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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome inside Final Hour tonight The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon. Paces take Game three

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Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals one sixteen, one oh seven. They

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Speaker 1: lead the series two games to one. We'll have more

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Speaker 1: on this game coming up in about twenty minutes. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: you know, the more I think about it, I need

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Speaker 1: to stage an intervention. I need to stay. I need

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Speaker 1: to be the one.

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Speaker 2: You need to be the.

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Speaker 1: Guy that gets the Internet generate guys leading it. I

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Speaker 1: need to give the intervention. You're giving the idy to

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Speaker 1: give the intervention.

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Speaker 3: So like a sermon or a graduation ceremony speech. You

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Speaker 3: got your tassle and everything. No, it's gonnause. I didn't

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Speaker 3: say tassoles. It's tassle.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna no it's gonna be it's it is graduation season,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna be much more pointed than that. It's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be. As you walk from our halloaed hauls

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Speaker 1: into your futures, understand that the world, no, no, it's

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit more.

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Speaker 3: You have one of the things already written in case

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Speaker 3: someone asks you to do it right and break glass

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Speaker 3: in case of emergency.

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Speaker 1: And here's the best part. I don't need other people

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Speaker 1: because you the intervention. You get a whole bunch of people,

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Speaker 1: like we're all gonna sit down, all the friends or family.

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Speaker 1: I just I just need me, I just need You're enough?

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Speaker 1: Is anybody else coming? Just one chair? I to sit down.

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Speaker 1: I got to sit down. I gotta sit down with you,

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Speaker 1: James Dolan and you Leon Rose, and I gotta tell you, hey, Nix,

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Speaker 1: stop embarrassing yourselves. Okay. In thirty six hours, thirty six hours,

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Speaker 1: the Knicks went from boy, we are an absolute destination.

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Speaker 1: We have a head coaching opening. We need that next

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Speaker 1: coach to take us to the next level. That may

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Speaker 1: here we are. We have a superstar that everybody loves coaching.

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Speaker 1: Everybody loves Jalen Brunson. We have a star studded roster.

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Speaker 1: Look how far we got, boy, we just need that coach.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be anybody's gonna want this job. And

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Speaker 1: in thirty six hours it's become an absolute embarrassment, an

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Speaker 1: absolute embarrassment. And now the Knicks are oh for seven

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Speaker 1: seven I think now the number of teams or coaches

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Speaker 1: who have told them, yeah, we're not going to give

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Speaker 1: you permission to talk to our guys, Well, that's just

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Speaker 1: what that we know about, right, That's what I mean. Right,

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Speaker 1: So I mean right, it's it started to at least

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Speaker 1: it's it started. Look, we talked to Mark Stein last

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Speaker 1: night and mark Stein said, look, I reported right after,

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Speaker 1: you know, the day Tims got fired. The two names

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Speaker 1: he was hearing the most were Jason Kidd Emeodoka right

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Speaker 1: at both their teams, the Rockets and the Mavericks said no,

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Speaker 1: you can't talk to our head coach. Okay, no permission.

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Speaker 1: So oh for two Timberwolves they wanted to talk to

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Speaker 1: Chris Finch. Oh for three Quinn Snyder, head coach to

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Speaker 1: once a year. H the Hawks said, no, can't talk

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Speaker 1: even Billy Donovan from like two thousand and nine. Billy

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Speaker 1: Donovan now and the bull said no, Jay Wright, head

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Speaker 1: coach of Villanova, come coach, and Novia Nicks No, I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty much retired, non starter. Yeah, this is an absolute

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Speaker 1: If any of these guys wanted the job, they would

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Speaker 1: say no, no, I'm interested, I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: this I want this job. And once a coach says

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Speaker 1: Now you have to take that leap and go, okay, no, no,

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Speaker 1: because there's no way. Jason Kidd says, Hey, I really

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Speaker 1: stop calling teams and asking for permission. Okay, just because

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Speaker 1: I'm not stop doing it. Stop doing it right, it's

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Speaker 1: not going to happen. And all you're doing is going over.

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Speaker 1: The Knicks are now for six, oh for seven because

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Speaker 1: none of these guys have said yes. Now, maybe Jason.

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Speaker 1: I agree with Rick Bucker. We've talked about this in

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Speaker 1: don't think Jason Kid the know from the Mavericks is

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Speaker 1: was mutual interest. So maybe this could be the Mavericks

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Speaker 1: drawing a line in the sand saying you want Jason Kidd,

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Speaker 1: Because everybody wants to feel special. Right when you get

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Speaker 1: don't want to know that, hey, I'm one of seventeen candidates. Well, okay,

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Speaker 1: that sounds great. On theory. But if you're the seventeenth

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Speaker 1: when it's like, well, they asked me for permission, but

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Speaker 1: they also ask seventeen other teams. Fine, I'm not special.

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Speaker 1: Why would I risk losing this job when the team

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Speaker 1: for a whole bunch of other people as well. I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna put my career at risk with this team,

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Speaker 1: If one of those guys knows, hey, we want you,

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Speaker 1: all right, it's a little bit easier for that coach

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Speaker 1: to say, yes, I want to go there because I

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Speaker 1: gonna have a great coaching job. None of these guys. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not commid from any of these guys going, well,

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Speaker 1: do they really like me? Or did they just blanketly

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Speaker 1: throwing out they did. They send a mass email out

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Speaker 1: Cuban doesn't make those calls where hey, delete, delete, delete,

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Speaker 1: biffed the part of the special part where the candidates

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Speaker 1: The Knicks of in thirty six hours went from we're

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Speaker 3: I think some of it though, like from the team

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Speaker 3: perspective of you like your coach, but if you're looking

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Speaker 3: at the Knicks roster and you know it's now open

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Speaker 3: season and you can start asking for the world if

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Speaker 3: they do decide they want your guy players make the team, right,

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Speaker 3: I mean, we could talk about the coach being the

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Speaker 3: difference maker, you know, if you're on the edge, like

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Speaker 3: we're talking about with Rick Carlisle. And we'll get back

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Speaker 3: into it with the NBA Finals in a minute, But

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Speaker 3: in general, it's like, wait, I can get an All

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Speaker 3: I mean I like him a lot, Unlike in Dallas.

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Speaker 3: He just re signed Jason Kidd on the strength of

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Speaker 3: what going on. Well, that deal was signed before you

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Speaker 3: trade it away. Luca Daci, Yeah, so does he love

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Speaker 3: the job the same as he did six months ago.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go out of the limb and say, even

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Speaker 3: with Cooper Flag coming in, he doesn't. Kyrie Irving may

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Speaker 3: at the basketball gods and you built a giant shrine,

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Speaker 3: you built a megachurch praying to all the basketball gods

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Speaker 3: for those guys to stay healthy, to get you through

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Speaker 1: The only way the Knicks and bringing up the only

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Speaker 1: if they come back and it's Jason Kidd, if all

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Speaker 1: Knicks talk to some other people and want and look,

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Speaker 1: on because they break it down so well for saying that. Hey,

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Speaker 1: the next phase with Jason Kidd is that the Knicks

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Speaker 1: And that's gonna either force the Mavericks to act or

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Speaker 1: force Jason Kidd to act. And if they do and

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Speaker 1: they say, wait a minute, I want this job. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's different, or the Knicks will move on. And that's

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Speaker 1: exactly where we're at right now. Where okay Jason Kidding,

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Speaker 1: the Mavericks officially say no, because the Knicks had to

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Speaker 1: get to this point they kind of if kids your guy,

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Speaker 1: you have to ask the Mavericks because when they say no,

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Speaker 1: If you want this job, you gotta tell them. So

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Speaker 1: that's the that's the only win they get is if

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Speaker 1: a long thing. But I don't feel confident about that

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Speaker 1: than hey, we needed to move on from Tibbs, which

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Speaker 1: I get you did, but at the same time, it's well,

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Speaker 1: you can't be told no by all of these teams.

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Speaker 1: who's gonna say yes? And where you're gonna go, So

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Speaker 1: make the Knicks seem like they're still a destination. That's

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, look, the veteran players want their dam

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Speaker 3: and the sun now too, right, I mean, everybody paying

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Speaker 3: attention to the rookies and second year. I'm still trying

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Speaker 3: to translate what all went down in that back and

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Speaker 3: forth with Paige Beckers, because I couldn't quite understand what

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Speaker 3: Becker's was saying.

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Speaker 1: I think the next time I play, I'm gonna score

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Speaker 1: on you from right here, something like that. This is

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Speaker 1: my spot on the court were I'm gonna score on

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Speaker 1: you on. And that's why Kelsey Plump said, okay, you

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Speaker 1: heard it right here first whatever it was, okay, that's well,

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Speaker 1: she was clear what she was saying, like with Becker's

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Speaker 1: trying to translate because she was kind of covering up

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Speaker 1: her face almost like she didn't want the person.

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Speaker 3: With the camera to hear what she had to say.

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Speaker 3: But all of that, you know that the veterans want

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Speaker 3: their day in the sun too. Write with the new

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Speaker 3: found audience and exposure and everything else, like here's my

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Speaker 3: opportunity to shine, and after the last game, she certainly

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Speaker 3: took every opportunity.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what the find was. Did

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Speaker 1: you see a disclosure of that I know, or did they.

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Speaker 3: Just applaud her saying we got something else that was

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Speaker 3: an angel recent gatelin.

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Speaker 1: I think they just said, hey, don't do it again,

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Speaker 1: because that's like as bad. You know, that's like a

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Speaker 1: now that's like what the maximum fine in the NBA,

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Speaker 1: like how she went off of appreciated like the maximum

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Speaker 1: find you.

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Speaker 3: Because it wasn't just that wow that you know, there

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Speaker 3: were a couple of calls I didn't like. It was

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Speaker 3: blank this guy and that I.

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Speaker 1: Found every single time I go to the wreck, I

459
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Speaker 1: got scratches all over me and I only got six

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Speaker 1: free throws. That was the best.

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Speaker 3: I'm nice to the guys, I pray before they get like.

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Speaker 1: You went and full in Oh yeah, yeah, great speech

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Speaker 1: exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith,

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Now

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Speaker 1: game three, I did not a lot of crazy stuff

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Speaker 1: was said after Game three. Look, the Pacers, you know,

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Speaker 1: talked about, you know, being halfway to their goal. And

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Speaker 1: you know, there's two big things about Indiana to saying

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Speaker 1: the next few minutes. Number one thing is something that

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Speaker 1: we kind of said half kiddingly a week ago, and

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Speaker 1: that is that, you know, hey boy, that the Pacers

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Speaker 1: kind of seem like maybe they're a team of destiny.

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Speaker 1: And now after tonight it's, oh, maybe the Pacers are

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Speaker 1: a team of destiny, Like they have everything you would

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Speaker 1: need in a team. Like at the end, if they

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Speaker 1: win the title with the back and go, how are

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Speaker 1: we so stupid? All the signs were there, all the

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Speaker 1: comebacks the first round against the Bucks, right, sending the

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Speaker 1: Cavaliers home, that's not enough. Beating the Knicks with an

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Speaker 1: all time comeback we've never seen before in NBA history.

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Speaker 1: In Game one, right, Halliburton's dad is allowed to come

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Speaker 1: back to the games, and Halliburton has the best game

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Speaker 1: of his career. In Game four, right, I talked about

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Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark. There undefeated when she comes to the games.

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Speaker 1: Reggie Miller broadcast in the games. Here they are in

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Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. Now they're winning a big shot by

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Speaker 1: Halliburton in Game one. Whenever they need something, Benedict Mathrin

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Speaker 1: comes off the bench and scores thirty eight points in

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Speaker 1: four minutes like he did tonight. Like it really seems

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Speaker 1: like they're the Team of Destiny, like and you couldn't

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Speaker 1: write it out more. And it's like they went from

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Speaker 1: this little engine that could what a great story. They

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Speaker 1: are small market Indiana patients. Now, oh wait a minute minute,

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Speaker 1: they're doing everything you would expect of a team. And hey,

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Speaker 1: we're a team of Do you look up Team of

496
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Speaker 1: Destiny in the dictionary. It's a picture of our guys

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Speaker 1: on that page.

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Speaker 3: It's funny. Six days ago I retweeted it a little

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Speaker 3: bit earlier. You posited that. Five days ago it started

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Speaker 3: to make the round. So thanks for listening, y'all for

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Speaker 3: being on board with the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: Evangelize to your friends and neighbors. But it is a

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Speaker 3: curious squad right fourth quarters the ice in the veins

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Speaker 3: from Haliburton on down, and we know his just insane

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Speaker 3: stats in the final two minutes of games to tie

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Speaker 3: a game or go ahead, just his his shooting percentage,

507
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Speaker 3: just through the roof, and he's gotten all the accolades

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Speaker 3: for that. As a he fills the box score across

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Speaker 3: the way. There's there's no question about it. But the

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Speaker 3: number of other players, whether it be Nie Smith, your

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Speaker 3: nemesis and nem hard Obi Toppin as a guy with

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Speaker 3: the flush on the put back dunks or a guy

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Speaker 3: piling up three point shots as we've seen him do

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Speaker 3: in other games throughout these playoffs. It's just a hero

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Speaker 3: all the way down the roster going ten d And

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Speaker 3: we talked with Rick Buker about it.

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Speaker 1: When you talk about.

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Speaker 3: What you're able to do with Carlisle and how he

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Speaker 3: was utilizing the bench and monitoring minutes and getting guys

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Speaker 3: rest early, knowing that late they were going to need

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Speaker 3: a surge to take care of business at home. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's been a masterclass all across and for a roster

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Speaker 3: that was.

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Speaker 1: Middling in the regular season, fifty wins.

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Speaker 3: Well from January first on down, only one team had

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Speaker 3: more wins and right now they're up on two games

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Speaker 3: to one, So.

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Speaker 1: Why are they up two games one. Why is suddenly

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Speaker 1: this Pacers team? Why have they gone from Hey, they're

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Speaker 1: a great story too. Woll wait, they're two games away

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Speaker 1: from winning the title. This is a team and getting

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Speaker 1: to Halliburton because this is another top we talked on

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Speaker 1: the show. Is that. Listen, if you're a great player,

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Speaker 1: I need you to be motivated all the time, not

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Speaker 1: just motivated when someone says you're overrated, or when you're

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Speaker 1: coming off you have a bad game because you're just

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Speaker 1: brain cramp, whatever it is. So I need a little

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Speaker 1: bit more from Tyrese Halliburton as far as that goes, right,

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Speaker 1: if you're a great player, you can't take a couple

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Speaker 1: of games off in the series where you just don't

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Speaker 1: get into it right. Anthony Edwards did that and that's

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Speaker 1: why he's home. Well, but most of his work is

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Speaker 1: done at the in the scoring right.

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Speaker 3: Sure, as at least with Haliburton, you see you're seeing

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Speaker 3: other contributions.

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Speaker 1: But the two big words I'm gonna throw at you

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Speaker 1: in the next couple of minutes. Number one is overlooked

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Speaker 1: because this is a Pacers team that is filled with

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Speaker 1: guys who have been overlooked at some point in their career,

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Speaker 1: including their head coach, Rick Carlisle, who's got a championship,

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Speaker 1: but nobody talks about him as one of the great

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Speaker 1: head coaches in the NBA. You get a list a

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Speaker 1: great head coach and we go is Steve Curry, Eric Spolstra,

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Speaker 1: and then you look for, well, Mizula just won the

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Speaker 1: title last year, and you go, you don't. Rick Carlisle

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Speaker 1: never comes to mind, right, But this is a team

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Speaker 1: that he has put together that is deep, that is

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Speaker 1: able to play at a high tempo all the time

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Speaker 1: because you can play. He plays nine guys coming off

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Speaker 1: the bench a lot of minutes. But you look at

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Speaker 1: the players that he relies on. Over half the guys

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Speaker 1: on the team have all been overlooked at some point

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Speaker 1: in their career and they are feeding off of that.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: Look, Halliburton's been feeding off the players who said he

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Speaker 1: was overrated for the entire playoff right now. He is

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Speaker 1: a guy that got drafted by the Kings, got traded

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Speaker 1: to the Pacers, and then we got to the Pacers. Bang,

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Speaker 1: he became an elite level player. Right He's been dealing

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Speaker 1: with overlooked in his career. Pascal siakam dealing with being

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Speaker 1: overlooked in his career because on those great Toronto teams, well,

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Speaker 1: it was obviously Kawhi Leonard, it was also Fred van Vliet,

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Speaker 1: Pascal Siakam. He's playing like Pete Kevin Durant in this playoff, right,

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Speaker 1: TJ McConnell, who's been overlooked throughout his career. Hey, no

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Speaker 1: one's gonna give him a starting job and be a

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Speaker 1: guy playing twenty nine minutes a game. But in the

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Speaker 1: ten to fifteen minutes he plays off the bench, he

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Speaker 1: comes on with a motor that he becomes instantly the

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Speaker 1: most dislike player on the court. Like he's a guy

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Speaker 1: in pickup that you just want to foul hard all

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Speaker 1: the time because he just buses you off. That he's

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Speaker 1: always yeah, yeah, yeah, give me the ball, yeah yah

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Like that's TJ McConnell. But that's what players

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Speaker 1: who were overlooked look like. Mathern, who's coming off the

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Speaker 1: bench still for the Pacers, even though he was a

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Speaker 1: big scorer coming out of Arizona. He's always done this.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's coming up on the end of his

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Speaker 1: rookie deal. He wants a big contract. Wait, I'm more

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Speaker 1: than just a bench player. I gotta show you what

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Speaker 1: I can do. It's a perfect moment in time for them,

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Speaker 1: because this is not something that you can sustain for

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Speaker 1: season after season and play. Hey, I've been overlooked. I've

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Speaker 1: been overlooked. But this is you're talking about four or

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Speaker 1: five players, and I could throw Niesmith in there too,

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Speaker 1: and I can throw Nembard and Miles Turner, who's been

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Speaker 1: overlooked his entire career. He's played with the Pacers and

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Speaker 1: he's been pretty good and pretty consistent. He'll always hit

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Speaker 1: a three now at the end of the game, and

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Speaker 1: you think, why that was this guy hitting a three

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Speaker 1: right now? No, and it's an awkward looking bank. But

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Speaker 1: this is one moment where you can play that card.

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Speaker 1: And they're all playing the overlooked card. And nobody is hungrier,

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Speaker 1: because that's the second word I'm gonna give you. Nobody

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Speaker 1: is hungrier to win a game and the Pacers are.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't mean other players other teams don't want to win

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Speaker 1: and there lazy and they quit. But the Pacers just

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Speaker 1: take that to the next level. Like you see when

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Speaker 1: you see Halliburton go to the bench, go to the bench,

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Speaker 1: You think, okay, most teams it's let's try to play

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Speaker 1: the next few minutes even right, Let's not get let's

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Speaker 1: not give the lead away. Like Jalen Brunson when he

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Speaker 1: goes to the bench, the Nick say, well, maybe with

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Speaker 1: Duce McBride, we keep the lead at you know, where

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Speaker 1: we are at eight, or maybe you know, if we

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Speaker 1: lose one point, maybe we gain a point. But the

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Speaker 1: Pacers bench comes out and it's we're going to extend

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Speaker 1: this lead. And it's Matherin coming in and taking all

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Speaker 1: kinds of shots and hitting them, and it's McConnell being

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Speaker 1: a ten to five guy, and it's obi Topping talk

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Speaker 1: about being overlooked. Another guy that couldn't even get on

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Speaker 1: the court with the Knicks because well they brought him

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Speaker 1: along slow and he played Julius Randall's position. The Knicks thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, we have a guy who's really good to

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Speaker 1: plays your position. There's nowhere to go for you, so

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Speaker 1: we'll trade you away. Top and wants to show I

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Speaker 1: want to start someplace. I've been overlooked my whole career.

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Speaker 1: The overlooked and the hungry in it, and the hunger

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Speaker 1: that these guys have when they're out there, like they

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Speaker 1: out hunger everybody. They out hunger everybody they play against.

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Speaker 1: And again it's not like the Thunder, I feel like

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Speaker 1: they're flat. But it's just that this Pacers team, this month,

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Speaker 1: moment in time, is taking that chip on their shoulder

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Speaker 1: of being overlooked in the hunger and they are manifesting

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Speaker 1: it in the best way possible.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Coddle the first ten to five and five off

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Speaker 3: the bench in finals history. So there you go, because

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Speaker 3: we have a stat for everything, don't you know, ten

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Speaker 3: years in long career to get to this point. But

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Speaker 3: to go back to Rick Carlisle, let's go back to

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Speaker 3: the head of the snake as it were.

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Speaker 1: Would you realize that he if they equaled their win

642
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Speaker 1: total from this year the Pacers, he will pass Rick

643
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: Adelman to be the tenth winningest head coach in NBA history. Yeah,

644
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Speaker 1: very quiet, Oh yeah, yeah right, because twenty eleven is

645
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Speaker 1: a long time ago. Back to see what he looked

646
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Speaker 1: like in twenty eleven compared to what he looked like now,

647
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Speaker 1: and you go, oh, he has been around a long time. Wow,

648
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Speaker 1: Rick Carlisle, Robert Carlisle, I mean, you know, you go

649
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Speaker 1: for twenty eight days later, twenty eight weeks later, you

650
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Speaker 1: see the difference in Robert. No, that's it. But just

651
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Speaker 1: to say the consistent Robert Carlin.

652
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Speaker 3: Stuff didn't start getting a little lot stuff. That's nicely

653
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Speaker 3: done everybody. But yeah, he's got nine hundred and ninety

654
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Speaker 3: three career regular season wins. So the models of consistency

655
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Speaker 3: and why he's been through every test, and you see

656
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 3: it in this squad in the fourth quarter. Go back

657
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 3: to Game one, right, the shooting acumen, but taking care

658
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Speaker 3: of the basketball after a miserable start. You know, in

659
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 3: game adjustments. We can joke about it and chuckle about,

660
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 3: you know, the whiteboard and whatever else. It's clear time

661
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 3: and again that when it comes to the fourth quarter

662
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Speaker 3: this team has a focus. They were down again today.

663
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Speaker 1: What happened.

664
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Speaker 3: Great possessions defensively, great rotations limiting the thunder to bad

665
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Speaker 3: looks and a bunch of free throws right, and taking

666
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Speaker 3: care of business on the offensive end. Again, it doesn't

667
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Speaker 3: matter who the star of the day is. Everybody gets

668
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Speaker 3: fed and everybody gets him into the winning circle. So

669
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Speaker 3: like you're looking at a squad that it's pretty fun.

670
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Speaker 3: So six days ago kind of ingest about the pick

671
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 3: of destiny, the team of destiny picked up a bunch.

672
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Speaker 3: Thank you again for listening. But here we are on

673
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Speaker 3: the cusp of the Indiana Pacers. Someone out there is

674
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Speaker 3: holding one hundred and twenty five to one diket.

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Speaker 1: Telling you overlooked hunger, two biggest things about the Pacer.

676
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Speaker 1: I'm hungry. Let's get a taco. Tell you how to

677
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Speaker 1: find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.

678
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Speaker 1: So someone who's been called the John Halliburt and the

679
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Huh, she's been banned from NBA arenas. Oh,

680
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Speaker 1: it's Monty Belaga, but they've let me back in. Okay, good,

681
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Speaker 1: So we're good. Joe sitting a booth behind glass like him.

682
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not.

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Speaker 5: Allowed to give you the full details of my many

684
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Speaker 5: situation is exactly you know what I'm saying.

685
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got it exactly. Yeah, guys, I'm with you.

686
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Speaker 5: I did not think that the Pacers could get this far,

687
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 5: scoring by committee, and that's really what it's been. It

688
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 5: does seem like a team of destiny, hunger, desperation, underrated

689
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 5: over whatever it is. But Pacers now have a two

690
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 5: to one lead over the Thunder in the NBA Finals,

691
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 5: coming out on top one sixteen to one oh seven. Yeah,

692
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Speaker 5: Pacers were down in the fourth quarter and we've seen

693
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Speaker 5: them come back and still win the game, outscoring OKC

694
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Speaker 5: thirty two to eighteen.

695
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Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburn was just shy have a triple double.

696
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Speaker 5: But ben Adict Mathrin off the bench, was the leading

697
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Speaker 5: scorer of the game. He had twenty seven points. Shake

698
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 5: Gil just Alexander twenty four points, only three came in

699
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Speaker 5: the fourth quarter. He also had eight rebounds and four assists.

700
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Speaker 5: Okase made one shot in the final like six minutes

701
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Speaker 5: of the game. It was a Jayalen Williams shot that

702
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Speaker 5: put them up to one hundred and they ended one

703
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Speaker 5: oh seven. Those other seven points were just free throws

704
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Speaker 5: that they hit. Here is Rick Carlisle, head coach of

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Speaker 5: the Pacers after the game.

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Speaker 4: TJ just brought a will, competitive will to the game.

707
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 4: You know, Mathurn jumped in there and immediately was aggressive

708
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 4: and got the ball in the basket. And you know, look,

709
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Speaker 4: this is the kind of team that we are. We

710
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Speaker 4: need everybody to be ready. It's not always going to

711
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Speaker 4: be exact eactly the same guys that are stepping up

712
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 4: with scoring and stuff like that, but you know this

713
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Speaker 4: is this is how we got to do it, and

714
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 4: we got to do it as a team, and and

715
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Speaker 4: you know, we got to make it as hard as

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Speaker 4: possible on them.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Team of Destiny and Game four will be on Friday.

718
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 5: Not to be confused in some games have had three

719
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Speaker 5: days of rest in between.

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Speaker 1: Other Friday Friday, the fourth Friday. Yay Friday, Friday, July

721
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Speaker 1: fourth is the next game. Yeah, sure sure.

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Speaker 5: Chicago Sports Network reports that the Knicks requested to speak

723
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Speaker 5: to Bulls head coach Billy Donovan about their head coaching vacancy,

724
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Speaker 5: but we're denied.

725
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Speaker 1: So added the Bulls to the list. Also were denied.

726
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Speaker 5: Yes, so it's not looking so hot for them. And

727
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Speaker 5: Baseball Met's pitcher David Peterson toss a complete game shutout

728
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Speaker 5: in New York defeated the Nationals five zero. Juan Soto

729
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Speaker 5: has also had a two run homer. The Dodgers top

730
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Speaker 5: the Padres in San Diego five to two. The Giants

731
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Speaker 5: have won seven in a row after rolling past the

732
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Speaker 5: Rockies ten to seven.

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Speaker 1: So, with all that being said, manci who has the

734
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Speaker 1: best record in baseball? Right now? You know who has

735
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Speaker 1: the best record in baseball? Now?

736
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Speaker 5: I don't have that in front of me, right, the Dodgers.

737
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Speaker 5: If you don't have the Mets have the best record

738
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Speaker 5: in baseball, I have forty four and twenty and twenty four.

739
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Speaker 5: The Tigers are right there.

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Speaker 1: They're forty four and twenty five. The Tigers. Yeah, the Tigers.

741
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Speaker 1: Not the Tigers.

742
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 2: The Tigers say. Lost to the Orioles.

743
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Speaker 5: It got crushed by Baltimore ten to one. Aaron Judge

744
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Speaker 5: did his twenty fifth homer of the season as a

745
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 5: Yankees outscored the Royals six to three. Angels completed a

746
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Speaker 5: three game sweep of the A's with a six to

747
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Speaker 5: five win. In the WNBA, the Storm outscored the Links

748
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Speaker 5: ninety for eighty four. Handy Minnesota their first loss of

749
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Speaker 5: the season, and the NFLPA says that Eagles running back

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Speaker 5: Saquon Barkley led all NFL players in sales of officially

751
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Speaker 5: licensed products from March twenty twenty four to February twenty

752
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Speaker 5: twenty five, the first running back to take the number

753
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Speaker 5: one spot since Ezekiel Elliott in twenty seventeen.

754
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: Way back when he was good. Ago.

755
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 5: Yeah, it seems like a like a whole lifetime ago.

756
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Speaker 1: Right, Oh, guys, that was fun. Back to you. Thanks

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Speaker 1: a bunch of monsie yes. Coming up next, well, we'll

758
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Speaker 1: have a big bold prediction for Game four of the

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Speaker 1: NBAF I mean a big bold prediction for one star

760
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: for Game four of the NBA Final. I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: why this series is going seven. That's next. Jason to Mike.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Can't get away pace, just take Game three.

767
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: We'll have a big Bowl prediction for Game four coming

768
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: up in a minute. But the Thunder to a man

769
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Speaker 1: after tonight's game, talked about the unforced errors they had

770
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 1: tonight that you know, SGA saying, listen, we made a

771
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: lot of mistakes and the Pacers are a good team.

772
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: They took advantage of them. Not a lot of panic,

773
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: which is good. But you want to ride that line

774
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: a little bit from everything is fine to we have

775
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: to have the biggest sense of urgency right now. You

776
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 1: don't want to go down three to one, clean up, sloppiness,

777
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: all that. So you want to be able to do that.

778
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 1: And I get it and look, and this is why

779
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: this series is going seven, which is great for everybody. Right,

780
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,280
Speaker 1: the series goes seven because neither team has the ability

781
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: to just throw the hammer down and say we're we

782
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: after a couple of games, we got the lay of

783
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: the land. Now we're gonna outdo you and we're taking

784
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,399
Speaker 1: control of this series. Right. It's a game by game

785
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: thing where a team is gonna win a game. The

786
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: next game the other team is gonna adjust because these

787
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,280
Speaker 1: are two best teams in the NBA. Now, the Thunder

788
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: been the best team all season. What I said after

789
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: Game two, Hey, the bench is gonna play big for

790
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: the Pacers. They're going home mathering tonight, tuddah. But eventually

791
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: game four, the Thunder will find a way to adjust

792
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: to the Pacers and you're gonna get a big performance.

793
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: It's gonna be two two going back to Oklahoma City.

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00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 3: Well you're going big with SGA and I saw you

795
00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 3: scrolling forty down on your.

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00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: Sh that's the thing, that's my bolt. But for game four,

797
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: Gildas Alexander knows he didn't have a great game tonight.

798
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 1: Now for everybody, which I'd love to have a bad

799
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: game where I score twenty four and shoot basically forty

800
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: eight percent from the floor. But you saw big misshots late,

801
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: you saw turnovers, you saw a couple of plays where

802
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: defensive league. That's right. He just didn't look like he

803
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: even cared. You know, the big in your face. I know, hey,

804
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna give me forty eight minutes. Now I know

805
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: what I expect. Like, now, that was not it. Why

806
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: did I pick the thunder because I know SGA is

807
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: always gonna compete, And what did I see him do tonight?

808
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: Sometimes he quit like he missed that big shot in

809
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 1: the final minute and then just watched Sakham run down

810
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 1: behind him for a layup that was an eight point

811
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: lead and the game was over right, Like, that's not

812
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 1: what SGA does. This guy is the MVP of the league,

813
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 1: and I have confidence that he understands the kind of

814
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: game that he had and he can't have that again.

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00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,399
Speaker 3: No, otherwise you're gonna look at people verbally, they're gonna

816
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 3: get him. Billy Batch treatment verse read that you've got

817
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 3: to come out with a sense of urgency, Like the

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00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 3: turnovers were.

819
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Speaker 1: Terrible, like they were unforced and the only loppy play

820
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,720
Speaker 1: he got to the free throw line six times tonight,

821
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 1: which is not what he does, and so I feel

822
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 1: pretty confident MVPs know when they got an MVP, right sga, Hey,

823
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 1: MVP got an MVP. Game four, he scores forty a

824
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: near triple double, the Thunder win, and they go back

825
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma City tied to to like this is this

826
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Speaker 1: is this is when MVP's MVP and he's going for

827
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: a forty burger near triple double. Game five will be

828
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: okay now to the Thunder out control of the series.

829
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: It'll be too two going back. But watch the game

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00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: he has in Game four.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Thunder with an imperfect game, no doubt. Even through

832
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 3: the three quarters, right had a five point lead. You

833
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 3: saw Chet started fast, didn't have much late. Lou Dord

834
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 3: had his four to three point shots very quiet once again.

835
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 3: Fourth quarter Pacers defense and pace on offense creating issues

836
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 3: and bad possessions for the Thunders. So uh yeah, I

837
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 3: wrapped attention. The Thunder are a six point road favorite,

838
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 3: up from five and a half for Game three.

839
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Speaker 1: Which is a little weird and it's kind of a

840
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: trap line that whoa wait, so the Pacers have to

841
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: winning this game. They're dogs for Game four. Oh, I'm

842
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: going Pacers and say, hey, let's rake this.

843
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 3: Still he is still dogs for the series, but it

844
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 3: feels like a trap game thirty.

845
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like a trap game clear, But it's

846
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,760
Speaker 1: like they could take it. They could win the series

847
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: basically if they take Game four at home where they

848
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: just won. And still that's where we're at under minus

849
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: six thunder thunder and Game four SGA forty and a

850
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: near triple double. And he does it, and we're talking

851
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: about wow, MVP man, the MVP stands up, the MVP

852
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: has a great game, and what do we get. That's

853
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen.

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00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 3: Well, and Alex Krusolli have a much better game than

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Speaker 3: he did today. Minus fifteen and a non factor off

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Speaker 3: the bench.

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Speaker 1: Not many people were big factors, not the very quiet

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Speaker 1: only eighteen bench points. Yeah, the thunder and and and

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Speaker 1: and the other thing the Pacers have done that that

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Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see a bit of a change

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Speaker 1: in Game four is that nobody has navigated the final

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Speaker 1: six minutes of playoffs like the Pacers out in recent history.

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Speaker 1: Nobody does it. Nobody dominates the final six minutes like

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Speaker 1: the Pacers do. Right tonight, the Thunder had one bucket

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Speaker 1: in the final six minutes, but six minutes coming and

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Speaker 1: again ten years I think I've seen since led go

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Speaker 1: back to the Warriors the first time with their dynasty

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Speaker 1: where they were able to control the end of games

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Speaker 1: like this, the Pacers have been able to do it.

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Speaker 1: Thunder flip the script in game four. In the end,

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Speaker 1: they throw the hammer down. They take Game four, and

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Speaker 1: then it's all about Carlisle. Oh well, the Knicks call

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Speaker 1: h Randy Carlyle, former defenseman of the Pittsburgh Penguines. Don't Carlisle,

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: Carlisle, former point guard for the Northwestern Wildcat Carlile who.

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Speaker 1: Ran the Vampire family in the In the Flight Carlisle