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Speaker 1: What is up, straight bark, I am, It's me Jason MacIntyre,

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Speaker 1: Straight Player for Friday, June the twentieth. Oh boy, oh boy,

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Speaker 1: do we have a night in sports? I mean, goodness, gracious,

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Speaker 1: you got the NBA Finals Game six, USA Saudi Arabia

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Speaker 1: soccer Caitlin Clark late night against the Golden State Valkyrie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was just a great night to be

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Speaker 1: a sports fan. And folks, I know that this is

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Speaker 1: gonna surprise you, but I actually found myself gravitated above

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Speaker 1: all three to USA, Saudi Arabia and the Gold Cup.

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Speaker 1: Now let me quickly defend myself. Okay, you guys know

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Speaker 1: I grew up as a soccer guy. That was my

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Speaker 1: number one sport. I also obviously massive basketball, but I

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Speaker 1: play soccer as an adult. You know, it's just fun,

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Speaker 1: it's great, and USA soccer is an experience. You know,

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals is a thing. WNBA game is a thing.

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Speaker 1: USA soccer games come on, they're few and far between,

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Speaker 1: and we're like a weird time where the stars aren't playing.

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Speaker 1: I counted too, maybe three guys on this Gold Cup

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Speaker 1: team that would are locks for the World Cup team

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Speaker 1: next summer. And so the reason I'm so into it.

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Speaker 1: And I know some of you gotta say, oh, you

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Speaker 1: just a company guy whose game was on FS one,

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Yeah, okay, sure you could say that,

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Speaker 1: But again, USA sock. There's not It's not like there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of soccer outside of Gold Cup and World Cups. Yes,

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Speaker 1: there's MLS and legam X. Those are clubs teams. But

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Speaker 1: I got into it and I didn't think USA played

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Speaker 1: terrible in the first half. Of course, you go on

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Speaker 1: social media and it's the opposite. Oh my gosh, we've

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Speaker 1: hit rock bottom. We can't score on Saudi Arabia. Guys.

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Speaker 1: USA was minus one eighty five to win. Okay, that's it.

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Speaker 1: There's a good Saudi Arabia team. Do you want to

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Speaker 1: take a guess who beat Messi and Argentina in the

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Speaker 1: first game of the World Cup? Uh in whatever year

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Speaker 1: was the last World Cup? Yeah, Saudi beat them to one.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't know if all the same Saudi guys

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Speaker 1: were playing, but Saudi Arabia is an up and coming

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Speaker 1: that Saudi ou oil money. Anyways, So the US scorer

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a starter for sure on

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Speaker 1: the US World Cup team next summer, but he's definitely

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Speaker 1: on the team. He's a good defender, nice goal and

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Speaker 1: kind of a sigh of relief. You know, you didn't

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Speaker 1: want to lose this game. A tie would have been

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Speaker 1: an embarrassment. So I was locked in on the soccer,

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Speaker 1: and in between I would go to the NBA game.

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Speaker 1: So Rob I'm watching Pacers Thunder out of the gate

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Speaker 1: and it's like kind of middling, you know whatever, Pacers.

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Speaker 1: I was basically just watching Tyrese Haliburton the whole time,

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Speaker 1: check a text and then I pick up my phone

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Speaker 1: you know. I get this text from somebody. I'm like, what,

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Speaker 1: I flip it over. They're up twenty four late first half.

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Speaker 1: I was like, wow, well that escalated quickly. And folks,

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Speaker 1: I mean listen, Rob, I'm sure you watch a game

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Speaker 1: much closer than I. I tried to tune in the

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Speaker 1: Game six of the NBA Finals, a close out game

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Speaker 1: and okay, see's not trying. Now. I did punch into

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Speaker 1: chat GPT. Can you give me examples of teams that

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Speaker 1: And there's a ton So this is not out of character.

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Speaker 1: But Rob, all like heard I don't know for the

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Speaker 1: He was a minus forty rob in twenty seven minutes.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how that's possible. The math is breaking

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Speaker 1: It wasn't entertaining. There was an interesting twenty one turnovers

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Speaker 1: Turnovers and seven field goals, Rob, is there any ex

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Speaker 1: like if you punting a game? I just don't know

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really hard to make that argument. You know,

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Speaker 3: that was one of the worst performances I've ever seen,

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Speaker 3: you know, in a playoff game. When you consider that

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Speaker 3: that's how bad it was. And Okay, for Oklahoma City,

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Speaker 3: through three quarters of NBA action in the finals game

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Speaker 3: with the reigning MVP on their roster, they had six

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Speaker 3: I actually remember last year game four Boston punts a

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Speaker 3: It's not the same as being three to two, right,

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Speaker 3: It's a completely different conversation. So when you have a

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Speaker 3: and you come out. I'm not gonna say that gang besters,

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Speaker 3: but you start out like eight to two, ten to

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Speaker 3: I've already put it on Wax by Wax, I mean,

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Speaker 3: have a serious conversation about Sga okay okay. In these

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Speaker 3: eight assists. In Game two, they win by sixteen. He

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Speaker 3: In games that were close or games that they lost,

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Speaker 3: earth could you be considered arguably the best point guard

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Speaker 3: When things get tight and you're no longer playing with

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Speaker 3: the time in that game. How do you end up

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Speaker 3: in situations consistently where your offense is Shay dribble into

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Speaker 3: and I expected more from him. He is too good

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Speaker 3: this series. I thought he got over it. In the

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Speaker 3: Nie Smith and McConnell and those guys like they're good defenders,

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Speaker 3: none of them are as good as the OKC guys.

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Speaker 3: But to watch SGA insist on isolation basketball over and

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Speaker 3: get behind. It's rudimentary, It's not what I would expect

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Speaker 3: from an MVP.

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Speaker 1: I'm reading a stat here. This doesn't seem true, but

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Speaker 1: again I wasn't watching that closely. Indiana did not suffer

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Speaker 1: Is that real?

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Speaker 1: So that's staggering. So okay See not only punted the game,

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Speaker 1: they just decided we're not gonna even try. That's embarrassing. Like,

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Speaker 1: is really pathetic for the Thunder to essentially think maybe

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Speaker 1: I just I can't get behind this idea that okay

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Speaker 1: See is an all time great team and I know

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Speaker 1: Chet Holmgren, who had another he basically listen. I like

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Speaker 1: four minutes, two for nine. So here is Chet shooting

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Speaker 1: ball specialist. He's made two in the series. He has missed. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's two for seventeen in the series from three, two

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Speaker 1: All I hear is is Miles Turner slander. Oh, Miles

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Speaker 1: oh for three from deep like Miles Turner. I don't

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Speaker 1: head because he's a free agent, But man, Chet Holmgren

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Speaker 1: is stinking up the joint. Rob. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: there's a world where the Thunder loose Game seven at home?

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Speaker 1: Do you do you think there's any chance they lose

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Speaker 3: I didn't think it was gonna get this far, so

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Speaker 3: I would still bet okay See to win. I don't

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Speaker 3: It was a terrible game for him, and in this

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Speaker 1: Morn gets hurt and in the second round, oh, they

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Speaker 1: get a half asked Tybee Halliburton, give me a break.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear this all time greatness at all.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, guys, they's just not an all time great

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Take Rob. This is why is

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Speaker 1: a good producer the best of the business. All right,

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Speaker 1: We're back sometime next week. Enjoy the weekend.