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Speaker 1: welcome to hoops tonight here at the volume, Happy Thursday, everybody.
Speaker 1: Hope all of you guys are having a great week.
Speaker 2: As promise.
Speaker 1: We're digging into the film from the Eastern Conference Finals
Speaker 1: Game one, Crazy Wild finish from last night. The idea
Speaker 1: here today is we're going to start from the Knicks
Speaker 1: being up by fourteen points with less than three minutes remaining,
Speaker 1: and we're going to dive into the specific areas where
Speaker 1: they lost control of the game. As we talked about
Speaker 1: last night on the show, it was a combination of
Speaker 1: two things. There was some unbelievable shot making and playmaking
Speaker 1: from Pacers players throughout this stretch, some impressive ball pressure
Speaker 1: that certainly put the Knicks in some complicated situations. But
Speaker 1: there are also a great deal of mistakes, some simple
Speaker 1: lack of defensive intensity, mistakes like not being attentive to
Speaker 1: shooters both on and off the ball, mishandling easy passes
Speaker 1: around the rim, missed free throws. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of things along those lines, in with guys knocking down shots.
Speaker 1: As we always talk about, there's a certain amount of
Speaker 1: shooting result that you have control of in your process
Speaker 1: as a defense, and they lost control of Aaron E.
Speaker 1: Smith at the end of that game. And as you'll see,
Speaker 1: there are some shots where it's like, man, that's tough,
Speaker 1: but there are also some sequences that could have been
Speaker 1: avoided just by being more attentive to the detail. So
Speaker 1: how does a team below a fourteen point lead in
Speaker 1: less than three minutes, a nine point lead in less
Speaker 1: than one minute, a four point lead in overtime. That's
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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk so basketball.
Speaker 1: So starting it off, nothing too crazy here, just Tyrese
Speaker 1: Haliburton in his individual greatness, hitting McHale bridges with a
Speaker 1: little crossover step back three from twenty eight feet above
Speaker 1: the break. Nothing you can do about that. That's good defense.
Speaker 1: That's just an unbelievable shot from Tyrese Haliburton. Okay, so
Speaker 1: now off of this brunts and miss on the other end,
Speaker 1: and again nothing, not going to complain too much about
Speaker 1: that shot. You're up eleven with two minutes and fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds left and you dribbled out the shot clock. One
Speaker 1: of the things we talked about last night was this
Speaker 1: idea that sometimes you almost there's an advantage in holding
Speaker 1: the ball in late game situations. I know it gets
Speaker 1: denigrated a lot of the time, and certainly you would
Speaker 1: like to move the ball and try to attack with
Speaker 1: the same pace and verve that you did during the
Speaker 1: lion's share of the game. But there's always just a
Speaker 1: risk for turnovers, especially when the team is playing super
Speaker 1: physical ball, pressure denial, jumping passing lanes. And there are
Speaker 1: some upsides in dribbling the clock out in terms of
Speaker 1: like actually guarantee guaranteeing that you eat an clock on
Speaker 1: that individual possession. As you wait for it to dribble out,
Speaker 1: there actually will be a sequence that you guys will
Speaker 1: see late in the game, the famous challenge on the
Speaker 1: og An Andobi kind of like mishandled layup attempt where
Speaker 1: you could argue that Brunson probably should have just dribbled
Speaker 1: the ball out and so again, these things are complicated
Speaker 1: and it's hard to Monday Morning quarterback them, if that
Speaker 1: makes sense. But I didn't hate that shot from Brunson.
Speaker 1: I didn't think that was the reason why they lost
Speaker 1: the game. Indiana pushes the other way. Here's where we
Speaker 1: get our first defensive mistake. So Brunson is involved in
Speaker 1: this screening action with Ben Shepherd, and as you guys
Speaker 1: can see, Ben Shepard is going to inside seal, so
Speaker 1: he's gonna screen on the bottom side, and as Brunson hedges,
Speaker 1: he's gonna slip out. When he slips out, we have.
Speaker 2: A four on three.
Speaker 1: Right, The four on three gets picked up by Josh Hart,
Speaker 1: who has rotated off of aaron Ne Smith. Kat is
Speaker 1: staying glue. Well, staying glued is a relative term here,
Speaker 1: but he's only paying attention to Obi top and he's
Speaker 1: not worried about Nie Smith at all. When Nie Smith
Speaker 1: relocates to the wing, Carl Towns lunges back the top end.
Speaker 1: Shepherd makes the kickout pass to Nie Smith. Now, mind you,
Speaker 1: this is Nie Smith's I think, third consecutive three in
Speaker 1: the final five minutes of this game, so he had
Speaker 1: already made two in a row before this shot, and
Speaker 1: you left him wide open again. So, like I would
Speaker 1: argue in the list of different things that could factor
Speaker 1: in a shot result, this is an in rhythm shooter
Speaker 1: that you lost track of in this sequence. So obviously
Speaker 1: Brunson's not there in time and Nie Smith knocks down
Speaker 1: the three. Now, let's take a closer look at two
Speaker 1: things here. First of all, watch Jalen Brunson. We used
Speaker 1: to talk about this in terms of getting out of
Speaker 1: traps fast. I can't even remember which Playoffs series it was,
Speaker 1: but we had a talk about this a while ago.
Speaker 2: With with some team I can't even remember who it was.
Speaker 1: It was a few years ago, but we talked about
Speaker 1: the idea of getting out of traps quickly into rotation,
Speaker 1: so essentially as soon as you. I think it might
Speaker 1: have been like Rajon Rondo, like way back in like
Speaker 1: twenty twenty if I remember correctly. But as Ben Shepherd
Speaker 1: sets this screen, as Brunson is up top and forces
Speaker 1: Halliburton because Brunson's there, Halliburton's not looking to attack, he
Speaker 1: picks up his dribble. Right here, boom, Haliburton has picked
Speaker 1: up his dribble. He is no longer a threat. His
Speaker 1: feet are not in shooting position, he's obviously not driving,
Speaker 1: He's picked up his dribble. He's certainly getting rid of
Speaker 1: the basketball right now. The first thing I want you
Speaker 1: to do, I'm just going to play this in real time.
Speaker 1: Watch how slow Brunson is to start his rotation again.
Speaker 1: If you think of this as a hedge and recover,
Speaker 1: which is what it is and what it always has
Speaker 1: been with Brunson in these actions, his job on the
Speaker 1: hedge is to force the ball handler to either take
Speaker 1: a retreat dribble or to pick up his dribble, which
Speaker 1: he has now accomplished. From there, what's the second part
Speaker 1: of a hedge and recover?
Speaker 2: Recover?
Speaker 1: He needs to rotate out right now, as soon as
Speaker 1: he's made his ball handler pick up his dribble. Watch
Speaker 1: the delay in Brunson. Tell me if you think it
Speaker 1: plays a role in his ability to get out to
Speaker 1: Nie Smith.
Speaker 2: That's the difference right there.
Speaker 1: If he gets out of that and rotates quickly, you
Speaker 1: probably don't give up that open shot.
Speaker 2: Second piece of it.
Speaker 1: If I'm Carl Anthony Towns, I am in the two
Speaker 1: on one. This is the two on one that Carl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns is involved in Toppin is not the shooter
Speaker 1: to be tracking here. Nie Smith is the shooter to
Speaker 1: be tracking. He's already made two in a row. And
Speaker 1: this is some of that defensive IQ stuff that we've
Speaker 1: talked about in the last few in the last few days,
Speaker 1: like if he is attentive year he closes out to
Speaker 1: Nie Smith, then Brunson actually rotates the top in, which
Speaker 1: is both a shorter rotation and he's rotating to a
Speaker 1: lesser shooter. So this is a defensive mistake from both
Speaker 1: Brunson and from Towns. This is an example of something
Speaker 1: that you had some control over down the stretch of
Speaker 1: this game, but you didn't do your job. But we
Speaker 1: go down to the other end and Brunson is going
Speaker 1: to let's fast forward here through all the action. We
Speaker 1: end up with Brunson attacking Ben Sheppard one on one. Okay,
Speaker 1: so here's our Ben Shepherd one on one, nasty right
Speaker 1: to left crossover, unbelievable switching hands finished.
Speaker 2: Just watch one more time.
Speaker 1: This is this is a ridiculous finish from Brunson, gets
Speaker 1: Shepherd on the side, bumps him off with that little
Speaker 1: hard step. Siakam's coming over, switch his hands to the
Speaker 1: right and gets it up off the glass. Unbelievable finish
Speaker 1: from Brunson after all the stuff we just went over.
Speaker 1: They are up nine with fifty nine seconds left. This
Speaker 1: is a game they should win. So now we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to the Knick's second defensive mistake that was avoidable.
Speaker 2: Aaron E.
Speaker 1: Smith has made three consecutive threes. Your entire defensive approach
Speaker 1: needs to be geared around stopping him from getting a
Speaker 1: clean look. They're gonna get a clean look for him
Speaker 1: out of a basic drop coverage look with Brunson chasing
Speaker 1: and with Og too far back, like you can tell me, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: he got a late contest. You're right, he got a
Speaker 1: lake contest. Nie Smith didn't see that one. Look at
Speaker 1: where he's at comfort wise in this moment. His hands,
Speaker 1: he's already gathered the ball. He's just chopping his feet.
Speaker 1: He's gonna elevate. OG's not stopping this shot from this
Speaker 1: far back. Like he has made three consecutive threes. Og
Speaker 1: has to be up. He's not up. Aaron Ne Smith
Speaker 1: makes him pay. The Knicks quickly pushed the ball up
Speaker 1: the floor, though, and they get another layup for Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns off of a trap of Brunson. So now
Speaker 1: we got a four on three. They break it down quickly,
Speaker 1: kat gets a layup. Okay, so we are still up
Speaker 1: eight with forty two seconds left. Very strong position to
Speaker 1: be in. Ojan Andoby's gonna make the exact same mistake. Okay, Now, Jason,
Speaker 1: this is a twenty eight footer sprinting to his right
Speaker 1: with like a leg kick. Yeah, you're right, this is
Speaker 1: a very tough shot.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: He's made what four in a row at this point,
Speaker 1: He's this is this is you are now, and we're
Speaker 1: putting out a fire mode. You are now thinking, aaron
Speaker 1: Ne Smith, We've completely lost control of him. He's made
Speaker 1: four in a row. We absolutely have to be up
Speaker 1: on him, and you're not. You're letting him settle into
Speaker 1: a shot. Again, that late contest doesn't bother the shooter.
Speaker 1: It's got to be early. You got to disrupt his rhythm.
Speaker 1: So again, back to back defensive mistakes from Ojan Andobi
Speaker 1: causing you to lose control of the shooter. Now he's
Speaker 1: made five in a row. Og then compounds the issues
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. Here by losing control
Speaker 1: of a pass from Brunson. So as you can see,
Speaker 1: Shepherd's in denial. At Shepherd's in denial, Brunson sheds him
Speaker 1: with a nice little swim move gets open. Now we
Speaker 1: have a two on one. I don't hate this pass.
Speaker 1: I see the case for you. Look at the clock.
Speaker 1: There's a ten second gap here. You're up five. Just
Speaker 1: dribble out here and you might be able to work
Speaker 1: the clock all the way down to ten seconds left. Right,
Speaker 1: But I don't hate this. You just playing basketball. Siakam
Speaker 1: steps up. Brunson throws a bounce pass. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit hard, but it should be catchable, like it's up high.
Speaker 1: But it's catchable, and Og just fumbles it. It's all
Speaker 1: there is to it. That's the game. The game's in
Speaker 1: his hands right there. He catches that and finishes that.
Speaker 1: You're up seven with thirty seconds left and you're in
Speaker 1: really good shape, but he fumbles it. Nice defensive play
Speaker 1: from Siakam. I thought it was a really smart challenge
Speaker 1: from Rick Carlile, and I thought it was a good
Speaker 1: call to overturn it. This is the shot that you
Speaker 1: can't do anything about. From Aaron Nee Smith. This is
Speaker 1: tough now again like that Nie Smith three. There's nothing
Speaker 1: really you're doing about that. The Tyrese Haliburton step back
Speaker 1: three over my McHale Bridges, there's nothing you're really doing
Speaker 1: about that. But the two drop coverage threes you gave
Speaker 1: up or the swing pass three to the right key
Speaker 1: to the right wing, those are jumpers that you can
Speaker 1: take away just by being sharper in your defensive execution.
Speaker 1: Then we get into a free throw shooting stretch. Cat
Speaker 1: goes one for two, Aaron Nee Smith goes two for two,
Speaker 1: then og and Obi goes one for two. That's how
Speaker 1: we end up in this final sequence. And Tyrese Haliburton
Speaker 1: beats McHale Bridges cleanly with a little hesitation through the
Speaker 1: legs dribble and just freezes him like hesitation through the legs.
Speaker 1: Look at where McHale bridges his feet are just toasts
Speaker 1: him off. The dribble gets past him. Look at the
Speaker 1: poked from behind for michal Bridges, though just barely gets
Speaker 1: a piece that causes Halliburton to lose control of the basketball,
Speaker 1: he has to look back to find it. When he
Speaker 1: looks back to find it, by the time he regains control.
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't even know where Mitchell Robinson is.
Speaker 1: I have no idea if I'm in position to be
Speaker 1: able to score here. Although Nie Smith is open on
Speaker 1: a cut there. Nie Smith might have been able to
Speaker 1: to tie that game on a little easy cutting layup there,
Speaker 1: but Halliburton steps back and is just barely one foot
Speaker 1: on the line up in the air. We had a
Speaker 1: Knicks fan yesterday that said it disappeared. Look, the shot
Speaker 1: literally disappears out of the frame and everyone's just staring
Speaker 1: waiting for it. Jackson was texting me this morning. He
Speaker 1: thinks to hit the backboard here. I'll let you guys
Speaker 1: be the judge. So as it comes off the rim,
Speaker 1: looks like it hits the backboard right there and gains
Speaker 1: that little bit of forward momentum right into the bottom.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable play. That was when I lost control and screamed
Speaker 1: in my house. All right, let's get into OT. First
Speaker 1: bucket of OT. Both teams have missed some jumpers at
Speaker 1: this point. Both teams are pretty intent on defense, and
Speaker 1: Turner makes his first mistake of the overtime period. He
Speaker 1: was given Kat too much space on these face up opportunities.
Speaker 1: Throughout the game, Cat just gets to an easy little
Speaker 1: jab step like kind of one leg fade away. They're
Speaker 1: on the right side. So now the Knicks are up
Speaker 1: to This was a kind of a bizarre play where
Speaker 1: the Pacers end up trapping Brunson out at half court,
Speaker 1: just kind of an impromptu a trap off of the
Speaker 1: screen from heart. So we have the trap here, and
Speaker 1: at this point you got to be playing forward aggressive
Speaker 1: up into the passing lanes, especially while you have this
Speaker 1: advantage on the back of Siakama thought it.
Speaker 2: Was too far back. Turner's too far back.
Speaker 1: But as the pass gets made, like right there, I
Speaker 1: think that pass is gettable for Turner and he just
Speaker 1: like straight up doesn't go for it, and then Kat
Speaker 1: quickly breaks him down on the four on three and
Speaker 1: gets a lay up. Turner wasn't long for the game
Speaker 1: at this point, gets a little worse easy drop off
Speaker 1: pass from Nemhart to Turner. He just straight up fumbles
Speaker 1: it and then in the ensuing sequence ends up goaltending
Speaker 1: brunts in at the rim. And it was very lucky
Speaker 1: this didn't get called. Now for Knicks fans, I always
Speaker 1: say bad calls are a part of basketball games, and
Speaker 1: I thought there were three bad calls in overtime. I
Speaker 1: thought there was this one that went against the Knicks,
Speaker 1: and then there were two additional bad calls later in
Speaker 1: overtime that went for the Knicks. And again, this is
Speaker 1: part of the game. You just got to play through it.
Speaker 1: They go down the other end, and this is just
Speaker 1: a really difficult shot from Nemhart. It's contested, he's he's
Speaker 1: literally running into the right corner. He's deep in the corner.
Speaker 1: He's fading and kicking his leg like this is a
Speaker 1: This is just brilliant shot making from the Pacers. All right,
Speaker 1: Knicks force a turnover on Brunson here. This was the
Speaker 1: last possession that Turner was in the game, and it
Speaker 1: was the right move from Carlisle because Obi Toppen ended
Speaker 1: up making several big plays late. But Turner did make
Speaker 1: one play before he left the game, and it was
Speaker 1: this spin off of Niesmith where he was right there
Speaker 1: where he needed to be, which forced bruns In to
Speaker 1: lose control of the basketball, which led.
Speaker 2: To the tie up.
Speaker 1: Right off of the tie up, topping comes in and
Speaker 1: makes his first play, saves this ball from going out
Speaker 1: of bounds. They go down to the other end, a
Speaker 1: quick impromptu ISO of Brunson off of a switch from
Speaker 1: nies Smith. They clear out the entire side and Nemhard
Speaker 1: has all this space. Brunson has five fouls, so he
Speaker 1: just does a quick aggressive move with a low gathered.
Speaker 1: The low gather was really smart too, because that's a
Speaker 1: foul drifting play. If Brunson has his hands in there,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get himself fouled out. Brunson backs up good
Speaker 1: verticality contest, but he's just not offering enough resistance as
Speaker 1: a player as five fouls easy bucket for Nemhart. One
Speaker 1: thing that was frustrating to me here, like what's Josh
Speaker 1: Hart doing. Josh Hart is guarding Sakam. Siakam is zero
Speaker 1: for two from three in this game, literally has not
Speaker 1: made a three in this game. Like, come help your
Speaker 1: five fouls superstar guard that is on an island against
Speaker 1: al Nemhart, Like you've got to be in there help
Speaker 1: and you can't just leave him out on an island,
Speaker 1: all right. So this was the first bad call that
Speaker 1: I thought went against the Pacers. Just some ball pressure
Speaker 1: from Nie Smith on Brunson and Brunson watched Brunson, he
Speaker 1: just starts snapping his head back on every little bit
Speaker 1: of contact. It's like snap the head back, snap the
Speaker 1: head back, snap the head back. Finally gets a call.
Speaker 1: I didn't think that was a watch Nee Smith one
Speaker 1: more time on this drive here, because this is where
Speaker 1: the foul gets called. Tell me where the foul is.
Speaker 1: That's not a foul, so that I thought that was
Speaker 1: a bad call. That gave the Knicks the lead with
Speaker 1: a minute and a half left. A classic screen rejection
Speaker 1: here from Tyrese Saliburton. So we're gonna dribble up top
Speaker 1: and is gonna come up to set it. He's gonna
Speaker 1: reject the screen get into Josh Hart's body for the
Speaker 1: unbelievable finish. The big thing I want you guys to
Speaker 1: pay attention to here is just with screen rejection, it's
Speaker 1: all about timing McHale Bridges. I want you to think
Speaker 1: as though Tyre's Haliburton's coming off the action this way.
Speaker 1: Mckayl Bridges needs to chase over the top like we
Speaker 1: always talked about with screen navigations, about getting that top
Speaker 1: foot over top ends top foot. So you're gonna watch
Speaker 1: Michail Bridges' left foot come up way up here to
Speaker 1: get over the top of the screen.
Speaker 2: Boom way up.
Speaker 1: He's doing that because he's preparing to go over the
Speaker 1: top of the screen. But that is right when Bridges
Speaker 1: lifts his weight off of that left foot right here,
Speaker 1: weight up. When weight is off of that left foot, mcale,
Speaker 1: Bridges cannot push his body back to the right. That
Speaker 1: is the perfect time for Halliburton, who does have his
Speaker 1: right foot planet to launch himself that way and capitalize
Speaker 1: on that weight shift gap. As Mikal Bridges is still
Speaker 1: planning his foot, still planning his foot, Haliburton's already going
Speaker 1: and so that's why he has no chance to keep
Speaker 1: him back in front. He gets all the way downhill
Speaker 1: and finishes through traffic. This was Brunson's next trip to
Speaker 1: the foul line. In the live moment, I thought this
Speaker 1: was a bad call, but on rewatch last night we
Speaker 1: determined that Nie Smith definitely tripped Brunson. But once again
Speaker 1: they try to trap him and Brunson falls. If you
Speaker 1: watch Nie Smith's right foot, you can see him right
Speaker 1: here step on Brunson's foot and trip him. So that
Speaker 1: was a good call. Andrew Nemhart is gonna get the
Speaker 1: defense in rotation by attacking Brunson's right shoulder. Here beats
Speaker 1: him downhill.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Once he beats him downhill, that forces oj Anobi to
Speaker 1: step up. We have our swing to Siakam heart rotates, bridges, rotates.
Speaker 1: That's gonna get Haliburton wide open at the top of
Speaker 1: the key.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: From here, Brunson throws a close out which forces Haliburton
Speaker 1: to pumpake right. Okay, that's fine. Whatever. This is where
Speaker 1: everything goes south. Mitchell Robinson, you are twenty feet away
Speaker 1: from Tyrese Haliburton. You are not blocking this shot. Watch,
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson. One giant false step that accomplishes absolutely nothing,
Speaker 1: clears a runway for Obi topping to sneak in right
Speaker 1: along the back line for this tip dunk. So again, defensive,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of knicks defensive mistakes mixed in here.
Speaker 1: This was just an absolutely nasty move from Jalen Brunton
Speaker 1: and hits Nie Smith with a jab step and.
Speaker 2: Gets a floater.
Speaker 1: We'll watch it full speed and then I'll show you
Speaker 1: guys the fast the fast speed here we go floater.
Speaker 1: All right, So first of all, watch on the jab step,
Speaker 1: how he just breaks knee Smith off like Hard jab
Speaker 1: shows the ball. Look at Nie Smith's feet. Oh shit,
Speaker 1: Oh no, Now he's like literally in a full back pedal,
Speaker 1: like he's just dead to writes. Nasty move, low, gather
Speaker 1: through the nail, help and the floater over the rim.
Speaker 1: Protector barely gets it over, topping his fingertips. Just just
Speaker 1: an unbelievable offensive play from Jalen Brunson. On the other end,
Speaker 1: Tyre Salliburton relently relentlessly making reads Josh Hart nothing too
Speaker 1: crazy to get into here. He just gives up a
Speaker 1: back cut to nem Hart layup another defensive mistake. Here's
Speaker 1: that big defensive play from nem Hart, strong action, a
Speaker 1: little dribble hand off with Kat and McHale bridges while
Speaker 1: Brunson is locating through. The idea here is they want
Speaker 1: to get the Pacers to load up the defense this
Speaker 1: way so that Brunson can attack a shifting defense on
Speaker 1: the opposite end of the floor. But watch Nemhard jump
Speaker 1: the passing lane here and get a hand on the ball.
Speaker 1: And then the second great review from Ri Carlisle forces
Speaker 1: a turnover there. Here's the other bad call that went
Speaker 1: against the Pacers down the stretch of the game. Topping
Speaker 1: slips out of this ball screen gets fouled by mckaal
Speaker 1: Bridges on the dunk. We were joking last night, just
Speaker 1: an absurd level of athleticism to catch the ball right here,
Speaker 1: to have a six' eight good athletic wing meeting you
Speaker 1: at the rim in a play where you cannot afford
Speaker 1: to miss a layup or miss a.
Speaker 2: Dunk and he's, like it's. Cool i'll just.
Speaker 1: Jump And i'll double pump WHILE i wait for McHale
Speaker 1: bridges to foul, me and Then i'll just finish through.
Speaker 1: It an lievable athletic play and obi top and lots
Speaker 1: of big plays down the stretch of this, game final,
Speaker 1: Possession brunson doesn't get very much, separation and then another
Speaker 1: big contest From toppin' On Karl Anthony towns at the
Speaker 1: top of the key game one goes to The. Pacers,
Speaker 1: so as you guys can see from the, film plenty
Speaker 1: of examples of the reality that, like, yeah there's some
Speaker 1: crazy shot, making but a lot of mistakes from the,
Speaker 1: knicks a lot of stuff that was, avoidable and it
Speaker 1: sticks to what we talked about at the beginning before the.
Speaker 1: Series in our series. Preview The pacers will literally never
Speaker 1: stop Playing pacers. Basketball they will not stop until you're
Speaker 1: in the locker, Room so you cannot at any point
Speaker 1: in time let go of the. Rope doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you're up fourteen with two minutes two and a half minutes,
Speaker 1: left or if you're up nine with one minute left
Speaker 1: or four and, overtime you can literally never. Stop you
Speaker 1: have to keep, executing keep being attentive to those, details
Speaker 1: and avoid the potential pitfalls of. Mistakes all, right, guys
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