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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up?

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntire, Straight Fire for Thursday,

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Speaker 2: May twenty third. You know, your boys. Feeling real good today,

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Speaker 2: not only because I will be hosting The Herd later

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Speaker 2: this morning, but because the Dallas and Mavericks came through

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Speaker 2: for me. Oh it feels damn good. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: Also listen, Thursdays is a big day for me, okay,

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Speaker 2: hosting the Herd, and then we have a big Men's

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Speaker 2: League game Thursday night. Yes, it goes. It's gonna make

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Speaker 2: it tough for me to watch Celtics Pacers, but we

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Speaker 2: have a third straight tough game. We're playing a guy

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Speaker 2: who played d one he at thirty and twenty last

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Speaker 2: week in the league. I know you care deeply, but

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Speaker 2: there's no way he's as good as Kyrie Irving, Luca Dodge.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not that worried. But what I do need

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Speaker 2: to open the podcast with, and this is not a

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Speaker 2: super hot take. This is just I'm just spouting facts

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Speaker 2: here and it's gonna make some people upset. But all

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Speaker 2: the talk about Anthony Edwards, He's got next. He's the

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Speaker 2: next Michael Jordan. I said he was an explain wade whatever.

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Speaker 2: He's twenty two years old. He had zero two point

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Speaker 2: baskets in the second half of Game one. Look straight

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Speaker 2: up ghasted when Reggie Miller, that hack announcer, is clowning you.

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Speaker 3: First, Reggie Miller's like, hey, Anthony Edwards look hurt and

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Speaker 3: is hurt? And then I was like, oh no, he's

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Speaker 3: just tired from chasing Kyrie around. And Kyrie lit his

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Speaker 3: ass up in the first half or twenty four points.

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Speaker 2: And of course Anthony Edwards in the third quarter zero

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Speaker 2: points and he hit two threes in the fourth, but

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Speaker 2: he was tired. He was going three point line to

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Speaker 2: three point line. That's it. And my question to you

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Speaker 2: is just your king shut down by Derek Jones Junior.

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Speaker 2: Who is I'm telling you this kid is underrated. He

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Speaker 2: ain't making a lot of money for the MAVs. He's

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Speaker 2: gonna be something. Somebody's gonna pay him because he is

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Speaker 2: a great role player. He was outstanding in thirty five

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Speaker 2: minutes defensively, only picked up one foul guarding Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 2: and aunt listen, he was six for twenty four in

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Speaker 2: Game seven. I know, I'm sure he's probably a little

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Speaker 2: tired from Game seven, but the guy had come on.

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Speaker 2: He's twenty two years old. Man, a couple of days off. Now,

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Speaker 2: the real problem is if Ann ain't hitting six or

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Speaker 2: sixteen and Cat's not hitting six of twenty. So your

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Speaker 2: two big horses are twelve for thirty six and they're

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Speaker 2: young guys, where are you gonna get the points from? Like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Jaden McDaniels went off hit six threes.

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Speaker 2: Is that happening again? The entire MAVs team hit sixty

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Speaker 2: three pointers. So if you want to get a nuclear

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Speaker 2: scenario for the Timberwolves and listen, I don't think the

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Speaker 2: series is over. This is just one game. But it's like,

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Speaker 2: oh damn, the MAVs could not throw in the ocean

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Speaker 2: from deep. They hit six threes. Jaden McDaniels hit three,

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Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards hit five, he only had one two point basket.

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Speaker 2: You could make a case that, Okay, Minnesota's INDs in

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Speaker 2: trouble here. Now, let's just not forget. Yeah, they took

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Speaker 2: a two zer lead on Denver. They got smacked in

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Speaker 2: the next three games, and I saw stat they led

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Speaker 2: for one minute combined in those three games. So it's

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Speaker 2: like this team was on the brink. They were down

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Speaker 2: twenty in the third quarter of a game seven. Let's

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Speaker 2: not act like they're the twenty seventeen Warriors. Okay, And

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Speaker 2: some people are going, oh, Vegas made of the favorites,

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Speaker 2: Well not after game one. Now Dallas is favorite. But

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Speaker 2: I will say the one thing that looked out of

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Speaker 2: character for me was from Minnesota was they took eighty

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Speaker 2: nine shots. Forty nine of them were three pointers. Little

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Speaker 2: out of character. They're a team that shoots like in

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Speaker 2: the you know, like high twenties, low thirties for threes.

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Speaker 2: They're not shooting forty nine a game. But they took

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Speaker 2: what the defense gave them, and Dallas made a calculator gamble. Hey,

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Speaker 2: we don't think these guys can make threes. Mike Conley

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Speaker 2: one of six, Cat two of none coming off the bench,

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Speaker 2: Nasrey did it three. Alexander Walker struggled big time over four,

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Speaker 2: Kyle SloMo Anderson one of three, although he was solid. Ultimately, Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: you have to feel this is a letdown when you

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Speaker 2: lead by four. Let me go to my notes here.

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Speaker 2: They led by four with a little over three minutes

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Speaker 2: left at home following the Anthony Edwards three pointer, and

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Speaker 2: an eight to nothing run and now four minutes into

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Speaker 2: the podcast, I'm gonna mention Luca legend and oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: did he take over in the fourth quarter. Fifteen points

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Speaker 2: for Luca in the fourth quarter. Fifteen including a personal

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Speaker 2: seven to nothing run that gave him their first lead

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Speaker 2: in the second half. And Luka Donces was absolutely tremendous

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Speaker 2: in the four He was unguardable and they had Jade

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Speaker 2: McDaniels on him all this Jade McDaniels hype, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's a really good defender. Okay, second team All Defense.

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Speaker 2: He's done stopping Luka Doncics when it matters, he's not now.

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Speaker 2: Luca did thirty three points on twenty six shots. But

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Speaker 2: he got what he wanted when he wanted, and he

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Speaker 2: was important when it mattered most. He actually had two

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Speaker 2: nice defensive plays in the final two minutes. Jade McDaniels

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Speaker 2: was driving in and was like, nope, I don't have

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Speaker 2: a shot here, and he was like going out of

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Speaker 2: bounds and tried to make a jump pass and Lucas

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Speaker 2: snagged it, and then in the final minute Kat tried

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Speaker 2: to Kat or Conley, one of them tried to lob

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Speaker 2: to go bear and Luca intercepted it. And if you notice,

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Speaker 2: on the tip he kind of flexed his shoulders only

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Speaker 2: for the briefest second, as if to say, I could

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Speaker 2: play some d and I don't know. You guys don't

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Speaker 2: want a big Luca fan. And I thought Luca was tremendous.

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Speaker 2: The man of the hour, though, is probably Kyrie Irving.

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Speaker 2: Who I listen, It's only one game, but what would

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Speaker 2: they say? You don't want to poke the bear and

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Speaker 2: get it started. So Anthony Edwards wins Game seven in Denver,

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Speaker 2: and in the post game he said, I got Kyrie Irving.

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Speaker 2: He remember he was bragging in the locker room that

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Speaker 2: he put the cuffs on Jamal Murray. Murray had like

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Speaker 2: thirty five in game seven, thirty four whatever number was,

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Speaker 2: and Ant comes out says, I got Kyrie. Kyrie Irving

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Speaker 2: said afterward he was watching with his family. He's like, oh, okay,

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Speaker 2: all right now. He said he saw it as a

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Speaker 2: sign of respect that Anthony Edwards wanted to guard him.

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Speaker 2: But you saw what happened early. Kyrie Irving just went

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Speaker 2: at him relentlessly. Had twenty four at halftime. He didn't

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Speaker 2: do much in the second half. They hit the two

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Speaker 2: clutch free throws in the final seconds, finished with thirty,

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Speaker 2: but Kyrie Irving just was so dynamic getting to the

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Speaker 2: free throw line, attacking the rim. The three point shot

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Speaker 2: wasn't quite there for him, but he had a tremendous game.

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Speaker 2: When Luca and Kyrie make it combined twenty four shots,

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Speaker 2: and Kat and Aunt make a combined twelve shots, probably

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Speaker 2: gonna be a long night for your opponent. And Dallas

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Speaker 2: pick steals the win on the road. I'm just rob

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Speaker 2: I'm just flabbergaster that they were able to miss so

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Speaker 2: many threes, six twenty five. Probably the worst three point

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Speaker 2: shooting game of the season. I haven't looked, and they

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Speaker 2: still win in Minnesota. I like Dallas before the series.

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Speaker 2: I like Dallas after game one. They'll probably slip up

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Speaker 2: in Game two. But I wonder what the move is from, Like,

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Speaker 2: how do you counter this if if you're Minnesota, Like,

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Speaker 2: what's your big adjustment? And it might just be Rudy

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Speaker 2: Gobert is the odd man out? Or they go big?

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Speaker 2: Can you play Rudy and Nas, I don't know that

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Speaker 2: that's possible, but Nas reed twenty four minutes, fifteen points

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Speaker 2: five boards. Go Bear thirty eight minutes, twelve point seven rebounds,

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Speaker 2: and I don't, I just go bear in the drop

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Speaker 2: coverage just got eaten a live rob. I don't know. Dallas,

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Speaker 2: It's not like they're totally in control of the series. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: they stole home court advantage, but this is a Dallas

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Speaker 2: team that loves to play with its food up to

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Speaker 2: one each of the last two series lose Game four

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Speaker 2: at home. This is a Dallas team historically that had

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Speaker 2: been zero to five game ones under Jason Kidd, and

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Speaker 2: now they win this one. So this team is kind

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Speaker 2: of all over the place at times. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: if they get any three point shooting in Game two,

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Speaker 2: this is scary times for Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, And I gotta be honest with you, if you

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Speaker 4: are a Minnesota Timberwolves fan, you have to be at

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Speaker 4: least a little bit concerned about the series in the

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Speaker 4: state of your team moving forward, because Dallas didn't even

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Speaker 4: play their best game. I know that Luca and Kyrie

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Speaker 4: both played well, and even though they kind of both

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Speaker 4: played well in opposite ends of the floor, like Kyrie

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Speaker 4: you mentioned in the first half was great, kind of

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Speaker 4: cooled off there in the second. Luca was very uneven

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Speaker 4: for the first three quarters, you know, taking a lot

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Speaker 4: of ill advice shots, attempting home run passing. We didn't

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Speaker 4: need to that kind of stuff, and then he just

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Speaker 4: got cooking in the fourth quarter and then ended up

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Speaker 4: being the difference in the game. But Dallas as a

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Speaker 4: team was minus thirty six from the three point line.

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Speaker 4: They lost a turnover battle, they lost a second chance points,

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Speaker 4: they lost in fast break points, and they still wan.

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Speaker 4: Like if that doesn't say a whole heck of a

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Speaker 4: greatest things is the eighty five Bears, Like I don't

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Speaker 4: get it again. We talked about this before the series started.

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Speaker 4: Minnesota is a very good team. They are a very

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Speaker 4: good defense. However, they were built specifically to beat Nikola

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Speaker 4: Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. They are built exactly like that.

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Speaker 4: They got the three big man rotation to throw out

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Speaker 4: the joker. H McDaniels and at Man can can swarm

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Speaker 4: on on Jamal Murray and then you live with whatever

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Speaker 4: and kind of go from there. What they're not built

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Speaker 4: to do, however, is to stop Luka Doncic in the

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Speaker 4: high pick and roll, because go Bear is always going

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Speaker 4: to resort to that drop coverage, and Luca was eating

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Speaker 4: that up there in the fourth quarter. Jada McDaniels is

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Speaker 4: too thin to really bother Luca because Luca's just bodying

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Speaker 4: whenever he does get a good defensive rep against him

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Speaker 4: and Kyrie Irving, And this is something that Reggie Miller

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Speaker 4: pointed out. I'm not early big fan of Reggie Miller,

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Speaker 4: but Kyrie Irving was in the first half, especially making

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Speaker 4: it a point to go at Anthony Edwards over and over,

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Speaker 4: either in isolation or in the pick and roll, trying

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Speaker 4: to get screens on and whatever. And part of it

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Speaker 4: was for Kyrie to get going because, as he said,

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Speaker 4: he used the at man comments his motivation to get

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Speaker 4: himself going here for Game one. But the other part

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Speaker 4: of it was, as Reggie Miller alluded to, is it

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Speaker 4: forced Anthony Edwards to expel a lot of energy on

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Speaker 4: the defensive end, and that could be a big reason

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Speaker 4: why he faded so drastically in the second half.

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Speaker 2: He he didn't want it.

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Speaker 4: Six points on two for nine shooting, which is bad

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Speaker 4: in himself. But this is the part that really stood

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Speaker 4: seven of your nine shots for Anthony Edwards are three pointers,

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Speaker 4: that tells me that you don't have the legs and

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Speaker 4: the stamina to attack downhill, which is where you most dangerous.

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Speaker 4: He was settling for deep threes. He was pulling when

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Speaker 4: he didn't really have it going. And if you're Minnesota,

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Speaker 4: unless you can find a way to I don't know

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Speaker 4: if it's like you said, Benching Rudy Gobert, but that

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Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on with him personally. Maybe

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Speaker 2: It's possible.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: There's just some guys who are better offensive coordinators than

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Speaker 2: they are head coaches. That's just how it works in

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Speaker 2: the NFL. Like it's tough to be a leader. Not

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Speaker 2: everybody's built for that. And it's possible that just in

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Speaker 2: this supporting role and it's not like he's maybe it's

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Speaker 2: even a one bee. Is that fair as opposed to

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Speaker 2: like a two? Is he a one B? I don't know,

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Speaker 2: how would you characterize her?

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Speaker 3: Up?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I think he's clearly a number two because Luca's usage

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Speaker 4: rate is so heavy that it's hard for anybody to

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Speaker 4: say that they are a one B to a guy

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Speaker 4: who's usage race that's like thirty five.

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Speaker 2: Like that's all right, okay, that's I mean Anthony Davis

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Speaker 2: is a two, right, yes he is. Who would you

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Speaker 2: rather have as your two?

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Speaker 1: Eight?

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess it depends on the makeup of the team.

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Speaker 2: But like Kyrie works as a two even though he's small,

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Speaker 2: because they've got two centers, they've got shooting. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they're just a really well built team, which is everything

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Speaker 2: we were saying about Minnesota after the Denver series, Like

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Speaker 2: they're perfectly built. But I don't know, we'll see, we'll

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Speaker 2: see if they switch some matchups. I mean, what do

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Speaker 2: you put Mike Conley on Kyrie? That's I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: game over. Like he's not gonna slow him down. But

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Speaker 2: then you save Anthony Edwards and he's able to maybe

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Speaker 2: give you more on the offensive end because you're gonna

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Speaker 2: need it, because I don't think Jaden McDaniel's is hitting

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Speaker 2: six threes every game.

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 2: Game two in Boston tonight. Last I saw the line

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Speaker 2: was nine. I whiffed badly on Boston in in the opener.

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Speaker 2: They survived, as I talked about yesterday, Rob. Usually I

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Speaker 2: don't have data to back this up. If a team

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Speaker 2: loses a nail bier in the seven game series in

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Speaker 2: game one, they usually get smacked in game two, Like

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Speaker 2: that was their shot to steal one. Now Boston's guard

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Speaker 2: is gonna be up. They're probably gonna rotate Al Horford

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Speaker 2: out more. I would expect a little more tweaking, maybe

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Speaker 2: go deeper into their bench to preserve Horford. I don't

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Speaker 2: expect the Pacers to shoot what is a sixty six

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Speaker 2: percent on two pointers. Again, that like Boston's probably humiliated,

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Speaker 2: be like, damn, we didn't see those guys coming. Okay,

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Speaker 2: we'll be ready. Yeah, one of those deals. So I

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Speaker 2: will take Boston again tonight. Yeah, I think Celtics go

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Speaker 2: up to well rob.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. I really want to go with Indiana

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Speaker 4: because I think that they are just a offensive juggernaut

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Speaker 4: that kind of tricks you into playing their style of play.

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Speaker 4: But I can't imagine that they'll be able to mentally

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Speaker 4: and emotionally come back from what happened to them in

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Speaker 4: Game one like that was one of the most heartbreaking

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Speaker 4: ways to lose the game because it was all self inflicted.

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Speaker 4: So against what I want to go. My heart wants

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Speaker 4: to go Indiana, but my head tells me, get take Boston,

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Speaker 4: even at the given of the points. Take Boston in

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Speaker 4: Game two.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so we'll enjoy Game two. Game two

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Speaker 2: of Dallas Minnesota would be Friday night. It's gotta be

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Speaker 2: tough to expect Dallas to win both, so the Minnesota

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Speaker 2: is probably the play in that one, but nothing official yet. Anyways,

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Speaker 2: we are back to wrap up the week tomorrow talk

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Speaker 2: to you then