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<v Speaker 1>So the first weekend of the playoffs has come and gone,

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<v Speaker 1>and we have some storylines already that are brewing. What

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna give you is my three things that I

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<v Speaker 1>found interesting from each of the series, beginning out West,

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<v Speaker 1>ending with my breakdown of the Warriors and the Kings,

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<v Speaker 1>because as you know, I'm in the grind and I

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<v Speaker 1>am in Sacramento. But I did want to get you

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<v Speaker 1>caught up first. So let's start out West, where three

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<v Speaker 1>of the four series got interesting really fast. Let's start

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<v Speaker 1>in Memphis, Lakers Grizzlies. Fascinating game. Fascinating game, full of good, bad,

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<v Speaker 1>and mostly ugly for the Grizzlies. They end up losing

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<v Speaker 1>to the Lakers one eight, one twelve, So it was

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<v Speaker 1>the blowout folks. They pull out a row win, they

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<v Speaker 1>steal home, weren't from the number two team in the.

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<v Speaker 2>West, and yeah, I think a lot of people saw

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<v Speaker 2>that coming, right.

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<v Speaker 1>I think a lot of people said the matchups don't

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<v Speaker 1>favor the Grizzlies because there's no Steven Adams, there's no

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<v Speaker 1>Brandon Clark, and what is Aviery Chilman gonna do. He's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna get eaten Alive by Anthony Davis but the way

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<v Speaker 1>that it ended up happening was in a way that

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<v Speaker 1>nobody did see coming. So here are the three things

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<v Speaker 1>that I took away from this game. First, the Lakers

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<v Speaker 1>beat the Grizzlies on their home court despite the fact

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<v Speaker 1>that Anthony data Davis got injured in that game. It

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<v Speaker 1>nullified him essentially in the second half. That was huge.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody says that if Anthony Davis isn't healthy, this team

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<v Speaker 1>is cooked.

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<v Speaker 2>They were not cooked. When Anthony Davis could not lift

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<v Speaker 2>his arm.

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<v Speaker 1>He was out there in the second half barely able

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<v Speaker 1>to function, and he was a non factor offensively in

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<v Speaker 1>the second half. So despite that, this team can win

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<v Speaker 1>without him in the short term. Second, the Grizzlies dared

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<v Speaker 1>the Lakers role players to beat him, and they lost.

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<v Speaker 2>They did.

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<v Speaker 1>Ruy Hachi Murray had twenty nine and six, mostly on

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<v Speaker 1>uncontested shots. In the postgame, Desmond Bain admitted that was

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<v Speaker 1>slightly a flaw in our system. Let's see if Ruey

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<v Speaker 1>can do it again. These role players were gonna make

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<v Speaker 1>them beat us every single time. But the problem is

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<v Speaker 1>Ruy only has to do it for one game. He

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<v Speaker 1>did it once. They got their job done, and now

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<v Speaker 1>the Lakers. All they have to do is continue to

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<v Speaker 1>hole home court, and understanding the Laker role players means

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<v Speaker 1>looking at Lebron as well, because Lebron Another thing to

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<v Speaker 1>think about. Lebron just took one shot in the fourth quarter,

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<v Speaker 1>only why so that he could get the ball to

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<v Speaker 1>Ruey Hachimura and Austin Reeves. They were combined nine for

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<v Speaker 1>ten from the floor in the fourth quarter. Think about that.

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<v Speaker 1>Lebron James, the fourth quarter man, the clutchman himself, deferred

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<v Speaker 1>to Austin Reeves and Ruey Hachimura and it paid off.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you're the Grizzlies.

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<v Speaker 1>Thirdly, you must be in panic mode because Ja Morant

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<v Speaker 1>hurt himself. Not only did he hurt his wrist, He's

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<v Speaker 1>doubtful for Game two and maybe longer.

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<v Speaker 2>But the truth is that he.

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<v Speaker 1>Was hurt five minutes left in the game and he

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<v Speaker 1>just really wasn't a factor in that game. Jaron Jackson

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<v Speaker 1>Junior played really well. He had thirty one, four and

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<v Speaker 1>five and they still got dogwalk. You're gonna need big

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<v Speaker 1>performances out of Jaron to just compete.

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<v Speaker 2>Imagine how much things can change. The Lakers were cooked.

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<v Speaker 1>They didn't even look like a plan team, and now

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<v Speaker 1>it feels like they could possibly sweep the Grizzlies.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's move on to Heat versus Bucks. What happened there?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, in a nutshell, Jannis got hurt before you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the second I think before the first quarter even ended.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, He seems to be okay.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a tailbone issue, but they were getting blown out

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<v Speaker 1>before Yannis even left the court.

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<v Speaker 2>He'll be banged up, of course, in the short term

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<v Speaker 2>moving forward.

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<v Speaker 1>But listen, man, if you don't have Gianni's you're essentially

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<v Speaker 1>a seventh seed. The Heat had a lead pretty much

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<v Speaker 1>all games before and after Jannis left the court. Jannis

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<v Speaker 1>might miss game two. Tailbone injuries are no joke. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean Steph missed I think ten games with a tailbone injury.

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<v Speaker 1>He had to wear a diaper when he came back.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's gonna be really interesting to see what happens

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<v Speaker 1>with Giannis. More importantly, though, Tyler hero broken hand drained

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<v Speaker 1>a corner three with a broken hand out for the

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<v Speaker 1>rest of the playoffs, massive loss to the Heat.

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<v Speaker 2>The Heat are one of those teams that when they

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<v Speaker 2>are streaking and when they are hitting threes, they are

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<v Speaker 2>really really good. And when they're not. They fucking stink.

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<v Speaker 1>The team against the Bucks shot sixty five percent from three.

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<v Speaker 1>That's gonna be something that you need to look out

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<v Speaker 1>moving forward without Tyler Herro. What is the solution to

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<v Speaker 1>replace Tyler Herro? Do not say Duncan Robinson. Do not

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<v Speaker 1>say that he got six minutes in the entire game,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's that's probably the amount that he's gonna get

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<v Speaker 1>all series. His agent probably called Spolster and said, we

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<v Speaker 1>need six minutes for Duncan sometime. Probably gonna need a

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<v Speaker 1>big Oladipo game. Probably gonna need a big Caleb Martin game.

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<v Speaker 1>Probably gonna need a big Gay visit game. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>love that for the heat. Second, the Bucks need to

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<v Speaker 1>find someone they can hit a three. They were pathetic.

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<v Speaker 1>It was fucking horrible. They were twenty four percent from three.

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<v Speaker 1>That's not gonna get it done. Jay Crowder very streaky player.

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<v Speaker 1>Bobby port Is very streaky player. Middleton and Drew you

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<v Speaker 1>need more from They were all combined four for twenty five.

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<v Speaker 1>You cannot you cannot, you cannot do that. You cannot

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<v Speaker 1>do that.

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<v Speaker 2>Joe Ingles, he played pretty well from three. Maybe you

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<v Speaker 2>feature him more.

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<v Speaker 1>God, he's slow. Goran Dragic got a DMP. Maybe he's

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<v Speaker 1>a part of that answer listen. And thirdly, it's the

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<v Speaker 1>Jimmy Butler show. Forty three minutes was the most all

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<v Speaker 1>day by any player. He was on the court pretty

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<v Speaker 1>much the entire time. He's gonna try to will this

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<v Speaker 1>team in the second round, and it's just we know

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<v Speaker 1>it's not gonna happen, but playoff. Jimmy Butler is a

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<v Speaker 1>real force. I think he had thirty five, five and eleven.

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<v Speaker 1>I think he had three steals. But that bench, that

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<v Speaker 1>bench for the heat is fucking awful. Kyle Lowry can't

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<v Speaker 1>be the one who helps you.

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<v Speaker 2>He's He's just the.

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<v Speaker 1>Kind of guy that gives you thirty win one night,

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<v Speaker 1>gives you two the next. He's a bad lawnmower with

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<v Speaker 1>a bad spark plug, like you don't know if it's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna start or not on any given day. But this

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<v Speaker 1>is a weird series. Both teams feel like they're equally

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<v Speaker 1>in trouble. Felt very, very sure that the Bucks were

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<v Speaker 1>going to be able to take this in five, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>even in four. But if Giannie is out, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>They live and die with Giannis. If he's hurt. You

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<v Speaker 1>rest him as long as you can as necessary, but

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<v Speaker 1>hopefully not so long that you can't crawl out of

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<v Speaker 1>a hole.

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<v Speaker 2>Very very interesting series.

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<v Speaker 1>Did not see that heat win coming Clippers versus the Suns.

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<v Speaker 1>You look at the box score, you see the Clippers

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<v Speaker 1>pull out an upset. They take game one one fifteen

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<v Speaker 1>one ten in the valley, and you say, wow, probably

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<v Speaker 1>probably big nick Batoon game, Like wow, Russ must have

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<v Speaker 1>had twenty five or thirty. But no, the game was

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<v Speaker 1>not at all what you thought. It was the Kawhi show,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, and he did not disappoint thirty eight points,

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<v Speaker 1>including a clutch dagger after clutch dagger. In the second half,

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<v Speaker 1>he was hitting threes. He looked really really good. On

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<v Speaker 1>the flip side, KD carried the Suns was seventeen in

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<v Speaker 1>the second quarter. Didn't look good in the first quarter.

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<v Speaker 1>And the problem though with the Suns is that KD

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<v Speaker 1>did not take a shot in the final five minutes

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<v Speaker 1>of the game. That's a big problem. MANI did not

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<v Speaker 1>learn his mistakes from last year. Dude ran out eleven players,

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<v Speaker 1>which is pretty insane considering that their bench is fucking awful.

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<v Speaker 1>You know that the bench stinks. We've always known that,

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<v Speaker 1>ever since Kevin dray Trent Kevin Durant trade went down.

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<v Speaker 1>We do not need to see Landrew Schmidt and ish

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<v Speaker 1>Wayne Wright in clutch time.

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<v Speaker 2>We do not many Williams. Why are you getting out coached?

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<v Speaker 1>From the time that you played the Bucks till now,

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<v Speaker 1>DeAndre Ayton.

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<v Speaker 2>Figured to be non factor.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what's happening with him, but he's not

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<v Speaker 1>a guy that you can really rely on to get

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<v Speaker 1>you late end of the game buckets.

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<v Speaker 2>He's not in any rhythm.

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<v Speaker 1>The Clippers are giving him all kinds of space to

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<v Speaker 1>shoot mid range jumpers, and he's shooting him, and he's

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<v Speaker 1>he's largely missing them. There is no world that DeAndre

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<v Speaker 1>Ayton should be shooting more shots than Kevin Durant and

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<v Speaker 1>Devin Booker.

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<v Speaker 2>They just can't.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's where you're shooting him. It's when you're shooting

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<v Speaker 1>him mostly ten to fifteen foot jumpers. I don't like that.

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<v Speaker 1>DeAndre Ayten needs to attack the rim a lot more

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<v Speaker 1>for the Suns to really be in it. He's a

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<v Speaker 1>really good team. They should beat the Clippers, but not

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<v Speaker 1>when you're taking the ball out of Katie's hands. Devin

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<v Speaker 1>Booker's hands and even to a small degree, Chris Paul's hands.

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<v Speaker 1>Like you look at it, and he's going up against Ayton,

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<v Speaker 1>is going up against Zubac, Plumbley, and Batoum. None of

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<v Speaker 1>them have more than four fouls. You have to get

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<v Speaker 1>them into foul trouble if you're gonna win those games.

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<v Speaker 1>And we've got to give Tyler Loose some love, right,

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<v Speaker 1>Like he's a really really good coach, really really good coach.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a million strategy decisions that you can break down,

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<v Speaker 1>from how smart his rotations are to the decision to

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<v Speaker 1>play Kawhi finally forty two minutes. Like I said, Jimmy

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<v Speaker 1>Butler only played more minutes yesterday than Kawhi. That's the

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<v Speaker 1>only player on the floor that played more. That's wild

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<v Speaker 1>considering how listen, like TYLERU got a lot of shit

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<v Speaker 1>for load managing Kawhi, he really did. Kind of feels

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<v Speaker 1>like skipping minutes in March to use them in April,

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<v Speaker 1>May and June might actually make sense. Tyler shouldet all

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<v Speaker 1>the flowers, listen, and he should get all the flowers

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<v Speaker 1>for this. Russell Westbrook was not believed in in La

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<v Speaker 1>at all, and he came to the Clippers and Tyleru said,

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna let Russell Westbrook be him, and people thought

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<v Speaker 1>he was crazy, But that loyalty and belief in Russell

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<v Speaker 1>Westbrook is what won them in the game. Russell Westbrook

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<v Speaker 1>won the Clippers that game. He had the worst shooting

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<v Speaker 1>game of his entire player off career, which was three

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<v Speaker 1>for nineteen, and yet in the final two minutes he

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<v Speaker 1>was the most impactful guy on the court. He was

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<v Speaker 1>hunting for his shots, he was swatting balls away, he

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<v Speaker 1>was playing incredibly good defense. Russ went to the bench

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<v Speaker 1>in the third quarter when the Clippers were down double digits.

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<v Speaker 2>Kawhi made a run.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a four point lead and it felt like

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<v Speaker 1>Russ was never going to see the quart again. But

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<v Speaker 1>you know what, Tye put him back in and he

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<v Speaker 1>let him control the offense all the way to the

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<v Speaker 1>end of the game. He didn't give a shit whether

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<v Speaker 1>his shot was hitting. He was his usual Tasmanian devil self.

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<v Speaker 1>In the final two minutes. He attacked the rim, he

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<v Speaker 1>got fouled, he made two huge free throws. It was

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<v Speaker 1>seventeen seconds left. He made the game saving defensive play

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<v Speaker 1>on Devin Booker like. He made six plays in the

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<v Speaker 1>final two minutes that won the Clippers the game. Without him,

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<v Speaker 1>they don't win that game. So that's a really really

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<v Speaker 1>interesting matchup. Can't wait to see. I think it might

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<v Speaker 1>be a long series. Actually, I thought this would be four,

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<v Speaker 1>five to six games. I think it might go seven.