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Speaker 1: So this is kind of a funky game, right because

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Speaker 1: both teams obviously are more perimeter oriented, tons of athleticism,

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Speaker 1: It's kind of a weird game because there's just a

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Speaker 1: guys flying off the screens, dontete e. Vincenzo is shooting

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Speaker 1: And the story of the game was the lineup changed

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Speaker 1: And maybe Moses Moody doesn't bring all of that, But

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Speaker 1: That's a real asset to have. There were multiple possessions

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Speaker 1: They were all over Jalen Brunson, giving him hell. I

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Speaker 1: It was actually crazy because they went up twenty to four.

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Speaker 1: Thibodeau is not hedging or showing on any of the

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Speaker 1: Warriors off ball actions. What that means is you can

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Speaker 1: The big man for you New York was sagging back

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Speaker 1: hit one core position group, you can have massive issues.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like what the Lakers have been dealing with,

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Speaker 1: Like when you lose Camraddish and Jared Vanderbilt to injury

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Speaker 1: and then there was a stretch there where Max Christy

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Speaker 1: weakest position group and now they're down three guys. It

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Speaker 1: just it can cause a lot of problems. Same thing

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Speaker 1: goes for the Knicks, like you get Like I thought,

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Speaker 1: Jerico Sims had some real nice stretches on the offensive

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Speaker 1: end of the floor tonight. I'm really impressed by his

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Speaker 1: feel in the short role, in his ability to quickly

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Speaker 1: make decisions and make that next pass in those four

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Speaker 1: on three situations. But he's really struggling on the defensive

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Speaker 1: end of the floor right now, and liked it. Got

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Speaker 1: situations that was causing problems. And that's the thing, like

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Speaker 1: you're just gonna have some limitations there when you have

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Speaker 1: your three starting bigs out at three starting forwards, three,

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Speaker 1: four and five out of the lineup. The last guy

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Speaker 1: wanted shout out on the Knicks with Duce McBride. I

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Speaker 1: thought he was His activity playing passing lanes, getting out

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Speaker 1: in transition was really important in the little mini runs

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Speaker 1: that the Knicks made to try to get this thing close.

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Speaker 1: But right now they're just trying to patch together wins

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Speaker 1: and it's just really difficult to do when you have

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Speaker 1: guys in and out of the lineup, and when you're

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Speaker 1: missing core position groups like that. Also a boy and mcdonovitch,

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Speaker 1: just like you can just tell he's this close to

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Speaker 1: kind of getting his rhythm there. All those threes he

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Speaker 1: missed in that fourth quarter, they were all dead on

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Speaker 1: straight and just long. That to me is like a

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Speaker 1: good sign that he's getting it dialed in, and like

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Speaker 1: it's different game if he makes a couple of those shots, right.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not worried about the Nixon the big picture.

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Speaker 1: It's just a really really difficult situation that they're right now,

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Speaker 1: and it's going to be really difficult to learn anything

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Speaker 1: about them over this stretch. All right, guys, that is

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Speaker 1: all I have for tonight. As I mentioned, I'm saying

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Speaker 1: up tonight to cover nuggets heat. I will have that

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Speaker 1: up on the feeds first thing in the morning. As always,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, guys. I will see you guys. The

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