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Speaker 1: hit this. This This will be our last one that we'll

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Speaker 1: get out here, otherwise my wife will kill me. So

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Speaker 1: I we are better as this is part of this

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Speaker 1: I ironically, towards the end of that game, I thought

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Speaker 1: defensive rebounding and covering ground in rotations, like someone else

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Speaker 1: you know, which which again is still a disadvantage, but

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Speaker 1: nowhere near as much of a disadvantage as on ball

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Speaker 1: issues that can come with him. So I, honically, I

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Speaker 1: think the league and the Lakers in particular are more

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Speaker 1: suited to to help and and recover in and scheme

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Speaker 1: your way out of that mismatch in particular than it

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Speaker 1: was in two thousand seventeen or two thousand eighteen when

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Speaker 1: I I'm less concerned about that particularly just and Isaiah

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Speaker 1: Thomas is not really relevant. I think right now he's

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Speaker 1: playing for a contract elsewhere. Uh that that's and and

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Speaker 1: I think he looks great and I think he probably

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Speaker 1: will get that contract, which is which makes me happy

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Speaker 1: for his sake. Um. But yeah, in terms of like

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Speaker 1: in the future in a playoff series like scramming Molik

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Speaker 1: Monk out of specific situations like that that you can

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Speaker 1: learn a lot from that over the course of the stretch,

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Speaker 1: which is a great example of what I was just

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Speaker 1: talking about, Like what a great time to kind of

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Speaker 1: this kind of stuff and see what works. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: he brought up the scrambling. That's where I was going

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Speaker 1: good at that, and that's something that again that was

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Speaker 1: process that was building. I thought they were kind of

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Speaker 1: moving in the right direction with that. You see mellow

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Speaker 1: scram guys out all the time. You can hear it

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Speaker 1: on the broadcast. Actually you'll hear them say get out

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Speaker 1: of there, get out of there, so you'll like go

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Speaker 1: and scram switch Lebron will do it really well too.

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Speaker 1: That's just stuff I think they're improving on. And it

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Speaker 1: sucks that we're about to get all these new five

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Speaker 1: man lineups and all these new players that have never

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Speaker 1: played together, because I thought they were kind of building

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Speaker 1: some chemistry in that. But yeah, that's the way I

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Speaker 1: guess the answer. I'm not sure if you find out

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Speaker 1: who asked that, but to kind of cover fry T

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Speaker 1: or cover for other players, scram switching, trapping, that's all

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Speaker 1: stuff that Again, the league has kind of moved forward

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Speaker 1: to where it's a lot tougher to pick on guys. Right,

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Speaker 1: you saw on the playoffs as well, it's a lot

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Speaker 1: tougher to just pick on guys like Trey Young because

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Speaker 1: defenses are really good at making you have to work

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Speaker 1: for that. The Knicks tried it, and it will take

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Speaker 1: like eighteen seconds of your shot claw trying to pick

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Speaker 1: on Trey Young, and it just becomes, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: a fool's error to try to do that if you

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Speaker 1: don't have the personnel especially, So, yeah, it's interesting. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a fascinating thing. We're about to go see. Hopefully,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna get a lot a small wall

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Speaker 1: hopefully it's some of it's fun, get some good basketball

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Speaker 1: here and hopefully keep up and get some wins too.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to. I hope they don't just you know,

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Speaker 1: fall off a cliff here, even though you know you

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Speaker 1: you're we're going to be shorthanded. Dude. It's it's it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a really really interesting couple of weeks. I am.

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited to see it. Hey, everybody's thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for coming to hang out with us, like

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Speaker 1: we're working on trying to do a little bit more

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Speaker 1: of a daily type of deal. And uh, I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys taking the time too quick hit on this.

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Speaker 1: For those of you who joined in late, this will

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Speaker 1: air on dash Radio tomorrow morning at seven am Pacific

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Speaker 1: Standard time. It will also be on our podcast feed here.

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Speaker 1: In about twenty thirty minutes. We did talk about We

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Speaker 1: talked a lot about the identity of this team moving

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Speaker 1: forward and the strategy to cover ground over the course

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Speaker 1: of this next couple of months without a d And

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Speaker 1: we talked a lot about how they're gonna be going

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Speaker 1: in on small ball rather than uh, trying to get

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Speaker 1: centers back in the lineup. It was a good it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a good, interesting one, so make sure you

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Speaker 1: come check out the pot if you joined. Thank you

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Speaker 1: guys as always and we will see tomorrow night for

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Speaker 1: the game. Appreciate it. Thanks everyone. M.