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Speaker 1: This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up?

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Speaker 3: Straight Fire?

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Speaker 4: Play up, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight fight here for Tuesday,

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Speaker 4: May the sixth, and folks, last night, if you went

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Speaker 4: to bed early, holy hell, did you miss an unbelievable

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Speaker 4: night of basketball in the Association.

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Speaker 3: It was I mean, two heart stopping thrillers.

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Speaker 4: Nicks shock the Celtics, Yes, shock the Celtics in overtime

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Speaker 4: come back from down twenty and the Oklahoma City Thunder

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Speaker 4: aka cho Oklahoma City jagging up a lead, like give

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Speaker 4: up a nineteen to six run to close the game

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Speaker 4: and lose outright at home to Denver on an Aaron

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Speaker 4: Gordon three with like three seconds left. I mean, there's

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Speaker 4: so much to dive into here. However, it was the

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Speaker 4: first time two NBA underdogs of nine or more one

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Speaker 4: outright in the same day in the NBA playoffs in

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Speaker 4: the last twenty five years. We just saw historic stuff

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Speaker 4: last night. And I'm gonna start with the Knicks, so

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Speaker 4: obviously I'm watching early. I put the bet out there

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Speaker 4: that I'm doing first quarter bet on the next plus

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Speaker 4: three and that hits, and I'm feeling great, and I'm like, Okay, hey,

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Speaker 4: got some money in my pocket. The Knicks were probably

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Speaker 4: gonna get blown out second quarter. Comes what happens, Boston

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Speaker 4: just paces them. They're up sixteen and a half. I

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Speaker 4: have to go to a men's league game, and I'm like,

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Speaker 4: oh boy, but I'm talking to the guys at the

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Speaker 4: scorers table.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, you got this Knick score?

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Speaker 4: Nick, oh, Nicks are getting buried it down twenty j Mac, Oh,

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Speaker 4: my gosh, it's over. Okay figure And then I don't

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Speaker 4: ask them for a while. You know, we're playing this

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Speaker 4: team and a bunch of bums. We crush them, and

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Speaker 4: all of a sudden, this guy goes j Mack it's

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Speaker 4: a three point game with two minutes left.

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Speaker 3: I was like, in the Knicks game?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 3: And I was stunned.

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Speaker 4: So I'm like, guys, I'm gonna sit out to start

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Speaker 4: the second half, just so I could try to watch

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Speaker 4: it on my phone. And of course the signals awful

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Speaker 4: and so I'm not able to watch it. I have

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Speaker 4: to follow it like on the box score and stuff

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Speaker 4: and the New York Knicks. Somehow, some way, McHale Bridges

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Speaker 4: strips Jalen Brown before he can get off a shot

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Speaker 4: in overtime and the Knicks survived by three epic comeback

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Speaker 4: Jalen Brunson mister clutch twenty nine points. Ojiannernobi had twenty

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Speaker 4: nine Bridges with the huge trip. Bridges did not have

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Speaker 4: a great game, three of thirteen shooting. But the big

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Speaker 4: story is the Boston Celtics. This team rolled New York

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Speaker 4: in the regular season four to zho. They had three

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Speaker 4: double digit wins, and they led by twenty midway.

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Speaker 3: Through the third quarter last night.

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Speaker 4: Okay, and listen, I'm sure some people are gonna blame

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Speaker 4: Porzingis not playing in the second half. He was zero

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Speaker 4: for four in thirteen minutes and he was ill, so

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Speaker 4: he did not play in the second half. I'm guessing

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Speaker 4: they were like, oh, we're up sixteen, we got this,

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Speaker 4: just got healthy Porzingis and Al Horford they had to

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Speaker 4: play him. He was barbecue chicken. Brunton just went at

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Speaker 4: him like you got no chance. And Al Horford's a pro,

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Speaker 4: maybe a Hall of Fame or I don't. A lot

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Speaker 4: of guys make the NBA Hall of Fame. But the

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Speaker 4: Knicks just patiently ran their offense, got to their spots

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Speaker 4: and hit shots. The Celtics in what you're gonna hear

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Speaker 4: is one of the craziest numbers in recent NBA playoff history.

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Speaker 4: They shot sixty three pointers sixty they missed forty.

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Speaker 3: Five of them.

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Speaker 4: They shot fifteen of sixty from three, a robust twenty

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Speaker 4: five percent. Now, listen, everybody was a culprit. Okay, Jalen

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Speaker 4: Brown won of ten, Derek Quite five of sixteen. But

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Speaker 4: a lot of enmity is being thrown hurled at my man.

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Speaker 4: Jason Tatum. Listen, Tatum at twenty three and sixteen and six.

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Speaker 4: He had a solid game, but he was four of

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Speaker 4: fifteen on threes. Now here's the crazy thing. Yeah, fifteen

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Speaker 4: threes for Jason Tatum is crazy. When the Knicks don't

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Speaker 4: have a rim protector at all. I mean, Mitchell Robinson played,

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Speaker 4: but come on, he's not. They three of ten on

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Speaker 3: They just hack a Robinson and he had to get

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Speaker 3: off the court again. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you the two stat lines. Here's Jalen

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Speaker 4: Brunson nine of twenty three for twenty nine points. Brunson

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Speaker 4: was six of seven on free throws, Jason Tatum seven

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Speaker 4: of twenty three, so he basically just missed two more

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Speaker 4: of nine on threes, hit three big ones in a

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Speaker 4: and Tatum was four of fifteen on threes. Folks, I mean,

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Speaker 4: I don't know like why this happened, but in the

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Speaker 4: second half Boston shot forty nine times second half and overtime,

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Speaker 4: thirty seven of those attempts were three pointers. Thirty seven

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Speaker 4: of forty nine shots were threes. And I guess the

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Speaker 4: only question is why the Knicks. They have good wing defenders, yes,

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Speaker 4: but they you don't have a rim protector. I'm not

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Speaker 4: saying you could have run a layup line, but Boston

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Speaker 4: had nothing to fear attacking the basket. And then compounding matters,

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Speaker 4: the Knicks couldn't even shoot free throw seventeen of thirty

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Speaker 4: one fifty four percent. That's like what they were doing

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Speaker 4: against the Pistons, where they mess around and nearly lost.

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Speaker 4: This was a crazy, bizarre game, and I know Tatum

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Speaker 4: is gonna get crushed today. And a guy play hoops

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Speaker 4: with he went to high school with Peyton Fritchard who

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Speaker 4: won like four state championship.

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Speaker 3: This guy plays hoops.

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Speaker 4: He's really really good, and he basically is like joining

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Speaker 4: the crowd where he's like, hey man, Jason Tatum just

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Speaker 4: isn't clutch.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, you know, do you have any

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Speaker 3: stats to back that up?

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Speaker 4: And then I decided to look at Tatum in the

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Speaker 4: fourth quarter and overtime, and you know, Tatum's my guy.

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Speaker 4: He's all NBA. I think he's top five player in

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Speaker 4: the league. Fourth quarter and overtime, one of nine, zero

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Speaker 4: for five on threes, and it's like, hey man, he

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Speaker 4: didn't have a great game, not his best effort.

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Speaker 3: Clearly, that being said, it's just one game.

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Speaker 4: And as I will talk about shortly, another superstar in

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Speaker 4: the league did not have his finest game.

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Speaker 3: His name Shay Gilders. Alexander Oh Interesting, the MVP a

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Speaker 3: robust minus sixteen. But we'll get to that.

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Speaker 4: I do want to welcome in back from five weeks off. Okay,

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Speaker 4: I don't know what I would do with five weeks off. Seriously,

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Speaker 4: I would lose my mind, like five weeks Like Rob

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Speaker 4: G is back in the building, rob G, are you

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Speaker 4: sick of your family?

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Speaker 2: Yet? I will not answer that question.

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Speaker 3: That's a smart man.

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Speaker 2: I will not answer that. It's going to be back though.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so what were you watching sports the whole time

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Speaker 4: or just going to Disney every day and having fun?

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Speaker 2: Well, first off, I don't make game Act money, so

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Speaker 2: I was not at Disney every day. But now I

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Speaker 2: was able to watch a lot of sports because you know,

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Speaker 2: one of the perks of having young children is they

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Speaker 2: didn't go to sleep earlier. So I was able to

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Speaker 2: watch all five games of the Lakers playoff. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's meant to get to be a lot longer than that.

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Speaker 2: But so it wasn't too bad.

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Speaker 3: I didn't Lakers.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize how much I annoying my wife though,

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Speaker 2: Like me being at home for six weeks was just

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Speaker 2: rough for her. And apparently I'm a lot.

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Speaker 3: They don't want us around guys, They don't. You know

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Speaker 3: that they don't.

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Speaker 2: The idea of us is cool, but the actual people

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Speaker 2: of the husbands like, no, we can do without us.

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Speaker 3: It's quite bad, all right.

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Speaker 4: So I mean, listen, I get I'm not gonna kill

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Speaker 4: Jason Tatum. You can if you want to. I'm not

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Speaker 4: gonna go overboard with this. Nick Win like I don't

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Speaker 4: what does it mean. I mean, the Pacers beat the

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Speaker 4: Calves in Game one on the road, the Knicks beat

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Speaker 4: the Celtics Game one on the road, big underdogs, and

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Speaker 4: then you've got Denver shocking. Okay, see big underdog Game

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Speaker 4: one on the road. So the conference semifinals are off

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Speaker 4: to a crazy start. But overall, I don't think this

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Speaker 4: for all we know, Boston could win this in five.

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Speaker 4: But I do for the first time, Rob. You know,

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Speaker 4: during the regular season, I didn't feel like Bridges and

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Speaker 4: Annoby were the great fits I thought they would be,

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Speaker 4: and Aneronoby was phenomenal six threes in this one. Bridges

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Speaker 4: again didn't do it offensively, but made the big defensive

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Speaker 4: stop the Knicks by the way ten steals.

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Speaker 3: They did play pretty good d.

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Speaker 4: But listen, man, it ain't hard to play d, Rob

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Speaker 4: when the other team is jacking sixty three pointers, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, exactly, exactly, And that's why I'm one of the

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Speaker 2: people who is not going to kill future Laker Jason

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Speaker 2: Tatum here on Tuesday morning. I mean, he didn't play great.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned the stats. Anybody to go there again? But

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Speaker 2: outside of Drew Holliday, which Boston Celtic did play great.

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Speaker 2: I mean porzing Is throwing up at halftime, he didn't

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Speaker 2: play in the second half, Derek White couldn't hit the

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Speaker 2: the end of the fourth quarter was a goose egg

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Speaker 2: from deep. He was started out zero for nine and

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Speaker 2: guys really got cooking. And to me, the bigger problem,

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Speaker 2: and this is something that we've talked about even last

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Speaker 2: year on their quest to the championship, they play, in

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Speaker 2: my opinion, a very unethical style of basketball. There is

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Speaker 2: no good and this is talking from a guy who

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Speaker 2: watched Jalen Brunson and his foul hunting and roots for

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Speaker 2: the Lakers who employ Luka Doncic, who also can be

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Speaker 2: said play as an unethical style of basketball. But Boston

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Speaker 2: missed forty five threes on Monday night, the most in

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Speaker 2: NBA playoff history, tied for the third most in any

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Speaker 2: in the third quarter that it was just not their

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Speaker 2: night from deep. They just wasn't falling the shots. Weren't

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Speaker 2: going in the way they're accustomed to. It is what

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Speaker 2: it is. It happens NBA players have nights like this

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Speaker 2: from time to time. The problem was similar to the

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Speaker 2: famous Houston Rockets Game seven against Steph Katie and those Warriors.

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Speaker 2: They just kept shooting. They were not deterred in any

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Speaker 2: and this twenty point lead goes down to fifteen, goes

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Speaker 3: Next you know, you're down by six. You're gonna lose

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Speaker 3: the game in overtime.

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Speaker 2: My biggest problem with what they did though, because that

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Speaker 2: is their style of play is what it is. What

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Speaker 2: it is is. I don't know if you saw this.

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Speaker 2: Joe Missoula in the post game was asked about, you know,

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Speaker 2: their shooting. They went ice cold. You mentioned in the

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Speaker 2: second half they could not hit a three, and they

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Speaker 2: just kept shooting and shooting it, and he asked if

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Speaker 2: he was how he felt about the shot selection, and

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Speaker 2: he said, hey, we got good looks.

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Speaker 1: Like.

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Speaker 2: My brother in Christ. Sure you want to get good looks.

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Speaker 2: And then that's that's quote unquote good offense. Better offense

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Speaker 3: I mean, Jalen Brunson is really unstoppable.

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Speaker 4: They threw the kitchen sink at him, and he still

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Speaker 4: And down the stretch. It was an epic melt rob.

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Speaker 4: Now they did lead that game by twenty, but nevertheless,

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Speaker 3: Oh, well, the Knicks are tired from that Detroit series.

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Speaker 4: Well, Denver's probably exhausted series one seven. Okay, SE's been

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Speaker 4: It's like, oh, we're relaxed, and thunder come out, lead

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Speaker 4: weirdest part, Bob. Watch Chet Holmgren at the free throw line.

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Speaker 4: After that he puts his hands on his head like,

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Speaker 4: Now I would have to go back Rob off the

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Speaker 4: top of my hat. I don't remember it, but Dallas

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Speaker 4: You know, I love Luca. I was always going to

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Speaker 4: Now we know Joki is gonna eat against these guys.

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Speaker 4: Hartenstein was powerless. Everybody's gonna tell me how clutch. Alex

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Speaker 2: them frauds, and I totally understand that when you blow

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Speaker 3: Blaze the elbow to lou Georg's head.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Nikola Jokic. I mean, if there was any

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Speaker 2: It feels like like it's, oh yeah, Yokic did it again.

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Speaker 2: You know, ho hum, what it is? What it is.

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Speaker 2: But Aaron Gordon, everyone's going to talk about the mad

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Speaker 2: people don't realize this totally remakes his game. He's not

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Speaker 2: And if you want to be one of those people, hey,

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Speaker 2: It's how the Golden State Warriors, despite only having like

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Speaker 3: Dang looks like he had fifteen in the fourth. Jokich,

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Speaker 4: It feels like he's a Terminator two class man forty two,

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Speaker 3: Those were shrewd moves. I don't know, man Hartenstein five

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Speaker 4: I just I did not anticipate Denver, which basically, you know,

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Speaker 2: Not great.

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Speaker 3: free throw merchant? SGA down the stretch? Huh what happened

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Speaker 3: with that guy? Your boy, he's gonna win the MVP.

432
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,399
Speaker 3: Is nice game, forty minutes, only one turnover.

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Speaker 2: He was good.

434
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Speaker 4: But I'm sorry they have to hammer out this endgame

435
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 4: lineup because this coach dagnalled. He just got body bagged

436
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 4: by an interim coach. Remember the Nuggets fired their coach?

437
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Speaker 3: What a month ago?

438
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 2: There was three games left in the season.

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Speaker 3: I think when he got fired, maybe less than a month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like that.

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Speaker 3: It's in saying now it's right, got to coach the

442
00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 3: team during the timeouts? Yeah exactly. I don't want to overreact,

443
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 3: but this that that was that result.

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Speaker 4: I still think the Celtics and I still think the

449
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Speaker 4: thunder are winning their series. I I like the Pacers

450
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Speaker 4: a little bit. I don't know, Rob, do you think

451
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Speaker 4: we're gonna see uh In? I think there's only one

452
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Speaker 4: game tonight, the Warriors.

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Speaker 3: There might be no.

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Speaker 4: No Nuggets play to night, not Nuggets, sorry, Calves Pacers

455
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Speaker 4: play tonight. But do you think we see a fourth

456
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Speaker 4: road team, the Golden State Warriors come up big and

457
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Speaker 4: pull the upset over over Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: No, because ultimately the postseason it's I don't care about

459
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,639
Speaker 2: home core, you know, unless it's a Game seven, I

460
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 2: really don't care. It comes down in matchups. And if

461
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 2: you thought that Houston was a tough matchup for Golden State,

462
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 2: you haven't seen anything yet. Because Minnesota can defend just

463
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Speaker 2: as well as Houston can. The difference is they don't

464
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 2: have the same problem scoring, and so Anthony Edwards, Julius Randall, Nasried,

465
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:26,199
Speaker 2: like all of those guys can score. And given what

466
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Speaker 2: we saw from Golden State in that last series, I

467
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 2: don't think there's any way that they keep this one

468
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Speaker 2: within single digits.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting because we know Curry cannot guard Anthony Edwards.

470
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 4: We know Buddy Heal cannot guard Anthony Edwards. Who Podzemsky,

471
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 4: you think he can guard Anthony Hell? No, so now

472
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Speaker 4: it's like, well, you can't.

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Speaker 3: Put on Draymond, will be on Rudy Gobert. I don't

474
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Speaker 3: even know who the other.

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Speaker 4: Stow Jimmy Butler on Edwards, I doubt it. You need

476
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Speaker 4: his offense, So I wonder. I think the Warriors are

477
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Speaker 4: gonna look a little different Rob. I think we're gonna

478
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 4: see a lot of Gary Payton. He's their best defender.

479
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 4: I said that on the Herd today and guys are like, bro.

480
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 4: He he didn't even play. It was a non factor

481
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 4: in some of that series. I think he was sick. Well,

482
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 4: in an ideal world, they would play Kaminga. But I

483
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 4: think Steve Kerr has totally just ruined any confidence that

484
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Speaker 4: he has right now. Yeah, if they could ship Kuminga

485
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 4: to the Shanghai Sharks right now for like a of whatever,

486
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 4: they would do it like they're out on coming.

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Speaker 3: And I feel bad now. I don't know what's going

488
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Speaker 3: on behind the scenes.

489
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Speaker 4: Maybe he he looks broken.

490
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Speaker 2: He just looks mentally broken when you watch him out there.

491
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 2: He looks lost.

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Speaker 4: Guy's been through so many iterations of this team, you know,

493
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 4: and there were moments that where they really liked him

494
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,479
Speaker 4: this year and now they're just I don't know if

495
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 4: it's you know, it's weird you watch so I'm sure

496
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,360
Speaker 4: the teams watch some film and after that you see

497
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 4: stuff that you didn't see during the game, and you're.

498
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Speaker 3: Like, shit, man, how bad is this guy? And it's weird.

499
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Speaker 3: Somebody sent me a Luca video.

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Speaker 4: I put it on IG where essentially, you know, the

501
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 4: Lakers took a bad shot by Lebron, but they got

502
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 4: the off to rebound and Ruey has it like, you know,

503
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 4: near mid court and Luca's like bah ball ball right

504
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 4: next to Rui, and Rui just passes it over to

505
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 4: Lebron and Luca like kind of not quite throws his

506
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 4: hands up, but it's just like, what the what the belief?

507
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 4: You know, he wasn't happy, And you know, when the

508
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 4: Lakers are breaking down film, they're seeing all that stuff.

509
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 4: They're seeing Luca not box out, not rotate, And I

510
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 4: just wonder if something happened on film with Kuminga that

511
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 4: they were disappointed in, because man, you're right, he's just

512
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 4: buried on the bench. Let me just throw something at you,

513
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 4: because this is the kind of fun that I miss.

514
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Speaker 4: Rob Who would you rather have as your point guard?

515
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 4: Going forward, salaries and roster. Forget the roster, just salaries. Okay,

516
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 4: would you rather have Kate Cunningham or Jah Moran? Oh?

517
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 2: Kay Cunningham?

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00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:54,159
Speaker 3: Okay, would you rather have Tyrese Haliburton or Kate Cunningham.

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00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 3: That's tough. That's a tough one.

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00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I know the answer. Kay. Cunningham's great.

521
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 2: He's he's a scoring guard more than he's a point

522
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 2: you know, Tyre's Halliburton can run the show as well

523
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 2: as anybody in basket. I will go with Haliburton. I

524
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 2: think it's easier to build around him.

525
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 4: This isn't equal because they're not totally the same player.

526
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:19,479
Speaker 4: Jalen Brunton or Devin Booker.

527
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean Jalen Brunson is the only one who's

528
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 2: shown he can win at that level.

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Speaker 3: Wait a minute, book Deep book went to the finals.

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Speaker 2: No, but I mean Booker. That was Chris Paul Like

531
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Speaker 2: running the team. We saw, we see what he looks

532
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 2: like without a point guard. Like when it's Devin Booker

533
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 2: leading the charge that it's a lottery team every year.

534
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Speaker 4: Hold on, I gotta I gotta look up the tests

535
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 4: because I thought d book was was the alpha on

536
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Speaker 4: the team.

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Speaker 3: I know they changed when Chris Paul got there. Oh

538
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 3: my gosh. I mean in the finals, Booker averaged twenty

539
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 3: eight book.

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Speaker 2: The Booker was the best player. I mean, it's kind

541
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Speaker 2: of like Kevin Durant Booker. Booker was the best player,

542
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 2: but the leader of the team was Chris Paul.

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Speaker 4: Chris Paul right right, whereas Brunson is the leader, yes,

544
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 4: of the Knicks. Okay, most likely upset of the three

545
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 4: teams that.

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Speaker 3: Won Game one, like most likely in the series.

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00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, Indiana, Wow, I mean, did you see the

548
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 2: injury report that it's gonna come on? Wordly?

549
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 3: I don't know how that happened, dude, I can't believe this.

550
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 4: So, you know, Ta is an Ohio guy, and he

551
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 4: put out this incredible stat about teams that are favored

552
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 4: at Game one at home and then losing outright, and

553
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 4: historically they bounced back at a ridiculous place.

554
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 3: It's like thirty and four against the spread, unbelievable numbers.

555
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 3: And I look, oh my, buddy looks at the line.

556
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 4: He's like, it's ten. I was like, damn, that's high.

557
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 4: Let me, let me get it down. I took nine

558
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 4: and a half minus one nineteen. Okay, and I'm thinking

559
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 4: I got a good number of casts are gonna bounce.

560
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 4: Within two hours they announced Evan Mobley's availability is in question.

561
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 3: Who was the other guy?

562
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 2: Hunter?

563
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 3: Two of their top like five guys? Dari is the

564
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 3: Garland may or may not plays missed the last three games.

565
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 3: So what's the deal with Garland?

566
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 2: By the way, I think it's his foot. I think

567
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 2: I have to look it up. And then, unrelated to

568
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 2: all that, Donovan Mitchell, if you watch game one, he

569
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 2: was clearly bothered with his knee and he was reaching

570
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 2: for it several times. He was not going full tilt

571
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,439
Speaker 2: back on defense a couple of times because he was

572
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 2: hobbled with something.

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Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what it is with it Is

574
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 3: that why he was one of eleven from there?

575
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 2: I mean I could have been, But it's like they are.

576
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 2: They did such a good job of minimizing minutes all

577
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 2: season so that they could be fresh as possible for

578
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 2: the playoffs. And to see their whole team get hurt

579
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 2: at the same time against the team like Indiana that

580
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 2: is going to run you roughshot is just a cruel

581
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 2: joke by the basketball gods.

582
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 4: I don't know if I can buy out of that,

583
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 4: but I mean, if mobile doesn't, it might work out

584
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 4: better to just have one big. By the way, Jared

585
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 4: Allen individually against Halliburton did not go well. I saw

586
00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 4: Halliburton was six for eight shooting when defended by Jared Allen,

587
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 4: he had an insane step back, took him off the dribble,

588
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 4: like I'm just Halliburton's I don't know, this is the

589
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 4: toughest one, rob, you know, I think he's a little

590
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 4: older Brunson. But Brunston or Haliburton, who would you rather

591
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 4: have as your point guard? One of them was on

592
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 4: the Olympic team but barely played.

593
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 2: Again Jalen. Brunston at least has shown he can do

594
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: it as the guy. What do you mean?

595
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 3: But Haliburton hasn't, not to that level yet. I mean

596
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 3: took Yana.

597
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 4: I know, listen, you were on fraternity in the deciding

598
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 4: game against Giannis.

599
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 2: And four guys from your mind.

600
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 4: I no, no, no, that's about that. Just the one

601
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 4: v one Halliburton's Like, I got this. And Halliburton cooked

602
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 4: Jannis off the dribble for the layup, and I was

603
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 4: like that, I didn't know he had that, Like Jianna

604
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 4: is a great defender.

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00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 3: He's six eleven.

606
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 2: That happened.

607
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 3: I thought he was gonna.

608
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 4: Swat it and it was like, oh shit, And that's

609
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 4: when Halliburton's dad came on the floor like a dope

610
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 4: and started person But like, I think that's tough, man.

611
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 3: I would.

612
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 2: They're totally different guards too. It really depends on how

613
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 2: your team is built.

614
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 4: But I think, let me just check the ages, because

615
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 4: I think Haliburton's like twenty five and Brunson's twenty nine,

616
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Speaker 4: and that's a big difference. Halliburton is twenty five, just

617
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 4: turned twenty five, and so yeah, you always got a

618
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 4: air on the side of younger. But man, it's tough

619
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Speaker 4: not to love Jalen Brunson, who is turning twenty nine

620
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 4: in August, so four and a half years.

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Speaker 3: It appears different. That's a tough one.

622
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Speaker 2: And again, I don't even like watching Jalen Brunson play,

623
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Speaker 2: why because he plays that foul merchant style that I

624
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 2: just don't enjoy watching. He's great, he's great, I just

625
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 2: don't enjoy watching it.

626
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, so two games tonight. Oh by the way,

627
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 4: there is a fun Instagram video going around Jalen Brunson

628
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 4: versus Jason Tatum in some like high school game or something.

629
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Speaker 3: It was either AU or high school. I forget, but man,

630
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Speaker 3: I mean it's totally kidd like, how did everybody not think?

631
00:30:59,000 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 2: How?

632
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 4: I still don't get the maths screwed up? Jayalen Brunson,

633
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 4: Are you freaking kidding me? And I maintained rob and

634
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 4: I've been I've never wavered in this Brunton over Kyrie

635
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 4: and it's not close. Oh yeah, Like that's who I

636
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 4: would rather have better career, Probably not yet for Brunson,

637
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 4: He's got ways to go.

638
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 2: But man, you know what cracks me about those kind

639
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 2: of those those pictures you talk about where say, hey,

640
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 2: these two Ice school guys going at it. I see

641
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 2: those pop up on Twitter from time to time or

642
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 2: ex whatever you want to call it, and it goes

643
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 2: to show you how young these kids are, the guys

644
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 2: who are making these accounts and are posting these pictures.

645
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 2: Because there was one that came up on my feet

646
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 2: about a week ago and it was Lebron in high

647
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Speaker 2: school with corn rows. This is how old the photo

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Speaker 2: is and the guys the defender looks like almost nervous,

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Speaker 2: like backing off of him, and I imagine, you know,

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Speaker 2: this kid going against Lebron James must be scared. Whoever

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Speaker 2: made that account had no idea. The guy that Lebron

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Speaker 2: was going against in that photo was Sebastian Telfair. If

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Speaker 2: you remember anything about bat, Sebastian Telfair believed to his

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00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 2: core that he was better than Lebron James. And that

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Speaker 2: was part of the reason why his NBA career didn't

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Speaker 2: work out so much, because he believed that he was

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Speaker 2: as good as everybody else. I'll promise you in that

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Speaker 2: particular game, whatever that photo is from, Bassie was not

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Speaker 2: scared of Lebron James. He just was not as good

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Speaker 2: as him.

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Speaker 4: As a different conversation, Yeah, I remember Telfair, man, he

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Speaker 4: was supposed to be incredible.

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Speaker 2: He was supposed to be yah.

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Speaker 4: I don't even know what he didn't. I don't think

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Speaker 4: he did much. But anyways, all right, we're back tomorrow, man.

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Speaker 4: NBA is getting great. Just when we're like, oh no,

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Speaker 4: Lebron and Luke are out.

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Speaker 3: Holy cal the game's got crazy. See tomorrow,