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Speaker 1: price guaranteed. All right, let's talk some basketball. So you know,

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Speaker 1: there's this old cliche. I think it actually originally was

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Speaker 1: but the cliche goes, hard work beats talent when talent

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Speaker 1: doesn't work hard. Now in this series, it's a little

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Speaker 1: more convoluted than that, because that's not just hard work

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Speaker 1: it's less about trying hard and more about making the

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Speaker 1: right basketball decisions on a play by play basis. But fundamentally,

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Speaker 1: the biggest difference between this year's Boston team and last

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Speaker 1: year's Boston team is their consistency of effort. Last year,

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Speaker 1: execution kind of ebbed and flowed and they would get

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Speaker 1: were always consistently a dominant defensive team, and they just

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Speaker 1: haven't been that way this year throughout the entire regular

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Speaker 1: Game four, they were eight points worse per one hundred

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Speaker 1: Like for that Denver series, they score one hundred and

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Speaker 1: Imagine if that's one hundred and fourteen instead, You're not

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