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Speaker 1: Good days, sweet world, and welcome to the Now Dunks

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Speaker 1: podcast on the Athletic Network. It is Sunday, September three,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, but it might as well be July first,

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Speaker 1: because today is Canada Day once again. What's up, everybody,

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Speaker 1: I'm jay E Skeats here in the yard on Cloud nine.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the stream team, Shout out to the

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Speaker 1: podcast listeners, Shout out to the basketball gods. The drought

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Speaker 1: is over. For the first time in twenty three years,

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Speaker 1: the Canadian senior men's national basketball team is headed to

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Speaker 1: the goddamn Olympics. Since two thousand, they haven't been there,

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Speaker 1: but they have punched their ticket and for the first

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Speaker 1: time since nineteen ninety four, Canada have made the World

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Speaker 1: Cup quarterfinals. And I am ecstatic. If you were joining

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Speaker 1: us on playback this morning, you saw me living and

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Speaker 1: dying with every bucket, every foul called, every decision. I

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Speaker 1: have not been I don't think I've been that emotionally

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Speaker 1: invested in a game since probably the Raptors Championship run.

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Speaker 1: I mean that was wild. It was do or die

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Speaker 1: to advance. It was do or die, really to book

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Speaker 1: your ticket to Paris. Otherwise they would have to play

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Speaker 1: in another qualifying tournament. No, they're in. They are one

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Speaker 1: of the final eight teams in the World Cup, and

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Speaker 1: they are one of the twelve teams at the Paris

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Speaker 1: Olympics in twenty twenty four. Yeah, I was already checking

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Speaker 1: flights to Paris. That will not be a hard sell

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Speaker 1: to Nora. Hey, I want to go to Paris next summer.

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Speaker 1: I think she'd be in on that. But yes, cheers

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Speaker 1: to everyone for joining me here live again in the

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Speaker 1: on YouTube. Hit the light button. Make sure you subscribe. Well,

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Speaker 1: I take a sip. I've got them Withdello here. I

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Speaker 1: wish I had a Labat or a Moulson. Ah Man,

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Speaker 1: what a game, What a wild game. Shay Gildes Alexander

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Speaker 1: scoring thirty including just clutch free throw after clutch free

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Speaker 1: throw down the stretch to help Canada get the eighty

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Speaker 1: eight eighty five win over Spain, the number one ranked

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Speaker 1: team in the world, a team that is always, you know,

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Speaker 1: in play for a medal in all of these tournaments forever.

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Speaker 1: They're so disciplined, they're so good, they're so smart. And

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Speaker 1: Canada bounced back after that brutal crushing loss to Brazil

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Speaker 1: on Friday where they really really botched it and looked like,

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Speaker 1: oh no, here we go again. But they rally, they

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Speaker 1: come back in this one. They were down ten and

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Speaker 1: the third quarter. And man, in other years, this team

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Speaker 1: just like a lawn chair, especially against a team like Spain.

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Speaker 1: But not this squad, and not because of Sga on

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Speaker 1: this team and Dylan Brooks, who is huge, and we're

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Speaker 1: Canada was down seventy eight to seventy four. There's less

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Speaker 1: than two minutes to go, about one fifty left. Sga

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Speaker 1: Spain back up three. On the next possession. Dylan Brooks.

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Speaker 1: This is a long weekend. I have been sitting on

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Speaker 1: Definitely one on Thursday, once the quarterfinals wrap up. We'll

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