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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight

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Speaker 2: Fire for Tuesday, April twenty third. Oh boy, this is

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Speaker 2: a tough one, folks. We're recording this literally moments after

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Speaker 2: Jamal Murray ripped the heart out of the Lakers with

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Speaker 2: a buzzer beating baseline jumper over Anthony Davis. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I don't, folks, listen. I'm exhausted watching those two games.

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Speaker 2: And yes, we will talk about the Knicks Instant Classic

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Speaker 2: against the Sixers. I did hear Ernie and Shack and

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Speaker 2: the gang saying that might have been the best doubleheader

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Speaker 2: in TNTNBA history and that might be accurate. Those two

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Speaker 2: games were a amazing and Lakers come up on the

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Speaker 2: wrong side of it. Folks. They did everything right. They

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Speaker 2: got the twenty point lead. Anthony Davis had the greatest

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Speaker 2: half of his career. He didn't choot threes. He shot

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Speaker 2: one quarter three in the fourth notice he was tired.

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Speaker 2: I said yesterday, too many threes after the free game

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Speaker 2: one only attempted one three made fourteen of his first fifteen.

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Speaker 2: But did he run out of gas? I think I

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Speaker 2: think he only had two points in the fourth and

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Speaker 2: they were on free throws, and still D'Angel Russell did

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Speaker 2: everything he had to seven threes for Danngel Russell cooking early,

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Speaker 2: Lakers up twenty, led by ten to start the fourth

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Speaker 2: Lebron heroic shit from Lebron twenty six, twelve and eight.

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Speaker 2: Denver kept climbing back Lebron to clutch back to back

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Speaker 2: threes to push him up seven. You're like, Lebron's gonna

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Speaker 2: bring up a home. I'm fired up. And then Jamal

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Speaker 2: to Murray took over. And you know, my son is

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Speaker 2: at the stage where he called. He says the word

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Speaker 2: him and himothy a lot, and recently I think I

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Speaker 2: did something funny and and my son's like, Dad, you're Himmothy,

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Speaker 2: you are You're Himmothy. And I start cracking up. And

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Speaker 2: as I'm watching Jamal Murray go four for twenty to

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Speaker 2: start the game, Austin Reeves is hounding him. Gave Vincent.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm like, oh, look, Jamal Murray's having enough,

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Speaker 2: but so Ad gave half of his life, Lebron doing everything.

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Speaker 2: Do you handle a Russell cooking Reeves and Vincent hounding

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Speaker 2: Jamal Murray? This is it. The Lakers finally have even

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Speaker 2: Yo Kitsch wasn't having an amazing game scoring, and then

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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter happened, by the way Yo coaches with

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Speaker 2: twenty seven twenty birds in tennis's okay, but Jamal Murray starting,

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Speaker 2: I'm almost certain he started four for twenty. It was

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Speaker 2: four nineteen for sure. He couldn't hit a three pointer

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Speaker 2: to save his life. And Jamal Murray is Himothy. He

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Speaker 2: takes over in the fourth as he has done so

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Speaker 2: many times. He is as clutch as it gets a

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Speaker 2: playoff performer that we've seen this century. I don't want

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Speaker 2: to hear pushback. All he does is cook in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Take the bubble, Take after the bubble, take last year's finals, run,

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Speaker 2: take this game too, ripping the heart out of the

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Speaker 2: Lakers with fourteen in the fourth quarter, including twelve in

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Speaker 2: the final eight minutes. Two middies in the final thirty

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Speaker 2: seconds hit two free throws on what I thought was

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Speaker 2: a bit of a questionable Lebron shove. One of the announcers,

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Speaker 2: and I think was Reggie Miller, who had a bad game.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Jamal Grawford solid. Reggie Miller bad game.

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Speaker 2: Lakers maybe could have challenged at whatever. Jamal Murray bangs

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Speaker 2: the two freezers, but he had six points in the

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Speaker 2: final minute. And I think my guess is on tomorrow's radio, TV, Internet,

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Speaker 2: a lot of people are going to focus on the

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Speaker 2: Lebron three with like what like, let me check the

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Speaker 2: twelve seconds left left that rimmed out when it was

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Speaker 2: tied at ninety nine. It was halfway down and it

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Speaker 2: popped out, and people said, oh, Lebron missed. He's not clutch, folks,

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Speaker 2: Lebron should have driven. Just take a deep breath. Yes,

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Speaker 2: the drive had been working. He also hit two threes

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Speaker 2: moments ago. Okay, his defender fell down. This was a

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Speaker 2: wide open three. It goes in, it hits the back room, front,

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Speaker 2: just like ooh, that could have been it, and then

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Speaker 2: And Murray he hit the shot. I was speechless. Listen.

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Speaker 2: I'll you guys know there's photos on my Instagram of

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Speaker 2: me wearing the cool Denver Nuggets hat from the eighties

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Speaker 2: with like the teens of Alex English and Fat Lever,

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Speaker 2: like I love that skyline of Denver I love that hat.

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Speaker 2: I like it. I love Jamal Burray. He's one of

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Speaker 2: my favorite players in the league. If you said, Jason,

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Speaker 2: would be Jamal Murray for sure. And it just pains

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Speaker 2: me that the Lakers couldn't win this game when I

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Speaker 2: just got to remind you, guys, Lakers aren't taken four

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Speaker 2: or five from Yokis. Nobody's doing that, Nobody one one.

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Speaker 2: We've got a series. The Lakers have a legit chance

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Speaker 2: they could pull this off. But worst case scenario, you

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Speaker 2: get extra games of basketball. Curry's already gone from the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: He's my favorite guy. Everybody loves him. He's a top

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Speaker 2: jersey seller. Well, guess what Lebron's like? Number two in

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Speaker 2: most categories. I mean, really, I know we've got Jalen

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Speaker 2: Brunton in the next. Okay, they're limited, They're not a

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Speaker 2: great watch despite the heart and hustle. We'll talk about

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Speaker 2: that shortly. But like for me and everybody, it's Lebron,

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Speaker 2: it's King James, the greatest player in NBA history. I'm

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Speaker 2: sorry if you hate me and disagree that. I get that.

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Speaker 2: The guy's thirty nine years old in his twenty first season.

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Speaker 2: He's doing other worldly things. He's done this his entire career.

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Speaker 2: And that miss at the top of the key, Rob,

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Speaker 2: That's my guess is that that's where people will nitpick.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I would go deeper and say listen,

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Speaker 2: and I would blame Darvin Ham for that asinine lineup

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Speaker 2: that he trotted out to start the fourth quarter, just

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Speaker 2: befuddling stuff. It just didn't make sense to have Jackson Hayes,

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Speaker 2: cut in and they got to call time out. So

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Speaker 2: your ten point leads down to five. But again there's

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Speaker 2: still a lot of time left, and you knew, okay, fine,

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Speaker 2: Lakers are going to be okay. You know they'll bring

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Speaker 2: a D back, they'll be lebron and they had plenty

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Speaker 2: of time. But ultimately this just came down to, you

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Speaker 2: know what they like to say, make or miss league.

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Speaker 2: If you're telling me, I get Anthony Davis contesting of

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Speaker 2: games of his career. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm Rob.

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Speaker 2: I know you're more gutted than I am being invested

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Speaker 2: I can't totally like blame other than Darvin am blowing

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Speaker 3: Oh, you are being way too nice on the last

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Speaker 3: side of the You're speaking like a guy who knows

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Speaker 3: someone who has season tickets and he just don't want

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Speaker 3: to lose that. Moving forward for game three and four, look,

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Speaker 3: this loss falls squarely on Darvin Ham and Lebron James.

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Speaker 3: Point blank period. Darvin Ham, you alluded to the rotations.

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Speaker 3: that part they weather the storm. They entered the fourth

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Speaker 3: He decided, you know what, we got a mirror AD's

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Speaker 3: minutes with Nikola Jokic. Well, the fact is is Ad

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Speaker 3: not going to be a popular opinion, and I really

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Speaker 3: don't care about him missing the three because he was

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Speaker 3: a wide open look. I would expect the NBA's all

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Speaker 3: time leading scorer after he's just two threes to feel

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Speaker 3: confidence shooting that shot in the last fifteen sixteen seconds

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Speaker 3: at the game. My biggest problem, and this has been

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Speaker 3: a Lebron James problem in the postseason for some time now,

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Speaker 3: is when the Lakers were up twenty, and then they

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Speaker 3: were up by fifteen, and they were up by thirteen

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Speaker 3: whatever it was in the third quarter, he immediately went

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Speaker 3: to the prevent offense. Walk it up court every second,

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Speaker 3: dribble the ball, take all the time as much as possible,

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Speaker 3: you're the guy who's gonna stop the bleeding. You're the

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Speaker 3: goes back to fourteen sixteen, rather than going back down

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Speaker 3: disgustingly as a Laker fan, in the fourth quarter, everyone's

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Speaker 3: talking about, well, Lebron had like twelve points. Lebron Wilmos

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Speaker 3: let him down to the home stretch. You know who

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Speaker 3: was guarding Lebron for the last six minutes of that

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Speaker 3: game was a KCP. KCP. He's a great defender, don't

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Speaker 3: There is no reason why a man of his size

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Speaker 3: give him a pass because he's thirty nine years old.

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Speaker 3: Because he's still one of the top ten players in

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Speaker 3: And as you can tell, I'm very upset as Lakers

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Speaker 2: Well again, like I'm gonna I'm gonna open the play

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Speaker 2: was brutal late. I mean I didn't think he was

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Speaker 3: What I was brutal with was the decision making, the

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Speaker 3: walking the ball up the court, playing this prevent offense

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Speaker 3: when the Lakers they don't win like that, like as

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Speaker 3: soon as they went into a funk. I mean, I

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Speaker 3: think I've read somewhere that the Lakers scored twenty points

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Speaker 3: over like the last fourteen minutes of the game or

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Speaker 3: something like that, Like that's not gonna get it done

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Speaker 3: in an NBA playoff game, especially against a team like Denver,

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Speaker 3: who I keep bringing this up to this like a

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Speaker 3: theme of the podcast. They are inevitable. You are not

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Speaker 3: too good, they're too experienced, they're two seasoned, and Nikola

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Speaker 3: Jokic is an all time great. Jamal Murray, even in

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Speaker 3: his bad game, is one of the great postseason players

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Speaker 3: expect that you can just kneel on the ball, play

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Speaker 2: And again I don't have I don't know what. I

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Speaker 2: don't know why Lebron and Ham would do that. But

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Speaker 2: what I saw in the third was they went with

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Speaker 2: Here's the problem. Jokich is twenty eight, Porters twenty five,

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Speaker 2: What do you do? You can't do anything that dramatic

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Speaker 2: They're just not as good as Denver. You know, like

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Speaker 2: get where you're coming from. That is just a tremendous

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Speaker 2: game itself was amazing. It was one of those robbers

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Speaker 2: couldn't during this game. The second half was riveting. You

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Speaker 2: knew the Nuggets were going to come back. Man, that

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Speaker 2: was some basketball game. Where are you you think the

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: Can they win two?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: Remember Suns last year? Hold On Sons last year, lost

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: One? Maybe. But I have two stats that are are

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Speaker 3: gonna perfectly encapsulate me feeling as a Laker fan. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Through the first three quarters of Game two, the Denver

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Speaker 3: Nuggets shot thirty eight percent. In the fourth quarter shot

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Speaker 3: That just that it shows you how heartbreaking and frustrating

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Speaker 2: So Murray was four or five of those?

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Speaker 3: He was four. And then here's the worst one. I

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Speaker 3: pulled this up. It's a website called Chapster Chumps dot

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Speaker 3: winning streaks, right, and you can sort however you want.

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Speaker 3: So I sorted it longest NBA winning streaks against a

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Speaker 3: single team, one team against another. Here's the top five.

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Speaker 3: The Knicks over the Pistons. They've currently won fifteenth straight. Well,

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Speaker 3: you know Pistons are tanking. It makes sense, right. The

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Speaker 3: Warriors have beaten the Rockets thirteenth straight times, which would

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Speaker 3: make sense because again, up until this season, the Rockets

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Speaker 3: the tanking Hornets. The thunder have beaten the tanking Blazers

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Speaker 3: twelve straight and come in at number five. The Denver

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Speaker 3: Nuggets have been the Los Angeles Lakers ten straight times,

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Speaker 3: and last I checked, the Lakers are not trying to lose.

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Speaker 3: The Lakers have tried to win every single one of

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Speaker 3: over and over and over and over. They own us.

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Speaker 3: They like we might as well, you know, walk around

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Speaker 3: with the registration car that says property of Nikola yokicch

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Speaker 3: and Jamal Murray.

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Speaker 2: Stop. Didn't the Lakers own the Sacramento Kings or something

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Speaker 2: like that? And there are mid two thousands.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but even in those series, like the Kings won

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Speaker 3: game like this is the same. The Lakers start off good,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to do this, you know, historical Yokic stuff.

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Speaker 2: But I thought he had a rough game, rob and

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Speaker 2: what's the ceiling on Yokic in terms of greatness all time.

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Speaker 2: This is a guy who just keeps doing unbelievable things.

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Speaker 2: He's in his prime. He doesn't misfree throws. I even

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Speaker 2: thought it was respectful when he shoved a D in

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Speaker 2: Jokic like put his hand up, and I don't know

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Speaker 2: if there's a thumbs up, but like, oh you got me,

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: One of the which is you rarely see for players

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Speaker 2: I'll be honest, Like Tim Duncan was an amazing player,

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Speaker 2: isn't Yokic better? Like Tim Dunkitch was amazing offensively with

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Speaker 2: Yokic is a better passer. I mean, if you want

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Speaker 2: Jokic's footwork is maybe second to only Elijah One. I

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Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, I'm not saying he's better than

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Speaker 2: Kreem abdul Jabbar, but this guy is just unstoppable. Every

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Speaker 2: shudder to think what the freaking Celtics are going to

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Speaker 2: do against him in the finals, well, Al Horford, I

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Speaker 2: I don't want to make this about Lebron, but like,

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Speaker 2: he can't be the best player. He couldn't get by

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Speaker 2: to Coola Jokic. I mean, okay, Nicola Jokic, is I mean,

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Speaker 2: rob Is he not on track to be a top

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Speaker 2: ten player all time? I don't listen. It's two playoff

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Speaker 3: I can't remember.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't happen like he Guys don'telieve. I don't know, man,

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to think he's on track to be a

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Speaker 3: That's fair. I mean. The thing is, it's as crazy

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Speaker 3: and so once they were a whole again, Nikola Jokic

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Speaker 3: a testament to how great he is. That as phenomenal

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Speaker 3: go to my deathbed saying that. The fact remains he's

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Speaker 3: never made an All Star team. Okay, so dipe. So

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Speaker 3: if you look at it this way, Nikola Jokic, without

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Speaker 3: I don't even think it's debatable at this point the

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Speaker 3: that revolves around Nikola Jokic. He's the one who enables

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Speaker 2: A quick reminder, Yokich's back court of Murray and KCP

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Speaker 2: wanted the buzzer. I mean, now, this is what killed

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Speaker 2: the Lakers was the dinwitty minutes. They were negative nine

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Speaker 2: Both were Torrean Prince threes. One of them was a prayer.

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Speaker 2: Lakers just have no bench. I don't know if this

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Speaker 2: Vanderbilt news he's gonna be available, does it matter?

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Speaker 1: Rob?

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Speaker 2: I don't know who is he stopping Jokics? No, just

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Speaker 2: defend what five minutes? So, I don't know, it feels

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Speaker 2: we we got They've still got to beat us four,

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Speaker 2: we're right back in this. You get some lucky bounces

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Speaker 2: in Game four, Who the hell knows. It just felt

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Speaker 2: like everything lined up when like D'angela Russell had the

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Speaker 2: you still don't win. It's just it's all right, let's

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Speaker 2: get to the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

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Speaker 2: All right, I wish we could do thirty minutes on

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Speaker 2: what went down at the Garden, but we'll condense it

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Speaker 2: a little bit, just because you know, you guys have

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Speaker 2: lives and jobs and you can't listen to an hour

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Speaker 2: on the Knicks And what the hell happened against the

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Speaker 2: seventy six Ers really one of the classic MSG games.

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Speaker 2: The MSG just jumping out the screen. The energy was crazy,

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Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, Jalen Brunson can't make

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Speaker 2: a shot and the Sixers steal the lead. I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: essentially checked out, Like, damn, they're in trouble. How are

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Speaker 2: we gonna fix this series? Brunson missed six straight down

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Speaker 2: the stretch and it was like, damn he if he's

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Speaker 2: not hitting his shots? Like, who are you leaning on?

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Speaker 2: Dante DiVincenzo og Ananobi And I'm like saying this out loud.

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Speaker 2: My wife and daughter are in the room. They're not listening,

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Speaker 2: of course, are paying attention to me, and I'm looking

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Speaker 2: up at the screen and the necks are like scrapping

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Speaker 2: around and then Jalen Brunson puts up that three and

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Speaker 2: it bounces and I'm like, oh, geez, seven misses in

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Speaker 2: a row, and then it bounces in I'm like, okay,

446
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 2: and then the inbound play happens and the Sixers listen.

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00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 2: We know Nick Nurse is a great coach, but for

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Speaker 2: the second time in three playoff games, he has looked

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Speaker 2: totally lost. The first was against the Heat and the zone.

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Speaker 2: In the first half, they could do nothing. I mean

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Speaker 2: it was like they hadn't seen a zone since high school.

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Speaker 2: Nick Nurse will totally befuddled, and luckily they were able

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Speaker 2: to pull that out. Nick Buttomb went crazy and then

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Speaker 2: b bailed him out. And this moment. I've watched the

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Speaker 2: ending play fifty times now. On the inbounds pass, the

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Speaker 2: Nicks wisely double team Maxi and yeah, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of contact, and I get it. The Sixers are filing

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Speaker 2: a grievance about the officiating him that says, pussy's just

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Speaker 2: stop complaining. That's sorry, Rob g might have to delete

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Speaker 2: that word. That's just that's like soft, just stop. NBA

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Speaker 2: is a full body contact sport, that's what it is.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, there's a lot of jostling. By the way,

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Speaker 2: Maxi straight up push Josh hart when he's trying to

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Speaker 2: get the ball, and they inbound the ball and if

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Speaker 2: you freeze it as Maxi's like getting the ball, look

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Speaker 2: where but Toom and Tobias Harristart. They're both standing almost

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Speaker 2: with the They could like touch each other near half court.

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Speaker 2: Like the spacing is horrendous, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: Maxi's easy to double team him when Harrison Batuma right

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Speaker 2: next to each other. They're doubling the hell out of Maxi.

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Speaker 2: He loses the ball. It's a fight, and I've isoed

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Speaker 2: the Nick Nurse part of it too. He's like, I

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Speaker 2: tried to call time out. He was ready to call

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Speaker 2: a time out if they didn't inbound it. Then they

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Speaker 2: inbound it and he pulls his hands apart and then

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Speaker 2: he loses the Maxi loses the ball and the ball's

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Speaker 2: free and that's when Nurse is trying to call time out.

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Speaker 2: Trust me, I know Nurse said that. And they're playing

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Speaker 2: it up. Go you can watch a replay. Okay, he

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Speaker 2: tries to call time out after the balls loose, and

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Speaker 2: then of course chaos hits. Hartenstein grabs the offensive rebound

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Speaker 2: on the miss three. Somehow he's in between a thicket

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Speaker 2: of defenders, gets the ball to o g Og, shifts

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Speaker 2: it to Devincenzo and then bag bag the Mike Breen

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Speaker 2: double bag, and the garden is electric and it was

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Speaker 2: just like what just happened. From down five, series shifts

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Speaker 2: to Philly. It feels like the Knicks are in trouble

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Speaker 2: well because Brunson's not getting any help, and then in

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Speaker 2: the blink of an eye, the Nicks are up one.

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Speaker 2: And I mean, folks, it was one of those one

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Speaker 2: I am literally losing my mind, okay in our family room,

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Speaker 2: and my daughter's kind of getting into it, and I'm

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Speaker 2: instantly reminding her of we had a not quite just

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Speaker 2: like that, but we had a local basketball league game

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Speaker 2: where we were down six with like three minutes left

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Speaker 2: and we did the full core press and it was

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Speaker 2: just chaos and we were able to come back and

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Speaker 2: win it overtime. It was awesome. Obviously this is to

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Speaker 2: the next level, but it was cool to see my

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Speaker 2: daughter get into it. And I'm just saying, folks, this

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Speaker 2: is how nerdy I got Robb for Like, you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm watching the Lakers after right, after the next I'm

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Speaker 2: watching the Lakers first half. I'm like, damn Lakers playing great,

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Speaker 2: and I'm looking through my phone to find myself. I

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Speaker 2: have a Patrick Ewing jersey and I'm looking for.

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Speaker 4: A photo of me and the Ewing jersey to post

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Speaker 4: on the line, but I couldn't find one. I did

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Speaker 4: like the face I d thing on my photo. I've

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Speaker 4: spent all this time like a loser looking through my phone.

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Speaker 4: I have a man who Jenobli Argentina jersey. I've got

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Speaker 4: this sick by me a heat Dwayne Waite.

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Speaker 2: I've got all these jerseys, but I and I have

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Speaker 2: the UI when I have photos, but not great photos.

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Speaker 2: So that's a priority this week, especially well after the

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Speaker 2: Knicks lose Game three, they will lose. That was my

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Speaker 2: first bet. By the way, Rob, I'm sorry, listen. I

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Speaker 2: love the Knicks, that's I root for them. But as

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Speaker 2: soon as I thought I saw the line, I couldn't

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Speaker 2: believe it was six ors minus four and a half.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I gotta lay the lumber here. The

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Speaker 2: decisions are not losing Game three. First, the officiating stuff

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Speaker 2: is a page out of Phil Jackson's book. NBA fans

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Speaker 2: know that Phil Jackson would work, the refs, work the refs, complain, complain,

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Speaker 2: and then the next game would get all the whistles.

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Speaker 2: That's an old Phil Jackson tactic. It's not a bad

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Speaker 2: card to play. It does week of desperation. I still

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Speaker 2: think this is the series is gonna go six or seven.

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Speaker 2: But for the Knicks to steal this one, like they

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Speaker 2: were in deep trouble if they lost Game two and now,

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Speaker 2: I just I think they've got a chance at the

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Speaker 2: series because all you need to do is try to

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Speaker 2: steal Game four in Philly, and then you come back

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Speaker 2: for Game five and then you need you know, Josh Hart, Evencenzo,

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Speaker 2: somebody on the Knicks is gonna have to go off

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Speaker 2: because I'll be I'll be honest, Rob, I thought they

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Speaker 2: were toast when they blew that seven point fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: League.

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Speaker 2: The offense is just a really tough watch for the Knicks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, bing Bong. So all I'm gonna say today, we

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Speaker 3: are all Knicks fans here on Tuesday morning. I said

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Speaker 3: on yesterday's podcast, I was a little bit bummed out

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Speaker 3: that even though I love my Lakers, that we don't

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Speaker 3: have a rallying cry like the New York Knicks, and

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Speaker 3: that garden last night was absolutely electric. I've never seen

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Speaker 3: anything like that, you know, from a major market city

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Speaker 3: like you get that in Oklahoma City, you might get

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Speaker 3: in Minnesota because they really have nothing else going on

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Speaker 3: over there. New York is the entertainment capital of the world.

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Speaker 3: And those Knicks fans showed up and showed out like

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Speaker 3: it was a Division two college game. Right. That ending

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Speaker 3: that you so eloquently described reminded me so much. I'm

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Speaker 3: a UCLA fan. It was Ucla. I believe it was

553
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Speaker 3: in the Elite eight against Adam Morrison in Conzag where

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00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 3: they snatched the victory from the jaws of defeat, where

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Speaker 3: Adam Morrison got stripped and it led to uh I

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Speaker 3: think it was a Lukembob mute had a game winning

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Speaker 3: lay up with like four seconds left. Right, That's exactly

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Speaker 3: what happened in this game. And in a series where

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Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson, who is your really only your only real

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Speaker 3: offensive creator through two games, is shooting twenty nine percent

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Speaker 3: from the field sixteen to fifty five and you're up

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Speaker 3: too to zero. How do you not feel good if

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Speaker 3: you're a Knicks fan. The Nova Knicks are back, baby, okay.

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Speaker 3: And it's fitting that this game comes on the heels

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Speaker 3: of the annual anonymous NBA Player Poll, where they surveys

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Speaker 3: players on a myriad of topics like who's the goat,

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Speaker 3: who's the best player? Multiple radiata yayada. One of the

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Speaker 3: questions that they had was, aside from your current coach,

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Speaker 3: who is a coach that you would least want to

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Speaker 3: play for? The winner three years running is Tom Thibodeau,

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Speaker 3: and his gap is only widening. This year, his gap

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Speaker 3: of thirty seven point seven percent ahead of the second

573
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Speaker 3: place was the largest in his history as the perennial

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Speaker 3: coach you least like to play for. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 3: that's bullshit because if you watch this Knicks team, they

576
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Speaker 3: didn't have it going. They should have lost that game.

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Speaker 3: They basically did lose that game where save the last

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Speaker 3: fifteen seconds. But in a game where your best player

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Speaker 3: doesn't have it going, as a team, you shoot forty

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Speaker 3: percent thirty three percent from deep, you have nothing working

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Speaker 3: for you, you find a way to win. That's a

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Speaker 3: testament to your coach. That's a testament to the culture

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Speaker 3: that he's built in that locker room. And it's a

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Speaker 3: testament to the confidence he's instilled in his players, where

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Speaker 3: the sum is one thousand percent better than its parts.

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Speaker 3: Josh Hart, former Laker. I love him. There's no reason

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Speaker 3: he should be playing forty eight minutes in a playoff

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Speaker 3: game just based on his talent level. But because of

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Speaker 3: what they've created in New York and the toughness that

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Speaker 3: they that he provides and the toughness with on that team,

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Speaker 3: he is the perfect fit. And it's reasons like that

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Speaker 3: why they were able to pull that victory out last night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't even realize that Josh Hart forty eight minutes.

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Speaker 2: He had twenty one and fifteen. The strategy though for

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00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 2: the Sixers is to let him shoot threes, and it

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00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,719
Speaker 2: burned him in game one. In Game two, he missed

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Speaker 2: two clutch threes that were wide open and the fourth

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Speaker 2: and you're like, Ah, it's just not their night. Rob.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting you say that. For some reason, I went

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Speaker 2: back and I was looking at the Thibodeaux years in

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Speaker 2: Minnesota and then the whole Jimmy Butler scene, and then

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Speaker 2: I watched have you seen the video where Jeff Tige

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00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 2: talks about like when Jimmy Butler was done in Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler show he basically what he didn't show up

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Speaker 2: to training camp and then shows up to practice and

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Speaker 2: it's like, I'm not running with the ones. I'm playing

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Speaker 2: against the ones with these guys who aren't even gonna

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Speaker 2: make the team, and they proceeded to kick their ass.

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Speaker 2: He just went right at Carl Anthony Towns and Jimmy

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00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 2: Butler is like stripping the ball from cat and then

611
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Speaker 2: looking at the GM and yelling, pay me. And Thibodeau

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00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 2: was like, you know, Tibodau loves Jimmy Butler loved him.

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Speaker 2: But Butler was just like, they're not paying me. I'm

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Speaker 2: out of here, get me DF out of here. I

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Speaker 2: don't understand the whole. I don't like to play for

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Speaker 2: Thibodeaux because, man, you're right, those Nicks they will one

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00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 2: throw a wall from the kid. Hartenstein doesn't have a

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00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 2: ton of skill, but holy hell, all he does is

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Speaker 2: make layups and crash the boards. OG Andnobi solid. Now

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Speaker 2: I am a little trouble by the brotherson situation. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna I'm not gonna lie like I know they're up

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Speaker 2: two to oh, but like you said, twenty nine percent

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Speaker 2: shooting for Brunson is unsustainable and the Sixers are clearly

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Speaker 2: loading up on him. I don't know what the answer is.

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00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 2: I mean, do you dust off Alec Burks. You gotta

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00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 2: find somebody who can make shots reliably. Nick's eleven of

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00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 2: thirty three from deep obviously not gonna cut it. Then again, though,

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Speaker 2: I gotta ask rob when I watch the embeat video

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Speaker 2: after the game, he's like sitting in his locker and

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Speaker 2: he refuses to look up at the media and he

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Speaker 2: has like his head in his hands. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if he was crying, but he used the word unacceptable

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Speaker 2: four times now. It's unclear what he's talking about, but

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Speaker 2: he's basically it's unacceptable. I don't know if it's the

635
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Speaker 2: refs probably a little bit, or his team or his

636
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 2: team's effort. I mean, listen, other than Maxie Max, he

637
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 2: had thirty five. He was good and beat at thirty four,

638
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 2: but on twenty nine shots and missed fourth key free throws.

639
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, you can't you can't miss four

640
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: free throws. I don't know, Robbi. It's one of those

641
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 2: things where who's gonna step up for Philly. They've got

642
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 2: two of the best three players in the series that much.

643
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 2: We get right, we know they've got Maxie and Embid

644
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 2: and the next half have Brunson. I don't know who

645
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 2: the fourth event. It depends on the night. Who the

646
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 2: fourth or fifth best player in the series is. It's

647
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 2: that it's really that close. And the problem is Tobias

648
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 2: Harris has been a liability. Now he wasn't benched in

649
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter of this one because but Toomb's given

650
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 2: him nothing. Defense was okay, but Buddy Healed. I mean,

651
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 2: remember Buddy Hill after his years at Oklahoma. It's like,

652
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 2: oh yeah, Buddy Hill, big time player. And who's Buddy Heel.

653
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 2: You know that he's thirty one years old, He's never

654
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 2: won a playoff series. I didn't even realize this is

655
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 2: first playoffs ever. He doesn't have a playoff win in

656
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 2: his career. And this guy was coming out like a

657
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 2: top five pick. So I don't know where the Sixers

658
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 2: Knicks go from here. Bottom line, neither of these teams

659
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 2: just great. The series is epic. The two best games

660
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 2: of the postseason have both been Nick Sixers Well Pelicans.

661
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: Pelican Thunder was good at the end, but it was

662
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 2: like not great basketball or this is thrilling, scintillating stuff.

663
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 3: No, I mean I wouldn't call it great basketball either.

664
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 3: I mean when when Jalen Brunson again, as we mentioned,

665
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 3: they're thirty percent from the field and he's the guy

666
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 3: getting all the shots, I wouldn't call that great basketball.

667
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 3: But you brought up a good point about the Sixers

668
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 3: and you say, hey, they got Maxie, they got Embid.

669
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 3: Who's the next guy is going to step up? I'm

670
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 3: a better question for you, who's going to be their

671
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 3: emotional leader heading back to Philadelphia? Because, as you alluded to,

672
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid looked absolutely despondent in the postgame. He wasn't

673
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 3: looking up. He had his eyes down the whole time.

674
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,439
Speaker 3: I don't know if that was on purpose. I don't

675
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 3: know if that was just happened to be in the

676
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 3: videos that I saw of him. You know, it is

677
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 3: what it is. But him saying the right thing, like hey,

678
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 3: we know with the better team and we know we're

679
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 3: gonna win this series. That all sounds good in theory

680
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 3: with the words that are coming out of his mouth,

681
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 3: but his body language in the locker room, his body

682
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 3: language on the court, most importantly, does not scream a

683
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 3: very confident Joel Embid and very confident Philadelphia seventy six

684
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 3: ers team. Tyrese Maxi may have to you know, accelerate

685
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 3: and fast track his leadership role on this team because

686
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 3: it's been very clear that, you know, even with Embiid

687
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 3: was down, Maxi took over the reins, but he was

688
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 3: always viewed as, hey, he's just holding down the fort.

689
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 3: He's our number two guy till big Dog gets back.

690
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 3: Embiid has come back. He's been uneven so far in

691
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 3: these playoffs. You know, last night was his best night

692
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 3: again twelve or twenty nine, which is you'd expect much

693
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 3: better than that from a center, especially an MVP caliber center.

694
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 3: You don't want to be shooting, you know, sub forty

695
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,720
Speaker 3: five percent from there. But if they need Tyrese Maxi,

696
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 3: I think they do. They need him to step up

697
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 3: and become the emotional leader of this team as well.

698
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,479
Speaker 3: If he's the number one option on offense, you know, cool,

699
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 3: it is what it is. I don't care if he's

700
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 3: one or two whatever, but he has to be the

701
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 3: guy who galvanizes them because right now, I don't know

702
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 3: if it's the health, I don't know exactly what it is.

703
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 3: But I don't think Embiid is giving them that emotional

704
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 3: lift that they're gonna need against the scrappy team like

705
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 3: the Knicks.

706
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 2: Now he'said, yeah, he's not one hundred percent. I get that,

707
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,240
Speaker 2: but again, this is a team I think Kyle Lowry,

708
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 2: I know he's been with it, hasn't been with the

709
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 2: team long because he was in Miami last season, but

710
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 2: I would guess it's gonna be him just given his

711
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 2: age thirty eight. He's been in many playoff battles. Did

712
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 2: win the CHIP with Toronto on the you know, the

713
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 2: luckiest title ever, Sorry Toronto, it was the luckiest one.

714
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 2: KD goes down. You know, if KD plays, they're losing

715
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 2: that series. Klay goes down in game six. And then

716
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 2: he was with Miami and they went to the finals

717
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 2: last year. And listen, Lowry's very limited. He is a

718
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 2: very solid host defender. We know he's got that big

719
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 2: fire hydrant squatty frame where you can't you can't, like

720
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 2: I would trust him defending like up to like six '

721
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: ten in the post, Like that's how tough he is.

722
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 2: And it's weird they have him essentially for when Brunson

723
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 2: tries to get in the lane or get switches, and

724
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 2: Kyle Lowry's there, And I think that's part of the

725
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 2: reason Brunson struggling. He was forced to stuff on the board.

726
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 2: But Brunson knows like if I don't do it, who

727
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 2: can I trust? Like Josh Hart can't create his own shot,

728
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 2: de Vincenzo can't like O g N Andobi's basically their

729
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 2: second best bet. So I don't know going forward how

730
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 2: much the Knicks will have, but man, what a victory

731
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 2: just and at a time when the New York Giants stink.

732
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 2: The Jets have the longest playoff drought in the NFL.

733
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 2: The Yankees haven't been to a World Series in over

734
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 2: a decade. The Mets, I know they have a winning

735
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 2: record this season, but we're like, I mean, barely started

736
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 2: the season. The Mets are a joke in recent years. Essentially,

737
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 2: the Knicks are the best game in town.

738
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 3: Rob.

739
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 2: I don't want to reiterate my Joel embid take, but

740
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 2: that if you guys go watch that head down interview

741
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 2: where Joel Embiid's like not looking up and scratching his

742
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 2: head and saying unacceptable, this offseason gets very spicy. I

743
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 2: will say this Rob, We're sorry to Cleveland Cavs fans

744
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 2: who want us to break down that he went over

745
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:51,959
Speaker 2: the electromagic. Sorry, not happening. I'll say this. I don't

746
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 2: know where I read it, but essentially, Jimmy Butler is

747
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 2: in the thirty six year old range and he's at

748
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 2: the point where injuries, do we pay and extend him

749
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 2: or does is Jimmy Butler kind of sort of suddenly

750
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 2: in play maybe to move on from Miami. Now, obviously

751
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler is beloved everywhere he goes, but for whatever reason,

752
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 2: he's not viewed in that upper tier as like, oh,

753
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 2: you gotta have this guy, you gotta pay him super max,

754
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 2: blah blah blah ah. That I do wonder the best

755
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 2: Sixers team was the one with Butler that ended up

756
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 2: losing on that fluky Kawhi Leonard shot from the corner

757
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 2: that also was an amazing ending. Rob. I know it's

758
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 2: a bit of a hot take, but we're looking for

759
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,720
Speaker 2: that third star. I think we've mentioned, Uh, Paul George

760
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: has been floated. There's a couple other names because they

761
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 2: have a Max slot. I don't know that Karl Anthony

762
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 2: Town's fits, but you know, Donovan Mitchell. I don't think

763
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 2: Trey Young really fits. I mean, I'm just gonna put

764
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 2: out there Jimmy Butler was beloved in Philly. Is that

765
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 2: too hot of a take? I don't know that the Miami

766
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 2: would be willing to let him go. But given the

767
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 2: age and the injuries, and they're gonna get dusted by Boston,

768
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 2: I'm I would say something could be in play with

769
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,479
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler just a name to watch on my front.

770
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's any truth to it. I'm

771
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 2: just loading it. Your talk about it.

772
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't mind that at all. And again, the

773
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 3: Tibbs connection makes a lot of sense. He fits that

774
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 3: GrITT and grind atmosphere that they've built there in New York.

775
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 3: But my favorite acquisition for them, isa hold up. I

776
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 3: was I was saying Butler and oh Philadelphia. Oh no,

777
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 3: that's not gonna happen. What that ain't gonna happen. It's

778
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 3: just it's not.

779
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 2: He did love it there, they should. I know he

780
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 2: hit the wrong guy.

781
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 3: I know he did that. They're more likely to go

782
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 3: for some analytic maven because that's what Darryl Morey is.

783
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 3: Paul George Paul George is the kind of guy he

784
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 3: would go after.

785
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 2: No to Tibbs, ooh that is good.

786
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 3: I like that. But the one I like the most.

787
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,320
Speaker 3: You know, we've linked them b to the to the

788
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 3: Knicks already, We've linked the number of players. Donovan Mitchell

789
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 3: of course, always get brought up future Laker Donovan Mitchell.

790
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 3: I don't leave that out there from now on. He's great.

791
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 3: But No, the one that I'm excited about, and this

792
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 3: has only been talked about in hushed tones amongst the

793
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 3: rest of us Nick fans. That's just myself is just

794
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 3: complete the Nova Knicks and get macow Bridges over there.

795
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 3: Just do it. To take the move from Brooklyn and

796
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 3: play them all forty five plus minutes to night. It's

797
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,240
Speaker 3: gonna be fantastic. And I can't wait for a Lakers

798
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 3: Nicks NBA Finals.

799
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 2: Wouldn't even can probably change his address, right, I mean,

800
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 2: Michel Bridges jump on the ferry, be good.

801
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:27,919
Speaker 3: Yeah.

802
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 2: I'm looking at Butler's contract, so he has a player

803
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 2: option for next year. He will obviously exercise that at

804
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 2: fifty two mil, but unrestricted. For you now, he's just

805
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 2: the age and the injuries for Butler make it interesting.

806
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 2: But you're right about the TIBs angle. That is, that's spicy.

807
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,359
Speaker 2: And Butler would be beloved obviously in New York because

808
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 2: he that guy's an animal in a warrior. He would

809
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 2: be a fine number two. That's a lot of mid

810
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 2: range action you really need. The three bridges is interesting.

811
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 2: I don't why would the why would the Nets let

812
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 2: him go just because they're dumb and have nothing going

813
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 2: on exactly?

814
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 3: And you could, you know, throw Julius Randall and a

815
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 3: boatload of picks because the Knicks have more than enough.

816
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 3: You know, they are okay see Northeast when it comes

817
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 3: to draft picks, selections, and if you can't get Joel

818
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 3: embiid or if you don't want Joel embid after what

819
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 3: you've seen women in this series, and the inconsistency is

820
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 3: the injuries mostly is the biggest thing. Why not just

821
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 3: you know, complete the circle all the other Nova guys

822
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 3: have worked out for you. Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart obviously,

823
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 3: the Vincenzo made the Big Three to basically win the

824
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 3: game last night. Why not get them all together? Jay

825
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 3: Wright obviously knows how to coach them up. They're they're tough,

826
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 3: They're gritty, and more importantly, they fit exactly what the

827
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,959
Speaker 3: Knicks want to do. So keep an eye on macal

828
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 3: Bridges to the Knicks.

829
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 2: Interesting.

830
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: The only thing better than sitting on your couch watching

831
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: the games. He's making money while you do it. Here's

832
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,879
Speaker 1: your best bet real quick.

833
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 2: Regarding the games tonight, obviously, you guys know I have

834
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 2: some first half against Minnesota and I would like to

835
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: add Sun's full game, but I think I might just

836
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 2: money line. Sons are winning out right now. We know

837
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 2: the road teams have struggled in this first round so far.

838
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 2: I will go Son's first half and Son's money line

839
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 2: for the game. I think Pacers first half. I don't

840
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,240
Speaker 2: know if they ultimately pull it out. I'm a little

841
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie, Rob, you shook me with your

842
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 2: whole like gosh, the Pacers are a joke. I think

843
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 2: Halliburton props or something you should look at. And then

844
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 2: you know, I have MAVs first half, and I'm gonna

845
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 2: have MAVs full game as well. MAVs are favored, though

846
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 2: unfortunately they were favored in game Game one as well,

847
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 2: so did well with the first halves. Sixers and Lakers

848
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 2: both come through and we'll go Sons, Pacers, MAVs first half.

849
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 2: I'm not parlaying them. I know you guys want to

850
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 2: do that. No thanks, and then I'll go Sons win

851
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 2: out right, MAVs win out right. I don't know. If

852
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 2: the Pacers do, I probably should take them, but I'm

853
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 2: gonna just a little nervous. Maybe maybe I'll be a

854
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 2: game time decision and put it on the GRAM and

855
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 2: go Pacers. But I definitely like the dogs and the

856
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,439
Speaker 2: road teams. They're gonna start to bounce back. Home teams

857
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 2: are not gonna dominate and continue to folks, it just

858
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 2: can't last forever. Robinie, any parting bets.

859
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,800
Speaker 3: I like you, love the first half for Phoenix, for Indiana,

860
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 3: for Dallas, But unlike you, because I like to bet

861
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 3: a little, win a lot, I will parlay the heck

862
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 3: out of that one. Give me the first half for

863
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 3: all three of those teams against the spread, and give

864
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 3: me the parlay.

865
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 2: It could be stacking paper if we if this hot

866
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 2: streak continues, all right, ladies and gentlemen, that's it for today.

867
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 2: NBA playoffs have been so good. I can't wait. You listen.

868
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 2: Obviously you got Men's League action coming up. I got

869
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 2: a soccer tournament called Adult Soccer Tournament coming up, but

870
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 2: I can't quit these NBA games. It's gonna be another

871
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 2: late one tonight with with MAVs paper Clips is the

872
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: late one. So enjoy the games. We'll talk tomorrow