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Speaker 1: going to tell you right now our NBA Finals preview

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Speaker 1: it's coming on Tuesday. Okay, So we won't get into

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Speaker 1: Thunder Pacers on today show. We're talking about Game six

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Speaker 1: last night, what the Knicks are going to do in

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Speaker 1: the offseason, say goodbye to tn T with the NBA broadcast.

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Speaker 1: But NBA Finals preview that's on Tuesday. But let's get

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Speaker 1: into the game. Siakam Halliburton carrying the Pacers to the

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Speaker 1: one twenty five one away victory over the Knicks on

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Speaker 1: Saturday night. They got the four to two series win

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Speaker 1: task and their first trip to the NBA Finals since

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Speaker 1: two thousand. What do you think of their performance and

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Speaker 1: how they laid the beat down in this game six victory.

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Speaker 3: I thought Pascal Siakam was the difference because he got

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Speaker 3: the pace going about four and a half minutes in

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Speaker 3: because the Knicks were going blow for blow to start

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Speaker 3: this game. But then Pascal Siakam got out real quick

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Speaker 3: to get one of those Indiana Pacers plays off of

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Speaker 3: make where quick little inbound to Haliburn. He drops a

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Speaker 3: fifty foot pass to Siakam, who's beyond the three point line.

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Speaker 3: Just needs to take one dribble and he scores, so

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Speaker 3: six seconds he's got a bucket. He had three more

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Speaker 3: baseball passes where he converted. Like late in the second

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Speaker 3: Pacers want to have some momentum going into half again.

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Speaker 3: Six seconds left in the second quarter, he gets another

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Speaker 3: one Siakam on a breakout on a miss, this time

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Speaker 3: there's a trickle down effect, like Miles Turner had a

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Speaker 3: three right after the first one. It trickles down. It

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Speaker 3: trickled down into the third quarter again after Thomas Bryan

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Speaker 3: four fouls just two minutes in. Big block by Bryant

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Speaker 3: leads to another Seacam push ahead and then when the

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Speaker 3: Knicks were getting back, I thought, we got a lot

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Speaker 3: of ethical Seakam baskets. Give me the ball, I'll go

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Speaker 3: to work in the mid range. Did it again. I

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Speaker 3: thought there are key moments like to start the second

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Speaker 3: quarter with Haliburton on the bench, first basket Seakam three.

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Speaker 3: Third quarter again right out of the locker room, bangs

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Speaker 3: third quarter when the Knicks are on an eight tozero

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Speaker 3: puts that hand back for a steal on mckal bridges

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Speaker 3: that sparks a nine er run for the Pacers. So

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Speaker 3: he was just there to seal it, and he sealed

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Speaker 3: it late in the fourth quarter with an offensive rebound

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Speaker 3: to really put this thing away. As the Knicks we're

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Speaker 3: trying to do it again. I thought he was the

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Speaker 3: guy in this game that did it in so many ways.

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Speaker 3: Obviously so many other guys doing it, but I think

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Speaker 3: Siakam was the guy just to make it all happen

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Speaker 1: Sounds like you would have given him your vote for

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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Finals MVP. Yeah, close, vote five to four,

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Speaker 1: just eking out Tellerton, but you're going through all he

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Speaker 4: Close. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, even if stan Van Gundy said, you guys heard

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Speaker 3: not sure if that was an NBA like in Arena

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Speaker 3: he Halliburn's gonna.

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Speaker 2: Win this MVP, right, Yeah, Yeah, Reggie voted for him.

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Speaker 3: Yeahah voted for let's get a good close one. And

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Speaker 3: that's the beauty of the Pacers.

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Speaker 2: Anybody could do it, Yeah, exactly. A five to four

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Speaker 2: vote for the MVP makes complete sense, and it kind

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Speaker 2: of played out in this game as well, because you

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Speaker 2: could say Halliburton was the main reason that the Pacers

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Speaker 2: won if you really wanted to. He bounced back after

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Speaker 2: the Game three loss. They scored one hundred. Then they

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Speaker 2: went and scored one hundred and twenty. Same thing happened here,

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Speaker 2: six rebounds, thirteen assists, and uncharacteristic four turnovers for Tyrese Haliburton.

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Speaker 2: He had two in the first quarter, even three steals though,

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Speaker 2: and a block. The Pacers were smart with the way

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Speaker 2: up almost at the half court line. Because the Knicks

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Speaker 2: did a better job in Game five of picking him

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Speaker 2: also said I thought that there were some mid range

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Speaker 2: attacks that Tyre's Haliburton could have taken in Game five.

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Speaker 2: He only took seven shots one mid range attempt here.

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Speaker 2: In Game six, though, with Towns way too far down

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Speaker 2: He had that deep dagger three. Kevin Harlan Tyre's Halliperson

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Speaker 2: has gone mad. Love that call from him. Pacers seven

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Speaker 2: to zero. In the playoffs, Halliburton scores twenty or more points.

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Speaker 2: The Pacers played their style of basketball. Test mentioned the

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Speaker 2: runouts They got at least four off makes just chucking

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Speaker 2: scouting report. If the Knicks are going to crash the

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Speaker 2: offensive glass the way they have been, there's no way

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Speaker 2: Pacers scored thirteen of nineteen field goals with six or

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Speaker 2: fewer seconds gone off the shot clock. This was completely

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Speaker 2: Pacers style basketball. They understood the assignment and they played very,

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Speaker 2: very well from like one to nine. I can't believe

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Speaker 2: Thomas Bryant had this kind of game. I thought he

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Speaker 2: Instead three threes, he was part of that huge third

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, it's one thing when Siakam is beating

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Speaker 1: Tyres Halliburton is the engine to the Pacers offense, but

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Speaker 1: Mike was like, Okay, we're closing the door here. I

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Speaker 1: got Pops up in the crowd. We'll eventually get him

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Speaker 1: jay USO.

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Speaker 2: Bring the towel job easy, that's right.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, what a great, great performance here from the Pacers,

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Speaker 1: and they're going back to the NBA Finals for the

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Speaker 1: first time in a very long time.

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Speaker 2: It's wild.

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Speaker 3: Twenty five years it is weld and it's well that

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Speaker 3: they basically ran back the same team as last year,

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Speaker 3: they're going back. When they're talking about I heard Miles

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Speaker 3: To get to Thomas Bryant like that off the bench.

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Speaker 3: That was Yeah, that was crazy because Miles Turner get

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Speaker 4: Oh no, we got to go to Thomas Bryant. He

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Speaker 3: home threes like that, three threes. This was a guy

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Speaker 3: is in the Conference finals contributed and he.

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Speaker 1: Had only played in three of the series first five

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Speaker 1: And then Bradley gets injured and then it's like all right, Bryan,

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Speaker 1: he's you know, yeah, he gave the Pacers eleven points

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Speaker 1: bit about Andrew Nemhart as well. The holy crap he

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Speaker 1: had Brunton in the straight jacket last That was an

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Speaker 1: awesome bounce back performance from him, a guy who had

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Speaker 1: was pressuring Brunson full court. You know, got around those screens,

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Speaker 1: Just what a crazy good game from him. And this

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Speaker 2: In the conference finals.

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Speaker 1: Last year he got cooked by Brunson in sort of

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Speaker 1: like a similar series, same squads. But this game six

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Speaker 1: coming through keeping Brunson in nineteen points and the five turnovers,

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Speaker 1: mean that's the other part. He actually hit some shots. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I went to a Renaissance festival yesterday and the magician

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Speaker 2: David Silverfield easily got out of a straight jacket. Okay,

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Speaker 2: no problem for David Silverfield. But Brunson was having problems.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen points on eighteen shots, and this was kind of

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Speaker 2: the first good defense that Nemhardt has played. Like you said,

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Speaker 2: I think Caitlin Cooper of Basketball she wrote had the

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Speaker 2: staff that Brunson was scoring like fifty points per one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just becomes that thing where it's like, Okay, you're

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Speaker 4: We got to give some love to. The og Og

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Speaker 3: He was great banging home threes when they needed a basket.

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Speaker 4: You just see him just turn it over, these sloppy

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and then he makes up for another way.

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Speaker 3: It just you know, he just kind of gets lost

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Speaker 3: More praise. It's more praise for Og than this, you know,

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Speaker 1: did have a good game. You know the other guys

431
00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:21,359
Speaker 1: we already talked about stars like Kat sort of giving

432
00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,920
Speaker 1: a lot back brunts in in the straight jacket last night,

433
00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,439
Speaker 1: and then even admitted after the game Josh Hart was

434
00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,320
Speaker 1: a nothing nothing this sort of entire series. And I

435
00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,359
Speaker 1: know he got removed from the starting lineup and all that,

436
00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,360
Speaker 1: but he even admitted, like I gave nothing this series.

437
00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,000
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a different series if I play well. Of

438
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,680
Speaker 1: course it's a much different series. If they just win

439
00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,720
Speaker 1: game one would probably talk about games. But yeah, he

440
00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:45,640
Speaker 1: was bad, I thought too.

441
00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder if the pacers in Arena or on

442
00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,240
Speaker 3: TNT they say Josh Hart shooting a three, turn up

443
00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:53,960
Speaker 3: the mic on the backboard, turn it up.

444
00:19:53,920 --> 00:20:01,399
Speaker 4: Because he was wrecking those were he didn't have it, man.

445
00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,480
Speaker 1: No, he did not anything else TK on the game himself,

446
00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:06,520
Speaker 1: or you got some random.

447
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,879
Speaker 2: Notes nothing on basketball. All right, let's get into balls.

448
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:16,840
Speaker 1: Random random, What did you say, Let's talk balls.

449
00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,240
Speaker 2: Let's talk ball. Okay, I know your first random Yeah,

450
00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,119
Speaker 2: two knees to the nuts in this one, the Karl

451
00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,199
Speaker 2: Malone coming through one was og on Pascal Siakam. The

452
00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:31,000
Speaker 2: next was Karl Anthony Towns on Myles Turner, I think.

453
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,920
Speaker 2: And it was a funny explanation because they eventually did

454
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,240
Speaker 2: go and look at the og one at the table,

455
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,680
Speaker 2: to which James Caper's then was explaining to Rick Carlisle. Look,

456
00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,520
Speaker 2: this is a natural shooting emotion, the way he brings

457
00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,440
Speaker 2: his knee up. Unfortunately he hits his groid. He's like, wait,

458
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,200
Speaker 2: it goes up like this. Yeah, that's how you shoot

459
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,800
Speaker 2: a laugh, That's how we all like this. God, it's

460
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,760
Speaker 2: totally defenseless, the flying tiger knee.

461
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:56,320
Speaker 1: Ouch.

462
00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,439
Speaker 4: It was off leg too. You shouldn't be bringing up

463
00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,959
Speaker 4: his right leg. You know you're taught left leg if

464
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:03,720
Speaker 4: you're any.

465
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but at the one footage jump. Nonetheless, these

466
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 2: guys are good enough. They can shoot offhanded, off foot

467
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 2: they but man to be going up with the verticality

468
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 2: in the nuts and then get called.

469
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Speaker 4: For the following.

470
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Speaker 1: That's that's rough, that's tough. Yeah, it happened a couple

471
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 1: of times, like you said.

472
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,720
Speaker 2: In quick successions. They were pretty back to back. I

473
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,159
Speaker 2: mean they probably weren't actually back to back possessions, but

474
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:27,520
Speaker 2: within five minutes it was close.

475
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,480
Speaker 1: They were close enough that the that are you know,

476
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,480
Speaker 1: WhatsApp chat was going, what the hell's going on here?

477
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 1: Watch the nuts, watch your hips. That was crazy. We

478
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:41,160
Speaker 1: also had another rick spit. Rick Carlisle caught spitting once again.

479
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm on the watch, guys. This is my beat now here.

480
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 1: He is early in the game in the little cup there.

481
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,640
Speaker 1: So we we noticed this the other night and here

482
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 1: it was again. I'm glad the cameras caught it. It's

483
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,920
Speaker 1: just fun that we've got the Rick Smith's Rick spits

484
00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:01,600
Speaker 1: Dick hits. It all comes together, Rix sits, Rick spits

485
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: Dick hits. That's the Eastern Conference Finals in a nutshell

486
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 1: right there.

487
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 3: At least he also spit early third quarter, but it

488
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,040
Speaker 3: was a really wide shot. It wasn't the close up

489
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,159
Speaker 3: like that, but you could see him. Cop is in

490
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 3: the cup is in the same spot right on the

491
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 3: scorer table up.

492
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 2: This spit cup.

493
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I just start to wonder.

494
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 3: Because I'm examining his mouth, does he have some tobacco

495
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 3: dip in there? But there's nothing in there. It doesn't

496
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 3: look like it. I think he's just spinning and at

497
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 3: the beginning of the first quarter, beginning of the third quarter.

498
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 3: So is he, you know, drinking before he gets out there?

499
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,919
Speaker 3: Not alcohol, but I mean, like, is there something in

500
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,119
Speaker 3: his mouth that's producing it? Because there's no color to

501
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,640
Speaker 3: it too. Yeah, I mean I'm going I'm going to like.

502
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,120
Speaker 1: A jolly rancher color or something. Yeah, it's a good point.

503
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,159
Speaker 3: It ain't a disgusting cherry dip or whatever people you

504
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,680
Speaker 3: know put dip in their lip. Yeah, yeah, exactly, there's

505
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 3: no there's no discoloration. It's just saliva.

506
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,159
Speaker 1: We've got games before Game one in the NBA Finals,

507
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,679
Speaker 1: someone please ask Rick what's with the spinting?

508
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,640
Speaker 2: What's with the spitting? Rick? What's going on? Rick? Who

509
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 2: handles that cup afterwards? That's what I was.

510
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 1: It's dangerous to have that cup just sitting there. I'm

511
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 1: worried someone's gonna grab it.

512
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,120
Speaker 2: Nobody else would want to touch it, right, Rick spits gross?

513
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 3: Somebody asks former coach Mike Brown. About that, because Mike

514
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 3: Brown would spit into his cup. Yeah, for the Sacramentic Kings,

515
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 3: but that's usually a cup under the cherry, pulls it up, Yeah,

516
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,959
Speaker 3: puts it down. He usually it looked like he had

517
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 3: more volume than Rick.

518
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,159
Speaker 2: I think he may have really hawking a loogi.

519
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, it might be a whole article on this. We're

520
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 1: getting out. Why are coaches spitting so much?

521
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,199
Speaker 2: Why the coaches spit so much? Let's go ask task Melice.

522
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 2: He examines all the mouths.

523
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 3: It's unfortunately, that's so much basketball I watched, but Mike

524
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 3: Brown's is literally brown.

525
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 4: Rick, I think, how.

526
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 3: About this fun?

527
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 1: No here we had Haliburton clapping back at Ben Stiller

528
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: after the Pacers eliminated the Knicks. We did have Stiller

529
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 1: earlier in the day, or when Haliburton showed up to

530
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 1: the arena, said good thing. He brought his duffel for

531
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: the flight to New York. Okay, BET's still a pretty

532
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 1: confident Nick. We're gonna get this back for a game

533
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 1: seven in Madison Square Garden. Halliburton didn't take long after

534
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: the victory to respond, Nah was to pack you all up.

535
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: Not bad, pretty good retort. I thought, I like it, Yeah, exactly,

536
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 1: And they came dressed in black, and they took care

537
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: of business. I already brought up John Halliburton coming down

538
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:27,199
Speaker 1: through the crowd, honey, pretty funny. Just looked awesome, looked awesome.

539
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 1: But otherwise I don't have many other, many other random notes.

540
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 2: What did you think about Reggie taking part in the

541
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 2: funeral gear? He walked in and all black, saying, this

542
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 2: is a funeral game. It's unusual, it's weird, it's unusual.

543
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is strange, like he said, when I mean,

544
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: we can also get to obviously this last TNT podcast,

545
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 1: Like he said, like I've had a crazy life. I

546
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: had like eighteen seasons with one franchise here in Indiana,

547
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: and then I had nineteen more seasons with TNT. I

548
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 1: could not believe he had been there for nineteen years.

549
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:00,719
Speaker 2: Unbelievable.

550
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 4: I wastely crap.

551
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: I'm old, old, but yeah, it was just strange that

552
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 1: he was on the broadcast here for this. I know

553
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: Knicks fans weren't all that happy about it. I thought,

554
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: within the.

555
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 2: Game, it's not like he was super No. I think

556
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 2: I feel like from jump ball to final whistle, Reggie

557
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 2: plays it pretty straight from both sides, except for the

558
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 2: time that Ben Matheron was having a bad run. He's like,

559
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 2: he has been so bad for the Pacers. That was

560
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 2: what I was like, Oh, you're feeling like a fan

561
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 2: right now. Otherwise, but then anytime outside of the game,

562
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 2: of course he's going hard for the p Yeah.

563
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, he kept it pretty neutral. I find it weird

564
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 3: watching the in arena feed and they you know, announced

565
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 3: him and and he's, you know, bowing it. And here

566
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 3: comes Jalen Rose and Mike Epps and they're bowing to

567
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 3: Reggie Miller. I find that strange that the broadcasters, but

568
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 3: Reggie Miller and Reggie Wayne also in attendance. There's Reggie Wayne.

569
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 4: They give him lots of love to and they give.

570
00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,080
Speaker 3: Pat McAfee lots of love Jesus, everybody start there. Yeah,

571
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 3: here's our punter.

572
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: Last night's last night's Nick's Pacers game mark the end

573
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 1: of NBA on TNT. I thought it was a pretty

574
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 1: emotional sign off for the crew. They of course gave

575
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: us a final gone fishing of them heading into the summer,

576
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: so you know, they do this for every team that

577
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: gets eliminated. But they're the four guys with their fish

578
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,919
Speaker 1: Yeah elevator Ernie shirt, I like that. Yeah, but New

579
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: Yorker shirt on Kenny Smith.

580
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that as well.

581
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: What did you think of their actual like goodbye to

582
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 1: all of those fans there on the broadcast.

583
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 2: I thought like it was a double goodbye because Kevin

584
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 2: Harlan kind of gave the broadcast goodbye, and then they

585
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 2: ran through all the different broadcasts, setups and partners that

586
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 2: they had had. I thought that was really cool. And

587
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 2: then of course it was bittersweet and kind of fun

588
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 2: to watch them saying goodbye to this version of Inside

589
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 2: the NBA. I like shack racking up a couple of

590
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 2: fines from the SEC that David Aslovt is gonna have

591
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 2: to pay now that they're leaving. He said, I'm not

592
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 2: gonna have around. Well, I'm gonna say the real word.

593
00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty funny, so I got Kenny

594
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 2: all high up to say it as well. And then Charles,

595
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 2: the guy who cannot go a sentence without swearing when

596
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: he's off TV, didn't swear. No, that was air ball.

597
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 2: But of course Ernie brought it back home emotional at

598
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 2: the end. That was fun to see them get a

599
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 2: chance to say goodbye, and you know it's sad. It

600
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 2: literally is the end of an era.

601
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was like it was cool that

602
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: they were in Indianapolis in front of that huge crowd

603
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: that had obviously poured out from the actual arena into

604
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: that sort of concourse. Like that was cool. Like they

605
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: were chanting like you know, T and T and stuff

606
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: like that. Thought that was pretty neat. It was just

607
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: better than them just sitting you know, up in the

608
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 1: nosebleeds somewhere with like no crowd behind them. Gave them

609
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: sort of that cool atmosphere. The only other note was

610
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: like Ernie did the amazing goodbye right at the end,

611
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: but then Shack sort of ruined it by like saying.

612
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 2: Like like hey man, let's drop our mics.

613
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 1: Let's drop our mics. I was like, okay, that's classic Shack.

614
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: But otherwise, I mean, it was classy from the entire

615
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: team there, and especially Ernie with his sort of final words.

616
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 2: And it is weird too. It's like we're gone, but

617
00:27:59,000 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 2: we're not.

618
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 3: So it's just so yeah, and Shack after I was

619
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 3: during Game five, I guess was doing, uh.

620
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 4: We're coming back, We're gonna be good.

621
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 3: It was like he was cutting a promo video for

622
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 3: next year. You know, he was selling it. It's like,

623
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 3: we're gonna be good yet.

624
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm paraphrasing. I don't think you said. That's

625
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 4: essentially what it was. I was like, we're done.

626
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 2: He Al says that they're coming there. They're kicking ass

627
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 2: and taking Man, you're gonna fight my bre Kendrick Perkins

628
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 2: versus Shack made it happen.

629
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: It was strange, Like I guess I didn't realize it

630
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 1: when they did that thing, like you said, Harlan with

631
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: stan Van and Reggie and Ali LaForce she joined there

632
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: at the final part. Like I was like, oh, yeah,

633
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: Harlan and Reggie, you are not gonna be together? Yeah,

634
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: weird they I think I have that right. Aren't they

635
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: going two separate ways?

636
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 3: I don't know.

637
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: I don't know where Harlan's actually going, but I think

638
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: they might be. It could be sort of weird. Yeah,

639
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: He's sort of like.

640
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 2: We'll hear the same voices but not the same mix. Yeah.

641
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 1: I guess that's my point. That's my point.

642
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 4: Anyway.

643
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: It was an emotional goodbye there from Ernie and the crew.

644
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: Do you want to talk a little bit about the Knicks.

645
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 3: One from from the game. I always love when a

646
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 3: player is sitting on those huge cushions on the bench,

647
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Speaker 3: But I really like it when they're sitting on huge

648
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 3: cushions beside coaches, so they look like they're up so high.

649
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Speaker 3: Tyrese Haliburton was sitting on it. And I don't know

650
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 3: if it's because he's got hemorrhoids, if he's hemorrhoids Haliburton

651
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 3: right now, but he's sitting up on those and you've

652
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Speaker 3: got little coaches sitting next to him. It just looks hilarious. Well,

653
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 3: you know, a couple of seats down. Other players are

654
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 3: sitting on these things just to make sure their butts

655
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Speaker 3: are okay.

656
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, the butts, I think for the back maybe too.

657
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 4: Yeah.

658
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Speaker 1: You just heard his back mowing the lawn.

659
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 2: Now, literally the oldest I felt in my life, tweaking

660
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 2: my back, taking a step backwards, mowing the lawn. Oh man,

661
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 2: gutting it out and finishing the lot. Because I've only

662
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 2: done one part of it. The rest of it, I

663
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 2: was like Karl Anthony Towns giddy up in oh way,

664
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,959
Speaker 2: couldn't back up at all. A good sitting I might

665
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 2: sleep sitting up tonight. My one last note, why are

666
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 2: we going back to this? This is like, this is

667
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: like a shack joke at the end. But I like

668
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 2: after t J McConnell made a three pointer in the

669
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Speaker 2: third quarter, Reggie Miller screamed out, how many times are

670
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 2: they going to give Little TJ? Called Little TJ? In

671
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 2: that moment, the crowd's going crazy, and.

672
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Speaker 4: He banged home one of those.

673
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Speaker 2: He was open.

674
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Speaker 3: He lines it up, He takes his time and laces

675
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 3: it up. I do want to just note the reason

676
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 3: why I like this game. It's because players were so passionate.

677
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 3: They were yelling so much. There're they were giving it

678
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 3: to the refs, but it was more of a discussion

679
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 3: because they're so passionate, why is this call happening? Why

680
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 3: is this happening? And there were no texts, no flagrance.

681
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 3: It was real playoff basketball.

682
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Speaker 1: Good point.

683
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Speaker 4: That was fun. It was it was fun and they

684
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 4: were just passionate, so it was good all round.

685
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Speaker 1: Uh, talk a little bit about the Knicks. I guess

686
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: my first thing is is this season a success for

687
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks? What's your take on that? Before

688
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,959
Speaker 1: we pivot to like maybe what they should or shouldn't do.

689
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 2: I think this is an unqualified success for the New

690
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 2: York Knicks. They went to the conference finals for the

691
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 2: first time in a quarter decade. End of sentence, like

692
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 2: the what do you want? You know, they went further

693
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 2: than they went last year.

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Speaker 1: They've actually progressed over each of the past four seasons,

695
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: which is pretty wild. Not making the playoffs to losing

696
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: in the second round to losing in the semifinals in

697
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Speaker 1: seven games. I mean, that's the progression there. Obviously, they

698
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: were banged up and then reaching the conference finals, and

699
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: you know, they did take down the defending champs. I

700
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: know Tatum got hurt, but they were about to go

701
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: up three to one when Tatum did get hurt. I

702
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: mean that does have an impact on the series and

703
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: their chances come back. But yeah, you agree with this.

704
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Speaker 1: This was a good season for the New York Knicks,

705
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: even though they went oh to ten against the elite

706
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: teams in the regular season and you know, didn't hit

707
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: their over under you know prediction. I think it was

708
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: like a fifty four and a half or something like that.

709
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: It's only only won fifty one. Yeah, but overall, you

710
00:31:59,040 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: think it was good?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

712
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 3: Up, everybody including us who thought, oh they I mean,

713
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 3: they can't beat this team. They can't beat this team

714
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 3: that can't beat us, and they can't beat Cleveland. The

715
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 3: camp be okay, see they go to the conference finals.

716
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 3: Now Pacers started ten and fifteen, obviously a very successful

717
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,479
Speaker 3: season for them doing the same thing, also shutting us up.

718
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 3: That's the connection I'm making and at the same time,

719
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 3: just a great success for the Knicks. Top two guys,

720
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 3: Brunson and Towns did their postgame press conference and Towns

721
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 3: was just talking about Brunson, man, He's one of the

722
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 3: best players I've ever played with what he does when

723
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 3: he walks into the gym, he just sets the bar

724
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Speaker 3: up higher.

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Speaker 4: And so they connected in their first season together. So yeah,

726
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:38,479
Speaker 4: all round.

727
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Speaker 1: So the Knicks enter the off season with Brunson, Og

728
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: and Hart signed through twenty twenty eight, and then Towns

729
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: induce McBride signed through twenty twenty seven. So your big

730
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Speaker 1: decisions here are you have Bridges and Robinson entering the

731
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Speaker 1: final years of their contracts. And I know Sam Vessini

732
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: was pointing out he thinks the big decision for the

733
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Speaker 1: k next this summer is the Michale Bridges extension. What

734
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Speaker 1: that looks like. Is it the max four years, one

735
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six million. Does he take less? I

736
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Speaker 1: mean Brunson already did the whole discount true for the team.

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Speaker 1: Does Bridges do that as well? Do you look to

738
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Speaker 1: move Bridges for a different player, for a different fit,

739
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Speaker 1: And that's so that's what Vassini has his eyes on.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's sort of the big question for

741
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Speaker 1: the Knicks or do you think there's another area that

742
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: they might look to move or upgrade or whatever.

743
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Speaker 2: Certainly that's a big question for the Knicks is what

744
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: to do with McHale Bridges. Because they traded so much

745
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 2: for him, it seems unlikely that they would move off

746
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Speaker 2: of him or make him wait for another contract. Four

747
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 2: years for basically one sixty that's not bad for a

748
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 2: starting wing. I don't think necessarily the Knicks got what

749
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 2: they were expecting from McHale Bridges. I don't think his

750
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 2: defense was probably as good as that New York fans

751
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 2: were hoping. I don't know if he was able to

752
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 2: reach the heights as an offensive player that he had

753
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 2: at times in Brooklyn. Kind of took him some time

754
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 2: to figure out how he's gonna fit on this team.

755
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 2: The guy needs to get more comfortable with contact. Absolutely,

756
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 2: it's a fade away every single time from McHale Bridges.

757
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 2: That's how you end up playing eighty two games every

758
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 2: single season is by trying not to get hurt. And

759
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 2: sometimes that's what it feels like. But I think the

760
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 2: biggest question the Knicks are going to have to answer

761
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 2: is do they try and trade Karl Anthony Towns because

762
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,720
Speaker 2: he's got that gigantic deal he signed for a couple

763
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 2: of seasons here. They got him the day before the

764
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 2: preseason started, like they didn't have a lot of time

765
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 2: to build this team with Karl Anthony Towns. They still

766
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 2: went to the sixth game of the conference finals. But

767
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 2: you see the warts with Towns. It's the defense, the

768
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 2: decision making. He takes himself out of games. Sometimes, he

769
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 2: doesn't shoot threes the way you think he's going to

770
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,399
Speaker 2: shoot threes. All the problems that Minnesota had with him

771
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 2: showed up in the first season for the Knicks. If

772
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Speaker 2: they try to get into like a Janna Santa to

773
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 2: Kupo sweep stakes, he's probably the biggest piece that has

774
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 2: to goes back just because of salary matching and stuff.

775
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 2: Now can they even get into the mix for him

776
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 2: because they traded all of their picks for Michale Bridges.

777
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 2: Only time will tell, but I think that the Knicks

778
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 2: need to at least examine how they can be better

779
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 2: with Towns. Maybe around, maybe not, because the pairing with

780
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 2: Brunson and Towns it wasn't perfect. This team should have

781
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 2: been way better offensively, So there's yet another question for

782
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 2: the next well they do with Tids. This guy's not

783
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 2: an offensive genius. They're getting by on talent alone. Nope.

784
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 2: They certainly weren't maximizing the way Brunson and Towns can

785
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 2: work off each other.

786
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's two questions. I think to maximize that offense,

787
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 3: probably a ball handler beside Jalen Bruns so he doesn't

788
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 3: have to be Jalen Brunson all the time. And the

789
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 3: second thing is defensively beside Carl, is to have a

790
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 3: center who can drop Carl to the four and be

791
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 3: an incredible center defensively and that's it, and not have

792
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 3: to do not have to have the ball go through him,

793
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 3: because the ball is going through Jail. The ball is

794
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 3: going through Carl to some degree. If there's another guard

795
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 3: going through them. So yes, just making the Timberwolves light

796
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 3: and what they did with Rigobert beside him and being

797
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 3: the best defense.

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00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: Do they not have that with Mitchell Robinson. I mean

799
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: that was the whole point of obviously getting the starting lineup.

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00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 4: He can't play that much. I mean.

801
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 3: He's hurt, number one, number two, he gets tired. He

802
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 3: looks gassed running up and down the floor as a

803
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 3: starting center. And he's he's fine offensively, but they can't

804
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 3: put him to the free throw line or are they

805
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 3: risk putting him to the free throw line every single time.

806
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 3: He's not a great offensive player. He was awesome on

807
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 3: the offensive glass, but I don't know if he can

808
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 3: stay on the floor. That's a decent question. We haven't

809
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 3: seen the guy played. The guy played a month and

810
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 3: a half of the regular season. He played March, that's it,

811
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 3: and then a little April, and then he played in

812
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 3: the postseason. So that's a big ask.

813
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fascinating when you look at just the landscape

814
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: of the Eastern Conference too, like it does feel like

815
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: it's it's open. I mean, the Pacers are gonna be

816
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: the mix. Like they're damn good. They've proven that now.

817
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 1: But obviously with the Celtics and the Tatum injury. The Cavs,

818
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: you know, they win a lot of regular season games,

819
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: have had issues in the postseason. You know, we got

820
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 1: some teams we think on the rise. You know, if

821
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: Orlando's healthy, do they bump up? Obviously the Piston should

822
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 1: be better and continue to improve. There'll be a wild

823
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: card team in the mix. But you got like the

824
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: Bucks and stuff, maybe like figuring it out. It's it's

825
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: open and so yeah, is it a huge, huge, big

826
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: move for I mean, it fits you. I think you're

827
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: doing it. But anything else, maybe you just sort of

828
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: stamp pat and maybe like we are good. Maybe Tims

829
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: needs to get better at like leaning into the bench

830
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: and building up some of these guys a little bit

831
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: better for a postseason run. And maybe we just keep

832
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 1: this core because we like like what we have and

833
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: maybe that is the answer instead of like drastically changing it.

834
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: But we'll see what they do. I will see what

835
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: they do. Man, is cat a four or five? Is

836
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: the other part? I mean that goes to hand in

837
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: hand with like what you're saying, how do they view

838
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: him or as an organization? Could he just be your five?

839
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 2: No?

840
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: Probably not.

841
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 2: He can't. They can't defend. If he's going to be

842
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 2: your five, If he's gonna be your five, you have

843
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 2: to be the best offensive team in the league. And

844
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 2: I thought that's what the Knicks We're gonna try to do,

845
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 2: and they got to be a good offensive team. But

846
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 2: they kind of tailed off the second half of the season.

847
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 2: The games they won against the Pacers and the conference

848
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 2: finals they won with defense, which is kind of weird.

849
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 2: They never really just blew the Pacers out from a

850
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 2: scoring perspective. Game five, they were on fire, certainly, but

851
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 2: a lot of that I thought was because of how

852
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 2: many turnovers they forced against Indiana. I mean, town best

853
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 2: run I guess was in the second court or what

854
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 2: was that Game three, fourth quarter He had twenty points.

855
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 2: He was the five there and they were just outscoring. Yeah,

856
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:08,720
Speaker 2: the Pacers.

857
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, we we definitely remember, like preseason talking about how

858
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 1: are they gonna how are teams gonna stop bruns and

859
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,479
Speaker 1: hell excuse me, brunts and cat like pick and pop action,

860
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Speaker 1: like that's gonna be unstoppable.

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Speaker 2: Didn't see it a lot.

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Speaker 1: They didn't run a ton of it. Now they sort

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Speaker 1: of just run like they're like it's brunts and time

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Speaker 1: and it's cat time. Yes, and so maybe you want

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Speaker 1: a little bit more sinty synergy between those two guys,

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Speaker 1: maybe because I thought, we thought we're gonna see a

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Speaker 1: ton more of that, and we didn't end like eventual

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Speaker 1: Robinson was the main screen guy forts and eventually. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you brought up already like cats, like three point attempts,

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Speaker 1: like going way down, like way less of those for

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Speaker 1: his season, so we'll see him moving forward. Final start

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Speaker 1: on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they did, But.

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Speaker 1: We're here on Tuesday to preview the thunder Pacers NB

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Speaker 1: Finals crazy to say a loud thunder Pacers, which again

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Speaker 1: starts on Thursday. But we'll be here Tuesday at ten

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Speaker 1: Eastern to go through all the talking points. The X

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Speaker 1: factors obviously make our prediction, so let's hear from you

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Speaker 1: in advance. Get in the comments. What are you watching

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Speaker 1: for in that series, who's an X factor and who

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Speaker 1: you got winning and how many games let us know

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Speaker 1: before we do that on Tuesday. Thanks for joining us

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Speaker 1: here on a Sunday. Really appreciate it. Hit the like button,

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Speaker 1: subscribe podcast lists, five star ratings and reviews. Otherwise, we'll

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Speaker 1: see you on Tuesday till then.

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Speaker 2: Clipper Bros. You heard it here first, have a great time,

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Speaker 2: turn up. Love you guys, awesome.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 3: And remember the Thunder are favored in the NBA Finals

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Speaker 3: because I get that standard email coming in. The Thunder.

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Speaker 4: Favorites, right, big favorite.

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Speaker 3: Minus eight hundred whoa, you gotta bet eight hundred bucks

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Speaker 3: if you want to win one hundred.

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Speaker 2: But if you bet eight hundred bucks, you're gonna win

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Speaker 2: one hundred dollars.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, Hey, there you go.

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Speaker 2: Every little bit counts. Embrace today people,