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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to hoops tonight here at the Volume.

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Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday again, everybody help All of you guys are

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Speaker 1: having a great week so far. Don't forget if you

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Speaker 1: missed it earlier, we broke down the Sixers Celtics game

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Speaker 1: and Joel Embiid running away with the MVP Award. You

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Speaker 1: our YouTube feed. Tonight, we're gonna be breaking down the

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Speaker 1: Lakers and a chaotic win in overtime over the Utah

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Speaker 1: And then the Golden State Warriors, after a disaster class

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Speaker 1: in the first half defensively, put together a masterclass in

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Speaker 1: the second half defensively to notch a much needed win

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Speaker 1: over the Oklahoma City Thunder. We're gonna be breaking down

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Speaker 1: let's talk some basketball. So this is a really weird

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Speaker 1: game for the Lakers on a bunch of different levels.

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Speaker 1: First of all, it's the last game of a long

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Speaker 1: road trip. This is just a reality of basketball. When

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Speaker 1: you're away from your family for a long time and

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Speaker 1: you've got a flight home that evening, it's just really

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Speaker 1: hard to get focused on the game at hand when

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Speaker 1: you're really just thinking about getting on the team plane

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Speaker 1: your kids and stuff. Like the Lakers broadcast was actually

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Speaker 1: directly saying this during the game. They're like, oh, the

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Speaker 1: Lakers are clearly thinking about the team plane, and they

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Speaker 1: did just about everything they needed to do to get there.

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Speaker 1: They were up ten when a minute and forty five

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Utah Jazz again, they're not very talented.

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Speaker 1: That's just a reality. Kelly Olinok was the only starter

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Speaker 1: even though they like even though they are well coached

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Speaker 1: and they play hard, and they got athleticism, and they've

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Speaker 1: got little matchup things that can cause you problems. Pick

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Speaker 1: and pop bigs have caused the Lakers problems throughout this

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Speaker 1: entire season just because of the way Darvin Haam likes

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Speaker 1: to keep Anthony Davis around the rim. There were matchup

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Speaker 1: it's the Utah Jazz missing a bunch of guys, and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to get your team fired up

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Speaker 1: for even in a must win situation on the last

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Speaker 1: of trouble. But I'm honestly impressed by the way the

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Speaker 1: Lakers regained control in the overtime period because it was

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Speaker 1: it was a disaster. They blew the ten point lead

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Speaker 1: track of Kelly Olinik. He steals the tip, ends up

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis came flying in for the offensive rebound and

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Speaker 1: he gave the Lakers the lead with like twenty eight

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Speaker 1: You know, the glass half empty way to look at

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Speaker 1: getting the win. Like there's no doubt that the Lakers

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Speaker 1: Lebron moment. I think he finished with like thirty seven

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Speaker 1: And so I looked at it as a big confidence

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Speaker 1: to do with the defensive matchup that he has, I'd

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Speaker 1: prefer it for the Laker's sake if Lebron James was

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Speaker 1: the second third round, where you have an extra three

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Speaker 1: weeks from now for Lebron James to build his conditioning

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Speaker 1: also only one other seat available, and that's the sixth seat,

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Speaker 1: because the play in tournament is not worth the risk

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Speaker 1: to avoid the suns. There's too much variation, Like the

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Speaker 1: Lakers are a bad three point shooting team that can

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Speaker 1: go ice colds sometimes times. I mean, they've gotten a

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Speaker 1: You get the five seed, you get Phoenix, that's gonna

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Speaker 1: So the real question is, is it's great that Andrew

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Speaker 1: And so it'll be really important to see how how

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Speaker 1: shape all he was away. All right, guys, that is

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Speaker 1: you guys, and I will see you next time. The

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