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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to hoops to night. You're at the volume.

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Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday, everybody hopeful if you guys are having a

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Speaker 2: great week as promised for getting into game one of

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Speaker 2: the Western Conference Finals. In some film today, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: be zooming in on the second half in the run

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Speaker 2: that Oklahoma City went on. There within that second half run,

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Speaker 2: we saw Oklahoma City Stars, specifically Shaye and Jay Dubbs,

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Speaker 2: start to win their one on one matchups. And what

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Speaker 2: made this particularly interesting to me was seeing the dramatic

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Speaker 2: difference in the way the two teams are defending each other.

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Speaker 2: Because it's not as simple as Shaye and Jay dubb

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Speaker 2: winning their one on one matchups versus Anthony Edwards and

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Speaker 2: Julius Randall winning their one on one matchups. These two

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Speaker 2: teams are defending each other very differently. We talked about

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Speaker 2: this a lot in last night's show. It is not

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Speaker 2: a coincidence that Minnesota attempted so many more three point

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Speaker 2: shots than Oklahoma City. That wasn't a process thing from

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Speaker 2: the standpoint of the offense hunting those types of shots.

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Speaker 2: It was a matter of the way they were being defended.

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Speaker 2: You guys are gonna see a bunch of examples right

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Speaker 2: on two. In that situation, the kickout reads aren't there,

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Speaker 2: but there are more opportunities in and around the paint

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Speaker 2: right similar in an opposite manner on the opposite end

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Speaker 1: All the one on ones.

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Speaker 2: so in a way, the way that the series will

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Speaker 2: There are some kickouts that he threw in that second

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Speaker 2: Because it was off target, it made for an easier rotation.

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Speaker 2: And I want to spend today's film session again it's

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Speaker 2: but I also want to use today as just an

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Speaker 2: So right away from the start of this film session,

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Speaker 2: now completely ignored his man. He's in the paint. Shay's

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Speaker 2: completely ignored his man. He's in the paint. Chet has

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Speaker 2: completely ignored Jada McDaniels. He's in the paint. Jadubb has

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Speaker 2: He makes a quality kickout pass to Jada McDaniels, hits

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Speaker 2: this is the kind of read that Ant is gonna

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Speaker 1: This is if Aunt tries to solve his.

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Speaker 2: Problems by flying through these five by and trying to finish,

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Speaker 2: These are the kinds of reads they're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: fast forward. Shae ends up driving out of a ball

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Speaker 2: So one of the things you'll see here because I

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Speaker 2: It is very much more of a one on one.

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Speaker 1: This is his short role read.

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Speaker 2: He's got to find out which one of these guys

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Speaker 1: Aunt has to push this just a step further.

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Speaker 2: He needs to attack a little bit more or drag

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Speaker 1: We're gonna see a few.

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Speaker 2: Examples here of Chet looking to be aggressive against some

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Speaker 2: inattentiveness from Julius Randall. The first one here Julius Randall's

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Speaker 2: kind of just floating along the baseline. SHA's driving. Once again,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna stay home. But Julius, Look at Julius.

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Speaker 2: Julius is just kind of standing and Chet starts to

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Speaker 1: A high point total.

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Speaker 2: They gave him a bunch of open catch and shoot

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Speaker 2: Hartenstein is right underneath the rim, and even Isaiah Joe

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Speaker 2: Just very different in the way that they're defending these actions.

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Speaker 2: Here's the kick that's the job on this end of

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Speaker 2: That is their pathway to victory. One detail though, look

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Speaker 2: exact same sequence. Shae was leaving this guy and stepping

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Speaker 1: It's a one on one game.

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Speaker 2: Nice shot though from jdeb See how Shane and Jadab

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Speaker 2: Alright, this time Shay one on one against the Keile

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Speaker 2: You need to get a good shot. Like in this situation,

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Speaker 2: You've got a nas read right here in the strong

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Speaker 2: one on threes, one on twos. These are the situations

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Speaker 2: You'll see help at the rim, but look at how

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Speaker 2: basic screening action as they don't want to give up

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Speaker 2: that switch. But all three Wolves have to leave there

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Speaker 1: These are not one on ones. These are one on twos.

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Speaker 2: You gotta stop thinking score and you gotta start thinking

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Speaker 2: weird sequence. Another bad Julius Randall defense sequence. Julius Randall's

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Speaker 2: on the ball, He's on JDub. Jdubb drives. JDub kicks.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's matched up. Dante's on Casson, Nazarite is on Isaiah,

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Speaker 2: Watch who quits playing. Jadub drives, Julius is on him

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Speaker 2: Now Nikkeile Alexander Walker has to close out JDub ball

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Speaker 2: double team from j dub Okay, there's our kick. If

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Speaker 2: But you increase your change, like I talked about, variances

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Speaker 2: Rudy's kind of got an inside seal on Shay that

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Speaker 2: be a passing series for Ant and Julius. I thought

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Speaker 2: this was a big time late shot clock kind of

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Speaker 2: rescue sequence from Kenrich Williams. Dante gets cleanly beat. This

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Speaker 2: hasn't happened often, but when he gets cleanly beat, that

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Speaker 2: forces a help That help puts the defense in rotation.

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Speaker 2: Go Bear's gonna slide over, Nasri's gonna slide over. Dante's

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Speaker 2: gonna end up back on ken Rich. Now there's six

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Speaker 2: seconds on the shot clock, and the best you can

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Speaker 2: get here is this guy's just got to create a

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Speaker 2: bucket against the closeout. Kenrich just boom, pull back, triable bucket.

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Speaker 2: Here's a quality corner kick from Anthony Edwards to Nikhil

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Speaker 2: Alexander Walker. Once again, I want you guys to pay

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Speaker 2: attention to just the difference in the way he's being guarded.

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Speaker 2: Ken Rich, full on double team, Crusoe, foot in the paint.

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Speaker 1: Gets him in jail.

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Speaker 2: Crusoe bails on Nikkeile Alexander Walker entirely, he's in the paint.

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Speaker 2: Shae Yildes Alexander bails on Dante entirely, he's in the paint.

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Speaker 2: Look at this, guys, there's there is no aunt just

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Speaker 2: forcing it through all this shit. That's not that's not

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Speaker 2: gonna be the pathway here. Corner kick the Dante's open

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Speaker 2: corner kicked to Nikila is open. He makes the corner kick, boom,

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Speaker 2: pump fake. That's a that's that's a you're not gonna

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Speaker 2: like You're not gonna get a better shot forcing through

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Speaker 2: the quadruple team than a Nikile Alexander Walker catching shoot

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Speaker 2: three on the corner when he's been in the forties

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Speaker 2: all year long. On this kind of shot, he just

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Speaker 2: just missed it, just left it short. Here's that picking

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Speaker 2: pop from kenridg Williams. Once again. The hesitancy to not

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Speaker 2: that they don't want to switch knas onto Shay so

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Speaker 2: to end up on the ball. Ken Rich just hops

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Speaker 2: easy picking pop three knockdown, big shift from Kendrick Williams.

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Speaker 2: In the second half yesterday, naz Reid's gonna force a

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Speaker 2: post up here once again. Watch the corner kick reads

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Speaker 2: that he doesn't make. I think he tries to force

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Speaker 2: it through Chet. Yeah, a little screening action. Tries to

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Speaker 2: go through Chet. There's a man down. Nikaile Alexander Walker

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Speaker 2: is completely unguarded in the right corner. This pass has

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Speaker 2: to be made, and instead he tries to force it

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Speaker 2: through the rim protector turnover. Shay one on one against

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Speaker 2: Nikhel just beats him. We get another peel off, double

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Speaker 2: little late peel off from Dante. Dante did twice right

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Speaker 2: when Shaye was going up for his shot. Was able

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Speaker 2: to come over and get a contest. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: that's one of the things. One of the things you'll notice,

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Speaker 2: okay Se won a bunch of one on ones in

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Speaker 2: a row. Now, what's starting to happen now that Okayse's

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Speaker 2: winning those one on one We've seen back to back

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Speaker 2: situations where Shay went to a pull up and Dante

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Speaker 2: did a late peel off double. You, Okasee, by winning

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Speaker 2: their ones, can turn that into opportunity to generate quality

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Speaker 2: catch and shoots as Minnesota starts to overreact to that

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Speaker 2: one on one success. Similarly, Minnesota go down to the

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Speaker 2: other end, beat them, beat them, beat them with those

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Speaker 2: kickout passes, hit a bunch of corner threes. Do it

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Speaker 2: again and again and again, and you might see those

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Speaker 2: guys start to stay home just kind of inherently because

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Speaker 2: of their basketball instincts, which will create some more opportunities

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Speaker 2: in the paint. Or you might get an audible from

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Speaker 2: our Daginal or he basically goes, it's time to stay

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Speaker 2: home and make these guys scorers. But you've got to

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Speaker 2: beat the base scheme. Oka see beat the base scheme

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Speaker 2: enough times that Minnesota is starting to crack a little bit.

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Speaker 2: On the other end of the floor, Minnesota is not

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Speaker 2: beating Okay sees base scheme because they're not hitting those

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Speaker 2: corner threes or not hitting those kickout passes often enough.

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Speaker 2: Now down eleven, and this is just losing control of

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Speaker 2: the situation. Tough tough pull up three early in the

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Speaker 2: clock down On the other end, as much as I

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Speaker 2: hate this call, Shae once again just rejects the ball

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Speaker 2: screen against Ant. Also, I don't think I don't think

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Speaker 2: go Bear needs to be up this high, especially when

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Speaker 2: you're trying tobaate Shane into taking jumpers instead of driving

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Speaker 2: go Beart's got to be further back.

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Speaker 1: But uh it, it gets beat.

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Speaker 2: Hate the call, but still a bucket from Shae winning

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Speaker 2: his one on one matchup. So I think there's a

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Speaker 2: pretty clear trend that you guys can see from the film.

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Speaker 2: Oklahoma City's packing the paint leaving shooters open, Minnesota is not.

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Speaker 2: And whichever team can beat that scheme more effectively over

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Speaker 2: the course of this series is gonna win and force adjustments,

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Speaker 2: force that second layer of of whatever defensive idea Mike

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Speaker 2: Mark Dagenel has or Chris Finch has, and in game one,

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Speaker 2: Minnesota in the second half was unable to crack that

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Speaker 2: scheme and Oklahoma City was and that was the difference

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Speaker 2: in the game.

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Speaker 1: And it's in Game two.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be on Minnesota because Okay, se he's not

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Speaker 2: gonna bail on that scheme.

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Speaker 1: It just worked.

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Speaker 2: They held them to forty points in the second half.

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Speaker 2: The only way they're gonna play them out of that

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Speaker 2: scheme is by relentlessly making those reads and knocking down

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Speaker 2: those shots. That's the pathway in Game two, Minnesota can

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Speaker 2: win this series. I think they have the advantages they need,

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Speaker 2: but I just didn't think they were nearly good enough in.

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Speaker 1: That second half.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, That's all I have for this morning

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