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Speaker 1: Oh ball, If you guys are having a great start

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Speaker 1: to your weekend. Well, the basketball gods looked on us

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Speaker 1: kindly today and finally gave us an entertaining basketball game.

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Speaker 1: Now had kind of a brutal final sequence which we'll

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Speaker 1: get into. But the Dallas Mavericks end up closing out

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get into all the details. I'm gonna talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about Shay's first playoff series as well,

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Speaker 1: which I thought was a revelation, and then we're gonna

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Speaker 1: them throughout the remainder of the postseason. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: with that final sequence. You know a couple things the

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Speaker 1: it was gonna be chaos kind of no matter what.

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Speaker 1: like Luca kind of had his head down and was

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Speaker 1: Now he's just jacking the shota right, so it's not

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Speaker 1: what's gonna give him three chances to make two free

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Speaker 1: And we're going to get into more detail with this

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Speaker 1: That's the game. That's the game right there. So like

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Speaker 1: also got some big stops on Shay down the stretch

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Speaker 1: at the matchups and I thought PJ. Washington would be

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Speaker 1: but on the possessions where PJ was actually able to

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Speaker 1: Lou Dort played Luca into two of the worst playoff

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Speaker 1: Game four, that's the credit to lou Dort. I saw

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Speaker 1: Now he's got to work on not fouling as much.

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Speaker 1: He's got to kind of find a happy medium in there,

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Speaker 1: You just have to upgrade that Josh Getty position into

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Speaker 1: season though for Oklahoma City. Really think they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: that did them in this season. All right, guys, that

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Speaker 1: is all I have for tonight. As always, as sincerely

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for supporting me and supporting the show.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be back tomorrow right after the final

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Speaker 1: buzzer of Nick Pacers with a breakdown of with an

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Speaker 1: instant reaction to that game, and then again in the

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Speaker 1: evening with Colin and most likely my channel as well

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Speaker 1: to break down timber Wolves Nuggets. And then all you

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