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Speaker 2: This is straight Fire with Jason MacIntire. What is up,

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Speaker 2: straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason MacIntyre, Straight Fire, four Thursday,

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Speaker 2: May eleventh. Boy, the Knicks live to fight another day

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Speaker 2: and the Golden State Warriors. You can't put them away, folks.

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Speaker 2: You cannot put the way put away the Warriors easily.

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Speaker 2: Both teams survive and their seasons continue. A good night

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Speaker 2: of basketball, not a great one, as the Knicks tried

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Speaker 2: to blow the game against the Heat. They were up seventeen,

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Speaker 2: nearly collapsed. But the big story is what happened in

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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter of what was a reasonably close Lakers

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Speaker 2: Warriors game. I mean I went in thinking Warriors wiped

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Speaker 2: the floor with them. I remember we speculated on the

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Speaker 2: pod two days ago. Should the Lakers, you know, maybe

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Speaker 2: adjust their rotation to get Ad and Lebrons and more

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Speaker 2: And I believe it was an Austin Reeves three pointer

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Speaker 2: cut the lead to nine, and it was like kind

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Speaker 2: of tense for the Warriors. And shortly thereafter, in a

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Speaker 2: play that's gonna be scrutinized, broken down, Anthony Davis jostling

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Speaker 2: for position on a after a D'Angelo Russell drive, Anthony

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Speaker 2: Kevon Looney, and Ad instantly buried his face in his hands,

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Speaker 2: stayed on the sideline. Warriors came down and scored, and

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Speaker 2: instantly there was a break of the action. Anthony Davis looked, woozy,

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Speaker 2: goes to the bench. They had a like an assistant

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Speaker 2: reporters at the game as well as NBA reporters that

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Speaker 2: Anthony Davis was taken in a wheelchair, a wheelchair to

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Speaker 2: the locker room because there were perhaps concussion like symptoms.

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Speaker 2: Now just the latest we're recording this almost one am

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Speaker 2: East Coast time. It's ten am, sorry, ten pm out

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Speaker 2: here on the West coast. According to Anthony Slater Covers

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Speaker 2: the NBA for the athletic Darvin Ham makes it sound like, hey,

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Speaker 2: AD's feeling good, He's okay, But the disparity of wheelchair

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Speaker 2: report to he's feeling good. A lot of Laker fans

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Speaker 2: are gonna be kicked off that eighty was even in

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Speaker 2: the game. The problem is the Lakers are hanging around.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you could pull him. And overall,

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Speaker 2: I thought it was a spirited performance from the Lakers

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Speaker 2: to keep it close. Austin Reeves was bearing some shots,

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Speaker 2: Dennis Schreuder played extremely well, and AD when he was

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Speaker 2: in there. Folks, let me call it the box score.

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Speaker 2: Here Anthony Davis in thirty two minutes of action ten

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Speaker 2: of eighteen, twenty three points, nine boards, one interesting nugget,

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Speaker 2: and again I watched the whole game. I'm rewinding. Anthony

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Speaker 2: Davis was effective in the paint. He had zero offensive

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Speaker 2: rebounds in thirty two minutes. Draymondreed did a tremendous job.

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Speaker 2: I know Draymond Green a cowherd guy with the volume.

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Speaker 2: Draymond Green had one of his best games probably this season.

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Speaker 2: I know he had one really good game against the Kings.

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Speaker 2: But twenty and ten for Draymond for assists, did have

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Speaker 2: a bunch of turnovers, but made his free throws. Tough

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Speaker 2: defense on Anthony Davis really kept him off the glass,

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Speaker 2: off the offensive glass, and overall I thought AD was good.

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Speaker 2: Lebron twenty five points. Lakers were in this, folks. This

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Speaker 2: was like a legitimate tense moment for Golden State, but

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Speaker 2: they survive. In advance. Game six is Friday? All anybody's

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Speaker 2: gonna be talking about is the Anthony Davis situation. Like,

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Speaker 2: I cannot imagine a world where the NBA says, sorry,

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Speaker 2: Ad is concussed, he can't play. I just cannot imagine that,

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Speaker 2: under any circumstances will be the case. Is his bell

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Speaker 2: gonna be wrong? Yeah? Is it gonna be a tough

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Speaker 2: Is he probably fatigued? Are we gonna see another Anthony

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Speaker 2: Remember he wasn't a big factor in Game four. I'd say,

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Speaker 2: if you want positive takeaways for the Lakers, put Anthony

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Speaker 2: Davis aside. The biggest good news for the Lakers. A

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Speaker 2: lot of it involves the Warriors, because folks, I know

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Speaker 2: I hammered him after Game four for those bad shots.

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Speaker 2: But Klay Thompson continues to play horrid basketball. I tallied

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Speaker 2: his last three games since he had eight threes in

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Speaker 2: Game two, Klay Thompson from the field is eleven of

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Speaker 2: thirty seven. In Game five at home, You're thinking, oh,

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Speaker 2: Clay's gonna go home. He's gonna get right. Started one

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Speaker 2: He's kind of shaking his head a little bit. Not

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Speaker 2: feeling confident, folks. Clay's been bad. And this is where

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Speaker 2: I know. I said Warriors in seven, even after they

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Speaker 2: Rob G's telling me, no, no, no, no, no, Lakers some

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Speaker 2: this would be a Jordan Pool game and he I

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Speaker 2: had to sweat that night and a half. I know

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Speaker 2: As soon as he's on the court for garbage time,

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Speaker 2: Kids were asleep, so I had to celebrate quietly. But

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Speaker 2: Pool barely cleared the total. So Jordan Pool ain't back. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Dante DiVincenzo didn't seem to have it thirteen minutes, one shot,

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Speaker 2: Clay don't have it now. Andrew Wiggins played a very

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Speaker 2: good game. Probably heard the Cowherd trade rumors. Listen, I'm

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Speaker 2: not gonna get into the anthony. I'm sorry the Andrew

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get in cowards deal. That's his. I

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Speaker 2: had a great game. Twenty five points, seven boards, five assists,

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Speaker 2: Defending Lebron Wiggins plays an improvement. But folks, we know

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Speaker 2: Lebron is gonna eventually have a Lebron game. Somebody from

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Speaker 2: one of those will eventually have a good game. Six

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Speaker 2: Anthony Davis is okay, just pencil him in for twenty

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Speaker 2: Curry ain't given you fifty like he gave the Kigs.

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Speaker 2: That's not happening. They're not giving up fifty to Curry.

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Speaker 2: He's got to be the guy. He looked good. But

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Speaker 2: missed fort I'm sorry. They missed their first eleven threes

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Speaker 2: talked about it, eighteen minute strikes where they make no

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Speaker 2: three pointers, Clay misfiring, Jordan Poole had a couple in there,

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Speaker 2: rely on, Lakers started to creep back, and fortunately Curry

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Speaker 2: But listen, you can't withstand eleven straight miss threes against

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Speaker 2: the Lakers in Game six on the road. That's not

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Speaker 2: a sustainable game plan. So, Rob, my guess is if

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Speaker 2: the Warriors are going to do this in Game six Friday,

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Speaker 2: and by the way, cancel your Friday plans. You can't

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Speaker 2: miss Lebron versus Curry in an elimination game. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm on some Laker text chains. My buddy, the guy

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Speaker 2: who said the Ad and Lebron should stay behind and

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Speaker 2: not even go to the Bay Area. He's saying Game

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Speaker 2: seven is Friday. Now, Rob, the calendar says game six

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Speaker 2: is Friday, But I think you and I both know

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Speaker 2: Game seven is Friday. I don't know who's gonna show

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Speaker 2: up for the Warriors. I don't expect the Lakers to

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Speaker 2: got to do it. Friday could be empty the ten

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Speaker 2: game from Lebron. He has not other than the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty game against Memphis in overtime. Let's see, Lebron had

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Speaker 2: in that one twenty points and twenty sorry, twenty two points,

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Speaker 2: of regulation, secured the late game winner in overtime, and

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Speaker 2: Lebron was outstanding. He was also fatigued. Is he gonna

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Speaker 2: Game six? You know it's gonna be a scene Friday

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Speaker 2: at Staples. Lebron also played forty five minutes in that

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Speaker 2: because in the next game he was putrid five of seventeen.

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Speaker 2: That would be Game seven, So is this gonna be

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Speaker 2: the game Lebron? Finally, he hasn't had a thirty point

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Speaker 2: I don't know who steps up as a third scorer

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Speaker 2: for the Warriors a lot of questions. I'm gonna stick

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Speaker 2: right now, Rob with Warriors and seven, but I don't

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Speaker 1: If that makes any sense, It doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why you would all of a sudden

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Speaker 2: Ever bad Clay Thompson can't make a shot.

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Speaker 1: But if Anthony Davis is and cussed, which that's what

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Speaker 2: That Shags is the equation. If he's out, I would

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Speaker 2: be willing to say one hundred percent of Anthony Davis place,

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Speaker 2: would you?

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Speaker 1: No, I would not be willing to say that. Look

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Speaker 1: you know, Darvin ham tried to play it off like, oh,

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Speaker 1: he looked great in the locker room, and you know

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves saying that he expects him to play. Look,

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Speaker 1: you don't get wheeled out on a wheelchair and have

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Speaker 1: your agent and the GM of the team waiting outside

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Speaker 1: of the locker room for you unless things are serious.

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Speaker 1: So at a minimum, he's going to be evaluated for

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Speaker 1: the next twenty four hours.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you. You mentioned the wheelchair, rub I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to think back Paul Pierce versus the Lakers NBA Finals.

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Speaker 2: You're a Laker fan, so you probably remember the exact specifics.

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Speaker 2: Pierce was wheeled off the court right, yes, in a wheelchair.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember what the injury was. What was and

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Speaker 2: he came back like ten minutes later.

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Speaker 1: The story has changed a few times, but I believe

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Speaker 1: the most recent one was that he had to go

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Speaker 1: number two and that.

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Speaker 2: Was the issue.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I don't think he's I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's the thing, but look, he's gonna be in evaluation

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Speaker 1: for at least twenty four hours. You know, all of

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Speaker 1: the Twitter doctors say that if he does have a concussion,

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Speaker 1: he's out at least seven days. It looks like the

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Speaker 2: Of course, Yeah, there we go. Right, So now you're

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Speaker 2: gonna just yeah, there was zero chance that they were

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Speaker 1: For them they can win. It's probably has to be Russell.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Thompson from the Athletic, Your boy, Steph Curry. I

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at that just hearing the way you getting

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Speaker 2: I don't care how many shots Scary Payton gets. I

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's as simple as that. You look at

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Speaker 2: a six or three guard, and historically small guards don't

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Speaker 2: right quickly. I don't want to spend too much time

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Speaker 2: on the Knicks heat. I know, as a Knicks fan,

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Speaker 2: I should be elated that the season, you know, live

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Speaker 2: my kid to volleyball Knicks are ups seventeen. I'm feeling good,

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Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna like what I'm about to say. Nobody I

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Speaker 2: know that. JJ Reddick interviewed with the Toronto Raptors this week.

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Speaker 2: Big story. According to Wojinarowski, JJ Reddick the guy who's

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Speaker 2: carrying First Take on his back. The only clips I

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Speaker 2: Kendrick Perkins look kind of goofy. I like, you know,

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Speaker 1: Whatever.

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Speaker 2: So Reddick's crushing it. And now he's interviewing for the

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Speaker 2: they film first take, New York, Connecticut, whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: excited to go back to Miami. If they can get

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I mean considering that they are having their

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Speaker 1: good job. And the people who say he doesn't have experience,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you can what Steve Courr

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Speaker 1: had experience when he come out of the booth. You know,

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Speaker 1: not everybody is Steve Nash who failed spectacularly. But even then,

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Speaker 1: and his guys were healthy, they were well when they

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Speaker 2: Nobody's succeeding with Kyrie Irving.

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Speaker 1: They were, they were doing pretty good. The Kyrie, James Harden,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant when they were on the floor together, I

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Speaker 1: think they wanted for games they didn't didn't did they

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Speaker 1: not blow the Milwaukee Bucks out by like thirty points

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Speaker 1: in Game two? And then it was James Harden hamstring

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Speaker 1: and Kyrie Irvy angle and that was the end of

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Speaker 1: that story. So I don't think you really need I

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Speaker 1: don't think you really need to, you know, assistant coach

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Speaker 1: it up and then get, you know, earn your stripes.

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Speaker 1: I think if you know ball, you know ball, and

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Speaker 1: if you can relate to the players today, which he

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Speaker 1: seems to be able to based on his podcast, then

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Speaker 1: he could do a good job with your knicks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. Maybe maybe they pull a surprise in

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Speaker 2: South Beach and uh and Jimmy Butler actually misses some shots.

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Speaker 2: The only thing better than sitting on your couch watching

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Speaker 2: the game. He's making money while you do it. Here's

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Speaker 2: your best bet. All right, let's go to tonight's actions Tonight,

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Speaker 2: tech leet tonight, I got the spreads for you a

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Speaker 2: here in a mild surprise, not to me, but I'm

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Speaker 2: sure to some people. The Boston Celtics are two and

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Speaker 2: a half point favorites in Filthydelphia. Just kidding, Philadelphia. I

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Speaker 2: got another city angry at me for some heard comments.

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Speaker 2: So it was just a joke, Philly. I like the

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Speaker 2: Celtics tonight, Rob, I don't know about you. I think

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Speaker 2: this is a big Jason Tatum spot. Let's remember Game

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Speaker 2: six in Milwaukee last year. Tatum went off forty six points.

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Speaker 2: I think he had seven threes. I know people are

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Speaker 2: down on him. I'm on various NBA checks chains with

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Speaker 2: different crews of friends, and I actually had I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: read it to you because these guys said that they

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Speaker 2: would take nine players in the NBA ahead of Jason Tatum.

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Speaker 2: So I had to reply and I'll read off the

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Speaker 2: list to here. They're saying that they would take Devin

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Speaker 2: Booker over Tatum. I said, no way, Booker's not a

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Speaker 2: two way player, Guys, Tatum's a better defender, joker, I'll

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Speaker 2: give you that, Steph Curry, lebron kd Joel Embiid over Tatum. Brob,

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Speaker 2: is that not insanity? Go tell me you're taking Embiid

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Speaker 2: not right now?

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Speaker 1: Look similar to your golden Todate Warriors taken the beginning

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Speaker 1: of this podcast. Now is not the time to be

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Speaker 1: going out on a lamb on Jason Tatum. He has

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Speaker 1: not been good. Jaylen Brown, you can argue, has been

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Speaker 1: better than him in these playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna dignify that way. Jalen Like I

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Speaker 2: don't want the ball stand in the corner, Luka Doncic

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Speaker 2: obviously not Luca Jannis, and then Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler's

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Speaker 2: really good. Jason Tatum is a better player than Jimmy Butler.

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Speaker 2: He just his It's not by a large margin. So

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Speaker 2: I mean I only take like five guys over Tatum.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I don't kd he's deferring to Booker. I think

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Speaker 2: Tatum goes off tonight, I'll be on his uh over

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Speaker 2: that Jordan Poole winnings into Jason Tatum tonight, Like who's

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Speaker 2: defending him? You know it's not gonna be PJ.

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Speaker 1: Tucker.

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Speaker 2: It's sure as shit is not gonna be Tobias Harris,

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Speaker 2: who might struggle to defend me if I was a

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Speaker 2: good night that's a joke, obviously. I want the new audience. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I teased it yesterday. Yes, this podcast now gonna be

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Speaker 2: in video form. I don't know how often we're tinkering,

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Speaker 2: we're efforting change. I wanted to bury it for the

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Speaker 2: Sorry Rob p One or t one Gosh, I could

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Speaker 2: never get.

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Speaker 1: It right one listening one.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. Phase one. It's kinda

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Speaker 2: start trek yet.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it means either. I just know

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Speaker 1: that that's the term.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the people most quickly before my cousin, uh,

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Speaker 2: my cousin checking in from uh. I think it's Saint

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Speaker 2: Louis pennsylv No, he's in Pennsylvania, and he's like, I

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Speaker 2: need Rob G's number to find out what this big

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Speaker 2: secret is. I almost get by the way Rob starting

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Speaker 2: to blow up. I had a guy DM me on

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Speaker 2: so media say, hey, can I follow Rob? I really

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Speaker 2: liked his Jordan Poole is going to be the reason

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Speaker 2: the Warriors dinosas uptake, and I was like, it's looking

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Speaker 2: pretty good. Wrong, but here's his handle.

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Speaker 1: Well, going back to Jason Tatum over under on shots

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Speaker 1: made in the first quarter at.

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Speaker 2: Half oh, stop because he's over fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Or well the street continue?

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Speaker 2: No, hold up, hold up? What's his over utter point total?

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Speaker 2: Do you see it? Or no?

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Speaker 1: I don't see it in front of me. I'm beginning

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Speaker 1: it as we speak.

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Speaker 2: I will be looking at it. I like Celtics to

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Speaker 2: win on the road. Now, if you think six are

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Speaker 2: gonna be there, maybe money line two and a half

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Speaker 2: is one of those dicey numbers, you know, the whole

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Speaker 2: will they foul and all that stuff late, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: maybe the moves money line. I'm seeing Celtics minus one

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Speaker 2: thirty five minus one thirty six money line, so one

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Speaker 2: hundred thirty six bucks to one one hundred either way,

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Speaker 2: I like the Celtics. Then the interesting one Phoenix three

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Speaker 2: point favorites still TBD. On Chris Paul's status, we do

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Speaker 2: not know if he's gonna play. He said he would

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Speaker 2: try to play. I don't know that that necessarily helps

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Speaker 2: either way. I don't think the Nuggets are losing Game seven.

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Speaker 2: You do want to try to finish this if you can.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, unlike Phoenix, which has been blasted

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Speaker 2: three times in Denver and I'm talking worked, I think

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Speaker 2: they lost by over ten or over twelve, maybe over

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Speaker 2: fifteen all three games in Denver. The Nuggets were in

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Speaker 2: both games in Phoenix until they were like three minutes left.

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Speaker 2: So this idea that Denver can't close it out, they

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Speaker 2: definitely can. This feels to me like a Jamal Murray game.

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Speaker 2: But I'm reluctant to bet the team I want on

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Speaker 2: the road here, so I will punt. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 2: in game, betting is your friend. If Phoenix goes down

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Speaker 2: big early, maybe you get a more favorable line. It's

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Speaker 2: tough for me to imagine Booker and Katie totally rolling over,

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Speaker 2: so I guess I would lean Phoenix. I'm rooting Denver, obviously,

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Speaker 2: rob any action on that one for you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm actually on the Nuggets, and I hate to

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Speaker 1: correct you, but according to Sham Saronia, Chris Paul is

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Speaker 1: out for Game six.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's official out due to his sting. And I

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Speaker 2: don't think that's the worst thing in the world, Honestly,

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Speaker 2: I don't either. But the thing is is that when

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Speaker 2: Denver goes on their runs, and they're going to because

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Speaker 2: they're really good, what Phoenix needs is just someone to

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Speaker 2: slow it down and not try to stay up in

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Speaker 2: the track meet because that's what they like to do.

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Speaker 2: Both teams like to play that way. Sometimes just eating

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Speaker 2: clock a little bit, getting in a prevent offense, so

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Speaker 2: to speak, working it down and isolating with KD or

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Speaker 2: Devin Booker is the way to go, whether it make

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Speaker 2: or miss, and then that's just the way to you know,

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Speaker 2: slow the tempo a little bit. And they don't have

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Speaker 2: a guy like that in their roster to do that.

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Speaker 2: And we've saw in game five if unless KD and

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Speaker 2: Booker are combining for seventy points, I don't know how

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Speaker 2: they win. That seems to be the line of demarcation

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Speaker 2: seventy eight and.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of points. Like I know, you know,

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Speaker 1: people think that it's that today's NBA, all these threes,

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Speaker 1: like you know, seventy thirty five a piece is nothing

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Speaker 1: to sneeze at.

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Speaker 2: So I like God's sad this at home for Phoenix Again.

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Speaker 2: I'm not bashing Chris Paul. I would feel more comfortable

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Speaker 2: when they double book or they double Durant or the

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Speaker 2: driving kick. I feel more comfortable kicking out to Landry

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Speaker 2: Shammitt and Terrence Ross than I do Chris Paul. And

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Speaker 2: they're just they're better shooters at this stage. I know

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Speaker 2: that people are gonna think, Jason, that's so wrong. Chris

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Speaker 2: Paul's a Hall of Famer. Yeah, no, no shit, Sherlock.

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Speaker 2: But we're talking about fossil Chris Paul now coming off

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Speaker 2: an injury, who's never been a great three point shooter,

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Speaker 2: certainly not the last three years. So yeah, Landry Shammitt

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Speaker 2: corner three, chalk it up. Terrence Ross can get hot.

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Speaker 2: I know people didn't watch him in Orlando. I might

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Speaker 2: have because I got family down there. But Ross can

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Speaker 2: shoot it. So and you're at home, so the role

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Speaker 2: players will play better, like Bruce Brown drop a twenty five.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's a lengthy podcast for a Thursday. Thirsty Thursday. Obviously.

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Speaker 2: May by the way, ps Mother's Day weekend. Obviously, you

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Speaker 2: guys got to get on that. I got some good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Cooked up. Yes, I do all right. Talk to you

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Speaker 2: guys tomorrow.