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Rudy Gobert bothered tonight, Joe 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:01.760 and this was one of the reasons that they won. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.079 And Rudy, a last couple of games, you only had 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.080 two points, but your presence were greatly greatly felt. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.920 Ant man was that man jew Randal did with Jude Randal? 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:11.760 Does I mean? 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.400 They just got an all around team effort tonight And 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.360 that was the difference in the ball game is they 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.320 go in and get a one nineteen, one to fourteen 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.840 victory over the Denver Nuggets, and now, Joe said, the 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.920 series doesn't start to the roll team wins a game 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.480 on the opposing team's court, and both road teams two 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.520 of the three road teams tonight won on the opposing 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:36.160 team hit home court. Joe, how to Minnesota do it? 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.720 They were down by nineteen in the second quarter, and 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.680 all of a sudden, you look up and they're tired 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:41.120 at half. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.560 Heymen, he there may no dogs over there, Ojoe. They 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:50.360 got some young wolves over there. You and me, ay, amen. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.360 The resiliency that they showed in that first half to 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.920 get down by what eighteen nineteen points and then come 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.800 back and fight back and take the league and from there, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.880 you know, pretty much manage the game throughout. I want 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.640 to give a huge shot out to Rudy go Barr 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.320 and the challenge that he took making Yokis take them 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:08.880 tough shots. 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:09.960 That's what it's about. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.640 Not only that, but you see what Minnesota game plan is, Yokis, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.240 You ain't gonna let your ass rest on defense. Now 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.080 we're gonna seek you out in this picking roll. We're 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:19.640 gonna go at you every time. You're gonna have to 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.279 guard and you're gonna have to score, assist. They making 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.880 him work. Man, Hey, them boys look good tonight. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:26.760 Man. I thought what it did? 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.680 I thought in the first in the first half, guys, yo, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:34.040 just watching him. He was really trying to get everybody involved. Joe, 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.280 he really wasn't doing anything. And then all of a 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:37.360 sudden he didn't shoot. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.279 He didn't take his first shot to about three minutes 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:41.119 in the first quarter. 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.240 And then you go, look at Rudy getson foul trouble 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.600 in the third quarter and they bring nads read in 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.240 and all of a sudden he started honting. I think 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.040 he scored sixteen seventeen points in the third quarter because 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.960 he started hunting. No, He's like, oh no, no, no, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.120 you got no chance. You ain't got enough bricks in 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.039 your back pocket. Even though Rudy might not have bricks 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.160 in his back pocket, he has length that could disturb me, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.800 that can bother me. You see the night eight of 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.640 twenty one of seven from the three you can live 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.279 with that, You can live with that in your hand. 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.360 He only had eight assists. So if I'm gonna make 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.080 you a subfision, and I'm not gonna allow to have 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.479 double digits that meet. Other guys are getting clean easy looks. Yeah, 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.320 I can live with that. I just got one question, 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.640 Joe Ojo. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what Jamal 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.479 and Murray was thinking. They're down three, he gets to 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.480 pick from Yokic and have a shot at a clean three. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.159 He passes it up to walk inside and take her two. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.560 He had to be confused and thought they were down 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.839 by two. There is no other way to explain what 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.800 he did. Yeah, I think he was. I don't know 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.760 what he was thinking on that play, honestly, but man, 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.279 he looked. He looked great in that first quarter, obviously 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:49.840 shooting eleven for twenty five. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.719 If I'm Minnesota, I'm gonna live with that. As you 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.800 know what I mean, we making all of them, were 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.479 making them dudes work man, We limiting everybody else. Hardaway 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.680 came off the bench and gave you great production. But 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.400 for the most part, man, you just got to handle 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.880 them two monsters. And if you can collectively have guys 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:09.480 from the Minnesota Timberwolds step up. Nast reed. I like 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:13.760 the Desimo kid from UH from the Bulls. I love 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.960 the energy that he played with. You know what, Hollywood, 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:21.600 good tonight bones Hollow was big because he was the key. 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.360 He and the uh they were the key in the 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.200 second quarter to getting them back in the ball game. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.159 Yeah, yeah, yeah, life. 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.000 I mean shit tonight game. Goddamn Wood the Blue Wolves. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.200 The Wolves played really good. 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:34.560 Unk. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.000 They were down, they were down back hell a whole, 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.080 a whole heave of a lot. You know, in the 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:40.320 first half, I thought it was gonna be one of 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.000 those game, Jo, I'm gonna just be honest with YOUHNK. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:43.600 I thought I was gonna have to turn it off. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.120 And then, you know, in the second quarter, I thought 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.080 it was it was gonna be a blowout. Not only 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.280 were they losing by seventeen eighteen at one point, Yogis 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.440 wasn't even doing nothing. He wasn't eve involved. He was 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.680 just facilitating. He hadn't even inserted himself into the ball 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.120 game yet. Hell I get up, I go to God 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.839 damn waffa house. I come back. But hey, Joe, the 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.720 game tied up. The game is tied up. Let's talk 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.760 about you know the word you use for resiliency. I can't 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.640 even spell it, but I know how to say it. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.320 And that's what the Bulls working night. Goddamn ant Man 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.520 is gonna always be ant man. The Vincenzo Well, he 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.640 came to play ball. Goddamn Judis Randall came to play ball. Listen, 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.840 Rudy Gobert didn't did nothing on offense, but defensively, using 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.200 that length to to dishrupt everything that got Joka wanted 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.000 to do was phenomenal. Now we can get him to 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:36.360 play like this every goddamn night. You know, maybe now 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.560 on the defense end. Going on the defense end always 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.200 make a thing difficult for Yo Kics. I think they 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.800 got a good chance, maybe not to win the series, 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.640 but to take them young Bulls the goddamn seven. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:52.120 And you don't think Minnesota got a chance to win, Yeah. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:58.320 The series, Joe hold On, I understand what you're talking about. Now. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.000 One of the missing pieces to night for the guy 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.400 damn nuggets. Now, Aaron Gordon, we need something from you 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.720 that baby, Aaron, Aaron Gordon, we need, we need more 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.600 from you outside of nine goddamn points nine. 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.160 Hey, hey, I seen I seen a lot of warves 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:12.640 to night. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.320 I mean, I'm talking. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.880 About dudes that were just relentless it was like almost 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.720 on some on some real debo backyard basketball type. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.080 You know what I'm saying, Like for real, Joe. You know, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:23.480 like I. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.360 Always tell y'all, you know, in the playoffs, Bro, we 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.920 already know your plays. Now, we just got to master 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.760 this energy that y'all got. Oh, you know, playing in Denver, 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:35.760 it's tough. It's up there, the hands on knees. What 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.440 I'm talking first quarter, first quarter, you be gassing for air. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.200 So I know, I know, I know what it takes 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.280 to go in that building and win, Bro, and man. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.800 Denver a tough team. But the timber Wolves, this is 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.600 what I'm talking about. When you had the other guys 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.200 step up, when your bench play like that Hiland or something, 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.400 move and read, all those guys chip in with ten, eleven, 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.600 twelve point and you got your big gun man leading away. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.400 Minnisola gonna be tough to be Bro. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.439 If I can make, if I can make Jamal Murray 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.920 and Yo Kic Shooter combined nineteen or forty five, yes, 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.600 I can live with that. I know they had fifty 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.800 eight points, but it was the inefficiency in which they 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.000 shot the basketball. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:16.959 I live with that. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.280 Yo's gonna have if Yogi's gonna give you twenty four 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.680 points on twenty shots, I live with that. If Jaman 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.720 Burry's gonna give you twenty five, gonna give you thirty 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.280 points on twenty five shots, I'll live with that. But 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.040 I can't have Yokid giving you twenty four or eleven shots. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.240 I can't have Jamal Murray going to the free throw 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.800 line and shooting seventeen eighteen free throws. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.160 So they did a great job. Remember Joe, he shot sixteen. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.560 Well, with sixteen to sixteen, he was two or two 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:43.680 for the Yeah, So Finch like, hey man, if we 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.640 keep his ass off the line, if he makes tough shots, 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:47.880 we gotta live with that. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:48.720 Gotta live with that. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.840 Got too, got too he hit, I mean, think about it. 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.280 He had two and one threes in the first quarter. 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.200 They had three and one thres in the first quarter, 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.719 and they were stood there. Valentouna's if you notice, Valentini's 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.280 didn't play anymore after that bull drive. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.880 He pulled it in the second quarter and it cost 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:07.360 him the game. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.320 Late in the ball game because when yok was on 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:10.560 the bench, they couldn't get it. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:11.800 Off into rebounds. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.640 They couldn't get any rebounds so now they keep it 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.600 now the second chance points started to pile up all 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.719 because they had lost confidence in Valentunas because he was 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.520 liket there bull driving around, get picking up dumb files, 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.000 getting technical calls. He would just do it on some 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:30.800 bull drive and he didn't see the floor again. Hey, 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.520 I'm giving I like Jaydon Daniels. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.600 Let me tell you why even him and Rudy Gobert 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:41.679 are very keys uh to Minnesota winning this series. I'm 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.840 gonna tell y'all why because of that length of both 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.680 long and great defenders, and if they can stay disciplined 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.040 like they were disciplining a night Ocho, not going for 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.800 a lot of them pump fakes and all that contesting late, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.839 making Yoga shoot all them tough shots, hell making, making 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.760 Murray take over twenty five taking twenty five shot some more. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:02.199 Bro, you're gonna be to live with that. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.640 You're gonna make it work because remember now Murray got 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.320 off to that hot speed, yeah twenty three in the 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.640 first half, Joe, Yeah, but in the first quarter here 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.040 he was hottest. He's the first quarter. That's that's why 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:17.920 Yoga's really was shooting. He's seen how hot he was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.760 but I thought, I thought Jay McDaniel's kind of wore 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:21.400 him down too. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:22.360 That's what I'm That's. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.600 What I'm saying by chasing him, uh, making it tough 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.680 for him picking him up. And that's what you gotta 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.480 expect when it comes late in the games. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:29.760 Bro. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.400 That extended pressure is what's gonna help you prevail if 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.120 you got guys who can play that type of defense. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:37.400 For forty eight minutes. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.480 I thought, I thought Aaron Gordon took for some fourthsome 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.680 shots and threes. I thought Jamal Murray, Uh, the frustration 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.640 and the fatigue started to mount on him, and they 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:46.920 took some really tough shots. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:47.920 That was on called. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.600 There's no way you taking a double pump clutch a 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.800 three point shot. You can't tell me there's not a 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.679 better shot to be had than what you just did. 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:01.120 Jamal Burrah ain't nowhere in here, eric I airBaltic. You 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.000 can't tell me there's not a better shot to be 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:07.240 had if you swing it one more time. Ay, maybe 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.040 swinging and it comes back to you. But I thought, look, 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:14.319 and it wasn't. Even though you can say okay, yoke 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.319 and Murray didn't play well where there had to be 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.200 a reason. Okay, what was the reason that they didn't 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.920 play well? Minnesota timber Woods. Now you look at Rudy 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.200 and people go like, y'all keep talking about Rudy. The 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.200 man had two points and no blocks and he's a 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.360 four time defensive Player of the Year. But all those 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.600 shots that he altered. You look at Yoki Yo Kis 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.120 felt his presence. All those guys going to the lane, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.319 they felt his presence. Sometimes it's not about blocking the shot. 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.280 Sometimes it's about making you think, nah, I ain't got 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.920 nothing that let me pull this thing back out. Whereas 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.480 before Jo Kisch was having his way with Rudy Gobert, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.520 and the better part of his career he's had his way, 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:52.080 but not tonight. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:53.480 Rudy. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.400 Rudy deserved a gay Joe, you said it. Jude Randall 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.040 played well. He was seven or four team Jay McDaniel's 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.640 seven to fifteen, Dante Ji Vincenzo, that big three that 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.599 he pulled up from like twenty four to twenty. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.360 Five was huge. He had sixteen big points. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.640 Ad Man had thirty, nas Reed had eleven, Bones Highland 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:19.520 at thirteen, But Rudy Gobert those two points. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.240 What you able to do against Jokic. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.040 That was the key the difference in the ball game 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.000 because if you let him be efficient. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.280 He took twenty shots, so. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.800 If he shoot his normal fifty seven percent, that means 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.679 he's gonna make thirteen or fourteen of those. Joke, So 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.240 now all of a sudden, twenty four, it's gonna be 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.640 thirty two, thirty four. Yeah, fifteen and eight. Now we 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.600 might be having a different discussion, but simbable. If y'all 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.800 dug deep, y'all showed me something that take a quarter. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.400 Now, now listen, we talk about them digging deep, obviously, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.679 and you look at the series being tied one one. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.080 If I'm not seeking, I think both of y'all, if 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.240 I'm not mistaken, correct me if I am wrong. When 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.320 we talked about this series, I could have swore both 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.319 of you picked the Nuggets to win, because I forgot 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.160 that might have been you gonna say, I'm not betting 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.880 a getting joke if if I'm correct me, if I'm wrong, 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:10.840 I'm not better, I picked the Nuggets. 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.240 Now I don't. I don't think. I mean we have 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:14.000 to run the tape back. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.480 Okay, it might have been. I'm just saying after seeing 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.960 the game to night after seeing the way the timber 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:25.640 Wolves played, does your decision on the goddamn Nuggets winning 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.040 this series? Does a change now based on the way 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:28.760 the Wolves played? 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:30.360 What you think? 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:31.360 Uh? 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:32.000 For me? 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.520 No, because I don't believe Rudy Gobert can play like 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:35.520 this three more games? 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.360 Okay, well that's yet to be a scene, I think. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.560 But but but that is questionable. Can can can Minnesota? 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.360 Can they? Can they carbon copy a game like this? 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.200 Again? You know you got home court advantage? Now? 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.640 So can you throw home? Protect your house at home? 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.920 That's basically all you need to do now? Okay, yeah, yeah, 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:58.840 that's what I mean. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.960 You look, but I think the figures you gotta be 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.920 careful because if you're not careful, you have a let down. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.320 Say oh we got we did we we did what 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.000 we came to do, which was still a game and 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.200 get home court. And I been damn if you don't 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.760 go home and let your guard down and they take 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.120 it right back. So the thing is now and tells 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.920 what you do? You break serve? Can you consolidate it? 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:19.680 You break somebody served? 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:19.800 Now? 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.200 Can you win the next Service game? Now? 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.800 And you put pressure on them now if you let 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.640 them if you can't consolidate it, what have you done? 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.240 You let them take home court right back. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:34.760 Yeah, and that's the thing, that's what you don't want 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.359 to do because you know when you hey, when you're playing. 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.400 On the road, it's just you and your team, as. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.440 You feel me like, you know, it ain't nobody else 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.280 out there with y'all. It's just y'all. So you know 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.880 you got that you feel me. Ain't nobody really in 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:46.480 your space? 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:48.360 You know what you mean? 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.400 You know what I mean, meaning like your family, maybe 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.240 your wife, your girl, your kid, is all that. But man, 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.960 when you get back home, you know, all that's now. 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:57.960 You know, now. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.720 You're back picking up kids from school and you're doing 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:01.720 all this extra stuff. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:03.160 I'm keeping it real, bro, And. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.120 Then you start to let your guard down a little bit. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.520 And now in game three, like damn, we did all 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:08.840 that for. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:10.640 Now, you let your guard down, Joe, because you know 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.000 why you at home, you're comfortable. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.720 You done got comfortable. You know what I'm saying. When 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.400 you on the road, that ain't your bed. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.520 Hey, you get your ass up, you walk downstairs, you 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.800 eat breakfast, you know, you go to shoot a round. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:25.480 You know what I'm saying. On the road. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.000 But now you and your whip, you drive. 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.120 It to the stadium, listen to your tombs, You do 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:31.840 it all the stuff that you don't normally do on 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.600 the road. So you done got comfortable, whereas before you 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:40.440 weren't comfortable. And so they come in. They flipped the road. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:46.320 They're uncomfortable, they're desperate. They know that they ate in 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.960 order because now Minnesota said, all we gotta do is 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.000 just hold serve. We ain't got to win another game 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.520 in Denver. All we got to do is whole serve 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.680 at home and we good. Hey boy, can I can 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.160 see I can see Kevin gar. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.680 Okay, yeah, Jo Joe, Joe, Joe, you on it. But Joe, 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:05.840 you know something, don't you. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.520 Yeah, I've been trying. I've been trying to. 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:13.960 Tell you that one thing about it. But Joe, what 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:15.040 what game? 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:17.040 It's just a guy? 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.560 What We We got more games to talk about. But this, yes, 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:21.760 just one game, but we end up the playoffs start. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.080 Enough team wins. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.040 When a team wins away, Hello, I'm with you, Joe, 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.880 with you. We got some bad we're playing a Joe. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.199 Matter of fact, Hey, you you smart, but you know somethingbody, 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.160 this thing it almost acts like you like you played before. 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:42.720 Huh yeah, hey, hey listen, listen, I don't have my 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:43.520 fast show with you. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.119 I kind of I know a little something, you know 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:45.560 what I mean? 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:47.439 It looked like it. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:49.919 Yeah, you and the whole too. 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.359 By the way, I wait, I wait, I wait, go ahead, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:53.800 I wait. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.240 Uh yeah, I just thought. I just thought. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.840 I mean, I was thinking the same thing everybody was thinking. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.400 They got out to that great start with it'scored thirty seven, 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.240 thirty nine points in the first quarter, thinking of nineteen 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:10.480 in the second quarter, and then all of a sudden, Uh, 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.439 you get bones highling, you get the soul mold, you 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.720 get those guys come in and they chip away, and 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.960 before you know it, the nineteen and all of a 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.560 sudden it's eight, and all of a sudden it's four, 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.320 And all of a sudden, you're like, hold on, they 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:23.920 don't care. Back of them talking to lead Now the 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:25.840 nuggers got a scrap back the ty thing up to 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.240 going to the alf. Yeah, I'm like, what damn. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.320