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Speaker 1: we're gonna be breaking down all three games from tonight,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna touch on the Warriors since avoiding the three

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some basketball. So you know, I

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Speaker 1: we do this or make this magical adjustment, it'll just

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Speaker 1: completely change this entire series. And don't get me along wrong.

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Speaker 1: There are adjustments that take place in series, and some

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Speaker 1: conversations about are the Warriors better without Draymond? And we

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Speaker 1: They were eleven points better per one Hunter possessions last

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Speaker 1: he was last year. I'm a bit I've been trying

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Speaker 1: so hard to jump on this Philly bandwagon, and Joel

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Speaker 1: Embiid makes himself so unlikable with this crap. There was

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Speaker 1: a play where Joel Embiid, what is he like two

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Speaker 1: it was Royce O'Neil, though bumps him and he's just

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Speaker 1: First of all, it's embarrassing. Second of all, is dangerous.

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Speaker 1: He tore up his knee, teams his teammates knee last

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Speaker 1: year doing it. Third, it's objectively bad for the television product. Fourth,

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Speaker 1: the officials have no idea how to handle it. More

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Speaker 1: often than not, they reward him and fit That actually

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Speaker 1: doesn't help him win basketball games, because if he played

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Speaker 1: with physical aggression and actually held his ground, dudes would

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Speaker 1: bounce off of him and he'd actually still get foul calls,

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Speaker 1: if not more foul calls, and he'd be more efficient.

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Speaker 1: So like, I can't get on the Joel embiid, you know,

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Speaker 1: I can't get on that bandwagon until he cuts that

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Speaker 1: shit out. It's like it's just it's just objectively unlikable.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow is my wife's thirtieth birthday and we're celebrating with this.

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Speaker 1: Whole trip has been kind of centered around her, but

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Speaker 1: we're going to celebrate Tomorrow night, So we're taking that

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Speaker 1: night completely off. But I'll be covering tomorrow night's games

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Speaker 1: on Saturday morning, and then we're gonna be going live

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Speaker 1: on AMP on Saturday night after Lakers Grizzlies to break

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Speaker 1: down all of the Saturday Slate. As always, I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys. We've had a crazy successful week and I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys rocking with the show and I will

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Speaker 1: see you guys on Saturday morning. The volume