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Speaker 1: Yo yo yo. We live on location.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: We officially dead luck one in one in the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 1: The Heat went ahead and got them a w out

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Speaker 1: there in Denver, taking Game two. They threw them back

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Speaker 1: though it was a strong thirty six point fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: to take Game two. They won one to eleven. One

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Speaker 1: on way Black, give me your thoughts on the game. Now,

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Speaker 1: let me preface it by this, because last time we

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Speaker 1: were here, me and you, we talked about who we

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Speaker 1: was picking and who was our not the last and

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Speaker 1: the first time we was here before the finals, we

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Speaker 1: talked about our unsung He rose, right, we said gay,

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Speaker 1: I said, gave Vincent. You said Kevin Lord. They both

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Speaker 1: had an impact on this game too, ain't it Black?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, they definitely did.

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Speaker 3: I think Miami hit the shots that they missed first game.

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Speaker 3: You know, they was hitting like a lot of them

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Speaker 3: open threes that they was getting first game.

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Speaker 2: They wasn't missing, right. Yeah, Now you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: They shot great from a three point line this game,

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Speaker 3: and they just hit they shots.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: And uh, when you got guys like Gabe Vincon and

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Speaker 3: other guys that's hitting.

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Speaker 2: The threes, you can win a game with Jimmy.

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Speaker 3: Only having twenty one points Max rebound and it's like, uh,

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Speaker 3: you get a game like that, man, everybody just gave

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Speaker 3: Max Strews, give him props.

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Speaker 2: Man, he came out gate, out the gate.

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Speaker 3: Like no, no, no, I'm not having another one of

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Speaker 3: them games.

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Speaker 2: You know what.

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Speaker 1: I'm got props to spol too, because those were drawn

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Speaker 1: up plays for those pop out threes early for Strews

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Speaker 1: to try and get them going.

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Speaker 3: Like, man, I love the adjustment of making Kevin love

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Speaker 3: the power forward to adjust to that. So now we're

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Speaker 3: gonna try to slow down Denver's quick start that they

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Speaker 3: had because ag had a crazy start game. I think

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Speaker 3: with the adjustment, it helps Jimmy to guard Murray. I

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Speaker 3: think what they did was made her the head of

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Speaker 3: the snake, you know, like they know Jokics is gonna

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Speaker 3: get his and damn there a triple double.

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Speaker 1: But it looked like they was.

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Speaker 3: Focusing on Mary and taking him out the game and

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Speaker 3: had Mary.

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Speaker 2: With an eighteen point game. He had eighteen four and ten.

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Speaker 1: They made them pick they poison bro To me, it's

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Speaker 1: like everybody in the world knows the joker is gonna

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Speaker 1: be the joker, Like you can put your whole defense

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Speaker 1: towards stopping him, and he's gonna find the way you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get a triple double. He's gonna impact the game

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Speaker 1: in a big way because he's a pass orientated big fella.

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Speaker 1: But he shows you if y'all want to play with me,

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Speaker 1: I could put thirty forty fifty up if you want to.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is is that when he goes high

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Speaker 1: end points and he goes high in points, his assists

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Speaker 1: come down. And when his assists come down, that takes

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Speaker 1: away from the other guys. And I feel like in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and late in the game, when it

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Speaker 1: was necessary for guys to be locked in and guys

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Speaker 1: to be zoned in and locking step on defense for Denver,

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Speaker 1: you had a few guys with I don't even want

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Speaker 1: to say a few guys. One guy, noticeably to me

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Speaker 1: was Michael Porter Juniors who wasn't locked into the game.

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Speaker 1: And to me that I feel like it goes both ways.

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Speaker 1: It goes obviously as an individual we players, bro that's

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Speaker 1: our responsibility to show up and be locked in and this,

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Speaker 1: that and the third, but it's also on our coach.

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Speaker 1: When our coach knows that the type of player we are.

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Speaker 1: I think MPJ is one of those guys that if

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Speaker 1: he's not touching the ball, if he's not involved in

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Speaker 1: the offense, everything else is gonna kind of be limited

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Speaker 1: in a way. I mean, he's been a guy who's

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Speaker 1: been getting ten rebounds, four or five assists of staying

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Speaker 1: somewhere in the teams on points he had five and

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Speaker 1: six bro And not only that, he was the guy

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Speaker 1: that was like missing and slow on the switch. On

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Speaker 1: some of those switches, you got some of those threes

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Speaker 1: all doing that run. If you go back and look

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Speaker 1: at it, he was slow to respond. That's that's not

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Speaker 1: being totally engaged and locked in. And sometimes that happens

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Speaker 1: to Hey. Early in my career, I was one of

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Speaker 1: those players did if I didn't get the ball offensively,

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Speaker 1: I was looking around, like what the hell going on?

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Speaker 1: So I definitely know what that feel like.

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Speaker 3: I think with Denver, to me, it looked like they

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Speaker 3: just got comfortable. They got comfortable. Yeah, they got comfortable.

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Speaker 3: They won that first game fairly easy. Wanna say they

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Speaker 3: because he made a push I mean lad in the game,

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Speaker 3: But they won that first game the way they won,

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Speaker 3: and I was looking at they shoot around they was

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Speaker 3: dancing and and all I seen was laughs and smile.

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Speaker 3: And when I seen that, all I could think about

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Speaker 3: was that Kobe Bryant interview when he was up to

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Speaker 3: and they was like, yeah, why you ain't smiling? He

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Speaker 3: was like, little shit, the job ain't done yet, you

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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: That's all.

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Speaker 3: That's all I could think about when I was seeing

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Speaker 3: them guys laughing and enjoying themselves. We're just nothing wrong

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Speaker 3: when they enjoying the finals. Man, that's what got you

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Speaker 3: out here. But with that being said, man, the Heat

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Speaker 3: looked like they played harder than them. And what's crazy

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Speaker 3: is that Heat look like they played hard on them.

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Speaker 3: And they was up most of the game on the Heat,

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Speaker 3: but the Heat just looked like they was just so resilient,

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Speaker 3: like this was finna be our game, Like we're finna

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Speaker 3: win this game. And was surprised to me they were

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Speaker 3: so comfortable because they haven't lost in Denver the whole playoffs.

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Speaker 1: First lost in Denver for them this whole postseason.

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Speaker 3: So he if you watch the Heat all playoff, a

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Speaker 3: lot of teams been beating them the whole game, winning

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Speaker 3: the whole game, doing their thing, and so forth On

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Speaker 3: and them guys like Max and gave Vincent and Caleb

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Speaker 3: Martin and Robinson with the mixture of Bam and Jimmy Man.

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Speaker 3: They always seem like at the end of the game,

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Speaker 3: like they come around and they win the game. And

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Speaker 3: one thing about Miami I can say in these playoffs,

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Speaker 3: they like the best team in the last four minutes

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Speaker 3: of a game if the game is close, like.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's the getting the rabbit hole with you, them

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Speaker 1: boys in the fox hole with you. And this was

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Speaker 1: a big takeaway for me because I think even after

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Speaker 1: game won, it kind of it shined through more after

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Speaker 1: Game two obviously because they lost. But I think if

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Speaker 1: you go back and you listen to coach Michael Malone

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Speaker 1: after game one, he was saying then that, hey, we

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Speaker 1: didn't do anything, and he said that we had things

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Speaker 1: that we didn't do well, and he had concerns and

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Speaker 1: this and that, and then game two, those things, after

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Speaker 1: a couple adjustments, those things really shined through. And he

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Speaker 1: came right out and said the same thing. And then

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing is what you just said, Like you

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Speaker 1: said you felt like Miami played harder. That was one

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Speaker 1: of the first things he said that it's no way

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Speaker 1: that our effort should be an issue. And he said,

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Speaker 1: though he said those words, that he talked and spoke

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Speaker 1: about his team's effort and how in a finals series

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Speaker 1: that should never be having to be spoken about. So

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Speaker 1: you were spot on saying that you felt like the

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Speaker 1: Heat played harder in some respect if Denver's coach came

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Speaker 1: out and spoke on his team's effort, you hitting that

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Speaker 1: on the head. And for me, I feel like those

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Speaker 1: adjustments they made between the starting of Kevin Love and

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Speaker 1: then in that fourth quarter, I don't know why, but

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Speaker 1: that the two three, in the two two one variations

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Speaker 1: of the zone, they seemed to confuse and kind of

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Speaker 1: muck it up for Denver, and that gave them, That

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Speaker 1: gave Miami the chance to do what they needed to do, because,

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Speaker 1: like I said, the start of the fourth, Dunkey Robinson

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Speaker 1: came out of nowhere. He came out of nowhere with

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Speaker 1: a quick.

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Speaker 3: Fluttering zone, made them slow the ball down. The zone,

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Speaker 3: took away them back though cuts and takes away the

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Speaker 3: dick and dole for Murray too. That dribble hand off

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Speaker 3: he do with Murray and all them little shots to

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Speaker 3: get takes it away like, man, when you hold Murray

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Speaker 3: to eighteen four and ten, Aaron Gordon to twelve and seven,

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Speaker 3: Michael Porter Jr.

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Speaker 1: To five and six. Yeah, did something.

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Speaker 3: Giving yourself a chance to win the game in the finals,

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Speaker 3: And that's what that did for when that gave it,

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Speaker 3: it gave them a chance to win and they capitalized

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Speaker 3: on the shouts. Gave Vincent it was his turn the

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Speaker 3: other day, and he stepped up with flying colors, and

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Speaker 3: as he been doing through the whole playoffs, Man, he

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Speaker 3: got them through it. And the think about it, they

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Speaker 3: so well balanced that, no, we don't need a thirty

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Speaker 3: game or forty game from these guys. Gave Vincent twenty

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Speaker 3: three and two steals.

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Speaker 2: That's all we need out of you. You know what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Max Strews fourteen points and it's fourteen points were basically

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Speaker 3: in the first quarter. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Everything was timely.

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Speaker 2: When you got a level team like that.

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Speaker 1: The Duncan only had all his points right at the

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Speaker 1: start of the fourth when he got that flurry, but

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Speaker 1: it was it was necessary that deleted the lead and

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Speaker 1: put them back right in the game to start it off.

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Speaker 1: I think also, man, when we talk about that zone

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Speaker 1: and talk about the impact it had on Jamal Murray,

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Speaker 1: we cannot not mention that Jimmy Buckets did most of

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Speaker 1: the defending and the majority of the defending on Murray,

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Speaker 1: even that last end of the game, that shot where

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Speaker 1: he came and they did get into that the Murray

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Speaker 1: Joker pick and roll. It just so happened that it

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Speaker 1: was a scramble and Jimmy was on Joker, so he

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Speaker 1: was the perfect guy to switch right out. And you

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Speaker 1: saw he switched the aggressively as soon as he switched

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Speaker 1: on to him. He poked at the ball, almost got

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Speaker 1: a little into the ball and had him gather itself

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Speaker 1: and now it's like, okay, I'm not really in the rhythm,

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Speaker 1: and he could test it to step back. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you don't really want to have a last second shot

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Speaker 1: like that, I don't out of file, But like if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have somebody guard, you had the perfect person

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Speaker 1: guarding them, and so I think that was the case

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Speaker 1: when that lineup shift. It gave Jimmy the ability to

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Speaker 1: be have more possessions defensively on him, and I think

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Speaker 1: that ultimately impacted, you know, Murray's game and why he

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Speaker 1: didn't get to go crazy as well, because Jimmy's a

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Speaker 1: tough defender.

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Speaker 3: I definitely thought that zone what it was doing, it

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Speaker 3: was pushing them all the way back to the logo

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Speaker 3: and instead of they getting that free throw line or

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Speaker 3: that three point line and then dribble handoff or screening

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Speaker 3: roll and all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: The two man game with jokes, it took that away.

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Speaker 3: From the end of the game, how they coming out

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Speaker 3: on the screens, how the guards is already up front,

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Speaker 3: Sobama don't have to show on the screen. They can

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Speaker 3: just switch it easy and uh, depending on where the

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Speaker 3: guy is that you know, you fall into that two

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Speaker 3: three or that one two two. It slowed they offense

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Speaker 1: The thing that you're talking about with the zone, which

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Speaker 1: what was made it so impactful for Miami that game.

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Speaker 2: It's like a matchup zone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's very effect exactly exactly.

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Speaker 1: So, man, we got game three tomorrow. Once again. We

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Speaker 3: I think Miami is gonna stick to their guns and

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Speaker 2: It's a mind game.

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Speaker 3: Now, you were so confident that you can't lose in Denver,

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You know you you done

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Speaker 3: Playoffs, in one games on the playoff, on the road,

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Speaker 2: In Denver you took a hit.

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Speaker 3: So now that it makes you second guess a lot

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Speaker 2: Get right exactly, points.

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Speaker 3: Like that's disrespectful to say that, which is true, but

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Speaker 1: What does it say about Miami that they've been able

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Speaker 3: What it shows Miami is and it shows the world

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Speaker 3: That's the reason that we picked Miami. A lot of

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Speaker 3: a cake walk Gentlemenna.

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Speaker 2: Win a game. They ain't gonna win a game in

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Speaker 3: Nah, a good coach, a good game plan, and guys

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like, that's what Miami finn

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Speaker 1: Hey, you know I'm excited, bro. Game three and now

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Speaker 1: you know it's only one sleep until the next game.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. We got a game tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: random start of the week with the Miami Heat winning

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Speaker 1: most wins ever by number eight seed in a single postseason,

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Speaker 1: so they didn't already made a little bit of history.

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Speaker 1: got a shout out black, you got any shoutouts, any shoutouts, man, Just.

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Speaker 3: Shout out uh to the Miami Heat coaching staff and

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Speaker 3: the adjustments that they made for Game two.

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Speaker 2: It gave them opportunity to win the game.

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Speaker 3: The adjustments and the play calling gave other guys opportunity

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Speaker 3: to make shots. I just love how Miami played that

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Speaker 2: Series all playoffs.

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Speaker 3: You know, even though Denver swept swept the Lakers, it

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: What we have seen out of these guys, every team,

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Speaker 3: how they've been playing. Man, it's just, uh, this is

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Speaker 2: And they just added on. They say they ain't a

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Speaker 3: Well, we got to roll one one, so it's a

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Speaker 3: series now, So like everybody get your popcorn, Ridica. I

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Speaker 3: feel like we going six and seven and this.

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Speaker 1: One, I ain't mad at it. I got a shot out, man,

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Speaker 1: I got a shout out, Duncan Robinson. Man, this is

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Speaker 1: a dude who got there. You know, he was whatever

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Speaker 1: He's no longer just a stand still catching shoot guy.

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Speaker 1: We've seen him catching the ball, making plays, going to

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Speaker 1: when I say I want to shot him, I want

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Speaker 1: have you lost your spot? He went and worked his

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Speaker 1: He's he's head faking, side stepping, he's getting to the baskets,

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Speaker 3: Give them props on this on this defense. So he's

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: It's bigger than anything.

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Speaker 3: Like you kids need to listen to that, Like nobody's

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Speaker 3: asking you to lock nobody up.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: The effort you give and how you play as a

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Speaker 2: That's it. That's what Duncan Robinson is doing and that's

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Speaker 1: I don't know which coaches, but I know you know

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Speaker 1: I want to shout out about him, because to be

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Speaker 1: goes down, gets hurt. Now it's opportunity, but he car

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Speaker 1: balling it. So no matter what, he didn't put himself

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Speaker 1: back in standing it. I'm a rotational I'm back in

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Speaker 1: the game, baby, I'm back out here. So shout out

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Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson Man, shout out them. He coaches over there,

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Speaker 1: coaching them up and keeping them right, and he ready

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Speaker 1: to go. That's a rap, though, black man. You know

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Speaker 1: we got the game tomorrow. We'll be right back at

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