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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What up, Straight

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Speaker 1: Fire fan, It's Rob g back at it again with

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Speaker 1: Gavin Kinsell. Day five of us filling in for Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 1: It is our final show, so apologies to the rest

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Speaker 1: of America. Jason will be back on Monday. I know

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Speaker 1: that you guys got very excited and you really enjoyed

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Speaker 1: having Gavin and I hold down the fort. But you know,

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Speaker 1: as they say, all good things must come to an end,

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Speaker 1: unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you want to look

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Speaker 1: at it. Um, you know it was. It was a

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Speaker 1: big day on Thursday in sports. Um. We had some

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Speaker 1: news come out about Ben Simmons and his future in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: which will get to you you later. We also got some

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Speaker 1: news late on a Thursday night that Jason Kidd will

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Speaker 1: likely be heading back to Dallas to coach Luca don Chech.

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Speaker 1: So if you didn't like the Luca centric offense before,

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Speaker 1: good luck. That's all I'm gonna say. Chris dapportorres zingis

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Speaker 1: me have to request the trade by this weekend. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's gone. He's gone. But again, you know, the big

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Speaker 1: story of the night. On Thursday night, Game three of

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Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals the Los Angeles Clippers and the

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Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns. The Clippers won this one going away. They

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Speaker 1: played arguably their worst first half of basketball of the postseason.

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Speaker 1: They could not throw a p in the ocean, and somehow,

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Speaker 1: some way they come out and get the victory one

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Speaker 1: oh six to ninety two. And we'll get into a

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Speaker 1: little more details of the game here as we go on,

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Speaker 1: And Gavin, I've marketed myself, for lack of a better word,

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Speaker 1: as a guy who can give you a hot take

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Speaker 1: on anything. Now I've I've told people, have had friends

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Speaker 1: here in the business. Our mutual friend Mike Mayor, hosts

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Speaker 1: a wrestling podcast. He has people wanted to come on

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Speaker 1: and say, look, I don't know a damn thing about wrestling,

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Speaker 1: but you give me five bucks and I will give

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Speaker 1: you a hot take on wrestling. Okay, that's been my

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Speaker 1: my mantra for a while. You know, it's half serious,

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Speaker 1: half joking, but you know it's gotten me pretty far,

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Speaker 1: I guess. So as I'm watching Game three, I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to cook up some hot takes. Things that I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: my only hot take or my big takeaway from Game

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Speaker 1: three is that these Los Angeles Clippers have to be

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Speaker 1: the most confusing, confounding team in all of sports. Like,

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Speaker 1: not just in the NBA, not just in these playoffs,

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Speaker 1: but in all of sports. I can't remember a single

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Speaker 1: team that can be arguably the worst team in the

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Speaker 1: league in one half of basketball, which they were in

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Speaker 1: the first half last night, and then ten minutes later

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Speaker 1: go on to three run and look like world beaters.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how the team that we see like

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Speaker 1: in Game one and Game two, of every game of

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Speaker 1: this postseason thus far, Game three, all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: they are the best team in basketball. It is perplexing.

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Speaker 1: I wish I had a better understanding as to why

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Speaker 1: they are like this, because I'm we're gonna get into

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Speaker 1: this a little bit later. But it can't all just

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Speaker 1: be that Tyler takes a while to make adjustments, Like

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Speaker 1: there's gotta be more to it than just Tylu needs

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Speaker 1: to feel out a game the way that Lebron James

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Speaker 1: It takes the two games to do it. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: first off, you don't want to talk about the Canadians

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Speaker 1: they are unpredictable. I'll pushed back a little bit because

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Speaker 1: They I think they were winning by eight at the

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Speaker 1: no doubt he would have lost this game. Tyler. There's

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Speaker 1: so much that he does during the game. It seems

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Speaker 1: like a game of chess for him that he you

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Speaker 1: don't totally know what you're gonna get. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: these these numbers here, like Reggie Jackson, who the hell

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Speaker 1: Chris Paul sing a Western Conference Finals game at Staples.

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Speaker 1: I never should have picked his team. I blame myself

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Speaker 1: the Clippers, which you know me, I've been betting this

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Speaker 1: former Lakers, future Lakers, and current Lakers. So I'm glad

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Speaker 1: guess we'll just break through some of the big storylines

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Speaker 1: that develop in this game. To me, the biggest takeaway

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Speaker 1: is Pat Beverley has absolutely changed this series. He has

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Speaker 1: amp down on Devin Booker. Now. I know that the

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Speaker 1: everybody saw what happened in game two. I mean Devin Booker,

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Speaker 1: he's ten of thirty seven shooting with eleven turnovers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: like I told you earlier this week, I'm probably the

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Speaker 1: biggest Pat Bev hayter in Los Angeles, and I think

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Speaker 1: he's just not. But what he's done to Devin Booker

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Speaker 1: out of his own headspace when it comes to Pat Bev,

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Speaker 1: because the seat at this point it almost seems mental

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Speaker 1: Then the Phoenix Suns, who had been the favorites to

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Speaker 1: up winning this series, it'll be you can point to

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Speaker 1: the third quarter of this game as the reason why

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Speaker 1: everything shifted after halftime, and there were some quotes coming

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Speaker 1: maybe with Kauai out, it really does seem to have

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Speaker 1: That has definitely been a win for Tyler. But the

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Speaker 1: Sun shot in Game one, fifty percent in Game two

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Speaker 1: I mean I never saw that coming. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: they ended up winning against Youtaev Game one. Again, Tyler

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Speaker 1: But I think that maybe it is part of it

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Speaker 1: with Brooklyn, I'm not saying that I would guarantee you

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Speaker 1: that Brooklyn would lose, but I can promise you that

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Speaker 1: the Nets would have their hands full with the Lebron

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Speaker 1: players like that. Enter Ben Simmons. He can do exactly

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Speaker 1: what the Brooklyn Nets would need in a playoff series

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Speaker 1: like that. And more importantly, for anybody who wants to say, wow,

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Speaker 1: how could you give up an offensive talent like Kyrie Irving?

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Speaker 1: Like Kyrie is much better than Ben Simmons. I agree,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving at this stage in his career is a

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Speaker 1: better player and Ben Simmons. However, whatever offensive punch that

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Speaker 1: you lose with Kyrie Irving, you can make up with

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Speaker 1: more James Harden, more Kevin Durant, who no longer need

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Speaker 1: resigned Spencer Dinwitty. Like people forget that Spencer DINWITTI is

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Speaker 1: still on this roster until further notice. I know that

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Speaker 1: he plans to opt out in the last year of

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Speaker 1: his contract and test free agency, but the Brooklyn Nets

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Speaker 1: should be in the driver's seat to bring him back

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Speaker 1: provided they want to. They can give him more than

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Speaker 1: anybody else on the market. So if I'm Brooklyn. I

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Speaker 1: call it Darryl Morey, and I say, hey, you have

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Speaker 1: a problem. In Ben Simmons, we have a little bit

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Speaker 1: less of a problem. And Kyrie Irving give us, Tyrese

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Speaker 1: Maxie give us. Ben gave us maybe a couple of picks.

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Speaker 1: And I think there would be a woman for both

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Speaker 1: of us. I think that both teams could really, really,

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Speaker 1: really benefit from a move like this. And on that note,

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Speaker 1: without further ado, here is the Friday edition of Gavin

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Speaker 1: Kinsel's Best Bet. The only thing better than sitting on

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

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Speaker 1: do it. Here's your best bet. Okay, I learned my

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Speaker 1: lesson never bet on Chris Paul in Staples Center. I

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Speaker 1: swear I learned this years ago, but we learned it

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Speaker 1: again on Thursday night. We are two and three on

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Speaker 1: the week. We're gonna get over five hundred. I promise you,

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Speaker 1: let's ride. We're gonna go Yannice points, rebounds and assists

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Speaker 1: over fifty three. I'll give you my reasoning for this.

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Speaker 1: He hit fifty five in Game one against the Hawks.

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Speaker 1: Look you're gonna see less brook Lopez in this game.

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Speaker 1: They saw how much they were eating him up down low.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna want more nice at center, and that's what

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Speaker 1: budd Is gonna do. Uh So, yeah, we're gonna go

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Speaker 1: fifty three on the over points, rebounds, and assists for Janice.

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Speaker 1: Let's get back to five hundred.