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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, it is September one, ten days till

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Let's go. It's me Jason McIntyre, straight fire

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Speaker 1: as you can expect. Coming off a pretty thrilling Monday

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Speaker 1: night in the NBA. I'm fired up. Oh I feel good.

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Speaker 1: By the way, the biggest sports story today is in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. We'll get to it shortly. I just need

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Speaker 1: to remind everybody the best bet is now seven and three.

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Speaker 1: What is up? Had the Heat getting five and a

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Speaker 1: half against the Bucks. We may touch on Jimmy Buckets

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Speaker 1: given Janice forty and a great cover for the Heat. Listen,

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Speaker 1: picking one game a night for the best bet is

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Speaker 1: a lot easier than picking multiple games. But you know,

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Speaker 1: when you start to get a little bit hot, you're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I need to dip into more games. Discipline matters in gambling.

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Speaker 1: To my gambling friends. By the way, we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a couple of gambling guests coming up in the next

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Speaker 1: ten days before football begins, so obviously keep it locked

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Speaker 1: for that. Tonight, got some juicy stuff. You have to

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Speaker 1: wait for the best bet at the end of the podcast.

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Speaker 1: For that. Also, I need to shout out to Kendrick Perkins,

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Speaker 1: former NBA player now at ESPN. He's a talking head

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Speaker 1: for whatever ESPN has on the NBA. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I had that rant Monday morning about the Clippers, Doc Rivers.

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Speaker 1: We turn it into a Twitter and Instagram thing and

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Speaker 1: I tagged Perkins and I was like, you know, um,

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Speaker 1: Clippers got some guys like Marcus Morris, Patrick Beverley who

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Speaker 1: Rivers had that back in two thousand and eight with Perk,

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Speaker 1: I tagged Perkins just for the heck of it. We've

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Speaker 1: had some squabbles on social media and he responded with

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Speaker 1: that meme. No lies were told. It was pretty funny.

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Speaker 1: I know, Rob g gotta kick out of that as well.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll try to get Kendrick Perkins on here. He

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Speaker 1: get to later in the podcast. Remember, everybody subscribe, rate

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Speaker 1: and review, and I'm sure that there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: people out there saying, man, why do you always say that,

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Speaker 1: Jay Woods? Why do you always mentioned subscribe, rate and review?

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Speaker 1: So I'm told podcasts like the longtime podcasters have learned

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Speaker 1: how to game the system. They've gained the algorithm. Okay,

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Speaker 1: they know that the best way to move up in

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Speaker 1: and over time, one year, two year, three years, boom,

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Speaker 1: your podcast gets way more exposure at least to advertising

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Speaker 1: and money and better guests and basically everything. Now, that's

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Speaker 1: what the longtime po podcasters have done. I am on

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Speaker 1: week three here, so we're not playing that game yet,

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Speaker 1: not yet for sure. But the biggest story in sports today,

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Speaker 1: this is what I want to start. It is so

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Speaker 1: in my wheelhouse. If you guys, remember Brian Windhorst came

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Speaker 1: on here two weeks ago and said, forget about breaking news,

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Speaker 1: there's no value in that. The value in journalism today

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Speaker 1: is being ahead of the curve, seeing the forest through

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Speaker 1: the trees. And that's not easy. Okay, you guys know

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Speaker 1: we humans were very bad at predicting the future. And

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Speaker 1: I would make a bet if you had said ten

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Speaker 1: years ago to meet two Jason, where will you be in?

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Speaker 1: There is a zero point zero percent chance I would

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Speaker 1: have said, Yeah, I'm in l A, living about seven

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Speaker 1: predicting the future no shot. However, when you try to

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Speaker 1: We've seen the great ones try to go to the NFL.

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Speaker 1: So everything setting up for Dabo Sweeney. And I know

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Speaker 1: All he's done in the NFL is right, a tremendous defense,

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Speaker 1: Rob g I don't know where to start. I don't

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Speaker 1: to succeed, I'm gonna let you decide. Do we go Bucks?

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Speaker 1: And then you factor in Budenholzer's prior struggles in the

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Speaker 1: a body bag, and you know, Budenholzer maybe a little

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Speaker 1: bit shook. I mean, how do you not adjust and

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Speaker 1: change things up on Jimmy Butler and rob g They

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Speaker 1: Miami got like nothing from Duncan Robinson, who's a good player.

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Speaker 1: He averaged like game in the bubble. Tyler hero wasn't great.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty stunned how handled the Bucks were in this game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, but I will say this though, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's as complex as Mike Budenholzer lost the team

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Speaker 1: somewhere between the pandemic and the bubble. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's that complex or that deep at all. I think

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Speaker 1: it breaks down to very simply. And Doug Gottlie try

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Speaker 1: to tell you about this on the Monday Pod. Janice

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Speaker 1: cannot shoot at all. I mean, I know he made

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Speaker 1: two threes last night, and you know, good for him.

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Speaker 1: But if you watch the way that the heat were

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Speaker 1: defending him, they were just giving him six ft of

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Speaker 1: space and saying, go ahead and take a shot if

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Speaker 1: you want to, and then when he gets in close,

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Speaker 1: they just hack him. That's like worse than hack a shack,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. He was out there airballing free throws. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was a rough night for Jhannest. But I don't

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Speaker 1: want to be too critical of Janice because he is

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Speaker 1: a FuG your laker. Not slander him in any way

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Speaker 1: because he's gonna be wearing the purple and golden about

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Speaker 1: a year and a half. So I'm gonna try to

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Speaker 1: be nice about it. Yeah, I don't Luca even want

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Speaker 1: to play with you, honest, now, I'm kidding. I've got

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Speaker 1: just this is a joke. Yes, he is the MVP,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Uh Rob G. I put out a

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Speaker 1: tweet that got all these people angry where it's like,

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Speaker 1: are you guys really I hope you're embarrassed about your

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Speaker 1: Janice m v P vote? And I'm dead serious. This

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Speaker 1: is the NBA's fault, rob G. And I'm sorry to

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Speaker 1: go on a random tangent here, but the NBA decides

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Speaker 1: to try to make a big show of it by

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Speaker 1: giving out the awards after the playoffs are done. And

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Speaker 1: you know what that. I mean. The m v P

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Speaker 1: historically has failed in the in the postseason, right James Harden,

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Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook, Uh, Janice? And it's like you're handing out

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Speaker 1: an award after the playoffs when they couldn't get to

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Speaker 1: the finals. What are we doing? It just seems really

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Speaker 1: idiotic for the NBA. And I'm telling you now, Janice

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Speaker 1: wins an m v P and a Defensive Player of

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Speaker 1: the Year, which is likely, and then loses to the

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Speaker 1: Heat in the second round. And it just comes back

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Speaker 1: to like, who gives a rip about the regular season?

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Speaker 1: Because you can put up all the stats you on,

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Speaker 1: I don't give a crap if you're not winning in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs when it matters. How could you be the

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Speaker 1: most valuable player in the league. And I know that's

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Speaker 1: two thoughts coming together and it doesn't make a ton

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Speaker 1: of sense, but I want to blame the NBA for that.

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Speaker 1: If no, don't blame the NBA. You know, you can

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Speaker 1: blame Dirk Novitsky because he was the one who had

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Speaker 1: the one seed Dallas Mavericks and m VP season and

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Speaker 1: they lost to the eight seed we believe Warriors, And

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Speaker 1: they had the m v P press conference in between

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Speaker 1: rounds one and two, which ordinarily would be the perfect

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Speaker 1: time even if even if Janice sucked the rest of

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, you know, you expect the m v P

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Speaker 1: to at least get out of the first round. So

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Speaker 1: as soon as Dirk did that and just had the

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Speaker 1: most embarrassing news conference Rosey Trophy presentation I've ever seen,

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Speaker 1: the NBA decided they would wait until later on in

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Speaker 1: the postseason, even after the season, to give the award,

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Speaker 1: And since then it's led to this issue where it's

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Speaker 1: hard to differentiate what the regular season m v P

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Speaker 1: and the full season m v P is. So this

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Speaker 1: is Dirk's fault, It's not the NBA's fault, alright, So um,

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Speaker 1: listen Monday was pretty phenomenal day. My kids had their

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Speaker 1: first full day of school. A lot of good basketball,

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Speaker 1: good juicy NFL stories. September is here, folks. Enjoy it

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Speaker 1: all right, um. Coming up next, we will do the

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Speaker 1: getting a little cock shore over here, very excited. Let's

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Speaker 1: and I called this Celtics team to beat the Raptors.

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Speaker 1: Game one was easy money and I'm gonna double down. Now.

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Speaker 1: This is risky because Toronto is coming out backs against

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Speaker 1: the wall. They gotta win this. Siaka will not be

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Speaker 1: as bad Van Vleet, will not be three of sixteen

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Speaker 1: or whatever. They will play better, But I'm sorry. This

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Speaker 1: is a Celtics team that has been dominant in the bubble.

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Speaker 1: In the playoffs, oh my gosh, five and oh and

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Speaker 1: they basically will have won every fourth quarter that mattered.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if we're gonna see a mental block. If

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Speaker 1: Toronto isn't leading it like halftime or in the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: will it get mental? Holy sh it, we can't beat

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Speaker 1: this team. Give me the Celtics getting a point and

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Speaker 1: a half now for Game seven, Utah Denver. I know

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Speaker 1: you know the eight Denver Nuggets fans out there angry

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Speaker 1: that I'm not really getting into a preview here. I

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Speaker 1: don't have a side. I'm gonna go with the under

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Speaker 1: under to eighteen and a half. And this is what

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Speaker 1: it stems from. Do you guys remember Nuggets Spurs Game

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Speaker 1: seven in last year in the first round. Do you

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Speaker 1: remember it? You probably should. It wasn't a great Game seven.

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Speaker 1: The total was two oh eight, the game ended six.

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Speaker 1: Game seven teams get tight. I know that seems impossible

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Speaker 1: for the likes of Jamal Murray and Donovan Mitchell, but

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Speaker 1: I'll be shocked if this hits to eighteen. I've got

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Speaker 1: under to eighteen. It started at twenty. It's already ticked

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Speaker 1: down to eighteen. I think the smart money's got to

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Speaker 1: be on an under. In game seven, we saw Warriors Calves.

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Speaker 1: Game seven in the finals was way under. Teams get tight.

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Speaker 1: Every possession matters. I don't think we'll be seeing the crazy,

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Speaker 1: offensive madness that we have seen with these two teams

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Speaker 1: in the series. I really like the under to eighteen,

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Speaker 1: so doubling up on the best bet. If we get

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Speaker 1: We will be back on Wednesday, Peace four