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Speaker 1: a one one story. In basketball, it's the idea of

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Speaker 1: the a c C proposed of having basically like the

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Speaker 1: old school Indiana basketball everybody gets in n S A tournament.

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Speaker 1: I don't hate the idea, um, I really don't. I

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Speaker 1: just there's a lot of unintended consequences of it. And

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Speaker 1: the biggest unintended consequence would be that once you allow

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Speaker 1: that to happen, it's really hard to go back right.

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Speaker 1: It just is you know what is that once the

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Speaker 1: once the genie is out of the bottle, that's that's

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Speaker 1: the expression. There's no three wishes here that puts them

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Speaker 1: back in the bottle and you can't wish for the

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Speaker 1: genius freedom, even though that eventually happened at the end

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Speaker 1: of a Laddin Genie. You're free. Um. But but what

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Speaker 1: I think is is interesting about it is like, look,

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Speaker 1: Mike Tachevsky obviously is as well respected a guy as

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Speaker 1: there is. He's an incredible coach and ambassador for the game,

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Speaker 1: and I do think that a lot of it comes

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Speaker 1: from the goodness of his heart. But there is the

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Speaker 1: other side to it, which is there's a reality to

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Speaker 1: college sports financially suffering, and this would lessen the financial

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Speaker 1: burden and all these schools to put on games, because

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Speaker 1: that burden would be placed upon the n c A,

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Speaker 1: not upon the member schools or their conferences for their

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Speaker 1: conference tournament. It's not a terrible idea, it's just not

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Speaker 1: one that's really able to be exercised. And what it

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Speaker 1: does is it says your regular season didn't mean any thing,

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Speaker 1: which it won't mean a ton anyway, and now it

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Speaker 1: would mean nothing at least for this year. And once

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Speaker 1: you include everybody, it's really hard to start being exclusive

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Speaker 1: starting back now. Oh, next year, we'll go back to

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Speaker 1: not letting everybody in. Good luck with that. That doesn't

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Speaker 1: usually happen. We didn't go from sixty four to sixty

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Speaker 1: five to sixty eight teams and people go like, let's

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Speaker 1: go back to sixty four. That doesn't happen. So look,

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Speaker 1: does does the does everybody getting in? Sound like a

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Speaker 1: good idea? Sure? UM? I had lots of questions. You know,

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Speaker 1: what what do you do to ESPN, who had to

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Speaker 1: have all this conference championships and provides so much of

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Speaker 1: the money that that's used by those conferences? Uh it

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Speaker 1: would CBS and TURN be willing to pay more? I

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Speaker 1: think the answer is yes, but more than anything, like

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Speaker 1: is that really what the tournaments about? And I do

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Speaker 1: understand for one year, you know, for one year you

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Speaker 1: of adjustments to what you want to do. So, UM,

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Speaker 1: I get it. I just don't think it's likely to happen,

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Speaker 1: although there's no reason to not think that. I love

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Speaker 1: that these conferences are expanding the number of conference conference games.

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Speaker 1: I think you should play everybody in your conference twice

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Speaker 1: and there's other games, all right, you can play all

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Speaker 1: buy games outside that, And I play a tournament like

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Speaker 1: that's not let's roll. I also like the idea of

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Speaker 1: pushing back the season should have been pushed back a

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Speaker 1: long time ago. Thanksgiving is a perfect time to have

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Speaker 1: your first tournament of the of the year, and then

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Speaker 1: play a couple of games and don't play maybe another

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Speaker 1: tournament in Christmas time, and then play conference games when

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Speaker 1: students get back onto campus. I think all of those

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Speaker 1: things should in fact happen. Let's turn to the NBA,

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Speaker 1: where I've watched a lot of the Lakers, and i

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Speaker 1: which he's not trusting his gem shot. But and you're like, well, hater, No,

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Speaker 1: As for the Clippers, I don't mind Patrick Beverley talking trash.

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Speaker 1: misplayed this thing. The Clippers didn't think they would be

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Speaker 1: And five as one that they played game four of

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Speaker 1: let's welcome him in. He's a long time twenty five

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Speaker 1: gottlieb Okay. So Greg, let me let me get your

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Speaker 1: some scoring outbursts in the bubble. But it's more what

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Speaker 1: so he's gonna have an opinion. Those are those are

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Speaker 1: you're really doing, which you're not. You don't have the

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Speaker 1: the a c C. A good portion of it is, Hey,

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Speaker 1: these schools that don't know if they can play or not.

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Speaker 1: It's it's out of you know, it's out of financial difficulty.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna have some non conference games being played.

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Speaker 1: Here's a way where if you play an n c

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Speaker 1: A tournament game, it all goes to the n C

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Speaker 1: A term in terms of a bill right between testing

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Speaker 1: and everything else that goes into it, let the n

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Speaker 1: pay for it. And while that sounds like a good

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Speaker 1: idea on paper and practice, it's it's a lot more difficult.

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Speaker 1: I think those are all the practical reasons, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying yeah, and I think from emotional reason,

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Speaker 1: like I said, is it really special if everybody gets

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Speaker 1: to be a part of it this time, you know.

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Speaker 1: And uh, and really when you have all those games,

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Speaker 1: I mean even when there's there's sixty uh you know

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Speaker 1: it's hard to keep it, keep track of them all

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Speaker 1: at once. I mean you imagine if the first weekend

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Speaker 1: where a lot of games aren't going to be seen.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, alright, one story before you go, give me,

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Speaker 1: give me a recruiting story player, whether it's where you

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Speaker 1: saw him, how you found him, something that happened on

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Speaker 1: a visit. I need one recruiting story. Well, a kid

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Speaker 1: that we got, our kid that we didn't get, the

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Speaker 1: um Skylar Spencer kid we didn't get. I always loved

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Speaker 1: that one because I just couldn't help it started laughing.

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Speaker 1: Um kid, Skyler Spencer is a kid from Price High School.

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Speaker 1: We had two kids from Price High School already on

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Speaker 1: our team, and Skyler was a really good prospect, but

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Speaker 1: a young kid. At matter of fact, his coach called him, uh,

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Speaker 1: big puppy because he was just he was just like

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Speaker 1: a puppy man. He was kind of long and gangly

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Speaker 1: and uh, really athletic turned into I think he might

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Speaker 1: be the all time leading shop blocker at San Diego State. UM.

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Speaker 1: But like he literally shot his free throw, he might

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Speaker 1: have been better shooting his free throws underhand because he

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Speaker 1: could not shoot a lick. And that was something I

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Speaker 1: think Mike Montgomery couldn't get over when we were at COW.

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Speaker 1: But I just remember two things sitting in there with

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Speaker 1: with his with his family when they came up to

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Speaker 1: campus to visit. And the first thing was his dad

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Speaker 1: had in his mind, which I don't think was was

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Speaker 1: the case, but he had us tried to convince us

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Speaker 1: that the reason he named Skyler was, you know, a

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Speaker 1: marketing thing when he was a baby, that he was

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Speaker 1: Skyler because the sky hook and uh, which I thought

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Speaker 1: was a little comical. But the other thing that I

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Speaker 1: thought was kind of funny was when he told us,

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Speaker 1: UM he said, he said, you know, I got Skyler

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Speaker 1: working out. We just got him a bowflex and so

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Speaker 1: you know, we got him on a weight and program

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Speaker 1: with the bowflex. And I've never ever heard of anybody,

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Speaker 1: I don't know anybody that has a bow flex, let

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Speaker 1: alone a Division one player that builds his body on

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Speaker 1: a bolex. So I thought that was kind of funny. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got one for you to get Skylard. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you knew this story. Um, I think his

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Speaker 1: dad was the right or left handed, and his dad,

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Speaker 1: his dad actually taped duct taped I'm going to say,

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Speaker 1: like his one of his arms like to his side

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Speaker 1: so he couldn't use that arm, you know. To me,

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Speaker 1: I think it was I think he did to write

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Speaker 1: arm to make him use his left hand, make him

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Speaker 1: shoot and dribble and everything with his left hand. And

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Speaker 1: I remember the sending of your state coaches telling me like,

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Speaker 1: that's why he's so scraat. He didn't know what hand

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Speaker 1: he was supposed to use because when they when he

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Speaker 1: worked out, when he was like in middle and high school,

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Speaker 1: his dad would tape his hand to his side. I mean,

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Speaker 1: his dad was exuberant guy though he was leading the

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Speaker 1: cheers at Price High School, give me a P give

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Speaker 1: me an R and he go on down and uh, great,

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Speaker 1: great kid, you know. Um, but that that was kind

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Speaker 1: of just something I always remember. You know, that was

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Speaker 1: the first and only kid I knew that the trained

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Speaker 1: on a bow flex. That's a that's a good one,

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Speaker 1: don't you. I do not have a bow flex. I

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Speaker 1: do not. I've never used a bow flex, never used one,

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Speaker 1: not once in my life. All right, bro, gotta go,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. You got it, see it? All right? Great,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. Let's conclude with this

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Speaker 1: in regards to the NBA, feels like Clippers and Lakers

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. At the time of this recording, we don't know.

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Speaker 1: In terms of Celtics and Raptors. The Celtics were one

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Speaker 1: actually point five seconds away from going up three games

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Speaker 1: to none, and now they got a battle out in

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Speaker 1: Game seven against the team that won a championship last year.

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Speaker 1: That's that's crazy. That's where we are. Obviously, the Miami

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Speaker 1: Heat are waiting, and we could I have the Celtics

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Speaker 1: and the Clippers in the finals, but we could very

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Speaker 1: easily have the Raptors or the Heat, you know, against

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Speaker 1: the Lakers in the finals. Wouldn't be Heat Lakers kind

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Speaker 1: of interesting and everyone thought of that as a possibility,

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Speaker 1: But I guess that is a possibility. Um. The one

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Speaker 1: thing you know in game seven is what guys You

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Speaker 1: find out, what guys really have it inside, what guys

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Speaker 1: are in shape, who's not in shape, and what coaches

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Speaker 1: can make the right adjustments and and call the right

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Speaker 1: plays and get the right shots at the right moments.

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Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum wasn't great last night, so we'll see if

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Speaker 1: he can adjust. And obviously you think Gordon Hayward won't play.

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Speaker 1: He may, he'll be ready for the conference finals. I

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Speaker 1: do think that Gordon Hayward could add another weapon to

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Speaker 1: the Celtics. I don't think he screws him up. Audition

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