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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio What Up? Along with Jamack. I'm Doug gottlieb

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Speaker 1: in for Dan and the Danette dan Patrick Show Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio, the iHeartRadio app, and we thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: If you're on satellite radio as well, and the Dan

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Speaker 1: Patrick Channel. Jason, I want to get to the Clippers

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Speaker 1: losing to the Mavericks last night and to the Lakers

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Speaker 1: who get another shot at the Trailblazers. I do the Bucks,

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Speaker 1: you know, the shot at the Magic Tonight. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: some NBA playoffs, chapon Us who had some NFL stuff.

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Speaker 1: Rick Buker is going to join us in fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 1: but I do want to talk about kind of a

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Speaker 1: story of last night in them. So Tom Brennaman, who's

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Speaker 1: a long time his dad, Marty, just retired last year

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Speaker 1: right as the radio voice of the Cintennia Reds, and

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Speaker 1: Tom has been the TV voice in the local Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports I think Ohio of the since a Reds. Of course,

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Speaker 1: he's also a colleague at Fox TV called I've called

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Speaker 1: a college basketball game with him. Um. He had a

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Speaker 1: hot mic incident in which he said a homophobic slur right,

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Speaker 1: and it got you got picked up because you when

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Speaker 1: you're on the bird, somebody's always listening. And during the

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Speaker 1: fifth inning with the Reds up, he must have been

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Speaker 1: told like, hey, he's you're We're gonna ask have you

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Speaker 1: at the end of this inning, like be suspended and

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Speaker 1: if he was. I don't think he was fired at

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Speaker 1: that moment. He already has he been fired yet, just

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Speaker 1: been suspended. But it led to one of the most

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Speaker 1: bizarre apology circumstances ever. Take a listen out of my heart.

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Speaker 1: I'm so very very sorry. I pride myself and think

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Speaker 1: of myself as a man of faith as there is

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Speaker 1: a drive in a deep left field by cost Run

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Speaker 1: and I know if I'm gonna be putting on all

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Speaker 1: this headset again, I don't know if it's going to

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Speaker 1: be for the Reds. I don't know if it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be for my bosses at Fox. I want to apologize

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Speaker 1: for the people who signed my paycheck for the Reds,

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Speaker 1: for Fox Sports, Ohio, for the people I work with,

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Speaker 1: for anybody that I've offended here tonight. I can't begin

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Speaker 1: to tell you how deeply sorry I am. That is

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Speaker 1: not who I am and never has been. And I'd

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Speaker 1: like to think maybe I could have some people that

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Speaker 1: they could back that up. Yeah, listen, I am very

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Speaker 1: very sorry, and I beg for your forgiveness, Jim Dale,

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Speaker 1: take you the rest of the way home. Right? That was?

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Speaker 1: That was it? Okay? So there's a bunch to dig into,

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Speaker 1: by the way, if you really listen, if you if

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Speaker 1: you want to be a jerk. And I've seen this

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Speaker 1: from some people, I like, like, well, you didn't actually apologize.

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Speaker 1: Actually he did. He apologized not just for himself but

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Speaker 1: also for the When he said, for the people who

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Speaker 1: signed my paycheck, he knows he represents all of those people,

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Speaker 1: and what he said resonates for all in representing them,

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Speaker 1: and so he apologized not to them, but for them,

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Speaker 1: for peace, for anybody who's offended by what he says. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: And he's like, he did the I'm sorry. If you

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Speaker 1: don't believe it, that then you just you just don't

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Speaker 1: want to ever believe anybody's saying you're sorry. Right. And again,

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Speaker 1: I have work with Tom Matan. I work with him once.

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Speaker 1: He was great. I don't I can't swear to any

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Speaker 1: human beings character other than my own interactions with him,

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Speaker 1: and he seemed incredibly thoughtful to me personally, and what

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Speaker 1: he said was dumb, and you know he's gonna get

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Speaker 1: punished for it. But the home run call was the Okay,

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Speaker 1: So have you ever called a baseball game? You ever

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Speaker 1: been around a baseball game in the booth? Okay? So

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Speaker 1: generally in a baseball game, like you're supposed to have

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Speaker 1: a conversation then and then you you leave it to

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Speaker 1: the play, but then all of a sudden, it as

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Speaker 1: a pitch. You leave it to the play by play

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Speaker 1: guy to describe the action, and then you can hop

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Speaker 1: back into a story. Do you know what I'm saying? Yes? Right,

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Speaker 1: So it's like we're having a story like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had this, you know during quarantine. We did this,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to really apologize right, like he just that's

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Speaker 1: that's twenty twenty in a nutshell right there, right. I

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Speaker 1: was trying to explain Murphy's Law to my son. Do

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Speaker 1: you know what Murphy's Law is? Like now, I's like

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Speaker 1: And that was that sequence of events for Tom Brennaman. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna um, yeah, that's unfortunately, I don't know

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a quote from one of this guy,

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Speaker 1: Charlie Munger, one of Warren Buffett's like right hand man,

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Speaker 1: and um, he said, whose bread? I eat? His song?

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Speaker 1: I sing? And I'm a Fox guy. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go ahead and punt on going in on Tom Brennan. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I thought the call was funny.

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Speaker 1: I just the uh in the middle of an apology, Okay,

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Speaker 1: like what do you? I laughed out loud. I had

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Speaker 1: not heard that. I laughed out lout. You hadn't heard that.

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Speaker 1: I had not He who lives on Twitter doesn't know, dude,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing way less Twitter only during the games, uh

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Speaker 1: on during the quarantine. Twitter is just so toxic. It's

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Speaker 1: somebody's made the analogy where it's like opening a garbage

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Speaker 1: And that's what Twitter is like. So I'm off at

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Speaker 1: a lot outside of promoting my own stuff and during games.

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Speaker 1: It's just so so you're on the Graham now that

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Speaker 1: I love the Graham. Yeah, all about the Graham. It's easy.

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Speaker 1: It's an infinite scroll. You know, take take a listen

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Speaker 1: one more time to this. Just again, I'm not laughing

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Speaker 1: at all about what he said or about I'm like, look,

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Speaker 1: I've said dumb things on TV and been told to

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Speaker 1: apologize for things I didn't necessarily think I needed to apologize.

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Speaker 1: You've said dumb things. No, not to that level, right,

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Speaker 1: Uh so I do know that, Like I look here,

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Speaker 1: so here's here's the real reality of what what happened.

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Speaker 1: So I'll give you so my thing is, Remember I said, though,

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Speaker 1: I just here to get the white man's perspective. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is what was I on the set for that?

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Speaker 1: Or no, this is Charles Barkley and oh that was CBS. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a big moment, not in the positive way.

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Speaker 1: Did you get called into a glass office that night?

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Speaker 1: Or no, dude, I'll give I'll give you the whole

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Speaker 1: story here, because I actually went on with Dan the

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Speaker 1: next day. And then they got mad at me again,

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Speaker 1: like why are you going on with Dan Patrick? We

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Speaker 1: told you like it's over. I was like, because I

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Speaker 1: the Mountain West Tournament up until like Friday night, I

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Speaker 1: two rounds of the NSA tournament. That's when Wichta State

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Speaker 1: first term. So I did with spirodidas so I'm in

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Speaker 1: they don't shock, they don't know. They just wanted all organic. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I was actually on a different show that followed

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Speaker 1: which like, hey, I'm just here to bring some diversity

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Speaker 1: us if I remember, that was hilarious. Okay, some clicks

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Speaker 1: I take a ton of pride in like if you

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Speaker 1: It was good, but I so I didn't let that

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Speaker 1: where they need him to step up and be aggressive.

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Speaker 1: I wonder Rick if Lebron can be like, Yo, we

423
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Speaker 1: brought you here because you're a primetime player. We don't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, at some point the Lakers have to get

425
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 1: sick of this fading away on everything, this whole. I

426
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: don't want to play center. I mean, it's it's the playoffs.

427
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,160
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis was two for fifteen outside of the restricted

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Speaker 1: area in Game one. I mean, Rick, that's just absolutely

429
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 1: not going to cut it. I mean, I'm on board

430
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Speaker 1: saying this is one of these pound the table days

431
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Speaker 1: for Lebron where he says, guys, I don't fall behind

432
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Speaker 1: O two. There's no room for error here. You know,

433
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 1: everybody's on a short leash. You know we're gonna see

434
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Speaker 1: Dion Waiters here, we may see j R. Smith, Alex

435
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: Caruso pulling himself out of the game with five minutes left.

436
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: This stuff is inexcusable, and I gotta figure Lebron shows

437
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: up tonight in the Lakers win. Would you agree? I? Look,

438
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 1: I would think so. But this has always been mystifying

439
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: to me. I would have thought that Lebron James would

440
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: have grabbed the game by the throat in the final

441
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,640
Speaker 1: minute or two in Game one and brought it home

442
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 1: and we're coming down and we're just running plays and

443
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: we're not taking threes, which was essential, and we're getting

444
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 1: switches and he's got Damian Lillard on him, and what's

445
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: he doing? What is he doing? Like, listen, I understand

446
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 1: the passing and getting everybody else involved most of the game, Okay,

447
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: And this has been the thing with Lebron for the

448
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Speaker 1: entirety of his career, and at times in Cleveland, just

449
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 1: out of necessity, he was, you know, especially Laton's running

450
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,640
Speaker 1: Cleveland's like if it I'll just do it myself, right,

451
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Speaker 1: But like, like you point out, they come out of

452
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Speaker 1: a time out, they're down five, and they run a

453
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Speaker 1: simple ball screen because the idea is Damian Lillard doesn't

454
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Speaker 1: play defense. He's too small for Lebron James. They get

455
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 1: a switch and he passes to Contavious Callwell. Popa drives

456
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: in and shoots a runner a layup that doesn't hit rim, right,

457
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 1: Like that's on Lebron. Like Lebron drives in there and

458
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: he's at the rim and he kicks out to Alex Caruso,

459
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: who can't shoot. He's right at the rim, Go finish,

460
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: get fould make a throw or two. You know, get

461
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 1: an and one like it was. It was almost reverting

462
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Speaker 1: to passive Lebron, and that was still a very winnable game.

463
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: That's the thing. That game still should have could have

464
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Speaker 1: been one had he taken over despite the fact his

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Speaker 1: teammates let him down shooting the basketball. Yeah. Well, and

466
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Speaker 1: you know in both cases with a D and with

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Speaker 1: with Lebron and I Jason, I don't know if I

468
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 1: can blame you for this, but I'd like to, But

469
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I can. Is that people have

470
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 1: anointed them as being certain things when they have not

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Speaker 1: proven that. Like everybody talks about a D. I still

472
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: hear it right as of right now, they're talking about

473
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Speaker 1: him being one of the top five players in the league.

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Speaker 1: You can be a top five talent and not be

475
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Speaker 1: a top five player. A top five player utilizes his talent.

476
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Speaker 1: A top five playing in the clutch, delivering in the

477
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Speaker 1: clutch is in my mind, part of what makes you

478
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Speaker 1: top five. I don't care about talent. There's a ton

479
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: of talented players that have come and gone, and A

480
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: D has a wealth of talent, but he has he

481
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: hasn't applied it to its fullest extent. In a lot

482
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Speaker 1: of circumstances and Lebron being an intelligent I always hear

483
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: like his intelligence, his IQ, it's all this, and I'm like,

484
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 1: if it doesn't apply, if you don't apply it in

485
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Speaker 1: game situations, the making the right basketball play because you're

486
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Speaker 1: swinging it to somebody who's open for a second. I'm

487
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: not asking Alex Caruso to win me the game. I'm

488
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Speaker 1: not asking Kyle Kuzma to win me the game. I'm

489
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: not asking Kyle Corber, as good as a shooter as

490
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Speaker 1: he is, to hit a shot in the finals that's

491
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Speaker 1: going to be semi contested. When you Lebron are six

492
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: feet from the basket. That's not a good basketball play

493
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: in NBA terms. And yet there are a ton of

494
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: people out there who will defend the decisions made by

495
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: both of those players. And that's what I blame because

496
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,199
Speaker 1: I really believe that when people turn the heat up

497
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: on Lebron, going all the way back to Cleveland, the

498
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: first iteration in Cleveland, when they turned the heat up

499
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: and said, oh, but he's not a championship player. That's

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00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: what forced him to go to Miami and learn how

501
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: to be a championship player. And I feel as if collectively,

502
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: we don't do enough of that, and as a result,

503
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: some of our biggest talents don't maximize who they are

504
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: because we find ways to look at And I'm hearing

505
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: it with other players now on other teams. Joel Embiid,

506
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't have a point guard who can

507
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Speaker 1: get him the ball in the right situation. So I'm like,

508
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: the dudes, the dude's not in shape, he's a he's

509
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: a monster in the first quarter. Uh, why is he

510
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 1: a monster in the fourth quarter. It's not because he's

511
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: not getting the ball. It's because he's too tired to

512
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 1: get position and he's not asking for the ball because

513
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: he's fatigued. Yeah, I don't want to act like I'm

514
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 1: killing the Lakers here. They did lead by six a

515
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Speaker 1: couple of times in the fourth. I mean we're talking

516
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Speaker 1: about a tie game with like three minutes left. And like, listen,

517
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis rick last time he had a playoff series,

518
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: I think he swept Portland and Damian Lillard, like it

519
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 1: was an impressive show. See here we go. Rajon Rondo

520
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: and Drew Holliday were there where the fire starters and

521
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: the leader in that and Anthony Davis had a match

522
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: up with Yusuf Nurkic that he could that that he

523
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: fully exploited. But let's not say, yeah, okay, but the numbers. Look,

524
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Speaker 1: this is this is how Tony Parker ends up being

525
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: a Finals MVP in two thousand and seven over Tim

526
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Speaker 1: Duncan because he was matched up with Booby Gibson and

527
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: he put up huge numbers. Tim Duncan is and always

528
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: will be the MVP of any game that he and

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Speaker 1: Tony Parker played in. There wasn't a game where Tim

530
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Speaker 1: Duncan wasn't the guy that you gain planned for and

531
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: didn't have the bigger influence. But because people looked at

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00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: numbers and said, oh wow, Tony Parker, why he'd lit

533
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: it up, he ended up being Finals MVP. It certainly

534
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: mirror Tich was very good in that series. He averaged

535
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: like eighteen to game forty six percent on threes. But

536
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: like it, I'm not killing Anthony Davis. I just thought, oh, well,

537
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: we all saw the we all saw the exact same thing.

538
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: Let me get to the bucks, because, um, I think

539
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: one of the guys you're alluding to in terms of

540
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: us making kind of excuses for is is Janis and

541
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: I just don't. I just don't think he can shoot,

542
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: and I don't think you can win it all if

543
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: you're best player can't shoot. And he's part of me

544
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: likes the fact that he's going to keep taking him

545
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: because at some point you gotta guard him. But part

546
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: of me is like, you almost like you're taking shot.

547
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: It's the inopportune threes when you don't need to. And

548
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: you know, there's just a difference in regular season in

549
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: postseason basketball. Although the officiating hasn't been as lax as

550
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: it usually is, it'll probably get more and more physical.

551
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what your thoughts are now that we've

552
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: seen the Bucks lose the game. I feel as if,

553
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's put this emphasis that Johannis has to

554
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: develop a three, and if he develops a three, a

555
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: watch out. You know, it's it's over. And I'm thinking,

556
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: I've got enough three point shooters on that Milwaukee team.

557
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: What I need him to develop his ability to score

558
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: in the mid range from the three throw free throw

559
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: line down right, so that we skip that Rick. We

560
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: skipped that in our in our you know, they want

561
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: everybody to be the Brook Lopez, which you go from

562
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: a back to the basket player to be in a

563
00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: three point shooter. Yeah, well, but but it's for me.

564
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: The function of Jannis is the best player on that

565
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: team and to go to and the playmaker is I

566
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: need him a step away from the rim. And if

567
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: you're going to trap me or you're not gonna let

568
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: me get get get to the rim, you're gonna put

569
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: that much emphasis on me, I'm just gonna raise up,

570
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit that mid range or if you if

571
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: if you're gonna crowd me like that, then I don't

572
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: got somebody wide open on the on the perimeter who

573
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: can hit a three, and who's been hitting his three

574
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: their entire career, Yannis post, you know, putting him out

575
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: at the three point line, and the emphasis on that

576
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: is honestly, it seems insane to me, like he's so

577
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: dangerous near the basket, Like why why would we do

578
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: that or why would we put an emphasis or why

579
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: would we think that if he can shoot a three?

580
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: Now suddenly that's the answer for what's gonna make the

581
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks unbeatable. To me, it's it's playing in that

582
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: pinch post, in that midpost and drawing attention there and

583
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: that's going to allow him to either be lethal as

584
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: a scorer or it's going to open everybody else up.

585
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: And again, this is where the conversation about what teams

586
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: have to do and as a result, what excuses we

587
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: make for guys who aren't getting it done, just seems

588
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: so cock eyed to me at time. Luca or Yannis,

589
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: you're starting an NBA team right now? Who do you

590
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: want as of right now? I have to go down. Sit. Yeah,

591
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,719
Speaker 1: it's not just that, it's his skill set will last longer,

592
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: and I think I have a bigger impact if we

593
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: would have asked this pre bubble, Rick, I wonder if

594
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: it would have been three ois. Oh well, MVP N

595
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year. Oh well, you know what.

596
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: But I don't care the whole MVP thing. I just

597
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: this to me, Abu, I'm gonna help you out here,

598
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: I actually think and look, I don't think neither of

599
00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: us have anything bad to say about the place for

600
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: you to work. But I think the MVP discussion becoming

601
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: such a big part of everything is merely a creation

602
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: of ESPN to generate some sort of interest in regular

603
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: season games that most people aren't actually interested in. I

604
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: truly believe that. Like I've I've done this for a

605
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: long time. It's only the last five or six years

606
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: that people really really seem to care about the MVP.

607
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: It's never necessarily been the best player in the league.

608
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: It's been you know, who wins the championship? You know,

609
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: and how do they play against the other great players? Yeah,

610
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: that's how that's uh. Last thing, Um, Lebron, there's there's

611
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: some that are making explanation or excuses. Ay, it's so

612
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: different without fans. Joe Vardin who covered him uh in

613
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: Cleveland's like Lebron's really affected by not having fans. My

614
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: point is okay, but so is everybody else. Do what

615
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: are you? What are you now that we've seen playoff

616
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: bubble basketball? How is it different? Well, and look, I

617
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: think I think role players, Um, you know, the depth

618
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: of year of of your team is and the internal

619
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: enthusiasm of your team. Uh, those things matter in a

620
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: much greater in a much greater way. But we're seeing

621
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that normally UH, playing in hostile environment,

622
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: playing under the pressure of of of the playoffs in

623
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: big games. You either wouldn't look to them or or

624
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: or they wouldn't they wouldn't play the same way. They

625
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: wouldn't play as freely as they have. And I think

626
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: that's one of the things where you see where like

627
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: Gary Trent Junior, Okay, he's got the personality, but it's

628
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: also like that entire team is is okay with him

629
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: taking taking a three with the game, with the game

630
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: on the line. UM. I don't know if that would

631
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Speaker 1: be the same feeling if we were playing in Staples

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Speaker 1: Center for for either one. So I see, I think

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Speaker 1: we see. I think we see more of that. Um again,

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Speaker 1: I Lebron's explanation that the bubble is what's screwing over

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Speaker 1: the Lakers. You're playing against a Portland team whose home

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Speaker 1: court advantage. Who's who's the crowd in the in the

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Speaker 1: atmosphere up there is better than Staples Center, right. So,

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Speaker 1: and we had eight teams lose their first game and

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Speaker 1: there was only one that that talked about the bubble.

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Speaker 1: And it's a team that supposedly has two of the

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Speaker 1: top five players in the league, and both of those

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Speaker 1: players talked about the bubble that they can't play, you know,

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Speaker 1: they can't play without fans. I mean, what what is

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Speaker 1: you're asking me to explain something that hurts my head.

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Speaker 1: I can't explain it, like, what what is? What is?

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Speaker 1: I mean? We could get into the psychology of Lebron

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Speaker 1: and a d and everything else, but to me, they're

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Speaker 1: just there, their excuses and they're not very good ones. Awesome,

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Speaker 1: Stop buke, enjoy the hoops and be on all day.

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Speaker 1: tonight Jason or today we have we have games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you want to bet all of every penny of what

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Speaker 1: you have rightfully owned on the LA Lakers tonight in

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Speaker 1: six and a point and on that level. But I

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Speaker 1: to go back to what Ricker was talking about, and

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Speaker 1: you know he's saying, it's not about the numbers, it's

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Speaker 1: about player impact. It's about both, obviously, like it's never

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Speaker 1: just about one thing. Numbers are important, right, Lebron had

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Speaker 1: a phenomenal statistical game. His impact otherwise was maybe not

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Speaker 1: as big as the stats. But then you look at

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davison. He ended up with twenty eight points, but

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Speaker 1: it was like hollow, you know, two fifteen outside the

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Speaker 1: restricted area, bad shot selection, miss free throws. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it isn't all about the numbers, but it's certainly not

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Speaker 1: all about the impact. And that's why tonight I'm going

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Speaker 1: with Lebron mostly for impact. I think as a leader

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Speaker 1: in the locker room, a leader in the league, you

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Speaker 1: know people are gonna listen when Lebron speaks up. And

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Speaker 1: that's my issue with the Clippers. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: they have that. I like Lakers. I like the Heat. Oladipo,

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Speaker 1: it appears he's gonna be a go today. He injured

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Speaker 1: his d nine minutes in. They just don't have enough offense.

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Speaker 1: I like this Heat team a lot. I think they're

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Speaker 1: a legit threat to the Bucks. What are the other

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Speaker 1: two games? Bucks? Magic? Bucks are not losing today? Um,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not betting him thirteen, Like, come on, it's

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Speaker 1: thirteen playing favorites. Yeah, a lot of points. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: then the other game is, uh, that's a lot of

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Speaker 1: post Rockets Thunder Now the Rockets, Uh controlled that entire game.

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that I thought the Thunder

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Speaker 1: ran into that the Lakers ran into is, you know,

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Speaker 1: shake Gildas, Alexander's just a kid and guys. Guys are tight, right.

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Speaker 1: I thought some several of the Lakers, the shots they

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Speaker 1: missed in the first half, they were clearly tight. YEA.

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Speaker 1: That it can look like the same chord, it can

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Speaker 1: be the same opponent. There's no fans or whatever. It matters.

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Speaker 1: More from caseyp I don't think he's played a high

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Speaker 1: level playoff game ever. He was with the Pistons for

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Speaker 1: a you know, has been a good player on bad

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Speaker 1: Green is a major veteran who's had a lot of

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Speaker 1: postseason success. Yeah, but he first last year shooting, He's

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Speaker 1: just a couple of years. Yeah, run the raptors. Yet

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Speaker 1: last year he was great in the regular season shooting,

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Speaker 1: didn't play as well as they would have liked, but

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Speaker 1: couldn't make a shot in the in the in the postseason,

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Speaker 1: and he just looks washed. That's just what happens when

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Speaker 1: you well. Listen. The other guys they got are Dion Waiters,

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Speaker 1: who were suspended at one point this season for I

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Speaker 1: think take many gummies, gummies on a plane and he

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Speaker 1: freaked out. And then you got j R. Smith, who

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Speaker 1: you don't want to believe in. Um, listen, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to believe in. I'm telling you. I want to

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Speaker 1: tell you you can't play in this game. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: who are we trotting out at guard for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: I think you'll give Don Waiters a little bit more run,

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Speaker 1: but I think generally this is who you are. This

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Speaker 1: is who you are. You just gotta win with it.

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Speaker 1: Here's a good job defensively, you held them to one

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Speaker 1: hundred points. If it's close down the stretch, I go

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Speaker 1: a d at the five Morris at the four, Kuzma three,

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Speaker 1: Lebron two, and then I go one shooter. I don't

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Speaker 1: know who that is, um and you put you know,

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Speaker 1: Kuzman's gonna get lit up by c J A column,

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Speaker 1: But so be it. You know, it's not like Danny Green. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Danny Green, KCP. They're getting torched anyway. So I were

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Speaker 1: getting they weren't. I mean, uh, listen, carus Will played

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Speaker 1: good defense. We agree, Yes, they just made shots. So

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Speaker 1: I would rather have the offensive guy in if they're

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Speaker 1: gonna make shots anyway. See, I think that the construct

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Speaker 1: of this team is that they can fall back on

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Speaker 1: their defense and that Lebron and a d make enough

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Speaker 1: shots then then they'll win. And I think that's what

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Speaker 1: they'll go back to tonight. I really, I really do.

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Speaker 1: Will they give Waiters a little bit more run? Sure?

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Speaker 1: But who's your fifth guy? Who are the closing five?

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Speaker 1: I don't think it can be Dwight Howard or Javail

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Speaker 1: who starts? But but but Dwight Howard and javal weren't

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Speaker 1: at the end. At the end of the game, they

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Speaker 1: they had Dwight Howard in for some major pivotal moments

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, which I'm disappointed because that allows

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Speaker 1: me start of the fourth quarter, not the start. It

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Speaker 1: was like the middle where it was kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: it was tied. No, I don't know. Look, I think

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Speaker 1: the Bucks win, although thirteen is a ton of points. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think Oklahoma City bounces back and wins. The Interest

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Speaker 1: didn't play well at all and and Houston played very good. Thought,

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Speaker 1: did you see the hardened number is over under tonight

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Speaker 1: is thirty eight points. It's ridiculous. Bad boy, he's unstoppable.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, Steven Adams should have thirty

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Speaker 1: or Gallo thin Gallows the guy they like. I bet

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Speaker 1: the gallow over the other night easily hit third quarter.

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Speaker 1: Gallinari is a bad mismatch for the Rockets. Lakers win tonight,

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Speaker 1: um win fairly handily, although you know, like, look, the

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Speaker 1: Trailblazers have that they're they're the annoying guy that when

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Speaker 1: you shoot for teams at the park, they're always in

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Speaker 1: the game because they always make shots. They have a

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Speaker 1: bunch of shot makers and that was enough in Game one,

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Speaker 1: even though they only scored one hundred points. How bad

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Speaker 1: would the NBA be if the Lakers got knocked out

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Speaker 1: in the first round would would would not be to

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