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Speaker 1: this instant reaction. And the Celtics heat game, there's still

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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes remaining. There were warning signs now,

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Speaker 1: I you know, I just thought there was such a

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Speaker 1: so he's implementing a system in season. That's not easy.

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Speaker 1: Quinn Snyder's an excellent coach, right, we know that he

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Speaker 1: He got tired of them. He didn't think he could

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Speaker 1: and Rudy Gobairt didn't get along. There was infighting, and

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Speaker 1: to Game three of that series, Atlanta scored one hundred

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Speaker 1: and nineteen. Game six, one hundred and twenty. Remember during

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Speaker 1: that series, we kept saying boy, Atlanta's getting a lot

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Speaker 1: of good looks. Quinn Snyder in that series got buried

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Speaker 1: in game one, started making adjustments as an excellent coach.

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Speaker 1: That was a very competitive six game series, and Game

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Speaker 1: Remember that game though, it was in doubt with about

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Celtics disposed of them in Game six

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Speaker 1: they got real issues. Mike Budenholzer won one game against Miami.

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Speaker 1: So first of all, my takeaway is before we bury

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Speaker 1: I had a bad doctor, and think of what you

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Speaker 1: We've had bad pilots, bad doctors, bad lawyers. I've had

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Speaker 1: go through to be a lawyer. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: average coaches in the NBA, and we've seen Eric Spolstra

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Speaker 1: expose them right. Coaches like Doc Rivers who are more

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Speaker 1: culture based, not really adjustment Maven's and I think Joe

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Speaker 1: Missoula for the Celtics is completely over his head. You know,

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Speaker 1: a good coach will find your weaknesses. You know, they'll

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Speaker 1: attack your weakest defender. They'll find mismatches throughout the course

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Speaker 1: you to make a chess move. Joe Mizzoula doesn't. I

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Speaker 1: feel like Joe Mizzoula is playing defense against Eric Spolstra.

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Speaker 1: I think the Heat were aggressive, They're attacking, They're creating

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Speaker 1: mismatched situations. It feels like I really felt about eight

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Speaker 1: It happens. You got to get rid of the coach.

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Speaker 1: You can't go from last year's Celtics team defensively to

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Speaker 1: with you know, Harden. Every other game is awful. Maxi

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Speaker 1: there is a gap between Eric Spolstra and the rest

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Speaker 1: so I think you just have to move on. Remember

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Speaker 1: have massive coaching mismatches, this is what a series looks like.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Eric Spolstra against Mike Budenholzer, it's a mismatch.

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Speaker 1: He got dumber. He's got worse players. He just had

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Speaker 1: lot of coaching and self belief. I don't think you

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Speaker 1: just it just seems too hard too often for them. Offensively.

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Speaker 1: It validates Lebron James going to Miami. It does make

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Speaker 1: You choose Spolstra, you choose d Wade, you choose pat Riley.

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Speaker 1: All right, So the Lakers may salvage a game against

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Speaker 1: You can blame it on Lebron, but if you look

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Speaker 1: I mean this, they overachieved. If the Celtics are underachieving,

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Speaker 1: I know it, Laker fans want to point fingers at

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Speaker 1: Darvin Hamm or Lebron James. Your best player shows up

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Speaker 1: every other game offensively ad Lebron's thirty eight years old

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Speaker 1: can be brilliant in spurts, but disappears. Austin Reeves is undrafted.

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Speaker 1: He is what he is, athletically good three point shooter

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Speaker 1: DiAngelo Russell's a flake. That's the team. I mean. Ruey

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Speaker 1: Hachama is not going to take and carry and be

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Speaker 1: with him when without him he's not essential. They'll probably

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Speaker 1: keep him good. Lank can hit a three. This team

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of guys they hit the three.

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Speaker 1: Reeves Ruey can hit threes. Lebron certainly can't. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I said this all year, I didn't see this as

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Speaker 1: They're not a championship team. They're not close to Denver.

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Speaker 1: beat Boston right now because of their coaching inn amptitude.

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Speaker 1: But remember, the Lakers did get a little break because

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Speaker 1: it around, volleyballing it around. They're not getting that against Denver.

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Speaker 1: They have to earn their points, and it's a low

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Speaker 1: it can be really strong. He's that's every other night.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know when I suggest you know this

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Speaker 1: He's relevant. He was against Memphis and Golden State absolutely

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Speaker 1: utterly dominant. He's got value. Going to cross your fingers

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Speaker 1: and bring it back to me. Rob pulling the jam

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Speaker 1: deserves a ton of credit, and I'd said this throughout

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Speaker 1: the season. He made the Lakers better. He made the

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Speaker 1: rid of toxicity with Westbrook that immediately became a better

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Speaker 1: the shots, Lebron, Anthony Davis, Ruey, Austin Reeves were taking

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Speaker 1: game to game he made nice adjustments. They're fine with

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Speaker 1: Darvin Ham, but you know you bring it back. You

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Speaker 1: Denver's not going anywhere. There's a lot of talk now

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Speaker 1: about the Dallas Mavericks getting DeAndre Ayton. Phoenix is going

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Speaker 1: with the Celtics, I think it's a new coach issue.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see another point guard. With the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: there's a real argument this team overachieved. The West was

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Speaker 1: weird and wonky. They may want to they might want

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Speaker 1: they may want to take a big, big swing here.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's crazy. You're gonna run it back.

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Speaker 1: Lebron's not getting younger Anthony Davis. This is what he

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Speaker 1: is now, great every other game. Austin Reeves is not

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Speaker 1: getting more athletic and more dynamic shoots, good threes, creates contact.

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Speaker 1: Nice players should be the fifth best starter, maybe fourth,

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Speaker 1: on a championship level team. I'd take a big swing

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Speaker 1: if I was the Lakers, big brand, big swing, all right,

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Speaker 1: in this series have been Jamal Murray and Jokic, and

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Speaker 1: they're both in their athletic prime. It's just not that

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