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Speaker 2: MAVs Thunder. So complete reversal of Game one in so

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Speaker 2: many different ways, much tighter whistle. Game one, the Thunder

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Speaker 2: shot twenty eight free throws, Shay shot thirteen. Game two,

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Speaker 2: So huge swing towards Dallas and just the overall amount

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Speaker 1: From Game one. Jump shooting swings heavily towards Dallas.

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Speaker 2: Washington hits seven threes. Luka Doncic finally gets his pull

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Speaker 2: swing towards Dallas. Rebounding In game one, Oklahoma City grabbed

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Speaker 2: and that amounts to a game that the MAVs basically

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Speaker 2: dominant win for Dallas to steal home court advantage and

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Speaker 2: that was his best game of the playoffs so far.

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Speaker 2: and then a really good defensive game, and it was

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Speaker 2: the whole team. The whole team was just do an

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Speaker 2: amazing job chasing shooters off the line, being on a

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Speaker 2: take a look at these rotations from Dallas. So again,

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Speaker 2: it's not really an opening quick rotate back out of it,

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Speaker 2: Tonight, it was very clear early on Luca had it

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