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Speaker 1: welcome to tonight for Center Fame Duel. Here at the volume.

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Speaker 1: Happy Thursday, everybody. We are live on AMP. After that

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Speaker 1: incredible game between the Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics.

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Speaker 1: Kind of a fun game, but a very sloppy game.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna dive into a bunch of different angles from

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Speaker 1: this game. I want to talk a lot about Al

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Speaker 1: very up and down night, mostly down then up at

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Speaker 1: think tonight tells us a lot about what their strategy

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Speaker 1: these post game breakdowns is on amp, So let's talk

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Speaker 1: some basketball again. This was a sloppy game. This didn't

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Speaker 1: few months ago, I should say in early December UM

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Speaker 1: when the Warriors won it at the Chase Center, because

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Speaker 1: reason why is we've had so many players that have

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