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Speaker 1: MAVs Thunder. So complete reversal of Game one in so

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Speaker 1: many different ways, much tighter whistle. Game one, the Thunder

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Speaker 1: shot twenty eight free throws, Shay shot thirteen. Game two,

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Speaker 1: So huge swing towards Dallas, and just the overall amount

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Speaker 1: more physically aggressive team throughout reversal from Game one. Jump

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Speaker 1: shooting swings heavily towards Dallas. Oklahoma City gets one point

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Speaker 1: point three zero points per jump shot, massive difference.

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Speaker 2: Right. PJ.

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Speaker 1: Washington hits seven threes. Luka Doncic finally gets his pull

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Speaker 2: He hits five of them. Josh Green hits three threes.

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Speaker 1: Tim Hardiway Junior, who's been broke all postseason, finally hits

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Speaker 1: a couple of threes at a huge and one. In

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Speaker 1: the second half, they finally get going. Right Oklahoma City

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Speaker 1: game one, Oklahoma City grabbed thirty nine percent of their

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Speaker 1: dominant rebounding performance from Oklahoma City in game one. In

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Speaker 1: Game two, Dallas grabs thirty one point four percent of

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Speaker 1: now again not nearly as dominant as Oklahoma City was

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Speaker 1: So another huge swing towards Dallas turnovers. A huge part

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Speaker 1: In Game one, Dallas turns the ball over sixteen times

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Speaker 1: Another huge swing towards Dallas generating close out opportunities. Remember

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Speaker 1: They only had eighteen spot up opportunities in game one.

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Speaker 1: They generated thirty one spot up opportunities in game two.

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Speaker 1: Both Luca and Kyrie I thought did a magnet nificent

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Speaker 1: Much tighter whistle the jump shooting, the rebounding, the turnovers,

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Speaker 1: and that amounts to a game that the MAVs basically

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Speaker 1: that was his best game of the playoffs so far.

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Speaker 1: Hyper Efficient finally got a step back three going early.

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Speaker 1: best game of the postseason in terms of total shot creation,

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Speaker 1: and this is especially important on teams that have multiple stars.

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Speaker 1: So for instance, this is something I actually think Kyrie

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Speaker 1: As Kyrie's dominating games tonight. It was very clear early

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Speaker 1: on Luca had it going right, Like, hit a short,

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Speaker 1: On that play, there was a clean strip of Sga

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Speaker 1: Kyrie was there. Giddy tried to force the pass. Kyrie

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Speaker 1: hit him in stride for the layup. Once again, something

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Speaker 1: They started the second hand with Aaron Wiggins on the floor,

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Speaker 1: Sticking with my pick for now, still feel like Dallas

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Speaker 1: I will be back later tonight after the final buzzer

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Speaker 1: of Nuggets Wolves, I'll see you guys. Then the volume