're going to get. Your best player

536
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,919
Speaker 3: has to find a way to affect the game even

537
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,440
Speaker 3: when it's not his night, and it's not that if Ann.

538
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Speaker 4: Edwards was out of twenty four. I would say, you

539
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Speaker 4: know what go down as night?

540
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Speaker 1: If Dante DiVincenzo is five to twenty four, it's dude,

541
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: you need to shoot last. Come on, but here's your

542
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Speaker 1: best player.

543
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Speaker 4: Right.

544
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 3: It's almost like when when I look at a night

545
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 3: like this from Edwards and see how passive he was

546
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 3: and not sending tone doing all of this, like there's

547
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 3: not being able to affect the game, and there's basically

548
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 3: holding back from trying to affect the game. When you're

549
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 3: down ten going to the fourth quarter, this is where

550
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,919
Speaker 3: Ann Edwards has to say, you know what this is?

551
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:28,120
Speaker 4: Now?

552
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 3: I got this, I got this. Now I'm gonna bring

553
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 3: us back. It was because this game was there for them, right.

554
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,439
Speaker 3: You can only give away you know, so many games

555
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 3: in a series. Really at this point you can't give

556
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 3: away any But this game was there for Minnesota because

557
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 3: a four point lead at halftime and An Edwards hadn't

558
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 3: played his best basketball, So okay, it's there for you.

559
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,120
Speaker 4: It's and then instead in the in the second half.

560
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 3: Five points like it was it was a gift and

561
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 3: and I'm only going to take a handful of shots. Well,

562
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 3: what we talk about first half? You had the big

563
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,879
Speaker 3: stats from Julius Randall. I think Steve had the stat

564
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 3: The rest of the t Wolves were a combined nine

565
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 3: of thirty five. And then it got worse. Yes, it

566
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 3: got worse, seventy to forty. You're outscored in the second half,

567
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 3: an eighteen point third quarter, and then an absolute disappearing

568
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 3: act from Edwards in the fourth as you just saw

569
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 3: passing lanes filled, great work up and down the court

570
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 3: by that Thunder defense. Seventeen turnovers doesn't seem like that's enough.

571
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Speaker 3: I think they stopped counting at some point in this game.

572
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 3: You'ven had twelve offensive boards for the Timberwolves, but did

573
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 3: not get the putbacks, did not get those those finishes

574
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Speaker 3: that you expected for the Thunder. They end up shooting

575
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Speaker 3: fifty percent from the field for the night, a judicious

576
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Speaker 3: and efficient eleven of twenty one from three point range.

577
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 4: Way too passive.

578
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Speaker 1: You're just passive at that point, and you're gonna look

579
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: back at this series when the Thunder win and look

580
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: in the Thunder this is why it's such a big deal,

581
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 1: because eating them four times, I mean, I don't know, man,

582
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll tell you this. If the Knicks get

583
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 1: by the Pacers, which are we gonna sweep him? But

584
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 1: if the Knicks get by the Pacers, is well, I'm

585
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 1: just saying because I want to, because I'm gonna, you know,

586
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 1: think about it. Can you beat him four times? I

587
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 1: mean maybe you get like you find a way the

588
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: matchups work for you, but you can't give away games.

589
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: And and this was we're up by four at halftime

590
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: in game one, and no matter.

591
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 3: Where you are, things are getting real serious now. So

592
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 3: maybe just maybe, hey, we're up four, this is a

593
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 3: game we can steal and steal home court advantage back,

594
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Speaker 3: and not not with what we saw in the second

595
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Speaker 3: half there that was that was a business was the team.

596
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 3: We'll saying, Hey, we were happy to be up four

597
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 3: at halftime, and now we're going, you know, we're down

598
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 3: one's in yeah, and to pull it back, right, we

599
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 3: talk about the defense, and and certainly Alex Caruso's name

600
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 3: is gonna come up a ton. We watched what he did, right,

601
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 3: I mean, look the bulls miss him to uh you

602
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 3: go all the way through just one of those glue guys.

603
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 3: And I think the reputation is now you can do

604
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 3: whatever you want defensively as Alex Cruz as we've watched

605
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,479
Speaker 3: him against superstars like Shad Alex Caruso not being called

606
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 3: for the body falls, well he's not. Suddenly he's getting

607
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 3: superstar calls based on a bit of reputation as a

608
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 3: defensive stopper. So you're getting to see him be aggressive

609
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 3: at the point of attack, which is it's just very

610
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 3: interesting to watch from a guy who was an also

611
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 3: Ran ancillary part for years and just a fan favorite too.

612
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 3: He's a guy that's helping lead you to a Western

613
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 3: Conference title.

614
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: Suddenly Game two is the series and and you you

615
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 1: feel like the t Wolves are are are now reeling

616
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: because you just basically showed them in the second half.

617
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 3: We have an extra gear that you don't have. And

618
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 3: and now that if you're Minnesota, you had the questions

619
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 3: in the last series, you're able to get through it, right,

620
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 3: You're able to get through it, Okay, But this is

621
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 3: a this is a different animal. Julius Randall's not hitting

622
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 3: five threes in the first half. Again, that's not gonna happen,

623
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 3: right that this is a huge missed opportunity for the team. Right,

624
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 3: you didn't play great basketball, like I said, seven turnovers

625
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,959
Speaker 3: in that first quarter, which is again when they get

626
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,360
Speaker 3: to seventeen, I think they stopped counting. But you look

627
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 3: at his shooting, the passivity of and ineffectiveness of your

628
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 3: rest of your shooters, shake Gilgers Alexander with that rough

629
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 3: start to kind of maybe balance that a little bit.

630
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 3: So you knew he'd be better, but that he would

631
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 3: keep attacking. Right, That's the one thing that we can

632
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 3: say we've we've figured out in his MVP season. Why

633
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 3: they still haven't crowned, I don't know. But all of

634
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 3: that to say for the Timberwolves, a lot of introspection

635
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 3: coming out of this one, because you had, at least

636
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 3: at halftime, you had to feel pretty good about your chances.

637
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 3: You hadn't been run out of the gym yet, you

638
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 3: hadn't played your best basketball. Yes, Julius might not hit,

639
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 3: but Devincenzo maybe finds his shot, or Ant has a

640
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 3: little bit of a takeover, and instead it was more

641
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 3: passivity and you got run off the.

642
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Speaker 1: Court, exit out bout a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason

643
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

644
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Speaker 1: So this is why I picked the thunder and it

645
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Speaker 1: just it just played out exactly how I talked about

646
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Speaker 1: it last night, and Edward's two passes time now to

647
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Speaker 1: find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.

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Speaker 1: But guy's been called me in Edwards a Fox Sports Radio,

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Speaker 1: don't you dare?

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Speaker 3: Sometimes you go looking for me, you can't find him.

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Speaker 3: It's Steve the Sega.

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Speaker 7: Did you notice that he turned his ankle and left

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Speaker 7: the court in the first half of tonight's playoff game?

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Speaker 7: But he wasn't really limping that hard off and it

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Speaker 7: wasn't a wheelchair back on.

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Speaker 4: He was packed pretty quickly, So I don't think that's.

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Speaker 7: An excuse for, as you say, not being more aggressive

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Speaker 7: here in this one.

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Speaker 4: Because you still play thirty seven.

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Speaker 7: I think the point was made. Minnesota could have been

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Speaker 7: ahead by a lot more at different points in the

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Speaker 7: first tap. By the way, you mentioned earlier in sports tonight,

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Speaker 7: we had the fever dream matchup in the WNBA Atlanta

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Speaker 7: one ninety one ninety at Indiana. We also had the

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Speaker 7: Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 1: But that doesn't it feel like if it's a fever dream,

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Speaker 1: the score should be higher than ninety one.

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Speaker 4: Ninety should be like one o two, one on one.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty It's pretty high. It's quarters.

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Speaker 1: I had a fever dream. My temperature was one hundred

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Speaker 1: and two, like ninety one nineties.

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Speaker 7: Like, oh, okay, you're saying they had the fever, but

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Speaker 7: they needed more cowb exactly. In the NHL playoffs, Carolina

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Speaker 7: lost to the Panthers five to two Florida in Game

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Speaker 7: one of the East Final. Dallas host Edmonton and the

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Speaker 7: opener of the West Final Wednesday. In the NBA East

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Speaker 7: Final start Wednesday with Indiana New York. Tonight at OKC,

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Speaker 7: Thunder dominated the second half, beating Minnesota one fourteen to

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Speaker 7: eighty eight. Jay Gilgess Alexander, who was two of thirteen

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Speaker 7: shooting from the floor in the first half, nonetheless finished

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Speaker 7: with thirty one points and nine assists. OKAC had just

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Speaker 7: played a game seven to end the previous round a

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Speaker 7: couple days ago. Minnesota had been off for almost a week.

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Speaker 7: One game to none lead for the top seeds, and

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Speaker 7: OKAC will host game two on Thursday. We've got a

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Speaker 7: no hitter going at Dodger Stadium. They're actually getting pitching

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Speaker 7: la yosh Nobu Yamamoto, who comes in with an ERA

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Speaker 7: of two point one two this year as a no hitter.

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Speaker 4: Bottom of the sixth. Don't do it, Steve, don't do it.

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Speaker 7: Dodgers lead one nothing over Arizona. Well, I haven't mentioned

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Speaker 7: that he's thrown ninety pitches already in six It's not

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Speaker 7: gonna be a decision.

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Speaker 4: Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts can't wait to go to the

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Speaker 4: mound to take him out. He can't wait right now

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Speaker 4: in the tunnel, he can't wait.

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Speaker 7: He can't wait for that first hit to be surrendered

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Speaker 7: and then.

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Speaker 4: They race to the mound.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna Young Moto's gonna walk out to the mound

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Speaker 1: for the sixth inning, and Dave Roberts is gonna run

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Speaker 1: behind him and tackle him.

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Speaker 7: Six scoreless, eight strikeouts, one walk. Arizona is oz for

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Speaker 7: eighteen against him. As for the other games, the White

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Speaker 7: Sox are still leading one nothing ninth against the Maritors.

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Speaker 7: This is a game that had a rain delay at

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Speaker 7: the start of about an hour and a half. The

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Speaker 7: White Sox currently have tied their worst ever start to

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Speaker 7: a season. Last year, they also started at fourteen and

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Speaker 7: thirty four. Could have a w on the horizon two

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Speaker 7: outs in the ninth Right now, John.

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Speaker 1: Had put five games between them and the Rockies in

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Speaker 1: the race for worse windings.

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Speaker 7: Colorado did lose again. Philadelphia won its fifth straight game,

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Speaker 7: seven to four at Colorado. The Rockies record is eight

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Speaker 7: and forty pause and ouch Giants three to one leaders

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Speaker 7: against the Royals in the bottom of the sixth and

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Speaker 7: going to the sixth and Sacramento Angels holding on five

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Speaker 7: to four over the A's. Detroit won five to four

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Speaker 7: at Saint Louis with a run in the top of

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Speaker 7: the ninth. Riley Green three hits, four RBIs Milwaukee sent

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Speaker 7: Baltimore to an eighth straight loss, five to two. Cleveland

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Speaker 7: at Minnesota was rained out. Toronto shut out the Padres

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Speaker 7: three and I think Blue Jays only had three hits,

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Speaker 7: but two of them were homers. The Yankees got a

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Speaker 7: sixteenth homer this year from Aaron Judge. He's betting four

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Speaker 7: oh three Yanks by Texas five to two. By the way,

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Speaker 7: in that Philadelphia victory, seventeenth homer this year for Kyle Schwarber.

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Speaker 7: Home wins for Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay for Boston and Washington.

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Speaker 7: The Cubs won fourteen to one at Miami.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, Thank you, Steve O Smith, Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1: Live from the Fox Sports Radio suities. We got more

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Speaker 1: NBA on the way, but coming up next an NFL

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Speaker 1: story from today about who could be the next great

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Speaker 1: running back in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: And Michael Myers. That's next Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: Yes.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: I'm just not saying anything because I know, like for

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Speaker 1: a few seconds, good number of people are probably listening

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Speaker 1: by themselves in a room and they're like.

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Speaker 4: God, I'm scared, don't play that music. Don't play that music. Smith,

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Speaker 4: You're a jerk, and you said play Mary.

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Speaker 1: What does Michael Myers and Halloween have to do with

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest NFL stories of the day, Well,

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Speaker 1: luckily you asked.

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Speaker 4: Today.

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Speaker 1: Raiders running back Ashton Genty, who potentially he's gonna be everybody.

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Speaker 1: He's Rookie of the Year, He's gonna run for eighteen hundred.

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Speaker 1: He's exactly what the Raiders need. Raiders ZC. Chip Kelly says, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I'd like you to be in more of a stance,

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Speaker 1: more of a crouch when the snap comes to you. Okay, sure, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that makes sense. As it was explained to Ashton Genty,

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Speaker 1: Look if I was guarding you in basketball, how would

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Speaker 1: it look like. And Ashton Genty kind of got down.

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Speaker 1: He is, that's kind of how you have to be.

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Speaker 1: Makes me hope that Chip Kelly knows more about football

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Speaker 1: than basketball. But the thing is, Ashton Genty has always

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Speaker 1: stood up straight, and he has kind of made a

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Speaker 1: cottage industry in the last year or so of being

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Speaker 1: compared to Michael Myers because the way he stands in

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Speaker 1: the backfield, like there's merch and there's T shirts that

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Speaker 1: are sold, and there's memes, and there's an identity, and

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Speaker 1: because he would stand up straight, and like Michael Myers

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Speaker 1: when he would just stand there, there's all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 1: You can find it on the Internet of Michael Myers

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Speaker 1: just standing and Ashton Genty just standing before the snap comes.

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Speaker 1: And my first thought was when I saw this story

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Speaker 1: and Ashgenty says, you know, I understand, coach, he he

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Speaker 1: wins this.

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Speaker 4: I'll try it for now. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Now, first thing is like, wow, this guy could make

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Speaker 1: some money and these are T shirts, this is this

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Speaker 1: is NFL stuff and all you can take money out

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Speaker 1: of his pocket. Man you know, he's not gonna let

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Speaker 1: him stand like Michael Myers anymore. Like this is a thing,

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Speaker 1: like you can stand like Michael Myers, doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: wear the mask and all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 3: But now if he did that on top of it,

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Speaker 3: like it would be pretty cool. The shield that he

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Speaker 3: that he had a mask.

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Speaker 1: Oh, the old personality posts of the NFL, like they

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Speaker 1: used to have, like in the nineties, like Jim Jim

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Speaker 1: Kelly was machine gun Kelly and he would have a

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Speaker 1: machine gun and a bunch of footballs and like pretend

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Speaker 1: to pretend to be dead players, you know.

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Speaker 4: And I'm gonna get with footballs. I found a place

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Speaker 4: that still sells. They still.

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Speaker 3: And now they're they're they're owned by a company. You

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Speaker 3: can come back in the wayback machine like him.

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Speaker 1: Want him doing this with a Michael Myers mask on

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Speaker 1: standing up like okay, you're going into his pocket here.

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Speaker 1: I understand the philosophy. I understand it of hey, you

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Speaker 1: want to be in a crouch more than that, But

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Speaker 1: Genti even said today, you know, it's just about me

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Speaker 1: being comfortable and what gives me confidence. And that's why

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Speaker 1: the Michael Meyers stance will be back it'll be back

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Speaker 1: sooner rather than later, because you can't reinvent.

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Speaker 4: A player at this level.

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Speaker 3: And if Ashton Genty is comfortable with that, okay, you're

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Speaker 3: really buying a lot taking a guy out of his

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Speaker 3: comfort zone to get him to move eight inches to

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Speaker 3: have his hands on his pads eight Is that really

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Speaker 3: what it is? Because maybe and I'm just throwing this

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Speaker 3: out there, maybe GENTI yeah, I'm very confident in this,

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Speaker 3: and maybe the reason behind it is I'm five nine

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Speaker 3: and I feel like I can see the whole field.

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Speaker 3: I need that little bit extra standing up where I

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Speaker 3: can see where the linebackers are, I can see where

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Speaker 3: the safety is. Rather if I'm in a crouch, I

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Speaker 3: can't see if the safety is moving. I can't see

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Speaker 3: if a linebacker is shifting. I can maybe see it.

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Speaker 1: Nobody told Drew Brees, Dude, Drew, don't throw with your

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Speaker 1: head cocked all the way back. But I get an

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Speaker 1: extra three inches in my eyes because I'm only six

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Speaker 1: feet tall, so i can see a little bit more

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Speaker 1: with that big necktilt. And I'm sure the arthritis for

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees is going to be off the hook when

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Speaker 1: he gets older. He had plenty of treatments. He's a

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Speaker 1: card show here in a month or two and ask him,

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Speaker 1: how's that. I can't do that right?

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Speaker 3: Maybe that led to the shoulder, and I mean the

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Speaker 3: nerves styf could have been right, but look at us doctors.

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Speaker 1: But that got him three extra inches, I'm sure. And

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Speaker 1: if this gets genty being more, I can see the

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Speaker 1: field a little bit more. You gotta let it stay right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, not just because it's a

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Speaker 1: great story. It's Halloween, it's Michael Mais. I'm sure somebody

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Speaker 1: else will come in and maybe Amari and Hanton will

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Speaker 1: be the Jason Forhees. I don't know, but you know

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Speaker 1: he gets something fun.

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Speaker 3: But when a player is comfortable doing that, yeah, there's

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Speaker 3: only so much you can do with the NFL to

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Speaker 3: change how they play, right. You got to teach them

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Speaker 3: the NFL game and certain things one hundred percent. But

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Speaker 3: the player is who he is at this point. Anytime

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Speaker 3: a player comes to the NFL and they go, well,

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Speaker 3: we you were really good, you know, as as a

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Speaker 3: as a defensive lineman. But boy, if I put you

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Speaker 3: with your your hand in the dirt, we think you

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Speaker 3: can be a great defensive tackle. Okay, so you're gonna

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Speaker 3: take a guy away from the reason you're drafted him

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Speaker 3: because you think he can be better at different position. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: cross that guy off as someone who's gonna underachieve, right,

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Speaker 3: and I go, this is a small thing, but this

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Speaker 3: is you're taking away what he does.

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Speaker 1: Is the gain that much? The gain is not that

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Speaker 1: much for the confidence and what he can do seeing

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Speaker 1: the field by being by being four or five inches high,

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Speaker 1: it's more than three inch for Brees. Like if you're

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Speaker 1: talking about Genti down in the stance versus standing up straight,

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Speaker 1: that's probably and it's probably about five inches worth of height,

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Speaker 1: and that's you can see so much more of the field.

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Speaker 1: If that makes you more cochab Okay, if I can

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Speaker 1: know where I can hit a hole a little.

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Speaker 3: Bit better because I can see it. Yeah, I mean really,

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Speaker 3: you got to understand that that it's okay to have that.

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Speaker 3: It's not it's not worth that millisecond of advantage you're

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Speaker 3: going to get. No, absolutely, go back to the Drew

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Speaker 3: Brees analogy. I mean, he threw the ball and his

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Speaker 3: throwing style was reminiscent of the old electric video game

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Speaker 3: or the electric game that you had right where you

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Speaker 3: had to put the ball, a little phone ball in

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Speaker 3: the guy's hand and cock his arm and then he

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Speaker 3: shot put it over the top with jenty. If we're

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Speaker 3: talking about just that's because that was one of the

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Speaker 3: questions coming out, right. Is he too short for some

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Speaker 3: of the blitz pickups and other things you're gonna do

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Speaker 3: if he's comfortable and has shown this level of dominance.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Chip Kelly, you were the guy fifteen years ago,

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Speaker 3: and I know you had a nice little resurgence here

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Speaker 3: in Ohio State.

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Speaker 4: Let the kid do what he needs to.

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Speaker 3: You're trying to climb out of the basement and get

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Speaker 3: back to relevancy.

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Speaker 4: Let the guy work.

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Speaker 3: He's at plus two fifty plus two seventy five in

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Speaker 3: a couple of sportsbooks.

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Speaker 4: Hampton at fourteen to one.

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Speaker 1: Shut him down the air, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live

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Speaker 1: from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Let Michael Myers cook.

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Speaker 1: That could be a thing, right, Let Michael Myers cook?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 5: Why not?

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Speaker 4: Sure? Come out next?

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Speaker 1: We get back into the NBA into the most fun

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Speaker 1: story of the day, without a doubt.

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Speaker 3: FA