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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up straight firefam HiT's me Jason McIntyre's straight

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Speaker 2: fire or Friday May the tenth, It is a tough

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Speaker 2: morning for your boy. Boston Celtics go down. Jason Tatum's

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Speaker 2: in the crosshairs of the media again. I just feel

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Speaker 2: so sick defending this guy. At least the MAVs won,

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Speaker 2: and then of course the men's league, We're going up

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Speaker 2: against probably the third best team and we lose seventy

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Speaker 2: five to seventy three in overtime. I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: get into the machinations. We just we bricked a couple

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Speaker 2: free throws in overtime. This stupid rule. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: one of those leagues where there's the running clock, so

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Speaker 2: they don't want to slow it totally down with free throws.

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Speaker 2: So when you go to the line, it's usually one

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Speaker 2: for two. You make the first, you get two points,

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Speaker 2: and you move on. So we get fouled late in

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Speaker 2: the game, but we thought it was still one for two,

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Speaker 2: but it was one and one. And when it's one

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Speaker 2: and one, it's only one free throw. If you make it,

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Speaker 2: it's one point and that's it. You don't get a

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Speaker 2: second free throw, so our guy up one shoots it

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Speaker 2: makes the free throw, and we're like, oh, we're up three.

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Speaker 1: No three.

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Speaker 2: We're all yelling, no, don't give up the three. They

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Speaker 2: come down, they can't get a three off and one

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Speaker 2: of their guys gets a lay up and then you know,

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Speaker 2: the buzzer sounds and that's in. We're like, oh, it's over, okay,

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Speaker 2: we won, and literally I get up, I'm like getting

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Speaker 2: ready to go shake hands, and they're like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: over time. I was like, what are you talking about.

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Speaker 2: They're like, yeah, one in one is only one point,

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh my goodness. And at that point

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Speaker 2: I knew we were in trouble. And still their best

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Speaker 2: player who must have had forty This guy is I mean,

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Speaker 2: he was a D two guard. He is super fast,

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Speaker 2: like I can't imagine with the speed of an NBA

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Speaker 2: player like Kyrie Irving. When I'm watching this guy and

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Speaker 2: he must have had forty against us. He shoots a

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Speaker 2: three with two seconds left and they call a foul,

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Speaker 2: like after the ball hits the ground. It was such

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Speaker 2: a late whistle. Kid buries three free throws and we lose.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I was a little pissed off. I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna lie. I'm waking up this morning and I'm just

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Speaker 2: a little I don't like losing. I'm competitive as hell.

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Speaker 2: Luckily the MAVs got me to the window last night

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Speaker 2: with my guy Luka Doncic coming through. And I guess

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Speaker 2: I'll start with Luca and the Mavericks because this is

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Speaker 2: a running thing with the Celtics and the Mavericks, but

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Speaker 2: specifically with Dallas. When their threes are on, they ain't losing.

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Speaker 2: And the threes were on last night eighteen of thirty

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Speaker 2: seven PJ Washington mid season pickup seven threes, Luca five

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Speaker 2: for excuse me, five for eight. Josh Green, who I

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Speaker 2: on the Herd said, this is a Josh Green series.

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Speaker 2: He was excellent, three for five from deep. Tim Hardaway

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Speaker 2: dusted him off. His first game back was rusty Game one,

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Speaker 2: Game two, six of ten, shooting two or four from three,

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Speaker 2: seventeen points in nineteen minutes. All their guys hit their threes,

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Speaker 2: and here's the kicker. They won with Kyrie Irving scoring

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Speaker 2: nine points. That's it. Usually it's been like, okay, second

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Speaker 2: Luca your first half, Kyrie your second half, and this

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Speaker 2: was like Kyrie eleven assists, nine points. So you can

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Speaker 2: look at this a lot of ways. If you're OKC,

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Speaker 2: you're spinning this ass. Oh they had a fluky night

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Speaker 2: from three eighteen of thirty, so they're not PJ. Washington

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Speaker 2: is not banging home. Seven threes were fine, and then

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Speaker 2: the counter is, well, actually, you know, Kyrie Irving did

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Speaker 2: nothing and they won by nine handily, and it was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: and then you look at the bench and you're like, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: in game one it was the OKC bench. Remember Wiggins,

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Speaker 2: we were raving about him, case On Wallace, Isaiah Joe,

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Speaker 2: and none of those guys really did much in game two.

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Speaker 2: So and now you go at home if you're Dallas,

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Speaker 2: and you could take a stranglehold on the series with

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Speaker 2: games three and four, and we know historically role players

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Speaker 2: play better at home. The thing I saw Rob that

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Speaker 2: I like, besides the threes was the hustle stats seemed

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Speaker 2: to all go to Dallas. They were unselfish. They had

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Speaker 2: more assists thirty assists to twenty five steals. Another hustle stat.

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Speaker 2: They had eight to five fewer exact same turnovers ten ten.

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Speaker 2: But the big woe was offensive rebound. You could see

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Speaker 2: Derek Jones, Junior Gafford lively like they were getting to

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Speaker 2: the loose balls and okay See won that in the

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Speaker 2: feel like round two has been tougher for me with

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Speaker 2: So it is split since you know Boston was a

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Speaker 2: just it was one of those situations where you watch

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Speaker 2: they're gonna be fine and they go home now, and

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Speaker 2: be like we got to steal this, we got to

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Speaker 2: get home court advantage back, or or are the Dallas

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Speaker 2: role players going to step up? Dallas maybe gets a

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Speaker 2: home whistle and the MAVs take us angle hold on

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Speaker 2: this series. I know people wanted to pencil in Okac

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Speaker 2: into the conference finals. Everybody's excited about Shay Gilders Alexander

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Speaker 2: who had a good game. You know, it wasn't great,

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Speaker 2: but he was good. He got some help from one

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Speaker 2: did not really deliver. And I'm just telling you, Dallas

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Speaker 2: they take control of the series. Rob, are you with me?

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Speaker 3: Ooh, I'm halfway with you? And now again, I picked

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Speaker 3: Dallas before the series. I picked Dallas for the playoffs

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Speaker 3: advance of the Western Conference finals. So I'm all in

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Speaker 3: on Luca and Kyrie and the guys. However, I am

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Speaker 3: one of the people you alluded to that is not

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Speaker 3: all that encouraged by this game to win by Dallas,

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Speaker 3: Like I don't think you can count on PJ. Washington,

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Speaker 3: Tim Hardaway Junior and Josh Green going twelve for twenty

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Speaker 3: I said after Game one that if the MAVs had

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Speaker 3: with Luka doncicis Luka Donja was great, you know, eleven

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Speaker 3: he looked hopbled at times. There's a one point his

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Speaker 3: versions of Luka Doncic. And even with him returning to

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Speaker 3: It's seven threes, right, like they needed all these things

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Speaker 3: Oklahoma City. I still feel like has at least one

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Speaker 3: major adjustment that they can make in the rest of

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Speaker 3: this series that I don't know that Dallas has.

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Speaker 4: Like up their sleeve anymore.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear it.

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Speaker 3: And that adjustment is quite simply is the bench Josh Gitty,

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Speaker 2: But they basically did.

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Speaker 3: They basically have the first two games, but in game two,

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Speaker 3: Josh Kitty only played eleven minutes. Like as we said

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Speaker 3: before the series started, I thought that Luca was gonna

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Speaker 3: have Josh Getty played out of the floor because he

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Speaker 3: just They're gonna call for picking rolls over and over.

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Speaker 3: Josh Kitty cannot defend him, and more importantly, on the

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Speaker 3: other end, Josh Getty cannot shoot, so it's gonna change

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Speaker 3: the way that you cover the OKAC offense. But Josh

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Speaker 3: Getty game two, eleven minutes, eight points to rebound, Like, hey, it's.

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Speaker 4: Not too bad, right, he could have been that bad.

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Speaker 3: He was a minus twenty in eleven minutes, Like, I

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Speaker 3: don't even know how that's possible in a game where

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Speaker 3: the team only scored one hundred and nineteen points. So

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Speaker 3: that means that he was just getting absolutely abused out

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Speaker 3: What Oklahoma City can do, in my opinion, is they

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Speaker 3: bulldog defensively and he's been showing a lot of promise

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Speaker 3: more at actions. But that is a big adjustment that

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Speaker 3: OKASE can do. They have been one of the better

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Speaker 3: three point shooting teams all season into the playoffs, so

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Speaker 3: them shooting thirty three percent is not like, you know,

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Speaker 3: a complete outlier like they can. They normally shoot thirty

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Speaker 3: seven thirty eight. It's not the same thing as what

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Speaker 3: happened with Dallas, where these guys who are not great

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Speaker 3: shooters suddenly cannot miss. So I'm to have some confidence

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Speaker 3: in Dallas because again I picked him for the series.

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Speaker 3: Luca looks like he's gonna be okay as long as

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Speaker 3: he doesn't get you know, sideswiping falling on his knee

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Speaker 3: again like he did in Game one.

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Speaker 4: But I don't feel super encouraged either. For the Mavericks.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's a good point on Giddy. I'm looking it up. Though,

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Speaker 2: here's the only concern you said earlier that they one

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Speaker 2: eight And if you trade him in for Keyson Wallace,

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Speaker 2: who's like a six to three guy Wiggans six four

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Speaker 2: And to me, that is where maybe maybe the Mads.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they're capable of bullyball, but PJ. Washington

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Speaker 2: and Gafford or Derek Lively could like I mean, Derek

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Speaker 2: Lively could not eat inside but control the paint and

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Speaker 2: I think it could be a risky move, but you're right,

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Speaker 2: Gough giddy as a liability defensively, Luca, I think it

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Speaker 2: two threes on him like in the opening moments, and

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Speaker 2: would be It's an interesting adjustment. I think MAVs got this.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't totally panicked after game one. Luca's name appears fine.

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Speaker 2: Everybody made a big deal out of the one turnover.

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Speaker 2: It couldn't score on lou Dort the dorser chamber, Hm,

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Speaker 2: maybe in the repair shop, right, I mean, he himself

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Speaker 2: had five fouls in thirty three minutes, did nothing offensively,

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Speaker 2: one steal, and Luca had one turnover in forty one minutes.

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Speaker 2: Pretty damn good showing. Now, if you want to pick

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Speaker 2: a part a superstar, it's not say Gil Show Gils Alexander,

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Speaker 2: it's not my guy Luka Doncic, and it's probably not Kyrie,

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Speaker 2: who probably had his worst game in the postseason. The

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Speaker 2: I've talked about this at length. I am a New

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Speaker 2: We moved when we were my I was like two

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Speaker 2: could not stand them. Hate with a passion. The Red Sox.

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Speaker 2: I don't like, don't like any other players ever. I

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Speaker 2: can't stand Sweet Caroline because of that freaking seventh inning

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Speaker 2: or whatever it is when Boston plays it, I don't

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Speaker 2: know if it's the end of the game. I thought

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Speaker 3: I think if the New York Knicks were fully healthy,

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Speaker 3: the Knicks have like three healthy players right now, and

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Speaker 2: It's the analytics say that's not worth it. It's better to

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Speaker 3: Agreed, math is gonna math across eighty two games, because

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Speaker 3: I don't think that they're in trouble, though, because I

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Speaker 3: what have you. The thing that I'm more interested in, though,

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Speaker 3: He's not meant to be a high minutes kind of player.

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Speaker 3: That is not a super team. When Dwayne Wade and

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Speaker 3: I don't think Boston is a super team even though

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Speaker 2: Well, what about the Heatles. You don't think Boston as.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you want to count that, but were

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Speaker 3: they together long enough to really be a super team.

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, Clippers have Paul, George Harden and Kawhi. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I know the injuries, but technically that should be as sure,

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Speaker 2: sure if you want, if you want to Russell Westbrook,

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Speaker 2: I don't love him, He's he's all right.

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Speaker 3: I guess my view of them as jaded because they're

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Speaker 3: so hurt and you never really see them all together

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Speaker 3: at the same time.

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Speaker 2: But sure, Russ, Lebron and Ad. I know Russ wasn't

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Speaker 2: in his prime.

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Speaker 4: I mean, but.

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Speaker 3: It's the point is is the threshold. The benchmark to

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Speaker 3: a super team is not one star and four really

436
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Speaker 3: good players alongside of him. It is superstar, superstar star

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Speaker 3: and then a bunch of guys usually like like you

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Speaker 3: gotta be all time greats coming together there for me

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Speaker 3: to consider you a super team. And this Boston Celtics

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Speaker 3: teamven though they're very good, they win a lot of games.

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Speaker 3: Jason Tatum is a future Laker. I just don't think

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Speaker 3: that they qualify as a super team.

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Speaker 2: It's tough to handicap. Like Al Horford's had a really.

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Speaker 4: Good career, Rob absolutely is he.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's a Hall of It. Does he

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Speaker 2: have a ring?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: No, he is.

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Speaker 3: But the thing is that there's another conversation. The issue

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Speaker 3: with the Hall of Fame is almost everyone gets in

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Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: Well, Chris Webber's not in, is he?

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Speaker 4: Yes? I think he is.

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Speaker 2: He got in.

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Speaker 4: I think so.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like Mitch Richmond's in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 3: Al Horford's gonna get him because of his years in Florida.

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Speaker 3: They went back to back. He I promise you he will.

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Speaker 2: Wait, it's a basketball It's not the NBA exactly. Also,

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Speaker 2: like Derek White, I mean, listen, I know he's had

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Speaker 2: some out of body experiences. I don't will the will

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Speaker 2: will the real Derek White stand up three of eleven,

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Speaker 2: one of eight for three, Like, I mean, he is

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Speaker 2: a solid player. But let's stop acting like Derek White

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Speaker 2: is other worldly, you know, I mean, I don't people

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Speaker 2: are treating him like he I mean, what is he

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Speaker 2: the equivalent like a Rick Fox? Remember Rick Fox of

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Speaker 2: the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's probably a better version than that. But again,

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Speaker 3: it's it's the regression to the mean. He was so

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Speaker 3: hot to start the playoffs that this whatever one for

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Speaker 3: eight shooting is going to bring his average down. He's

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Speaker 3: gonna be leveling off right around forty percent, which is

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Speaker 3: what he is.

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's too early on Jalen Brown Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame. I think Tatum is on the track. But

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Speaker 2: you're right, it's not like Tatum's been the MVP in

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Speaker 2: the league. I don't know over under half one half

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Speaker 2: for Tatum MVPs in his.

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Speaker 3: Career under You don't think he'll ever be an MVP. No,

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Speaker 3: Dwayne Wade never want an MVP cmdal ant they never wanted.

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Speaker 2: No way, Dwayne Wade did not never. I'm sure he's

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Speaker 2: happy he's got his chip in his finals MVP.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't think chips and the way that

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Speaker 3: the voting is nowadays, like you have to put updiculous numbers,

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Speaker 3: and the way Jason Tatum plays, I don't think he's.

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Speaker 4: Ever gonna put up numbers like that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think Luca was like thirty three, nine

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Speaker 3: and nine and he came in third.

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Speaker 2: That would have my MVP and like probably like eighty

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Speaker 2: percent of the years in the last twent thirty years, right, Wow,

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Speaker 2: and listen, Tatum is all all of a sudden like

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Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards feels like the kind of guy who's gonna

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Speaker 2: be yearly a threat. But I'm very curious and we

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Speaker 2: can dovetail into the weekend games.

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Speaker 1: couch watching the game. He's making money while you do it.

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Speaker 1: Here's your best bet, Rob.

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Speaker 2: I'm very curious on you know, regards to what happens

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Speaker 2: simber Wolves Nuggets. I think the win regardless of what

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Speaker 2: happens Timberwolves MAVs. I like the MAVs. Anthony Davis is here.

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Speaker 2: He has arrived. I mean, you know, people like us.

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Speaker 2: We've talked about him for a while last year with

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Speaker 2: the Olympics.

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Speaker 4: We know he's really, really good.

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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm gonna put it out there. I would

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Speaker 2: be willing to make a bet that Carl Anthony Towns

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Speaker 2: is not on the team next year. Okay, they I'm

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Speaker 2: just telling you Fiscally, they are up Ship's Creek without

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Speaker 2: a paddle, and the pat and the owner is notorious

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Speaker 2: for wanting a paddle and pushing guys overboard. Conley's getting

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Speaker 2: up there in age. Now listen, you can't pay Nasrie,

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Speaker 2: Jane McDaniel's Anthony Edwards, Rudy Gobert and Kat like they're

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Speaker 2: gonna be in the second Aprin Like, I think Towns

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Speaker 2: is gonna be gone. So does that change things for Edwards?

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Speaker 4: Well, certainly.

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Speaker 2: I mean Carl Anthony Towns in that last in scheme two,

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Speaker 2: he was like their guy in the first half. I

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Speaker 2: mean he just went off and it was like we're

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Speaker 2: forgetting he was like a top five Was he a

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Speaker 2: number one overall pick?

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Speaker 3: At the Edwards are Towns? Well they were number one.

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Speaker 3: They both went umber one, so yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I thought Towns was very good at game two.

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Speaker 2: I just like, it's just so weird. We've seen six

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Speaker 2: playoff games of Anthony Edwards this season. Rob two months ago,

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Speaker 2: nobody was saying he could be the face of the NBA. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: no one. It was like, oh, Coojah Morant bounce back. Well,

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Speaker 2: there's always Zion and it's like jokicch Obviously Edwards was

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Speaker 2: not in the discussion. And now six playoff games later,

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Speaker 2: everybody's ready to crown him. I don't know. I like

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Speaker 2: Edwards a lot. He is unbelievable. One of the guys

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Speaker 2: I follow on Instagram. I think I've told the story

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Speaker 2: about this guy Devin in the lab. I think is

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Speaker 2: his name?

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Speaker 4: Sure?

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Speaker 2: Yep, you know him right, m hm. So one day

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Speaker 2: I go in the gym and this guy's filming his

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Speaker 2: buddy doing all these moves. I'm like, damn, this guy's

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Speaker 2: freaking good, and I was it was clear that they

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Speaker 2: were like using the court, so I didn't want to interrupt,

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Speaker 2: so I'm like watching waiting and then I just take

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Speaker 2: off and then guy's like yo yo j Mack and

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Speaker 2: I was like, what, who are you? And then he

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Speaker 2: tells me, oh, you have Devin And then I was

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Speaker 2: like we're you know and he's like, oh yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: on Instagram and I look it up and he had

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Speaker 2: like four hundred thousand followers, Like how do I not

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Speaker 2: know who this guy is? And then I followed him.

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Speaker 2: He's a super nice guy. I never got to play

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Speaker 2: with him because I guess he's stopped going to the

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Speaker 2: gym at during COVID and ended up like getting his

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Speaker 2: own gym somewhere, but he put together a clip of

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Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards and he was like, you look at these moves,

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Speaker 2: and you're like, tell me, this isn't Jordan. Like, I

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Speaker 2: still think I like the Wade comparison as opposed to Jordan,

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Speaker 2: Rob Where are you on Edwards?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I like the way comparison. Actually like the

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Speaker 3: Kawhi comparison. I think he's a more explosive version of

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Speaker 3: Kawhi than Jordan. But I mean, I definitely do see

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Speaker 3: the shades if I squint real hard and watch the

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Speaker 3: way that he plays. Absolutely, I'll tell you what though,

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Speaker 3: as far as phase of the league for Anthony Edwards,

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Speaker 3: I have to imagine that the NBA. I know you

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Speaker 3: don't like this kind of talk, but I believe that

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Speaker 3: the NBA wants Anthony Edwards to become the face of

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Speaker 3: the league, if only because he seems to be the

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Speaker 3: one player of these young guys. Now that John Moran

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Speaker 3: has kind of fallen out of favor with all of

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Speaker 3: his issues that really resonates with the younger crowd. I

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Speaker 3: saw the stat over the weekend that through the first

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Speaker 3: round of the of the NBA Playoffs and through Game

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Speaker 3: one of Timberwolves Nuggets. That the Minnesota Timberwolves were up

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Speaker 3: ratings wise in every single game that they've played relative

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Speaker 3: to last season.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 3: And that's with the playoffs as a whole being down

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Speaker 3: like nine percent. So they're basically carrying the ratings in

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Speaker 3: a way like Steph Curry and the Warriors did there

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Speaker 3: for a hot second during their run. And what's more importantly,

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Speaker 3: because now that everything is digital and streaming and so

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Speaker 3: on and so forth, this is the start of the

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Speaker 3: playoffs and this was answering the weekend. I'm sure it's

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Speaker 3: only gone up since then. Edward had generated the second

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Speaker 3: most video views across all NBA social and digital platforms,

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Speaker 3: over one hundred million, trailing only Lebron James. So the NBA,

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Speaker 3: which I think is desperate for an American face of

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Speaker 3: the league, and if he's the guy that the younger

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Speaker 3: generation is gravitating towards, if he seals the deal with

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Speaker 3: the championship this year and potentially a Finals MVP, then

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Speaker 3: you can rubber stab him as the face of the NBA,

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Speaker 3: regardless what Luca and Jokic and Giannis and SGA do.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see those numbers. That is interesting so he

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Speaker 2: is popping big time. Absolutely, Okay, your wife isn't a

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Speaker 2: huge basketball fan, right, No, if you said Anthony Edwards,

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Speaker 2: does she know who he is?

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Speaker 4: No idea?

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, my wife would have no clue. Does your

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Speaker 2: mom know about NBA and stuff?

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Speaker 4: She watches more than my than my wife, but even

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Speaker 4: she has no idea who Anthony?

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Speaker 2: No idea? Right, My kids probably don't know who Anthony

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Speaker 2: Edwards is. Again, it's still a Steph Curry Lebron world, sure, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, and I think it's it's gonna take some

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Speaker 2: time for aunt, you know, like listen, it's gonna take

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Speaker 2: more than six games, bro, like Zion Williams, and people

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Speaker 2: know who he is, right. He came in from Duke

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Speaker 2: with a rep. Anthony Edwards didn't make the NCAA tournament

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Speaker 2: at Georgia, you know, and like he's a ridiculous dunker.

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Speaker 2: But I still don't think people really know him, you know,

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Speaker 2: like that, I think people I'm wondering, like jail, if

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Speaker 2: you said to your wife, oh, honey, Jalen Brunson's playing

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Speaker 2: and that we can't go out to dinner, and she

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Speaker 2: just look at you, like you, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: So so tonight we got Jalen Brunson and the knickt

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Speaker 2: seven point dogs in Indy Ogan and Obi out Indiana

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Speaker 2: favored by seven. It smells like a blowout. It's all

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Speaker 2: almost like one of those like, hey, we got to

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Speaker 2: We don't want Jalen to further it get injured. At

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Speaker 2: the first sign of trouble, We're powering him down. I

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Speaker 2: think the Pacers win this, and I think the only

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Speaker 2: bet here is betting the Pacers. I think for sure,

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Speaker 2: first quarter, first half, and I think ultimately they run

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Speaker 2: away and hide.

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Speaker 3: I think that your reasoning is sound, and yet I

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Speaker 3: would disagree with you only because of Tom Thibodeau. The

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Speaker 3: wise move is, hey, O, Giananoby's already ruled out for

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Speaker 3: Game three. They're saying, at best he's questionable for Game four,

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Speaker 3: which means realistically he's out for Game four.

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Speaker 1: WHOA.

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Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson has a foot issue which we can only

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Speaker 3: imagine probably flamed up or strolled up after Game two. Like,

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Speaker 3: I don't think you have this quick of a turnaround,

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Speaker 3: and you're just back to normal after missing an entire

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Speaker 3: quarter of NBA playoff action, So you would think the

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Speaker 3: smart thing to do would be like, Hey, if things

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Speaker 3: get tough, early, power down, save our guys. Josh Hart's

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Speaker 3: averaging over forty eight minutes per game, which is incredible

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Speaker 3: over the last four or five games. Forty eight but

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Speaker 3: he's averaging forty eight point three minutes, so basically he

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00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 3: doesn't sit out ever never, and then he plays in overtime.

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Speaker 3: That's how he's got forty eight point three. So hey,

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Speaker 3: power him down. Hopefully we can steal game four. But

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Speaker 3: Timms is such a maniac, he's such a psycho and

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Speaker 3: his team will run through a brick wall for him

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Speaker 3: that I could absolutely see Josh Hart playing is forty eight,

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Speaker 3: the Vincenzo playing forty six, and Jalen Brunton, even on

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Speaker 3: a bad foot, playing forty three. Forty four minutes to

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Speaker 3: where they're gonna fight and scrap and claw like they

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00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 3: always do and find a way to maybe not win

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Speaker 3: the game but cover the spread.

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Speaker 2: Do you think the Knicks put up a fight? What

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Speaker 2: about the nightcap, which is Denver's season on the line.

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Speaker 2: Do they show up in Minnesota and make this an

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Speaker 2: interesting series? Now that this is a tough one, because

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Speaker 2: logic says Denver is gonna fight I just don't know

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Speaker 2: if they I just don't know if they have the guys.

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Speaker 2: I don't, man, I it feels like a sweep to me,

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Speaker 2: Rob Wow, I think I know, I don't. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 2: would it shocked me hard of a champion Nuggets come through?

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Speaker 2: Of course not, I think. And I'm not betting this

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Speaker 2: because I think if you're doing anything Denver, which just

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Speaker 2: had three days to stew and ruminate, I think they've

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00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 2: got to come out very, very strong. They have to

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00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 2: because both first games, both of the first two games,

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Speaker 2: they were down at least double digits in the first

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Speaker 2: twelve minutes. If that happens here, say good night. Minnesota

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00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 2: will dominate you the way they dominate a Phoenix. So

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Speaker 2: I'll go Minnesota money line. But that doesn't pay anything.

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Speaker 2: So I guess I would bet Minnesota Indie money line parlay,

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Speaker 2: which see that's probably not it's not risky. Bet in

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Speaker 2: the two favorites, so you parlay them if you for

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Speaker 2: a hundred. Actually you bet one hundred on Indie and

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Speaker 2: Minnesota win one hundred and four.

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Speaker 4: That's not bad. That's not bad. I like those odds.

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Speaker 3: If I was really betting on it, I just think

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Speaker 3: that until Denver is out of their misery, I'm not

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Speaker 3: gonna bet against you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're afraid to be yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Like they've done this too many times where they find

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Speaker 3: ways to win in the last six minutes of every

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Speaker 3: game that they play, say for this series apparently, And

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Speaker 3: I just think you're gonna see, You're gonna have to

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Speaker 3: see a vintage Jokic Murray type game for them to

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Speaker 3: win this.

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Speaker 4: But I believe that they'll win Game three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, that's it for today's pod. We are

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Speaker 2: back on Monday.

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Speaker 1: By the way.

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Speaker 2: NFL camps I think OTA's are starting up very soon,

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Speaker 2: gonna get fascinating. NBA playoffs seating up. NBA Draft by

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Speaker 2: the way, the draft lottery I think is Sunday night,

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Speaker 2: So Monday we'll have some draft chatter. It's not a

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Speaker 2: great draft, but yeah, anyways, talk to you then