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Speaker 1: This is straight fire with Jason MacIntire.

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Speaker 2: What is up straight by It's me Jason MacIntire, Straight

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Speaker 2: Fire for Wednesday, May the twenty first. You know who

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Speaker 2: wasn't fire on Tuesday night? Oh yeah, the Minnesota Timberwolves bench.

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Speaker 2: Holy hell were they awful. Timberwolves kids smoked in the

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Speaker 2: second half by okay, see I mean, I'm trying to

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Speaker 2: do the math here. They were outscored seventy to forty

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Speaker 2: in the second half on the road. Minnesota had a

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Speaker 2: great start right out of the gate, looked good and

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Speaker 2: then folded poorly, extremely poorly, and the thundertake a one

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Speaker 2: nothing late in the Western Conference Finals. The Game two

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Speaker 2: line is already out and it's seven and a half,

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Speaker 2: just like Game one opened. So no overreaction. Although rob

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Speaker 2: my sense and again this is just a sense. Watching

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Speaker 2: the pun's on TV, seeing the gauges on social media,

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Speaker 2: it looks like everybody thinks it's going to be a

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Speaker 2: runaway and OKAC is clearly a better team. I did.

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Speaker 2: I guess we're watching two different games, Rob because I was.

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Speaker 2: I know they won by twenty six points. I just

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Speaker 2: wasn't that impressed by OKC. I thought Minnesota came out

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Speaker 2: like a team that was like, Okay, we belong here.

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Speaker 2: And they hit their early shots and they look good early,

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Speaker 2: but then they fell into this, Hey, let's just jack threes.

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Speaker 2: Here is the stat you need to know. From Game one,

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Timberwolves attempted fifty one to three pointers. Fifty one. Now,

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Speaker 2: best I can tell, that is a record for a

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Speaker 2: conference finals game. That's according to Tom Haberstrow, fifty one

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Speaker 2: threes is a record. It's fine when you're hitting them early,

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Speaker 2: but to just settle in and say, hey, hey, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know what, We're gonna limit the turnovers. We don't

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Speaker 2: want to turn the ball over too much, and which

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Speaker 2: is gonna jack threes? And it was like what I

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Speaker 2: expect much more from Chris Finch. Obviously you could just

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Speaker 2: discount the fourth quarter. It was totally irrelevant. But again,

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Speaker 2: this to me was less about this mighty OKC defense

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Speaker 2: that Rob is gonna rave about here shortly, and it

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Speaker 2: was certainly less about SGA. Why is Michael Malone and

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Speaker 2: everybody kaping up for SGA, folks. He was two for

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Speaker 2: thirteen in the first half. He was eight for fourteen

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Speaker 2: in the second half. Oh wonderful. So he was ten

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Speaker 2: of twenty seven. That's twenty seven shots for SGA and

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Speaker 2: he scored thirty one points. Am I supposed to be

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Speaker 2: wowed by that? Twenty seven shots thirty one points, that's

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Speaker 2: like a Russell Westbrook line. Oh by the way, oh

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Speaker 2: for four from d But he did make eleven of

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Speaker 2: fourteen free throws, and yes, the free throw Merchant attempted fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Minnesota made fifteen as a team, So I'm not even

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Speaker 2: gonna play that card. Obviously. Okase's bench once again was terrific.

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Speaker 2: Cason Wallace, that guy is a problem, obviously, very skilled.

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Speaker 2: He's one of these guys I don't want to say.

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Speaker 2: And this is going a little overboard, but when Okase

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Speaker 2: last went to the finals, they had Kevin Durant and

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Speaker 2: six man named James Harden who was terrific. He eventually,

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Speaker 2: you know, coming off the bench, they were like, well,

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Speaker 2: we got it. We can't pay we can't afford him,

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Speaker 2: or we're not gonna be able to afford him, which

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Speaker 2: was stupid. Let's ship amount of town, which Jay did.

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Speaker 2: I don't think Keyson Wallace has the upside of James Harden.

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Speaker 2: I feel like James Harden has one MVP, maybe he's

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Speaker 2: got multiple scoring titles. But Kython Wallace is a version

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Speaker 2: of that. A young guy who's twenty one on the bench,

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Speaker 2: who is going to pop eventually. He only took three

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Speaker 2: shots in thirty three minutes, but seven assists, a steal,

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Speaker 2: and he was plus twenty one. He's a problem off

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: Ken Rich Williams, who I don't even remember at all

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Speaker 2: from the Denver series. They played jay Lynn Williams, not

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Speaker 2: JW Jaylynn Williams. He did. Jaylen Williams didn't even play

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Speaker 2: in Game one. He was the backup who showed somewhat

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Speaker 2: well well against Jokich. Ken Ridge Williams comes on and

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Speaker 2: he hit eight points by the way, Kenrich Williams had

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Speaker 2: like I think, two baskets in a row in that

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Speaker 2: pivotal third quarter. Caruso did well off the bench, Isaiah

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Speaker 2: Joe came on. Their bench is strong, and I thought

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Speaker 2: they were a big difference in the third quarter when

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Speaker 2: they ran away. But ultimately, to me, this was more

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised because I think they had the coaching advantage

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Speaker 2: in Finch fifty one threes makes no sense. Now let

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Speaker 2: me get to the real bad news. So obviously, Julius

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Speaker 2: Randall carried in the first half, he had twenty when

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Speaker 2: Minnesota led, but rob the real problem for Minnesota was

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Speaker 2: when they turned to their bench because Jaden McDaniels got

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Speaker 2: Then they just decided, you know what, We're not gonna

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Speaker 2: play him. Nas Reid, Dante Divicenzo and Nikel Alexander Walker.

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Speaker 2: That trio has had a good postseason. They had a

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Speaker 2: great regular season. Naz Reid might be the sixth man

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Speaker 2: and they shot five of twenty eight on threes. Nos

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Speaker 2: Reid particularly was horrific. He's got that funky shot and

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Speaker 2: And then it was just clang city oh for seven

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Speaker 2: on threes for nos Reed, Devincenzo three for twelve on threes.

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Speaker 2: So let me get this right. Chris Finch, Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 2: Reed plays fewer minutes, attempts eleven, Alexander Walker plays fewer

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Speaker 2: more shots than Edwards. I don't really know what happened.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to blame this on Chris Finch totally.

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Speaker 2: I would need to like rewatch the game to find

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Speaker 2: out if this is OKC saying we're not gonna let

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Speaker 2: aunt beat us Ant was fine, but he was definitely

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Speaker 2: not a difference maker. I didn't love the four turnovers,

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Speaker 2: so Rob, Ultimately it's not time to push the panic button.

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Speaker 2: Obviously you need one at home. I just maybe I'm

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Speaker 2: just totally missing it as possible. I don't see OKAC

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Speaker 2: as world beaters despite a twenty six point win. And

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Speaker 2: now I'm sure I'm gonna get killed in the comments.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, You're definitely gonna get killed in the comments.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how you can say a

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Speaker 3: team wins by twenty six points. You're like, I'm not

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Speaker 3: impressed by what they did. Look their defense, and I

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Speaker 3: don't say this lightly is as good as any NBA

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Speaker 3: defens as I've seen since the Bubble Lakers. Now they're

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Speaker 3: totally different style of defenses. The Lakers obviously were funneling

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Speaker 3: everything to the inside with Ad and Dwight and Javail

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Speaker 3: and all those guys, and they owned the paint. OKC

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Speaker 3: also owns the paint, but in a completely different way.

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Speaker 3: We talked about it coming into the series. They were

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Speaker 3: leading the postseason in point differential in the restricted area

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Speaker 3: plus eight and a half per game. Minnesota, to their credit,

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Speaker 3: was right behind him at seven and a half per game.

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Speaker 3: The difference was in this game, to your point, Minnesota

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Speaker 3: got completely shut out of the painted area. Not because

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Speaker 3: the basket. That wasn't at all their wings. Alice Caruso

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Speaker 3: keeson Wallas. You mentioned j dubb SGA when he's out

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Speaker 3: there playing like Lou Dort. They get so into you defensively,

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Speaker 3: all in your jersey. Their pressure is something that I

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Speaker 3: can't recall seeing in all of my years of basketball. Now,

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Speaker 3: we've seen physical basketball before in the nineties and the

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Speaker 3: two thousands, but the difference was the court was shrunk.

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Speaker 3: You didn't have as much movement, you didn't have as

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Speaker 3: much spacing, so it was easy to be physical like that.

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Speaker 3: OKC in the patient space Era has guys that can

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Speaker 3: get all in your mug and defend ninety four feet

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Speaker 3: on a spread basketball court. And that's a big reason

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Speaker 3: why points in the paint. OKC fifty four Minnesota. And

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Speaker 3: if that's not good enough for you, I know you're

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Speaker 3: saying not impressed by the defense. Discount the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: It was a blowout.

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Speaker 2: Sure, if you want to.

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Speaker 3: Play that game, that's fine. Here's what Minnesota shot in

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Speaker 3: the other three quarters. The first quarter eight for twenty

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Speaker 3: one to thirty eight percent, the second quarter seven for

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Speaker 3: for nineteen thirty two percent. This OKSEE defense is gnarly.

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Speaker 3: And just to put it for our football fans, here's

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Speaker 3: a comparison that I thought of in the wee hours

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Speaker 3: makes sense to you. Maybe I'll get cooked in the

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Speaker 3: comments too. This ok S team reminds me a little bit,

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Speaker 3: oh boy, of the NBA's version of the Kansas City Chiefs. Okay,

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs defense was incredible. That's how they won their games.

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Speaker 3: They lean on their defense. They find ways to win

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Speaker 3: their best player, Patrick Mahomes, to put it lightly, got

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Speaker 3: a very soft whistle in the NFL. Did he not ary?

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Speaker 3: Could you not say the same thing about this current

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Speaker 3: ok See team. Their defense is going to carry the day.

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Speaker 3: That's how they win, that's how they make their money.

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Speaker 3: They're also led by an MVP and SGA, who, to

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Speaker 3: your point, did not play great, but his style of

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Speaker 3: play gets a soft whistle. His hurky jerky movements leads

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Speaker 3: to him getting to the free throw line a lot.

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Speaker 3: It's not fun to watch unless you're like a real

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Speaker 3: purist of the game. So I said on Twitter, it's

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Speaker 3: not ethical basketball if that's how you want to call it,

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Speaker 3: But goddamn is it effective.

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Speaker 2: Rob It's interesting you say, swallow the whistles. There was

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Speaker 2: a litany of videos posted online about how soft ass

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Speaker 2: like flying to the left and Anthony Edwards is right

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Speaker 2: could just see everybody on Minnesota be like what are

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Speaker 2: that Detroit New York series where it was prison rules basketball? Okay,

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Speaker 2: and call this it's just the lack of consistencies, just

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Speaker 2: that it just hurts the NBA. Now, I did see

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Speaker 2: an interesting number regarding the threes rob when Minnesota just

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Speaker 2: kept settling. So teams are now two to eighteen this

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Speaker 2: season when attempting forty five or more threes against Oklahoma City.

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Speaker 2: I hate to break it to Minnesota, but you guys

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Speaker 2: are not the Celtics. You can't make a million threes.

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Speaker 2: Like you've got some good three point shooters, but as

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Speaker 2: the Lakers proved, this is not a great three point

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Speaker 2: shooting team. Remember the Lakers and Tiberwols were close in

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Speaker 2: I think the final three games might have been the

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Speaker 2: final four games, and Minnesota couldn't shoot threes, and that's

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Speaker 2: why the Lakers were able to keep it close despite

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Speaker 2: having like nothing on the interior. But ok see, got wise.

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Speaker 2: They said we're not gonna jack threes. They only took

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Speaker 2: twenty one threes versus fifty one. Now in the first half,

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Speaker 2: when Minnesota was jacking threes, rob it wasn't a big

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Speaker 2: deal because they were collecting offensive boards. They had eight

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Speaker 2: offensive rebounds in the first half, and then in the

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Speaker 2: third quarter they're jacking threes and they got zero offensive rebounds.

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Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, you get, okay, see, we're

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Speaker 2: just gonna let's rebound the freakin' basketball, not get Julius

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Speaker 2: Randall in company multiple chances, and you just kind of

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Speaker 2: turned their water off and now and then they add nothing.

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Speaker 2: I did see, Rob, I'm sure you saw this. There's

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Speaker 2: a video circulating Anthony Edwards and Julius Randall are at

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Speaker 2: the podium. Anthony Edwards picks up the scores sheet and

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Speaker 2: Now we don't know what they laughed at, but I'm

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Speaker 2: I don't think Chris Finch is panicking now if they

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Speaker 2: a different outlook. They will not approach fifty one threes,

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Speaker 3: I got a wild take for you real quick before

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Speaker 3: you wrap it up, based off He's okay see in

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Speaker 3: He's the guy, and there's no way standard that's about it.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm an Austin Reeves guy.

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Speaker 3: That's why I had to throw it at you real quick.

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Speaker 2: It's you know, okay, hold on, let me look at this.

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Speaker 2: fifth in salary. You're not paying anybody other than Jay

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Speaker 3: Like they just seem like they have a lot of guys.

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Speaker 2: Who are in that three and d mole that everybody

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Speaker 2: Now I knew loud Dort's a good player. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: We can wrap up by the way, did you watch

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Speaker 3: I saw the highlight. I didn't get really catch it

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Speaker 2: What in the lead up to the Western Conference game one,

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Speaker 2: not doing for Clark what the Warriors do for Curry.

428
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 2: Curry is an amazing shape and they set a gauntlet

429
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 2: of screens and Curry gets open repeatedly. The Fever aren't

430
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 2: really doing that. You know, there's a screen here or there,

431
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 2: but I'm not seeing the elevator play. I'm not seeing

432
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 2: anything flashy and smart to the corner. I would think

433
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,159
Speaker 2: they would be doing that for Clark. I didn't see

434
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 2: that in this game. Now, again it's early. Maybe they

435
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,120
Speaker 2: get there's working in new stuff. They've got so many

436
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 2: new players. But yeah, I can't really take my eyes

437
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 2: off Kaitlin Clark because that story. And by the way,

438
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,679
Speaker 2: the Angel reaes Caitlin Clark thing is what are we

439
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 2: on day four?

440
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 3: Yeah?

441
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 2: Could we get RG three on?

442
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 1: No?

443
00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 3: I think pieces that is just really jump.

444
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 2: It instantly becomes about race, and like, I can't believe

445
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,920
Speaker 2: Ryan Clark said, I know, I know, you know he's

446
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,400
Speaker 2: he's not talking about black women at the dinner table

447
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 2: because he's had two white wives. Like, yeah, I heard that.

448
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 2: I was like, why would you say that? And let

449
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,159
Speaker 2: me wrap up rob just because RG three, if him

450
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,399
Speaker 2: and Clark probably would go to blows over that. So

451
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 2: we're in our Men's League game Monday night. I didn't

452
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 2: want to talk about this yesterday on the pod because

453
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 2: I was still heated. So we're playing the team with

454
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 2: the league's leading scorer. This guy is obviously a really

455
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,680
Speaker 2: good player. He claims he played at the University of Georgia.

456
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 2: I looked him up. I couldn't find him. But he

457
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 2: has worked as like a scout for the Warriors for

458
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 2: a while. And he's a really good shooter. He was

459
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 2: leading the league in scoring at like twenty eight a game.

460
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 2: But we played him last year, and I know he's

461
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 2: a little you know, he's like, I think thirty eight

462
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 2: forty whatever he is. I know he doesn't want to

463
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 2: work hard to get open. So I say I'll guard

464
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:55,959
Speaker 2: him and I'll pick him a full court and I'm

465
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 2: going to deny him the basketball, right, So that's our strategy.

466
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 2: And I tell I'll start on him, let me go hard,

467
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 2: and then you can rotate in and we'll tag in.

468
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,959
Speaker 2: And so he has zero points midway through this first half, okay,

469
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,120
Speaker 2: and he starts to get frustrated. So he finally gets

470
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 2: the ball and I'm all over him in the back court.

471
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 2: And then another guy comes to double and as he passes,

472
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 2: he then like shoves me with like a Draymond uses

473
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 2: his arm and I look at the ref. I'm like,

474
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 2: what's that? And he's like, and then the guy goes, well,

475
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:27,919
Speaker 2: if he's gonna be all up on me like that,

476
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw elbows. I was like, what do you

477
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,439
Speaker 2: I didn't and the rest like he didn't touch you.

478
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 2: And then we start this war like back and forth

479
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 2: as one of his teammates turn it over and he

480
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 2: starts saying stuff, and I start saying stuff and I'm

481
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 2: subbing out already, right, I was coming off, and he's like,

482
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 2: you know, start saying more stuff. And then you know me,

483
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 2: I'm mouthy. I'm not gonna back down, and you know,

484
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 2: the commissioner. At this point, the commissioner steps in and

485
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 2: is walking him the guy over to his bench. But

486
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 2: I still hear stuff. I don't know if it's people,

487
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 2: and I'm like, just stop being a whiny bitch. A

488
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 2: play basket. She played basketball, this is you know. He's like, So,

489
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 2: then I guess that really set him off. I think

490
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 2: I said that because in the heat of the moment,

491
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 2: you don't remember. So he is then irate and he's

492
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 2: coming after me, like coming down the sideline to me,

493
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 2: walking around people who are like, what's going on, And

494
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 2: there's like probably fifteen people watching the game. And these

495
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 2: are all guys who play pick up all the time.

496
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 2: And you know, this guy's bigger than me. I mean,

497
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 2: I'm in better shape than him. But he's very angry,

498
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,880
Speaker 2: and you know, he's yelling I'm not that guy, I'm

499
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 2: not the what and he's like kind of foaming it that.

500
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 2: He's very heated. And at this point he's walking close

501
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 2: to me, and I'm like, I'm still thinking, like, oh,

502
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 2: nothing's gonna happen, like just what's wrong? And I keep saying,

503
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 2: just play basketball. Stop whining, play basketball. And at one

504
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 2: point he gets like maybe eight feet away from me,

505
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 2: and he's still heated, and I'm like, he's this guy

506
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 2: in my mind, I'm like, is this guy gonna And

507
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 2: I'm just standing there is this guy gonna throw a

508
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 2: punch and like three people grab him, and then the

509
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 2: commissioner pulls us both outside. He's like, listen, guys, I'm

510
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 2: gonna have to write you up for this. You know

511
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 2: we can't have any of this. By the way, if

512
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 2: anybody throws a punch, you are thrown out of this

513
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 2: gym permanently. Your membership's disbanded. And I'm sitting here like,

514
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, was this guy gonna swing on me. Rob,

515
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 2: I swear nobody's ever swung on me in basketball in

516
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 2: the forty years I've been playing. Never And in my

517
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 2: I go back into the gym and like, I'm talking

518
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 2: to our guys on the team and they're like, dude,

519
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 2: A Liner goes he was gonna put you in the hospital.

520
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 2: Matt Liner's on our team, and I was like, come on,

521
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 2: He's like, dude, he was so angry and I was

522
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 2: like why, and they're like, I don't know. I think

523
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 2: he just snapped and you know, he hadn't been getting

524
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 2: the ball and they were they're a good team. But

525
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 2: we smashed him. And Rob, have you ever been when

526
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 2: was the last time you got swung them?

527
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,640
Speaker 3: Like in a sporting event or just in life? Oh gosh,

528
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 3: it doesn't happen, does it. We're not really, not really.

529
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy apparently's married with a kid or

530
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 2: two now, and I'm like, who does that? I was

531
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 2: just I was stuck. Now, maybe I popped off too much.

532
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 2: And afterward, you know, we beat him and he's kind

533
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 2: of he's new to this team, so a lot of

534
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 2: the guys didn't know him. And after him and I

535
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 2: had to both sit out. You know, we both rested.

536
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 2: After this. We went on like a fifteen nothing run

537
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 2: or whatever. And after the game, I noticed, like, you know,

538
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 2: we go to say a good game, his whole team

539
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:16,640
Speaker 2: like walked away from it. He's sitting on the bench

540
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 2: with like his head down. I go around like Chris, hey, man, sorry,

541
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 2: I don't know what I said, but sorry, I lost

542
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 2: my head. He's like, yeah, no, pro, that's all good.

543
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, man. And I'm sitting there and I'm like,

544
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 2: maybe he had a bad day, maybe he lost his job,

545
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 2: something happened to his cat. I don't know, but Rob,

546
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 2: I just have a hard time wondering, like what makes

547
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 2: a grown adult with a family and a job and

548
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: like a light, what makes you snap like that.

549
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 3: It's never that incident, and we think we talked about

550
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 3: on other shows about other people you getting in his

551
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 3: mug and trash talking. I promise you that.

552
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 2: No, I don't get it. I don't get in people's faces.

553
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 3: But whatever, in that instance, I promise you that that

554
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 3: was not the impetus behind him potentially swinging on you.

555
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 3: It's something that happened the day before, an hour before,

556
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 3: a week before, or something that's been building and building

557
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 3: and building, and you just happen to be the one

558
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 3: that set him off because either he you know, something

559
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 3: happened with his wife. I don't know what it is,

560
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 3: and you know he's not gonna hit her obviously, but

561
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 3: he can definitely hit Jason McIntyre. Like, you know, there's

562
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 3: not gonna be any repercussions from that. I like, God,

563
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 3: forbid to kick out of a basketball league. That's the

564
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 3: worst gonna happen.

565
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 2: Well, not the league. You remember at the gym, you'd

566
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 2: be kicked out whatever.

567
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 3: But I'm saying, like, relatively, that's not gonna like you're

568
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 3: not gonna punch your boss at work, you know. But

569
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 3: the guy I played with on the rec league that

570
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 3: is not on my team. That's that's it just happens

571
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 3: to be the one.

572
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: Do you remember the Chris Child's Kobe Bryant incident?

573
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 3: I do?

574
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 2: Do we ever get word on what happened? Why that

575
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 2: like that? I mean, like you don't see that in

576
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: the NBA Guys just toe to toe, just swinging on

577
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 2: each other. You don't, That's that never happened.

578
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 3: Do you remember the Rick Fox Doug Christie like that one?

579
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 2: Better?

580
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, that way they met in the locker

581
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 3: room and they went.

582
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 2: Down the hot tunnel. Yeah yeah, yeah, that is like

583
00:28:58,600 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 2: it had to be something personal.

584
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

585
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 2: You know, I just it surprises me. Obviously getting heated

586
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 2: and upset and getting in someone's face, but like being

587
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: ready to swing on someone is like that's wild anyway.

588
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 2: So I just I don't know why I told that story,

589
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 2: but maybe you could see in Minnesota Timberwlves so some

590
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 2: fight like that in game two.

591
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 3: That was the version of Clark versus Reese. That little

592
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 3: thing that was your version of it.

593
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 2: I'm waiting for one of the one of the guys

594
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 2: on our team was like, Jam, that wouldn't have been

595
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 2: a bad trade if you both got ejected, you know,

596
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 2: And I'm like I'll take that, you know. I mean,

597
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 2: I think I hit five threes in the game. I

598
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: don't know if they posted the box score real quick,

599
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 2: Nicks are four and a half tonight, who you got?

600
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 3: I mean, I like the Knicks to win, but I

601
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 3: don't know if I don't feel kindable betting upad on

602
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 3: this game at all.

603
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did have. I did a pizza money on

604
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 2: the Timberwolves that it was flushed third quarter, So i'll

605
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 2: i'll do I'll put on the next month, hopefully I

606
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 2: get a four. I think they'll be I think they'll

607
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 2: be okay. In game one. There's a really good Knicks team.

608
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 2: By the way, Garden is going to be just absolutely geeked.

609
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 2: And yeah, I think Nicks Nick's got this one in.

610
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 2: And by the way, the history of these teams a

611
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 2: lot of double digit wins.

612
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a style of play style the

613
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 3: way the Pacers play. It's it's lend us off the

614
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 3: big games on either.

615
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 2: Side unless you're the Cavs. Right, all right, we are

616
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 2: back tomorrow. See you then,