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Speaker 2: I'm toned Yoh good mornings, swirl and welcome to the

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Speaker 2: No Dunks Podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, May second,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. I'm J. E. Skeith here in the

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Speaker 3: Melo podcast listeners, this is for you.

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Speaker 2: Next to him, it's the Bearded One, my top shot

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Speaker 2: hot boy, Trey Kirby Ayo, hey yo, and last but

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Speaker 2: We're still buzzing from Steph Curry's fifty burger over the weekend,

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Speaker 2: so we're gonna count down the top ten greatest Game

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Speaker 2: seven performances in NBA history. It's a really fun list.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna take you guys through. We're gonna look ahead

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Speaker 2: to tonight's two playoff games. We're gonna do a deep

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Speaker 2: dive on Jimmy Butler's gait as he was walking around

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Speaker 2: NYC like a tourist yesterday. Trey Kirby was just looking

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Speaker 2: at NonStop footage of Jimmy Butler. How he looked.

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Speaker 1: That look no different than like if you went to

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Speaker 1: New York City, You're like, check out these cool stores

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Speaker 1: I visited. I liked the look of this mannequin. But

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Speaker 1: the guy just had one of the great first round

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Speaker 1: series that we've had receive and we're curious if he's

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Speaker 1: gonna play tonight. But at least he's having fun in

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Speaker 1: the Big Apple.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's messing with us a little bit. He's clearly saying,

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Speaker 3: I am walking a lot. I am a tourist in

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that, and we got tweeted the night

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Speaker 2: as well, but first, put your big boy pants on. Boys.

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Speaker 2: James Harden scores forty five. He hits the late three

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Speaker 2: as the seventy six Ers down the Celtics. Dare I

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Speaker 2: say shock the Celtics one nineteen one fifteen in Game

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Speaker 2: one without Joelle embiid fun one last night in the

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Speaker 2: Garden and Harden maybe his greatest playoff game of his

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Speaker 2: career top three.

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Speaker 3: For sure, especially with ridiculously low expectations coming in and

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Speaker 3: he's surpassed those exceedingly for sure. Doc Rivers definitely empowers

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Speaker 3: his role players. That's his thing when his stars go

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Speaker 3: out by. No one was expecting this, were they? I

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Speaker 3: definitely was not. I don't think anyone was expecting Harden

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Speaker 3: to do anything like this. Actually, I read that report

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Speaker 3: number two person. I thought, come on, you can't do

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Speaker 3: I think the Celtics have to be kicking themselves with

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Speaker 3: how soft they played him to get him going. It

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Speaker 3: But he obviously got going. Didn't get They didn't get

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Speaker 3: The Deeds has been just bad overall. They had four

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Speaker 3: Celtics should be kicking themselves for the defense. And then

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Speaker 1: That was quite the fit we saw James Harden. Those

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Speaker 1: saying postgame, it's to fit his huge balls. What are

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, incredible stuff from Harden. It's easy to forget now.

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Speaker 1: I certainly did that. He was the guy with health

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Speaker 1: to be full speed going against these Boston Celtics. How

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Speaker 1: bad it was for the Celtics to extend their series

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Speaker 1: That's the Yin and yanga predictions for you right there,

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Speaker 1: because I did say yesterday the Celtics are gonna lose

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Speaker 1: We used to have a board back in the starter's days.

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Speaker 1: Celtics were incredibly dumb sixteen turnovers to six turnovers for Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: There was obviously that weird Maxi layup where everybody just

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what did you think about the way they played

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Speaker 2: Harden at the end that trays alluding to there where

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Speaker 2: he banged it in his face where you shocked. No

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Speaker 2: Is it more? Amazing that Harden didn't blow by Horford

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Speaker 3: What do you think, Yeah, it's easy to question now

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Speaker 3: for sure Horford was right on him. Yeah, there's no

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Speaker 3: doubt he was right there. Missoula said. A couple of

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Speaker 3: times we doubled, they did hitchots. They got six points

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Speaker 3: I don't really think that's where the game was lost

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Speaker 3: in all honesty. They were up four with three minutes left,

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Speaker 3: three minutes left, Tatum did nothing for twenty seconds.

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Speaker 2: He dribbled the air out of the ball around. But

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Speaker 2: that's what they are doing, that like prevent offense when

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he was calling for something and they just

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Speaker 3: How does that happen? How do you not know what

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Speaker 3: Marcus Smart was calling out, what the hell happened? Is

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Speaker 3: that easy? Paul Redduck the easiest thing in the fricking world.

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Speaker 3: Or when Tobias Harris was doing a yackety sacks and

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Speaker 3: And then thirty seconds left that Malcolm Brogden passed to

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Speaker 3: Tyrese Maxey They're on opposing teams, and said the.

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Speaker 1: End of it has a good luck.

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Speaker 3: Though I loved it. It was right at the end of

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Speaker 3: it literally to Malcolm Brogden for a breakaway lay up.

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Speaker 3: The other way, they could have said shocklock violation. I'm sorry. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: They've yeah, lots of things went wrong. I don't think

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Speaker 3: you could just put it on that that Horford move.

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Speaker 3: They just stuck. They hit fifty nine percent of their

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Speaker 3: shots in this game. The Celtics did. That's good.

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Speaker 1: They didn't play any defense. Barkley was spot on at

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Speaker 1: the In the post game, he said they had ten

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Speaker 1: personal fouls. They didn't play any defense last night. Horford

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Speaker 1: said postgame they didn't feel us defensively. We let up

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent what it looked like. You throw in

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Speaker 1: the three point shooting difference, seventeen for Philadelphia only ten

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Speaker 1: for Boston. That's kind of the story of the Celtics

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Speaker 1: season when they look their worst. It's just unserious basketball

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Speaker 1: out there and trying to make it back with three

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Speaker 1: point shooting. Gave the turnover for Maxi. That was just

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Speaker 1: like a bunch of scared guys. It looked like from

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Speaker 1: the Celtics nobody wanted to take the shot, and then

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Speaker 1: only Maxie, literally only Maxi played to the whistle and

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Speaker 1: it turned out to be such a huge play because

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Speaker 1: it got them a two for one as well, one

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Speaker 1: with a layout right and one with a three pointer

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Speaker 1: one on one. Like Barkley said, big guys can't get

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Speaker 1: guard guards. That's why you see guards have all these

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Speaker 1: humongous shot Like that's an easy shot for Harden. They

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Speaker 1: the Celtics let PJ. Tucker play twenty eight minutes and

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Speaker 1: not take a shot. That's insane. Yeah, the Sixers were

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Speaker 1: playing four on five for most of the night and

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Speaker 1: they scored one hundred and nineteen points.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was wild. That final play there that when

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Speaker 2: just another example of them playing prevent offense. They didn't

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Speaker 3: So you give a team life. The Celtics shot seventy

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Speaker 1: I think too, like smart, Yeah, that's a that's got

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Speaker 2: Do you know who the new leader is? Current player,

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Speaker 2: he's a new leader, followed by just some fun names

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Speaker 2: here Carmelo Anthony one for eight, so twelve point five percent,

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Speaker 1: Like it's gonna be him or Collins, and I think

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Speaker 2: no doubt they got the Harden game. Like Trey says,

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Speaker 2: not gonna come in Game one. Do it without embiid

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Speaker 1: Of course, now it's a series and honestly, we need more.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown awesome first half, sixteen points, six to seven

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Speaker 1: That's why they shot such a great percentage. But I

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Speaker 2: So how do you play this? If you're the Sixers now,

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Speaker 2: I guess they were not sam begging us. He couldn't go,

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Speaker 2: He didn't look good in practice, wasn't moving a lot.

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Speaker 2: Do you just shut him down for game two? See

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Speaker 2: if hell MAXI could have the heart and light game,

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Speaker 2: if you can get enough shots from Melton again hitting

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Speaker 2: he's like I want to go, I'm gonna get MVP

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Speaker 2: What do you do, tas Mellis? Do you just shut

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Speaker 3: Probably?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want a.

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Speaker 3: Healthy embiid that's my choice.

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Speaker 1: What for James for James Harden, Yeah, he doesn't score

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Speaker 1: let him play game three. There's no need to play

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Speaker 2: You guys are really in the Google docs there.

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Speaker 1: Do you find it? No?

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Speaker 3: I didn't.

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Speaker 2: But a great great service we've been using for a decade.

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Speaker 3: But stat muse has supplanted us. We don't need it.

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Speaker 3: He's got now, yeah, not the ones I was searching for.

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Speaker 3: There's still freebies anyway. He's pretty even across the board.

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Speaker 3: From games one to game seven, so you didn't miss anything.

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Speaker 2: Any other notes from six Ers shocking the bead Town

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Speaker 2: highlight what do you got?

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Speaker 1: I think I got everything. I think we covered everything

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Speaker 1: with regards to me, yes, I think.

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Speaker 3: Everything has been covered.

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Speaker 2: Everything has been covered. We'll be checking the Google duck

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned nex factor D Anthony Meltain already right,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they had like along with Harden obviously, you know,

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Speaker 2: I was like, Jason Tatum was their starter, right, and

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Speaker 2: little bit, but thirty nine points, eleven boards, five assists

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Speaker 2: made some like Smart like defensive plays, started what we

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00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,000
Speaker 2: thought was going to be a transition break there for

429
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Speaker 2: Jailen Brown because they got the Horford block, went to Smart,

430
00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:31,760
Speaker 2: kicked ahead Jaalen Brown. But like you said, Tatt, he

431
00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 2: pulled it out. But in the end he gave up

432
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,600
Speaker 2: a home run because he should have shot that floater.

433
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,600
Speaker 2: It was as little weird that they even went to

434
00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:41,040
Speaker 2: him to begin with. I'll give you that tray, but

435
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 2: he got a little too cute with in traffic trying

436
00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 2: to sort out a little to Tatum.

437
00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,000
Speaker 3: They should have pulled. Tatum pitched too many innings. Yeah,

438
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,880
Speaker 3: this is the st nineteen eighty five, it's twenty twenty three.

439
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:58,639
Speaker 3: Jalen Brown should have been the bridge needed pitch six, man, seventh, eighth,

440
00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 3: probably right. It was weird to see him just kind

441
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 3: of not be a part of the offense. That guy

442
00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 3: was playing really well. He is an incredible basketball player.

443
00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 3: But in the end, Maxi had the second most points

444
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 3: you know of if anyone outside Hardened and Tatum. That

445
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,800
Speaker 3: just shouldn't happen. That was a weird one, really weird

446
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 3: one from the Celtics.

447
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 2: Let's move to the second game from last night. Remember

448
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,640
Speaker 2: when we said this was going to be an offensive

449
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,000
Speaker 2: you know, the firepower offensively in this series was going

450
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,000
Speaker 2: to be nuts between the Sons and the Nuggets. While

451
00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,640
Speaker 2: we lied to you because we had Joki scoring thirty nine.

452
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 2: He had a great game to leave the Nuggets past

453
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Speaker 2: the Suns ninety seven to eighty seven, Oh my god,

454
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 2: thirty nine, sixteen and five for the joker taking a

455
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,760
Speaker 2: ton of shots being aggressive. Tray Bloone talked about it

456
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,360
Speaker 2: after the game, It's like, I love this. Nobody else

457
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,199
Speaker 2: could hit a shot, and so I went to the

458
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,119
Speaker 2: one guy who could, and man, he he's single handly

459
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,679
Speaker 2: I thought. Kept him in the game at the end

460
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Speaker 2: of the third quarter, and then you know, continued in

461
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 2: the fourth and scored in a million different ways.

462
00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was an awesome performance from Nikola Jokicic. So

463
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,080
Speaker 1: if the tim bontems leak is right and he wins

464
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 1: MVP tonight, this is the kind of game you want

465
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Speaker 1: to see before a guy wins the surprise MVP. He

466
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 1: put the team on his back one hundred percent, came

467
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,879
Speaker 1: out strong in the first quarter eleven points. But he

468
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 1: didn't want to score every point last night.

469
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 2: He didn't really want to.

470
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Speaker 1: Second quarter, he was playing the passing game, distributing the ball,

471
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Speaker 1: only scored two. But at halftime they must have had

472
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Speaker 1: a talk where Malone said, look, they're swarming Jamal Murray.

473
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Speaker 1: They're taking the ball out of his hands. They're trying

474
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Speaker 1: to limit everybody else and make you score every basket.

475
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Speaker 1: Go out there and score every basket. So Jokic did.

476
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,080
Speaker 1: He came out strong and was smashing it in the

477
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Speaker 1: second half. Most shots he's taken at all this season,

478
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Speaker 1: thirty attempts. I thought that was incredible because this was

479
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Speaker 1: a game that was played. More so, I thought at

480
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 1: the Sun's pace. Only sixteen turnovers in Game one for Phoenix,

481
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 1: only nine last night. Not a lot of three pointers

482
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Speaker 1: made for the Nuggets, not as many attempted. They were

483
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: really guarding the three point line well, the Sons were.

484
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 1: This was a Hoopers game. That should be an advantage

485
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,160
Speaker 1: for the Suns, where your two pointers matter a lot.

486
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: But Jokic was the best guy at two pointers last night.

487
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 1: Went fifteen for twenty four inside the arc. Devin Booker

488
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 1: ten for twenty one. That's good, not good enough. Kevin

489
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 1: Durant eight for fifteen inside the arc. That's good, not

490
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 1: good enough. Definitely not good enough from three for Ktie

491
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: shooting two for twelve. Denver's had the best player on

492
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 1: the court for the first two games. It was Jamal

493
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: Murray in Game one. He could not get going really

494
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: until the fourth quarter. A little bit last night, but

495
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 1: Jokic realized what was happening and adapted his game to

496
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 1: be a score and he was money. It was like

497
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 1: the ugliest, flippiest shots.

498
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Speaker 2: Oh, I love it, but it doesn't matter.

499
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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.

500
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:44,199
Speaker 2: Just throw it up.

501
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna get on the rim and it's going to

502
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: roll in. He couldn't finish in Game one. Not the

503
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Speaker 1: case last night.

504
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Speaker 2: What do you think of the performance?

505
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Speaker 3: Well, Jokis was obviously spectacular. That was the third quarter

506
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 3: battle him and Booker back and forth at the end

507
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 3: of the third quarter was awesome. It was nine to seven.

508
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 3: It was the last seven points for the Sons was

509
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 3: scored by Booker and then nine from Jokic, and the

510
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 3: Suns had a lead going into the fourth quarter and

511
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 3: they just didn't have enough firepower really that The Nuggets

512
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 3: were playing really solid defense on Booker and Durant. It

513
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 3: was Booker to start. He plays with the bench players,

514
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,199
Speaker 3: and the bench has not been coming through for the

515
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 3: Phoenix Suns whatsoever. Yeah, it's an understatement for sure. Many

516
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,400
Speaker 3: Williams has not been pressing the right buttons. He still

517
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 3: has a TJ. Warren just hanging out. He hasn't played

518
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 3: him whatsoever. The guy scored twenty points in the league

519
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 3: a while ago, and he looked good this season. Terrence

520
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 3: Ross still hanging out both dnps. In this one, nobody's

521
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 3: scoring off the bench, and they just went cold to

522
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 3: start because the Nuggets were doing a good job of

523
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Speaker 3: getting the ball out of Booker's Hans Booker had an

524
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,640
Speaker 3: incredible game. I thought he was going faster than Game one,

525
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 3: just not letting the double teams come. He had thirty

526
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 3: five in this game. But when it came down to

527
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 3: the five few possessions where it was super close four

528
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 3: minutes left, Yeah, they got up in Durant's face. Somebody

529
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 3: blocked Kevin Durant. Bruce Brown came over and blocked him.

530
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 3: It was a help block, but it was an incredible

531
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 3: block to turn it the other way. And Jokic was

532
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 3: I was smart on the defensive end. The Nuggets were

533
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 3: within They're up three actually four minutes left, and Jokic

534
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 3: saw a play where DeAndre Ayton was on the dunker spot.

535
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 3: Josh Kogy came into the lane, Aaron Gordon left the

536
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 3: dunker spot, and Deandreton got an easy dunk to make

537
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 3: it a three point game with four minutes left. You

538
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 3: can see him say it. The next possession down. Don't

539
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 3: leave that guy. Let's see Josha Kogy make a play

540
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 3: at the free throw line, Aaron Gordon goes back to him,

541
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,879
Speaker 3: Joshkochy doesn't know what to do. He passes out and

542
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 3: they miss a shot, and that, you know, the three

543
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 3: point lead spreads. They have three minutes there where they

544
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 3: didn't score with a team with Kevin Durant and Devin Booker,

545
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:51,239
Speaker 3: And yeah, they need some offensive help around him. And

546
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 3: I'm not even sure that Chris Paul injury really mattered

547
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,400
Speaker 3: in this game particular. Maybe he was having his best

548
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 3: quarter of the first seven quarters. He played and went

549
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 3: out at the end of the third quarter, but ended

550
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 3: with eight points. But they need some more offense because

551
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 3: the Nuggets are just they're ganging. They're ganging up, and

552
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 3: they played really well.

553
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris Paul leaves the game. What was it, Yeah,

554
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 2: four or five minutes left in the third injured is

555
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 2: left groin attempting a rebound there in traffic, and they

556
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 2: were playing well at that moment, and he had sort

557
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 2: of been unlocked a tiny little bit. He did not

558
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 2: look good at stretches in this game. But they're up

559
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 2: by four when he goes to the locker room, he

560
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 2: doesn't return, and this dude, man, he has damn cursed

561
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 2: when it comes to injuries in the playoffs, like the

562
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 2: run he is on. I wonder he's with State Farm because, holy.

563
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: Crap, the posts must be injured.

564
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,360
Speaker 2: Though after postseason injury, we'll see how you know how

565
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,479
Speaker 2: serious it is, but it's they need him even when

566
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,479
Speaker 2: he's not playing like old Chris Paul levels because their

567
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 2: bench is garbage, garbage. We knew their son the Sun's

568
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 2: depth was going to be a problem. I didn't think

569
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 2: it would perform this poorly through two games. The box

570
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 2: score is nuts in this game too. Points from Biambo okay,

571
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: two points from Cameron Payin. That's it. Ish played a

572
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 2: handful of minutes whatever, Toy Craig eleven minutes nothing, Jock

573
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 2: played five nothing, Demian Lee twenty six minutes, part because

574
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 2: of the Chris Paul injury. Nothing four points. That is

575
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 2: not gonna not gonna get it done against some very

576
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 2: good Nuggets, teach, So somebody has to step up.

577
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: And the fifth starter Josha Cooge he had two points

578
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 1: as well, and like Tass said, he had a wide

579
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: open floater in the middle of the wayan that he

580
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: did not even want to take. But uh yeah, I mean,

581
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,479
Speaker 1: you just gotta hope that you get something from the

582
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,439
Speaker 1: role players when you go back to Phoenix, because the

583
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 1: campaign minutes were those were scary. Campaign thought he was him.

584
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 1: We saw a great I'm him moment from James Harden.

585
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: This was a great I'm not him moment from campaign.

586
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: That was a pretty brutal returning from injury. He played

587
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: a little bit in the last series, but they looked bad.

588
00:27:58,680 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 3: Hum.

589
00:27:59,359 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 2: I don't know.

590
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: I think Kevin Durant somehow has to be the backup

591
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: center and the backup point guard for this team because

592
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: he needs to do a little bit more. Two for twelve.

593
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 1: You could tell that the Suns came out trying to

594
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: take more three pointers. Maybe that got KD out of

595
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 1: rhythm because some of the shots that looked like he

596
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: knew he had to take him but didn't necessarily want

597
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: to take a three. They were rushed or they were

598
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: a little like a half second behind. It was just

599
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: out of rhythm for the entire night. Finished two for twelve.

600
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: Like I said, ten for twenty seven from the field.

601
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 1: If they get a better KD in this game. They

602
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: got a pretty solid chance at winning it. But you

603
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 1: don't see a lot of games where Kevin Durant takes

604
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: more shots than points he scores.

605
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he was just off. And then the fourth

606
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 3: quarter again they they were right there. They had a

607
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 3: lead going into the fourth. They had a fourteen point

608
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 3: fourth quarter with Kevin Durant on the floor. Because the

609
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 3: Nuggets just say, hey, somebody else beat us. And in

610
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 3: this series, the Sons have you know it call it

611
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 3: a wash between Durant and Booker and Jokich and Murray.

612
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 3: But this the Nuggets have the best third player, best

613
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 3: fourth player, and best fifth player. Really like the best

614
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: third option fourth option option in Aaron Gordon and Michael

615
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 3: Porter Jr. And KCP. They've been performing a hit some

616
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 3: couple of big threes there and you know he's this

617
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 3: is what he does. He's now hit seven threes through

618
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 3: two games. Perfect stuff. And their bench obviously outperforming the

619
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 3: Suns been so seven eight. Yeah, the compost grew a

620
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 3: couple of browns and a green off the bench. That's

621
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 3: all you need. As somebody said last year, common composting problems.

622
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 3: You have too many greens in the compost. That's what

623
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 3: they had last year too many. They had Jeff Green

624
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 3: and they had Jamia. So they kicked off one nice balance.

625
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 3: Now a couple of browns and one that's not even

626
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 3: a brown and a Christian bron brown, but he's a

627
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 3: brown anyway. So you got a Jeff Green who got

628
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 3: a dunk and what what what a jam? What had

629
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 3: a jam? I'm saying that's an old time he phrased.

630
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 3: Nobody says jam anymore, but I'm saying that because Spiro

631
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 3: deadis on the call said, holy smookes when he dug

632
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 3: that also an old time he call it. At first

633
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 3: I thought he said, whoa he smokes like maybe he does.

634
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just marveling at the fact that Jeff Green

635
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 3: smokes and can donk at the same time at thirty

636
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 3: six years old. But listen, glass half full for the Suns.

637
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 3: Campaign goes into the starting lineup, which I assume he

638
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 3: will if Chris Paul can't go. There are three days

639
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 3: off here in between games two and three. But maybe

640
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 3: Campaign just scales it back and doesn't shoot seven times

641
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 3: in seventeen minutes because he's playing with the starters and

642
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 3: gets his mojo back, because that's what they absolutely need

643
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 3: and maybe that Monty Williams is forced to play some

644
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 3: scores off the bench. As I mentioned, Warren and Ross

645
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 3: just chilling. So I think you can go glass half full.

646
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 3: It was a close game. It was a very very

647
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Speaker 3: very close game. Flip it to Phoenix, they could win.

648
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Speaker 2: You think it might still be a series? Okay? On

649
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 2: a scale of one to ten, one, relax, skeets ten. Damn,

650
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 2: this thing is over. How worried should the Suns be? Trey?

651
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 2: Where would you put it on that scale?

652
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: Seven?

653
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:01,959
Speaker 2: Okay?

654
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Speaker 1: It right now feels like the Suns have two reliable

655
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: players in Devin Booker and Kevin Durant, though honestly, Durant

656
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: has had two bad games. I agree, seven turnovers in

657
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: Game one, then obviously a poor shooting night last night.

658
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: With this team, the top four guys gotta play well.

659
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: Chris Paul is likely out going into Game three. Eighton

660
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: who knows. I mean, Ayton is gonna get fifteen to

661
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: ten probably in most games this series, but it doesn't

662
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: feel impactful compared to what Jokic is doing. Like even

663
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: Jokic in Game one he was nine for twenty one,

664
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Speaker 1: but he dominated inside, and Eighton is just like he

665
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: scores points, but it doesn't it doesn't feel the same.

666
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: Their role players will be better. I assume at Home Phoenixes,

667
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: they shot over eleven from three last night. But like many,

668
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: Williams is playing. Every guy except for these two guys

669
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Speaker 1: task wats to play? And if those guys aren't playing,

670
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: how bad must their defense be? Is the question. Meanwhile,

671
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: Michael Malone knows exactly who to play. Only three guys

672
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Speaker 1: off the bench. Last night the compost line up and

673
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: they all did their part. Christian Brown gets steals, Bruce

674
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: Brown brings athleticism, defense and passing, and then Jeff Green

675
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: just demoralizes you with a dunk from an old man

676
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: so with a cigarette hanging out of his We've seen

677
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: a lot of two oh comebacks, like we just had

678
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: one in the last series. The Warriors flipped things when

679
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: they got to Golden State. The Sons can certainly do that.

680
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: But it's gonna have to be like seventy to eighty

681
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: points combined from Booker and Duran.

682
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Speaker 3: I think that's the way it's gonna roll, for sure.

683
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 3: It's it's it just shows that, Yeah, a little camaraderie helps.

684
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 3: Michael Malone knows exactly who to play. He plays those

685
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 3: three guys. Reggie Jackson, who they thought would be their

686
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Speaker 3: backup guard. They traded Bones Island away and replace him

687
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,479
Speaker 3: with Red Jackson. No, you're not playing black Coo chan

688
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 3: Char He played a lot. Now you're not playing DeAndre Jordan.

689
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 3: You could see a coach sneaking him in there. No, no,

690
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 3: you're not playing while the Sons are searching. Yeah, I

691
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 3: think you're gonna get some more Jock. At least he

692
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 3: was on the floor during his five minutes, working hard.

693
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Speaker 3: And somebody somebody from the scoring department, probably not both,

694
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 3: but a teach, a TJ. Warreny he was. He was

695
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 3: scoring this season. I'm a little surprised they're not playing it.

696
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Speaker 2: I think what's scary is when you look at game

697
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 2: two and you'll see the score and you're like, ninety

698
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 2: seven eighty seven, Oh God, that was ugly. That was

699
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 2: a slugfest. Must have been fouling left and right out there.

700
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 2: People must have been living at the free throw line.

701
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 2: Sons took five free throws. They didn't have free throw

702
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Speaker 2: in the first half when the score was like, yeah,

703
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 2: forty two to forty Hell, that's bad. And they were

704
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 2: Rice cold from three. They can't go six to thirty one,

705
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Speaker 2: especially Durant. Would you say two of twelve two twelve

706
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 2: individually and they'll they need it. They'll either need a Josh,

707
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 2: A Tory, Craig, a Lee, a Campaign whoever one of them.

708
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 2: Just one has to have the has to have the

709
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: KCP like Game right, has to have the three or

710
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 2: four threes or what Aaron Gordon did in Game one

711
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 2: where he had like the three threes. Somebody has to

712
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 2: at least help around the edges here because Booker's sort

713
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 2: of doing all he can and Durant, we just keep

714
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 2: waiting for him to just have a game where he

715
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 2: can't miss. But credit to the defenders. They were able

716
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 2: to throw at him obviously some length, not making it

717
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 2: easy in your porters and your Gordon stuff like.

718
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Speaker 1: Was awesome, I thought, particularly in the fourth quarter. Kevin

719
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Speaker 1: Durant with four for ten in the fourth. I guess

720
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Speaker 1: Bruce Brown got that block, right, Yeah, they did him

721
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Speaker 1: with Bruce Brown or Aaron Gordon, but they were both

722
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: right there and that was super impressive the way they

723
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Speaker 1: were playing defense. And then yeah, Gordon hit a three

724
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: when he absolutely needed to.

725
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Speaker 2: My only final note is in watching this game, watching

726
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Speaker 2: Jokic go to work. Trey Kirby has always told his

727
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 2: post moves are cool again and my god, like, what

728
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 2: was your favorite play? He had the baby hook over

729
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 2: eighton near the end of the third quarter. We just

730
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 2: backed his ass up and then hit the little hook.

731
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Speaker 2: He had the crazy little uh you know, fade away baseline,

732
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 2: you know, driveway dad shot over Biambo. That was again

733
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 2: at the end of the third quarter. And he had

734
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 2: another one like an off balance hook shot in the

735
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,720
Speaker 2: fourth quarter. Did you have a favorite of the Jokers

736
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Speaker 2: points last night?

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Speaker 1: I don't think he referenced my favorite one he had

738
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: like he was bumping, bumping, bumping eight and then spun

739
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 1: baseline and finished on the flip side of the rim.

740
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Speaker 1: Well that was the first half. R yeah, yeah, yeah,

741
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: he was cooking.

742
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 2: He was nice. Pure basketball poetry was the call on

743
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 2: the TNT broadcast. I love Ziller going for yeah, that's right.

744
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 2: A lot of that Ziller going through all the ways

745
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 2: he operates though Yo Kich screening for Murray on the

746
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,439
Speaker 2: pick and roll, check on the pick and pop, check

747
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 2: week side threat from three, check, running the inverted pick

748
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 2: and roll to get moving downhill, check, operating from the

749
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 2: free throw line. Check, and then he says eight and

750
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 2: should be having nightmares about those bunny hop fifteen foot jumpers.

751
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:50,240
Speaker 2: Oh god, posting up of course, check crashing the offensive glass.

752
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 2: He did start to do in second half, check rim

753
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 2: running in transition, big man joker, big honey, check check, check,

754
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 2: check check. He was sort of everywhere on offense. That's

755
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 2: a great breakdown everywhere ghost face Ziller. So we'll see

756
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 2: what happens.

757
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 3: Three and he did some defensively, as I pointed out,

758
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 3: he corrected the defense there with four minutes left to

759
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 3: figure out. Oh, we can't leave a guy on the

760
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 3: dunker spot open boom I did. I did want to

761
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 3: check what Damian least three point percentage was because it

762
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 3: felt like he hit a thousand threes like third in

763
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 3: the leak. It was. It was forty four point five,

764
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 3: So that's pretty good. Yeah, you might hit one.

765
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 2: Got to hit one. Got to hit one there in

766
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 2: Phoenix to make this a series at least anything else.

767
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, one last note. Michael Malone has a huge cut

768
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: on his forehead from getting hit in the face with

769
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 1: a pickleball.

770
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, Well that's tweeted night. But you can talk

771
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,919
Speaker 3: about it now. Well, well, we'll just talk.

772
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: About it's a tease.

773
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 3: It's a tease. Yeah, that's the tea. We'll talk about

774
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 3: our pickleball games you guys play.

775
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:52,479
Speaker 2: We'll talk about our pickleball injury. That's Michael Malone. Wasn't

776
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 2: the only person with a pickleball injury yesterday?

777
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 3: Why is sitting over there?

778
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 2: No task? We'll get to that later the show. We're

779
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 2: gonna take break. When we come back, we're gonna go

780
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 2: through the top ten greatest Game seven performances in NBA history.

781
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Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere, all right back here in the Classic Factory.

782
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Speaker 2: Hit that like button. Make sure you subscribe to No

783
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 2: Dunks on YouTube if you haven't done so already. On

784
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Speaker 2: Monday's podcast, we talked a lot about Steph Curry's fifty

785
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 2: point Game seven on Sunday that eliminated the Kings. What

786
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 2: a game, And we discussed within that podcast a lot

787
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 2: about where it ranks in regard to Steph Curry's playoff career,

788
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 2: Like where was it on his list of greatest playoff games?

789
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 2: But I started thinking about where did that Game seven

790
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 2: performance from Curry rank amongst all other game sevens in

791
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 2: NBA history, any round, first, second, conference, finals, or finals.

792
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 2: So I fired up the Basketball Reference page. I fired

793
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 2: up Statthead. Thank we have an account through the Athletic.

794
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 2: Thank you Athletic. And I didn't want to make this

795
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 2: a subjective list. I didn't want to be like, well,

796
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 2: I think that one, all right, I think that one.

797
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 2: So I went with the good old fashion game score

798
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 2: that Basketball Reference has created by the athletics very own

799
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 2: John Hollinger, which really just gives a rough measure of

800
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 2: a player's productivity for a single game. It's taken into

801
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 2: account of course, points, field goal percentage, free throw percentage,

802
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 2: offensive and defensive rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, personal fouls, and

803
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 2: even turnovers. So this is game score, guys.

804
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Speaker 3: So it's you and John Hollinger.

805
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 2: Me and Johnny and b ref few things about this

806
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 2: list that I'll count from ten to one. Ten different

807
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 2: players on this list. I was happy about that, no repeats.

808
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 2: I was like, great, it's cool, ten unique names. Only

809
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 2: two of these games on this list happened in the

810
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 2: NBA Finals, And he guesses just says, just throw it

811
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Speaker 2: out there right now.

812
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 3: Traymond, that's a hell of a call. My man.

813
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 1: I mean, I asked Chad Gpt about the best Game

814
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Speaker 1: seven performances today, and they are all finals performances.

815
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,439
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, but you put it, you said asked

816
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 2: for finals.

817
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: No, I just said best Game seven performance.

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Speaker 2: That's interesting, Yeah, interesting, okay, only two you got one

819
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Speaker 2: of them. Five of the performances that came in Game

820
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 2: and seven, they came in wins. The other five came

821
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Speaker 2: in losses. Okay. And some of our most recent iconic

822
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 2: Game sevens Luca and Kawhi in twenty twenty one, Durant's

823
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 2: forty eight point shoes too Big Game in twenty twenty

824
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 2: one against the Bucks. Those just missed the top ten lists.

825
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 2: Again this according to Game Score. Those were in the

826
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Speaker 2: top fifteen though, Luke and Kawai which happened in the

827
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Speaker 2: same game, and Katie like I said that forty eight

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Speaker 2: point Okay, So let's get to the list. These are

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Speaker 2: the top ten greatest Game seven performances in NBA history.

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Speaker 2: Number ten James Worthy in Game seven of the eighty

831
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Speaker 2: eight Finals versus the Pistons, Big Game, James. I wonder

832
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 2: what type of pants James Worthy was? Where? Undo that game?

833
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 2: In Game seven of the eighty eight Finals.

834
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Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty eight. What was the pants style? Say it

835
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Speaker 1: was denim?

836
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, no bell bottoms anymore.

837
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Speaker 1: They were a fancy crew though they were as Los

838
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Speaker 1: Angeles Lakers. He wasn't probably wearing Armani.

839
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Speaker 2: Somebody checked the pants on this guy.

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Speaker 1: Seven.

841
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Speaker 2: Anyway, he had a triple double in Game seven, thirty six,

842
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 2: sixteen to ten in a three point victory. He finished

843
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty two from the floor. He had a

844
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Speaker 2: two steals. So the game seven triple double, paired with

845
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Speaker 2: twenty eight to nine in Game six, helped him win

846
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Speaker 2: Finals MVP and the Lakers became the first team to

847
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Speaker 2: win back to back titles since the sixty eight sixty

848
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Speaker 2: nine Celtics.

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Speaker 1: There.

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Speaker 2: I think he was number ten on this list when

851
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Speaker 2: it came to game score because he went six to

852
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Speaker 2: ten at the free throw line, so that bumped them

853
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Speaker 2: down a little bit. And he had five turnovers. That's

854
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Speaker 2: what I guess. Okay, I'll have to check with hollad

855
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Speaker 2: d after.

856
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 3: Those, because that's the damn finals.

857
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 2: That's the damn final, that's right. But game I mean

858
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 2: game scorer is like a you know, look you just

859
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 2: put in Game seven and it's like, Hey, I'm going

860
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 2: to weigh these equally. That's what I was looking for.

861
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 2: Number nine Larry Bird in Game seven of the eighty

862
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 2: four semi finals versus the Knicks. Thirty nine points for

863
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 2: Larry Legend, twelve boards, ten assists, three steals in forty

864
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 2: two minutes. He shot thirteen to twenty four from the field.

865
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 2: He hit a three pointer, which you have to remember

866
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty four was like woo cool and breaking

867
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 2: one to three pointer, and he went perfect at the

868
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 2: free throw line. He went twelve for twelve. I love

869
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 2: this starting line from the New York Times article after

870
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 2: this game, too much Larry Bird and not enough Bernard King.

871
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 2: Bernard King had like sort of a mediocre Game seven,

872
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 2: but anyway, eighty four Celtics would go on to win

873
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 2: the title. Bird would win his first finals MVP, but

874
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 2: that was in the semifinals versus the Knicks. Number eight

875
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 2: Dominique Wilkins Game seven of the eighty eight semi finals

876
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 2: versus Celtics. That's right, first game seven on our list

877
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 2: here that came in a loss. Forty three minutes of action.

878
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 2: He scored forty seven points nineteen to thirty three, shooting

879
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,720
Speaker 2: eight to nine at the line, five boards, three assists,

880
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 2: zero turnovers, and this is considered one of the greatest

881
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 2: duels in NBA history. Bird and Nick going shot for

882
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 2: shot in this game. Kevin McHale after the game said, quote,

883
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 2: it was like two gunfighters waiting to blink because Bird

884
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 2: had thirty four.

885
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: I know, I thought it was a weird light to blink.

886
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: That's what you're looking for in a duel. Yeah, who

887
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:18,919
Speaker 1: blinks first?

888
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:19,479
Speaker 2: I guess.

889
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. We had a gunslinger reference between Mark Jones

890
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 3: and Doris Burke on this weekend Gunslinger be slinging. Yeah, couple. Yeah,

891
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 3: Mark Jones love that. Doris Burke pulled it out. They

892
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:30,879
Speaker 3: had a good laugh.

893
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:31,439
Speaker 2: I did.

894
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 3: That was nice.

895
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 2: So Nick at forty seven guys in the game, seven

896
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 2: incredible percentages. But Bird had thirty four, and he had

897
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 2: twenty in the fourth quarter as the Celtics pulled out

898
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 2: that victory.

899
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: So you're giving Bird that spot? What do you mean

900
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: he had twenty in the fourth quarter and they won. Hey,

901
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, this is game score. Don't get

902
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:54,439
Speaker 1: mad at me. Number seven Draymond Green in Game seven

903
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: of the twenty sixteen Finals, Come on, versus Lebron's Cavs

904
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: thirty two points on eleven to fifty, shooting six threes,

905
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,720
Speaker 1: four or four at the line, fifteen boards, nine assists,

906
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,720
Speaker 1: two steals, and only three turnovers in forty seven minutes.

907
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 1: The final score was ninety three to eighty nine. Dreamond

908
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: Green had thirty two fifteen to.

909
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 2: Nine and a little bit of defense. Basically played the

910
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 2: entire game, but they lose obviously to Lebron's Cavs there.

911
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: And he played a big part in that finals, probably

912
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 2: batching it where he had to miss the very important

913
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 2: what game four? Game four? Game five? I always mixed

914
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 2: that up.

915
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 3: What was it he missed? Played miss game five? Yeah?

916
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: Five?

917
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 3: Thank you? How many NBA finals have gone to seven games.

918
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 2: That?

919
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 3: I don't have the answer?

920
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: Shot gpt that yeh. I'll ask what do you.

921
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 3: Have the answer? I'm just I'm asking you guys. What

922
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 3: do you guys think? Okay, what do you think? Over

923
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 3: the years? Yeah, you'd think it's low. I bet it's

924
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 3: a lot higher, fifteen twenty, it's nineteen wow.

925
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 2: Wow. But again in a loss. I told you there's

926
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 2: losses on this list. These are just individual performances. Number

927
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 2: six I had completely forgotten about this game. John Stockton

928
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,439
Speaker 2: in Game seven of the nineteen eighty eight West Semifinals

929
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 2: versus the Lakers. So like Nick, like Draymond, it did

930
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 2: come in a loss. Lowest point total of our top

931
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 2: ten list. Stockton had twenty nine points. How many assists

932
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 2: do you think he had in this game?

933
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: Twenty one? Oh?

934
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 3: Very close.

935
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 2: Stockton had twenty assists, five steals in a board ten

936
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 2: to fifteen from the floor perfect at the charity stripe.

937
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 2: Stockton him alone played all forty eight minutes in this

938
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 2: do or die game against the Lakers. A guy named

939
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 2: Bob Hanson played forty six minutes, Mark Eaton played forty four,

940
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:42,359
Speaker 2: and Thorough Bailey off the bench played forty two. They

941
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 2: played five guys over forty two minutes, and there was

942
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:48,959
Speaker 2: like a handful of other minutes to go around. Pretty nuts.

943
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 3: It's like the modern day Phoenix Suns.

944
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, man, But stocked Yeah, with the twenty nine

945
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 2: to twenty five steals, that's a pretty damn good line

946
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,959
Speaker 2: in a loss. Tim Duncan number five on the list.

947
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 2: Game seven of the six West Semifinals versus the Mavericks.

948
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:05,280
Speaker 2: Duncan played just under fifty minutes in the Spurs overtime

949
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 2: loss to the MAVs. Forty one points, twelve to twenty

950
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 2: four from the floor, seventeen of twenty three at the

951
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 2: line for Duncan. Fifteen boards, six of them on the

952
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 2: offensive end, six assists, one steal, three blocks. It's the

953
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 2: most points Tim Duncan ever scored in a playoff game.

954
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 2: This game seven here and outside of Game one of

955
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 2: the three finals. It might be as greate as ever

956
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 2: postseason performance. It's probably top three. Nothing beats that Game

957
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 2: one of the three finals line that he put up,

958
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: but not bad in a game seven. I had forgotten

959
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 2: about this one of them being completely honest too. I

960
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 2: don't know. Six Spurs, MAVs. Oh yeah, TD still doing it?

961
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 2: What a game is that?

962
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,800
Speaker 1: Like this? Still like a late foul? Is there a

963
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: late foul in that game? On Mono Genobli or something

964
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: like that?

965
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 2: There might be? Is that the six series?

966
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: I don't know.

967
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 2: I don't know.

968
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: Time finals are finals are easy to keep track up? Yeah?

969
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,800
Speaker 1: I feel like but the earlier rounds they can mix together.

970
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 2: So Steph Curry comes in again. This is game score

971
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: on Basketball Reference comes in at number four for his

972
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 2: first round fifty Burger in Game seven against the Kinks,

973
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 2: twenty of thirty eight shooting. He's the oldest guy on

974
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 2: this list and the only one to deliver an iconic

975
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 2: Game seven performance in a win on the road from

976
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 2: this top ten because Stockton and Dominique there, they were

977
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 2: on the road, but they came in defeat. Curry's fifty.

978
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 2: We talked about it likely his third or fourth greatest

979
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 2: game of his postseason career. He had an eight board,

980
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 2: six assists, one steal, only one turnover, and he hit

981
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 2: seven threes. Good game number three Lebron James Game seven

982
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 2: of the twenty eighteen first round series versus the Pacers.

983
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 2: Remember Oladipo in the Pacers taking Lebron in eighteen to

984
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 2: Game seven. Lebron forty five points, sixteen to twenty five shooting,

985
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 2: hit a couple threes, eleven to fifteen at the line,

986
00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 2: eight boards, seven assists, and four steals, and they needed

987
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 2: all of it because they only won by four points

988
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 2: at home in that game to the Pacers. The next

989
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 2: highest Cavaliers score, they won't want to take a guess.

990
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 2: In that Game seven victory over the Pacers, Lebron had

991
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 2: forty five Who was next in the box score for

992
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 2: the Cavs high score.

993
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: No Kyrie at that time, j R. Smith, No, go

994
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 1: big guy, Timma fey Mos goof.

995
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 3: He probably was rist Thompson.

996
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 2: Tristan Thompson. Did you stutter? You did, but you got

997
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 2: it right, Yeah, Tristan Thompson at fifteen points the next

998
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 2: highest score and weird one. In looking at this list,

999
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 2: I was like, like, looking at the box score, I'm like, oh,

1000
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 2: Sibonis played twenty six minutes off the bench for the

1001
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 2: Pacers in that game, so he was on the losing end.

1002
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 2: Simonis of two of the top five greatest Game seven

1003
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 2: performances ever according to Basketball Reference. In the game score

1004
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 2: Colum sort of wild. He played obviously against Curry there

1005
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 2: number two. This is our final one and a loss.

1006
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 2: I think it's the least talked about Game seven performance

1007
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 2: on the list. A big part of it because of

1008
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,240
Speaker 2: cave in a loss. But Kevin Johnson in Game seven

1009
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 2: of the ninety five West Semifinals versus the Rockets, in

1010
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 2: forty two minutes, he scored forty six points and had

1011
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 2: ten dimes, shot twelve to twenty six from the field.

1012
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 2: Here's why he's on the list so high twenty one

1013
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 2: of twenty two at the free throw line, Kevin Johnson

1014
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 2: three boards, a steal, a block, only had one turnover

1015
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 2: and it was a one point home loss. Barkley, he

1016
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,760
Speaker 2: went for seventeen and twenty three, but Clyde and Elijah

1017
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 2: Wan had twenty nine each. Kevin Johnson, this is where

1018
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 2: it's like game score. Wow, you love free throws.

1019
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: See exactly, yeah, exactly. This should not be number two.

1020
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 2: Twenty one of twenty two, forty six and ten held

1021
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 2: of a line, but yeah, strange one, but number one,

1022
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 2: it's a good one. Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley in Game

1023
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 2: seven of the nineteen ninety three West Finals versus the Sonics,

1024
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 2: Sir Charles scored forty four points on twenty shots, nineteen

1025
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,359
Speaker 2: to twenty two at the free throw line, twenty four rebounds,

1026
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 2: ten offensive Like he was looney out there. He hit

1027
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 2: a three, an assist, a steal, a block, just one turnover.

1028
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,919
Speaker 2: So his game score is forty five point zero, which

1029
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:19,240
Speaker 2: is an entire five points clear of Kevin Johnson's Game seven.

1030
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 2: Random note from this game, now, this is the one

1031
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 2: that sent the Suns to the finals to take on

1032
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan and the Bulls MVP season for Barkley. I mean,

1033
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,799
Speaker 2: what a game here. In Game seven, the Suns had

1034
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 2: a sixty four to thirty six free throw advantage in

1035
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 2: this game Son against.

1036
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: Sixty four to thirty six, going crazy, man crazy.

1037
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,919
Speaker 3: I'm sure they had a home court advantage as well.

1038
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 2: Game seven was at home, I believe for the Suns.

1039
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 3: Back back in the day.

1040
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 2: Eddie Johnson played well for the Sonics off the bench.

1041
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 2: Camp had a rough one. Sir Charles got him. So yeah,

1042
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 2: that's the list again. According to the game score, the

1043
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 2: box score, Barkley will Kevin Johnson two and ninety five.

1044
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 2: Lebron incredibly a first round series versus the Pacers in

1045
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 2: game seven, I remember it going seven. We were like,

1046
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 2: what's going on here? Steph Curry obviously on Sunday. Tim

1047
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 2: Duncan in Game seven of the six West Semis versus

1048
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 2: the MAVs Stockton in Game seven of the eighty eight

1049
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 2: West Semifinals, Draymond Green in a in a wow if

1050
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 2: they win this game Game seven, sort of, what does

1051
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 2: that mean for his career and his legacy? Just that's

1052
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 2: a great Game seven from him. In the sixteen in

1053
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 2: the sixteen Finals, Nick, Larry Bird, James Worthy, which a

1054
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 2: lot of people would have much much higher because of

1055
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 2: course it's the finals of the triple double and he

1056
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 2: went on to win Finals MVP in a close, close game.

1057
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: This is an insane list to me because it's done

1058
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: by game score. How is Draymond's Game seven I ahead

1059
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: of Lebron's Game seven? Lebron won't know, and he had

1060
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: a triple double in Game seven. It made the biggest

1061
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 1: play of his career.

1062
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 2: What's the box four? Who cares the percentage?

1063
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: For sure? I don't care? Twenty seven, eleven and eleven

1064
00:50:58,760 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: and the biggest play of the game.

1065
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 3: You could say, just just flub it, you know, say

1066
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 3: game seven was Game five when him and Kyrie had

1067
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 3: those two forty point performances.

1068
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 2: What do you mean that changed?

1069
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 3: That ended this series? Right there? Game five was the game?

1070
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,720
Speaker 3: Seven was the proverb Game seven when they both had forty.

1071
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 2: It's a great gratitch it.

1072
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: Bill Russell had a thirty and forty in the Game

1073
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: seven to win the championship. Magic Johnson start as a

1074
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: room may not have that. I wonder if two fifteen

1075
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: and seven filling in as a rookie to win a championship. Yeah,

1076
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: this is an insane list to me.

1077
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 2: Do we need to talk to John Hollingder.

1078
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: We need to not go by game score?

1079
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 2: Well, okay, I understand that it went by game score. Tomorrow.

1080
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 2: You took us through the Trey Kirby.

1081
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: I'll take you through GPT's top game sevens right now.

1082
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: Bill Russell nineteen sixty two NBA Finals Game seven, thirty points,

1083
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 1: forty rebounds, Magic Johnson nineteen eighty NBA Finals Game seven

1084
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: forty two fifteen and seven as a rookie. Lebron James

1085
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, NBA Finals Game seven, twenty seven eleven and eleven,

1086
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,720
Speaker 1: biggest play his career. Tim Duncan, oh five, NBA Finals

1087
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: Game seven, twenty five, eleven rebounds, three assists to win

1088
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: the franchise a third NBA championship. Jerry West nineteen sixty nine,

1089
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 1: NBA Finals Game seven, forty two points, thirteen rebounds, twelve assists,

1090
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: won Finals MVP on a losing team. Larry Bird nineteen

1091
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: eighty four NBA Finals Game seven, twenty points, thirteen rebounds,

1092
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: ten assists to beat the Lakers in the championship and

1093
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 1: then came Elijah Won nineteen ninety four NBA Finals Game seven,

1094
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 1: twenty five points, ten rebounds, seven assists, three blocks.

1095
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 3: Hold on shot chvt Magic. Johnson's Game seven as a

1096
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 3: rookie didn't happen. It was a game six. It wasn't

1097
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 3: a game it was did not go to seven games.

1098
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 1: We can't trust numbers, and we can't trust worse.

1099
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 2: We can trust numbers, we can trust the game scorer.

1100
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 2: You could disagree with it, but this was just more

1101
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 2: off of Curry's in around one fifty to eight, obviously

1102
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 2: on great percentages and all that. So I just wanted

1103
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 2: to see these other monster lines, whether they came in

1104
00:52:58,360 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 2: a loss or not. That was the thing.

1105
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 1: But that's why nobody remembers Kevin Jarson at the free throw.

1106
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the weirdest one, but that's the because it's

1107
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 2: definitely taking into consideration, probably have too much importance hitting

1108
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 2: a ton of free throws?

1109
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 3: Was This list also inspired because we had a bit

1110
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 3: of a misleading short that went out yesterday with the title,

1111
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 3: where does Steph Curry's Game seven versus the King's rank

1112
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 3: all time? And we didn't rank anything. It was just

1113
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 3: Steph is awesome. He had a great game. Here's the

1114
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 3: title to Luria in you lured people, Jerome. I agreed,

1115
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 3: but anyway slightly misleading, But I said, we can play

1116
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 3: the game just a little bit. We did talk a

1117
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 3: little bit about other game seven, so I thought that

1118
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 3: may have been the inspiration for your list. Love numbers.

1119
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 2: Let's get to tweet of the.

1120
00:53:53,719 --> 00:54:03,280
Speaker 3: Ninth tweed of the Knight. Wow, here's a number. There's

1121
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 3: eight billion people on the planet. There's probably eight billion

1122
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 3: people who play pickleball, and one of them is head

1123
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 3: coach of the Denver Nuggets, Michael Malone, who during the

1124
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 3: broadcast that was shown, had a big gash near the

1125
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:23,319
Speaker 3: top of his forehead, near his hairline. Apparently he went

1126
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 3: for a ball and his partner hit him in the head.

1127
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 3: They didn't communicate. He always preaches communication, but he didn't

1128
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 3: communicate on that play. I only included this just because

1129
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:39,320
Speaker 3: I know you guys played pickleball yesterday. Let's hear the stories.

1130
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 3: Apparently someone was injured playing pickleball. Medio. Oh no, oh, no,

1131
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,880
Speaker 3: he's been doing so many bookouts. He was telling me

1132
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,879
Speaker 3: about the lunges he's following, the lunch guy that puts

1133
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:55,320
Speaker 3: his knee over his foot. You know you're not supposed

1134
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 3: to do that. Matt's been working out doing that. He's

1135
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,320
Speaker 3: been doing a bunch of things, pickleball.

1136
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: Pickleball, at least I thought of them all.

1137
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 2: A little calf strain. I guess it was late, late

1138
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 2: into the sesh. I guess we'd been playing for a while.

1139
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 1: It was after ninety minutes, certainly, But.

1140
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 2: I also think it may have been a fake injury.

1141
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 2: It was TK and I versus j D's wife Rachel,

1142
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 2: who was the best player out there, and Mattio. Now

1143
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 2: there's a lot of wind out on the pick a

1144
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 2: ball court. Yesterday it was crazy like there was an

1145
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 2: advantage to be on one side, no doubt.

1146
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,439
Speaker 3: And that pickle ball is late, that's right, that whiffle ball.

1147
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,359
Speaker 2: That pickle ball will go everywhere. TK and I took

1148
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 2: the first game, but we had the good side. We

1149
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 2: flipped it up. We went to the other side. We

1150
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,840
Speaker 2: sort of got waxed the second game of We're being honest,

1151
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 2: they crushed us, didn't they. TK, that was bad, but

1152
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 2: we said we're running it back, rubber match. Third game,

1153
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 2: we'll start on the bad side, and then we were

1154
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 2: gonna switch and Trey and I took. I believe a

1155
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 2: two to zero lead in a game that was only

1156
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 2: going to seven, so a strong lead on the bad side.

1157
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:58,799
Speaker 2: And that's when Maddy O came, no, we have to

1158
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:03,839
Speaker 2: call it, so we went by, yeah, I'm done. So

1159
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 2: that's what happened. But it was a lot of fun.

1160
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 3: We had.

1161
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,479
Speaker 2: Like we thought we were not gonna have enough people

1162
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 2: to play one game of pick a ball yesterday, and

1163
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 2: the end we had like we had eight people out there.

1164
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 2: We were rotating teams in. It was great. So it

1165
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 2: was a lot of fun. First time, right for well,

1166
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 2: first time since like.

1167
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: That was my second time since I was a youngster,

1168
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. It was a good time. At

1169
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: one point, Skeets had to check with Rachel. He's like,

1170
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: you think it's okay for screaming out here? We like,

1171
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: as long as it's nice screaming and celebration, it's okay,

1172
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: not trash talking.

1173
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 2: There was a shocker. There's a bunch of old people

1174
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 2: playing down on the other end, and uh, they weren't

1175
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 2: making a peep, right like you just the ball going

1176
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,720
Speaker 2: back and forth. They weren't saying anything, and like we would,

1177
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 2: yeah we would like scream after a big play. We're like,

1178
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 2: you know, tapping paddles and all that, and I'm like, yeah,

1179
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 2: what is the pickleball etiquette? Like is it? Are we

1180
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 2: supposed to be sort of was like calm and cool

1181
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 2: or can we be screaming out here? Like maybe this

1182
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 2: is the opposite of some of these you know, golf

1183
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But I mean, Rachel didn't really

1184
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 2: give me a great answer.

1185
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: I thought I thought it seemed to have more of

1186
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: a US Open vibe than a Wimbledon vibe to me.

1187
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: So you know the crowd was rowdy.

1188
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:20,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it.

1189
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 2: Was like a waste management pickleball open?

1190
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: Are you saying that because I was playing in a

1191
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 1: wife respector for the second half of the day.

1192
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 2: There it was good?

1193
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 3: So do you like pickleball more now, Trey, because usually

1194
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 3: you're your bad mouthed it. Let's be honest. You say

1195
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 3: it's the most.

1196
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 1: Wait, nobody on this show has ever heard me bad

1197
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: mouth pickleball.

1198
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 3: Okay, sorry, I revealed it.

1199
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 2: What did you think?

1200
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: Though?

1201
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 2: You played great?

1202
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 3: Same?

1203
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 1: I play sports, play sports, of course I'm going at pickleball.

1204
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: We had a great time.

1205
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 2: Kap good I caught him in the kitchen.

1206
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 1: Once caught in the kit a sandwich that's that's my weakness.

1207
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 2: That's my weakness.

1208
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: I love to be in that kitchen. So at one point,

1209
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: you know, Rachel saw me hanging back. She's like, you

1210
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 1: want to move up? I said, I'm good where I'm at.

1211
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: I always step in the kitchen. I gotta stay back

1212
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:12,640
Speaker 1: a little bit there.

1213
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 2: Fun times were had and nobody injured as bad as

1214
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 2: Michael Malone's face. I think Maddio's good bed. Yeah, I'll

1215
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 2: think quite a gash. I can see how it could happen.

1216
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 2: And just playing with you like we were a couple

1217
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 2: of times, like we almost each other. But hopefully heals quickly.

1218
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 2: All right, Tonight's games Heat Nicks. That's the first game

1219
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 2: Miami leads a series one. Oh is Jim Butler gonna play?

1220
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 2: You know, he's getting ankle treatment. He was walking around

1221
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 2: New York all day, checking out cool shops, having a coffee.

1222
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 2: We'll find out. I don't know what his status actually is.

1223
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 2: I don't think he's been listed out, but uh, I'm

1224
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 2: guessing he's walking around New York.

1225
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: I'm playing Vine.

1226
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's going to play. And then Lakers

1227
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 2: Warriors gets his final gets underway. The serious game one

1228
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 2: tonight at ten o'clock.

1229
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 3: What takes sme and Brunton and Randall are listed as

1230
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 3: questionable on the injury report for the Knicks. Both ankles,

1231
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 3: So yeah, Brunson thrown on there. Randall? Will he come

1232
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 3: back and play? Yes, thanks for the Knicks that they're

1233
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 3: trying to implement guys here, Randall coming back hopefully for them,

1234
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 3: they need him, they need some shooting, and I say

1235
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 3: implementing multiple guys because I think they got to throw

1236
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 3: in Quentin Grimes, who's been just sitting on the bench

1237
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 3: for a lot of this since he's come back from injury.

1238
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 3: So it's a must win game, especially if Jimmy's playing,

1239
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 3: and they can't get duped into thinking, oh, Jimmy's out

1240
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 3: there injured and we can win this game. If Jimmy's playing,

1241
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 3: he's going to be playing one hundred percent, so you

1242
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 3: can't just go at him. Somebody's got a score and

1243
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 3: hopefully for them, Randall's back. That's the guy can pot

1244
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. They need him.

1245
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 2: Anything else you want to touch on here before we leave.

1246
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:00,200
Speaker 1: I kind of would like to see Grimes start as well. Well.

1247
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: For Josh Hart, Hart just couldn't hit in the last

1248
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: in Game one, clearly he was out there for defense

1249
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: on Jimmy Butler, But if Butler's going to be hampered

1250
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: a little bit, you can probably get away with Grimes

1251
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 1: planned some more minutes. I think he only got ten

1252
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: in Game one after returning from an injury, but he

1253
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 1: seemed to look fine, so maybe he'll get a little

1254
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: bit of tick and then. Man, it's a great question

1255
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 1: about what we're gonna see from Lebron tonight, because this

1256
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: would be a perfect time for a throwback Lebron controlling

1257
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 1: the game from the post, hunting out Steph Curry for mismatches,

1258
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 1: and just slowing the game down and getting good shots

1259
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,760
Speaker 1: for the Lakers. He didn't do that in round one,

1260
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: so we will see if you can still throw it

1261
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: back to twenty eighteen.

1262
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, isn't he notoriously on record saying like

1263
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 2: he likes game ones as a feel.

1264
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 1: Out loves a feel out game.

1265
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he doesn't. Maybe, I don't know. We'd have

1266
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 2: to check, have to check the game scores to see

1267
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 2: all of Lebron's game ones in playoff series, but.

1268
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:54,919
Speaker 1: He did have a fifty one in a game one

1269
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: once upon a time, Okay, fine, that was a big one.

1270
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, good call. So we'll see excited heat Nicks. I

1271
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 2: mean it feels like I must win game for the

1272
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 2: next no matter who is playing, and then Lakers Warriors

1273
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 2: should be great and doing amazing ratings. I assume on

1274
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 2: TNT tonight everybody tune into that we'll be here tomorrow

1275
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 2: to break them all down. So join us live at

1276
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:13,880
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1277
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:16,480
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1278
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:20,920
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Speaker 2: Clipper Brose, you heard it here first.

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Speaker 1: Have a great time, turn up, Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, and remember, as far as game

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Speaker 3: ones go, Devin Booker to me is the new Lebron James.

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Speaker 3: He's a feeler in game once.

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Speaker 2: He's a feeler race today, people,