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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up straight Fire Vamp.

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Speaker 3: It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Tuesday, February eleventh.

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Speaker 2: A public service announcement.

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Speaker 3: You probably should go out and get the wifey, the girlfriend,

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Speaker 3: the side piece. Huh, just kidding, a Valentine's card, order

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Speaker 3: the flowers. Get all that stuff done before you miss

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Speaker 3: the window. I'm locking mine up today after I finished

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Speaker 3: with the herd and get some stuff done. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: lock that stuff down just so I don't miss the wind.

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Speaker 3: Don't wait till Thursday, Guys, you'll screw it up. Everything

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Speaker 3: good will be gone. You'll be settling for scraps. And

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Speaker 3: now let's get.

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Speaker 2: To what you really care about. Yes, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 3: The Luca era gets underway. Rob G's fired up. I'm

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Speaker 3: fired up. The Lakers look like they're headed to the

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Speaker 3: finals as they beat down, and I mean absolutely punish,

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Speaker 3: one of the worst teams in the league, the Utah Jazz,

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Speaker 3: Holy cal The Jazz are bad one thirty two one thirteen.

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Speaker 3: Lakers smoke them. They were up twenty thirty most of

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Speaker 3: the second half. Luca was on some sort of minutes restriction,

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Speaker 3: so he only only had fourteen Let me get this

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Speaker 3: exact right, fourteen, five and four. I bet his over

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Speaker 3: assist prop I didn't know about the minutes restriction because

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Speaker 3: I bet it early. I was just firing a couple

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Speaker 3: bucks off didn't go well. It was seven and a half.

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Speaker 3: He did not come close to the point total or

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Speaker 3: the assist shot one of seven from three. It was

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Speaker 3: a little herky jerky, but I have I have some takes. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: Lakers now.

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Speaker 2: Moved thirteen games over five hundred.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if Charles Barkley still thinks that the Lakers stink.

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Speaker 3: He said that literally two weeks ago, and that was

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Speaker 3: even before Luca.

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Speaker 2: And now do the Laker stink? Charles? I gotta ask.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's the oracle.

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Speaker 3: Charles Barkley, who never gets anything wrong, said the Lakers

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Speaker 3: stink in there nothing not good. They are hurtling toward

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Speaker 3: a top four seed in the West. And obviously you

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Speaker 3: can't take too much away from a beatdown of the

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Speaker 3: hapless Jazz. The Jazz are currently battling Washington and New

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Speaker 3: Orleans in the race for Cooper Flag. Although it's weird

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Speaker 3: because the Jazz is two best players I think are

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Speaker 3: Walker Kessler and Lorie Market And I don't know where

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Speaker 3: Cooper Flag fits in there, but obviously you take Flag

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Speaker 3: and figure out the rest later. Lakers should beat the

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Speaker 3: Jazz on Wednesday as well, and in to head into

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Speaker 3: the All Star Break. Is one of the hottest teams

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Speaker 3: in the league. You can't make any sweeping generalizations about

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Speaker 3: the Luca Lebron would they have two practices together, but

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Speaker 3: this much was obvious.

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Speaker 2: The ball movement was.

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Speaker 3: It was like borderline orgasmic the way the Lakers were

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Speaker 3: passing unselfish basketball. It trickled down Lebron let it be known, Hey, Luca,

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Speaker 3: you do you don't worry about fitting in, show out,

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Speaker 3: do your thing, and Luca obvious he was not gonna

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Speaker 3: do that. He was unselfish. He did miss some shots.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the guy been out since Christmas. Okay, we're

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Speaker 3: looking at you know, that's like six seven weeks on

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Speaker 3: the shelf. He comes back and he wasn't crisp offensively,

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Speaker 3: but you could see the makings.

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Speaker 2: Of a really, really dangerous Lakers team. They did.

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Speaker 3: I think they held their own on the on the boards.

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Speaker 3: Although Kessler had a bunch of offensive rebounds. Listen, I'm

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Speaker 3: not gonna come out and say that they're gonna be

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Speaker 3: able to handle Nikola Jokic.

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Speaker 2: Nobody can handle Nikoliokic. I don't want to hear this.

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Speaker 2: Who they have to guard him?

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Speaker 3: I mean the Timberwolves have Rudy Gobert. He can't do

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Speaker 3: anything right, you know. Okay, see what you think Isaiah

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Speaker 3: Hartenstein is slowing Nikoliokic.

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Speaker 2: Nobody is.

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Speaker 3: You can't slow him down. He's gonna get his Can

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Speaker 3: you stop everyone else? That's why it's such a simpleton.

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Speaker 3: Take the Lakers room protection. Who's gonna stop Jokich? Like

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Speaker 3: nobody nobody stop at him in the league? Guys, come on.

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Speaker 3: But overall the Lakers look really good. My guess now

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Speaker 3: that guys like Lebron, Austin Reeves, Ruey Hachi Mora are

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Speaker 2: So many more open shots.

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Speaker 3: It's like teams will give up ady fadeaways and turnarounds.

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Speaker 2: They don't care about that twos. Come on, a twelve

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Speaker 3: From Ad We'll give it to you, but you're not

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Speaker 3: giving up twenty five foot threes to Luca, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: You gotta hug him up.

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Speaker 3: You gotta respect the drive, and you just saw a

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Speaker 3: lot of easy layups and dunks. The Lakers shot fifty

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Speaker 3: Jordan Goodwin, but this kid's explosive. He's in the rotation

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Speaker 3: for sure, young kid out of Saint Louis. He's twenty

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Speaker 3: six years old. Man, he came off the bench. He

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Speaker 3: led the Lakers' offensive boards. Like they've got a scrappy team.

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Speaker 3: I like what I see from Drian Phinney Smith, who's

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Speaker 3: starting to fit in. He was miked up last night

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Speaker 3: on the telecast out here for the Lakers, and you know,

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Speaker 3: he was obviously joking around and stuff, but he appears

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Speaker 3: to be one of these like raw Rock kind of guys,

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Speaker 3: like keep it positive, don't get down when things are down.

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Speaker 3: And between Lebron and Luca, I'm just telling you, guys,

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Speaker 3: this team is so deadly right now. Again, Rob G's

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Speaker 3: gonna laugh at me, you know, but I do believe

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Speaker 3: the Lakers have a really good chance of getting to

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Speaker 3: the NBA Finals. And I'll just keep saying it till

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Speaker 3: I'm bluing the face and you guys, maybe it sinks in.

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Speaker 3: I don't care how dominant Okase looks in the regular season.

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Speaker 2: I just don't care.

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Speaker 3: Yes, they're smothering teams, They're obliterating everybody. They have a

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Speaker 3: plus thirteen point four point differential by far best.

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Speaker 3: They've barely played Hartenstein and chet Holmgren. We know that,

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Speaker 3: Okayse's a really good regular season team. Anybody who's watched

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Speaker 3: playoff basketball knows this.

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Speaker 2: This regular season stuff. This ain't the playoffs. It's just not.

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Speaker 3: And it's gonna come down to who can slow down Sga.

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Speaker 3: Now I said nobody can. I'll tell you right now.

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Speaker 3: Nobody can stop Luca, not Lou Dort, not Jay Dubb,

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Speaker 3: don't think it's out of the realm that he's slowed

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Speaker 3: He's slowed down enough that the Lakers could take down

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Speaker 3: ok I'm not worried, and I'm probably in the minority here, Rob,

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Speaker 3: but I do believe the Lakers are a legit Finals

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Speaker 3: They're definitely not as good as Boston. That being said,

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Speaker 2: Does Jokich? Of course you think, o Kitch, he's really good.

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Speaker 3: The Lakers have Luca, and I'm just telling you, guys,

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Speaker 3: it is a surreal thing to look.

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Speaker 2: Up at the screen and see Luca on the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you guys know, faithful listeners to this podcast

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Speaker 2: No, I am as big a Luka.

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Speaker 3: Doncs fan there as there is outside of Dallas, and

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Speaker 2: In a Lakers jersey is just it just doesn't feel real.

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Speaker 3: And Rob, I don't know if you feel the same way,

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Speaker 3: but I just feel like before with Lebron and Ad,

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Speaker 3: feel like we could beat anybody. Yeah, I just said,

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Speaker 3: we as in the Lakers. So Rob, I listen, I'm

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Speaker 3: not overreacting to a win over Utah, but the possibilities

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Speaker 3: of this team, Oh my gosh, I don't see why

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't be absolutely geeked.

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Speaker 4: Jason, you are entirely too measured and too conservative for

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Speaker 4: this podcast. I don't know about you, but I've already

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Speaker 4: laid down blanket to set up lan chairs on figure.

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Speaker 5: Oh and this is a patient in the parade coming

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Speaker 5: in June. Did you see the first half of that.

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Speaker 4: Game last sew they scored seventy two points on an

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Speaker 4: NBA team without a legitimate, you know, rotation level center.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Luca Danches and Lebron James and Lebron had one

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Speaker 4: It that the C plus plus games, where if you

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Speaker 4: look at the final numbers, it's twenty four to seven

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Speaker 4: and you're like, oh, he also had seven turnovers and

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Speaker 4: he only played twenty nine minutes because he was in

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Speaker 4: the norm from now on. Luka Doncic, who was ice

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Speaker 4: and it didn't even matter because we can hit you

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Speaker 4: from so many ways with so many creative ball handlers.

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Speaker 4: Austin Reeves an afterthought in this game plays a team

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Speaker 4: I had thirty two minutes goes for twenty two nine

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Speaker 4: answer is you can, point blank period. For all of

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Speaker 4: the conversation about first Nikola Jokic and nicolgo which is

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Speaker 4: still the best player in the league. I think he's fantastic.

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Speaker 4: He owns the Lakers, point blank period. Well, he owned

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Speaker 4: a D one ad, he owns owns a Remember they

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Speaker 4: they can cheat him in the bubble right in the

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Speaker 4: in the conference conference finals.

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Speaker 2: I think yeah.

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Speaker 4: But let me just say about Nikola Jokic. We said

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Speaker 4: apparent that you cannot stop Nikola Jokic. So what are

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Speaker 4: your options? You either one you keep trying to square

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Speaker 4: gonna be able to slow down the most dominant offensive

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Speaker 4: say we're gonna go small, We're gonna run these guys

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Speaker 4: to death, and we're gonna hope we can beat them

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Speaker 4: in a track me. Enter Luka Dancic, who if he's

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Speaker 4: he's at worse two or three, and on any given night,

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Speaker 4: in any given series, he can be the best player

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Speaker 4: on the floor by a mile. That's not even counting

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Speaker 4: what Lebron James has been doing this season. When the

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Speaker 4: Lakers get into the post season, yes, including Shay, Gilgas,

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Speaker 4: Alexander and Okasee, every series they play, they are gonna

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Speaker 4: two players in the series. What's more, both of those

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Speaker 4: the table for everybody else. And the Lakers have two

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Speaker 4: of them. They have two six foot eight Magic Johnson

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Speaker 4: go against. Houston's too young, OKC is Shay and a

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Speaker 4: bunch of dudes. Right now, Memphis, we know what they

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Speaker 4: are playoff rods. Outside of Nikola Jokic, and I'm giving

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Speaker 4: him his respect because I think he's that good. There

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Speaker 4: is absolutely nobody in the Western Conference that I think

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Speaker 4: can even hang with the Lakers. Hashtag Lakers and six

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Speaker 4: is coming again America.

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Speaker 5: Wow. The last time I brought this up, we won

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Speaker 5: the championship. It's coming.

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Speaker 5: God, don't wow?

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Speaker 2: I wish goodness, gracious, Rob off the top rope.

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Speaker 3: I had a buddy at the Lakers game, and you know,

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Speaker 2: The vibes here, the crowd is juiced.

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Speaker 2: What do we got? Who are reality ooping here? It's

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Speaker 2: just if you're a Lakers fan, you're super ginting. Now.

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Speaker 3: Was he a likable player? And my guess would be yes.

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Speaker 3: He talked a lot of shit, he backed it up.

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Speaker 2: He is fearless. I mean, I know, he's.

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Speaker 3: You know, the Slovenian and he curses and he complains

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Speaker 2: I get all that, but I felt like he was

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Speaker 3: And a lot of the stars who go to the

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Speaker 2: It's the freaking Lakers.

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Speaker 3: But I just I get this weird vibe that I

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Speaker 2: The Lakers are going to be more liked and popular

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and not just that he's likable, because you know,

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Speaker 5: Have you seen?

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Speaker 4: You're a you know, men's league legend, Oh gosh, multiple

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Speaker 4: Not really that great of shape. You know, can't run,

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Speaker 5: We all know somebody whor have played on a court

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Speaker 4: You're like, man, that guy is cooking us, and he's

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Speaker 4: you just don't get nowadays with most professional athletes. Luca

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Speaker 4: in La, I don't I don't know if I'm if

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Speaker 4: I'm overstating this, if I don't feel like I am.

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Speaker 4: He is going to be the biggest star in the

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Speaker 4: you get him in LA where he's going to be

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Speaker 5: He's gonna be playing deep into June.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, I think this team is poised for

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Speaker 4: Who's got next? Everyone's saying it's Wemby. Luca is gonna

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the vibes feel good around Luca. Now, let's pivot

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Speaker 3: to the team Luca was traded from, and that's the

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Speaker 3: Dallas Mavericks, the MAVs, And I'm not gonna you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm not doing this every single night like what happened

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Speaker 3: But the real story is the game was played in Dallas,

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Speaker 2: Listen, everybody knows you can.

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Speaker 3: Get I get death threats on Twitter all the time

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Speaker 3: And nobody cares about the loss. Compounding matters, Oh, Anthony

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Speaker 2: To make the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: You look at the West, Rob, I mean it is

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Speaker 3: Wemby in the playoffs badly. I kind of sort of

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Speaker 3: I'm curious if Kevin Durant comes out with revenge on

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Speaker 3: I don't know how many times you're going to get

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Speaker 3: You can't get broomed again, my guy, Golden State, We'll

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Speaker 3: see you with Jimmy Butler Sacramento. I know a lot

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Speaker 3: of people will pick them to regress, but Sabonis, DeRozan, Levine,

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Speaker 3: keep circling because you look at playmakers on that team

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Speaker 3: and like Kyrie Irving played forty four minutes last night. Okay,

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Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving is getting up there in age. He's got

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Speaker 3: I think he's a big Naji Marshall, Okay, Spencer Dinwitty,

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Speaker 2: And then former Laker.

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Speaker 3: He went for fifteen last night plus twenty three like

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Speaker 2: They started somebody.

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Speaker 3: Named Kessler Edwards, Rob bro What the hell's going on

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Speaker 3: with the MAVs.

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Speaker 4: I'd like to amend everything that I said about them

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Speaker 4: won this one in the short term. For a number

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Speaker 4: of reasons, I'm gonna work backward from everything he talked about.

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Speaker 5: Number One, In.

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Speaker 4: Addition to Ad being hurt, PJ Washington is still isn't

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Speaker 4: we're saying ten to twelve games. Most like he's out

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Speaker 4: You brought up the idea what if he turns an ankle,

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't know what that means or why

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Speaker 3: But man, Rob, I mean, you're right after Kyrie, who

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Speaker 4: Right, and that you know, there's been uneven results so far,

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Speaker 4: in Dallas, I thought it was very interesting that, you know,

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Speaker 4: Fan is short for fanatic. You should almost expect that

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Speaker 4: of a mav home game, So that, I mean, that

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Speaker 4: kind of tells you all you need to know that

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Speaker 4: your biggest star in your franchise history is saying you

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Speaker 4: know what, I know that I'm a MAVs guy, but

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Speaker 4: you know, Luca's my brother.

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Speaker 5: I got to show up to his game instead. It

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Speaker 5: was going on with us.

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Speaker 4: Not great.

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Speaker 2: The trends are not good.

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Speaker 3: I will say the juice right now, the pop for

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Speaker 3: the NBA is real, Like there's so much excitement right

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Speaker 3: now around the league because of these trades and the

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Speaker 3: new look teams, and obviously, you know, I think it

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Speaker 3: would be helpful if Butler and Curry made the playoffs

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Speaker 3: and kind of it made a run, if you will,

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Speaker 3: because Steph Curry when he's hot is as exciting as

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Speaker 3: any player in the league.

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Speaker 2: That's undeniable. But the league is just is such a tear.

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Speaker 3: Right now, I will say this whole idea that Luca

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Speaker 3: was out of shape and messed with the culture, and

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Speaker 3: there's some votes from I guess his name is Mark Dumont.

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Speaker 3: You know he's her owner, governor whatever his title is.

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Speaker 3: They're really acting like Luca was a problem. And Nico

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Speaker 3: Harrison saved the season last year with two trades at

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Speaker 3: the deadline, getting PJ. Washington and getting Gafford, and that's

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Speaker 3: why they trust him. That the Kyrie Irving thing worked.

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Speaker 3: But what they're missing is it all worked because of Luca,

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Speaker 3: exactly like Kyrie Irving as a one that doesn't work. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I know he was on the straight and narrow, but

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Speaker 3: it's probably because Luca's taken all the arrows and Kyrie's

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Speaker 3: just the other guy over there. Hey man, I could

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Speaker 3: score thirty. Nobody's gonna ask me a million questions. I

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Speaker 3: could do my thing. It's all about Luca, right.

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Speaker 2: PJ.

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Speaker 3: Washington non factor in Charlotte. All of a sudden, Lucas

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Speaker 3: is go sit in the corner. I'll find you.

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Speaker 2: And now PJ.

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Speaker 3: Washington is like a big factor and Daniel Gafford is

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Speaker 3: like the perfect grim Runner, he goes. I think he

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Speaker 3: went from Washington to Dallas. And then Daniel Grafford, Oh

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Speaker 3: my gosh, Daniel gaffer this guy is a player, you know,

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Speaker 3: Derek Live, look at this guy. It's all because of Luca.

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Speaker 3: It's only they talked themselves into thinking, well, you know,

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Speaker 3: the GM did this, and we got this guy and

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Speaker 3: this look at all.

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Speaker 2: These everything's working. I don't.

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Speaker 3: I think this was just a gross miscalculation, and I

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Speaker 3: think most people agree with me. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: Nico Harrison, you know, he joked at the press conference

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Speaker 3: that he's not going to even be around in ten years.

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Speaker 2: Rob, I don't know. If they missed the playoffs, do

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Speaker 2: you think he returns.

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Speaker 5: I think he has to.

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Speaker 4: I think that they've kind of dug into a point

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Speaker 4: where they have no choice but to bring him back,

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Speaker 4: because to your point, they've given this illusion that they're

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Speaker 4: all on the same page with this whole thing. And

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Speaker 4: what's very telling to me is that, yeah, yes, Luca

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Speaker 4: is not in the best shape.

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Speaker 5: I think that's pretty you know, by NBA standard.

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Speaker 4: However, every single other NBA player, both teammates and opposition,

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Speaker 4: can say, well shit, if he's out of shape and

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Speaker 4: it's giving you thirty five, ten and ten. Then you know,

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Speaker 4: maybe that works for him. And to your point about

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Speaker 4: the postseason, you know, lest we forget, I know that,

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Speaker 4: you know, Kyrie has this beautiful game and everybody likes

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Speaker 4: to watch him plays very pretty basketball that he plays.

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Speaker 4: During that playoff run, in two games against OKC, scored

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Speaker 4: single digits. One of the game he scored twelve uh

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Speaker 4: And then he had several games in the Western Conference

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Speaker 4: finals where he shoots sub forty percent. In the finals,

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Speaker 4: his shooting percentages go thirty one, thirty eight, forty six,

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Speaker 4: fifty five a game they won by forty and thirty

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Speaker 4: one percent. So can you imagine if Luka Doncic puts

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Speaker 4: up that kind of output, not only do they not

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Speaker 4: win the championship, they don't make the finals. They're probably

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Speaker 4: getting swept out in one of these rounds. Yeah, Like

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Speaker 4: Kyrie was given the cover of night by Luca doncies

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Speaker 4: because of his immense talent, and for this franchise to

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Speaker 4: continue to paint him in such a way that like

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Speaker 4: they were winning almost in spite of him, that they

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Speaker 4: hadn't overcome his being out of shape and his you know,

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Speaker 4: bad vibes in the locker room and the culture that

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Speaker 4: he was setting, Like, I just think that that's a

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Speaker 4: crazy spin job by that.

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Speaker 2: It's not great.

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Speaker 3: There's obviously plenty of NFL stuff going on. We'll do

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Speaker 3: that tomorrow. We just obviously wanted to get Luca and

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Speaker 3: Lebron out of the way because that's a big story

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Speaker 3: in sports today. So tomorrow we will chop up the

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Speaker 3: latest Aaron Rodgers, the Matt Stafford New York Giants.

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Speaker 2: It seems like those are the two big ones.

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Speaker 3: Also over super Bowl weekend, Russell Wilson will not be

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Speaker 3: returning to Pittsburgh, according to Jay Glazer.

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Speaker 2: So it's like some musical chairs happening. I think. I

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Speaker 2: think it's interesting around, like this is good.

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Speaker 3: I know some people are upset, but I think this

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Speaker 3: is good movement options. I think Kirk Cousins is gonna

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Speaker 3: be on the move. Rob Gie's Raider are hard up.

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Speaker 3: So we'll do that tomorrow on the pod and we'll

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Speaker 3: call it a day just to celebrate Luca and Lebron

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Speaker 3: in their first game. They're up next again on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait. We'll talk to you the