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Speaker 2: the NBA Playoffs just delivered us an unbelievable night with

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Speaker 2: played a big role. We'll talk about that a little bit,

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Speaker 2: but the Knicks deserves some credit. And then on offense,

433
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Speaker 2: ognn Ob was incredible obviously beginning the run with those

434
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Speaker 2: two threes, but he also hit a step back three

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Speaker 2: over Luke Cornette that cut the lead to one. He

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Speaker 2: his transition runouts were big. He had a runout dunk

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Speaker 2: off of a steal. He had another dunk in transition

438
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Speaker 2: in overtime where he kind of snuck behind Jason Tatum.

439
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 2: Another example of one of the Jays just being lazy

440
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Speaker 2: off ball as he let og just cut right behind him.

441
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 2: McHale Bridges hit a huge kickout three in the left

442
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Speaker 2: corner on another play where Jaylen Brown was sleeping and

443
00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,439
Speaker 2: not paying attention off ball and left McHale open. But

444
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Speaker 2: it was a huge for McHale after he had struggled

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Speaker 2: all night. And then Kat who had a rough night

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Speaker 2: after he had his foul trouble, had two big offensive

447
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 2: rebound putbacks during the Knicks run, including a tap in

448
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Speaker 2: over Tatum in overtime. That was a big deal. Once again,

449
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:12,919
Speaker 2: Tatum not doing his job off ball. He was a

450
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Speaker 2: really non physical box out and just catches went right

451
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Speaker 2: over the top of him and tapped it in. The

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Speaker 2: Jays were just they were every bit as bad on

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Speaker 2: defense and off ball in general as they were on

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Speaker 2: offense down the stretch of this game. That was a

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Speaker 2: whole other thing. But I thought the obvious storyline for

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Speaker 2: the Knicks and something that you can take ahead towards

457
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Speaker 2: Game two in the series was the work that Brunson

458
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Speaker 2: did on Al Horford. We talked about this in the

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Speaker 2: series preview. It really started to show in their last

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Speaker 2: regular season matchup, where Brunson was doing most of his

461
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 2: damage versus Porzingis Brunston feels comfortable against Boston's bigs. That's

462
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Speaker 2: where he gets good shots, and he was able to

463
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Speaker 2: hit a couple of threes over Horford and then start

464
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Speaker 2: to draw double teams. Boston tried a bunch of different things.

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Speaker 2: They tried pre switching, like a different guy instead of

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Speaker 2: Horford up to the screen with the screener, and New

467
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Speaker 2: York was just really good about quickly switching their screener

468
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 2: so the screeners would identify like, oh, this guy's pre switching,

469
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Speaker 2: and now Horford's switching on to me. That means I

470
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 2: need to run up and set the screen. They were

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Speaker 2: just relentless of getting at getting Horford back up into

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Speaker 2: the action. Drew was really hesitant to give up that switch,

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Speaker 2: so Brunson was actually able to beat him rejecting the

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Speaker 2: screen once. That was a big kickout three to og

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Speaker 2: And and ob in the left corner. I think that was

476
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Speaker 2: the one that put them up one ninety eight towards

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Speaker 2: the end of regulation. He just rejected the screen against

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Speaker 2: Drew and got right downhill. But that's something that is

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Speaker 2: legitimately valuable to take forward for the Knicks, Like it's

480
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Speaker 2: abundantly clear that if the Knicks can get into a

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Speaker 2: close game, late against the Celtics. They have a good

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Speaker 2: chance to win that game. Last night on playback, I

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Speaker 2: apo apologize if I'm misremembering the name. I believe his

484
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Speaker 2: name was Matthew, but it was a Celtics fan who

485
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Speaker 2: came on the show and he talked about Tatum's inconsistency

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Speaker 2: as a jump shooter, which he asked me if I

487
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Speaker 2: thought Tatum would keep hitting shots, and I said he would,

488
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Speaker 2: and clearly he did not tonight, so I'm sure he's

489
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Speaker 2: been thinking about that. But the second piece was he

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Speaker 2: talked about the idea that he thought Jalen Brunson was

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Speaker 2: a better basketball player than Jason Tatum and that it

492
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Speaker 2: could be a problem in late game situations. I disagreed

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Speaker 2: with him, based on the premise that Tatum is just

494
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Speaker 2: so much more versatile with all the other little things

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Speaker 2: that he can do. But one of the things that

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Speaker 2: I did say is I was like, Yeah, if it's

497
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Speaker 2: like three minutes left and the entire game is going

498
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Speaker 2: to come down to like six offensive possessions for either

499
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Speaker 2: team and the game is tied, I absolutely think that

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Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson is a better late game crunch time score.

501
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's arguably the best at it in the NBA,

502
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Speaker 2: because time and time and time again in this playoff run,

503
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Speaker 2: he just keeps coming through for his team in the

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Speaker 2: final minutes. And so if there's one thing that Jalen

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Speaker 2: Brunson can be the best player in the series with,

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Speaker 2: it's these sorts of late game sequences, and that came

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Speaker 2: to fruition in Game one tonight. But the bottom line

508
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Speaker 2: is Boston is talent enough to avoid that situation entirely.

509
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Speaker 2: They should be able to build multiple twenty point leads

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Speaker 2: in this series and not have to worry about out

511
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Speaker 2: executing Brunson down the stretch. And this is where we

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Speaker 2: have to talk about their offense now before we get

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Speaker 2: any further. The Celtics absolutely had an uncharacteristically poor shooting night.

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Speaker 2: They generated twenty five unguarded catch and shoot threes and

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Speaker 2: made seven of them. They're obviously going to shoot much

516
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Speaker 2: better on those throughout the rest of the series. But

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Speaker 2: they also took seventy one jump shots in this game

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Speaker 2: out of the ninety seven field goal attempts that they had,

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Speaker 2: So if you do the math, that means they took

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Speaker 2: forty six guarded catch and shoot jumpers or off the

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Speaker 2: dribble jumpers, and it looked every bit that bad on tape.

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Speaker 2: Drew Holliday took a few of the worst threes I've

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Speaker 2: ever seen a player take. He took this one in

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Speaker 2: the left corner off of like an offensive rebound where

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Speaker 2: it got kicked out to him and he had to

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Speaker 2: turn his body and he was contested and he was

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Speaker 2: leaning out of bounds and there was a defender in

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Speaker 2: his face with like fourteen on the shot clock that

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Speaker 2: he took. Derek White took like a super rushed catch

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Speaker 2: and shoot off of a swing pass against a contestant

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Speaker 2: transition out of the left corner. There were so many examples.

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Speaker 2: Jayleen Brown took a really bad catch and shoot three

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Speaker 2: off of a swing pass from Tatum with like ten

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Speaker 2: seconds on the shot clock in overtime. There were just

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Speaker 2: so many examples of just really really bad shots. But

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Speaker 2: I want to focus on Jason Tatum here because he's

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Speaker 2: the leader of this team, and this is a player

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Speaker 2: that I've spoken very highly of this year as i've

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Speaker 2: as I think he's taken a leap in a couple

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Speaker 2: of key areas as a shot maker and as a

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Speaker 2: half court surgeon. Emphasis on that last part, the half

542
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Speaker 2: court decision maker. He's the leader of this team, and

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Speaker 2: I thought he was absolutely awful. He was the leader

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Speaker 2: on the floor. He was the guy on the floor

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Speaker 2: during the beginning of the Knicks run. There was a

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Speaker 2: stretch to end the third quarter. I rewatched the entire

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Speaker 2: second half during the commercial breaks of that Denver, Oklahoma

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Speaker 2: City game. There was a stretch to end the third

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Speaker 2: quarter where on their last ten possessions, in seven of

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Speaker 2: those possessions, the Celtics never even got the ball inside

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00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 2: the three point line, not the paint, not like to

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Speaker 2: the rim, to the three point line. They never got

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Speaker 2: the ball inside the three point line on seven of

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Speaker 2: their last ten possessions. And some of those threes went in,

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Speaker 2: which is why you know it's fools gold. It was

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Speaker 2: just them passing the ball around and just taking bad shots,

557
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,640
Speaker 2: and some of them went in. But on the other

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Speaker 2: three where Tatum actually looked to drives, two where Tatum

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00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 2: looked to drive, and one where Pritchard looked to drive.

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Speaker 2: On the ones where Tatum looked to drive, they generated

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Speaker 2: wide open catching two threes. In the fourth quarter, over

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Speaker 2: and over again. Versus switches, Tatum settled for garbage pull

563
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 2: up jump shots, even though his shot was clearly off,

564
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: like they were bricks. Guys, they were outside the rim misses.

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Speaker 2: Some of them went off the backboard first. These were

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Speaker 2: not like he's this close and the next one's going

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Speaker 2: to go in. He was clearly out of rhythm and

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Speaker 2: he just kept taking bad shots. He did not do

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Speaker 2: his job. His job is to control the flow of

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Speaker 2: the offense to make sure they're getting the right shots. Again,

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Speaker 2: we will take a closer look at Boston's offensive process

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Speaker 2: on playback later tonight. But I have a message for

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Speaker 2: the Celtics because I think they're playing with some fire here.

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Speaker 2: I do think the Celtics had the best team in

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Speaker 2: the NBA. They have the best combination of two way talent,

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Speaker 2: meaning guys that can play on both ends of the

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Speaker 2: floor at a high level superstar play. I think Tatum

578
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Speaker 2: is a legitimate top tier superstar in a way that

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Speaker 2: he wasn't in years past. An overall veteran playoff experience.

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Speaker 2: These are all guys that have been in a ton

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Speaker 2: of big games. Horford's been in a ton of big games.

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00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 2: Drew Holliday has been in a ton of big games.

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Speaker 2: Drew and Jason have been in a ton of big games.

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Speaker 2: Derek White's been in a ton of big games. This

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00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 2: is a savvy veteran playoff roster. But I have been consistent.

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Speaker 2: Even though I think the Celtics are the best team

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Speaker 2: in the league, I do not think this is an

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Speaker 2: all time great team. I heard a lot of Celtics

589
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 2: fans saying that I don't think they're all time great.

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Speaker 2: I think they're just great. What that means is they

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00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 2: are not so supremely talented that they can ease their

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Speaker 2: way through this playoff run. Whoever wins in that Indiana

593
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Speaker 2: Cleveland series, Indiana's playing at an insanely high level, and

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Speaker 2: Cleveland had a bad night, but they were at an

595
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Speaker 2: insanely high level in the first round. Whoever comes out

596
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 2: of that team that series is going to be a

597
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 2: substantially better team than anybody Boston played in the Eastern

598
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Speaker 2: Conference last year in Oklahoma City literally won sixty eight games.

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Speaker 2: This year, they're a better version of what you were

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Speaker 2: last year against a better schedule. They are amazing, and

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00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,479
Speaker 2: they are likely going to be waiting for you when

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Speaker 2: you get out. They are substantially better than anyone you

603
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 2: faced last year. Including Dallas. The Celtics need to wake up.

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00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 2: Tatum and Brown were both entirely too on, focused on

605
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 2: both ends of the floor tonight, and then you juxtapose

606
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Speaker 2: it with some of the other stars in the league

607
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 2: who are literally coming for their crown. They need to

608
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 2: feel the urgency of this situation here. This nixt series

609
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 2: is another opportunity for them to polish things up, to

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Speaker 2: prepare for the tougher challenges that are ahead of them,

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Speaker 2: and instead they spent tonight practicing playing bad basketball. That's

612
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Speaker 2: some of the worst they've looked in the last several seasons.

613
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Speaker 2: Just not gonna be good enough. I'm looking for a

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Speaker 2: major response game from the Celtics in Game two. They

615
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 2: need to. They are just operating well below the level

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Speaker 2: where they need to be in order to get this

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Speaker 2: deal done. And man, I just I have I've put

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Speaker 2: my vote of confidence behind this team, and I was so,

619
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Speaker 2: so so disappointed in the way they played tonight. All right, guys,

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Speaker 2: that's all we have for YouTube Tonight. We're gonna be

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Speaker 2: heading over to playback to do some fan callers, also

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Speaker 2: going to watch some film, just kind of hang out

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Speaker 2: for a little while. Make sure you guys click the

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Speaker 2: link in the description here. We'll see you guys over

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Speaker 2: on playback here in just a few minutes. What's up, guys.

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Speaker 2: As always, I appreciate you for listening to and supporting

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Speaker 2: OOPS tonight. It would actually be really helpful for us

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Speaker 2: if you guys would take a second and leave a

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