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Speaker 2: That really is the theory for this entire series for

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Speaker 2: reps ball handling and shooting out of all these different

435
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Speaker 2: bits of footwork. These post players they're looking at, oh,

436
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Speaker 2: you're attacking as small and trying to bump you and

437
00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,359
Speaker 2: get to my left shoulder hook or my right shoulder

438
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 2: fade or whatever it is that they're trying to get

439
00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,200
Speaker 2: through or a step through move something along those lines.

440
00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 2: And they practice those moves, and they practice those moves,

441
00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 2: and they practice those moves, and if you let them

442
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Speaker 2: get to their footwork, they're gonna make it. But if

443
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,520
Speaker 2: you can disrupt them, if you can stab at the

444
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,359
Speaker 2: basketball and disrupt the ball handling a little bit, you

445
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,320
Speaker 2: can bump their base and disrupt the footwork a little

446
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,760
Speaker 2: bit as they're jumping, If you lean on them a

447
00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:26,679
Speaker 2: little bit so that they're losing a little bit of

448
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,879
Speaker 2: that balance as they go up into the shot on

449
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,679
Speaker 2: their gather. If you swipe down and you deflect the

450
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 2: ball a tiny bit, if you disrupt something along that chain,

451
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,720
Speaker 2: it will have a far greater effect on the end

452
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Speaker 2: result than you just standing there and putting your hand

453
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Speaker 2: up at the end after not disrupting anything else. And

454
00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,400
Speaker 2: Drew's just really really good at that, stabbing at the ball,

455
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 2: disrupting the base, being physical, jumping one side, then jumping

456
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Speaker 2: all the way to the other side and try to

457
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 2: catch a guy off guard. He did that a few

458
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 2: times Apollo in Franz today, like he just is an

459
00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 2: unbelievable size mismatched, and that was a huge weapon for

460
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 2: Boston in the second half of this game. Derek White

461
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,879
Speaker 2: brought the volume scoring for the Celtics today and it

462
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 2: came in the form of shot making. He had seven threes,

463
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 2: but most of them were high degree of difficulty threes,

464
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 2: like an extra step behind the line or against a

465
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Speaker 2: great contest. And again, when you're playing against great defenses

466
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Speaker 2: like the Orlando Magic, in a high leverage situation like this,

467
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 2: on many of your possessions, the best shot you can

468
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 2: get is a mildly contested, slightly deeper three. And like

469
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Speaker 2: Derek White provided that scoring pop today in a game

470
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Speaker 2: where again, when you're playing games like that, games like

471
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Speaker 2: the Rockets Warriors series, threes are like touchdowns, So they're

472
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 2: literally like touchdowns because no one can score and and

473
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Speaker 2: Derek White just brought that today. I think this series

474
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Speaker 2: is actually a great tune up series for the Celtics.

475
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Speaker 2: They're not in any real danger. I mean I saw

476
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Speaker 2: enough today to feel like Orlando can steal a game.

477
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Speaker 2: Like I wouldn't be surprised if Orlando won a game,

478
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Speaker 2: you know, ninety three to eighty seven down into Orlando

479
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Speaker 2: in Game three or Game four. But they don't have

480
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 2: the firepower to win the series. But the Magic present

481
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 2: real problems for the Celtics offense, and that will help

482
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Speaker 2: them prepare for an OKC matchup should they meet in

483
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 2: the finals. It's just great preparation for them. They just

484
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 2: need to hope that Tatum's wrist is okay. But I

485
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 2: think he's fine. But after the hard foul from Kcpu

486
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 2: was just something to keep an eye on, and it

487
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 2: was a shooting risk, which can always be a little

488
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 2: tricky when you need Tatum to be.

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Speaker 1: A shot maker for you.

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Speaker 2: All right, before we get out of here again, I'll

491
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Speaker 2: be back later today with some more film. But let's

492
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Speaker 2: talk some Grizzlies thunder. I didn't have a chance to

493
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,120
Speaker 2: do serious previews for my two P one eight matchups.

494
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 2: I would have picked the Thunder to beat the Grizzlies

495
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,160
Speaker 2: in a sweep, and I would have picked the Calves

496
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 2: to beat the Heat in five games either way, but

497
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 2: it didn't really matter. This Grizzlies team has been bad

498
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 2: for a while. They were just thirteen and eighteen over

499
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 2: the last twenty one games to end the season. They

500
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,640
Speaker 2: were sixteenth in offense in that span of nineteenth in defense.

501
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 2: They're not good at anything. None of their stars is

502
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 2: playing particularly well. They were the one team in that

503
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 2: cluster of teams, the eight teams that made the Western

504
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 2: Conference playoffs. They were the one team that stuck out

505
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 2: like a sore thumb, and boy did they look like

506
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 2: look like it today. I want to shout out the

507
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Speaker 2: Okac Thunder first for the level of intensity that they

508
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Speaker 2: brought right out of the gates today. I was talking

509
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Speaker 2: in my film session this morning about the intensity of

510
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Speaker 2: the playoffs. I lamented that last night, teams like the

511
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 2: Bucks and Lakers were just not ready for playoff intensity.

512
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Speaker 2: Before I even watched the Thunder game. Today, I was

513
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Speaker 2: recording the film session and when we were done, we

514
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 2: were just waiting for a filed upload, and Jackson and

515
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 2: I were just talking and hanging out and Jackson goes like, hey, man, like,

516
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Speaker 2: how are you feeling about the Lakers after watching that game?

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Speaker 1: You know? I said, like, there's obviously some things.

518
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Speaker 2: That are that they can improve in terms of execution,

519
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,879
Speaker 2: in terms of just meeting the playoff intensity and all

520
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. But what I said to Jackson

521
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 2: was was like I'd be lying to if I wasn't

522
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Speaker 2: super concerned that they didn't come out with that intensity,

523
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Speaker 2: Like like I said in the show last night, like

524
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 2: they're not going to give you the Larry of Ryan

525
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Speaker 2: Trophy without putting in the work. You're not gonna coast

526
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 2: to Larry O'Brian trophy. You're not gonna finesse your way

527
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 2: to Larry O'Brian trophy. It is one through, super intense,

528
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 2: hyper competitive basketball from day one of the NBA playoffs.

529
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Speaker 2: And so I said in that moment to Jackson, like

530
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Speaker 2: I am discouraged that a team that I believe in,

531
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Speaker 2: that I believe has a real chance to win the

532
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Speaker 2: title came out for their first playoff game and just

533
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 2: looks completely unprepared for the intensity. That was before I

534
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Speaker 2: watched the Thunder game, I walked out of the conversation

535
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Speaker 2: with Jackson, sat down on my outdoor couch. It was

536
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,439
Speaker 2: beautiful day here in Tucson, and I'm sitting down and

537
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 2: I just watched Okac come out and they said, we

538
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 2: are treating this like like the Okase has talent to

539
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Speaker 2: coast against Memphis, they could ease their way into the

540
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Speaker 2: second round. Fuck that, They're like, We're going to embarrass

541
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Speaker 2: the Memphis Grizzlies today. They brought that level of intensity.

542
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Speaker 2: They seem abundantly clear on what is expected of them

543
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Speaker 2: to be able to win four playoff rounds, and I

544
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 2: just thought that was a valuable check mark in this process.

545
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Speaker 2: They did not ease their way in. They didn't even

546
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Speaker 2: show some of the just level of general discomfort that

547
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 2: they showed against the Pelicans in Game one last year.

548
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Speaker 2: They they look like a team that knows exactly what

549
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Speaker 2: they're trying to accomplish and how great they will have

550
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Speaker 2: to be to get there. I even thought the Celtics

551
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 2: came out with a little bit of like a let's

552
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 2: beat the magic, but not over extend ourselves doing it

553
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 2: type of energy. The Thunder did not. They met the

554
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 2: moment and they embarrassed the Grizzlies. The run really took

555
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Speaker 2: off with the bench group led by Kaison Wallace.

556
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Speaker 1: And Jalen Williams.

557
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 2: They repeatedly made plays on defense that led to runouts.

558
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,919
Speaker 2: Kaison was amazing. Yeah, Scottie Pippen junior in Hell. He

559
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 2: had a ridiculous transition dunk. I've always known Kayson's a

560
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 2: good athlete that can dunked the basketball, but he had

561
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Speaker 2: won in traffic in transition.

562
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Speaker 1: That was ridiculous.

563
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Speaker 2: He's hanging on the rim after defense to transition was

564
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,879
Speaker 2: the primary storyline of this game.

565
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Speaker 1: The thunder force twenty four turnovers. They generated twenty four

566
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: points off of those turnovers. They won the transition points advantage.

567
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: They won the transition points battle perc Energy thirty one

568
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: to eight. Out of Okasees one hundred and twenty possessions

569
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Speaker 1: they logged in the game, forty eight of them were

570
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Speaker 1: on transition pushes. As I've talked about, generally, it's like

571
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: around you know, twenty percent of your offense that's gonna

572
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: end up being in transition. In the NBA, okay See

573
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 1: just played forty percent of their game in transition. But

574
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: the thunder were also surgical in their half court playmaking.

575
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Speaker 1: Memphis has always been an overhelp team. This is something

576
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Speaker 1: I've been complaining about with them for years. They consistently

577
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: are aggressive in their nail help, meaning like if the

578
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Speaker 1: guys driving off the left wing, the defender guarding the

579
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Speaker 1: guy in the right wing will be sitting like damn

580
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: near at the elbow, like on the strong side elbow,

581
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: or like at the foul line, like just sitting there

582
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: in like a soft double team. They'll hard low man helps,

583
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: so like the guy guarding the guy in the weakside

584
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: corner will be all the way over. If you move

585
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: the ball against the Grizzlies, you will get open threes.

586
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: The Grizzlies allowed sixteen point four unguarded catch and shoot

587
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 1: jump shots per game this year, which was the third

588
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 1: most in the entire NBA, and the Thunder just made

589
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,679
Speaker 1: him pay for it. They consistently made simple reads in

590
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: traffic generated a ton of great looks. They generated sixteen

591
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 1: unguarded catch and shoot jump shots compared to just five

592
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: for Memphis. They shot him at a super high clip.

593
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: They got one point six y nine points per jump

594
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: shot on those unguarded catch and shoots. They had thirty

595
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: seven assists on fifty made field goals, the Thunder were

596
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: bottom five and assist percentage this year.

597
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Speaker 2: It's a big part of why. Like I've actually talked about,

598
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Speaker 2: I've been worried about the Thunder against teams that packed

599
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 2: the paint, especially teams that can protect the rim, just

600
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 2: playing right into the teeth of the defense and not

601
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 2: making those reads. I thought today was a very, very

602
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Speaker 2: important There will be harder to tests then what Okac

603
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 2: faced today. That's not exactly rocket science. Memphis has been

604
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 2: a mediocre to bad basketball team for a while, but

605
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 2: today was a test for their decision making, and they

606
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 2: aced that test, and they did it with Shay going

607
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 2: four for thirteen from the field. I just thought it

608
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 2: was a statement about how ready this Thunder team is

609
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Speaker 2: for this playoff run. On the Memphis front, I've been

610
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 2: talking for a while about how their shot creators just

611
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 2: aren't good enough. Jaw hasn't made a single tangible improvement

612
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 2: to his game in three years. Bain really struggles to

613
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 2: create quality shots against elite defense, and Jared Jackson a

614
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 2: complete no show today. Joh was able in his first

615
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 2: shift to create some advantages, but he still just has

616
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Speaker 2: that one athletic superpower and Okase was eventually able to

617
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 2: contain him because he can't shoot. He's one for six

618
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 2: from three and then as soon as Joah went to

619
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 2: the bench, it was a steady died of that Scottie

620
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 2: Pippen junior in Desmond Bain unit. They couldn't even score

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Speaker 2: and they got blitzed. If Memphis gets swept, which I

622
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 2: think they will, they will have finished the season four

623
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Speaker 2: teen and twenty three in their last thirty seven games.

624
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 2: You have to think they'll be contemplating some massive changes

625
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 2: to the roster if that happens, which.

626
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Speaker 1: I believe it will.

627
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Speaker 2: All right, guys, this's all I have for tonight slash

628
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 2: this morning for you guys, I am waking up first

629
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Speaker 2: thing in the morning and I'm recording a film session

630
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Speaker 2: that should be uploaded around like ten thirty eleven Pacific time,

631
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 2: so keep an eye on that as well. Our coverage

632
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 2: continues tomorrow night. Game two of the Pistons Knicks game series,

633
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 2: as well as the Clippers Nuggets series, will be live

634
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 2: on YouTube after the final buzzer of that as well.

635
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Speaker 2: Two days down. I'm a little tired, but this is

636
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: it gets a little bit easier with each passing day.

637
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 2: I was talking with Colin and the guys tonight. Like

638
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 2: the first two days, that first Saturday Sunday is by

639
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 2: far the hardest stretch of this season or of this

640
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 2: playoff run, because it's eight games, every one of the matters,

641
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 2: every series is zero zero. It's your first impressions. You

642
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 2: get to second weekend, one to eighths are not any

643
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 2: good anymore, right Usually, like I expect Cleveland to be

644
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 2: up three to oho, I expect the Thunder to be

645
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 2: up three to oh. And it gets a little easier

646
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 2: you get to the following weekend. You're getting into the

647
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 2: second round. Now it's like there's only two games a night.

648
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 2: You get into the conference finals. It gets a little

649
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 2: bit easier as we go along. But man, that first

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Speaker 2: weekend is always tough. But we've made it through and

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Speaker 2: we are ready to continue our process as we go

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Speaker 2: through the week. I'm very, very excited to continue to

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Speaker 2: get into this with you guys. I appreciate you guys

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Speaker 2: for rocking with us. We're about to pass one hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand subs. That's pretty fucking cool. I'm super excited about that.

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Speaker 2: I have you guys to thank for that, and I

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Speaker 2: can't tell you how much I guys. I appreciate you

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Speaker 2: guys for supporting the show, Weekend one of the books.

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Speaker 2: I'll see you tomorrow morning for some film What so guys.

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Speaker 2: As always, I appreciate you for listening to and supporting

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Speaker 2: Oops tonight. They would actually be really helpful for us

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Speaker 2: if you guys would take a second.

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Speaker 1: And leave a rating and a review.

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Speaker 2: As always, I appreciate you guys supporting us, but if

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Speaker 2: you could take a minute to do that, I really

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Speaker 2: appreciate it. The volume