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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up? Straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre,

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Thursday, May the eighth. Guys. Listen, I

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Speaker 2: told you don't go gambling on the NBA playoffs. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what the hell's gonna happen. Nobody does. I

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Speaker 2: will tell you right now that zero point zero people predicted,

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Speaker 2: including our guest Alex Monico. Yesterday. Nobody predicted a Knicks

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Speaker 2: out white run. Nobody everybody's hopeful Knicks fans. But I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you the story. The Knicks ended up winning this game.

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Speaker 2: They should not have won this Boston is freaking to

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Speaker 2: bleep out. It was a crazy, bonkers fourth quarter. Again,

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Speaker 2: we'll get to that. Denver, okase was not uh nearly

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Speaker 2: as close. That was Okac setting records left and right,

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Speaker 2: being like, hey, we are really good and you guys

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Speaker 2: are not. So this is what's up. And okay, see

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Speaker 2: absolutely blasted and I mean destroyed Denver six. But nobody

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Speaker 2: cares about that game. First of all. So listen, we're

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Speaker 2: in uh spring, right, there's a beautiful season. I love spring.

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Speaker 2: When we were back in Pennsylvania, spring would be like

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Speaker 2: usually Memorial day you open the pool. However, you know Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 2: you don't. You got like maybe half of May, June, July, August,

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Speaker 2: and half of September. Okay, so that's a total of

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Speaker 2: four months out of twelve to use your pool. So

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Speaker 2: I hated that. I didn't realize it was that bad.

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Speaker 2: So I would push for the early open and then

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Speaker 2: just heat the sucker. Right. May in New York City

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Speaker 2: is awesome. May in California spectacular. The weather this week

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Speaker 2: has been tremendous. And my buddy is like this, he's

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Speaker 2: like in charge of this wine auction out here in

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Speaker 2: the South Bay and invited me to this dinner last night.

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Speaker 2: It was spectacular. But I had a busy Wednesday. Listen, man,

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Speaker 2: this is hey, this is life when you got kids.

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Speaker 2: So I'm on Wednesday this week. I was on Wednesday

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Speaker 2: volleyball practice both ways. You know, we got five people

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Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what, let me just make the

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Speaker 2: most of it. I'm gonna hit Costco in between. Costco's

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Speaker 2: my favorite place on Earth. So I'm watching the game

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Speaker 2: on my phone. Technology is the greatest. As I'm walking

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Speaker 2: through Costco. The knickser getting beat up. It's not going well. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's expected. The Knick's got one. And the whole time

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Speaker 2: I'm telling myself, okay, we got at least we got one. Right,

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Speaker 2: Knicks are in troubled or down. I think they were

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Speaker 2: down like nine at half time. It stretches in the third.

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Speaker 2: At one point they're down twenty, and I with like

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Speaker 2: eight minutes left, I think they were down eighteen. And

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Speaker 2: I'm headed to check out, you know. And I'm one

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Speaker 2: of these weirdos. I don't like lines. Okay, I'm revealing

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Speaker 2: too much about myself, but I'm the kind of guy

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Speaker 2: who rolls up, sees like nine lines, quickly does the calculation. Okay,

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Speaker 2: there's three people there. This person has only three items, great,

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Speaker 2: this person has twenty seven items ish a lot, a

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Speaker 2: full cart over spilling, No thanks, I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: that line. This person's old. Older people generally are slower.

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Speaker 2: If you see an old person with a full cart

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Speaker 2: at Costco, just avoid them, you know. And so I

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Speaker 2: find what I think is the shortest line, and then

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Speaker 2: because it's the shortest line, I'm quickly up and at

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Speaker 2: that point I don't I stop watching the game. So

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Speaker 2: I knew I had this dinner, but it was not

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Speaker 2: for like another two hours. So I'm like, let me

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Speaker 2: get a slice of pizza, and of course I got

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Speaker 2: I got to get the map out and there's multiple

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Speaker 2: directions to volleyball practice, and I'm like, all right, what's

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Speaker 2: the again, not watching the game. So I then get

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Speaker 2: to volleyball practice, and again this is weird o, Jason.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm in a parking lot loaded up with

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Speaker 2: is there a chance somebody breaks in and steals some

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Speaker 2: of my Costco stuff? So at this point, I've like

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Speaker 2: got to fight a good parking spot where my back

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Speaker 2: I've got to back into a spot again not paying

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Speaker 2: it attention to the NIXT game. So I get in

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Speaker 2: the Knicks. And at this place where the practice is

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Speaker 2: phone starts buzzing and they're like, you know, I could

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Speaker 2: read some of these well they're not really appropriate. My

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Speaker 2: boy Ben, who does all these social media videos for me,

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Speaker 2: he's great, Ben Garcia, you were ten thousand percent right

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Speaker 2: about Brunson. I was ten thousand percent right about Tatum.

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Speaker 2: Game recognized game, and I go, what's the score? Not

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Speaker 2: a good signal? And then my other guys from the

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Speaker 2: This is so nasty. This is nasty work, and I'm like, bro,

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Speaker 2: what's going on? I don't have a signal, And the

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Speaker 2: texts keep coming in left and right, and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: did the Knicks fricking win this? And I can't get online.

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Speaker 2: At this point, the dad's you know, still talking to me,

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Speaker 2: and I feel bad that I'm like not listening. I'm

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Speaker 2: like looking for a knickscore. And then, of course, you know,

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Speaker 2: I get to the car and I'm like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: the Knicks one came from down twenty again, and then

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Speaker 2: the takes start coming to me. Listen, man, remember the

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Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets last year, they were the defending champions. Everybody

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Speaker 2: had them going back to the finals. They could not

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Speaker 2: get by Minnesota. They have to go to Game seven

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Speaker 2: at home, they're up twenty and they blow it. There

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Speaker 2: is this sense when you win a championship that you're

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Speaker 2: just gonna win it every year. That's natural. We're the

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Speaker 2: best all season long. Boston Celtics bombing threes against regular

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Speaker 2: season NBA defense, and they're just hitting thirty five forty percent.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes fifty games are over at halftime, games are over

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Speaker 2: a third quarter because they're blowing teams out, and we're

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Speaker 2: just not seeing that in this series. Now. If you

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Speaker 2: remember back to the Orlando series, Orlando's got some good players.

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Speaker 2: They were able to hang somewhat tough with Boston, but

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Speaker 2: Jason Tatum had like thirty five thirty seven. It was

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Speaker 2: blowout city. When Tatum is on, the Celtics were able

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Speaker 2: to pull away and end up getting the dub and

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Speaker 2: I think they covered in three of the four wins.

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Speaker 2: I think of the three of the four wins. I

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Speaker 2: think they covered well. All of a sudden, now Jason

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Speaker 2: Tatum is struggling. Jason Tatum, are you ready for this?

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Speaker 2: Five of nineteen shooting thirteen points, fourteen boards. I love Tatum,

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Speaker 2: I'll defend him. He first of all, this loss is

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Speaker 2: not on him. Okay, It's on the entire Boston Celtics team. Okay.

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Speaker 2: In the fourth quarter, Celtics starters were two for eighteen. Okay,

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Speaker 2: it's not on Jason Tatum. Obviously, he's the star in

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Speaker 2: the AA. He's got to deliver. He did not tat him.

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Speaker 2: Through two games, missus bleak, shooting twenty eight percent from

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Speaker 2: the field, twenty five percent from three. He's averaging fifteen boards,

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Speaker 2: which is nice, five and a half as sis eighteen points.

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Speaker 2: That's way down from his regular season numbers, and all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, you don't want to say it's over,

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Speaker 2: but when you're up to nothing going to the garden,

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Speaker 2: Celtics cannot throw it in the ocean, folks. In a

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Speaker 2: crazy stat that I didn't know was possible, Boston is

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Speaker 2: twenty five for one hundred on threes through two games.

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Speaker 2: That's insanitay. Now, Porzingis didn't start, only played fourteen minutes.

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Speaker 2: They clearly miss him. Al for Al Horford, he cannot

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Speaker 2: log the big minutes. He was two of eleven, oh

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Speaker 2: twenty nine minutes. Luke Cornett, I know he had a

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Speaker 2: solid game. I don't think you he's like a Tigier room.

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Speaker 2: You can't counter him for like twenty five thirty minutes

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Speaker 2: in a playoff game. Sorry, they're not really trusting the

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Speaker 2: rest of their bench. Peyton Pritchard struggled again, but he

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Speaker 2: did hit a bunch of threes, and you know, Derrek

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Speaker 2: on Stories where the tag is people don't know what

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Speaker 2: Teams just don't know what to do. So the Celtics

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Speaker 2: come down on a break and Derek White and like

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Speaker 2: open three misses. Celtics get the rebound. Drew Holliday, let

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Speaker 2: three open missus Celtics get the rebound and someone drives.

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Speaker 2: It might be Holiday or Brown drives, kicks to the corner.

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Speaker 2: Somebody open for three and they hit it. It was

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Speaker 2: an open three, So three open looks, they made one

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Speaker 2: of them. That's kind of been the story of the series.

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Speaker 2: Except it's not one of three. It's more like one

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Speaker 2: of four or one of five, and that's not gonna

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Speaker 2: cut it.

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Speaker 2: I'm as shocked as you, But like folks, I we're

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Speaker 2: looking at Knicks Pacers Eastern Conference Finals, which would be

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Speaker 2: a rematch of a great semifinals last year where I

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Speaker 2: thought the Knicks were in good shape but then the

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Speaker 2: injuries mounted. And listen, you can't just be like, well,

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Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson is two clutch. He was six of nineteen,

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Speaker 2: two of nine. It wasn't a Jalen Brunson game. Josh

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Speaker 2: Hart was fricking everywhere. Josh Hart had twenty three and six.

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Speaker 2: He was a machine on the offensive glass. Now again, like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how this happened. I'm a Knicks fan,

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Speaker 2: and I thought the Knicks would get one or two.

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Speaker 2: I did not think they would be up to nothing.

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Speaker 2: I don't think anyone on planet Earth thought that. Folks.

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Speaker 2: They were down twenty and it gets worse. So the

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Speaker 2: cool thing about the ESPN box scores is if you

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Speaker 2: go to play by play, you can look up how

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Speaker 2: the team shot in the fourth quarter. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: if you want like to just be like absolutely stunned,

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Speaker 2: go look at the fourth quarter. Boston could not make anything.

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Speaker 2: And yet a Jalen Brown dunk in the fourth where

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Speaker 2: he just went coast to coast and yammed on the

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Speaker 2: Knicks put them up. Let's see the dunk put them

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Speaker 2: up one with eighteen seconds left. And then of course

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Speaker 2: Brunce against to the foul line. And then Michail Bridges

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Speaker 2: does what he did at the end of Game one,

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Speaker 2: just ripped the ball away, he got stole it from

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Speaker 2: Tatum and that was it. The Celtics did not get

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Speaker 2: off a shot and they lose. This is inexplicable. I

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Speaker 2: wish I could sound articulate and intelligent. There's really nothing

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Speaker 2: here that makes sense. In the fourth quarter, the Celtics

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Speaker 2: were up fourteen. I'm sorry. They were up sixteen in

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Speaker 2: the fourth on Peyton Pritchard three. With ten twenty to go,

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Speaker 2: they go up seventy nine to sixty three. That's just unfathomable.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna repeat what.

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Speaker 3: I said the other day. It is difficult to repeat

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Speaker 3: in the NBA, so many more games, the playoff games

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Speaker 3: take a lot out of you. And the last repeat

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Speaker 3: champs you have to go back to the Golden State

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Speaker 3: Warriors with Curry, KD.

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Speaker 2: Klay, Thompson and company. They smoked the Cavs for to

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Speaker 2: one now and that one year Kevin Love and Kyrie

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Speaker 2: In what do we have tonight? We got only one

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Speaker 2: Listen folks as speculator on This Year podcast, the idea

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Speaker 2: moneyball guys. But it's gonna be a scene down there

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Speaker 2: on Aguascalientes. I'll be watching at home with my Ncoxa

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Speaker 2: Jersey Young. Talk to you tomorrow