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Speaker 1: welcome in everybody. The man alongside me is Jason Timp,

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Speaker 1: who is amazing. He does hoops to night for the

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Speaker 1: volume and gun to our little foa for the next

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes or so. That was obviously not resembling Game one.

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Speaker 1: In the second half, you know, it was interesting as

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Speaker 1: I'll just give you a kind of my minute speel

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Speaker 1: on this. So as I watched the first half, once again,

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Speaker 1: the refs were allowing a lot of physical play, which

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Speaker 1: I do think bodes well for the Celtics over the

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Speaker 1: long haul. But as I was watching the first half,

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Speaker 1: I was saying, listen, if Jordan Pool and Clay Thompson

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Speaker 1: aren't going to be here offensively in this series, you

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Speaker 1: can't you can't ask, you know, Steph to be the

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Speaker 1: shotmaker because you're not getting anything from Draymond or Looney.

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Speaker 1: This is somebody's got to give step some help. And

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Speaker 1: then in the second half, Jordan Pool delivers. I think

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Speaker 1: Clay played pretty good defensive basketball. He's okay, he was fine,

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Speaker 1: But I thought you saw a huge pullback on Marcus

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Speaker 1: Smart offensively Al Horford, and this should be noted. This

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Speaker 1: is something we talked about. When Marcus Smart, he shoots

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Speaker 1: like he averages twenty game. He's a very confident guy,

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Speaker 1: but you only get that about every fourth game from him,

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Speaker 1: whereas Tatum staff there's some offensive leaning players in this series.

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Speaker 1: Marcus isn't and tonight was below his usual standard, but

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Speaker 1: he has a lot of nights like this. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: get three of these in the series where he's just

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Speaker 1: not gonna hit shots, and then it becomes very Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brown Tatum, they missed a lot of closer shots, and

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Speaker 1: because of that, you know, the game gets out of

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Speaker 1: hand if you're the Celtics. So there's a couple of

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Speaker 1: things here. They're gonna let the guys play. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: be I think over time and advantage to the world Celtics.

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Speaker 1: The second thing that jumps out to me is that's

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Speaker 1: about as bad as Boston can play. They're hard to

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Speaker 1: blow out because they play such good defense. So you know,

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Speaker 1: they didn't play Robert Williams much Jason, so they made

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Speaker 1: a decision pretty early is we're just gonna get him healthy,

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Speaker 1: assignment done. We gotta split or not gonna play Robert

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Speaker 1: Williams a ton. So I think you're gonna get a

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Speaker 1: very spirited effort by Boston in Game three. You know

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Speaker 1: what was so it was so interesting is through three

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Speaker 1: halves you could get this feeling like the game was

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Speaker 1: just easier for Boston And a huge part of it

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Speaker 1: was that physicality you're talking about. So, you know, a

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Speaker 1: lot of times people focus on interior size, but I

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Speaker 1: would argue in this era of NBA basketball that perimeter

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Speaker 1: size is actually the most important element in the game.

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Speaker 1: The reason why is more than ever, it's become important

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Speaker 1: to cover ground, especially in rotation. So getting bigger athletes

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Speaker 1: that are running around on the perimeter, they just take

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Speaker 1: out on a shooter, it's just different than if that's

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Speaker 1: Jordan Pool or Clay Thompson closing out on a shooter.

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Speaker 1: They're bigger, they're stronger. You've been big on this since

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Speaker 1: Game one. The physicality. If you know, hand checkings allowed

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Speaker 1: how much fouling is to place. There's a play incredible

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Speaker 1: There is a fade away that Jlen Brown took over

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Speaker 1: look at this amazing defense from Draymond. I'm like, he

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Speaker 1: better third quarter team? The better third quarter team, that

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Speaker 1: just it's just human nature. I'm with you, Colin. I

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Speaker 1: I think Clay always gives you like a really smart

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Speaker 1: you after six quarters, I thought to myself, well, Boston's

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Speaker 1: really do think the Celtics came in here thinking and listen,

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Speaker 1: line in Game three because I would favor the Celtics.

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Speaker 1: But here's something now, Jason. So you know, when you

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Speaker 1: they're favored, like Game six against Miami, they get tight.

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Speaker 1: and cough and scrappy as underdogs. Now they go home

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Speaker 1: and we're like, oh, they were just humiliated. This is

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Speaker 1: As a favorite. They get sloppy and smug. Golden State.

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Speaker 1: Boston gets tight, they get a little tight. And this

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Speaker 1: and now I think the series really gets interesting. Now,

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Speaker 1: it really to me, it really gets interesting. And I

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Speaker 1: still lean slightly Golden State. But if the refs allow

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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum had a nightmare shooting night in Game one,

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Speaker 1: but I thought he played better basketball in Game one

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Speaker 1: which is an outrageous number. But it's again it's because

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Speaker 1: Tatum looked at it as like, I need to get

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Speaker 1: If you just take that same set of shots you took,

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Speaker 1: what I mean by allergic to success. It's like you're

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Speaker 1: you're failing to understand that the reason why you had

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Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown had a rough night tonight, so it was

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Speaker 1: even more important for Tatum to be the guy that

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Speaker 1: could be that consistent force. But it's like, and then

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Speaker 1: But I think wherever he goes, you know, the Nicks

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Speaker 1: made to try to make him a one, I think

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Speaker 1: he's better as a two. But how do you see

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Speaker 1: the Utah situation, because to me, it feels like, listen,

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Speaker 1: it's it's almost as good as they've been. It feels

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Speaker 1: like a little bit of a reboot. That's what it

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Speaker 1: feels like to me, is that like when Mitchell and

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Speaker 1: Gobert do not get along, Quinn's like, I'm out. It's

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Speaker 1: a sign, you know, they're not that they're way in

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Speaker 1: the white flag here a little bit. But it is

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Speaker 1: sort of a all right, the coaches out, the stars

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Speaker 1: hate each other. What do you think happens with Utah

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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell? So it's super interesting you said Donovan Mitchell's

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Speaker 1: a number two. A huge part of that is he

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Speaker 1: to me, qualifies as a number two. It's a reason

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Speaker 1: why a guy like Devin Booker falls into that camp.

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Speaker 1: For me is if you can't be a reliable, offensive fulcrum,

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Speaker 1: meaning the guy who has to make the majority of

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Speaker 1: the decisions on every single possession. Both guys like Devin

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Speaker 1: Booker guys like Donovan Mitchell are way too volatile as playmakers.

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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell is a lot closer to like, almost like

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Speaker 1: a Russell Westbrook with his shot selection, in his approach

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Speaker 1: every trip down the floor. He obviously he's obviously a

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Speaker 1: different type of player in a lot of different ways,

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Speaker 1: but his approach to the game, he never sees a

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Speaker 1: shot he doesn't like. He doesn't understand the flow of

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Speaker 1: a game. He's not good at keeping his teammates involved.

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Speaker 1: He's a big part of I Rudy Gobert wasn't able

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Speaker 1: to punish mismatches under the rim over the course the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, So there's a lot of issues there.

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Speaker 1: The issue to me in terms of moving forward with

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Speaker 1: Utah is which guy do you trade? Because the easy

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Speaker 1: answer is like, oh, you move Gobert. Donovan Mitchell looks

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Speaker 1: like a star star. The fans love him there, that's

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Speaker 1: all great. The issue is I am worried about Rudy's

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Speaker 1: trade value because he's so bad offensively. A lot of

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Speaker 1: the criticism of him on defense is completely wrong, like

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Speaker 1: it's more of a twitter mean than it is a

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Speaker 1: real thing that's happening on the court. He is a

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Speaker 1: phenomenal defensive player in every facet of defense. If anybody

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Speaker 1: tells you something differently, they don't know what they're talking about.

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Speaker 1: The issue is is he's a offensive liability. He can't

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Speaker 1: punish mismatches. He's basically Clint Capella on offense. And he

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Speaker 1: makes like forty seven million dollars five years from now.

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Speaker 1: So that's the issue. Is Like I'd like to say

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Speaker 1: you rebuilt around Donovan Mitchell, but I don't know how

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Speaker 1: you trade Gobert. What are you going to get for him?

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Speaker 1: Probably bad contracts in return, And so I know it

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Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but what I would look at and Jazz

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Speaker 1: fans don't want to hear this, but I think Donovan

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Speaker 1: Mitchell is closer to a Russell Westbrook type of personality

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Speaker 1: than to like a John Morant, someone I'd feel really

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Speaker 1: comfortable with my franchise moving forward. He's into defense exactly.

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Speaker 1: He's Donovan Mitchell hasn't even tried like he's if anything.

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Speaker 1: He's completely let go of the defensive rope since he

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Speaker 1: was in college. He has trade value, So I would

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Speaker 1: be targeting someone like Toronto, someone that needs offense, and

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Speaker 1: I'd be like, Hey, what can I get for Donov Mitchell?

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Speaker 1: Can I get Pascal Siakam? Can I get Pascal Siakam

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Speaker 1: and maybe one other really good wing? Because then what

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at if I'm Utah, is like, what if

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Speaker 1: I had Rudy Gobert with good defensive players? Because Rudy

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Speaker 1: Gobert has carried a terrible defensive roster year in and

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Speaker 1: year out for the last half decade. Can you imagine

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Speaker 1: that guy with real defensive wings. That would be the

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Speaker 1: approach that I would go. I just think that's a

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Speaker 1: quicker path to a quick rebuild that shuffles the culture

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Speaker 1: and has them playing better as opposed to trying to

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Speaker 1: trade a add contract and Rudy Gobert and and and again.

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Speaker 1: Again it's Donovan Mitchell's trade Bellu. You just have more

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Speaker 1: options there. Yeah, it's a it's a really well run franchise,

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Speaker 1: um Donovan's I mean, listen, Westbrook has moved multiple times,

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Speaker 1: so I do think Donovan has some Westbrook tendencies. I

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Speaker 1: trust him more taking a jumper. I've met him before

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Speaker 1: and I really like him. I give him a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a pass because I don't know he and

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Speaker 1: Golbert just, you know, after that COVID thing, it's just disintegrated,

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Speaker 1: like he just doesn't he won't pass to him, like

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Speaker 1: he just won't. So, I mean, listen, I've always had

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Speaker 1: this theory in the NBA, you can't win a championship

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Speaker 1: with an awful contract. Donovan is going to make a

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Speaker 1: lot of money, but there are some offensive gifts. Gobert's

508
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Speaker 1: contract is at the end awful. I mean it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's just awful. So I would move probably Rudy, and

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Speaker 1: I also think there's an argument to be made with

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks. See I've argued this for years. Steph's

512
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Speaker 1: never going to be a great defensive player. Own it

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Speaker 1: and then surround him with twitchy athletes. Luca were four

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Speaker 1: years in when I was four years into my career

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Speaker 1: in this business. I've gotten better, but there were certain

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Speaker 1: things that I did well. I still do well. There

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Speaker 1: are certain limitations four years in the NBA. I know

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Speaker 1: what you are. Lucas never going to be an elite

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Speaker 1: defensive player, so surround him and Jalen Brunson if you

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Speaker 1: resigned him, he's tiny, So like to me, Gobert makes

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Speaker 1: sense there, Just get a rim protector because people are

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Speaker 1: getting by Jalen and they're getting by Luca, and you

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Speaker 1: know that one makes a little bit of sense to me.

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Speaker 1: I think I'd probably try to keep Donovan and work

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Speaker 1: around him. Listen, the tougher situation to be in is

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, where you've got two big problems. Westbrook is

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Speaker 1: toxic and has no self awareness and is way out

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Speaker 1: of his prime. At least Donovan Mitchell's kind of in

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Speaker 1: his prime. So Westbrook's out of his prime, toxic, and

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't get it. And I've I was told

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Speaker 1: yesterday by somebody around the Lakers that it's worse than

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Speaker 1: you think. Okay, so the organization is just like, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's bad. The other problem you have is not just

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Speaker 1: that Anthony Davis is always hurt. Anthony doesn't work terribly hard,

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Speaker 1: and that's just guys do or they don't. You're either

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, Brady Lebron or you're just possessed by it

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Speaker 1: or you're not. And there's there's I say this all

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Speaker 1: the time, there's a lot of things you can coach.

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Speaker 1: You can't coach indifference. You just can't. So anybody, that's

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Speaker 1: my two big takeaways. You do hoops tonight on the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: give me give me your thumbnail on again to our

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Speaker 1: audience on what to do if you're the GM of

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Speaker 1: the Lakers and I said, okay, you get two big moves,

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Speaker 1: what would they be? Oh, that's interesting. Okay, So first

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Speaker 1: of all, flip r us role players. And then learn

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Speaker 1: from what I always tell I always say on my show,

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Speaker 1: learn from what is working in this playoff round. If

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Speaker 1: you're a fan of some team out there and you're

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Speaker 1: wondering what they should do this offseason, pay close attention

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Speaker 1: to your television screens and what is working in this

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Speaker 1: league right now. How many Dwight Howard types are getting

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Speaker 1: meaningful minutes and actually playing and meaningful basketball. Not many

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Speaker 1: at this point in the season. So if you're targeting

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Speaker 1: that type, your mind's in the wrong place. How many

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Speaker 1: six six to six nine strong, twitchy guys have been

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Speaker 1: functional or useful in the late playoff rounds? All of them? Right?

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Speaker 1: And so that's what I would target is overpaid, you know,

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Speaker 1: longer deals for bigger wings. You know, I'm not a

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Speaker 1: huge fan of Gordon Hayward with his injury history, but

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Speaker 1: that's the kind of guy that if you can bring

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Speaker 1: him in in a tertiary role next to Lebron in

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Speaker 1: a d he can be super functional. He can bring

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Speaker 1: a ton more value than what he did for Charlotte

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Speaker 1: where they needed him to do so much more offensively.

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Speaker 1: That's the type of player that I would target. Now.

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Speaker 1: The second thing here is you got these two first

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Speaker 1: round draft picks, but you also have this Kendrick Nunn contract,

568
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Speaker 1: who's a pretty discounted backup point guard around the league.

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Speaker 1: You can have him for five million. And then you've

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Speaker 1: got Taylor Horton Tucker, who's been a disaster with the

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Speaker 1: Lakers this last season. But Colin, like, how much can

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Speaker 1: you blame the kid? Can you imagine being a twenty

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Speaker 1: one year old in that shit storm trying to develop

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Speaker 1: as a basketball player as you're having everything going on

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Speaker 1: with Westbrook and the passive aggressive comments and postgame pressers

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Speaker 1: and guys in and out of the lineup, and then

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Speaker 1: in the Laker fan base and how hard they can

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Speaker 1: be on people like it's just tough. I'm a big

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Speaker 1: believer that Taylor's not a star, but he can be

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Speaker 1: a functional player somewhere in the league. So you package

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Speaker 1: a guy like Taylan with Kendrick Nunn in a draft

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Speaker 1: pick and again target another wing the Lakers. You know,

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Speaker 1: I talked about perimeter size to begin this show. It

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Speaker 1: was the number one thing I'd learned from the film

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Speaker 1: study from Game one of the Finals, and by the way,

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Speaker 1: calling for everyone listening the day after these shows, I

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Speaker 1: always rewatched the game in its entirety, and I do

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Speaker 1: about a half hour of just notes, just x's, and

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00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: those all in the weeds of the series. So stay

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Speaker 1: tuned to our YouTube feed tomorrow morning if you want

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Speaker 1: to see that. But when I was diving into that

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Speaker 1: film once again, it was perimeter size for Boston that

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Speaker 1: made that difference. I would like to see the Lakers

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Speaker 1: rectify their catastrophic issue from last year, which was way

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Speaker 1: too much Anthony Davis and Lebron in the front corner,

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davison, Dwight with Avery Bradley and Ken Drick Nun

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Speaker 1: and Taylor or not Kendra Night with Taylor Norton, Tucker

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Speaker 1: and Malik Monk and all of these really small, skinny

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Speaker 1: players on the perimeter that we're just getting destroyed. So

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Speaker 1: that I'd like to see the Lakers get back to

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Speaker 1: their twenty twenty identity, which was big wings Alex Caruso,

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Speaker 1: Contavious Calwell, Pope, Kyle Kuzma, all six, five to six,

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Speaker 1: nine compete physical re bounders. Those are that's what won

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Speaker 1: you the championship, That's what's winning for both of these

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Speaker 1: teams right now in the finals. That needs to be

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Speaker 1: the direction that they go in. And but what are

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Speaker 1: the Lakers probably gonna do? Colin? They'll probably be like,

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Speaker 1: can we get Zach Levine? Like what if we could

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Speaker 1: flip Russ for John Wall? Let's get a star in here.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's just their approach to everything. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go back to the finals. It's one one Celtics

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Speaker 1: three and a half point favorites. I like Boston. I

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Speaker 1: think they win by about five or six. I think

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Speaker 1: Horford rebounds, you get a friendly whistle. I don't think

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Speaker 1: Jordan Pool can duplicate some of the shots tonight. I

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Speaker 1: did think Clay is going to play better. You know,

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Speaker 1: my take is as a franchise they were kind of

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Speaker 1: resting Robert Williams tonight, We're gonna see what they got

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Speaker 1: out of him. I think he'll have more minutes from

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Speaker 1: Robert Williams, a better game from Al Horteford, a better

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Speaker 1: game from Marcus Smart. I think the Warriors pull back

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Speaker 1: a little bit offensively, not they won't be quite as hot.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Celtics by about five in Game three.

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Speaker 1: Year thoughts, So I actually expect Boston to win big

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Speaker 1: in Game three because I just think it'll be the

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Speaker 1: wave of the crowd, the first NBA Finals game in

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Speaker 1: Boston since twenty ten. Right, there's gonna be an incredible

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Speaker 1: historic type of vibe in there, the Celtics facing a

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Speaker 1: little bit of real adversity. You know, you were talking

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Speaker 1: about Horford having a better game. Colin our Own dreamand Green, who,

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Speaker 1: as you have said, and I agree, has the best

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Speaker 1: sports podcast in America right now, in the world, yeah,

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Speaker 1: in the world. In the film, when I was watching it,

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Speaker 1: he was kind of like you know, in the game,

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Speaker 1: when you're watching it live, you see what's happening, but

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Speaker 1: you have to rewatch to really see what's happening, which

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Speaker 1: I totally understand for you, you you were way too busy

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Speaker 1: of a man to just sit down tomorrow morning and

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Speaker 1: watch three hours of Warrior Celtics again. But like on

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Speaker 1: the film, Draymond was daring Horford to shoot, there wasn't

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Speaker 1: even a close out on most of them tonight, Al

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Speaker 1: Horford zero three point attempts. Draymond completely erased that factor

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Speaker 1: from the game in one night. He said on his

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Speaker 1: show he'd make the adjustment, and he did. And you know, sometimes,

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Speaker 1: especially for there's a lot of guys like Al Horford

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Speaker 1: and Derek White in particular, they'll shoot when they're open,

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Speaker 1: and when they get a groove, they'll be a little

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Speaker 1: more aggressive, but they're not gunners. So like if you

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Speaker 1: can throw them a soft close out, they won't even shoot,

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Speaker 1: you know, they'll just keep it moving. And that was

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Speaker 1: an interesting example from Draymond tonight to flip that dynamic.

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Speaker 1: But that said, Boston nineteen turnovers for thirty three points tonight,

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Speaker 1: that's something they'll clean up. Tatum and Brown both had

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Speaker 1: rough nights. They're going to be better in Game three.

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Speaker 1: I expect that physicality dynamic to flip back towards Boston.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite bets on FanDuel lately has been

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Speaker 1: alternate spreads. I actually was on it tonight for Golden

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Speaker 1: State because I expected them to win big. But I

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Speaker 1: gotta at minus fourteen and a half for like plus

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Speaker 1: four hundred. That's gonna be the kind of thing I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be looking at in this Game three spread, is

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Speaker 1: what kind of odds we can get on an alternate

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Speaker 1: spread in that ten to fifteen range, because I think

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Speaker 1: that in Golden State, also with Steve Kerr knowing they

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Speaker 1: have some older guys and some guys that are dealing

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Speaker 1: with some injuries, I could see him pulling the plug

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Speaker 1: a little bit early too if the game is out

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Speaker 1: of hand. So I expect Boston to win big in

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Speaker 1: Game three, and then Game four becomes the pivotal moment

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Speaker 1: of the series. Does Boston put a second good effort

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Speaker 1: together and put themselves in a big advantage or do

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Speaker 1: they let their foot off the gas? Do guys you

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Speaker 1: had mentioned Jordan Poole, He's obviously the biggest wing factor.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I don't think Clay's gonna get it going.

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Speaker 1: He's just not getting good shots. Like it's not like

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Speaker 1: we're sitting here watching play choke under the pressure. He

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Speaker 1: against this Boston defense. If it's if it's him flying

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Speaker 1: off a screen, it's still contested. His fadeaways are incredibly contested.

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Speaker 1: He's had a handful of plays where he's gotten a

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Speaker 1: lay up attacking a close out, but he's not getting

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Speaker 1: good looks. Clay's not going to get going in this

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Speaker 1: series unless Boston makes a lot of mistakes. But Jordan

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Speaker 1: Pool is going to be the guy to watch. I

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Speaker 1: Steph has just become reliable, Like you could just count

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Speaker 1: on the guy to be a monster every single night.

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Speaker 1: But they need something from Jordan Pool to steal one

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Speaker 1: of these games in Boston. All right, Jason timp hoops tonight,

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Speaker 1: he'll break it down. We'll put it all over our stuff,

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel. It's left or right, one of those, all right,

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Speaker 1: my man, good job or not in at one. Game

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Speaker 1: three is Wednesday, same time, same place, Thanks man, see

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