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Speaker 1: Welcome in What Driving the Cred Episode three twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Fresh off a great night of playoff basketball, I was

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Speaker 1: at the Garden for Nick's Piston, so I did miss

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Speaker 1: the first quarter ish of Clippers Nuggets, which is just

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Speaker 1: going to be an absolute war, and I think every

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Speaker 1: game is going to look like the first couple games did,

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Speaker 1: where it comes down to the final seconds. I also

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Speaker 1: will say this, you know, it's always important in life to,

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Speaker 1: you know, stay even keeled, not get too high, and

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Speaker 1: not get too low. Last seventy two hours, for the

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Speaker 1: first time since I've lived in New York, got in

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Speaker 1: a car accident. My fault wrecked my beautiful, just work

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Speaker 1: of art car that I love so much, and I lost.

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Speaker 1: I've lost every single bet I've made in these NBA playoffs,

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Speaker 1: So you know what, sometimes you need that you need

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Speaker 1: to just kind of be brought flying a little too high,

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Speaker 1: get brought back down to earth. I did. Everything I

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Speaker 1: did this weekend are the exact things I've tried to

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Speaker 1: counsel Demonsee on not doing distracted driving, check chasing my losses,

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Speaker 1: check betting games that I don't really have a feel for,

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Speaker 1: just because I'm trying to get even on the other one,

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Speaker 1: check all of it, and so you know, it was

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Speaker 1: just a really real tour de force. But I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna let that bring me down. Good to see you

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Speaker 1: as always, demondse Happy.

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Speaker 2: Ladies Easter, Happy Lady Easter. Just stay there. You bring

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Speaker 2: yourself back out of that.

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Speaker 1: Exactly right. And this is a big moment. The next

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Speaker 1: nine hours me deciding, you know what, even though I

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Speaker 1: am certain the Lakers are evening the series, and even

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Speaker 1: though I have an opportunity to pull myself out of

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Speaker 1: the hole with an oversized Lakers money line, bet I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna do it. Because if I do that, even

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Speaker 1: if I you know what, just let's just take a

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Speaker 1: quick breather. Let's just take a quick breather. Enjoy the games,

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Speaker 1: you know, reset, you take a survey of the landscape,

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Speaker 1: because the other thing. You always counsel yourself not to

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Speaker 1: do this, but it is so hard not to overreact

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Speaker 1: to all these games. And so I watch Piston's Knicks

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna get into a Piston's next game one

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, ah, the Knicks are just so much better.

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Speaker 1: These kids aren't ready. And then I'm there yesterday, I'm

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Speaker 1: like man, the Pistons have been the better team seven

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Speaker 3: Of this series.

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Speaker 1: Like maybe I had that exactly exactly wrong, and so

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Speaker 1: all of that, here's what missed the cut. Cooper flag

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Speaker 1: declares for the draft, we knew that was coming. Jalen

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Speaker 1: Milroe says he's faster than Lamar Jackson. I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: I believe he might be faster than Lamar is today.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's faster than Lamar, and Lamar came

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Speaker 1: out of the draft. And because our producers are just

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Speaker 1: let's get to what has been two classic games in

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Speaker 1: Nuggets Clipper Thus far, it has more than lived up

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Speaker 1: to the hype. I think most people thought this would

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Speaker 3: Go ahead. Uh yeah.

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Speaker 2: Kawhi went off last night for thirty nine. Seemed like

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Speaker 2: enough to beat the Nuggets by three points. Jokic did

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Speaker 2: that he had seven and his free throw for his

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Speaker 2: free throws were not hidden. Do you think the Clippers

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's in control of this series, and

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Speaker 1: this series. The Clippers avoided what would have been emotionally

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Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not going to allow for revisionist history.

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Speaker 1: I actually think Kawhi Leonard, throughout his NBA career has

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Speaker 1: never once ever been underrated. I think he has either

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Speaker 1: has always understood that a healthy Kawhi Leonard is a

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Speaker 1: We're not getting healthy Kawhi Leonard in the playoffs this year.

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Speaker 1: Through two games, you're getting it. He was okay in

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Speaker 1: Game one yesterday, though, was the first truly great Kawhi

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned, he couldn't miss fifteen of nineteen from

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Speaker 1: didn't have it, and Kawhi was exceptional, and I was

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Speaker 1: bring us to Nikolejokic, who you do not to. You're

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Speaker 1: That was a game his team could have won, and Jokic,

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Speaker 1: But Jokich seven turnovers in the fourth quarter, three turnover.

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Speaker 1: And I'm curious you can put in the the chat

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Speaker 1: Daniel that I can see or in this you know

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Speaker 1: resident Nuggets fan and you're allowed to have bad playoff games.

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Speaker 1: Even the best player in the world can have bad

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Speaker 1: I think that if you are the Clippers through two games,

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Speaker 1: a testament to his greatness, But twenty nine to nine

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Speaker 1: and it is not something I think will continue. But

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Speaker 1: And here's the other piece that worries me for the Nuggets.

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Speaker 1: So Michael Porter Junior, after being put on ice in

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Speaker 1: He played his thirty three minutes, hit him threes, fifteen points,

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Speaker 1: mean the twenty turnovers for the Nuggets just killed them,

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Speaker 1: They do not have the depth. This is one of

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Speaker 1: the reasons Calvin Booth is no longer employed as the GM.

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Speaker 1: They do not have the depth to have any of

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Speaker 1: my opinion, more minutes than is really you know safe. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know Demons sometimes thinks I'm too hard on Russ,

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Speaker 1: and Russ has not been a problem this series.

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Speaker 1: No, no, and and in game one he hit the

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Speaker 1: had another eternal save.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean it was.

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Speaker 1: The full game. One was the full Russell Westbrook experience.

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Speaker 1: Game two, like twenty minutes from RUSS is about fine,

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Speaker 1: But if Michael Porter Junior's out, you're talking forty minutes

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Speaker 1: from RUSS. Because Jalen Pickett cannot be in these games.

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Speaker 1: Peyton Watson they want to trust, they clearly don't. And hell,

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Speaker 1: So so here's the thing. The foul and the fall

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Speaker 1: So all right, so let's do a couple follow ups

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Speaker 1: All right, what are our follow ups? Where you get

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Speaker 2: How many players in the league are you taking in

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Speaker 1: that Piston's crowd is going to be. So yeah, like

430
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: that is the thing about not having won a playoff

431
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: game since two thousand and eight. An underrated all time

432
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: run by the Way Demands was the three two two

433
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: thousand and eight Detroit Pistons, the Chauncey Rip Hamilton, Ben Wallace,

434
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: Tayshaun Prince oh three fifty wins, Conference finalists, four fifty

435
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: four wins, upset the Shaq Kobe Lakers to win the championship.

436
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: Five fifty four wins, lose in seven to the San

437
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs in the finals. Six sixty four wins, lose

438
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: in the conference finals to Shaq d Wade. Oh, seven

439
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: fifty three wins, lose to twenty two year old Lebron

440
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: in the conference finals the forty eight special game. You

441
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: know what I mean is what flips that series? Eight

442
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: fifty nine wins, conference finals, lose to the Big Three Celtics.

443
00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: So that team from three to eight, six seasons fifty

444
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: plus wins every single year? Was that seven seasons? Uh

445
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: well from two from two to eight, which is the

446
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: seven seasons, they had fifty wins every single year. But

447
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: three to eight they made the conference finals. Every single year.

448
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: They made an NBA Finals and won it, made an

449
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: NBA Finals and lost to uh maybe you know one

450
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: of the best Spurs teams ever in seven and the

451
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: teams that beat them after they won the championship and

452
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: then lost the finals in seven, they lost to the

453
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: I think I said Shaq Kobe heat, the Shack D

454
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: Wade Heat, Lebron and the Big Three Celtics. But I

455
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: say all that to say this that was the last

456
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: time they won a playoff game. The last playoff game

457
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: that they won was against Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and

458
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: Kevin Garnett in two thousand and eight. George W. Bush

459
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: was the president. Since then, they have made the playoffs

460
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: three times swept, swept, swept, And since they were last

461
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: swept by Giannis in twenty nineteen, they have won the

462
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: following number of games twenty twenty, twenty three, seventeen, fourteen,

463
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: and in this year forty four. It's an unbelievable single

464
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: season turnaround. That and those kids now think they can win.

465
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: And here's the other important thing. They think I They

466
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: think they have the best player in the series, and

467
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: that is I Cade, to me this year had a

468
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: better season than Jalen brunt. I'm not ready to say

469
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: he's a better player than Jalen Brunson, but on my

470
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: fake all NBA teams, I think I had Cade's second

471
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: team and Jalen third team. I'm pretty sure that's how

472
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: I had it. And now the Pistons feel like we

473
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: can beat him up. Karl Anthony Towns is gonna back down,

474
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: and they are and they are not afraid. And so

475
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,719
Speaker 1: I was shocked watching that last night that the and

476
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: some breaking new sham says Dame is playing tonight. That's

477
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: not I mean once he was upgrade to questionable. That's

478
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: about what we expected. We'll talk about that in a

479
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: bit with Pacers Bucks. But I thought last night that

480
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: that when the Knicks were slowly chipping away, demanse that

481
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: if they could just get over the hump, the garden

482
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: was so electric and the Knicks at that point were

483
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: getting every call that I said, Okay, I think they're

484
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: gonna win. And then to his credit, man Dennis Shrewder

485
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 1: bang bang Yeah. But after the Shrewder three, the Knicks

486
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: had plenty of opportunities. Man, they like we can. The

487
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: Shrewder three was obviously the biggest shout of the game.

488
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: But after the Shrewder three and we ended up with

489
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: I got very lucky. I was able to buy kind

490
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: of last minute some really good seats, so we were

491
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: right behind the Knicks bench. Shout out John Taturo of

492
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: Rounders and Severance and every a bunch of other uh

493
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: fame who we got to talk with for a moment. Uh.

494
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: After that three by Shrewder, the Knicks possessions were Jalen

495
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: Brunson pull up three decent look miss. McHale Bridges pull

496
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: up three wide open miss. They then foul Shrewder. He

497
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: only goes one of two. So now there's eight seconds left,

498
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: you have your time out, you're down four. Make a

499
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: shot and you're gonna have a shot to tie it.

500
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: And Jalen Brunson open three kind of miss and game over.

501
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 1: And so just a brutal, brutal close to the game

502
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 1: there for for the Knicks.

503
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 3: How many years?

504
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 2: How many years before you think Kate Cunningham can make

505
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 2: club superstar?

506
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: I guess it's I gotta you know. I think this

507
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: year's too early, but he's in contention and I would

508
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: expect him maybe to be in next year. And so

509
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: that's I would expect next year. It'd be disappointed if

510
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 1: he's not in next year. And listen if they pull

511
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: up this upset when the Knicks have after Cad, do

512
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: the Knicks have the like of the five best players

513
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: in this series are four on the Knicks, Jalen, cat Bridges,

514
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: Og and Cad. Those are the five best guys in

515
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: the series, right, It'd be pretty remarkable if he pulls

516
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: this off. What's Matthew and the Chad Askin.

517
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 3: He says, does bitch Robinson need more minutes?

518
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: I mean, if Carly and tam is gonna play like that,

519
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: maybe or maybe you want to go super big and

520
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: play them both kind of kill your spacing. But I

521
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 1: guess you it won't kill your space because Cat's a

522
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 1: shooter anyway, but you probably can't play Mitch and Josh

523
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: Hart a ton of minutes together and have two just

524
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: non shooters out there. All right, let's talk Lakers Timberwolves.

525
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 3: So the Lakers are in a spot.

526
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, they lost their first game at home, so they're

527
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 2: back tonight. Who do you think has the most pressure

528
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 2: of figuring out in game two? Between Lebron, JJ or Austin.

529
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: Reeves along with Luca.

530
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 3: Oh, Luca obviously, sorry, you're fine.

531
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: Sorry, you can clear your throat. This got to be

532
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 1: a Lebron game. I like, here's the deal. I ain't Lebron.

533
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: You know, can survey the landscape and say warriors rockets

534
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: should be and we'll talk more about that shortly. Should

535
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 1: be a war and the Lakers should be in good

536
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: position to reach the conference finals if they can figure

537
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: out the Timberwolves. And so I'm sure Lebron, who's very,

538
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: very strategic and understands how much you know, how many

539
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: he has left in the gun better than any athlete

540
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: in sports history, which is why he's been able to

541
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: perform at this level for as long as he has.

542
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure Lebron was hoping to not have to shoot

543
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: one of those bullets in the second game of the playoffs,

544
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: But if they lose tonight, they they just might be done.

545
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 1: Like I'm not, it's not a I feel like if

546
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: the Rockets lose Game two, they are done. That is

547
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: a true must win for the Rockets. They are too

548
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: young and too inexperienced to lose both of the games

549
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: at home to a championship caliber team or a champion

550
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: champion leaden team in Golden State and come back from it.

551
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: I won't call, I won't officially right off the Lakers

552
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: if they lose this game tonight, but they will be

553
00:37:55,280 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: on life support. And so that means Lebron has to

554
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: be more aggressive from the beginning, like this is to me,

555
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: demon's I'm going to talk about all four of those guys.

556
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: For Lebron, it's simple from the opening tip. He needs

557
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 1: to be more aggressive offensively Julius Randall seemed to want

558
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 1: to take on the challenge of going at Lebron on

559
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,439
Speaker 1: one end and guarding him on the other. Awesome, that

560
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: is a that is a real opportunity for Lebron, and

561
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: to also put Julius on the defensive, so to speak,

562
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: from the opening tip, which I think could leak into

563
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: Julius's offensive game, which while he hit open threes in

564
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: Game one and give him credit for it, he also

565
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: had seven turnovers. He also seemed a little too eager

566
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: to go at Lebron and I don't think that's a

567
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: winning matchup for the Timberwolf. So Lebron's just got to

568
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 1: be more aggressive from the opening tip and as opposed

569
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: to lighting the game come to him Austin if they are,

570
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: Austin cannot let the Timberwolves get away with guarding him.

571
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 1: With Mike Conley, the Timberwolves are at an offensive edge

572
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: if they are able to keep Mike Conley on the

573
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: floor big minutes because with Aunt being a willing passer,

574
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: if you also have Mike Conley out there and you

575
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: have two willing passers at the guard position, with that

576
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: many good shooters that they have, the Timberwolves will be

577
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: even harder to defend. The way to play Mike Conley

578
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 1: off the court is to make him defend. They are

579
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: going to try to hide him if they can. I'm

580
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: sure they'll try to hide him on you know, Dorian

581
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: Finney Smith. I guess, but he's probably gonna end up

582
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: matched up on Austin. Austin has to make him pay

583
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: Luca very simple. The Lakers are at their best when

584
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: Luca is collapsing the defense and sprang it out to

585
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: open shooters. Thirty said, Luca played well in game one.

586
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 1: The idea that he should be you know, how accountable

587
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: he is for only having the one assist when a

588
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: lot of guys listen, there weren't open shooters, and guys

589
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: when they were open weren't making shots. I'm not killing

590
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: Luca for that at all. However, they lukea in that

591
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:42,240
Speaker 1: game created forty points. That's not gonna be enough because

592
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: he scored thirty seven and had one assist. I'm Luca

593
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: doesn't have to score thirty seven. They do need him

594
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: to have eight, nine, ten assists. And then JJ and

595
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: this is really interesting because JJ and I don't know

596
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: how much of its games been I don't know how

597
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: much of it is Not wanting to tip his hand,

598
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 1: but JJ saying basically in these press conferences, I liked

599
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: what we were doing schematically, we just didn't execute. I

600
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: I didn't like what they were doing schematically. I'm not

601
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 1: scapegoating JJ. The players did not come out with enough

602
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: force or energy or intensity. And JJ's been excellent all

603
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: year long. But the Timberwolves are at their most dangerous

604
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: when Anthony Edwards is creating shots for other people. They're

605
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: seven to oh this year when he has eight or

606
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 1: more assists. Last year in the regular season, they were

607
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: nine and three when he had eight or more assists,

608
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: and the three losses they averaged one hundred and sixteen points.

609
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: So the offense wasn't the problem. The year before that,

610
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: they were six and zero in the regular season when

611
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 1: he had eight or more assists. That tells you two things.

612
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: One is it's a rare occurrence. Then Anthony Edwards is

613
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 1: close to double d it assists. The other one is

614
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: that's when their offense is humming. And so no, I

615
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 1: don't think nas Reed and Jaden McDaniels are going to

616
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: score at the level that they did in Game one.

617
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: But I also think that It wasn't just dumb luck

618
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: that led to them scoring at that level. It was

619
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: the fact that the Lakers were terrified of Anthony Edwards

620
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: getting to the rim on them, and because of that,

621
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: they collapsed a defense that already was packed in the paint.

622
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: And of those forty two Timberwold shots, thirty seven of

623
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: them were classified as either wide open or open. They

624
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,720
Speaker 1: weren't making tough, contested threes, they were making practice shots.

625
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: So Lebron's got to be more aggressive. Luca has to

626
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: try to spoon feed Dorian and Ruie and Austin some

627
00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: open looks. Austin has to be more has to be

628
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: more willing to try to hunt a Mike Conley mismatch.

629
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: And JJ has to really figure out is Anthony Edwards

630
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: at his most dangerous when he's flirting with a twenty

631
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: and ten or when he's flirting with a thirty five

632
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: point two assist game? Because I would rather sign up

633
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: for the thirty five point two assist game if I'm

634
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: the Lakers. So that's my thoughts on the series. Demand

635
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: how much trouble do you think the Lakers are in

636
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: before we move on?

637
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 3: Yeah? I was gonna sit there in a rough spot.

638
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 2: But I said at the beginning of the series, I

639
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 2: could I could see it going forward to either way.

640
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 2: Obviously got to pick up the game tonight. I think

641
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 2: you lose this game, You're you're in a rough shot.

642
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Speaker 2: You're in a rough spot. The Timberwolves is just younger

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Speaker 2: and uh.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, Timberwolves are younger and there with ant. They're

645
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Speaker 1: not going to be afraid. I mean they they rolled

646
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Speaker 1: the pacer at the Pacers the Suns in Round one

647
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: last year. They stare Joker in the face in his

648
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Speaker 1: building and beat them, so they're not gonna be afraid.

649
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Speaker 1: I also think this though they are a team that

650
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Speaker 1: will those guys are not going to be quite as

651
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Speaker 1: active defensively if they are not also seeing their own

652
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Speaker 1: shots go in and feeling good about their offense. Yeah,

653
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Speaker 1: it's a it's another reason to not let the defensive

654
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Speaker 1: approach be. Have everyone else other than Anthony Edwards beat you.

655
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Speaker 1: I just think it's the wrong approach. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: do Rockets Warriors.

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Speaker 2: So after dropping Game one at home, the Rockets are

658
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Speaker 2: now down in that series. You had the Rockets winning

659
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Speaker 2: this series, So how do you see them turning it around?

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Speaker 1: Well, so such I think they can. It was really

661
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: interesting game one because when Steph hits that moon ball

662
00:44:55,760 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: insane three to go up twenty three points, you would

663
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Speaker 1: expect the game to you know, go up twenty three

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Speaker 1: points late in the third quarter, the game to just

665
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Speaker 1: be over. And the Rockets never lost faith and never

666
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Speaker 1: lost contact. And despite the fact that they couldn't down

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Speaker 1: twenty three in a game where neither team breaks one

668
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Speaker 1: hundred is like being down thirty five in a regular

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Speaker 1: NBA game. And despite that, they got it to a

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Speaker 1: one possession game late, They had it to a four

671
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Speaker 1: point game when they should have, you know, with the

672
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Speaker 1: ball at one point in the fourth quarter. They just

673
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: couldn't get over the hump. So the how do they

674
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Speaker 1: turn things around? Amen Thompson needs to be better defensively. Listen,

675
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Speaker 1: young player, first playoff game, he's chasing around Steph Curry.

676
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Speaker 1: Get it, no problem. Game two's got to be different.

677
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: Jalen Green has to show up. If Jalen Green, Fred

678
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: van Vliet I believe will show up. I just think

679
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 1: he had a rough shitight. Fred van Vliet's a champion.

680
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: Fred van Vlietz played big and big spots. Jalen Green

681
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Speaker 1: has got to get you at least twenty. They're just

682
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: not gonna score enough points otherwise. The reason for optimism

683
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Speaker 1: for the Warriors is you played Stephen Jimmy huge minutes.

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Speaker 1: They the optimism for the Rockets. I should say. They

685
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Speaker 1: answered with fifty six points between them, but the rest

686
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Speaker 1: of the team only scored thirty nine. Draymond was unbelievable defensively,

687
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Speaker 1: but he had another triple single. They pods gave you

688
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Speaker 1: a little. Moody made one shot. They're throwing Gee Santos

689
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Speaker 1: and Quinton Post who really shouldn't be on the court

690
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: in high leverage playoff spots at this point in their career.

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Speaker 1: The Rockets have more high quality rotation players. They just

692
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Speaker 1: have nobody, it seems like, other than Van Vliet and

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Speaker 1: Shinnon that are confident offensively. And so yeah, Dylan Brooks

694
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Speaker 1: needs to make the Rockets. Ultimately, when needs happened is

695
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Speaker 1: Rockets got to make some shots and they cannot fall

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Speaker 1: down two at home. Now. I thought that they were

697
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Speaker 1: going to win Game one. I obviously was wrong. I

698
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Speaker 1: don't think the Warriors have enough high quality players, and

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can rely on Steph and Jimmy

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Speaker 1: to combine for around sixty in every game in order

701
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Speaker 1: for the Warriors to run away with this series. But

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Speaker 1: my pick was Rockets in seven. And I will admit

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Speaker 1: I watched that game thinking, okay, let's say we get

704
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Speaker 1: to a game seven. Who the hell on the Rockets

705
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Speaker 1: is not going to be absolutely petrified every time they

706
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Speaker 1: have the ball. In that game seven, and now, Shingoon

707
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: was more aggressive offensively than he was in most games,

708
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: the only average eighteen points a game the regular season.

709
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 1: Draymond was daring him to take those ten twelve fourteen footers.

710
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Speaker 1: He took him, he made them. Shingoon's got to be

711
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: even more aggressive offensively, like flatly, Shingoon's just gotta say,

712
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Speaker 1: it's not really my game, but I'm gonna try to

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Speaker 1: go out here and score thirty. I'm gonna make you

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Speaker 1: double me and see if that can generate some open looks.

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Speaker 1: And so I thought the Warriors. I thought there was

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Speaker 1: that twenty three point lead, because if you heard that

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721
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Speaker 1: end of the game. I don't think that's what they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, is that when do you think they would get hit?

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Speaker 2: I mean even if they ended up beating Houston the

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Speaker 1: I would think the next round it particularly if they're

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742
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746
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Speaker 1: he still only played thirty seven minutes, even though he

747
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Speaker 1: When they won the championship in twenty twenty two, that

749
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Speaker 1: So like it's he is not a guy, and that's

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Speaker 1: when he obviously was far younger that historically. Because and

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Speaker 2: There might be some trouble over there at Milwaukee. Halliburton

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Speaker 2: Do you Thinklwaukee can turn this around or is it possibly?

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Speaker 1: I don't. I'm I picked them. I'm really worried about them.

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Speaker 1: there's one guy out there that I that I think

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Speaker 1: What are we doing? Not? What are we doing? He's

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Speaker 1: I think the Bucks are in real trouble. I also

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Speaker 1: I am doing anyone of disservice by just passively having

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Speaker 1: on in the background Calves Heat. I might not watch

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Speaker 1: a second of it, I'm telling you right now. Like

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Speaker 1: it's gonna the and thunder Grizzlies, you almost want just

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Speaker 1: to see how bad of a massacre it can be.

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Speaker 1: But like tomorrow night, we have the old seven o'clock Magic, Celtics,

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Speaker 1: seven thirty Heat, Calves and then nine thirty one Warriors

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Speaker 1: Rockets tomorrow night. You know what that sounds like to me?

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Speaker 1: To Monday, that sounds like a date night, an early

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Speaker 1: dinner date night, and then back in the house Warriors Rocket.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just it's and by the way, this

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Speaker 1: is a this is a out of respect to the Thunder,

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Speaker 1: the Celtics and the Calves. It's not because those teams

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Speaker 1: aren't interesting. It's not because those teams aren't awesome. It's because, yes,

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Speaker 1: see in round two, man, I mean, the Grizzlies got

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Speaker 1: beat by fifty. Shay doesn't score twenty for the first

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Speaker 1: times in to Halloween. It doesn't matter. The Celtics have

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Speaker 1: Tatum Brown and Chris STAPs I think combined for like

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Speaker 1: fifteen of forty four. It doesn't matter because the Magic

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Speaker 1: can't score. Paalo scores thirty six, the rest of the

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Speaker 1: team scored fifty and heat Calves. I can't tell you

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Speaker 1: what happened. I can't tell you the score. I'm I

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Speaker 1: don't even was that game Sunday?

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Speaker 3: When was that?

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Speaker 1: That must have been in the middle of the Easter

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Speaker 1: egg hunt, because I vividly remember Magic Celtics. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: know what happened with Heat Calves. One of my mom's

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Speaker 1: dear friends who was over for Easter is married to

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Speaker 1: a Canadian and there was the hockey playoffs on, and

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Speaker 1: he was like, do you care if we turn on

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Speaker 1: the hockey playoffs. I'm like, it's Heat Calves, buddy, you

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Speaker 1: go right out at it. So I was like, it

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Speaker 1: was like, You're very lucky because this could have been

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Speaker 1: a very awk. Like usually when someone's like, hey, do

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Speaker 1: you mind if I turned something on, the answers always no,

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Speaker 1: of course, go ahead. But if Warriors Rockets was the

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Speaker 1: early game, the answer would have been yes, I mind,

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00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: and know you can't. But it was Heat Calves. So

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Speaker 1: I watched a little It was two Canadian teams playing

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Speaker 1: each other. It is Toronto against Ontario. Maybe I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but whatever, I watched a little playoff hockey shout out

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Speaker 1: to me and so Heat Calves. I don't know what happened,

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Speaker 1: und I'm looking. So I don't have analysis for you

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Speaker 1: on it. I don't feel like I'm not doing my

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Speaker 1: job because of it. I am. I'm just those series

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Speaker 1: are over. Let's all right, remember like rate, subscribe, review,

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01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: do all that cool stuff. And it was Toronto Ottawa.

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01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 1: There we go, all right, let's do some listener questions.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Dylan asked, can Kawhi make the top fifty all time.

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Speaker 3: After these playoffs, he's.

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Speaker 1: Already in the top fifty all time h A two finals, MVPs,

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Speaker 1: a couple seasons where he was top five MVP finisher,

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Speaker 1: top fifty all time, Like, I you know that is

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Speaker 1: he's already cemented there. If they were to win the championship,

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Speaker 1: then top twenty five all time, is I think fair?

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Speaker 1: I think like he becomes like a rich rich man's

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Speaker 1: Bill Walton, where you know these super high peaks that

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Speaker 1: with a career that was kind of derailed a bit

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Speaker 1: due to injury. But if he wins a championship here

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Speaker 1: and listen, the Clippers are not gonna win the championship.

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Speaker 1: But if he were to, then yeah, then you have

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Speaker 1: to say that he Like right now, I don't have

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Speaker 1: him ahead of and I know this will irk people

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Speaker 1: on my all time whole career list. I don't have

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Speaker 1: him ahead of James Harden. I understand why is a

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Speaker 1: champion and Harden isn't. But Harden has you know, ten

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Speaker 1: unbelievable seasons and Kawi just you know has four. Uh,

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Speaker 1: But if you were to win the championship even alongside Harden,

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Speaker 1: Harden gets a ring too. He then jumps him. If

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Speaker 1: Kawi is the man on the run, all right, we

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Speaker 1: have another Kauhi question.

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Speaker 2: Uh, how is Kawhi eligibile for club Superstar given that

926
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Speaker 2: he's been kicked out before?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Anthony Davis got kicked out and got back in.

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Speaker 1: Any Davis also might get kicked out again. Then again,

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Speaker 1: do you become more of a superstar because you were

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Speaker 1: traded for Luka Dancic? I don't know. Go to Christian's question.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Christian, do you not live tweet during games because

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Speaker 2: you don't want to be tied to your heat of

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Speaker 2: the moment takes?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's it's a number of reasons. One is I'm

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Speaker 1: not really on Twitter during games. I don't enjoy that experience.

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Speaker 1: I enjoy watching the games, So there's that. I have

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Speaker 1: a hard time if I am tweeting during games. So

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Speaker 1: much of it is just going to be ripping Reggie

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Speaker 1: Miller's commentary, and that's not good for anybody. So I

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Speaker 1: just leave that alone, and I don't feel an obligation.

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Speaker 1: So here's the deal, little media, pull back the curtain

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Speaker 1: a bit. And I'm sure a lot of you have picked.

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Speaker 3: Up on this.

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Speaker 1: Some people in my profession live tweet during games to

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Speaker 1: try to prove to you there watching. They're not adding

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Speaker 1: any like thing super interesting or nuance or whatever. It's

947
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Speaker 1: just like, wow, what a play just to be like, hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm watching you see this a lot with guys you

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Speaker 1: know in the like late night NBA games. It's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I stayed up to do this. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm not acting like I never did that. So

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Speaker 1: I when the TV show first started, especially when like

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Speaker 1: you know, TV show was on in the morning, I

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Speaker 1: would sometimes intentionally just send a totally banaal tweet, like

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Speaker 1: with two minutes left in a one am Lakers game,

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Speaker 1: just be like, man, I'm watching this, then I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be up. I don't feel an obligation to do that

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Speaker 1: anymore because I feel like I I've established myself as someone

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Speaker 1: who watches the games, so the I don't think I

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Speaker 1: feel like I have to prove it to everyone. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying everyone does that, but some people are

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Speaker 1: definitely doing that. And here's the other thing, because I

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Speaker 1: did you know, I made it clear I don't read

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Speaker 1: my mentions, but I do occasionally when I open Twitter

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Speaker 1: click that tab and just you know, see it for

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Speaker 1: a second, and there was a lot of folks. Oh,

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Speaker 1: after I tweeted out the link to yesterday's emergency pot,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people like, oh, this guy was hiding

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Speaker 1: all weekend because the Lakers lost and the Warriors won

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Speaker 1: and blah blah blah ah this stuff. I'm now gonna

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Speaker 1: say something really obnoxious. I understand why for folks fan

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Speaker 1: adjacent people who might have, like you know, a team

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Speaker 1: oriented spaces that they do on Twitter or a very

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Speaker 1: very lightly listen to them and their friends podcast, but

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Speaker 1: have a legitimate social media following view media through the

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Speaker 1: prism of if you're not giving your take on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: you didn't give your take. I happen to have enough

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Speaker 1: real platforms that I can say nothing on Twitter and

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Speaker 1: the whole world gets to hear what I had to

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Speaker 1: say anyway. So I don't feel an obligation to be like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, Laker's in trouble in one hundred and forty characters,

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01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 1: what a shot by Steph, because I'll do that on

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Speaker 1: the YouTube show, the podcast, the TV show, or something else.

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Speaker 1: So I there's there's very little running that can be

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Speaker 1: done when you're on national television every single day. You

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Speaker 1: just might have to wait for the actual show to

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Speaker 1: get my takes on things. And with that, we'll wrap

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Speaker 1: today's show. See you guys all with Colin in about

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Speaker 1: ninety minutes. Again, I'm not gonna tweet about that appearance.

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Speaker 1: It's still gonna happen. And then I'll see you on

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Speaker 1: the TV show in a few hours. Great job demands,

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Speaker 1: talk to everybody soon, See you guys. Thanks to Blue Duck,

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Speaker 1: thanks to Volume, Thanks DraftKings. We'll train