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Speaker 1: Last night, after the final buzzer, I went live with

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Speaker 1: So I've really appreciated in this NBA Finals series having

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Speaker 1: the advantage of pushing the ball in transition now in order.

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Speaker 1: Like we talked about earlier, I talked the whole beginning

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Speaker 1: of the show. We talked about Golden States perimeter defense,

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Speaker 1: the way they contained dribble penetration, in the way that

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Speaker 1: forced turnovers and through Boston's offense out of whack. In

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Speaker 1: order to score and transition, you absolutely must get a

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Speaker 1: lot of stops and force a lot of turnovers. And

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Speaker 1: that's what Golden State did last night. That was a

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Speaker 1: huge advantage to them, unlocking the offensive bursts that they had.

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Speaker 1: The other vitally important element to Golden State's offense that

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Speaker 1: finally went their way there in that second half last

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Speaker 1: night was they got some secondary creation. Jordan Poole finally

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Speaker 1: got going. For those of you guys who follow me

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, I was talking about during the first half

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Speaker 1: that through three halves, Boston looked like the slightly better team,

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Speaker 1: and a huge part of that was the fact that

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Speaker 1: if you were ranking offensive players in this series through

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Speaker 1: three halves, you would have ranked Steph one, and you

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Speaker 1: probably would have named three or four Celtics before you

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Speaker 1: got to another Warrior because you were you weren't getting

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Speaker 1: anything from Jordan Pool and you weren't getting anything from

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Speaker 1: Clay Thompson. That initial that initial advantage creation, like I

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Speaker 1: talked about for Boston, the job that Jason Tatum has

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Speaker 1: to get into the paint, or if they can't get

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Speaker 1: it from Jalen Brown having to do the Al Horford

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Speaker 1: post ups or more Derek White drives. That's all about

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Speaker 1: creating that initial advantage. And you can't just get it

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Speaker 1: from one guy. It's just too much to ask, right,

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Speaker 1: And so it was gonna be vitally important for Golden

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Speaker 1: State to take control of the series to have one

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Speaker 1: of those guys, either Clay Thompson or Jordan Pool or

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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins get going offensively. Now, I don't think Andrew

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Speaker 1: Wiggins is going to get going offensive to too much

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Speaker 1: of an extent here in terms of it. As an initiator,

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Speaker 1: he'll score attacking closeouts and knocking down threes as part

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Speaker 1: of Golden State system. But against this really good Boston defense,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can just throw Wiggins the ball.

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Speaker 1: Same thing goes for Clay, Like Clay has taken all

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Speaker 1: the same crazy wild Clay shots that he always takes,

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Speaker 1: but he's not getting open shots. I don't see a

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Speaker 1: version of this series where Clay consistently gets going because

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Speaker 1: his shot quality isn't good enough. It's kind of goes

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Speaker 1: back to that process results thing we were talking about. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the results aren't good, but the problem, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: not a process issue. It's just a limitation at this

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Speaker 1: phase of his career, and against this great of a

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Speaker 1: Boston defense, he's struggling to create looks. So it turns

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Speaker 1: out it's got to be Jordan Poole, and it was

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Speaker 1: I talked about in my series preview. There was a

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Speaker 1: game this year with Jordan Pool scored twenty nine points

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Speaker 1: against Boston. It was a blowout but he showed the

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Speaker 1: ability to score against that Boston defense, and so coming

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Speaker 1: in to this series, I figured Jordan Pool would have

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Speaker 1: to be this guy. And I know there's defensive limitations

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Speaker 1: there and they're gonna have to figure out ways to

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Speaker 1: do that. Like I I think the easy way is

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Speaker 1: playing alongside uh Draymond Green and Kevan Luney. That's where

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Speaker 1: they have enough interior size and physicality to compensate for

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Speaker 1: a lack of perimeter size and physicality. So maybe that's

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Speaker 1: what they have to do. But the more Jordan Pool,

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Speaker 1: the better, because getting Jordan Pool going is what allows

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Speaker 1: them to have that second initial creation so that they

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Speaker 1: can keep their Golden State basketball working, which is always

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Speaker 1: very similar to Boston. It starts with Steph or Jordan

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Speaker 1: Pool dragging multiple defenders and then the rest of the

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Speaker 1: guys playing Warriors basketball in the back end. So it's

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Speaker 1: good to see Pool get going last night. He's going

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Speaker 1: to have to be consistently good in this series for

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Speaker 1: Golden State to win, which I think absolutely is possible.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, the Clay thing, the Wiggans thing, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna get from them, but Pool

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Speaker 1: is absolutely up to the challenge and they need him

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Speaker 1: to be great in order to win it. One last

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Speaker 1: night on gold One last note on Golden State. On offense,

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry, who has been wrongfully maligned as a bad

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Speaker 1: playoff player by nefarious characters in the basketball community, is

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Speaker 1: on his way to an absolutely amazing NBA Finals right now.

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Speaker 1: Through two games, he's averaging thirty two six and five

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Speaker 1: on six tru shooting, and he's plus fifteen overall. He's

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Speaker 1: been the best player in this series by mile. And

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Speaker 1: it's only been two games and there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: basketball left to be played. But Steph has been better

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Speaker 1: against this Boston defense than either of Jimmy Butler or

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Speaker 1: Janice or KD. And again, like obviously they're different teams

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Speaker 1: than Dynamics are different. They were able to load up

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Speaker 1: on Janice in a way that they can't with Steph.

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Speaker 1: But my point is is Steph is playing fantastic basketball

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Speaker 1: and the scoring efficiently as wild some of its scheming.

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Speaker 1: Boston continue used to drop the two massive threes that

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Speaker 1: Step hitting the third quarter that kind of ice the game,

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Speaker 1: one in the middle of the floor and one on

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Speaker 1: the right wing that was deep. Both were against drop coverage,

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Speaker 1: So some of it is him capitalizing on Boston's coverage,

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Speaker 1: but that's to his credit, and he's been an absolute

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Speaker 1: monster in this series. He if they win, he's absolutely

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Speaker 1: gonna be Finals MVP, and he's absolutely gonna deserve it.

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Speaker 1: And I hope eventually everyone erases whatever it is their

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Speaker 1: weirdo misconceptions about who step is as a playoff performer,

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Speaker 1: because the dude just continues to be incredibly dominant at

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Speaker 1: this level, always has been incredibly dominant at this level,

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Speaker 1: and I just I just don't understand why he doesn't

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Speaker 1: get that credit. So instammation before we get out of

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Speaker 1: here today, a couple of quick rundown of adjustments. So

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Speaker 1: for Boston, they have to clean up their offensive process.

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Speaker 1: That was their biggest mistake in Game two. They have

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Speaker 1: to continue to generate rim rim pressure, or draw double

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Speaker 1: teams from Al Horford post ups, whatever it is they

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Speaker 1: have to do. They got to get that first compromising

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Speaker 1: of the defense that gets them to collapse so that

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Speaker 1: they can get their driving kick aim going. Secondly, get

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Speaker 1: back in transition. Stop flopping, stop complaining at the officials,

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Speaker 1: stop jogging, get back. You're too athletic of a team

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Speaker 1: to be this bad in transition defense, that's something they

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Speaker 1: have to rectify in Golden State is going to actively

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Speaker 1: hunt those opportunities. Take care of the basketball. Live ball

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Speaker 1: turnovers are another easy way to get gold State going

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Speaker 1: in transition. That's just decision making. I thought a huge

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Speaker 1: part of that was the physicality. When Golden State came

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Speaker 1: with the physicality, Boston wilted. They didn't fight through it.

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Speaker 1: They didn't take care of the basketball. They turn it

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Speaker 1: over away too much and it killed them. Post up

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Speaker 1: Al Horford more, if they're going to put Draymond Green

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Speaker 1: on Jalen Brown and put Clay Thompson on Al Horford,

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Speaker 1: you have to punish them for doing that. And if

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Speaker 1: you do so, they will force Draymond back into that

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Speaker 1: matchup with with Horford, which will allow Jalen Brown to

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Speaker 1: have a better matchup. That is the the easy counter there.

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Speaker 1: They have to take advantage of that. Also, put Brown

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Speaker 1: on the second side. Don't let him try to drive

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Speaker 1: by Draymond. He's not going to be able to Draymond

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Speaker 1: too good of a defense player in this series is

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Speaker 1: too physical. But if you put Tatum or whoever, or

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Speaker 1: Horford or whatever it is you're gonna do to create

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Speaker 1: that initial advantage. Have that on the first side. Get

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Speaker 1: Draymond to come over to help. Now you're kicking to

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, he has an opportunity to attack a close out.

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Speaker 1: That's when his athleticism is gonna be most useful. With

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Speaker 1: the way the matchups are playing out at this point,

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Speaker 1: at least until you can get Draymond off of Jalen Brown.

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Speaker 1: For Golden State, so far Kevon Looney and Draymond Green

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Speaker 1: in twenty nine minutes, the series are plus nineteen and

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Speaker 1: there negative outside of those minutes, so that's clearly been

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Speaker 1: your best opportunity. We talked a lot about Boston's perimeter size.

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Speaker 1: The best way for Golden State to fight Boston's perimeter

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Speaker 1: sizes to play big. Obviously, it hurts them on the

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Speaker 1: offensive end, but there's so much better defensively there that

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Speaker 1: it's actually working out as a net positive for them. Again,

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Speaker 1: plus nineteen and twenty nine minutes, I think it's like

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Speaker 1: a plus thirty net rating per one hunter possessions, which

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Speaker 1: is amazing. That's also a great group that you can

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Speaker 1: pair with Jordan Poole, who you desperately need for offense.

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Speaker 1: And allow yourself to make up for some of his

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Speaker 1: offensive shortcomings. The other thing too, if they start posting

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Speaker 1: Horford on Clay, just put Clay onto the Clay onto

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Speaker 1: Rob Williams. Rob Williams is not a post player. You

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Speaker 1: can have the same impact there. Let Looney bang with

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Speaker 1: Horford and take away those post ups. Now they're really

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Speaker 1: in a bind because how do you put Now You're

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Speaker 1: asking Rob Williams basically to punish Clay as an offensive rebounder,

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Speaker 1: which he hasn't done much of an uh to this point.

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Speaker 1: And then, last, but not least, continue to bring the physicality.

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Speaker 1: If you allow Boston to be the more physical team,

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Speaker 1: you will lose the series because they are the bigger,

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Speaker 1: stronger team. But if, like in the second half of

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Speaker 1: Game two, if you win the physicality battle, you're also

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Speaker 1: the more skilled team. And if the more skilled team

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Speaker 1: also wins the physicality battle, they will dominate the series.

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Speaker 1: So keep bringing that physicality and you'll continue to have

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Speaker 1: that advantage. All right, That is all I have for today.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the plan is for Game three yet,

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Speaker 1: but I'll let you guys know as soon as I know.

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Speaker 1: No matter what, we will have something right after the

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Speaker 1: final buzzer of A three on Wednesday night. As always,

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Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate you guys supporting me, supporting the network,

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Speaker 1: and supporting the show. And I'll see you guys in

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Speaker 1: a couple of days. The volume