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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in side Happy Monday, The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: Here we are, beginning of the second half, Game five

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Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals, Oklahoma City, with a fifty nine

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Speaker 1: forty five lead over the Pacers. We got show Heyo

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Speaker 1: Tani taking them out for the first time in almost

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Speaker 1: two years. Coming up in about ten minutes. We got

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff we got tonight here on the show,

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Speaker 1: and I'll give.

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Speaker 3: You one prop bet already.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I might go show hey o Tani more strike

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Speaker 1: He's pitching an inning more strikeouts than Tyre's Halliburton has points.

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Speaker 4: Whooo, I don't know if that prop bet got put

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Speaker 4: up on the map.

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Speaker 1: Right now, I'm even, and the game I haven't started.

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Speaker 1: I'm even right now because Tyre's Halliburton has not scored

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Speaker 1: in the first half of this game again, a fifty

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Speaker 1: nine to forty five lead Oklahoma City, and the big

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Speaker 1: story Tyre's Halliburton, who missed a couple of minutes a

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Speaker 1: little bit of calf tightness, had his calf retaped or

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Speaker 1: or looked out in the locker room, came back out,

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Speaker 1: he still was not able to score. He didn't look

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Speaker 1: good before he got hurt. He didn't look after he

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Speaker 1: got hurt. I'm telling you, he's got so much Anthony

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Speaker 1: Edwards in him where he just goes ghost for long

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Speaker 1: periods of time in multiple playoff games and series, no

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Speaker 1: matter what it is. I feel like, would it be

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Speaker 1: better if the thunder were all wearing Knicks jerseys because

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Speaker 1: you were motivated for the majority of that series. I

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Speaker 1: feel like, really, do you really need he really needs

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Speaker 1: motivation right this Sometimes he just goes absolutely space ghost

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Speaker 4: Seemed like a best of three scenario. You know, all

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Speaker 4: those words like legend, legacy and whatever else we do

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Speaker 4: and ascribe those as quickly as we do. Haliburton was

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Speaker 4: getting a lot of love, right We started to see

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Speaker 4: the poison pens coming out, going maybe we have a

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Speaker 4: new villain, a guy that embraces the hate, you know,

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Speaker 4: embrace debate, embrace the hate, all of those kind of

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Speaker 4: fun things. And then you have an effort here. And

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Speaker 4: he didn't look right early in the game. Wasn't moving

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Speaker 4: very well defensively, a step slow, looked like he was

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Speaker 4: dragging his leg a little bit, goes out, gets taped up,

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Speaker 4: has the bandage on. Then he's on the sideline and

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Speaker 4: you get the camera shot of him putting the towelo

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Speaker 4: his face as if he's in anguished. He's anguished, and

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Speaker 4: then he gets back out and once again he's he's

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Speaker 4: less than less than ideal in terms of his attacking

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Speaker 4: on offense and sliding on d but he's played seventeen minutes,

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Speaker 4: so it becomes the all right, excuses and all of that.

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Speaker 4: You're still on the court. I can only evaluate what's there.

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Speaker 1: No look, and here's the thing is that he didn't

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Speaker 1: look good before, he didn't look good after, right, That's

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. And the fact is, yes, seventeen minutes,

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Speaker 1: if he couldn't go, if it was impossible him to go,

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Speaker 1: he would be sitting out because this is you don't

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Speaker 1: the Pacers, but okay, if he was really a danger

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Speaker 1: of exacerbating his injury, getting hurt and then missing the

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Speaker 1: rest of the finals, the Pacers would sit him down

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Speaker 1: and say, you know what, we got three days between games.

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Speaker 1: We're not playing again until July seventeenth. We're gonna sit

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Speaker 1: and we get back it. Maybe we can, we can,

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Speaker 1: you never know, we may get a big night for

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Speaker 1: McConnell off the bench and Matheren could start hitting shots

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Speaker 1: and clearly this is a game. It looks like Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: he's given it a go two to three times. How

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Speaker 1: many times a guy to come out of the locker room,

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Speaker 1: sit down. If it was really really bad, they would

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Speaker 1: pull him out of the game and say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a night where we try

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Speaker 1: to do it without you, and we keep you right

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Speaker 1: and get you ready for game six back home.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we know cavstrains can escalate quickly into other things too, right,

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Speaker 4: So that's the other part you're talking pain threshold, but

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Speaker 4: also to your point about exacerbating it and creating an

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Speaker 4: something that potentially becomes a long stand. I mean, how

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Speaker 4: many guys have we seen that are already off of

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Speaker 4: our Bingo cards for twenty twenty five twenty six based

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Speaker 4: on in he sustained in the playoffs, We're already had

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Speaker 4: best of three. I know you don't want to go down,

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Speaker 4: intense treatment, but he's still still working. So our poison

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Speaker 4: pens to use that term again, are going to be

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Speaker 4: out you play. I evaluate you on what you're able

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Speaker 4: to do. Because you didn't tap out right, you haven't

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Speaker 4: gone to the locker room for good, and you're not done.

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Speaker 4: So now you're a detriment to your team. We have

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Speaker 4: to evaluate you just as a negative instead of an

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Speaker 1: So we'll keep you posting on this. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 1: A lot of basketball to go here. Meanwhile, what we

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Speaker 1: are getting set for in about three minutes is the

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Speaker 1: first appearance of show Hey Otani on a pitcher's mound

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Speaker 1: in nearly two years. A story breaks late last night

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Speaker 1: following the the Dodgers game. Hey, guess what, Show Hey's

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Speaker 1: back tomorrow. Wait, not in a week, No back tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: but seriously, yes, he's back tomorrow. Probably gonna go an inning.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't believe he's gonna go any more

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Speaker 1: their rotation, not a moment too soon for show. Hey,

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Speaker 1: But you know, seeing all the prop bets that are

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Speaker 1: out there for show, hit what's it gonna be? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the under on all of them. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'll take the over on on more more strikeouts for

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Speaker 1: Otani than points for Halliburton. But I will go under

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Speaker 1: what's it one and a half because he's not gonna

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Speaker 1: than an inning, I would say, okay, but I'm pretty sure, hey,

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Speaker 1: going inning, don't go crazy, and we're gonna have a plan, right,

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Speaker 1: that's all the Dodgers want to have a plan, and.

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Speaker 3: It's got well, let you go.

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Speaker 1: Let's go, because then if he gets in trouble in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the second inning, or he'd he throws

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Speaker 1: a lot of pitches, they'll want to make a move.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be one inning. So I'm gonna go it

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Speaker 1: one and a half for strikeouts. I'm gonna go under.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's even going under for walks under for everything

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Speaker 4: except for point shimmer Halbert, how about to record one

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Speaker 4: or more strikeouts and to hit a home run plus two?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so more than one strikeout and a home run? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: or one strike out on a home run one plus one?

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Speaker 1: You just got to get at least one, okay, So

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Speaker 1: one strike out, one strike out on a home run, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: so if you strike if he strikes out one and

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Speaker 1: he hits a home run, how about.

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Speaker 3: To go three up, three down in the first. Oh,

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Speaker 3: that that's a good one. I like that. It's of

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Speaker 3: course he's going three up, three plus one fifty. What

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Speaker 3: kind of question was that?

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Speaker 1: Mike and a long drive? Da Look at this, I

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Speaker 1: can't believe it. Three straight home runs to start the

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Speaker 1: game off?

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Speaker 4: Oshi, all right, to allow an earn run, it's at

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Speaker 4: a half a run plus one eighty five?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'll go oh yeah, yeah, yeah, to not to

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Speaker 1: not allow I'm going I'm no, I'm going.

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Speaker 3: To go back to my last answer.

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Speaker 4: It's apodres, right, So you're going minus two eighty minus

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Speaker 4: too eighty for no runs, yes, all right, hits giving

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Speaker 4: It's already been already been addressed. We're full Belichick. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's already been addressed. We're already been addressed. Yeah, all

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Speaker 4: sorts of fun props that come up. You know, it's

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Speaker 4: also a nice convenient thing. Roki Sasaki probably isn't gonna

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Speaker 3: TONI gotto, TONI, let's go.

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Speaker 1: I just got a text for a friend of mine

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Speaker 1: And I said, leave extra early. We always cause they

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Speaker 1: go to a lot of Dodger games. I go, no,

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Speaker 1: but I'm serious, because tonight, because of Otani, you want

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Speaker 3: Don't worry, We're gonna leave early. I go. I'm telling you,

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be like a playoff game. It's not.

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Speaker 1: It's not your garden Varia Dodger Potter game. I know

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Speaker 1: the traffic is lighter because now school is out in La.

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Speaker 1: a teacher, and they're both teachers, and I'm like, but

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Speaker 1: leave way early. I'm telling you because you're gonna miss Otani. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: weird lived time. I just got a text. Wow, parking

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Speaker 1: throw his first pitch of the game. I'm like, what

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Speaker 1: do you want too? I told you to leave early.

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Speaker 1: I told you to live. There was a bobblehead day. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I had all these things early. They opened the gates

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Speaker 1: an extra hour early.

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Speaker 4: We were watching video when when he went out to

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Speaker 4: do his warm ups and stretch. Uh. The ovation that

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Speaker 4: he had from the crowd already inside the ball ballpark,

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Speaker 4: Uh and rolling through I mean, just an incredible announcement

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Speaker 4: right last night into this morning, and the anticipation tickets

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Speaker 4: if you waited so like you had. This is one

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Speaker 4: of those you're a day trader. I'm liked, you must

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Speaker 4: tell your future. You know your pumpkin futures before Halloween

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Speaker 4: at about six thirty to get so, about a half hour,

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Speaker 4: forty minutes before first pitch, get In had gotten down

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Speaker 4: to sixty four dollars.

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Speaker 3: Now you look about four hours prior.

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

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

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Speaker 1: Well, the Cup is in the building, and I gotta

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Speaker 3: They've just been a machine.

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Speaker 4: That's kind of what the announcers were doing on that

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Speaker 3: That one, Like, wow, here he's dead, he's already dead.

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Speaker 4: My god, you don't think that guy you watched him

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Speaker 3: See again, right here, here's the replay right here, you know.

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Speaker 1: is that he in the hoop as well. Is that good?

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Speaker 1: And when she shoots from three she makes a lot

433
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Speaker 1: of them. She's only had a couple of games shot part.

434
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Speaker 1: You were right, but like three points. She was a

435
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Speaker 1: volume three point shooter last year, right, And she's always

436
00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,959
Speaker 1: been She's always taken a lot of threes, but in college,

437
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Speaker 1: okay makes a fair amount of them. Right, I had

438
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Speaker 1: a pretty good but last year she was a volume

439
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Speaker 1: three point shooter. That's the one thing I could take away, say, okay,

440
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Speaker 1: that's one thing she got.

441
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Speaker 3: To improve from year one to year two. Is it.

442
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Speaker 1: You can't just go, you know, you can't shoot fifteen

443
00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:01,840
Speaker 1: he's a game and go four for fifteen. Right, you

444
00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,240
Speaker 1: have to have a better percentage from three, And so

445
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,399
Speaker 1: far she's had that, Right, She's she's eleven of twenty

446
00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,600
Speaker 1: from three point range, and she's come back from injury.

447
00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,200
Speaker 1: She had a couple of big games before she got

448
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Speaker 1: hurt as well. So that's been the biggest thing. And

449
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Speaker 1: now that she's making threes, like, look out, like, like,

450
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,359
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Because before you can at

451
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Speaker 1: least sag off of her if she's you know, I'll

452
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Speaker 1: give you the threes, because yeah, I'll give you the

453
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Speaker 1: one miracle one that you make from the logo if

454
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Speaker 1: you're gonna miss the next six, right, Like, I'm okay

455
00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 1: with that. But now if she's hitting them from three, suddenly,

456
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Speaker 1: defensively she's got more of the floor to operate on.

457
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Speaker 4: Watch out yeah, we've talked about how it improved. This

458
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,520
Speaker 4: roster is than the depth, and there's no there's no

459
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Speaker 4: let down. Right, we watched in all playoffs where all right,

460
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,400
Speaker 4: second unit comes in, how much you're gonna give back

461
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Speaker 4: versus can you build on the lead sustain it? And

462
00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 4: this fever team depth giving them that opportunity to just

463
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Speaker 4: sit the other is at some point you gotta put

464
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Speaker 4: her in bubble wrap because it started off it's like, ah,

465
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Speaker 4: you know what they're gonna officiate this? Well, that was

466
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Speaker 4: the most clown show officiating I think I've seen in

467
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,719
Speaker 4: any sport, going all the way down to youth soccer

468
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,920
Speaker 4: and softball. Man, you got people raking across the eyes,

469
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Speaker 4: getting chesty, and then at the end they just decide, ah,

470
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Speaker 4: the hell with it, let's throw everybody out, Like how

471
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Speaker 4: is that.

472
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Speaker 3: Worse than what you saw before? You let it go?

473
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Speaker 4: And again the official in the the broadcasting, just like

474
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Speaker 4: with the NHL game, like all right, now we're now

475
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Speaker 4: we're attacking the officials and getting after them during what

476
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Speaker 4: was an interminable I think seven minute review on a Cunningham.

477
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Speaker 3: File, which was well, yeah, it was over the top and.

478
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Speaker 4: Two arms coming down as she braced for the giant

479
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Speaker 4: elbow that was about to be thrown at her by Sheldon,

480
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Speaker 4: who had already been into it with Caitlyn Clark.

481
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Speaker 3: But yeah, it was it was interesting.

482
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Speaker 4: And you just watched the Caitlyn Clark lip reading of

483
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Speaker 4: I can do whatever the blank I want because you

484
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Speaker 4: can't stop me.

485
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Speaker 1: People are this is you know we talk about you

486
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Speaker 1: know what we talk about. Hey, so and so is

487
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Speaker 1: on a middle Finger tour this year, right like like

488
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Speaker 1: they're they're they're amped up, Like Raphael Devers is clearly

489
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Speaker 1: going to be in a middle Finger tour.

490
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Speaker 2: Of the Red Sox right now that he wants to do.

491
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Speaker 3: He wants to play wherever.

492
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Speaker 1: You wait, what But like certain times you get okay,

493
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Speaker 1: there's players on middle Finger tours or a team on

494
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Speaker 1: a middle Finger tour where hey, everybody's you know, nobody

495
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Speaker 1: liked us, but look at what we're doing in the postseason,

496
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Speaker 1: right you could say the Pacers are kind of on

497
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Speaker 1: a middle Finger tour right now, just because people are

498
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Speaker 1: picking other teams that aren't them to win series where

499
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Speaker 1: the other teams were all better going in the series.

500
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Speaker 3: But like you see that, like you see the middle

501
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Speaker 3: Finger Tour.

502
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Speaker 4: Okay, you get it, because usually that's someone who feels

503
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Speaker 4: like they've been disrespected, they've been overlooked, and they use

504
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Speaker 4: that as motivation.

505
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Speaker 3: All of this. I'm telling you. We talked about it

506
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Speaker 3: a little bit last night.

507
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Speaker 1: Nobody is ready for the Caitlin Clark middle Finger Tour

508
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Speaker 1: that she is going to have this season, that she

509
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 1: is already out to. And you know that she was

510
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 1: just dying inside having to miss those two weeks. She

511
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Speaker 1: was she was ready, right, Tom ready, I've done everything

512
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 1: i need to do to get better this season. I've

513
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 1: gotten bigger, I'm hitting my threes. I cannot wait at all.

514
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 1: Everybody in this league that says, oh, Kitlyn Clark is

515
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 1: overrated or Kitlyn Clark's not the league, and there's other

516
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Speaker 1: players just as good.

517
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you watch right. I always say the line from Billions,

518
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 4: the big line. Hate, Hate is an endless amount of inspiration.

519
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Speaker 4: You can't, you cannot.

520
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Speaker 1: It never goes empty, right, Like Bobby says that every

521
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 1: everything you if you can get spurred on by hate,

522
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 1: it's an endless resource. And this is one of those.

523
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Speaker 1: There's so many haters out there, like she's got tons

524
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Speaker 1: of fans, obviously, because look at the way people watch

525
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Speaker 1: the games. And again we told you she was Magic

526
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,439
Speaker 1: and Larry of the WNB, and she's both of these players.

527
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Speaker 1: But boy, she is definitely on one of those Okay,

528
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Speaker 1: you think I can't do something, you want to, I

529
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Speaker 1: am gonna make you understand and make you I'm gonna

530
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Speaker 1: make you quit hating. That's always the biggest thing when

531
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Speaker 1: you can see a player make a team quit. We

532
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Speaker 1: made that team quit.

533
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Speaker 3: They were done.

534
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Speaker 1: She is gonna make people quit hating her, and that's

535
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Speaker 1: gonna be the tour she is on this season for

536
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Speaker 1: the fever in the WNBA.

537
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Speaker 4: Just watch well other The other part of it is

538
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 4: maybe they hate her more and it becomes the I

539
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Speaker 4: I embrace the villainy.

540
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Speaker 3: You don't like my game too bad? Stop me? It

541
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Speaker 3: becomes villain. You know, you become the anti hero, you

542
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 3: become Walter White.

543
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Speaker 1: Well she no, but she But thing is, she's so popular,

544
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Speaker 1: but the haters are so vocal that it almost seems

545
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Speaker 1: like she's as hated as she is popular, which is

546
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: not even close. I mean, you look at the ratings,

547
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,200
Speaker 1: you look at what people are watching the w NBA,

548
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: and then when she wasn't playing people weren't watching as much,

549
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: like she's the show, right, But it makes it seem

550
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 1: like there's more because oh, everybody gets their news from

551
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:41,919
Speaker 1: social media, which, oh, by the way, is a horrible

552
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,880
Speaker 1: place to get your news from. But whatever and degrees

553
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 1: of Sentel's we found out with the last bit of

554
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: Indiana Fever news in the Indiana in the Indie Star,

555
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 1: with the posts that they had to four oh four

556
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: error it realizing that they'd been got. So it makes

557
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 1: it seem like, oh, she has no she does. It's

558
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,399
Speaker 1: just the people want to hate on Twitter. Look at

559
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 1: Twitter's a really difficult place, and social media is a

560
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: really difficult place as you see going on there every day.

561
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 1: But it makes it seem like there's a lot when

562
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: there really isn't. But it's still fuel for a player,

563
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,479
Speaker 1: for all players who use stuff like this, Like if

564
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 1: Tyre's Halliburton did this, he was motivated like this every game.

565
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Speaker 3: My goodness, how good he would be. Oh it's a

566
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 3: too soon, too soon for Alerburton. And I'm that Mike.

567
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it's a too soon. I don't know. You

568
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 3: want to post something.

569
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Speaker 4: See how he responds tomorrow, See if we can get

570
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Speaker 4: that trending and get him salty. By the way, they

571
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 4: are competing in the w NBA Commissioner's Cup. Yes, it

572
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 4: is today for that five hundred thousand dollars prize pool

573
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Speaker 4: and other benefits.

574
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Speaker 3: Yeah, tell, and other benefits. You could tell by the

575
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 3: by the floor, right, that's it.

576
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Speaker 2: Just look at the floor.

577
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 3: No, it's the Commissioner's stuff. It's brought to you by Coinbase.

578
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 3: There you go.

579
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you nobody is ready for this. For the

580
00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 1: tour Caitlin Clark, the destruction tour that she is going.

581
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 3: To have this season. Nobody's ready for Miguel either, nobody.

582
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 3: Nobody stop him. You can only contain him. No, no, no,

583
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 3: you can't. And and a game that the Mets were,

584
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 3: uh four to one, and I'm putting that in the

585
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 3: win column. Nope.

586
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: Oh, Zuna with a double brings in three runs. Mets

587
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: and the Braves now tied for four in the top

588
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Speaker 1: of the night.

589
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 3: So he cleared the bases, right, yip be skippy, yay, hooray,

590
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 3: Yes yes he did, Yes he did. Yes, Yes, the

591
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 3: internet's down. I'm just as that's okay, that's okay. I

592
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 3: still look at the standings and see the Mets with

593
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 3: a better record the Dodgers. So that's okay. And we

594
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 3: also beat the Dodgers more times than you beat us

595
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Speaker 3: this year, So I'm Mets fan would say that in June. Yes,

596
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 3: does that carry over? Okay?

597
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Speaker 4: Uh?

598
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 3: It does?

599
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 2: Well.

600
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Speaker 1: Listen, it's gonna be just like the NLCS Mets in

601
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Speaker 1: seven here, Mets in seven in the fall.

602
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 3: That's how it's gonna be. Can you get odds on that?

603
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 4: Now?

604
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, you see what kind of odds

605
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Speaker 3: you get?

606
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 4: You should go walk into a casino with a pile

607
00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:58,920
Speaker 4: of money and just say I'd like to bet it

608
00:26:59,000 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 4: on this.

609
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 3: Give me some odds. You can get unbelievable odds on this. Right,

610
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 3: The next real bet he makes will be the first,

611
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 3: uh sad stop.

612
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 4: You know how much money Harmon has made off of

613
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 4: my advice with Betsy's money, those bets he's where he's

614
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 4: wearing like Jordan's from nineteen eighty four that he got.

615
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 3: You think the casino cares if it's your idea.

616
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 4: I'm just one number one, my feet aren't wide enough

617
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 4: for those Jeordans. So number two, uh and and number

618
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 4: three where we've still.

619
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Speaker 3: Put the swoosh on sandals.

620
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 4: No, he just you know, you just pull the bottom

621
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 4: out so it's instead of the padding, it's just you're

622
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 4: right on the sneaker now that the sneaker is really comfortable.

623
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Speaker 3: That's what I did see. I got someone to customize

624
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 3: these so I could wear them.

625
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: Whoa, hey, hey, hey hey, we're not in safe harbor yet, Frost,

626
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 1: but we're not there.

627
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 3: Why not? We're not in safe harbor yet. We got

628
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 3: to wait a little bit. I can't see coast well,

629
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 3: not that, No, you can't. You can say ozuna if

630
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 3: you want to.

631
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: It's okay, you know what, It's fine, you know what,

632
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: because we got through the first fifteen minutes, we didn't

633
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: really mention something that rides with schmock schmivers.

634
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 3: So we're okay with that. We're okay.

635
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 1: Everything is to yes, uh cut, We'll keep you posting again.

636
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: Third period underway, Florida, nineteen minutes away from the Stanley Cup.

637
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: They lead the Oilers three to nothing. I'm serious, Bill

638
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: Ranford and Gold would have been better tonight for Edmonton.

639
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

640
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

641
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

642
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 3: Well, we got big sport.

643
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 4: We got four big events going on here the four

644
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 4: box for this one right now, two, three, four, Game

645
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 4: six of the.

646
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 1: NBA Finals, Gold Cup, United States and Saudi Arabia. We

647
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: got Caitlin Clark about to tip off, got the Dodgers

648
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: after all the drama with Ice today about to play.

649
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: We have we have four, we have we need four

650
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: big excuse like the final scene of Phantom Menace, all

651
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: the big four battles going on at once.

652
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 3: I got four big things happen.

653
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 4: This is really exciting because we still have two that

654
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 4: the teams may actually show up and play. Thus far,

655
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 4: we've got nothing from the Thunder, We've got nothing from

656
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 4: the United States. And then we can wait for those

657
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 4: other games to see if we actually get efforts on

658
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 4: all sides. How about that and that Tyrese Haliburton, All right,

659
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 4: is he Metahuman? Did they get him with a tranquilizer

660
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 4: dart that you would normally use on an elephant to

661
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 4: get him through? Or can we admit that Game five

662
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 4: he no showed. Buddy, Buddy, I told you this last night.

663
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: Right right now, sixty four to forty two Pacers lead

664
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: the Thunder at halftime this game is over look two

665
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: big things from this game now. The first one is

666
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: I told you after game two it's gonna go seven,

667
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: and it's gonna go the Pacers win Game three, Thunder

668
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: win Game four, and then it's going home, home home.

669
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: What have we seen so far? Pacers won Game three,

670
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: Thunder one, Game four, home home, and then home for

671
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: the Thunder. On Sunday, I told you that, really you

672
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: don't need forget let's Steven Smith play solitaire, just have

673
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: me and say, listen, here's how the series is gonna go.

674
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 3: Tune back in in game seven and that's good. They're

675
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 3: gonna split home home home.

676
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what we saw because look, this is

677
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: a tonight where the Thunder came in and they said, okay,

678
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: we'll give it a go for the first quarter. We'll see,

679
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: but we're okay putting this away and coming back and

680
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: getting some rest and going back for game seven.

681
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 3: And that's how it's gone.

682
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 4: Right.

683
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: The Pacers have been able to control the play despite

684
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: the fact they're not playing incredibly well. They're still hitting

685
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: more shots than Oklahoma City, but they are controlling the pace. Yeah,

686
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: Somewhere in the middle part of the second quarter, the

687
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City Thunder decided, Yeah, it's okay. Isaiah Hartenstein's getting

688
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,719
Speaker 1: out rebounded by TJ McConnell. They're playing sloppy and getting passes,

689
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 1: they're getting jumped in passing lanes. This is exactly how

690
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: I thought tonight was gonna go. They weren't gonna come

691
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: in and win game six. It was gonna be we'll

692
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: try for a quarter and if we're up by ten

693
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: or twelve, then we're gonna keep going. But no, it's

694
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: not what happened, and the Pacers took the lead and

695
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: they've just been running away with it ever since.

696
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 3: Three point game.

697
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 4: After one quarter, Indiana with the lead, you see McConnell,

698
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 4: who's playing like he's six' ten and plastic man at,

699
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 4: times it seems with the passing lanes what he's able to,

700
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 4: do and then doubled up in the second. Quarter thirty six,

701
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 4: seventeen your final their tail of the. Tape three point

702
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 4: makes for The pacers in the first, half as opposed

703
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 4: to one by Your Oklahoma City thunder Again Tyrese haliburton

704
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 4: diving out of bounds to save balls. Whatever, AGAIN i

705
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 4: have to ask the question because everybody was quick to

706
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 4: defend him and and and rub his shoulders and tell

707
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 4: him how great he. Was, meanwhile you Mentioned STEVEN A.

708
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 4: Smith you saw them the human shield he used in the. Pregame, Right, LOOK.

709
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 3: I have a daughter. Too, ah you can't come at.

710
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 4: ME i have a. Daughter and here she, is see you,

711
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 4: know bottom of the deck kind of move right. There

712
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 4: they're both playing. Solitaire they're they're playing, there playing that race.

713
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 4: Solitaire whereas that when you RaSE the when you race

714
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,479
Speaker 4: whoever finishes, first like you do that if you can

715
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 4: finish within three minutes or two and a half minutes

716
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 4: and you do, that that the race, Solitaire like that's

717
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 4: kind of fun a, ready go and.

718
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 3: Go but, yeah it's what speed? Solitaire, uh that's WHAT

719
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 3: i said it. Was you said.

720
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 4: Speed, NO i said it was race like you're racing

721
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 4: like you're racing. Solitaire that's what it. Is but there's

722
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 4: there's solitaire and then there's that.

723
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 3: One that's WHAT i. Meant that's that. True, yeah what'd

724
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 3: you THINK i? Meant were gonna say? Something oh?

725
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: Controversial, now let's say it was, racing, racing racing to

726
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: get it, Done that's WHAT i.

727
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 3: Explained you just need to be race here they, were

728
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 3: or Speed. Solitaire you need the race Like Brad pitt

729
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 3: IN f.

730
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: One, Sure, Hey Brad PITT f, one go see it

731
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: in the biggest ring Possible june twenty. Seven but, look

732
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: the last couple of, nights what what what do we?

733
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: Say we talked About Tyrese, haliburton the. Injury the impact

734
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: of the injury On halliburton's game grossly, exaggerated AND i

735
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: kind of felt weird talking about the last couple. Nights i'm,

736
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: like this is just WHAT i. SEE i, MEAN i

737
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: don't doubt that his calf has dinged up a little,

738
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: bit but, boy we got so much publicly about his

739
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: injury after one of the WORST Nba finals games you

740
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: could possibly. Have where he's someone that listens to what

741
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: is said about him all the. Time he knows what has.

742
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 3: Said he.

743
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: Disagreed you saw it during during the. Playoffs, oh people

744
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: say this and they say, this and they say. This

745
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: his game is all about confidence and there's games where

746
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: he doesn't show up For so what were They what

747
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: were The pacers worried? ABOUT i am sure coming off

748
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: that horrible, game for, boy we can't afford another bad

749
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: game like this For Tyreese, haliburton how do we defend? It,

750
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: oh the next day from shams run next, day, boom

751
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: we get the we get the. Report, Hey mri coming

752
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: dealing with a strain cap right, away early in the. Morning,

753
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: hey dealing with a strained. Caf, oh, okay, Okay. Mri

754
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: M mariah is. Fine he practiced. Yesterday, uh he's playing.

755
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: Tonight he looks. Fine halliburton tonight for The pacers has

756
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: twelve points and four. Assists we were fed that injury

757
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: simply to put take the pressure off of.

758
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 3: Him so for two.

759
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: Days, haliburton who is someone who listens to what is

760
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: said about again all the. Time he's someone that needs

761
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: that level of. Confidence and The pacers, Decided i'm, sure,

762
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: hey we're gonna give. Him we're gonna Help matt a

763
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: little bit here by getting this out there because that

764
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: will hopefully stem the criticism of him and the bad.

765
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 3: Game, well you can't rip. Them he he's he's.

766
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: Hurt he's played thirty four, minutes he played in game

767
00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: five thirty four minutes he played. Again fraud that's been,

768
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: perpetrated eighteen minutes that he said he's had tonight so.

769
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: FAR i told you this is what it, was, id

770
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: this is what it. Was he's gonna play in game.

771
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: Six he's, fine he's moving. Fine this was simply done

772
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 1: to give him a, bailout so it wasn't two days Of,

773
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: Wow halliburton's terrible and how does he deal with? This

774
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: they wanted to find a way to make an excuse

775
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: for him so we could come back and everybody and

776
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: all the critics would back off, him so you wouldn't

777
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: see as much criticism of him when you WATCHED espn

778
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: Or fox or tuned in and Watch colin in the

779
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: morning Or dan or whatever it. Was you wanted to

780
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: make sure that that was that was not gonna be

781
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: a thing that affected him going into this. Game and

782
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: congratulations because it's worked and the paces are up by

783
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: twenty two as we start the second.

784
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 4: Half that's why we have to talk things into. EXISTENCE i,

785
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 4: mean that's what we do. HERE i mean it is

786
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 4: a day for doing. That so we were watching this.

787
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 4: SQUAD i NEED i need the thunder to give some

788
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 4: sort of effort, though because otherwise what AM i gonna?

789
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 3: Watch? MAN i had to watch The dodgers And padres

790
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 3: and hope we.

791
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: Got we got Pod Padres we're gonna Have Kaitlin clark

792
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: in a few. Minutes we GOT usmnt the second half

793
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 1: in a scoreless game Against Saudi ARABIA.

794
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 4: A half assed through that first first? Half how many

795
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 4: water breaks did we? Get did we get some orange?

796
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 4: Slices while it was like it was youth soccer because

797
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 4: of the weather In atlanta that there were a lot

798
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 4: of there there there's a couple of guys.

799
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 3: Tramping all, right stop the, game he needs. Help we're. Indoors, no,

800
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 3: well it's still. Hot it's still. Hot extra water.

801
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 4: Breaks it's if it's, indoors it's always sixty, eight it's

802
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 4: still it's still it's always sunny In philadelphia. Too but With,

803
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 4: helibert and it was funny because earlier today it became the,

804
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,879
Speaker 4: well you, know if if it was any other kind

805
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 4: of time of, year he wouldn't. Go but this is

806
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 4: a multi week. Injury but if he can, walk he's gonna.

807
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 4: Play it's like it's a multi week. Injury he's in

808
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 4: a he's in a surgical unit having that work on right. Now,

809
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 4: uh he's he's not playing in AN nba, game and

810
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 4: certainly not to the level of minutes to the effort

811
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 4: just a couple of days later from the no show

812
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 4: effort we saw in, game so good godspeed for THE.

813
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 4: Nba it's also good news because it looks like they

814
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 4: get Their game, seven So Adam silver wins. Again he

815
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 4: gets The lakers sale, yesterday and now you get, this

816
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 4: so extra bonus time for THE, nba which will take

817
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 4: us right up into the draft.

818
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 3: Talk, yeah, no it's.

819
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 4: PERFECT i, mean a couple of those guys might actually

820
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 4: show up for a workout that they're supposed to.

821
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:22,919
Speaker 3: DO i don't, KNOW i don't.

822
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,439
Speaker 1: Know they need to show up and say you don't

823
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: want to work out for that, team and the team

824
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: still saying we're still thinking about drafting you ABOUT i

825
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: think all those things could.

826
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 3: HAPPEN i think it's fine, now but, LOOK i mean

827
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 3: when you break down.

828
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: The halliburton, STORY i, mean it sounds weird to say

829
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: that a team is making an excuse for a guy

830
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: so we could avoid. Criticism but that's exactly what it looks, like,

831
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: RIGHT i, mean, yeah multi week injury during the regular,

832
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: hit really multi week, injury multi week injury.

833
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 4: Teams do this all the. Time this one goes rises

834
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 4: above the. Level isn't that the language we use on

835
00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 4: flagrant falls rise to the level of whatever term you

836
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 4: want to use to close that. Off but, yeah he's

837
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 4: flying around like he's in game one of a regular.

838
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: SEASON i mean it TOOK i will say. This the

839
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: first couple of, minutes it did look like. It it

840
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: did look like he was kind of a step, slow

841
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: AND i, thought, okay let's see how he's really affected.

842
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: Here but it, more it just looks like he need

843
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: some time to get into the, game because you, know

844
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,919
Speaker 1: he started, out he missed a couple of shots. Early

845
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: he missed him, long you, know so it's not like

846
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: he was he was really, struggling so you know when

847
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: you miss your shots. Along, okay he's coming, out he's jacked,

848
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: up he's hyped. Up BUT i, thought, okay maybe a

849
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: little bit here in the beginning he's affected by. It

850
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: but now the way the game is, going it feels

851
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 1: like he just needed time to get, going because now

852
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: it looks he looks like he's had he needed to

853
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 1: rest playing.

854
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 3: Right just kidding he.

855
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: Now sometimes some guys get into games different, ways And

856
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: halliburton is no. Different where sometimes they can dominate from the,

857
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: start sometimes they need five minutes to see how things

858
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: are going to, go how he's.

859
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 3: Going to be, defended and you and the.

860
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: War the way this game went, on it was, okay

861
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 1: he just needed a couple of minutes to get, going

862
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: and now here come The. Pacers and it clearly looks

863
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: like this injury was not that he's not, hurt Because

864
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 1: i'm sure he, is but this was overhyped because, Hey

865
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: haliburton can't deal with the criticism between.

866
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 4: Games we need to have him as confident as he can.

867
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 4: Be so that's why we have what we, have and

868
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 4: that clearly looks like what it. IS i can't fault

869
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:25,280
Speaker 4: a good strategy with most, things but in a sporting

870
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 4: world where we talk about betting lines and that tenuous

871
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 4: relationship that we have with all of, that the money

872
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 4: as it flows from betting syndicates and the advertising behind

873
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 4: home plate or on the scoreboards or whatever, else injuries

874
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 4: are something you shouldn't be dancing with quite the same.

875
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 3: Way, EGOS i guess would be an extension of. That

876
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 3: so here we have what we.

877
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 4: Do tonight plus twenty seven fourteen, points four, assists couple

878
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 4: of and a, rebound two steals For. Halliburton tonight big Effort,

879
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 4: hey we getting, games and so everybody wins unless you

880
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 4: get a furious. Comeback but it doesn't look like the

881
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 4: thunder are gonna mount much of an effort in that.

882
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 3: Regard oh, no, no, no, no they're they're. Done they're

883
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 3: Not they're not gonna go. Crag they're.

884
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: Done twenty Two at a half, TIME tj McConnell is

885
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: out Rebounding Isaiah hartstein.

886
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 3: UNDERNEATH i, mean come, on he went. Next, nick he

887
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 3: remembered his. Heritage WHEN i saw.

888
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: That play in the first, HALF i said that this

889
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: is the moment where you, know the thunder of quit

890
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: where it's the two of them battling for a, rebound

891
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: and it looks like when when when you're battling with

892
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: your older brother who's like four years older than. You

893
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: he happens to be you, know when your brother is

894
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: six two and you're five to, five and he's just

895
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: like grabbing the ball up and you're you're jumping and

896
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: trying to grab, it and and he's feeling real lazy

897
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: because he Knows i'm told me to get the ball

898
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: all the. Time except McConnell just wouldn't, stop wouldn't, stop wouldn't,

899
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: stop gets in the spot where he was able to

900
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: jar the ball loose and grab the. Rebound that was

901
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: the MOMENT i knew the thunder. Done they've put this

902
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: away For. Sunday the energizer bunny attitude of. McConnell he's

903
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: become a folk, Hero. Sonny that's.

904
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 4: Good so we we get a rise of a new

905
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 4: hero in THESE Nba. Finals but, yeah twenty four point

906
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 4: burial eight minutes remaining in the third