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Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Right somewhat emergency reaction

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Speaker 1: Episode two, Day one of the NBA Playoffs Saturday and Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I guess Day one and two, But game ones across

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Speaker 1: the board eight games three and a half interesting ones

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Speaker 1: is to my eye. Maybe you could say three and

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Speaker 1: three quarters interesting ones, depending on what you think of

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Speaker 1: Pacers Bucks. We're gonna start with Warriors Rockets. We will

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Speaker 1: then get to the Lakers getting absolutely unraveled by the Timberwolves,

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Speaker 1: and then probably the best game of the weekend Clippers Nuggets.

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Speaker 2: With a few minutes on the.

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Speaker 1: Four other games, most notably Nicks, Pistons, Warriors, Rockets. Watched

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Speaker 1: it live last night, rewatched the bulk of the second

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Speaker 1: half this morning, and there are some things that should

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Speaker 1: not surprise you at all. The Rockets defense being as

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Speaker 1: advertised all year. That's a good thing for them. The

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Speaker 1: Rockets offense being as you worried about once the playoffs

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Speaker 1: got going, that's a bad thing for them. Both of

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Speaker 1: those showed up. This is my pick in this series

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Speaker 1: was Rockets in seven. And I'm not going to lie

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Speaker 1: to the audience that that game didn't shake my faith

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Speaker 1: in the fact that the Rockets can go blow for

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Speaker 1: blow with the Warriors.

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Speaker 2: It did shake my faith a bit.

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Speaker 1: And if this team gets to a game seven, do

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Speaker 1: they have anyone that is going to be able to

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Speaker 1: make shots now the Rockets or if you didn't watch

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Speaker 1: the game, the Rockets are not going to be six

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Speaker 1: of twenty nine from three throughout the series. And you

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Speaker 1: did see how the how limited the Warriors offense is

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Speaker 1: outside of Steph and Jimmy. But the outside of Stephan

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Speaker 1: Jimmy doesn't matter when the the Warriors defense, which has

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Speaker 1: been the number one defense in basketball since they got

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, can suffocate the Rockets, holding him to eighty

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Speaker 1: five points.

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Speaker 2: And when Steph.

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Speaker 1: Curry, who the last time the Warriors played the Rockets

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Speaker 1: scored three scores thirty one. And so my biggest takeaways

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Speaker 1: from this game in no particular order, Shingoon's got to

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Speaker 1: be even more active, and Shingoon has to be willing,

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Speaker 1: and he was in this game to his credit.

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Speaker 2: If Draymond is going.

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Speaker 1: To give you those eight to fourteen footers, you just

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Speaker 1: got to take them I E. And now Shingoon made it,

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Speaker 1: took and made that one end of shot clock three.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy who on the year only you know,

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Speaker 1: he took just over one to three a game and

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Speaker 1: was twenty three percent. It's not his game. He almost

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Speaker 1: has to be willing to take one or two of

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Speaker 1: the game, not just end of shot clock, because they

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Speaker 1: are giving him so much space and maybe that can

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Speaker 1: open things up. Obviously for the Rockets side of things,

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Speaker 1: they need Van Vliet to be better. Van Vliet hit

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Speaker 1: the one shot late, and that's what was so interesting

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Speaker 1: about this game. Rockets found themselves down by twenty four

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Speaker 1: after the Warriors avalanche twenty three to twenty four steph

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Speaker 1: with Fred van Vliet finally hitting a three after starting

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Speaker 1: the game one of ten. But they weren't able to

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Speaker 1: get over the over the hump. They had used a

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Speaker 1: bad challenge earlier in the game or in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter on a block charge, which just unless you are

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent like those aren't getting overturned. And because

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Speaker 1: of that, they weren't able to use their challenge on

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Speaker 1: an out of bounds call when the ball went off

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Speaker 1: Draymond down four late in the fourth they can't challenge it.

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Speaker 1: Warriors inbound it. Steph hits a rainbow three from thirty

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Speaker 2: You're down seven. And they never got closer.

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Speaker 1: So they had their opportunities. But Jalen Green is going to.

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Speaker 2: Have to show up.

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Speaker 1: And the concern for the Rockets on the Jalen Green

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Speaker 1: they had everything locked up. He wasn't playing big minutes.

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Speaker 1: But Jalen Green now his last four games five point

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Speaker 1: get going. Amon Thompson seems shell shocked by the game.

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Speaker 1: That's fine, second year player, first playoff game. He's going

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Speaker 1: sign up for the Warriors scoring ninety five points in

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Speaker 1: every single game. It was the Warriors defense combined with

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Speaker 1: the Rockets total inability to score that allowed the Warriors

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Speaker 1: of things, credit where credit is due. Jimmy was excellent

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Speaker 1: in this instance, it wasn't plus fourteen in Jimmy's minutes

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Speaker 1: and Steph after I think starting zero for three then

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Speaker 1: at one point made eleven of his next twelve or

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Speaker 1: shot clock, good defensive possession. The Warriors did a good job.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the Rockets did a good job staying attached

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Speaker 1: to Steph. These weren't practice shots by any means, and

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Speaker 1: Steph made them pay anyway. If so, I know, I

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Speaker 1: game ones are tough because you don't want to underreact,

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Speaker 1: but also you're you're prone to overreact. Steph and Jimmy

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Speaker 1: combining for fifty six points is something the Warriors will

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Speaker 1: sign up for every game the rest of the series.

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Speaker 1: That's great production. The fact that they combined for fifty

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Speaker 1: nine is something the Rockets will sign up for every

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Speaker 1: single game the rest of the series. And I think

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Speaker 1: the Warriors only hitting twelve threes is not really going

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Speaker 1: Rockets are that good defensively. The question is can the

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Speaker 1: Rockets find anybody who seems comfortable taking tough and big shots.

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Speaker 1: And there's one other element that I haven't even discussed

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Speaker 1: that's one of the biggest stories of the game, which

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Speaker 1: is the Steven Adams minutes the only person on the

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Speaker 1: Rockets with a positive plus minus. And again I'm not

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Speaker 1: trying to lean too much on plus minus, but it

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Speaker 1: passed the eye test. When Adams was out there, he

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Speaker 1: get to Steven Adams in a minute. The player for

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Speaker 1: the Rockets that I would be looking at and saying, hmm,

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Speaker 1: could he be a guy who does more for us

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Speaker 1: this series is a guy who they took third in

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Speaker 1: and he's a thirteen to seven and seven or eight

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Speaker 1: Jabari Smith is six to ten guy that can shoot.

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Speaker 1: can hit threes. Again, Michael Porter Junior is probably a

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Speaker 1: bad comp because even in those same height, Porter Junior

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Speaker 1: hope Jabari Smith can be a good defender and a

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Speaker 1: good shooter. But Jabari Smith in this game, the only

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Speaker 1: do a little bit more? And the other question for

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Speaker 1: place where he's in year thirteen, but he just turned

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Speaker 1: thirty one. I think can Steven Adams play not just

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Speaker 1: the Warriors look tiny and Quinton Post has nothing for him.

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Speaker 1: Quinton Posted out there just to shoot threes. The Warriors

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Speaker 1: don't want to play Looney. They have put Jonathan gaminga

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Speaker 1: the thing, and this is the problem with losing game one.

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Speaker 1: When you're the home team and you're the young team,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to matter the long series adjustments if

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Speaker 1: you don't respond in game two with a great shooting

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Speaker 1: performance and bounce back. Because what I do know is this,

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Speaker 1: even though I think the Rockets are a better team

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Speaker 1: that series is over, and so they are. I would

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Speaker 1: they are tiny favorites in game two, two point favorites.

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Speaker 1: That is we do you know, silly must win on

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Speaker 1: the Rockets. I still think this is a seven game series.

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Speaker 1: My faith in the Rockets being able to get to

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Speaker 1: one hundred points in a game seven, even in their

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Speaker 1: building wavering a little bit after that performance. Now, speaking

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Speaker 1: that was a good game for about a quarter and

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Speaker 1: a half, and then an absolute route. Timberwolves won seventeen,

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Speaker 1: Lakers ninety five. Now some folks are going to say, well,

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Speaker 1: Timberwolves go twenty one to forty two from three nas

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Speaker 1: Reed and Jaden McDaniel's combined for almost fifty, you're just

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Speaker 2: And yeah, the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Made a slight rally late like maybe are they going

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Speaker 1: that he was going to have matchup advantages. They would

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Speaker 1: they did, not even close. What they did they being

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Speaker 1: cannot let all of these Minnesota role players feel good

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Speaker 1: if you get forty you get forty, you are not

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Speaker 1: Luca had thirty seven points and one assist. I thought, listen,

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