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Speaker 1: That shot was the most biggest shot in the world.

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Speaker 1: To this day, I think about that shot when I

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Speaker 1: that one shot. That's what you call some mother excuse me, confidence. Confidence,

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Speaker 1: and that's what I how I played anything I do, music, golf, basketball, whatever.

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Speaker 2: Come on, James outside, three in the air, off the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was legendary.

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Speaker 3: Ray Allen's three pointer that sent Game six of the

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Speaker 3: twenty thirteen Finals to overtime, where the Heat would eventually

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Speaker 3: save their season, was one of those you remember where

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Speaker 3: you were when it happened moments, But for the teams involved,

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Speaker 3: the feelings after Game six were just as vivid, and

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Speaker 3: they would spill over onto the floor for Game seven,

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Speaker 3: when another confident jump shot would close the deal for Miami.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to four years of Heat. I'm your host,

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Speaker 3: Israel Gutierrez and this is episode seven the peak. Ray

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Speaker 3: Allen described the reaction to hitting a big three point

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Speaker 3: shot as a bomb going off. The Spurs entered Game

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Speaker 3: seven as if Allan's three pointer was a literal explosion.

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Speaker 4: Mentally, they were tattered.

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Speaker 3: You could almost hear it in Mano Genobili's voice after

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Speaker 5: We were a few seconds away from winning the championship,

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Speaker 5: and we let it go.

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Speaker 3: There was just one off day between Game six and seven,

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Speaker 3: and Spurs coach Greg Popovich tried to bring the team

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Speaker 3: together for a dinner that would help them regroup. Mono

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Speaker 3: Genobili was particularly hard on himself after only scoring nine

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Speaker 3: points and missing one of the late free throws that

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Speaker 3: for everyone to shake the sense of loss.

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Speaker 6: I remember after the game that night, it was awful

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Speaker 6: like it started actually, it started out awful, like it

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Speaker 6: was just such a feeling of defeat, you know, a

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Speaker 6: don't know how what I could compare it to metaphorically,

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Speaker 6: everybody's really upset. It felt like, all right, we're gonna

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Speaker 6: lose by fifty. In Game seven, like we got nothing

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Speaker 6: you know, in typical coach Pop fashion, he loves dinners

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Speaker 6: in the community, you know, healing over food, and I

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Speaker 6: remember we went to an Italian place. It had a

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Speaker 6: dinner we were kind of like refilled the cup. All Right,

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Speaker 6: we still have another game to play, We still have

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Speaker 6: another crack at this and everybody was feeling a lot better.

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Speaker 3: The series had already taken everything out of Bonner physically,

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Speaker 3: as he wasn't even an option in the season ending game.

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Speaker 4: The Spurs were noticeably off.

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Speaker 3: Jenobili managed something of a bounce back effort with eighteen points,

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Speaker 3: but the rest of the group had no spring. Danny Green,

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Speaker 3: who set the record for most threes in a final

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Speaker 4: Tim Duncan tried.

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Speaker 3: To erase the memory of Game six with twenty four points,

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Speaker 3: twelve rebounds, four steals in a block, but there was

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Speaker 4: Not in the same building.

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Speaker 3: Mario Chalmers was on the winning side, and he believed

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Speaker 3: even his team was running on empty.

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Speaker 7: Like I still to this day, I say, Game six

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Speaker 7: part of it, the actual playing part of it. That

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Speaker 7: game drained a lot of a lot of players that game.

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Speaker 7: A lot of people was emotionally drained and physically drained

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Speaker 7: My New Hall of Famer, Rey Papovica Hall of Famer,

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Speaker 3: It was actually the game six moments set'll be remembered

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Speaker 3: as the most exciting, with Allen's shot replaying for eternity.

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Speaker 3: It's been ten years since that shot, and maybe twenty

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Speaker 3: years from now people will incorrectly remember it as a

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Speaker 3: Jackie McMullin had seen something similar before, working as a

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Speaker 3: reporter in the nineteen eighty six World Series. She was

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Speaker 3: waiting by the Red Sox clubhouse, preparing to interview Boston

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Speaker 3: Mookie Wilson hit a ground bow that would slide under

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Speaker 3: that Buckner play alone cost the Red Sox the World Series.

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Speaker 3: In reality, the Socks had an extended chance to recover,

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Speaker 4: Here's Jackie.

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Speaker 8: People remember what they want to remember. So the Red

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Speaker 8: But you knew they there was just no way they

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Speaker 3: The Mets won Game seven, forever framing Buckner as a

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Speaker 3: goat the negative version of that word. The Heat would

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Speaker 3: approach Game seven with a goat of their own. You

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Speaker 4: I mean.

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Speaker 3: Lebron James may have needed Ray Allen to extend the series,

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Speaker 5: One game on our home floor to bring home another championship. Man,

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Speaker 5: This is everything that we worked for all season long,

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Speaker 5: all the sacrifices we'd made to each other, Dog every

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Speaker 5: single day, Dog, every single minute. They say, hard work payoff, man.

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Speaker 5: So let's make that statement become true. All right, and.

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Speaker 9: Here we go in seven of the finals.

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Speaker 3: In fact, the game six hero wouldn't score a point

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Speaker 3: in Game seven, but Alan had already seen what his

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Speaker 10: There was something wrong with me. I think it was

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Speaker 10: I've broke an attendon. So it like kind of it

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Speaker 10: So for longest time, I couldn't. I couldn't pick my

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Speaker 10: I don't know what happened to me. So I was

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Speaker 10: I told him, I said, Bro, you hit a shot

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Speaker 8: And I just.

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Speaker 10: Remember just feeling, you know, such a great feeling to

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Speaker 10: know that you did your job when your team needed

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Speaker 10: you you you gain the most, the utmost of respect

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Speaker 10: from all your peers. That that is one of the

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Speaker 10: be you know, buy your team, you know, buy the organization.

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Speaker 3: Game seven was a win for the organization, but Lebron

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Speaker 3: James would have to do most of the heavy lifting.

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Speaker 3: That's because Allen wasn't the only scoreless Heat player. Mike

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Speaker 3: Miller started and didn't score in nineteen minutes. Chris Bosh

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Speaker 3: three constants in this one, however, Dwayne Wade's mid range

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Speaker 2: Age seven is tied.

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Speaker 11: James kicks it out, Wig fags across the lads, flicks.

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Speaker 12: It up, it in.

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Speaker 3: So was Lebron's jumper. He hit five threes in that game.

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Speaker 2: James, we'll try another three bucks it in. Lebron James

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Speaker 3: The Spurs play and there was one bench contributor. After

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Speaker 3: Shane Battier exploded for six three pointers and eight tries

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Speaker 7: I felt great for shake. You know, Shane's a great guy,

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Speaker 7: great dude, great person, and it was just to see him,

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Speaker 7: you know, get beat up by David Wes, get beat

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Speaker 7: up by Roy Heiro, get beat up by Kendrick Perkins

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Speaker 7: and KG. It was just like, like, you basically helped

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Speaker 7: us get to where we are just by taking blows

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Speaker 7: what you just went through. It just shows like the

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Speaker 13: You can't.

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Speaker 7: You can keep beating me up, keep beating me up,

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Speaker 7: but you're not gonna get me down. And I'm still

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Speaker 14: If you need me.

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Speaker 11: James kicks it out in the corner. Battier puts it

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it was like we were in the NBA for

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Speaker 7: a reason. No matter if you're a defender or whatever

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Speaker 7: end of the day. And Shane showed day like, I'm

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Speaker 7: Course three, got up, Battier dropped down down.

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Speaker 2: Nice, it's the last game of the year, the last

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Speaker 3: Why everything out there?

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Speaker 9: They got talent.

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Speaker 5: We got to beat him with all of us.

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Speaker 3: In the final minute, with the Heat leading by just

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Speaker 3: earlier in the finals, Duncan was all smiles, thanking Lebron

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Speaker 8: Job La, I love how you're fifteen this name, say.

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Speaker 15: That with my stay that we're gonna drive these guys

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Speaker 4: But I appreciate you giving my sister back.

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Speaker 3: In those two thousand and seven finals, Popovich took advantage

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Speaker 3: forward back to this Game seven, with the Heat leading

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Speaker 3: and seven, with less than forty seconds remaining, Lebron James

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Speaker 3: The Spurs weren't switching defenders on Lebron, so Kawhi would

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Speaker 3: James used a Chalmers screen and got barely enough space

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Speaker 11: James pulls up, puts it inad flow, point.

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Speaker 3: Lebron snatched his second steal of the game in the

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Speaker 3: so there was a respectful fear. Not even the gold

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Speaker 3: ropes meant as much as they used to. But the

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Speaker 3: still leading, and a second Larry O'Brien Trophy would now

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Speaker 6: It never gets old.

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Speaker 13: Having up parade for the third time down Bess.

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Speaker 3: Stain, Lebron would win his second straight Finals MVP trophy,

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Speaker 3: leading the Heat in minutes by almost seventy game and

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Speaker 12: The twenty thirteen Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player

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Speaker 12: for the second straight Finals Lebron.

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Speaker 3: James Miami was getting used to this feeling too, And

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Speaker 3: in this moment in time, everything that was promised and

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Speaker 3: that Rockstar celebration was reaching fulfillment. It was as good

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Speaker 14: We had to give everything we had and we did it.

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Speaker 14: Ain't got none left.

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Speaker 3: James, Wade and Bosh were repeat champions.

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Speaker 5: It was the overcome of all the challenges that we had,

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Speaker 5: And this is the way you want to be rewarded.

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Speaker 14: Lebron's missed to do whatever it takes, and his knack

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Speaker 14: now for making big plays and big shots in big games.

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Speaker 14: Can't nobody say nothing about it. He scored thirty seven points.

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Speaker 14: He grabs twelve rebounds, he dished all seven saysts.

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Speaker 15: He guards Tony Parker.

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Speaker 14: He is today's greatest player for us. You know, it's

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Speaker 14: about doing what we came together do and that is

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Speaker 14: and now we are part of history.

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Speaker 13: Man. Champagne was cold burned, but it's just a sweet

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Speaker 13: feeling back in that position again. It was like deja vu.

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Speaker 13: Everybody was just hugging, telling everybody we love him, man,

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Speaker 13: And you know, that's what it's about.

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Speaker 3: For the role players like Mario Chalmers and Adonis Haslam,

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Speaker 3: their names will always be linked to winning at this level. Also,

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Speaker 3: it's not just superstars who create legacies in this association

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Speaker 3: that's been around for more than seventy five years.

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Speaker 4: The way we want it.

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Speaker 7: It was definitely one of those like, okay, this is

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Speaker 7: It was she Begett the rebound, Ray hit a shot.

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Speaker 7: I had twenty points that game, Like everybody did their

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Speaker 17: Like, at the end of the day, the respect that

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Speaker 17: I have in this league and around here is because

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Speaker 17: I won. It's not because I'm a nice guy. It's

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Speaker 17: has nothing to do with that. As much as these

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Speaker 17: people in this city loved me. If I didn't win,

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Speaker 17: I would not be here. If I didn't win, I

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Speaker 17: would not have the respect. If I didn't win, I

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Speaker 17: and to.

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Speaker 4: Be able to do and move and influence and impact.

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Speaker 4: It's all built off winning.

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Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: Let's raise the two thirteen NBA champion Chip Manner.

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Speaker 3: By the time the twenty thirteen to fourteen season began,

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Speaker 3: the Heat had effectively squeezed the fight out of.

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Speaker 4: The NBA's Eastern Conference.

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Speaker 3: With the exception of the Pacers, who were a bit

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Speaker 12: San Antonio's won thirteen in a row, Spurs fifteenth consecutive win,

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Speaker 12: and the Spurs with eighteen straight wins San Antonio, They're

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Speaker 4: That is just remarkable.

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Speaker 3: Miami, on the other hand, still had the game's most

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Speaker 16: Things we would have done, you know, one more pass

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Speaker 16: on offense, things we would have done without thinking the

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Speaker 3: Unlike in twenty eleven when the team added Battier, or

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Speaker 3: Sharpshooter Rishard Lewis would join the team at thirty four

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Speaker 3: Brian Windhorst of ESPN regularly had his attention fixed on

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Speaker 9: he can get through. He was not at his best,

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00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 9: and so they were really in a state where they

440
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 9: could be taken advantage of.

441
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 3: Lebron certainly wasn't breaking down. He set a career high

442
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,359
Speaker 3: in field goal percentage for the second straight season and

443
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 3: shot a career best sixty two percent.

444
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 4: From two point range.

445
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 3: His rookie year, Lebron shot forty four percent from inside

446
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,439
Speaker 3: the arc. In a March third game in Miami against

447
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 3: the Charlotte Hornets, despite playing with a mask on to

448
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 3: protect a broken nose, Lebron would show just how dominant

449
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 3: he could be, scoring a career best sixty one points,

450
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 3: which included eight three pointers.

451
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 2: The first sixty point game in Miami Heat history. You know,

452
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 2: Lebron very rarely is satisfying, but then right now with

453
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 2: a top coming.

454
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 7: Off, he's he knows he's turned off.

455
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 12: He's keeping alove.

456
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 7: Of Irock and turned the two thirty years of Heat

457
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 7: basketball to the highest scorer again in franchise history.

458
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 4: Would was sixty one.

459
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 12: With mud Chester.

460
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,439
Speaker 3: By the time the season ended, however, it would appear

461
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,400
Speaker 3: obvious Lebron would have to carry this group even more

462
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 3: than he had the previous postseason, even though James was

463
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 3: at a stage in his career where he didn't need

464
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 3: that much assistance. Wade and Bosch would both average their

465
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 3: fewest points since their rookie seasons. The Heat's depth would

466
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 3: be headlined by Battier Anderson, Alan and Lewis, who ranged

467
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 3: from age thirty four to thirty eight.

468
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 4: Despite all of that, the playoff.

469
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 3: Run to the finals might have been the easiest for

470
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 3: the Heat, as that beat down Eastern Conference didn't nearly

471
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 3: have as much fight left. A first round sweep of

472
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 3: the Bobcats followed by a five game win over the

473
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 3: sixth seeded Brooklyn Nets left Miami and Indiana facing off

474
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 3: in a second straight conference finals. The Pacers did the

475
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 3: same as the previous postseason, splitting the first two games

476
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 3: in Miami and taking home court advantage back to Indianapolis.

477
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,199
Speaker 3: But the drama wouldn't really last in this series. The

478
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 3: most made for TV moment came when Lance Stevenson, who

479
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,679
Speaker 3: played a somewhat reckless style and had already attempted to

480
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 3: irritate by getting involved in the Heat.

481
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 4: Huddle decided to try a softer.

482
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 3: Approach to bothering Lebron during a stoppage and play. In

483
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 3: Game five, with Lebron next to him, hands on knees,

484
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 3: Stevenson leaned over and softly blue into Lebron's left ear.

485
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 3: After a moment to comprehend what had just happened, Lebron

486
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 3: smiled with a look of slight disbelief blowing in the.

487
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 2: Ear of Lebron James as James reaction, he can't believe it.

488
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 3: The Heat eventually disposed of the Pacers in six games

489
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 3: to advance to their fourth straight NBA Finals.

490
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 2: Well the fourth consecutive year, the Miami Heat are heading

491
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 2: to the NBA Finals, the first team of twenty seven

492
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 2: years to accomplish defeat.

493
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 3: And there were signs of growth happening around this team

494
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 3: as well. Coverage of the Heat had calmed down a

495
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 3: few levels from the insane fervor of the first two seasons.

496
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 3: Lebron James had done enough to prove he was indeed

497
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 3: one of the best players to ever play the sport,

498
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 3: making criticizing him to the level that many did seem

499
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 3: a bit silly. In retrospect, there was probably no better

500
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 3: example of how different the conversations were around Lebron in

501
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 3: the Heat than that Game five against the Pacers. It'll

502
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 3: be remembered for Stevenson being an irritant and for the

503
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 3: Pacers staving off elimination for one game with twenty four

504
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 3: year old Paul George dropping thirty seven points. But does

505
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 3: anyone remember Lebron also scored his playoff career low of

506
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 3: seven points in that game. He was in foul trouble

507
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 3: most of the game, playing only twenty four minutes and

508
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 3: going two for ten from the field in a closeout game.

509
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 3: If he had that exact same game two years earlier,

510
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 3: it would have been an indictment of his ability to

511
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 3: perform in difficult settings. Instead, it's merely a footnote, and

512
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 3: Lebron has reached double figures in scoring in every playoff

513
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 3: game he's played since, one hundred and thirty of them

514
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 3: and probably counting the next series. However, wouldn't allow for

515
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 3: that kind of less than stellar play from James. In fact,

516
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 3: the Heat would have to be sharper than ever if

517
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 3: they were to defeat a Spurs team That would prove

518
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 3: to be Miami's ultimate rivals in this four year stretch.

519
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 6: Oh God, let's go.

520
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 15: Le's get this party started.

521
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: Go course call, Let's go baby, Let's beat the Heat.

522
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 8: Let's go.

523
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 9: Wow, it's a finals rematch.

524
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 2: You're in twenty fourteen with the Miami Heat and looking

525
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 2: to become the first to three peat since the Kobe

526
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:01,959
Speaker 2: shack Lakers.

527
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 3: If you thought the Heat were determined the season after

528
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 3: their loss to the Mavericks in the finals, what Miami

529
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 3: did to the Spurs in twenty thirteen was so devastating

530
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 3: it might have created the most determined team in NBA history. That,

531
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 3: of course, sounds like hyperbole for a measurement that can

532
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 3: never actually be taken, but it's hard to argue with

533
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,439
Speaker 3: the result, and as far as the Heat concerned, it

534
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 3: didn't feel like an exaggeration. These Spurs were so ready

535
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 3: for the rematch after sixty two wins and playoff series

536
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 3: wins over the Mavericks, Blazers, and Thunder that Mario Chalmers

537
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 3: joked there might have been a spygate situation happening in

538
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 3: this series.

539
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 7: I'll say this, San Antonio looked like they spin every

540
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 7: day into that moment. Watching Game six and watching the

541
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 7: whole final series, like everything that we planned on doing,

542
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 7: they knew what we were going to do. They it

543
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 7: was a step ahead. So I take my hand off

544
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 7: to them, and it was like they had to bug

545
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 7: our practice or something. They had to be and practice

546
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 7: with us.

547
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 4: It's like who was doing.

548
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 7: It's just the way they played us and the way

549
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 7: they was on all of our adjustments on everything that

550
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 7: we did. It was just like kind of like we

551
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 7: didn't switch our game plan. We thought the same game

552
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 7: plan that from the previous year. It worked the next year.

553
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 3: In truth, there probably wasn't a game plan that could

554
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 3: have slowed these Spurs. Unlike the twenty eleven finals, where

555
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 3: you could argue Eric Spolster got out coached by Rick Carlisle,

556
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 3: or that the Heat would have won if Lebron had

557
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 3: just played anything like his normal self, there wasn't much

558
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 3: more either could have done to counter san Antonio.

559
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 4: This time.

560
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 3: The two time defending champs were still living the dream.

561
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 3: The Spurs were fueled by nightmares. Here's Matt Bonner.

562
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 6: It felt like one of those things that would haunt

563
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 6: your dreams forever unless we came back and won it

564
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 6: the next year. It was like everybody used that as motivation.

565
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 6: Like you always hear these sports movies and books and stories,

566
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 6: you got to overcome adversity. That's all we all knew.

567
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,719
Speaker 6: We all knew that. We knew like, all right, this

568
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 6: is adversity. This is going to make us stronger. We

569
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 6: just need to use it in the right way. And

570
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 6: I think if you ask anybody on that team from

571
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 6: twenty thirteen who was on the team the following year

572
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 6: in twenty fourteen, it was like it was like the

573
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 6: Blues Brothers. We were on a mission from God, like

574
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 6: we are we are going to get back there, and

575
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,479
Speaker 6: we are going to make this right so that the

576
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 6: rest of our life we don't have to have that

577
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 6: feeling in our gut every time the twenty thirteen finals

578
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 6: comes up in conversation.

579
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 3: Jackie McMullin spent time with the Spurs following the twenty

580
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 3: thirteen fourteen season and wrote a story for ESPN documenting

581
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 3: their journey from one finals experience against Miami to the next.

582
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,959
Speaker 3: Players describe the pain they felt for the twenty thirteen

583
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 3: finals and how it affected them.

584
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 8: I think they were all just like what in fact,

585
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 8: well after the fact. I remember Monogolobi tell me it

586
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 8: was the worst summer of my life after they lost

587
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 8: set series. In fact, it was the only summer he

588
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 8: didn't play for the Argentinian national team. He's like, I

589
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 8: got to go home and get myself right and come

590
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 8: back and fix this because it's my fault. You know,

591
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 8: everybody like great players, that's what they always say, It's

592
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 8: my fault. What can I do to make sure this

593
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 8: never happens again.

594
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 3: The Spurs, perhaps taking a page from the Heats book,

595
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 3: held their training camp at an Air Force academy similar

596
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 3: to Miami in twenty ten. It was the academy where

597
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 3: Spurs coach Greg Popovich played basketball.

598
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 4: And it earned his degree.

599
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 3: But what Spurs forward Boris Diao remembers more vividly was

600
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 3: a meeting more effective than the setting of that training camp.

601
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 3: It was the film session that occurred right before they

602
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 3: left for the Air Force Academy.

603
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 15: We thought we were going to get killed in that

604
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 15: Air Force base pre season, but I actually know it

605
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 15: was actually a good atmosphere and everything. And the main

606
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 15: thing that I remember is the first day that we

607
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 15: started training camp and we actually in San Antonio before

608
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 15: going to the base. We go back to the film room,

609
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 15: and we watched the game. We watched the game six

610
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 15: and the game seven, and I think we watched the

611
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 15: whole second half probably if I remember correctly, so not

612
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 15: just the last second of the game. And the idea

613
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 15: was attention to details that if we could avoid many mistakes,

614
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 15: so not just the last second of the game, it

615
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 15: wouldn't have go that far the game, it wouldn't have

616
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 15: got to the last second, and to the possibility of

617
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 15: Miami making a three at the last second. So we

618
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 15: based this whole season twenty fourteen thirteen fourteen of taking

619
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 15: care of details and be paying attention and try to

620
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 15: make as the least mistake as possible.

621
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 3: Well, the Spurs were encouraging their aging veterans to play

622
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 3: such refined basketball that it approached perfection. The Miami Heat

623
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 3: were perfectly satisfied, relying on Lebron James.

624
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 4: Here's battier.

625
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 16: We got to the Spurs. We just for a tired

626
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 16: team was tired, just tired. I was tired of each other,

627
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 16: tired of the grind. And when we lost, we knew

628
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 16: that they were so hungry. We couldn't match. We couldn't

629
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 16: match their hunger. They were so hurt, so hungry from

630
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 16: the year before that we could not match their edge,

631
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 16: but we put.

632
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 5: Ourselves in a position of the people where we want

633
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 5: to get them, and.

634
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 15: We're here now, so make it count.

635
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 5: So every game is the game seven. It treated that way,

636
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 5: so it's meg a statement.

637
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 3: James was still driven by the bigger picture, hoping he

638
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 3: can carry this group past that fatigue built up over

639
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 3: four straight seasons as one of the last two teams standing,

640
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 3: the Spurs had a plan for James as well. It

641
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 3: wasn't a secret that the Heat were older and relying

642
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 3: more and more on the wrong so on top of

643
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 3: the usual plan that included encouraging him to take long

644
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 3: jump shots, the Spurs also made sure their ball movement

645
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 3: would tire Lebron. Statistically, there were signs of fatigue already.

646
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 3: While Lebron was still ridiculously efficient in the twenty fourteen playoffs,

647
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 3: including shooting forty one percent from three, he also posted

648
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 3: averages that are still playoff career lows to this day,

649
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 3: with under five assists and just over seven rebounds.

650
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 4: Here's Jackie McMullen.

651
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 8: Movie movie moving the ball, Recover, Recover, Recover, and for

652
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 8: a Heat team that was kind of sneaky, sneakily getting older.

653
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 8: That was a lot to ask, especially for a big

654
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 8: body like Lebron, who had to defend. If you ask

655
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 8: him to defend like that, in the mixer, recover, recover,

656
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 8: move hedge, hedge, hedge, and handle the scoring load. They

657
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 8: figured their best chance at beating the Miami Heat was

658
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 8: to wear Lebron down. And how do you do that?

659
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 8: You put them in the mixer, You shoot threes. They were,

660
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 8: do you remember this Israel shooting pull up three pointers?

661
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 8: Pull up three pointers? Because that was going to keep

662
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 8: Miami moving out of their comfort zone. Make Lebron work

663
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 8: so much harder than anyone had ever made it work.

664
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 3: And just to make sure Lebron's extra tired, maybe put

665
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 3: that mixer in an oven. That's kind of what game

666
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 3: one of the twenty fourteen Finals in San Antonio felt like.

667
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,479
Speaker 3: I was sitting atop the lower bowl of the AT

668
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 3: and T Center in a row with other media members.

669
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 3: As a South Floridian, heat and humidity are practically my relatives,

670
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 3: so much so you don't even notice when they're around sometimes.

671
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 3: But by the third quarter of this game, even I

672
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 3: had to shed a layer and wonder why it was

673
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 3: so warm in this building. As folks around me also

674
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 3: started to lose clothing and drip sweat, it became obvious

675
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 3: there was something wrong with the air conditioning. Some had

676
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 3: noticed before the second half, including Lebron James.

677
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 4: I'm going list some.

678
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 15: Cold of water.

679
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 5: Now they're trying to smoke us out of here.

680
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 3: In the third quarter, the Spurs announced the air conditioning

681
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:09,720
Speaker 3: failure to the crowd.

682
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,240
Speaker 11: An electrical failure for the power that runs the AC

683
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 11: unit is malfunctioning.

684
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 2: At at and two centers to say the least, hot

685
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 2: and steamid.

686
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 3: The game was still very much up for grabs as

687
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 3: the teams traded the lead throughout the period, which ended

688
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 3: with Miami leading by two. For the heat, it felt

689
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 3: like a sweaty race against the clock. The team knew

690
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 3: Lebron had cramping issues. It happened in a perfectly cool

691
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 3: American Airlines Arena during the twenty twelve finals, so this

692
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 3: felt like an inevitability.

693
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 4: Here's Chalmers.

694
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 7: You can definitely see that comment, just because you knew

695
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 7: he cramped up before. I don't know how he cramped up,

696
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 7: but it's just one of those things like no matter

697
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 7: what you do, no matter how much potassiti you take

698
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 7: or whatever things you do to prevent cramps. It was

699
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 7: bat HoTT and nangimn. If you not really prepared, you're

700
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 7: going to cramp. And I just think that that's what

701
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 7: happened to him, and he went down at the crucial moment.

702
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 3: Lebron first left the game at the seven thirty one

703
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 3: mark of the fourth quarter with Miami hanging on to

704
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 3: a two point lead.

705
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 2: James crossover move drive torrem and finishes.

706
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,439
Speaker 4: And hobble up. He's cramping up again, Mike.

707
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 13: He is looking over at the training staff and saying

708
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 13: he can't move.

709
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 2: Reading his lips, he said he can't move, and so

710
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 2: they're literally going to carry Lebron James over to the

711
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 2: Miami bench.

712
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 3: As he was getting treatment and drinking fluids. It only

713
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 3: got hotter in the building. Shane Battier recalls having to

714
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 3: escape the halftime locker room.

715
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:36,720
Speaker 4: Just for relief.

716
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 3: He also joked with the Spurs shooting coach Chip England

717
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 3: about the Spurs being better prepared for the situation.

718
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 15: It was the.

719
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 16: Hottest, the hottest room ever. It was a hot yoga

720
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 16: hot and like the arena is hot. We go into

721
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 16: the locker room and there was. They had no fans

722
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 16: for us, and I know the Spurs had fans in

723
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 16: there in there, so I'm close. I'm close to Chip England.

724
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 16: That's my guy said, guys could have given us a fan. Man,

725
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 16: that's messed up. So that's messed up. So like, it

726
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 16: was so hot you couldn't even be in the locker room,

727
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 16: so you actually had to go back to the hot

728
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 16: arena just to escape the heat of.

729
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 4: The locker room.

730
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 3: Boris Dial often wears an engaging smile, and he certainly

731
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 3: had one on his face when discussing this heated contest.

732
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 15: It was a hot day, start sweating a lot, and

733
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 15: you get dehydrated and you just feel the heat. But

734
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 15: also maybe maybe it was an advantage for us against

735
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 15: that team because a lot of guys play internationally, and

736
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 15: internationally we don't have ac We play in the summer,

737
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 15: so summer basketball and European Championship and World Cup, and

738
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 15: we played so many games with no ACiE every summer basically,

739
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 15: and we just you know, get used to. So a

740
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 15: few players you know in our team knew or were

741
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 15: used to that.

742
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 4: Matt Bonner was not one of those players.

743
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 6: You know, I'm not a big heat guy. I'm from

744
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 6: New Hampshire.

745
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 15: I know.

746
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, I went to University of Florida and I've been

747
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 6: in San Antonio. But I just don't operate well when

748
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 6: it's hot. And it wasn't just hot, it was humid too.

749
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 6: People forget that about San Antonio. They think, oh, that

750
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,240
Speaker 6: dry heat like Vegas or Phoenix. It's like, no, it's

751
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 6: not like that. It's muggy hot down here. And it

752
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 6: was muggy hot in the arena, and I remember just

753
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 6: sitting on the bench sweating, thinking like, oh my god,

754
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 6: Like if Coach Pop puts me in the game, I

755
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 6: might not be able to get up and down the

756
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 6: court three times before I like pass out. How are

757
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 6: these guys playing forty minutes in these conditions? It was

758
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 6: just from a physical standpoint, I was amazed by all

759
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 6: the guys who played like significant minutes in that game

760
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 6: with their ability to endure that. You know, the one

761
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 6: thing I will say, it was the same conditions for

762
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 6: both teams.

763
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 3: Lebron would attempt to play one more time, coming into

764
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 3: the game at the four p thirty three mark, with

765
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,800
Speaker 3: the Heat now trailing by four. He'd hit a layup

766
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 3: after driving past Boris Diao on the very first possession,

767
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 3: but he wouldn't even be able to walk back in

768
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 3: bounds without asking for a substitution. He eventually slowly limped

769
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 3: his way back to the bench.

770
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:20,959
Speaker 2: And he Kim barely can't even make it down the floor.

771
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 2: It's a five on four. Eric Spocher asking him of

772
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 2: the foul. Patty Mills struggling with it, and there's the foul.

773
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 2: James couldn't even make it down the floor. Man, James

774
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 2: gonna have to be helped Oliver. We've seen him again

775
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 2: crap up before in playoff situations, but it never seemed

776
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 2: to be this severe. And again you wonder how much

777
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 2: the lack of air conditioning and the heat of this

778
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 2: building is coming into play with this and everything else.

779
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 8: Oh, there's no doubt that this has had a huge

780
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 8: impact on this game.

781
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 3: There were thermometers in the building that had temperatures in

782
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 3: the nineties in the AT and T Center. Add in

783
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 3: the natural anxiety of a finals game with everyone watching

784
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 3: to see if and when Lebron would come back, and

785
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 3: there was no recovering from this. That meant the heat

786
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 3: couldn't recover either. The Spurs flipped their magical switch to

787
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 3: finish that game despite the climate, on a sixteen to

788
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 3: four run, with twelve of those points coming off three

789
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 3: pointers that were the results of beautiful ball movement. It

790
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 3: was a sign of things to come.

791
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 12: Thirty to nine runs San Antonio since trailing.

792
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 2: Eighty six seventy nine.

793
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 11: It's green again, Daddy Green from downtown. The San Antonio

794
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 11: Spurs take Game one of the twenty fourteen NBA Finals.

795
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 3: For the Heat, it was just another game one loss

796
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 3: in the finals. They're third straight. Miami would recover and

797
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 3: win the previous two championships, so there wasn't much about

798
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 3: Game one that had the team scared. Miami had the

799
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 3: built in excuse of the temperature, causing Lebron to effectively

800
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 3: miss the final seven minutes of what was a close game.

801
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 3: Lebron in the Heat hadn't lost back to back playoff

802
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 3: games since the twenty two of Eastern Conference Finals, and

803
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 3: we all remember how Lebron responded to that in a

804
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 3: Game six. This would be a Game two, but Lebron

805
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 3: still had the motivation to recover from the cramp game,

806
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 3: a situation he was still heavily mocked for on social media.

807
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 3: Despite articles being written about how debilitating cramps can be.

808
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:23,919
Speaker 5: Let's when thought them out.

809
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 3: Whatever it take to win, and a motivated James in

810
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 3: a fully air conditioned arena was still a scary proposition.

811
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 2: Not much kicks it out Lewis James on the attackles

812
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,959
Speaker 2: to the rim, Lebron James wanted a foul as well.

813
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 2: Impressive move take that dop the first app most of

814
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 2: what was in the paint now starting to go from

815
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 2: the perimeter and other three.

816
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 11: That's good Lebron James.

817
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 2: Four straight juppers toover from downtown and the Heat back

818
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 2: up by two.

819
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 3: James also had some help from Bosh and Wade to

820
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 3: seal the deal.

821
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 2: Bosh shot blocked down eight, Bosh gonna go to the rim, inside.

822
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,479
Speaker 7: Way lay up and god, what a comeback by the Heat.

823
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 3: By the final buzzer, it was another game two finals

824
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 3: recovery for Miami and another stellar performance from a fully

825
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 3: recovered Lebron thirty five points, three of three from three,

826
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 3: ten rebounds, three assists, and two steals in a two

827
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 3: point Heat win.

828
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:28,240
Speaker 15: And that's the ball game. The Miami Heat, even the series.

829
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 3: A three peat, still felt very much doable. Home court

830
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 3: advantage was Miami's now and in this new two two

831
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 3: one one one finals format, the Heat wouldn't have to

832
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 3: win three straight home games to maintain it. They'd only

833
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 3: have to win two before heading back to San Antonio.

834
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 3: And after the Spurs lost Game two with Lebron's early

835
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 3: exit helping them win Game one, the Spurs were a

836
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 3: bit concerned their PTSD from the previous season would start

837
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 3: to bubble up.

838
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 7: We were up one with a one minute and a

839
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,479
Speaker 7: half to go, and we just couldn't make the shot

840
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 7: to go to come up and top. You know, we

841
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 7: had a great opportunity.

842
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,359
Speaker 3: But Greg Popovich would make one adjustment that would make

843
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 3: this Spurs Game two loss feel like a tiny stumble

844
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 3: instead of a monumental missed opportunity. That adjustment would come

845
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 3: in the form of course DA. Through the first two

846
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 3: games of the series, Spurs starting point guard Tony Parker

847
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 3: seemed to be playing just fine, averaging twenty points and

848
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 3: seven and a half assists, but Popovich still found a

849
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 3: way to get the team's offense flowing even more by

850
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 3: giving Parker another point guard.

851
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:42,359
Speaker 15: The split game kind of put us on ols, you know,

852
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 15: being at home and giving one away and now going

853
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 15: into Miami basically we didn't have a choice, and he

854
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 15: became you know, must win game. And so the Game three,

855
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 15: the motivation was there. I think Bob put me in

856
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 15: the in the starting five in that game to move

857
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 15: to move the ball, you know, one of the things

858
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 15: that Miami was doing, they were really pressing Tony and

859
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 15: focusing on Tony double team, try to get the ball

860
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 15: out of his hand. So I was just you know,

861
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 15: acting as a release for him, as you know, almost

862
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 15: like a second point guard, because Tony was like double

863
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 15: team and trapped on the side and trying to make

864
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 15: the decision on the other side. And so that that

865
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 15: gave us some freedom to actually move the ball and

866
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 15: accelerate the ball behind pick and rolls.

867
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 3: The move was supposed to unlock the best version of

868
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 3: the Spurs, the perfect basketball, Diel said the team was

869
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 3: attempting to achieve all season. Would be required for San

870
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 3: Antonio to overcome the heat. If the Spurs were going

871
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 3: to reveal the beautiful game and finally overthrow the champs, However,

872
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 3: they'd have to start the process at the scene of

873
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 3: their most stunning trauma. Bonner and his determined team were

874
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 3: headed back to Miami like to this day.

875
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 6: When I hear the baseline for Seven Nation Army, it

876
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,240
Speaker 6: takes me right back to their arena in the finals

877
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 6: in thirteen and fourteen. That was like their anthem. It

878
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 6: was just such an electric atmosphere to be a part

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Speaker 6: of it was awesome.

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Speaker 4: On the final episode of Four Years at.

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Speaker 6: Heat, and then we came out that Game four is

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Speaker 6: really the game where we ripped our hearts out.

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Speaker 16: I probably should have retired after his sixth series in

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Speaker 16: game seven year before, looking back at Chicaga just walked off.

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Speaker 7: They ran out of villains, Like it was originally the

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Speaker 7: media and the noise, and then it was losing the

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Speaker 7: Dallas and then you know, how were we going to

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Speaker 7: get past this? How we're going to get past that?

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Speaker 4: Once they got past everything.

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Speaker 17: They ran out of things to hate.

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Speaker 8: Without that Miami experience, Lebron James would be a completely

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Speaker 8: different player, a completely different human.

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Speaker 4: That team would have been a historic underachiever. If not

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Speaker 4: for that shot, one title would not have been enough.

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Speaker 3: Four Years of Heat is a production of iHeartRadio and

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Speaker 3: the MBA