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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up straight Fire, Pamp, It's me Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Thursday, May the first. It is a

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Speaker 2: new month, ladies and gentlemen, but unfortunately the month is

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Speaker 2: off to a rocky start. The Lakers were eliminated last night.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, fudge my gosh. Guys, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: This is gonna be a tough one because I'm equal

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Speaker 2: parts stunned, disgusted, angry, surprised, and then you know, you

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Speaker 2: start to dig into stuff and like, well, well, you know, Jason,

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Speaker 2: maybe a miscalculated a few things. We'll dig into that. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: the Warriors that have chanced to close it out, they decided,

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Speaker 2: you know what, we're not going to show up. We'd

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Speaker 2: rather try to close this out at home. They get

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Speaker 2: blasted by the Rockets. I think they were down forty

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Speaker 2: at what point, not sure, but that game, no nobody

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Speaker 2: really cared about it. I do want to talk about

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Speaker 2: something very random before I get to the Lakers. So

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Speaker 2: you guys know, I play in these a lot of

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Speaker 2: men's basketball leagues, right I'm in the over thirty five league.

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Speaker 2: I missed the championship game last year last season and

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Speaker 2: we lost. God listen man, I was so cooking that

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Speaker 2: league last year. Folks House, the third leading scorer at

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Speaker 2: one point led the league in threes. Anyways, So then

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Speaker 2: the Thursday League, which is really highly competitive and super tough.

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Speaker 2: We had four guys injured last year in the playoffs

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Speaker 2: for including myself, missed the playoffs and we end up

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Speaker 2: losing in the championship, which sucked. Right. We lost in

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Speaker 2: the championship the year before with Richard Jeffers. So we're

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Speaker 2: now taking too many injuries. So we're taking the Thursday

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Speaker 2: League off. However, two dudes I'm friends with who I

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Speaker 2: have gotten to know. They're like twenty five. They are

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Speaker 2: real ballers. Like these guys are good. Both one of

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Speaker 2: them played at Shamana, the other went to like Okill Academy.

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Speaker 2: He's just really good. So they got roped in randomly

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Speaker 2: to join teams in something called the Mecca League out

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Speaker 2: here in Long Beach, and it's a pretty awesome league.

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Speaker 2: Anybody who follows basketball knows this guy named Frank Nitty,

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Speaker 2: this you know Instagram famous dudes in the league. He's

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Speaker 2: really really good. He's won the Julie. He plays in

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Speaker 2: pro leagues around the world, a lot of international pros,

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Speaker 2: some former NBA guys, and I see the highlights online.

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Speaker 2: It's all one on one, right, and I'm like, damn,

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Speaker 2: these guys. I could never hang in this league. But

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Speaker 2: my two buddies got roped in and they're like, dude,

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Speaker 2: these guys are good. But it's not like unbelievable. It's

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Speaker 2: a lot of one on one, not a lot of

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Speaker 2: team play. Everybody brings like their own photographers so they

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Speaker 2: can flex for the GRAM. That's the kind of basketball

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Speaker 2: it is. Let's get a team. So for the last

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Speaker 2: like two weeks, pretty quietly, we've been trying to put

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Speaker 2: a team together. Now again, I'm just gonna remind you

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Speaker 2: the age of most of the guys in this league.

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Speaker 2: I will not really be able to hang. That being said,

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Speaker 2: I have some a history of being a decent GM,

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Speaker 2: and if I could come in and give a few

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Speaker 2: minutes here, a few minutes here, I'm obviously not gonna

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Speaker 2: make every game. However, here's the interesting point this upcoming season.

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Speaker 2: The winner gets fifty thousand dollars. I've never played for

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Speaker 2: a league with that much at stake. I've played for

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Speaker 2: in top leagues in New York City, in suburban Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: All these leagues are good, but fifty k on the

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Speaker 2: line's a little different, right, So I will just say

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Speaker 2: trying to assemble this squad is really fun. Now. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure some people are like, oh, you got that former

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Speaker 2: some of those guys will eventually be like, yeah, I

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Speaker 2: can't make it, but this will be one of the

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Speaker 2: wildest things I've done in basketball.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Listen, there's a chance I totally embarrassed myself. I don't care.

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Speaker 2: So I reached out to the league and they're like, oh, yes,

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Speaker 2: we're aware of your work, Jason. We're very happy to

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Speaker 2: have you. It's almost like that casino that's like, oh

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Speaker 2: is this dumb money at blackjack? Yeah, please put out

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Speaker 2: more money. So anyways, there will be periodic updates about that.

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Speaker 2: Very excited. I also wanted to start in a positive

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Speaker 2: is gonna be freaking depressing. I mean, guys, the Timberwolves

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Speaker 2: played a pretty awful basketball game. They at one point

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Speaker 2: missed eighteen straight threes in the second half. They were

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Speaker 2: of eleven on threes. Jaden McDaniels played eighteen minutes, fouled out,

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Speaker 2: total non factor. How did Lakers lose this game? Oh,

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Speaker 2: of Victor wembin yama inhaled twenty four rebounds, had twenty

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Speaker 2: seven points. Yes, you heard that right. Rudy Gobert had

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Speaker 2: twenty seven and twenty four and then Timberwolves pulled off

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Speaker 2: crazy this freaking game was. So Rudyo Gobert had nine

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Speaker 2: offensive rebounds. The Lakers as a team had eight. Rudy

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Speaker 2: Gobert won this game for the Wolves. It was unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: And this is what's wild. I totaled Rudy Gobert's numbers

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Speaker 2: for the Force four games. The Lakers essentially were playing

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Speaker 2: so smart and so good, Rudy Gobert was unplayable. His

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Speaker 2: minutes were limited in the series. Okay, he played twenty

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Speaker 2: four minutes, twenty nine, twenty five, twenty six. This for

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Speaker 2: all NBA center. Lakers were playing him off the floor.

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Speaker 2: He was a non factor. The Lakers removed the center,

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Speaker 2: went essentially small ball throughout and Chris Finch, one of

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Speaker 2: the most underrated coaches in the league, one of the

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Speaker 2: best coaches in the league. I will say he comes

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Speaker 2: to the herd, comes on the set, and is super

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Speaker 2: awesome to talk to during commercial breaks before and after.

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Speaker 2: I'm grilling him about basketball, asking like, hey, can Rob

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Speaker 2: Dillingham play? Hey what about this? Hey? Well, Carl Anthony Towns.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just a sponge absorbing as much info

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Speaker 2: and he's like answering every question. He's a great guy.

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Speaker 2: He's also smart as hell when it comes to basketball.

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Speaker 2: Gobert played a series high thirty nine minutes. He was

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Speaker 2: twelve of fifteen. It felt like everything was a dunker

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Speaker 2: layup folks. In the first four games, Rudy Gobert totaled

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Speaker 2: fourteen points and twenty five rebounds. So four games he

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Speaker 2: had a total of fourteen and twenty five. In game

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Speaker 2: five he had twenty seven and twenty four. That is

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Speaker 2: absolutely staggering. I don't even like At points, it was

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Speaker 2: like Lebron trying to box out Rudy Gobert and that's

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Speaker 2: not gonna go well. Luka Donciz trying to box out

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Speaker 2: it ended in disaster for the Lakers. And I cannot

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Speaker 2: believe that I just said Rudy Gobert eliminated the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: It was a podium game from Rudy Gobert. It was like, hey,

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Speaker 2: why did you give up so many picks? Oh, that's why,

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Speaker 2: Like Rudy Gobert saved their bacon because nobody else had

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Speaker 2: it tonight again Anthony Edwards five of nineteen. Now the

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Speaker 2: best player on the Wolves in the series, and that's

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Speaker 2: that the Lakers ended up trading him back in the day.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what set him off with someone talking

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Speaker 2: trash to him. He had a hell of a series.

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Speaker 2: He was essentially unguardable. If the Lakers wanted to play

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Speaker 2: Lebron at the five right and DFS at the or

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Speaker 2: just he can't cautd Lebron forty. He's gonna get Julius

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Speaker 2: Randall is stronger, younger, and I mean he's a bull

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Speaker 2: in a china shop and the Lakers could not stop him.

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Speaker 2: And I think where I miscalculated this series and thought

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Speaker 2: throughout the Lakers are fine, They're gonna be okay. I

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Speaker 2: think they can come back. It's not over. And I

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Speaker 2: sound like, in hindsight, a real dopey, uninformed moron. Folks.

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Speaker 2: I don't think people realize what Minnesota needed to do

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Speaker 2: this regular season just to get out of the play in.

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Speaker 2: They finished the regulars season seventeen and four. They were

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Speaker 2: not going to play in. They were not gonna secure

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Speaker 2: a top six seed without that strong end. At one

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Speaker 2: point this team in February, they were twenty seven and

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Speaker 2: twenty three. At one point late February post All Star Break,

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Speaker 2: they were thirty two and twenty nine. They lost to

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Speaker 2: two and twenty nine, it's like, oh, they're gonna be seven,

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Speaker 2: planet and then I don't know what changed. I would

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Speaker 2: love to hear Chris Finch talk about it, but from

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Speaker 2: that point they went, let's say, seventeen and four to

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Speaker 2: end the regular season, seventeen and four, and I missed it. Guys,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. You know, March madness. I'm not gonna blame it, obviously,

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Speaker 2: it's me. I just missed it. March Madness happens. I'm

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Speaker 2: locked in on March madness. Sorry, that's I'm locked in

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Speaker 2: on marks Mannis and they go seventeen to four. I

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Speaker 2: totally miss it. And the other thing I missed was

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Speaker 2: just how dangerous this team is defensively, Like, I'm not

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Speaker 2: even I'm not no cap in here. You could go

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Speaker 2: through all ten playoff teams in the West, assuming the

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Speaker 2: playing teams catas playoff teams, and I think Minnesota is

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Speaker 2: the worst matchup for the Lakers. Why they have a

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Speaker 2: center who can do damage. Obviously, Yokich would have been

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Speaker 2: a major problem, as we evidenced by Rudy Gobert grabbing

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Speaker 2: nine offensive boards and having twenty seven and twenty four

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Speaker 2: Twitchy nas Reed who can hit threes, Twitchy Jade McDaniels,

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Speaker 2: who can defend and hit threes, Julius Randall, bullan or

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Speaker 2: China Shop, who was just unbelievable in the series, probably

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Speaker 2: the greatest playoff series he's had in his life. They

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Speaker 2: have a better bench than the Lakers. Oh, by the way,

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Speaker 2: Game five, they outscored the Lakers bench twenty two to four.

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Speaker 2: Were Okay, Dante Divigenzo is NCAA champion A. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if he wanted an NBA title or not, but

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Speaker 2: he's been a solid NBA rotation player now for what

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Speaker 2: five six years? And oh yeah, Anthony Edwards, he can

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Speaker 2: defend up and it's like they're just such a long

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Speaker 2: team that they give they're the one team in the

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Speaker 2: Jaden McDaniels and Julius Randall and nos Reid as well

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Speaker 2: like Oklahoma City. And I'll maintain this obviously you could

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Speaker 2: say that's hollow. It doesn't mean anything, Jason. Oklahoma City

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Speaker 2: did not scare me at all. They didn't. Their matchups

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Speaker 2: for Luca and Lebron are smaller guards Lou Dort, Alex Caruso.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they're as good defensively for the matchup

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Speaker 2: of Lebron and Luca as Jaden McDaniels and Naz Reid.

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Speaker 2: Those guys are very long and big. Caruso and lou

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Speaker 2: Dort are smaller. They're compacted, very very good defenders, elite defenders,

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Speaker 2: all NBA guys, but for them matchup against Luca Lebron,

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Speaker 2: Minnesota has everything and I just missed it. Honestly, first

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Speaker 2: impressions matter, and I guess going thirty two and twenty

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Speaker 2: nine to start the season is like, geez, these guys

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Speaker 2: aren't great, and I know, I just didn't. I didn't

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Speaker 2: notice that they I mean, I think we knew they

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Speaker 2: went seventeen to four, but I don't know how they

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Speaker 2: did it and watching them in this in this series, man.

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Speaker 2: Live now in the Lakers defense and I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to kill him here. I don't think you can kill

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Speaker 2: the Lakers. Game one they got blown out, Okay, I

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Speaker 2: think they were stunned by the physicality of Minnesota and

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Speaker 2: like that's that's bleak. So the Lakers starters ninety two,

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Speaker 2: they're going to do that. I don't think the Lakers

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you guys have seen this by now, but

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Speaker 2: Minnesota kept drabbing. It led to a more shots, folks. Again,

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Speaker 2: four out of eleven. That's eight more points and they

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Speaker 2: win by seven. They shot eight more free throws, they

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Speaker 2: personally surprised Dalton Connect didn't play, but I don't know

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Speaker 2: chucking chuck and duck. That's not gonna work in the NFL. Well,

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Speaker 2: lesson learned. Now, Listen, there was data to back this up.

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Speaker 2: a tough one, guys. It's a tough to stomach when

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