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Speaker 1: I'll ball if you guys are having a great start

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Speaker 1: to your week. Gonna do a film session on game

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Speaker 1: two between the minutes on the Timberwolves and the Denver Nuggets.

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Speaker 1: Fair warning off the top. We did this for Game one,

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Speaker 1: just breaking down, gonna give my thoughts on kind of

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Speaker 1: So like again, it's all that owning of the space

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Speaker 1: Like there's there show some damn fight. I have big

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Speaker 1: that is a prerequisite of being an all time great.

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Speaker 1: The bit Lebron James Game six, down three to two

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Speaker 1: the wall and shit is not in your favor, that

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Speaker 1: Dominance is only part of it. I talked about this

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Speaker 1: part of the journey, is what do you do when

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Speaker 1: it looks ugly? And Game two. Game two was the

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Speaker 1: cut it. And again like that, but before before yokch

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Speaker 1: world title on this show, that's the standard that I

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Speaker 1: with that. A couple of metrics before we move on.

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Speaker 1: Minnesota won the half court battle again, ninety two point

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Speaker 1: one points per one hundred half court plays to seventy

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Speaker 1: six point nine for Denver. They're now up one hundred

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Speaker 1: to eighty nine for the series, so Minnesota's outclassing them

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Speaker 1: the big things that's being overlooked for Minnesota is their

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Speaker 1: offense has been awesome in transition. Minnesota twenty one points

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Speaker 1: on nineteen possessions, Denver fifteen points on twenty one possessions.

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Speaker 1: I thought a big thing that I noticed there on

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Speaker 1: film is them just getting sped up by ball pressure

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Speaker 1: Jump shooting. Minnesota shot just like they did in Game one,

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Speaker 1: one point one to two points per jump shot, Denver

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Speaker 1: zero point eighty three points per jump shots. A rough

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Speaker 1: shooting night as well, but again I believe those things

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Speaker 1: are related. All right, guys, That is all I have

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Speaker 1: for today. Is always as sincerely appreciate you guys for

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Speaker 1: supporting the show. We're gonna be back tonight live after

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Speaker 1: the final buzzer of MAVs Thunder, I will see you guys.

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Speaker 1: Then the volume