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Speaker 1: Straight fire? Fam? It's made Jason McIntyre straight fire for Friday,

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Speaker 1: June three, and I think there's gonna be some fire

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Speaker 1: in his voice this morning as I am fired up

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Speaker 1: about the NBA Finals, A little bit piste off? Can

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Speaker 1: I say that to start the pod? A little bit

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Speaker 1: fired up that the Warriors suffered an epic fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: choke chop Okay, there's no way that you can describe

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Speaker 1: Game one other than choke. Okay, You're up fifteen late

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Speaker 1: up a forty to sixteen fourth quarter. The Celtics had

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Speaker 1: a thirty nine to sixteen run on the road in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter when the Warriors are supposed to dominate.

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Speaker 1: I haven't even got my hello out of the way.

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Speaker 1: I haven't even got like, how are you guys? I

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Speaker 1: hope you got a good weekend plan, none of that,

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Speaker 1: because I know the winner of the game one of

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Speaker 1: the Finals historically has won the title seventy one percent

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Speaker 1: of the time. I'm worried about the Warriors after Game one.

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Speaker 1: I still think they're gonna win the series. Curry, will

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Speaker 1: we find will do thirty minutes on Curry shortly? Just wait,

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Speaker 1: I do need to say the Warriors sure as hell

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Speaker 1: could have used Kevin Durant defensively in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: They sure coulde of could they not have? They went

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Speaker 1: small and they got slaughtered. And I know that we

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Speaker 1: play the blame game right Big Game one of NBA Finals.

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Speaker 1: We love to who you blaming? And a lot of

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Speaker 1: these meatballs on social media coming after be worse. Jeph

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Speaker 1: Curry and the fourth Jake? Where was he? What? What happened?

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Speaker 1: Final six minutes? Zero points? What happened? Said? Got quiet

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Speaker 1: final six minutes at thirty four seven threes. He he

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Speaker 1: did his part. He got him there. No one man

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Speaker 1: can bring anyone across the finish line. You guys know this.

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Speaker 1: Jordan won nothing without Scottie Pippen. Even Lebron had Kyrie

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Speaker 1: public enemy number one on this podcast. Kyrie irving forty

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Speaker 1: points in game six, hits the game winner games. So

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Speaker 1: everybody needs help. Where was Draymond Green? I don't want

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Speaker 1: to hear about this Curry vanishing act in the fourth quarter? Nonsense?

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Speaker 1: not an offensive guy. Hey, so for twelve are you

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Speaker 1: kidding me? Two for twelve? A lot of those are

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Speaker 1: a funny tweet that Draymond Green's uh like he had

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Speaker 1: like a late three pointer that just totally bricked. It

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like thud Saturday awful. Where was

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Speaker 1: I've talked about the inconsistencies six for fourteen shooting, and

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Speaker 1: seen the official numbers yet, but what on earth are

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Speaker 1: you doing playing zone against the Boston Celtics? And yes,

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Speaker 1: I had seen the numbers the Celtics at times this

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Speaker 1: But Kerr, at what point do you realize, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: this is one of those games where they're gonna make

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Speaker 1: a million threes? Do you do it after the tenth

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Speaker 1: by Derek freaking White and Al Horford. And at this

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Speaker 1: maligned head coach of the Boston Celtics, is now in

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Speaker 1: the front office. What do Brad Stevens do in the

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Speaker 1: front office. He made moves to bring on Al Horford,

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Speaker 1: the extra days off. Again, thirty five year old Al

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Speaker 1: Horford will not have another game. You could take this

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Speaker 1: guys know that that fourth quarter run they want on

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter inexplicable. Warriors had not lost a playoff game

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Speaker 1: just remind you guys, Golden State led by fifteen and

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Speaker 1: the third I'm not gonna I'm no cap my favorite

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Speaker 1: And then slowly but surely, Kurs started with Curry on

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Speaker 1: six minutes, and basically my timeline on social media is

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Speaker 1: It's coming out of your rear end. That's what my

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter? Undeniable. He didn't do much in the

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Speaker 1: final six minutes, but this wasn't lost at the offensive end.

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Speaker 1: The Celtics here their score by quarters forty. Otto Porter

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Speaker 1: matador ole bullshit defense. So when your top two guys

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Speaker 1: on the GM of a really stacked dad basketball team.

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Speaker 1: Kevon Looney needed to be on the court more than

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Speaker 1: twenty five minutes. He got six offensive boards, which is

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Speaker 1: almost as many as Boston had combined. Looney just basically

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Speaker 1: definitely not over. These we're talking about the Golden State Warriors,

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Speaker 1: talking about Stephen Curry. They're gonna be fine. Now. I

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Speaker 1: Rob Boston didn't really give them any problems. We're just

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Speaker 1: talking about the Celtics hitting their first seven three pointers

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Speaker 1: to start the fourth quarter. That is where the game

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Speaker 1: was lost. Fourth quarter. Wriors sputtering even for a second.

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Speaker 1: I mean they scored a hundred day points. It did

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Speaker 1: sputter offensively in the fourth, but it doesn't matter if

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Speaker 1: you're just playing average defense. These are the three pointers

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Speaker 1: to start the fourth j Len Brown three, Jalen Mound three,

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Speaker 1: against the zone. Steve Kerr need some more minutes for Looney.

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Speaker 1: I would I wouldn't mind seeing what coominga can do

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Speaker 1: because it was clear the Celtics could not play Robert

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Speaker 1: With Horford, they just they would get wide open threes

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Speaker 1: I like Couminga's chances for for stealing five to seven

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Speaker 1: leaving Derek White open because he's historically not a great shooter,

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Speaker 1: And so if you're the Golden State Warriors, I understand

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Speaker 1: they put him in action, Rob. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: like a year point. I don't think that they scored

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Speaker 1: And guess who was on Tatum a lot? Kevon Looney?

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Speaker 1: am a big Jayson Tatum fan. I do not at

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Speaker 1: all like the Boston Celtics. He's a twenty four year

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Speaker 1: Do you guys want to go and look up the

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Speaker 1: This is the guy who was targeted by the worst

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Speaker 1: They had to focus on him. Now, Jalen Brown rob

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Speaker 1: the early fourth quarter. Seven straight three pointers like that

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Speaker 1: It's not like they were, you know, just making these

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Well, Derrick White hit a couple of absolute

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Speaker 1: But I want you to get to your Curry bashing

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Speaker 1: because I'm ready. I'm ready for all this. Yes, Fox

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Speaker 1: generous towards Stephen. He said, well, he didn't play well

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Speaker 1: It wasn't just the last six minutes. Steph Curry. In

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Speaker 1: the first quarter when Twitter was he was trending, it was,

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry upset. Nobody had ever made seven threes and

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Speaker 1: The guy had thirty four, five and five, and you

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Speaker 1: not what what would you Five of fifteen and five

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Speaker 1: didn't dominate like he did the first. It's forty eight

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Speaker 1: it as Curry had twenty one in the first, finished

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Speaker 1: Boston went crazy in the fourth. That is what history

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna kill him for that. I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to kill him like that. That's not

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Speaker 1: I think he was their best player easily, probably their

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Speaker 1: first and second best player last night. I think he

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Speaker 1: had a good game. I think he was in edible

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Speaker 1: in the first quarter. But when you're Steph Curry and

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Speaker 1: people are saying Kendrick Perkins, he's he's better than Magic

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Speaker 1: Johnson if he gets this ring, you know, if you're if,

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Speaker 1: you're saying, well as if as soon as he wins

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Speaker 1: this one, this this seals it that he's a better

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Speaker 1: player than Kevin Durant. This seals it that he's a

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Speaker 1: top ten player of all time. He's being judged on

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Speaker 1: a different criteria. Now, this is not no longer. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry's the plucky kid out of Davidson with the

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Speaker 1: shooting stroke. Like Steph Curry needs to be held to

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Speaker 1: the same standard that Lebron James is held to when

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Speaker 1: he gets to these kind of games, that Kevin Durant

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Speaker 1: is held to in these kind of games. This is

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Speaker 1: where he should be living from now on. And for

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, like I said, I don't understand why it is.

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Speaker 1: But Steph Curry and I think Kawhi Leondard is probably

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Speaker 1: the other guy, are two players who are superstars that

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Speaker 1: don't get hell to that same level of scrutiny because

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Speaker 1: this is not the first time and he's had a

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Speaker 1: clunker in the playoffs. I mean, when you play five,

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Speaker 1: Sorry I misspoken, thought the first time he's had a

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Speaker 1: poor three quarters or a poor half in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: He's played a hundred and forty games like that. It's

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Speaker 1: going to happen, all right. I mean, he was five

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Speaker 1: of seventeen in in Game five against Dallas. He was

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Speaker 1: a four of ten in Game five against the Grizzlies.

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Speaker 1: Like this happens. It's not unusual. But because people love

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry, because he's everybody's favorite player, because as Colin Cowherd,

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Speaker 1: he's the puppy of the NBA that everybody likes, the

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Speaker 1: pet and fonds over. They like refuse to point out

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Speaker 1: when he doesn't have a great game, when he plays poorly,

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Speaker 1: when he's hunted defensively, like he wasn't like an half,

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Speaker 1: And if you pointed out, suddenly you're a hater. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's fair. So what what do you

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Speaker 1: say about Jayson Tatum? They win, he goes three for seventeen.

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Speaker 1: All I'm hearing from people because you know, I've been

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Speaker 1: popping my un speed of video, which has something I

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Speaker 1: don't hundred thousand views or whatever it has that Jason

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Speaker 1: Tatum is the best one on one player since Kobe,

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Speaker 1: and all these people want to just say, oh, Tatum

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Speaker 1: so inconsistent, he could never It's so bad in this

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Speaker 1: one game and this other game. He's not even first

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Speaker 1: team All NBA because he goes three game one Like.

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Speaker 1: It's just so easy to get embattled with these clowns

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Speaker 1: who just want to judge people on one game, one quarter.

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Speaker 1: And I know Curry's held to a higher standard. Where

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Speaker 1: was he in the fourth Well, he was not stopping

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Speaker 1: the Celtics reigning threes. Was he answering at the other

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Speaker 1: end for the final six minutes? He was not. They

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Speaker 1: were clearly shook. I still need to go watch the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter on YouTube, and I'll probably do that right

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Speaker 1: after this podcast goes up, just so I can answer

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Speaker 1: your questions. I don't know what happened defensively. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they got all gassed up because they were

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Speaker 1: up fifteen, and they had their third quarter run and

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Speaker 1: Tatum was doing nothing, and it's like, oh well, here

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Speaker 1: goes out Horford for three and Peyton Pritchard and Derek

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Speaker 1: and White. Um, I don't know, It's it's a crazy one, Rob.

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Speaker 1: It's only one game. People are gonna have now two

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Speaker 1: days to just freak the hell out about it. I

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Speaker 1: still like the Warriors are you do you now think

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Speaker 1: the Celtics will in the series. Um, it's just one game.

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Speaker 1: I mean I thought it was gonna be a long

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Speaker 1: series anyways. I had the Warriors in seven to begin with. Um,

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Speaker 1: but we saw last night everything that you and I

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Speaker 1: spoke about leading up to the finals, that like, the

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Speaker 1: Celtics are no joke, that they are legitimate as much

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Speaker 1: as they had some breaks go their way. They can

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Speaker 1: defend at a high level, which they did pretty much

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Speaker 1: in the second half, and they have guys who can

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Speaker 1: score in different ways. And I don't think it was

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Speaker 1: expecting Jayson Tatum to play that poorly again offensively, So

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a long series. I'll wrap

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Speaker 1: up with this. So again I'm looking at the score.

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Speaker 1: It's a hundred and three to a hundred after Curry

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Speaker 1: mix a floater in the lane. I'm sorry, well, let's

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Speaker 1: back up. So it's nine, Warriors are winning. Seven minutes left.

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Speaker 1: Peyton Pritchard makes a corner, three, Curry answers with a

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Speaker 1: step back jumper over Robert Williams. It was just beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Warriors up four. Derek White hits the three and at

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Speaker 1: this point you're like, oh my gosh, these guys aren't

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Speaker 1: freaking missing. Curry answers with a float in the lane.

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Speaker 1: Then Derrek White hits another one, which it was just like,

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Speaker 1: are you kidding me? And at that point, you know,

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Speaker 1: Curs not taking all these time outs. He's just letting

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Speaker 1: Boston stay hot. His last time I was at nine.

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Speaker 1: So Boston just stays hot, right, Derek White three to

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Speaker 1: tie it, and then Al Horford three for the lead. Finally,

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Speaker 1: after four minutes and five straight threes, kur finally takes

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Speaker 1: the time out, but the damage was done. After the

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Speaker 1: time out, Draymond Green Rob's favor guy turnover. And I know,

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Speaker 1: you guys, like the hardcore basketball guys know the smart

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Speaker 1: coaches call a time out, they draw up a play

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Speaker 1: to get a bucket, and they go in and it's

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Speaker 1: called an a t oh after the time out, go

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Speaker 1: in and you install like your money play the words

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Speaker 1: that two of those resulting in turnovers. Draymond turns it

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Speaker 1: over the other end, Al over three and you're like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is gonna happen. One, one oh

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Speaker 1: three Draymond. Then he throws his brick off the backboard

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Speaker 1: that almost broke it. They come down and, um, what

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Speaker 1: do you know? Al Horford scores again, and at this

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Speaker 1: point it's like three minutes left, up by nine, what

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Speaker 1: the hell? And Marcus smartist the three and its game

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Speaker 1: over and it was just one of you know what,

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Speaker 1: It felt like rob a Warrior's flurry turned on the

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Speaker 1: Warriors by the Celtics. I think that's fair. It definitely

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Speaker 1: had that kind of vibe to it. Um. The difference was,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that when the Warriors have their flurries,

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Speaker 1: it's because Steph and Clay used to be Stephan Glad.

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Speaker 1: Now it's mostly just Steph are making these incredible three

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Speaker 1: pointers from thirty five ft away and the guys in

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Speaker 1: their face and it's balls whipping around. In this case,

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Speaker 1: I just thought Boston got wide open shots and they

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Speaker 1: were hitting them and it's that was difference the game.

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Speaker 1: I should add Tatum at thirteen assists. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Boston had thirty three assists on forty three baskets. That

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Speaker 1: is a great passing job by their team. Grant Williams

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Speaker 1: three assists, Derek White three assists, Jalen Brown five, it's

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Speaker 1: mark a Smart four. I mean, it was just it

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Speaker 1: was Raining three and then we're all off great passes.

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Speaker 1: You can't play zone against the team. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to hear this. Look at the numbers from the regular season.

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Speaker 1: F the regular season, I don't care what the hell

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Speaker 1: they did against the Sacramento King Zone and the Indiana

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00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: Pacers through a junk zone. I don't care to irrelevant.

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Speaker 1: I wonder what they do against good teams, and I

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Speaker 1: don't even want to hear about regular season numbers. Man up,

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Speaker 1: I think you've got to put Wiggins on Brown. I

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00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: think that has to be the matchup. It's not ideal,

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Speaker 1: but that's what you gotta do. And I think you're

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Speaker 1: gonna need some cominga physical minutes on Jalen Brown. I

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Speaker 1: know this just sounded crazy, like Jalen Brown's a threat,

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Speaker 1: but at some point he's gonna have a forty point

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Speaker 1: game in the series, and you better be up to

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Speaker 1: one in the series when he goes for forty because

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Speaker 1: Tatum is lurking. I will never forget Jayson Tatum Game six,

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Speaker 1: season on the line in Milwaukee, he dropped forty six Warriors.

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Speaker 1: Better they gotta win game two. Obviously, it's clearly um anyways,

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Speaker 1: rob any final thoughts, um Oh, should we add about

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Speaker 1: the Portland Trailblazers are getting sold maybe and that the

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Speaker 1: sale price was over two billion dollars? Yeah, I heard.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is traffic to look it

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Speaker 1: up again, but I heard that that they have already

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Speaker 1: kind of shot that down. But that might be a

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Speaker 1: negotiation tactic, that that they're just trying to Paul Allen.

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Speaker 1: Paul Allen died and his um his estate is controlling,

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Speaker 1: but the state is. Yeah, and it's like somebody's like, well,

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Speaker 1: you can't really go own an NBA teams, but these

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Speaker 1: guys could be for sale. I think the first order

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Speaker 1: of business if you're a bargain basement hunter, I mean,

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Speaker 1: two billion dollars is not bargain basement obviously, um, is

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Speaker 1: you trade Damian Lillard and you can reboot real quick,

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Speaker 1: you're what I'm working for is of Phil Knight, because

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Speaker 1: he's the guy who's want to make any offer. Is

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Speaker 1: Phil Knight from Nike. I don't know if you know this, Ja,

585
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: but Dame Dolla is an Adidas guy. So you know

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Speaker 1: what that means. They gotta trade them. They can't can't

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Speaker 1: have the owner of Nike and their best players in

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Speaker 1: the Adidas guy. I think, you know, maybe trade him

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Speaker 1: to the Lakers. Maybe take maybe take Russell Westbrook in

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Speaker 1: a couple of first round picks. He's a Nike guy.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how many delusional Portland fans or I

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Speaker 1: don't even I didn't even realize this. Somehow I got

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Speaker 1: caught up in some Portland Trailblazers forum or something. Maybe

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Speaker 1: some blog lit me up, and I got all these

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Speaker 1: jabronies sending me pictures of Lebron in a Portland jersey

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Speaker 1: next to Dame in a Portland jersey like it's happening,

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, wait a minute, what now Lebron is

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Speaker 1: getting traded to Portland? Blazer fans like think this Rob,

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00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: there there's photo photoshopped images of Lebron and a Portland

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Speaker 1: Trailblazer jersey I mean, could you do you want to

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Speaker 1: name like fifty million more unlikely things than Lebron wearing

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Speaker 1: a Portland jersey this year? I mean, listen, if Portland

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Speaker 1: drafts Brawny in a couple of years, sure, maybe then,

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Speaker 1: but Lebron starting next season in Portland. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, Rob, I mean you could come up with

606
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: a billion funny things that could happen more likely than that,

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00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: like you winning the lottery. I don't know, me winning

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Speaker 1: anything like Lebron. Guys, you know, dame to the Lakers

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Speaker 1: more likely than Lebron to Portland's right? Uh yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that's pretty safe to say. But I think we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to do uh you know, hashtag future Laker

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00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: is a thing. Maybe we need to start a cast

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Speaker 1: tag future Blazer made me. According to the people in Portland,

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Speaker 1: that's a real thing. Yeah. Hey. Also final note, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Draymond Green, how about shutting the hell up and stop

616
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: giving other teams demo? Did you see what Al Horford

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00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: scored late on an and one? He went to the

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00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: Celtics pension flexed the exact same thing the Draymond does

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Speaker 1: every single time he scores, which is, you know, once

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Speaker 1: every fourteen shots. Alright, guys, have a great weekend. Um. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be hammering the Warriors in game two. I

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Speaker 1: will have our third rectleag game. I know you guys

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Speaker 1: don't really care, but no word yet if we've been

624
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: bumped up to the top league and it looks like

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00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna have four guys out this weekend, so we

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00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: are on upset alert. This point spread is in the

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Speaker 1: single digits. Uh, and I know like eight of you care,

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Speaker 1: but your P one listeners, that's all the matters. All right,

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you Monday.