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Speaker 1: talk some basketball. So maps Thunder kind of a weird game.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that Nuggets fans were super annoyed watching it

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Speaker 1: because it was officiated like it was January, tons of

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Speaker 1: tiki tac calls. The game in general wasn't very physical

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Speaker 1: or intense to start, Like, it's just weird watching from

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Speaker 1: the opening tip, like Luca just dribble the ball easily

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Speaker 1: up to court it without much ball pressure, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't as intense and physical as the game we

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Speaker 1: watched last night, for sure, And the officiating was just tzars,

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Speaker 1: super ticki tac, a lot of like grifty stuff that

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of a weird game, But the biggest

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Speaker 1: factor by far is that Shay Jay Gibs Alexander, in

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Speaker 1: his first playoff run as the best player on his

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Speaker 1: and I don't feel good about my pick to start

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Speaker 1: of just the blood bath underneath the rim. And then three,

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Speaker 1: Hyrie is just a little bit more prepared for this

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Speaker 1: than Shaye one day. That's how high I am on

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Speaker 1: making a nice kickout Reads finished with twenty nine nine

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Speaker 1: And that was kind of the difference. When the thunder

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Speaker 1: two Shay hits, a couple of pull up threes Luca

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Speaker 1: there and then Luca all said five turnovers, and again

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Speaker 1: Twenty two to twelve was the points off of turnovers

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Speaker 1: they got destroyed in the paint in this game, they

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Speaker 1: that is a battle Dallas has to win, and not

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Speaker 1: biggest advantages in this series. Oklahoma City is a bad

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Speaker 1: in the paint forty to thirty two. And this is

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Speaker 1: where we got to get to chet Holmgren because he

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Speaker 1: had a great offensive night. He had nineteen points. Three

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Speaker 1: but like that doesn't do a justice to what he

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Speaker 1: was doing around the rim. He forced a ton of missus,

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Speaker 1: had guys second guessing themselves. I'm actually really excited to

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Speaker 1: kind of look at Dallas's field goal percentages close to

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Speaker 1: it wasn't like they were smoking easy layups. They were

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Speaker 1: just kind of changing shots and shooting kind of funky,

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Speaker 1: so I can't say enough about Chet his his rim

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Speaker 1: protection just completely changed the game tonight. So in short,

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Speaker 1: Shay Badley out plays Luca and Oklahoma City wins like

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Speaker 1: very simply, if Oklahoma City dominates the physical battle, they're

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Speaker 1: You know, Shay and Jalen, they're much better shot creators

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Speaker 1: against and down the roster. Oklahoma City has much more

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Speaker 1: much better three point shooter than that PJ. Washington, Derek Jones,

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Speaker 1: Dallas got out shot tonight, and I don't really see

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Speaker 1: That Oklahoma City is a better jump shooting team in

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Speaker 1: terms of their role players. So you have to win

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Speaker 1: the physical battle. You have to do a better job

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Speaker 1: do more damage to Oklahoma City's frontline if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: Jadub really struggled. I think he was what two for

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Speaker 1: Jadab basically kept that matchup relatively even so the main

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Speaker 1: in like the first something like seven minutes of the

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Speaker 1: first quarter. He came out just guns blazing. Middle of

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Speaker 1: that first quarter, they started leaning more into Derek White

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Speaker 1: and Jason Tatum a two man game. Garland was on

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Speaker 1: Derek White, which is a matchup I didn't like, We'll

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Speaker 1: get into that in a little bit, and Struce was

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Speaker 1: on Tatum, but they didn't want to switch it, so

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Speaker 1: like at first, like they were in this bind because

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Speaker 1: it was like they switched it once and then Tatum

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Speaker 1: just went right down to the post and easily scored

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Speaker 1: on Garland. He like missed a shop and easily got

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Speaker 1: the offensive rebound and put it back. And then it's

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Speaker 1: like then they didn't switch it, and then Derek White

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Speaker 1: started breaking open because he was the ball handler, and

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Speaker 1: Nexters didn't want to leave Jason Tatum. He was like

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Speaker 1: kind of hugged up on Jason Tatum and Garland would

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Speaker 1: get caught on the screen and Derek White was hitting threes,

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Speaker 1: and Derek White is just so locked in from three

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Speaker 1: point range right now. It's kind of like a death

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Speaker 1: sentence in its own right, right. And so again we're

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that in a little I'll just

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Speaker 1: get into it right now. I didn't like the Garland

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Speaker 1: on White decision. I understand why you do it to

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Speaker 1: save Donovan Mitchell's legs, right because he's the one that's

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Speaker 1: been carrying your offense for the majority of this postseason.

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Speaker 1: But Derek White's on a heater right now, and Darius

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Speaker 1: Garland is just too small and he cannot guard him.

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Speaker 1: He cannot bother his pull up jump shot. And so

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Speaker 1: even though Mitchell has a lot of offensive responsibilities, more

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Speaker 1: physically equipped to do so, and again Derek White's torching you.

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Speaker 1: He was the one who blew the game open late

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Speaker 1: in the third quarter once again with this three point shooting. Hit,

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Speaker 1: a couple catch and shoot threes, hit another one on

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Speaker 1: a two man game with Jaylen Brown, where once again

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Speaker 1: Darius Carlin kind of lingering in a soft hedge where

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Speaker 1: he's more just kind of hanging out to help on

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Speaker 1: the drive, and then he closed out and got a

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Speaker 1: hand up on Derek White. But Derek White just doesn't

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Speaker 1: see his hand. He's too short and so and that

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Speaker 1: really was what kind of blew the game open in

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Speaker 1: that late third quarter. The highlight was that step back

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Speaker 1: kind of like pull back dribble that he had on

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Speaker 1: Sam Merrill's So it's like he's on the left wing.

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Speaker 1: They call up a ball screen. Tristan Thompson shows up,

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Speaker 1: throws like a random trap at Derek White. Derek White

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Speaker 1: retreats out of it. When he retreats, Tristan Thompson goes away,

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Speaker 1: and there's only like four seconds on the shot clock.

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Speaker 1: And so Derek White's hard dribble moved to the right

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Speaker 1: like two three hard dribbles snatched back behind his back.

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Speaker 1: And and talk about like skill development. Go watch that

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Speaker 1: shot again and like try pausing it right when he

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Speaker 1: does the snatchback dribble and then watch it. It looks

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Speaker 1: literally like he goes straight up and down. It looks

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Speaker 1: like a normal catch and shoot jump shot. That is

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Speaker 1: the all of the best pull up jump shooters. They're

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Speaker 1: actually it's all ball handling and footwork to get to

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Speaker 1: straight up and down jump shots. Like that's why they're

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Speaker 1: so efficient. On those shots. They do their work early,

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Speaker 1: They do their work with the handling and the footwork

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Speaker 1: and the like strength to stop on a dime. Then

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Speaker 1: once they get that separation, it's just going straight up

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Speaker 1: and down into a jump shot. Beautiful move, beautiful shot

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Speaker 1: from Derek White. But again, like, yeah, that's something I

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Speaker 1: think the Caves are gonna need to take a look at.

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Speaker 1: And we'll go over some options here in a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that Derek White hot street kind of put

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Speaker 1: the game away in the third quarter. Two more guys

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Speaker 1: I wanted to shout out Luke Cornette. He came in

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Speaker 1: for a shift in the late first quarter and immediately

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Speaker 1: had a couple of blocks. He blocked Isaacacorro slashing on

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Speaker 1: a close out and then got Donovan Mitchell in a

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Speaker 1: drop coverage that was part of the defensive run. They

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Speaker 1: got Boston's first separation because again Caves kind of hung around.

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Speaker 1: They were up twenty three to twenty one after a

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Speaker 1: Mitchell pull up three, and that defensive run kind of

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Speaker 1: led by Cornette there. Getting those stops at the rim

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Speaker 1: kind of helped them get that initial separation. Peyton Pritchard,

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Speaker 1: he pitches in sixteen points off the bench, hit a

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Speaker 1: huge pull up three at the buzzer in the third

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Speaker 1: quarter that felt more or less like a dagger. It

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Speaker 1: felt like the shot that kind of put the game

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Speaker 1: out of reach on the Cavs front. Not a whole

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Speaker 1: lot they can do. They don't really have the firepower offensively,

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Speaker 1: and without Jared Allen, they're too small in this matchup.

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Speaker 1: They got killed on the glass today fifty five thirty eight,

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Speaker 1: thirteen to seven in offensive rebounds. You know, with Jared Allen,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, with Jaron Allen, they're a pretty big team,

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Speaker 1: but as soon as you take him out of the lineup,

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Speaker 1: they fund like Evan mobiley undersized, you know, center right

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Speaker 1: Like now you're going Max Struce and Isaac accorro as

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Speaker 1: you're three to four and then Donovan Mitchell Darius Garland,

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Speaker 1: two small guards. So they're just like almost like untenably

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Speaker 1: small without Jared Allen. But if I had to do something,

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Speaker 1: I'd tinker with the matchups a little bit. We talked

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Speaker 1: about maybe just swapping Garland and Mitchell. Another thing you

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Speaker 1: could do just take your three best defenders and put

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Speaker 1: them on their three best shot creators and hide Garland

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Speaker 1: and Mitchell even if they're undersized on Horford and Drew, Like,

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Speaker 1: just take Evan Mobley and put him on one of

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Speaker 1: the wings and has shrew Sinecorro guard the other wing

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Speaker 1: and Derek White and then have Donovan Mitchell guard Al

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Speaker 1: Horford and have Darius Garland guard guard Drew Holliday. And

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Speaker 1: you know what, maybe you'll just disrupt Boston's offense by

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Speaker 1: causing them to bail on their typical actions and start

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Speaker 1: force feeding the post on Horford and Drew Holliday. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you can double team and rotate out of it or

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Speaker 1: front the post or something. Look, i don't expect any

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Speaker 1: of this to work. I'm just kind of spitballing here

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Speaker 1: on some options they have, but like Darius Garland on

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Speaker 1: Derek White certainly is not gonna work. And like, this

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Speaker 1: is the thing that Boston does to you. This is

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Speaker 1: so many damn good players that there aren't really good

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Speaker 1: places for you to hide your guys, and they can

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Speaker 1: put you in a predicament like this where it's like

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Speaker 1: maybe you put your two small guards on their two

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Speaker 1: phys strongest players in the starting lineup. It's it's just

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Speaker 1: this is these are Boston problems. Man, this is what

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Speaker 1: Boston does to you more mixing up coverages too, like

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Speaker 1: just throwing random blitzes, switching randomly going into They threw

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Speaker 1: some token zone in garbage time, but like what if

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Speaker 1: they went to a little bit more random zone, like

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Speaker 1: just do it, like not not consistently, but a random

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Speaker 1: possessions to disrupt rhythm. But it's all gimmicky, and the

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Speaker 1: talent gap is just too wide to really make up

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Speaker 1: that gap. There's a reason why the Celtics were a

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Speaker 1: minus twelve hundred favorite to win this series and every

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Speaker 1: other series in the first round was substantially closer, and

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Speaker 1: it's because there is a chasm between these two teams

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Speaker 1: in talent, athleticism, size, everything, and it's just gonna be really,

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Speaker 1: really hard for the Caves to hang around. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: that is all I have for tonight. As always, I

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Speaker 1: sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting the show. Tomorrow morning,

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Speaker 1: I'll do a quick mailbag, So why don't you guys

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Speaker 1: drop some questions in the YouTube comments and we'll get

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Speaker 1: to those in the morning. And then tomorrow night is

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Speaker 1: I want to say Game two of Knicks Pacers, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's the only game tomorrow night, so we're

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Speaker 1: gonna hit that one. We'll go live on YouTube right

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Speaker 1: after that game, and then we'll get back into it

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. All right, guys, I appreciate you. I'll see

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow. The Volume