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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Happy Monday, everybody.

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Speaker 1: It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for May seventeenth, and

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Speaker 1: we've got NBA playoff brackets. Sound the alarm. I know

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Speaker 1: you guys are as excited as I am. Side note,

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Speaker 1: you can catch me today hosting Undisputed this morning. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that is happening. Chris Bussard, LaVar Arrington, Greg Jennings, a

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Speaker 1: cast of characters. I hope you guys enjoy it. I

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Speaker 1: will spend a lot of the time taking shots at

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Speaker 1: the fraudulent Clippers, as I do often on this podcast.

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Speaker 1: And I gotta say, you know, we have NBA playoff

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Speaker 1: brackets now, folks, and there are there was a lot

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Speaker 1: of chicanery I like that word, chicanery going on in

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Speaker 1: the final week of the season, A lot of it

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Speaker 1: by those paper clips doing everything in their power to

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Speaker 1: avoid the Lakers. But I do want to quickly start

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Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference because I think the best first

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Speaker 1: round matchup, Like we can't say Lakers Sons is an

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Speaker 1: automatic yet it probably is gonna happen if the Lakers

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Speaker 1: beat the Warriors. But in the East, we have a

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Speaker 1: rematch from last year in the bubble, the Bucks third

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Speaker 1: seed against the Miami Heat, who got to the finals

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Speaker 1: last year. And I know, I mean, I was talking

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Speaker 1: about it on Friday's podcast, The Heat are gonna be

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Speaker 1: a problem, and I listen, Yannis signed that massive Supermax

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Speaker 1: and everybody said, Okay, Yannis is gonna get it done.

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Speaker 1: And then there was some pressure and he did not

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Speaker 1: deliver in the bubble, and okay, we'll chalk that up

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Speaker 1: to you know, weird, it was weird. Let's just reboot.

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Speaker 1: We got Drew Holiday. Bucks look good, right, And this

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Speaker 1: is the worst possible matchup for Yannis in the first round, okay,

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Speaker 1: Eric Spoelstra, massive coaching advantage, Okay. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: the best player on the court obviously is Yannis, but

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Speaker 1: who is two and three? And you can like Drew

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Speaker 1: Holiday all you want, guys, and I'm sure there's some

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Speaker 1: Brook Lopez out there, but the second and third best

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Speaker 1: players in this series are Jimmy Butler and bam Adebayo.

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Speaker 1: And if you give me the best coach and the

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Speaker 1: second and third best players, if I'm a Bucks fan,

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Speaker 1: I'm not thrilled with how things shook out. Bucks drawing

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Speaker 1: the Heat. I do want to. I was gonna make

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Speaker 1: a case for my Knicks against the Sixers in the

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Speaker 1: second round, assuming the Knicks get by Trey Young and

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Speaker 1: the Hawks. Problem is, the Knicks got swept by the

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Speaker 1: Sixers and Joel and Beat did not play in two

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Speaker 1: of those games. The game he played and beat in

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Speaker 1: the and the Sixers roll by like twenty. But again,

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Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeau against Doc Rivers, I'm sorry, I'm gonna have

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Speaker 1: to give an advantage to Tips. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: know Joel Embiad's gonna get some MVP love, but Julius

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Speaker 1: Randall is playing out of his mind and he's not

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Speaker 1: a great matchup for the Sixers. Problem is, I just

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Speaker 1: don't know if that the Knicks will have enough offense.

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Speaker 1: The defense will be there, but offensively they're gonna struggle.

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Speaker 1: We know the Sixers are perennially one of the best

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Speaker 1: teams at the at home in the NBA. They had

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Speaker 1: the best record in the East at home, a second

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Speaker 1: only to Utah. So that's a tall order for the

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Speaker 1: Knicks in the second round. Everybody's favorite Big three Brooklyn Nets.

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Speaker 1: You know, Rob and I talked about it before the pod.

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Speaker 1: I thought about talking about this Kyrie Irving comments, we

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Speaker 1: know he hates the media. Saturday night, Kyrie Irving sits

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Speaker 1: down after the game and says, I don't really want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you guys right now. Basketball is not

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Speaker 1: the most important thing to me because of what's going

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Speaker 1: on in the world. Obviously, the situation between Israel and

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Speaker 1: Palestine was weighing on Kyrie Irving and he didn't want

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Speaker 1: to talk to the media. And I get that. He

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Speaker 1: is absolutely correct. A basketball game where you throw an

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Speaker 1: orange ball through a rim is not a big deal.

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Speaker 1: What's happening on the other side of the world is

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Speaker 1: a massive deal. And you know it's awful that being said,

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Speaker 1: What a curious time to make that comment. It's almost

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Speaker 1: like Kyrie Irving is a letting everybody know, Hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna want to deal with the media in the

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Speaker 1: postseason either, because we know he hates them, very very

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Speaker 1: disgusted with the media. He's not the only one. A

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Speaker 1: it was very curious timing for Kyrie to make those comments. Overall,

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Speaker 1: I do think the Nets are in great shape. In

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Speaker 1: the East. They will face the winner of Boston and Washington.

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Speaker 1: but without Jaylen Brown, I don't think they stay much

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Speaker 1: I know you are, who do you have in the

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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Finals. It's tough not to say. I didn't

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Speaker 1: go through the seventy six ers. They might face LaMelo

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Speaker 1: like I think the Sixers in one half of the

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Brooklyn only because of that Buck's

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Speaker 1: Heat first round matchup that could be a war. Rob.

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Speaker 1: I can see that gay that series going seven, Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: for all of our listeners in Milwaukee that if you

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Speaker 1: which I think they have a good enough team, but

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Speaker 1: it would in my opinion, be the toughest road in

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Speaker 1: if Milwaukee were to do it, I think you'd have

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Speaker 1: It might be a five game series. I think that

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn just has too much firepower and Washington's alleged to defense,

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Speaker 1: they finally got their guys, all three of them, for

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Speaker 1: the first time I move since February. They played one

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Speaker 1: and I told I understand that logic, but it's not

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Speaker 1: and this is assuming that Bradley Beale is healthy, which

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's true, but you know, you know

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Speaker 1: the way Westbrook carries himself, Bradley Beale has always carried

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Speaker 1: himself that way. Even if he might be the Southeastern

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Speaker 1: version of Zach Lavine. He's just a lot of empty

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Speaker 1: stats man. But they they think of themselves as being

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Speaker 1: I mean you you It might even help you actually,

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Speaker 1: because they need as much time together as possible. They

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Speaker 1: be a seven game series. Interesting. Yeah, so the East

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Speaker 1: is good. I do want to correct something I've been

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Speaker 1: bashing Russell Westbrook occasionally on the pod as Rob Snickers.

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Speaker 1: I said he hadn't won a playoff series since since

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant left, and that is inaccurate. Houston did win

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Speaker 1: remember Lou Dort missing a three pointer in Gabe seven,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how who are you who are you putting? Like,

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Speaker 1: in all seriousness, who are you putting on Kevin Durant?

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Speaker 1: Like I get it Beale and Westbrook can hang with

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Speaker 1: Kyrie and Harden, but the Washington front court is like laughable.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm all in on Rui Hachimura, the former

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Speaker 1: Like eventually you've got to try to defend Nim devis

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Speaker 1: bertand's cheap shot artist. No, I mean he did take

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Speaker 1: that would just be game over. Well, let's just let's

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Speaker 1: just be honest. This side of Ben Simmons, Jannis Anthony Davis,

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Speaker 1: there is no matchup for Kevin Durant, Like there's there's nobody, no,

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Speaker 1: there is no matchup for Kevin Durant. That's gonna give

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Speaker 1: just don't oversell. That's all. In the In the Grizzlies game,

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Speaker 1: Memphis put noted Pac twelve instigator Dylan Brooks on Curry,

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Speaker 1: and he did a good job, held Curry to four

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Speaker 1: fourteen shooting. The problem, of course, is that Dylan Brooks

425
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Speaker 1: is too aggressive and talks too much shit, and the

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Speaker 1: referees know this. So Brooks gets some ticky tack fouls

427
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: just because he's a jerk, Like that's a real thing. Rob.

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Speaker 1: He ends up fouling out with six minutes left. The

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Speaker 1: game's tied. When he fouls out, Memphis had briefly taken

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Speaker 1: a lead, and of course they can't guard Curry, and

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00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: down the stretch he just hits bomb after bomb. I mean,

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Speaker 1: like they had no chance. Dylan Brooks, that guys can

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Speaker 1: play some defense. He's a good player, man. I remember

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Speaker 1: at Oregon he could, he could get buckets. The problem

435
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Speaker 1: is he's like he's one of these guys who was

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Speaker 1: like late, kind of a late bloomer. And I guess

437
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Speaker 1: he used the chip on the shoulders employ and he

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00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,239
Speaker 1: still feels like that's the case. And I think he

439
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: was like a I think second round pick and you know,

440
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: still has like nobody wanted me. I'm gonna show you,

441
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 1: and he plays hard. Demon That guy's a good player.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this about Memphis. They have the nucleus of

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Speaker 1: something that in like three years, when Chris Paul's not

444
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,399
Speaker 1: turning around, teams fortunes and Lebron is out of the

445
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,440
Speaker 1: West and Steph Curry is thirty six, Memphis is gonna

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Speaker 1: be a problem. I'm just putting it out there. If

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Speaker 1: they can keep Triple J together. John Morant learns how

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Speaker 1: to shoot the basketball, which he does not know how

449
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Speaker 1: to do. Did you see Rob how the Warriors were

450
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 1: just daring him to shoot like he would be at

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Speaker 1: the three point line and they're like, uh uh, And

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Speaker 1: I learned this out here in La. You know, these

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Speaker 1: guys talk a lot of trash in the gym and

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Speaker 1: I never had seen this before. There was a guy

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Speaker 1: on your team and he can't shoot threes at all,

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Speaker 1: and the defense doesn't even go out to garden and

457
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Speaker 1: they're just giving him the shot. And before he even shoots,

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Speaker 1: the defense goes, he's with us, it's good, it's fine,

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00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 1: and they're literally letting the guy shoot and they'll turn

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Speaker 1: around and get the rebound because they know he can't shoot,

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00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: and it gets in the guy's head. He's already not

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Speaker 1: a good shooter. And John Morant is like a sub

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Speaker 1: thirty percent three point shooter. And you could see it

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Speaker 1: rob in that game, like Steph Curry is like, I'll

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Speaker 1: guard Ja Moran. Steph Curry guarded Jah Moran and he

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Speaker 1: didn't play him on the perimeter though he played him

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Speaker 1: for the drive. And you know, Morant needs to get

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Speaker 1: in the gym and develop a three there. They're a

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Speaker 1: spicy team. I don't know if they can you know

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Speaker 1: how much how much of damage they could do this year,

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Speaker 1: But down the road. That's a team to buy. Let's

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Speaker 1: let's go to my favorite team in the West, Rob

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Speaker 1: the Clippers aka the paper Clips, aka the gigantic Frauds.

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Speaker 1: They did everything in their power, everything to duck the

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Speaker 1: Lakers until the conference finals, and wouldn't you know it,

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Speaker 1: it worked. The Clippers sat everybody, and I do mean everybody, folks.

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Speaker 1: They played. Okay, see the worst team in the league. Okay,

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Speaker 1: se had lost something robed like twenty three of twenty four.

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Speaker 1: They have been tanking. They want two top six picks,

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00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: which could happen. Okay, I'm gonna tell you who played

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Speaker 1: big minutes for the Clippers in the second half of

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Speaker 1: their season finale just to avoid the Lakers and they

483
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 1: needed to lose and they lost. His name, I just

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the box score. It's j It's his

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Speaker 1: first name, Dot his last name. Rob. Do not fall

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Speaker 1: out of your chair. Scrubb Jay Scrub that's his name.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even making it up. Yogi Farrell former, he

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00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: could play. He's a good player in Indiana. He was

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Speaker 1: like a late bench guy in Dallas. Yogi Farrell. Uh,

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Speaker 1: someone named Oturu. I think he's a big kid from Minnesota. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Daniel Oturu is leading your team with twenty one shot attempts.

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Speaker 1: It is Operation Tank, that is what you're doing. Serge

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Speaker 1: Ibaka was nice to see him on the court. Terrence Man,

494
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 1: who is a nice little player. He had a good game.

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Speaker 1: But this is what the clip. This is the lengths

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Speaker 1: they will go to to avoid the Lakers. They do,

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00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: they want no part of them. They sat batoum Kawai,

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Speaker 1: Morris Rondo, Paul George, everybody and somehow and if you

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Speaker 1: look at them, if you look at the okay s

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Speaker 1: box score, Jay Hall, any idea who that is? Rob,

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00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: No clue. I never Josh Hall. Someone from oh my gosh,

502
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 1: he played at more Ravy in college. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what that is. It state it's in. They played

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00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: the kid Poku, the rail thin seven foot or he

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00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: had twenty nine I guess a solid game. And then

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00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: UCLA's finest Moses Brown twenty four and eighteen seven blocks. Yeah,

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00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: that's how bad Okase. He wanted to lose and they

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00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: beat the Clippers. So Rob, what's the what's the mindset

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Speaker 1: of a team that goes to every length possible to

510
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: sit their stars and lose games at the end, of

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00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: the season, so they're not the three seed. The Clippers

512
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 1: end up four and they will face Utah in the

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Speaker 1: second round. It tells me that they have zero realistic

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Speaker 1: aspirations of making the NBA Finals. It tells me that

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00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: in their opinion, getting past the second round is a

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00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: successful season, because if you are serious in any way,

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Speaker 1: especially about after what happened last season when you choked

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Speaker 1: away a three one lead, and we've had multiple people

519
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: on this podcast who were in the bubble and they

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00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: could say they've all told us on the record, the

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00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: Clippers did not want to be there. They were broken,

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00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: they were mentally and emotionally broken. And your response this

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00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: season is we are so terrified of Lebron James and

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis that we are going to tank and lose

525
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: back to back games to two teams that I believe

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Speaker 1: I could be wrong with this, but I'm as positive

527
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: of them right had one total win coming into this

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Speaker 1: past weekend combined in the month of April and May,

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Speaker 1: but the Rockets in the thunder. Yeah, I do not

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Speaker 1: understand how the Clippers and that whole franchise can feel

531
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: any level of confidence heading into this postseason. To know

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00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: that their coaching staff thinks so less of them that

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00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: they had to tank blatantly to avoid the possibility of

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Speaker 1: even a second round matchup against the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Speaker 1: It's embarrassing, and I put it out on Twitter after

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Speaker 1: the game or even during the game. Actually, this kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff does not go unnoticed. You know. I believe

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Speaker 1: in karma. I believe in the world balancing itself out

539
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways. And you don't tempt

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00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: the basketball gods by saying we're gonna lose on purpose

541
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Speaker 1: just so we can avoid the Lakers and have it

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00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: not come back to bite you. I firmly believe right

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00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: now as of this podcast on Monday morning, makes seventeenth

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Speaker 1: that they will lose in the second round to Utah.

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00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: Oh and this will all be for not See. The

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Speaker 1: problem is they match up great with Utah. Again. You

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Speaker 1: talk about Royce O'Neill and Joe Ingalls trying to guard

548
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: Kawai and Paul George. That's just not favorable. I don't

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00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: really see an edge anywhere for Utah other than the

550
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,719
Speaker 1: fragility of the Clippers mindset. And you can't quantify that,

551
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: Like you've got to do something to if they can't

552
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: get by Dallas. By the way, Dallas gave them fits

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00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: last year. Remember Luca hit. I think they won one

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00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: or two games from them. Yeah, they want two, and

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00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: that series felt closer. I'm really curious what the health

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00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: status is of porzingis, Like he's been healthier this year,

557
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: but I remember last year, like he was just like

558
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: missing games in the playoffs. Like Tim Hardaway's on fire,

559
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: you can if you can package that somehow, Hardaway staying hot,

560
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: KP healthy, Luca at near the height of his powers,

561
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: maybe it gets interesting. Yeah. Who probably gonna be fireworks

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00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: in this series. Remember they went after Luca last year.

563
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: These Clippers. Unbelievable, these guys. Yeah, I can't wait. I'm

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00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: so fired up to these playoffs. Rob all right, so

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00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: let's reset it real quick. Wednesday night. Hopefully I will

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Speaker 1: be at Lakers Warriors. But we'll see if I can

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00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: pull that off. That's the marquee game on the slate.

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Speaker 1: We do not have a I don't think we have

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Speaker 1: a time yet for Celtics Wizards, but I'm assuming that's

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00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: gonna be Tuesday, right, Celtics Wizards. I actually do have

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Speaker 1: it in front of me playing Tuesday at nine PM

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00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,239
Speaker 1: Eastern nine Eastern off. Sheee, they're really trying to get

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00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: those ratings. So then the Eastern Conference, uh, they've got

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Speaker 1: two games and the West has two I would assume

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. So we'll then get Wednesday of Curry and

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Speaker 1: then hopefully Friday of Curry as well. I'll just say this,

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00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: that would be a badly needs Steph Curry in the playoffs.

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00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: He's must see TV rob But regardless of your your

579
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: tiff with Curry, and it's really gonna hinder our child

580
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: setting him on the pods, they need him in the

581
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: first round. Yes, no disrespect, but you can't try it out.

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00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: Like you know, I don't even know who the ten

583
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: seed is U san Antonio start Rosen. Jeez, who's your

584
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: starting center, Yaka Purdle? Yes, oh my gosh. Yeah that's bad.

585
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: So NBA playoffs are here. We will be doing a

586
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: lot of gambling on the playoffs obviously, listen. Not not

587
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: gonna avoid football. Still waiting on Aaron Rodgers news. Did

588
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: you see the Packers signed another quarterback over the weekend?

589
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: Like again, I'm not doing anything deep here, but I

590
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: did find it funny that they picked up Blake Portles

591
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: last week Then over the weekend they signed someone named

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00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: Kurt ben Kurt. I guess he played at UVA and

593
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: had a cup of coffee with the Falcons. They now

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Speaker 1: have Jordan Loved, Blake Portles Kurt ben Kurt, Like, what

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00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: are we doing accumulating quarterbacks? Now? You know, is this

596
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: a contingency play? Because this is the worst contingency plan ever?

597
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: Uh you know Teddy Bridgewater was on the market. This

598
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: is another lack of confidence vote in Jordan Love. It's like,

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00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: come on, guys, get it together there. So we got

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Speaker 1: the Packers still monitoring Deshaun Watson. Obviously we're gonna we

601
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: should be getting Tim Tebow news soon. Urban Meyer was,

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00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: I guess meeting with the team and important players on

603
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: Sunday night to try to figure out what the deal

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00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: is going to be if they want to sign him.

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00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: I personally think it's great news for the Jags, the league,

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00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: the media, this podcast. It's win win all around, unless

607
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: you're like, you know, the fourth string tight end on

608
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: the Jags and you're gonna get cut, you know. So

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Speaker 1: that's where we are as as we approach rapidly Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day weekend. Hope everybody enjoys the NBA Playoff bracket. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you tomorrow