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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What's up, everybody,

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Speaker 1: It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight fire for Monday, March feet.

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Speaker 1: We are here officially. March Madness begins in I don't know,

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Speaker 1: like ten days or something. Um, but we made it

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Speaker 1: through the first two months of hope. Everybody had a

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Speaker 1: splendid weekend. Um. Mine was mostly sports free, UM, with

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Speaker 1: and hit the beach on Sunday. Nice little respite after

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Speaker 1: what was a busy week. It was a fun week. UM.

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Speaker 1: And I was telling rob G, I am probably to

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Speaker 1: my guy, Deshaun Watson being in Miami. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are upset that I put that tweet

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Speaker 1: that's par for the course. Watson was at the Canelo

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Speaker 1: for three rounds of work. Um, Watson was there. Miami

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Speaker 1: Dolphins are putting the full court press on everything I'm hearing,

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Speaker 1: as Dolphins are the lead right now. But I think

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Speaker 1: take a victory lap, just totally saying Steph Curry belongs

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Speaker 1: The Lakers win by I think they won by seventy

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Speaker 1: leads Boston to an incredible comeback. I'm telling you, guys,

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Speaker 1: talking about it. They've now won two in a row

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Speaker 1: fee after the All Star Break, market smarts back just

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Speaker 1: by Boston Low. But the biggest story in the NBA Sunday,

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Speaker 1: talked about it on Undisputed. There are no bigger clutch

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Speaker 1: and the Bucks go on a nine nothing run, dunking

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Speaker 1: gonna just say f Luke Kennard, Luke Canard making the difference, guys. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Lou Williams has been reduced to hey man, you can

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Speaker 1: Real nice performance, Paul George, Like this is your chance

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Speaker 1: dance folks. It's the same show the Clippers. There's just

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Speaker 1: And Rob, I'll say one of the biggest notes I

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Speaker 1: And what makes it worse, and we've talked about this before,

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Speaker 1: so they don't go to the rim. NBA rankings free

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Speaker 1: How the hell is a jump shooting team like the

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Speaker 1: what can they do? Rob? I mean, all they've got.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they would have beat the Lakers anyways,

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Speaker 1: certain teams. So I don't know what you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: Paul George in the off season even though they just

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Speaker 1: so they they've married themselves to Kawhi Leonard. They have

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Speaker 1: looking at the salary, Paul Uh, Sorry, Kaui. Leonard's gonna

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Speaker 1: Kauai leaving the Clippers. I mean, that's a smart move.

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Speaker 1: it is right now is what you'd see. I think

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Speaker 1: Clippers Blazers feel like the matchup, and the Blazers, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I remember last year they were the best eight seed

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Speaker 1: in NBA history. That's what we were told coming into

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and then the Lakers just smacked them. But

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Speaker 1: you know, Dame Lillard is not to be messed with.

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Speaker 1: So assuming that CJ. McCollum eventually comes back, how the

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with nur Kit. But

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Speaker 1: if you get a healthy Portland's team against the Clippers,

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Speaker 1: I like Portland, Yes, I would. I would give Portland

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Speaker 1: a HALLI a chance in that one. Portland's wing defense

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Speaker 1: still a little questionable. Um you can't put mellow on

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Speaker 1: Paul George or Kauai and expect to have a chance.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, Dave Lillard is gonna just

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Speaker 1: take Patrick beverlege of school like it's gonna be ugly.

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Speaker 1: I will note this. The Sons of one, five of six,

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Speaker 1: there are only a half game back of the Clippers,

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Speaker 1: And if Kauai does his whole, I need to load

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Speaker 1: manage bs in the second half. Uh, Paul George and

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Speaker 1: Serge Ibaka, they ain't carrying these guys. I mean, there

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Speaker 1: is a legit chance the Clips fault to four, and

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Speaker 1: you know, frankly, I at this point you start wondering, like, huh,

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Speaker 1: Clippers fault to four. We know the Jazz don't match

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Speaker 1: up well with them because of the lack of wing defense.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's fortuitous for the Clippers to fault to four.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of basketball lift to be played. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's wrap up rob g quickly. In the

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Speaker 1: East over the weekend, I did see that Kyrie Irving

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Speaker 1: missed another game. Um. I you know, James Harden couldn't

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Speaker 1: get it done by himself. Um. But if you look

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Speaker 1: at the schedule and we talked briefly about this. I

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Speaker 1: think on Friday. The schedule is very favorable for the

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets in the second half, and they will get

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant back. At the same time, the sixer schedule

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Speaker 1: is brutal, rob g. They have seven back to backs

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Speaker 1: in the second half of the season. We know Embiid

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Speaker 1: usually doesn't play back to backs. Um. I know he's

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Speaker 1: kind of chased in the m v P. But if

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Speaker 1: the Bucks who finally got drew holiday back from COVID,

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Speaker 1: he's it's gonna take him some time. Um, I can

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Speaker 1: you know? I think the Nets are by far still

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Speaker 1: the class of the East. I don't think anybody can

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Speaker 1: touch him in the playoffs. The one team that I

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Speaker 1: think could give them major problems is the Boston Celtics.

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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to believe me. I said that are undisputed

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Speaker 1: and collectively, Buker and Broussard's heads exploded. Um, I mean, rob,

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Speaker 1: this is not rocket science. On the wing, Marcus Smart,

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Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum, they can match up with Katie

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Speaker 1: Harden and Kyrie. Now they're not better, but they're not

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Speaker 1: much far behind. And I'm sorry, but Matisse thybo uh,

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Speaker 1: Danny Green and Seth Curry, they have no chance. Um,

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks like de Vincenzo Man, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you watch that closely, like he couldn't stay with Lou Williams,

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Speaker 1: and I like Devincenzo a lot. Um. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that Trust Middleton is a defender on the wing. I

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Speaker 1: like Drew Holiday a lot, but he could only guard

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Speaker 1: one of the three. So I can totally totally see

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Speaker 1: if the matchups break right. Um, the Celtics squaring off

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Speaker 1: with the Nets and giving them fits. Rob I'm talking

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Speaker 1: like I can see that series going six or seven. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I one disagree with you. Well, I should preface this.

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Speaker 1: The Celtics absolutely have to be healthy, smart, Kimba has

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Speaker 1: to play every game, none of that crap. Even if

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Speaker 1: they're healthy, I do not see any scenario where Boston

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Speaker 1: keep up with Brooklyn. I think that Boston, you know,

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Speaker 1: you talked about the Clippers being you know, a ticking

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Speaker 1: time bomb, so to speak. I think that Boston is

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Speaker 1: then times ten. I think that that that roster has

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Speaker 1: tuned out Brad Stevens in a big way. I think

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Speaker 1: that m Danny Ainge, who is most likely the most

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Speaker 1: overrated front office exactly this side of what Sam PRESTI,

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Speaker 1: you know, and never do anything. But you know they

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Speaker 1: have two great players. I think Jalen Brown and are

496
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Speaker 1: really really good players. The rest of that roster is trash.

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Speaker 1: They they they Kimba Walker is a shell of himself

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Speaker 1: from what he used Stu relative to what his salary is,

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Speaker 1: he is not good. Um Marcus Smart. I think the

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Speaker 1: idea of Mark is Smart is a good player, but

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Speaker 1: the actual version of him kind of leaves you a

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00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: little bit wanting more. Just because he's a good defender.

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Speaker 1: Smart is the heart and soul of that he is.

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Speaker 1: He is they guard version of Draymond Green kind of thing. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't hate that. You know, he does a lot

506
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Speaker 1: of little things. But if you're counting on him to

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Speaker 1: be your third guy because you can't count on Kemba,

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Speaker 1: I think at this point anymore, Well, no, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry that you kept. The only way they compete is

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Speaker 1: if Kemba is healthy, And the problem is he hasn't

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Speaker 1: really been healthy under this assumption. If Kemba is healthy,

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Speaker 1: that's the scenario I'm talking about. Don't you remember what

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Speaker 1: happened to Kemba in the in the Bubble like he

514
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: was mercilessly picked on by the by the Heat they

515
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Speaker 1: who they just match up hunting him the entire series,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't have an answer for And so I

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Speaker 1: think that if they're gonna play a team like Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: you have to be locked in, you have to be

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Speaker 1: honest string defensively, because like you said, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: stop Katie Harden and Kyrie. You can just kind of

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Speaker 1: slow them down long enough to take advantage of their

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Speaker 1: of their deficiencies. And Boston does not have the roster

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Speaker 1: capable to take advantage of where Brooklyn is is hurting.

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Speaker 1: They don't have anybody who can pound them inside, like

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown is probably the guy most likely to get

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Speaker 1: to the rack at any time, because Jayson Tatum like

527
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: to shoot a lot of midrad shimpers. He's not really

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Speaker 1: looking to attack like like that. Kemba Walker is not

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Speaker 1: going to do it there. They don't have a front

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Speaker 1: court guy who's gonna punish you inside. So I don't

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Speaker 1: see Boston has any threat at all to Brooklyn. I

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Speaker 1: think Philly can be, especially if they get that Kyle

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Speaker 1: Lowry deal which was floated out late last week. I

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Speaker 1: think they can make a run at Brooklyn back my okay,

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Speaker 1: I my counter. Yes, of course Embid will eat against

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Speaker 1: the Nets inside. But if we like to compare the

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Speaker 1: Nets to that awesome Warriors team would Curry, k D

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Speaker 1: and Clay. The team that gave them the most problems

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Speaker 1: by far was the Houston Rockets, who didn't have a

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Speaker 1: big inside. What they did was they just matched them

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Speaker 1: on the perimeter. Gordon p J Tucker on k D, hardened,

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Speaker 1: Chris Paul. They could match up, switch on anything, and

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Speaker 1: you know they were able to offensively keep up with

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Speaker 1: the Warriors and they lost in seven. UM. I think

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Speaker 1: that's what Boston is at, completely full strength. UM. And

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Speaker 1: the sad thing is I just look at Kemba Walker stats. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this he's having the worst season of his career UM,

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Speaker 1: basically in every aspect outside of his rookie year. You know,

549
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: when he was a young kid out of Yukon. He's

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Speaker 1: shooting thirty eight percent from the field. I just said,

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker was at forty nine. Kemble Walkers at thirty

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00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: eight thirty five from three UM, he's getting to the

553
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: line the fewest in his career since his rookie year.

554
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: Three times a game. His sister down at four point two,

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00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: lowest of his career. So he's not playmaking, he's not

556
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: getting the line, he's not shooting. I would almost say

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Speaker 1: put him in bubble wrap and just wait for that

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn series because because with him Rob, though he's a

559
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: dynamite player, he's a crunch time guy. Um. He is

560
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,239
Speaker 1: only thirty. I guess the wear and tear um in

561
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: Charlotte when he kept playing like two games and carrying them,

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00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: uh took its toll. But I would like to see

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Speaker 1: him a healthy man. I just I think they're the

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Speaker 1: I think they're the best team at full strength after

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn and East. Well, I have a quick idea. I

566
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: know we got a rap, but I got an idea

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00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: for you. I've been marinating on this for a couple

568
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: of days, so it's not perfect, but just let me

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Speaker 1: know what you think. I've said. I've said before I

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Speaker 1: think the only team that can actually beat Brooklyn in

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Speaker 1: the series is the Lakers. So I still believe that.

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Speaker 1: But I do think that in the East, like I said,

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Speaker 1: that Philadelphia will be the team that could kind of

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Speaker 1: give them the most run for their money, Like you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: because of Joel Embiad and him getting forty a game

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00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: just because there's no answer for that. But whatever. But

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00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: my theory for for Brookes or excuse me, for Philadelphia

578
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: is you put Ben Simmons, who self proclaimed best defender

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Speaker 1: in the NBA, on James Harden, and you just erased

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00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: James Harden from that series, and that's not about and

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00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: you let Kevin Durant eat against Tobias Hair, or assume

582
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: you scheme up your defense against Kevin Durant. You say,

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00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,959
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to Tobias Hair. Is Danny Green shade

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00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: everything his direction and and do that and this, and

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00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: you do what Detroit did to Kobe back in the

586
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: finals in two thousand and four, where you say, Kyrie Irving,

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00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: this is your series. You go as balls to the

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00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: wall as you want to against us, and if you

589
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: beat us, then you beat us. But that's what we're

590
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: gonna do. And I feel like exactly, and I feel

591
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: like that Philadelphia has the personnel where they could run

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00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: that kind of defensive scheme against Brooklyn and just Derek

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Speaker 1: Kyrie to be the one that beat him, similar to

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Speaker 1: you how Detroit dared Kobe to beat them and he

595
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: shot them out of the series. I could see that

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00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: happening with Kyrie. Wow, that that I like that. I

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00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: think my only problem is Joel and Beat is on

598
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: the court and they are gonna put him in a

599
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: pick and roll blender. They're gonna say, Jeff Green, Um,

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00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: Joel and beats on you. I want you screening every

601
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: time for Kyrie or James Harden and then just attacking

602
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: him Beat in the pick and roll. I'm not saying

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00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: you can't defend it. He's a really good rim defender,

604
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: but you wear down and Beat and he's not as

605
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: effective as at the offensive end. It'll be interesting. But huh. So,

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Speaker 1: as of right now, my finals, I will I will

607
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: stick with, you know, the chalky Lakers and Nets. But again,

608
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: health is going to be an enormous factor. Boston, Brooklyn, Lakers, UM,

609
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: all of them severely impacted so far this season by health.

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00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: You could toss in Clippers given the Paul George stuff,

611
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: Portland obviously, UM, the Bucks with holiday and COVID. So

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00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: who are your finals as of right now March first,

613
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: same one they were when the season started. Lakers nets

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00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: that was before the James had nets, before the hard

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Speaker 1: just because he's the only guy trust in the Eastern

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Speaker 1: Conferences Cama Drant. Once I saw that he was reasonably healthy,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, he's the guy I trust. I don't

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Speaker 1: trust be honest. I don't trust uh Simmons, cinem Beat.

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Speaker 1: So I go with Katie. All right, that's it for Monday, March. First,

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Speaker 1: we have one really interesting guest ticketed for later this week,

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Speaker 1: and um a lot of fun stuff for tomorrow as well.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you then,