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Speaker 1: the Volume, Happy Saturday, everybody. Coverage of the Eastern Conference Finals.

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Speaker 1: another double digit fourth quarter comeback for the Miami Heat

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Speaker 1: last night, they are now outscoring teams by twenty point

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Speaker 1: one points per one hundred possessions in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: their star talent takeover games, and man, it just never

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Speaker 1: feels like they're out of a game. I have so

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Speaker 1: much that I want to share from this game. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit about that Grant Williams adjustment,

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Speaker 1: a couple of specific things that Spolstra did to cause

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Speaker 1: the Celtics problems defensively, and then obviously the classic Jimmy

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Speaker 1: in clutch for the Heat. You guys know the joke

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Speaker 1: Hoops tonight, All right, let's talk some basketball. So Jason

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Speaker 1: had this brilliant idea after Game one of this series. Hey, like,

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Speaker 1: why not instead of gift wrapping Jimmy Butler one free

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Speaker 1: Malcolm Brogden to attack every single possession down the stretch

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Speaker 1: of the game. Why don't we try a big wing defender.

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Speaker 1: Why is Grant Williams glued to the bench. Let's get

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Speaker 1: him out there and see what he can do. Well,

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Speaker 1: it turns out Grant Williams has no chance to stop

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler either, same exact moves getting downhill to that

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Speaker 1: five to ten foot area where he can make those

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Speaker 1: short range shots like I talk about a lot over

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Speaker 1: the course of the season. You know, we talked about

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Speaker 1: three level scoring as like shots at the rim, threes

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Speaker 1: and these long mid range jump shots like these fifteen

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Speaker 1: to eighteen footers. But there's always that short range as well,

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Speaker 1: which is where a lot of the best playoff players

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Speaker 1: in the league do their damage. That's where Lebron's working

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Speaker 1: in the post and hitting those short fadeaways right. That's

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Speaker 1: where Jimmy Butler's hitting all those shots. That's where Nikola

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Speaker 1: Jokic is hitting all of those pop shots in the

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Speaker 1: lane right like those That range is a range that

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Speaker 1: a lot of NBA defenses still concede shots to, but

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Speaker 1: it's much higher percentage than some of the deeper long

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Speaker 1: just it didn't matter if he was going right or

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Speaker 1: going left. It didn't matter how much of a contest

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Speaker 1: Grant Williams offered. He was just getting buckets right over

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Speaker 1: the top of him. Now, I do think Grant was

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Speaker 1: a little less physical than he could have been. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Like you can get away with a lot at the

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Speaker 1: end of NBA playoff games when it comes to using

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Speaker 1: Williams over some one like Malcolm Brogden, because Grant Williams

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Speaker 1: whole point of going with Grant Williams is he's bigger

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Speaker 1: and stronger and can hold his ground better against Jimmy.

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Speaker 1: There were a lot of possessions whereas Jimmy, especially when

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Speaker 1: with physicality. Put the onus on the official to try

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Speaker 1: So that was one thing that I don't necessarily think.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. The Grant Williams adjustment did not work

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Speaker 1: him on the trash talk front, like, here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: be honest here, Like Jimmy Butler has been torching the

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Speaker 1: just Grant just has to do a better job defensively,

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Speaker 1: good defender on Giannis in last year's postseason run, in

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Speaker 1: So that's the next step there. But classic Jimmy Butler.

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Speaker 1: it's just classic Minnie Lebron, Right, just picking on matchups,

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Speaker 1: a double team. Here's the kickout. Although they left him

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Speaker 1: And one of the advantages there is when there's three

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Speaker 1: look at this, like like he didn't hit him, he's

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Speaker 1: Like you can hit him and it's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's the playoffs, and one team is bringing

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Speaker 1: this ferocious physicality to try to win the damn game,

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Speaker 1: and the other team is giving ground, whether it's Grant

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Speaker 1: embracing it for what it is, which is a fist fight.

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Speaker 1: And those two matchups, Jimmy killing Grant and Bam torching

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Speaker 1: Al Horford on the offensive glass ended up being the

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Speaker 1: Now again with the the defensive scheme, like I said,

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Speaker 1: the third quarter, then he runs nineteen possessions of his

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Speaker 1: the key of rhythm disruption in preventing a large sample

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Speaker 1: So there's a possession where Grant Williams ends up kind

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Speaker 1: Tatum is standing wide open. I think Horford was wide

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Speaker 1: a freeze frame as Tatum is driving down the lane

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Speaker 1: on my Twitter feed. You'll see it, and you just

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Speaker 1: and rather than making that kickout, Jason Tatum just runs

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Speaker 1: I know it's cliche, but basketball games are won on

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Speaker 1: if I give them five hundred possessions, they're going to

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Speaker 1: matter if Boston has more talent if Miami values every

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Speaker 1: Bam is gonna gift wrap you three or four extra

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Speaker 1: do they value possessions, but they generate extra possessions. Then

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Speaker 1: And so, you know, honestly, this series has been such

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Speaker 1: been so unbelievable good in this postseason, right, and then

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Speaker 1: just timely contribution contributions from guys like Caleb Martin Gabe Vincent.

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Speaker 1: Another massive step back jump shot just just shook Jason

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Speaker 1: it's Gabe Vincent. Get a stop. You know the series

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Speaker 1: is not over, but we'd all be foolish to pick

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Speaker 1: Boston at this point. What has Boston shown you to

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Speaker 1: this team Four times out of five doesn't mean they can't,

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Speaker 1: But what have they shown you? And it could get

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Speaker 1: like Boston's got some weird chemistry stuff, right, Like Jaylen

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Speaker 1: cerious trouble man, and and this I'm having so much

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Speaker 1: fun just as because it just as a nerd about

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Speaker 1: Nuggets Game three. I will see you guys. Then the

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