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Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright quick reaction pod

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Speaker 1: to last night's NBA playoff games one. Listen, Grizzlies thunder

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Speaker 1: just sim to the end. We'll get to that briefly

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Speaker 1: at the end of the pod. Somewhat interesting momentarily or

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Speaker 1: at least briefly interesting game between the Bucks and the Pacers,

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Speaker 1: a fifteen point lead trimmed to two in the waning moments,

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Speaker 1: but the Bucks not able to get over the top

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Speaker 1: and what that means for Giannis. But the game of

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Speaker 1: the night, which turned into the rock fight of the

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Speaker 1: night Lakers ninety four Timberwolves eighty five. I don't think

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Speaker 1: anyone is actually surprised by the result. Home team loses

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Speaker 1: game one, they are going to come out more urgent,

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Speaker 1: more focused, better in game two, and the Lakers did

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Speaker 1: and blitzed him in the first quarter thirty four to fifteen,

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Speaker 1: and then really just held on the rest of the way,

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Speaker 1: culminating in a fourth quarter where neither team could hit shots,

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Speaker 1: where the Lakers were just kind of limping to the

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Speaker 1: finish line and everyone seemed a little out of gas

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Speaker 1: except for the oldest guy on the court. And we

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Speaker 1: can do big picture stuff shortly. And I understand that

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Speaker 1: some folks will hear this and be like, you gotta

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Speaker 1: be kidding me. Lebron scored twenty one. His jumper wasn't falling.

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Speaker 1: He was eight of nineteen from the field, one of

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Speaker 1: five from three. And you're gonna wax poetic about the

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Speaker 1: game Lebron James had And the answer is yes, I am,

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Speaker 1: because there was one play late in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: that to me symbolized who Lebron has been since they

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Speaker 1: acquired Luca, and who he has been is whoever they

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Speaker 1: need him to be. That night, I will mold my

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Speaker 1: game accordingly. Three minutes left Lakers with the smallest lead

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Speaker 1: that they've had since it was fifteen to eight. They

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Speaker 1: are up nine. The Lakers were up at least nine

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Speaker 1: points for the final forty minutes of this game, and

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Speaker 1: the Timberwolves, however, in the fourth quarter, were slowly trying

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Speaker 1: to make it a game, and the Lakers had a

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Speaker 1: bad possession. Luca got caught up in the air through

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Speaker 1: the ball to basically nowhere, and Luca was excellent. More

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Speaker 1: on him in a moment, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the Timberwolves are in transition. Three minutes down nine, chance

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Speaker 1: to cut it to six or seven, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, all the pressure will be on La and

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Speaker 1: Lebron circles around to where Anthony Edwards is getting the

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Speaker 1: ball at mid court in a semi transition situation, steals

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Speaker 1: it from Anthony Edwards, burst to the basket, lay up

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Speaker 1: up eleven, Game over. And what is to me so

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Speaker 1: remarkable about the best player I've ever seen, if people

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Speaker 1: are being honest, the best player anyone's ever seen this

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Speaker 1: year has been his ability to the instant they got

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Speaker 1: Luke Adancic him saying, Okay, I have to be a

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Speaker 1: totally different type of player because we're a totally different

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Speaker 1: type of team. After for the entirety of my Lakers tenure,

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Speaker 1: which at this point is as long as he has

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Speaker 1: ever stayed with one team consecutively seven years, he had

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Speaker 1: to be on the ball, ball dominant, running the offense.

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Speaker 1: His transition from that to a do it all, jack

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Speaker 1: of all trades player who in this game said, defense

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Speaker 1: is what we needed to lock in on. Defense is

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Speaker 1: what we drastically needed to improve on, and in the Lakers'

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Speaker 1: best defensive game of the year, at least as far

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Speaker 1: as how many points their opponent scored. He was the

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Speaker 1: best defender on the court, and get in where you

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Speaker 1: fit in on offense, crash the boards, try to get

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Speaker 1: other people involved, and lock down defensively to the tune

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Speaker 1: of Anthony Edwards, and not that he was on Anthony

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Speaker 1: a lot. After having nine assists in game one, zero

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Speaker 1: no one other than Julius Randall getting going at all,

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Speaker 1: and the Lakers winning a game they had to have

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Speaker 1: where they only hit six three pointers now the Timberwolves

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Speaker 1: only hit five, where neither team could hit a three

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Speaker 1: because it was their best defensive game of the year,

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Speaker 1: and the best defensive player for the Lakers, by Jared Vanderbilt,

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Speaker 1: was excellent in his very limited defensive moments. He only

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Speaker 1: played eight minutes. But the best defensive player for the

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Speaker 1: Lakers was Lebron James. And you can get away with

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Speaker 1: Lebron only scoring twenty, no one else scoring more than sixteen,

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Speaker 1: and hell other than Austin's sixteen Rui who might have

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Speaker 1: broke his nose in this game, which is something to

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Speaker 1: watch because guys do not like wearing that mask. The

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Speaker 1: only player who seems to not mind wearing that mask

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Speaker 1: Jordan Goodwin, who's been wearing it for months. If he

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Speaker 1: has to wear that mask the rest of the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: that's a concern. But the reason they were able to

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Speaker 1: win that game when no one had it going offensively

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Speaker 1: was because they locked in on the defensive end, led

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Speaker 1: by Lebron, and because they hit all their free throws. Now,

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Speaker 1: I understand folks are going to bitch and moan about

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Speaker 1: the officiating. I thought the officials took too big of

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Speaker 1: a hand in this game. However, it was so physical

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Speaker 1: what it would have been if they would have let

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Speaker 1: them play even more for folks that care about the

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Speaker 1: actual numbers, twenty four fouls on LA, twenty two on

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Speaker 1: the Timberwls, twenty free throws by the Lakers, twenty five

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Speaker 1: by the Timbrels. Now, the Lakers went twenty of twenty

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Speaker 1: from the free throw line, which was damn important when

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Speaker 1: the tar Les are trying to cut into the lead late.

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Speaker 1: But I am I have just been really taken aback

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Speaker 1: by Lebron having the opportunity kind of unexpectedly to prove

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Speaker 1: to the world that what he has said his entire career,

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Speaker 1: I'll be whatever player this team in this moment needs

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Speaker 1: me to be Ego aside that that is actually exactly

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Speaker 1: who he's going to be. Usage rate plummets, being on

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Speaker 1: the ball plummets, and he just then can expend that

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Speaker 1: energy in different places. And so I thought, I have

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Speaker 1: thought for the last few years that the fact that

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Speaker 1: there is more commentary about Lebron James's defensive failings than

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Speaker 1: two of the other, probably not two of the other,

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Speaker 1: the two other all time legends in our midst who

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Speaker 1: carry a massive offensive workload for their teams. And because

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Speaker 1: of that, and because of for those guys, their own

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Speaker 1: physical limitations, their downright negative defenders. In Steph Curry, in

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Speaker 1: Nikola Jokic, nobody gives a shit. Everybody just recognized as well.

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Speaker 1: Steph's undersized, and he's expending so much energy on the

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Speaker 1: offensive end, he's got to kind of hide him defensively.

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Speaker 1: Joker is doing everything for the Nuggets offensively and is

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Speaker 1: so limited athletically that you got to just kind of

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Speaker 1: work around that. On the defensive end. Those guys nobody

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Speaker 1: ever complains about their defense. Lebron, who has played twenty

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Speaker 1: some thousand more minutes maybe thirty thousand now twenty thousand,

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Speaker 1: probably more minutes than Steph who's damn near a decade

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Speaker 1: older than Joker, who for the Lakers pre Luca carried

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Speaker 1: the exact same offensive responsibility on his team as those

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Speaker 1: guys did on theirs. Half the commentary seemingly around the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years as well, he's not the defender

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Speaker 1: he once was, and what he is showing you in

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Speaker 1: if that role or responsibility shifts, he can still ratchet

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Speaker 1: still an excellent, impactful, disruptive, versatile defensive player, and the

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Speaker 1: Lakers had to have that yesterday. I'm still waiting for

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Speaker 1: the Lakers' offense to show up to this series now.

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Speaker 1: The Timberwolves have done a great job of getting out

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Speaker 1: hide Mike Conley, who had a really rough game, and

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Speaker 1: other than Mike Conley, anyone and everyone they put out

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Speaker 1: there is somewhere from passable defensively, and Julius Randall on

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Speaker 1: the scale from passable to excellent. Jaden is obviously excellent.

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Speaker 1: Rudy is obviously excellent with a few, you know, glaring weaknesses,

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Speaker 1: but his strengths are just massive. Nikhil Alexander Walker when

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Speaker 1: he gets out there as great defensively, Anthony Edwards is

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Speaker 1: one of the best two way players in the league.

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Speaker 1: So this is And by the way, in the next round,

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Speaker 1: you are going to be playing an excellent defensive team

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Speaker 1: if you're the whoever wins this series, no matter whoever

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. And so the Lakers locked in defensively, got

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Speaker 1: just enough from the offense, had a first quarter that

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Speaker 1: the Timberwolves were not ready for, and then held on

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Speaker 1: the rest of the way. On Luca, I give Luca

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Speaker 1: an a minus for this game, and the only Luca

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Speaker 1: was really strong defensively himself. Everyone on the Lakers, everyone

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Speaker 1: on the Lakers should feel good about their performance yesterday, honestly,

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Speaker 1: except for Jackson Hayes, who at this point you have

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Speaker 1: to I think you you keep giving him a chance.

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Speaker 1: But that sequence at the beginning of the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: illegal screen in the back court and then following that

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Speaker 1: seeming shocked by it. That's that's a maddening sequence. He

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Speaker 1: played nine minutes, had five fouls. It was just brutal.

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Speaker 1: But what I was trying to get to before I

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Speaker 1: interrupted myself on Luca Luca. The reason it is only

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Speaker 1: let the refs take him out of this game. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying Luca got a bad whistle. Luca got

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Speaker 1: to the line eleven times, but there was a sequence

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Speaker 1: and then, in a borderline dirty moment, Jaden McDaniels is

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Speaker 1: thought he was going to get a technical. If I'm

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Speaker 1: being honest, probably deserved a technical. Maybe the ref knew

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Speaker 1: honestly in today's NBA a flagrant foul. That's a non

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Speaker 1: basketball dangerous play, and Luca you saw him starting to

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Speaker 1: called time out. His teammates got him under control. But

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Speaker 1: aside from that brief moment, Luca was unbelievable. Now he

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Speaker 1: needs to stop trying so often to just embarrass Rudy Gobert.

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Speaker 1: I think that takes the Lakers out of their offense

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Speaker 1: to a degree. But thirty one, twelve and nine in

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Speaker 1: have almost outscored Minnesota himself in the first quarter. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna actually check that real quick. That the Timberwolves had

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Speaker 1: fifteen in the first quarter the Lakers in that game.

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Speaker 1: In this game, I should say, let me just go.

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Speaker 1: My friends at Basketball Reference are good with this quarter

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Speaker 1: one Luca had. Luke had sixteen. So he didn't almost

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Speaker 1: outscore the Timberwolves in the first quarter. He did outscore

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Speaker 1: the Timberwolves in the first quarter. And we've now had

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Speaker 1: thirteen playoff games this year. The best one anyone has

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Speaker 1: played is Kawhi's Game two against the Nuggets. The second

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Speaker 1: best one anyone has played, given the context of everything,

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Speaker 1: was either Steph Curry's Game one against the war against

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Speaker 1: the Rockets or Luca Game two against the Timberwolves. Now,

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Speaker 1: Giannis might be like, what more do I have to do?

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Speaker 1: And more on him in a minute, because the answer

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Speaker 1: is I don't know what more he can do, man,

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Speaker 1: and you feel sick for him. More on Jannis just momentarily.

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Speaker 1: But the Lakers now have the opperation coortunity to take

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Speaker 1: a breath. They because of how the schedule falls. They

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Speaker 1: don't play tomorrow, which I think is nice. Travel today

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Speaker 1: or maybe they maybe they travel tomorrow. Actually I don't

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Speaker 1: know who cares when they'll travel. But they play Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: Is that right? No? What day is today? Sorry? Today's Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Magic Celtics tonight, even without Tatum, the Magic are not

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Speaker 1: it once the playoffs actually start for them, they might.

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Speaker 1: But tonight one big game Warriors Rockets, absolute, unequivocal, literal

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