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Speaker 1: so far. We are going to dive into that embarrassing

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Speaker 1: get your podcasts. Under Hoops tonight, so big one for Denver,

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Speaker 1: Big second half. Um, this game was one in fast

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Speaker 1: you know, Doug McDermott, maybe right and um and maybe

430
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Speaker 1: a traded player exception out of it and maybe you

431
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Speaker 1: save a first round pick. Or we're going to Charlotte

432
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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be Gordon Hayward and and uh, you know,

433
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Speaker 1: Terry Rosier or Kelly U Brad Jr. And Gordon Hayward

434
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Speaker 1: like some combination of players from Charlotte. Or it's gonna

435
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Speaker 1: be Buddy hild and Miles Turner, or it's gonna be

436
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Speaker 1: boy and Magdanovich and a couple other role players from

437
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Speaker 1: the Jazz. Those are the players that were available this summer.

438
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Speaker 1: They turned them down because they wanted something better or

439
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Speaker 1: the ability to negotiate a better position for the picks,

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Speaker 1: because they convinced themselves, despite a year of evidence, that

441
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Speaker 1: the rust thing would work, and it didn't. And now

442
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: they're in this position where when they're calling these teams

443
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Speaker 1: are gonna be like, you know, I would ask for more.

444
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Speaker 1: I'd be like theyrowing a second round pick to place

445
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Speaker 1: like I mean, like the Lakers are desperate. They've undercut

446
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Speaker 1: their own position. Now, let's let's try to end this

447
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Speaker 1: on a on a positive note. So Lebron and a

448
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Speaker 1: d have to be better. I believe they will. I

449
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: don't think Lebron James forgot how to shoot. I think he.

450
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Speaker 1: I think the entire Laker team is in their head

451
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Speaker 1: with the jump shots. I've seen this happen before. Many

452
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Speaker 1: of you guys who have played basketball at any level

453
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Speaker 1: have probably seen this before. Shooting is contagious because a

454
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Speaker 1: lot of players struggle to distance themselves from shot result,

455
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Speaker 1: even from within their team. And so when the team

456
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Speaker 1: is five for five from three and you're shooting on

457
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Speaker 1: the wing a wide open three. In the back of

458
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Speaker 1: your head, you're like, are we gonna be five for

459
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Speaker 1: twenty six? You know, it gets in your head, And

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Speaker 1: I believe that's affecting Lebron as well. I believe it's

461
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Speaker 1: affecting Anthony Davis as well. Anthony Davis had a three

462
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Speaker 1: pointer in the first half where he caught the ball

463
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Speaker 1: completely unguarded at the top of the key, like completely unguarded,

464
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Speaker 1: and he like hesitated and like lurched and like pump

465
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Speaker 1: faked and then shot even though he was completely unguarded

466
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Speaker 1: and ended up hitting the backboard before it hit the rim.

467
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Speaker 1: Like they're they're all in their heads right now. So

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Speaker 1: let's pretend that Lebron James and Anthony Davis figure things out,

469
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Speaker 1: they start playing at there at the higher level, if

470
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Speaker 1: you make a trade, what ends up happening is you

471
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Speaker 1: start to slot players better, so instead of Lonnie Walker

472
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Speaker 1: being your third best player. And by the way, Lonny

473
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Speaker 1: Walker has been a rare bright spot. Can't hit the

474
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Speaker 1: three to save his life, but he's been much better

475
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Speaker 1: defensively than he was at any point in San Antonio.

476
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Speaker 1: He's getting into the restricted area five times per game

477
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Speaker 1: and making sixty five percent of him. So he's been

478
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: all the downhill stuff they wanted from Russ but never got.

479
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Speaker 1: So he's probably been their third best player. Austin Reaves

480
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: is fine, but he's probably your fourth best player. You know,

481
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Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley is fine, he's your fifth best player. But

482
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Speaker 1: all those guys are playing above what their ability is

483
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Speaker 1: if you bring in let's just say, for the sake

484
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Speaker 1: of argument, Buddy yielded Miles Turner just because it makes

485
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Speaker 1: it easy. Now, all of a sudden, Buddy healds your

486
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Speaker 1: third best player instead of being, you know, when he

487
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Speaker 1: was in Sacramento, maybe their second best player. Right, Like,

488
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 1: he's slotted properly a lot more off ball wraps off

489
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Speaker 1: of Lebron in a d when he's running picking rolls

490
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Speaker 1: with Anthony Davis. Now you slop Miles Turner in at

491
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Speaker 1: number four. Now, all of a sudden, Lonnie Walker is

492
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Speaker 1: your fifth best player. And some of his limitations like

493
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Speaker 1: being a little undersized, struggling to handle the basketball, sometimes

494
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Speaker 1: struggling to shoot the basketball, Suddenly those limitations matter a

495
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Speaker 1: little less because he's your fifth best player instead of

496
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Speaker 1: your third best player. You know, Austin Reeves, I really

497
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Speaker 1: like as a role player, he's better on a team

498
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Speaker 1: when he's the seventh best player than one of your

499
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Speaker 1: five most important players. That's just the reality as you

500
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Speaker 1: slot players. You know, we talked all the time, there's

501
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Speaker 1: all these responsibilities have to be filled on the court.

502
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: The stars come in and they take huge chunks of responsibility,

503
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Speaker 1: but then there are these significant roles that need to

504
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Speaker 1: be filled. And when you have guys that should be

505
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: playing smaller roles working more significant roles, they're underqualified. They struggle.

506
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Speaker 1: But then when you take Buddy Heald has been in

507
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Speaker 1: a bigger role in the last couple of years in

508
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Speaker 1: Sacramento before he got traded, and he slot him into

509
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Speaker 1: one of those smaller roles, he does well. Now I'm

510
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Speaker 1: slotting Austin Reason, Patrick Beverley into even smaller roles they

511
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: can they can succeed better. I think everything starts to

512
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: slot better. And then this is the final part of it.

513
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Speaker 1: A lot of Lebron James and Anthony Davis's issues are

514
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Speaker 1: effort related. That seven oh run that Lebron gave up

515
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: to start the third quarter was literally him not caring.

516
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Speaker 1: It was not a skill thing, It was not a

517
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Speaker 1: basketball thing. He didn't care enough to come out and

518
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Speaker 1: attack the game in the third quarter. Maybe if you

519
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 1: give them a legitimate basketball roster, he'll care enough to

520
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 1: try to impact the game. I've talked a lot of

521
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Speaker 1: Lebron's career. He's one of the uh most like up

522
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 1: and down type of leaders that you could have because

523
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 1: put him on the Lakers and he's like the best

524
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Speaker 1: dude you could possibly have in that spot. He's going

525
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Speaker 1: to help you through the ups and downs of the

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Speaker 1: regular season. He's going to completely invest in the defensive

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Speaker 1: end of the floor. He's gonna have a firm understanding

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Speaker 1: of how to navigate a playoff run. You know, he

529
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Speaker 1: trailed in a couple of those series. He knows how

530
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Speaker 1: to look those guys in the face and be like,

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Speaker 1: I've been here before. He knows how to navigate the

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Speaker 1: chess match when you get into the games of the

533
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Speaker 1: series five, six, and seven. Lebron is such a good

534
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Speaker 1: guy for those spots. But then when you put him

535
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Speaker 1: in a situation where he doesn't believe he can be

536
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: a bad leader. You can have sloppy stretches of basketball.

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Speaker 1: He can be passive aggressive, you know. You know it's

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Speaker 1: funny because Lebron was like, Oh, I'm not gonna say

539
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: what you want to say about Russ. Well, what did

540
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: he say after the first game? Oh, we don't have

541
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Speaker 1: a bunch of snipers on this team. That's kind of

542
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Speaker 1: passive aggressive. That's kind of the kind of stuff that

543
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Speaker 1: he'll do. So maybe, just maybe, if you surround them

544
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Speaker 1: with better talent, Lebron James re engages Anthony Davis, starts

545
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: to to get in shape and start to figure some

546
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Speaker 1: things out, and then you start to look like a

547
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: better basketball team. But if you're not going to if

548
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: you're not going to make the deal, they're just gonna

549
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: continue to lose basketball games. They're gonna get more and

550
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: more behind where they need to be in the standings

551
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Speaker 1: to survive in the West. And then by the time

552
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: you do anything, it'll be too late. Like like if

553
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: they if they wait another week, that's that's completely inexcusable.

554
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: This deal needs to be made yesterday, or trade trade

555
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. And you can't trade Lebron this year, but

556
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Speaker 1: trade him next year. Like if if you don't, if

557
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Speaker 1: you're not going to invest in this core, then it's

558
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Speaker 1: time to blow things up. That's kind of where I'm

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Speaker 1: at at this point live on AMP. For those of

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Speaker 1: you guys who are listening on YouTube or in the

561
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Speaker 1: podcast feed, remember that on amp is where we are

562
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Speaker 1: going to be live first. That is the first place

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Speaker 1: you can get our post game breakdowns. For those of

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Speaker 1: guys who don't know how to track that down, I

565
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Speaker 1: have all the information on my Twitter feed. You can

566
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Speaker 1: find the links there and follow the show. We're going

567
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Speaker 1: to be breaking down Bucks Nets a tough game. You know,

568
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: the league is unforgiving. If you're playing bad basketball. You

569
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Speaker 1: don't get to have a two or three game stretch

570
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: of cupcakes to fix all of your problems. The Sixers

571
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Speaker 1: and we're not gonna get to them tonight because I

572
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Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to watch that game. Will get

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Speaker 1: to them later. Um. But like the with with the Sixers,

574
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: it's like they're playing bad basketball. They're bad in transition,

575
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Speaker 1: they're struggling with some things. It's like you get the

576
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Speaker 1: Raptors and you get your butt kicked. Oh wait, now

577
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: you have them again on Friday. So if you play

578
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Speaker 1: the same type of basketball, you're just gonna get your

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Speaker 1: butt kicked again. The Brooklyn Nets not playing good basketball.

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Speaker 1: We talked a lot about this on yesterday's show. You know,

581
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Speaker 1: in defense, in defensive rebounding percentages, one of the dead

582
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Speaker 1: last in in uh transition defense off of turnovers, they're

583
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: they're really really bad, and a bunch of different areas

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Speaker 1: of the game. And it's like he hit the Bucks

585
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: tonight and you lose this game and guess what's waiting

586
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: for you tomorrow. You got Luka don Chits coming to town.

587
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: This is just the reality of the NBA in this era.

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00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: There are no easy games. So okay, the Detroit Pistons

589
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: are coming to town. You're getting Kaid Cunningham, You're getting

590
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: Jade and Ivy, You're getting Boy and Vigdanovitch. You're getting

591
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: a lot of talent everywhere around the league. And if

592
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,959
Speaker 1: you play bad basketball, you were going to lose games.

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Speaker 1: This particularly, We're gonna spend plenty of time on Broolyn

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Speaker 1: here in just a second. I wanted to talk. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to start with Milwaukee. You guys know my rule.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the winner first. Uh. This was it

597
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: was a weird game because it was the probably the

598
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Speaker 1: strangest first half of basketball that I've ever seen Janice play,

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Speaker 1: mainly just because you know, Janice's thing is like Janice

600
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: doesn't He will have blowboys and he will beat people

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00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: off the dribble from time to time, especially when defenders

602
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: start to get fatigued. But you don't see him, uh,

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00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: you know, just go around people. Usually goes through people,

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Speaker 1: and so it's not so much about seeing a wall

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Speaker 1: and then that being enough to stop you honest, you

606
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: just hope that over the course of the game you

607
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: might be able to cause him to miss some layups

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00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: and things along those lines. But usually he's constantly trying

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Speaker 1: to plow through that wall. And in that first half,

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00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: it was like he'd kind of look at Claxton or

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00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: he'd look at Ben Simmons and then he would just

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Speaker 1: dribble over the wing and do a dribble handoff Withdrew Holiday.

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Speaker 1: He was very intentional about trying to get Milwaukee's offense running.

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Speaker 1: And you know what was funny is, uh Brooklyn also

615
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: played a good half of basketball. They out rebounded the

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Speaker 1: Bucks in the first half. You know, Kyrie Irving had

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Speaker 1: put in a great effort on the glass. He had

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Speaker 1: nine defensive rebounds. I think in the first half. There

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Speaker 1: was a lot of good things. They made some threes

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Speaker 1: everything was looking good for Brooklyn, but then there was

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Speaker 1: this kind of weird cloud hanging over the whole thing

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Speaker 1: that was, like, where when is Janice gonna try to

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Speaker 1: Janice his way through this game? And man, he hit

624
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Speaker 1: the Jets there to start that third quarter, and Brooklyn

625
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: just had absolutely nothing they could do with him, and

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Speaker 1: kind of all of you Celtics fans out there who

627
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: were watching that game probably had some PTSD watching him

628
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: just bulldozed through every single Brooklyn Net getting foul calls,

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Speaker 1: dunking the basketball, finishing at the rim NonStop, and next

630
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Speaker 1: thing you know, Brooklyn's ten point lead is gone. You

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Speaker 1: end up losing, and Janice walks out of the arena

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Speaker 1: with the smooth forty three, four and five. The best

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00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: player in the world by a significant margin, in my opinion,

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00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: tried for all of ten minutes in this game and

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Speaker 1: executed a Brooklyn Nets team that still has a lot

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Speaker 1: of problems. But we're gonna get to that in a second.

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Speaker 1: Brook Lopez, um, I believe he had six blocks when

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00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: I checked. I'm not sure if you got another one

639
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: before the end of the game. Didn't shoot the ball well,

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00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: Brooken Brooke and Drew Holiday in particular, are having bad

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Speaker 1: offensive starts to the season and it's really causing some

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Speaker 1: issues for the Bucks in spot up shooting. Um. You

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Speaker 1: know that they have they finished below again from three

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Speaker 1: in this particular game, that could not a shot to

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Speaker 1: save their life in the first half, and that that

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Speaker 1: was my biggest weakness for Milwaukee coming into this season,

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Speaker 1: and it's definitely something that they're going to have to

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Speaker 1: address over the course of the season. I think that

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Speaker 1: once Joe Ingles can get out onto the court, and

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Speaker 1: once Chris Middleton is back out onto the court, that

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Speaker 1: will go a long way to helping with that particular problem.

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Speaker 1: But here in the early portion of the season it's

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Speaker 1: going to be an issue for them. But if you're

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Speaker 1: if you have weaknesses in certain areas of the game,

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Speaker 1: you can make up for that by having strengths elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: And both Drew holiday in brook Lopez had excellent defensive games.

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Speaker 1: Brook Lopez particularly, you don't get six blocks by camping

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Speaker 1: underneath the basket. You get six blocks by making what

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Speaker 1: I call out of area plays. It's the it's the

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Speaker 1: you have a defensive responsibility on your team, and that

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Speaker 1: defensive responsibility might require you to do you know this

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Speaker 1: particular rotation or that particular rotation, but Brooke in many

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Speaker 1: cases was going out of his area and outside of

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Speaker 1: his responsibility to make plays. And that that's how you

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Speaker 1: end up with six blocks from people aren't even expecting

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Speaker 1: you to be there. And again, you can make up

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Speaker 1: for a lot of spot up shooting issues and problems

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Speaker 1: on that front. If you are blocking shots at the rim,

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Speaker 1: they give it like this, six blocks, three offensive rebounds.

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Speaker 1: That's six shots you took away at the rim on

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Speaker 1: one end, and three extra possessions you generated for your

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Speaker 1: team on the offensive end of the flour. That's the

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Speaker 1: nine possession swing. So over nine possessions, that's that that

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Speaker 1: that is the difference in this game based on a

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Speaker 1: you know, a one point per possession type of offense,

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Speaker 1: and the Bucks are probably gonna do a little bit

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Speaker 1: better than even that. And so again, those are those

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Speaker 1: little things that this team is committed to that will

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Speaker 1: carry them through poor shooting, you know, because Brooklyn shot

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Speaker 1: poorly as well. But this is a Brooklyn team that

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Speaker 1: shot poorly and doesn't have those fundamentals to fall back

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Speaker 1: on that can carry them through games like this. So

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Speaker 1: I want to give Brooklyn some credit. They they did

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Speaker 1: have a much better defensive effort in the first half.

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Speaker 1: I had a feeling coming into this aim that they

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Speaker 1: would look good to start by. My biggest concern for

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Speaker 1: them would be the length of the game and whether

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Speaker 1: or not that can maintain that effort. We talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about this in last night's show The when it

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Speaker 1: comes to or two nights ago, it might have been

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Speaker 1: last night. It was the last night we were talking

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Speaker 1: about the Warriors. When it comes to defensive effort, it does.

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Speaker 1: It's not something you fix overnight because you're building habits.

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Speaker 1: You're building connective tissue between you and your teammates in

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Speaker 1: terms of communication and understanding when to rotate and where

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Speaker 1: to rotate. Things along those lines, and most importantly, conditioning.

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Speaker 1: It is really hard to do those things. The box

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Speaker 1: out so sprinting back in transition defense, the extra defensive rotations,

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Speaker 1: the I don't have a man to box out, but

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Speaker 1: I'm going to crash from the perimeter to secure this rebound.

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Speaker 1: All of those things are not fun, so you have

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Speaker 1: to convince yourself to do them. But then there's the

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Speaker 1: next phase, which is the conditioning element of it. Being

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Speaker 1: capable of doing that for an entire thirty two minute

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Speaker 1: game for you if you're a starter or maybe a

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Speaker 1: little bit less of your role player, but in addition

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Speaker 1: to having the energy to do all those things that

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Speaker 1: you love to do. On offense, both Kyrie Irving and

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant missed a bunch of shots that they normally

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Speaker 1: make in this game, particularly in that fourth quarter. Kadi

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Speaker 1: had a really good look coming off a pick and roll,

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Speaker 1: wide open pull up three that he missed. Kyrie had

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Speaker 1: kind of a jab step on Grayson Allen on the

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Speaker 1: right wing that he makes frequently, especially when he's in

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Speaker 1: a groove like he was in. Royce O'Neil missed a

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Speaker 1: wide open three. There was a Katie post up on

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Speaker 1: the right block where he had drew and he elevated,

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Speaker 1: he was wide open and he just missed the shot.

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Speaker 1: You know, fatigue will inevitably play a role until Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: builds a consistent effort on that end of the floor

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Speaker 1: over games and games and games to where they build

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Speaker 1: the conditioning and then it just gets baked into who

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Speaker 1: you are, just like it is for Milwaukee, it's baked

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Speaker 1: into their basketball identity. We do all these little things

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Speaker 1: and so we can shoot twenty from three and win

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Speaker 1: a basketball team against Kevin Durant Kyrie Irving because we

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Speaker 1: have all these little details in our game that are

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Speaker 1: completely baked it. You know. I thought there was a

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Speaker 1: really really interesting, uh, kind of like soliloquy from from

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Speaker 1: Jeff Van Gundhy that you guys might have heard if

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Speaker 1: you were listening to the ESPN broadcast where Joannice ripped

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Speaker 1: through Roy sonny Old Kevin Dury for an and one

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Speaker 1: transition lay up. I believe it was in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: and and he basically just said, like like, if you're

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Speaker 1: going to beat the Bucks, you absolutely have to put

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Speaker 1: your body on the line. It is a non negotiable.

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Speaker 1: You cannot possibly beat that guy, Johannice Antenna Coombo unless

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Speaker 1: you were willing to for forty eight minutes in a

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Speaker 1: regular season game or for seven games in a playoff series.

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Speaker 1: Every time he's barreling down the lane towards you, you

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Speaker 1: have to chest him up and take the contact. As

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Speaker 1: soon as you start to get out of the way

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Speaker 1: and start reaching at the basketball, he's going to beat

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Speaker 1: you every single time. He's too big, he's too strong,

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Speaker 1: he's too athletic. He makes every damn lay up, he

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Speaker 1: shoots free throws. Well enough. Now, you can't beat that

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Speaker 1: unless you're willing to do that. And I thought it

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Speaker 1: was really interesting that Jeff Van Gundy laid that out

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Speaker 1: because Brooklyn was willing to do it for a half,

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Speaker 1: and I would argue a half that Janice wasn't being

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Speaker 1: very physically aggressive. But then over the course of that

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Speaker 1: game they fell apart because they weren't willing to do

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Speaker 1: it for forty eight minutes. And it might not even

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Speaker 1: have been about will It might have been about conditioning.

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Speaker 1: But they have a long way to go on that front.

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Speaker 1: The Nets out rebounded the Bucks in the first half,

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Speaker 1: and they finished the game down fifty four to thirty

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Speaker 1: seven and rebounds, which is absolutely insane. So that that's

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Speaker 1: how quickly when they let go of the rope it

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Speaker 1: was over for them. And and this is this is

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Speaker 1: the last thing I'll say about it. This is not

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Speaker 1: the Lakers. The Lakers have legitimate talent deficiencies. After Lebron

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Speaker 1: James and Anthony Davis, they have a lot of players

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Speaker 1: that wouldn't even make rotations for good teams around the league.

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Speaker 1: They to try hard even to compete in these games.

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn is very talented. Yes, Jeff and Gunny pointed out

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Speaker 1: they have some thin players. That's true. Kyrie Irvingston, Kevin Duranston,

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Speaker 1: Nick Claxton is than they have some thin players on

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Speaker 1: the roster, but they also have a lot of length

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Speaker 1: and athleticism and a lot of talent. They have more

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Speaker 1: than enough to construct a damn good basketball team. Alright,

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Speaker 1: So here's the plan for the rest of the week. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn hosts I Believe Dallas Um. We're gonna be going

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Speaker 1: live on AMP immediately after that game. That's the only

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Speaker 1: show tomorrow. So if you want to see tomorrow's show,

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Speaker 1: make sure that you get on AMP. It will be

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Speaker 1: re released on YouTube later in the evening. Then on

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Speaker 1: Friday morning, we're gonna be breaking down the Warriors game

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Speaker 1: from Thursday night. Okay. Then we're taking Saturday and Sunday

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Speaker 1: off and getting back into things on Monday morning. As always,

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Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate you guys support, and I will see

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow night and day. By the volume