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Speaker 1: talk some basketball. So King's win one fifteen. They started

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Speaker 1: try to find a way to make him functional defensively.

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Speaker 1: So maybe you don't have to make that trade. But

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Speaker 1: here we are and you're sitting at you know, eight

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Speaker 1: and five, and you're two and five in games that

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Speaker 1: Darius Garland has played. So that's definitely something to keep

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Speaker 1: an eye on as the season progresses. All Right, Lakers NETS.

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Speaker 1: Big win for the Lakers over a NETS team that

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Speaker 1: had won four out of five games. Katie made two

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Speaker 1: free throws to get it down seven in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: and then Austin Reeves, Lonnie Walker and Anthony Davis just

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Speaker 1: took this game over. Very next possession, Austin Reeves kind

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Speaker 1: of gets the ball late clock on the left wing

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Speaker 1: and has to rescue a possession and makes a really

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Speaker 1: nice to dribble pull up going towards the left elbow,

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Speaker 1: did a really nice job of taking a really long

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Speaker 1: step before that last pull up to get the defender

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Speaker 1: to back off a little bit. Rose up, left it

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Speaker 1: a little short, but got the bounce on the rim.

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Speaker 1: Then on the next possession he runs high pick and

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Speaker 1: roll with Anthony Davis. This was just I I tweeted

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Speaker 1: a video out of this particular play again, you can

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Speaker 1: find it on my twitter feed at under score Jason lt.

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Speaker 1: But he gets downhill and draws help. Now I said

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Speaker 1: the pick and roll because the reads in order are,

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Speaker 1: if you're coming downhill and you have a layup, you

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Speaker 1: take the layoup. If the big man steps up, you

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Speaker 1: have the drop pass to Anthony Davis. If for some

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Speaker 1: reason the drop pass isn't open, it's usually the week

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Speaker 1: side corner. But on this play, Patty Mills dropped out

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Speaker 1: of the weak side wing to the week side corner.

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Speaker 1: So the fourth read was the weak side wing. And

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Speaker 1: literally Austin gets downhill, palms the ball with one hand

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Speaker 1: and elevates, then switches the ball to his left hand

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Speaker 1: and hooks throws like a hook pass around the help

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Speaker 1: defender that hits Lonnie Walker wide open on the right

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Speaker 1: wing for three really really impressive piece of high level

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Speaker 1: playmaking from Austin Reeves at a pick and roll. Then

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Speaker 1: these were the next four possessions. Lonnie Walker started spamming

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Speaker 1: the pick and roll with Anthony Davis, he gets downhill,

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Speaker 1: mrs a layup, Anthony Davis tip slam, Lonnie Walker gets

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Speaker 1: dow on hill and does a pullback drivel, gets a

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Speaker 1: ton of separation, knocks down a fifteen foot jump shot.

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Speaker 1: Then he gets downhill and actually makes the layup, and

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Speaker 1: then he missed another one of those pullback jumpers, but

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis had Royce O'Neil on him and just went

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Speaker 1: right up and uh dunked it in on the tips.

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Speaker 1: So like four point game, Katie makes a couple of

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Speaker 1: free throws, were heading towards another Lakers collapse, and then

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, Lonnie Walker and Anthony Davis just took this

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Speaker 1: damn game over and then on the other end of

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Speaker 1: the floor one of the Again the Laker defense, I said,

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Speaker 1: is real, and I believe that truly. It was real.

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Speaker 1: You could see it on tape. They were stopping good offenses.

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Speaker 1: Then they started ohing five and those dudes quit. And

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Speaker 1: I don't blame them. They weren't winning. You want to

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Speaker 1: be rewarded for your action. And over the course of

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Speaker 1: the last two weeks their defense was awful, but last

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Speaker 1: night looked like that Lakers defense that we saw earlier

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Speaker 1: in the season. Anthony Davis had a couple of key

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Speaker 1: stops on Kevin Durant, including a possession where he just

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Speaker 1: straight up denied him the basketball full court on a

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Speaker 1: on a critical defensive stop. And then Katie also missed

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Speaker 1: a couple of short floating jump shots that he usually makes,

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Speaker 1: and then the game was over. Uh. Anthony Davis So,

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Speaker 1: first time scoring thirty points in a game since February three,

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Speaker 1: which was last season, first time scoring thirty seven in

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Speaker 1: the game since May nine of two thousand one. That's

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Speaker 1: how uncommon that dominant performance from Anthony Davis. Was absolutely

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Speaker 1: dominant on the offensive glass. He had ten offensive rebounds.

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Speaker 1: Some of it was bullying, you know, Nick Lackston, Kevin Durant,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of Mark Kith Morris, but also in

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Speaker 1: the pick and roll switches, just destroying the nets guards

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Speaker 1: when they wouldn't do their job of boxing out Anthony

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Speaker 1: Davis when there'd be a pick and roll switch. He

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Speaker 1: had a couple of nice post moves in the first half,

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Speaker 1: and then he had a couple of really nice isolation

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Speaker 1: pull up jump shots over Kevin Durant in the second half.

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Speaker 1: Just a vintage dominant Anthony Davis performance. This is why

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Speaker 1: I hold Anthony Davis to such a high standard. He

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Speaker 1: puts up really good numbers on his bad nights a

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Speaker 1: lot like Lebron. I constantly when I criticize Anthony Davis

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Speaker 1: or Lebron, I'll have people go, like, you know, Lebron

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Speaker 1: had twenty five, ten and eight in this game, how

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Speaker 1: dare you say that he played terrible? And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: Lebron will put up and eight in his sleep. Anthony

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Speaker 1: Davis will put up twenty four and thirteen in his sleep. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So you've got to pay attention to the difference between

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Speaker 1: when they're really impacting the game the way that you

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Speaker 1: know they're capable of, and when they're sleepwalking. And both

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Speaker 1: of those guys, especially Anthony Davis, over the years, has

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Speaker 1: a tendency to sleep balk Lebron. Those performances are few

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Speaker 1: and far between, but I call them out when they

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Speaker 1: happen as well. Is he is he honest? No, he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna. He's not gonna be the best player in

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Speaker 1: the world. I think that ship has sailed. He's just

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Speaker 1: not fast enough right now, and he's not physical enough.

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Speaker 1: But there's no reason in the world why he can't

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Speaker 1: average thirty and twelve. That's his basement when he's fully engaged.

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Speaker 1: There's no reason he shouldn't be a defensive Player of

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Speaker 1: the Year candidate every single year. He is in of

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Speaker 1: the heart of the prime of his career. This is

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Speaker 1: not thirty eight. You're old Lebron who you can understand

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Speaker 1: why he takes a few defensive possessions off. This is

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Speaker 1: part of your prime. Anthony Davis one of the most

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Speaker 1: physically gifted players in the league. There's no reason in

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Speaker 1: the world he should ever average less than thirty and

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Speaker 1: twelve or be a top three Defensive Player of the

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Speaker 1: Year vote getter every single season. You know, I wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk about the Lebron A dpairing for just a minute,

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Speaker 1: because any hope that the Lakers have of contending in

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Speaker 1: this era depends on those two guys. We talked about

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Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff on the periphery, but those

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Speaker 1: two guys are also not good enough have not been

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Speaker 1: good enough over the course of the last two seasons.

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Speaker 1: The front office has made it perfectly clear that they

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Speaker 1: don't believe in those two anymore. That's why they didn't

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Speaker 1: make a trade. If they believed in Lebron James and

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. Russ would be wearing a different jersey right now,

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Speaker 1: Buddy Yield and Miles Turner would be flanking Lebron James

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Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis. They are not. The front office doesn't

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Speaker 1: believe if Lebron and comes back next Friday, like there's

552
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Speaker 1: a four full days off now, If Lebron comes back

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Speaker 1: next Friday and he plays the way he did against

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Speaker 1: the Clippers right before he got hurt, and if Anthony

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Speaker 1: Davis continues to play at this level, the rest of

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Speaker 1: the team will defend their ass off and they'll make

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Speaker 1: enough plays offensively for them to go on a winning streak,

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Speaker 1: and they're up on up into a weaker part of

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Speaker 1: their schedule their next six games, or the Pistons, the Spurs,

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Speaker 1: the Suns, the Spurs, the Spurs, the Pacers. Five, five

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Speaker 1: and one is absolutely doable with Lebron James and Anthony

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Speaker 1: Davis on the roster, and six and oh is possible

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Speaker 1: if you can win a game against the Suns. If

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Speaker 1: you go five and one, now you're eight and eleven. Now,

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Speaker 1: Rob Polinka and Genie Buss will consider pulling the trigger

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Speaker 1: on that deal and then you can go on a

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Speaker 1: run with Buddy Yield and Miles Turner against your tougher opponents.

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Speaker 1: There was a story from Chris haynes Um for Yahoo

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Speaker 1: Sports Law last week or maybe the week before where

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Speaker 1: there was like some pretty significant like hints that Lebron

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Speaker 1: James and Anthony Davis want a trade to be made.

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Speaker 1: They were publicly advocating for it through leaks to Chris Haines,

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Speaker 1: but Robin Genie clearly will not do so until they

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Speaker 1: believe in that parent. Now. I think that's horseshit. They

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Speaker 1: should have invested in them before the season started. They

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Speaker 1: set them up to fail by sending them out there

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Speaker 1: against that impossible schedule without enough help on the wing.

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Speaker 1: Robin Genie, it's a it's an it was a completely

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Speaker 1: unacceptable approach from them, but that's their approach. So you

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Speaker 1: need to prove to them, Lebron in a d that

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Speaker 1: you're worth the investment. And if you do, I believe

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Speaker 1: they will invest in this next six game stretch starting

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Speaker 1: on Friday, we're gonna find out a ton about what

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Speaker 1: Lebron James and Anthony Davis are capable of. And then

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Speaker 1: on the Brooklyn that's front. That was a front. That

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Speaker 1: was their sixth game in ten days. Five of those

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Speaker 1: games are on the road, and this was a back

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Speaker 1: to back. They got really sloppy defensively in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to kind of give them a pass

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Speaker 1: here for fatigue, Uh for fatigue. I really like what

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Speaker 1: they're building in terms of their identity. They just need

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00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: to They need to find a way to integrate Kyrie,

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Speaker 1: but like a focused version of Kyrie, because they simply

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Speaker 1: need the talent and they can't flip him for anything.

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Speaker 1: They don't have any real means with which to improve

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Speaker 1: the roster. So this is gonna be Katie's biggest leadership challenge.

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Speaker 1: He needs to get Kyrie back in that locker room

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Speaker 1: and then, as his friend and as the leader of

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Speaker 1: the basketball team, beg him to stay on task and

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Speaker 1: until the end of June or whenever it is their

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Speaker 1: season ends. That then be like, dude, whatever else you

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Speaker 1: want to do at that point, go nuts, But just

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Speaker 1: for me, man, my friend, please give me this next

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Speaker 1: few months. Let's make a run at this thing. We're

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Speaker 1: good enough. There's a lot of talent on that Nets roster,

606
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Speaker 1: but not enough. If Kyrie is not there, and not

607
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Speaker 1: if he's fully engaged. Not unless he's fully engaged. Whatever

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Speaker 1: it was to start the season, all the bad energy

609
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,239
Speaker 1: and aura surrounding the team, that can't happen anymore. You

610
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Speaker 1: need him to be fully engaged in this version of

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Speaker 1: the nets, all right. That is all I have for today, guys,

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Speaker 1: Like said, Tomorrow night live on AMP after Grizzlies Pelicans,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday night Live on AMP after Celtics Hawks, then live

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Speaker 1: on YouTube after Warrior Sons. Also on Wednesday, Thursday live

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Speaker 1: on AMP for our Power rankings, and then Friday one

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Speaker 1: more film breakdown and then we're out of there for

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Speaker 1: the week. As always, I sincerely appreciate your guys support

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Speaker 1: and I will see you tomorrow. The volume