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Speaker 1: The Volume. All right, welcome to Hoops Tonight. Here at

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Speaker 1: the Volume, Happy Sunday, everybody covers to the Eastern Conference Finals. Here,

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Speaker 1: Hoops Tonight is brought to you by Chase Freedom Unlimited.

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Speaker 1: How do you cash back? Well, the Boston Celtics let

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Speaker 1: go of the rope and get their ass kicked in Miami.

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Speaker 1: A bunch of stuff that I want to dive into

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Speaker 1: the reality of what this means about where the Celtics

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Speaker 1: are at mentally, I want to talk about some of

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Speaker 1: the cops that I have for both Jimmy Butler and

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Speaker 1: for this Miami Heat team. And then at the end,

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Speaker 1: I just have some brief thoughts about the Celtics moving forward.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to do a full obituary until they lose,

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Speaker 1: but statistically speaking, the Lakers and Celtics are any position

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Speaker 1: where they have to do something that no team has

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Speaker 1: ever done before, which has come from down three to zero.

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Speaker 1: I'll share some thoughts on that as well. Here in

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Speaker 1: just a minute, you guys know the drip before we

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Speaker 1: let's talk some basketball. So I was talking with Ryan,

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Speaker 1: our lead producer, and shout out to Ryan. He does

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Speaker 1: a ton of stuff behind the scenes to make this

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Speaker 1: the schedule is going to be over the course of

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Speaker 1: the next week or so. And obviously a couple of

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Speaker 1: sweeps leads to a predicament, right in terms of days off,

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Speaker 1: because the final start on June first, no matter what,

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Speaker 1: this coming Thursday, right, So we're kind of looking at it.

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Speaker 1: We're like, man, what are the chances that Boston pushes

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Speaker 1: this thing to six? And I texted him, I said,

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Speaker 1: But I said the reality is they look like a

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Speaker 1: team that might crumble on the very next heat run.

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Speaker 1: And when we were talking about that, it was in

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Speaker 1: that first quarter sequence when Kevin Love was kind of

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Speaker 1: the more physically aggressive team. And then they sub Kevin

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Speaker 1: from there there was just no fight. There's no fight

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Speaker 1: It's certainly on the road right, Like it's just it's

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Speaker 1: Like one of the things that Boston has to focus

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Speaker 1: The other team sees a pathway to end the series.

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Speaker 1: You see an impossible pathway. But secondly, usually the team

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Speaker 1: that's up three to zero is a better basketball team. Like,

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Speaker 1: you don't go up three to zero unless you're better.

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Speaker 1: Now it might only be a little bit better, but

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Speaker 1: it's hard to be the team that's a little bit

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Speaker 1: better than you four times in a row. That's why

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Speaker 1: it's never happened before. I do think it's possible. I

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Speaker 1: think it's way more likely that the Lakers do it

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Speaker 1: than the Celtics, too, because they have an elite defense,

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Speaker 1: and obviously Lebron James and Anthony Davis haven't played very well.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they just start playing well and that turns everything around.

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Speaker 1: But even in the case of the Lakers, is just

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Speaker 1: so incredibly unlikely. You know, even if they steal Game four,

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Speaker 1: they go in Game five in Denver and it's like

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Speaker 1: ilacious Denver crowd that does not want to go back

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Speaker 1: to LA for Game six. You're gonna get their very

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Speaker 1: best punch. And so it's hard to believe that you're

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Speaker 1: gonna beat Denver in Game six giving their very best

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Speaker 1: punch unless you're a better basketball team than them. And

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Speaker 1: the only way that's happening is if Lebron James and

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis get better, which this is kind of the

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Speaker 1: These are kind of the guys they've been this entire

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Speaker 1: playoff run. Really good defensive players, both of them, just

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Speaker 1: not the same type of offensive threats they were in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, so it's hard to imagine, but I again,

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Speaker 1: I do think the Lakers will win Game four. I

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Speaker 1: think Boston loses Game four. I think the Lakers win

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Speaker 1: Game four and then Denver closes it out in five.

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Speaker 1: But also I wouldn't be surprised if Denver closed it

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Speaker 1: out in four as well. All right, guys, that's all

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Speaker 1: I have. I will see you guys tomorrow night with

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Speaker 1: Colin Coward after Game four the Western Conference Finals. The

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Speaker 1: Volume