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Speaker 3: DJ Khaled. Welcome back to four years of Heat. I'm

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Speaker 3: your host, Israel Dutierrez and this is episode three, The

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Speaker 3: Big Failure. Last we checked, the Miami Heat were rolling

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Speaker 3: In fact, they'd won twenty two of twenty four, with

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Speaker 4: We were trying to get all those guys to come

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Speaker 3: That was Joe Kim Noah. He was a thirteen year

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Speaker 4: But I remember Chris Bosh coming to Chicago and he

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Speaker 3: This wasn't some desperate dream for Chicago either. Remember when

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Speaker 3: In the end, the Bulls wound up signing free agent

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Speaker 3: Indeed, the Heat were thirty and eleven going into the

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Speaker 3: Bosh not only had his worst career shooting night, going

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Speaker 3: And if it was support from the others Bosh was

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Speaker 3: This time, the Heat bench tripled its output, giving the

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Speaker 1: They have lost four straight.

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Speaker 3: Now after the game, head coach Eric Spolster wanted to

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Speaker 14: That's the only thing that's about right now, and this

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Speaker 14: There a couple guys crying in the locker room right now.

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Speaker 3: Spolster's revelation led to Wade being asked about the emotional

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Speaker 15: I know, you guys get tired of sitting up here

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Speaker 16: You know we're brothers. You know we win together, we

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Speaker 16: everyone wanted, you know, losing games. The world's better now

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Speaker 16: it's just it's just painful.

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Speaker 10: Every loss was enormous, and there was no joy in

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Speaker 3: It was the first time the Heat were actually expected

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Speaker 18: Quiet night full of Ron James just five for fifteen

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Speaker 1: But here by the Bulls they sling it out watch

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Speaker 8: We've been here before.

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Speaker 4: I'll never I'll never forget that they wanted us to

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Speaker 3: It's not check as it's chest. The Heat made their

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Speaker 21: I remember that. I remember that. I mean Joe Kim Noah,

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Speaker 21: They wanted me to be here for a reason. You know,

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Speaker 3: Haslam's toughness, rebounding, defense, and leadership where elements the Heat

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Speaker 22: Now the Rebottles handled five again the Heat in the

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Speaker 3: The Heat held the Bulls to seventy five pointints and

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Speaker 1: Seventy seven sixty five? Chicago waight on a wrong mike shit.

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Speaker 23: Yes, Miami, that's taken away.

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Speaker 3: A pair of Boss free throws and excellent defense by

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Speaker 1: Battle three, Battle two. Here's Rose, can it get it off?

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Speaker 24: Eighty three eighty and Miami is headed to the NBA

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Speaker 20: So this we came together for get back to the

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Speaker 3: It felt like the fairy tale had already been written.

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Speaker 3: The Dallas Mavericks would eventually await them in the finals,

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Speaker 3: He'd be MAVs. It was going to be a coronation

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Speaker 13: It wasn't Terry move me to his right, to the

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Speaker 1: God, that's God. What twenty six? What seven seconds remaining

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Speaker 9: One of the most incredible comebacks in the NBA Finals history.

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Speaker 3: The twenty eleven Dallas Mavericks finished third in the Western Conference.

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Speaker 3: History or a first round exit with the MVP version

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Speaker 3: But entering the twenty eleven finals, they had just accomplished

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Speaker 13: For the second time in franchise history, the Dallas Mavericks

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Speaker 9: Some thousand people in this building who believed in us

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Speaker 1: And all I can tell everybody is we ain't done yet.

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Speaker 6: We had a great coaching staff I'm talking about. You

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Speaker 6: we can beat this team. Because every single series that

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Speaker 6: they gave us the blueprint to how we were gonna win,

440
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Speaker 6: we won doing exactly what they said do and it

441
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Speaker 6: worked every single time. So we weren't worried about what

442
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Speaker 6: the heat were doing. Like, hey, if we listen to

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Speaker 6: these guys, we have a chance.

444
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Speaker 3: So what was the game plan?

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Speaker 6: The first thing was Rick Carlile showed us lebron shooting

446
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Speaker 6: percentages for the playoffs and it was something ungodly like

447
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 6: fifty eight percent or something like that. And then he said, okay,

448
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 6: this is what he shoots outside of fifteen feet and

449
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 6: it was something incredibly low, like seventeen percent. It was

450
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Speaker 6: this kind of similar, similar strategy that we had with

451
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Speaker 6: Russell Westbrook, and so we were like, okay, so what

452
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Speaker 6: are we going to We have to make sure that

453
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Speaker 6: the paint is walled off. If you go back in

454
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Speaker 6: that series, you'll see Jason Kidds on Fast Break sprinting

455
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Speaker 6: back to make sure that Lebron doesn't see an open

456
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Speaker 6: painted area or is Sean Mary and whoever it is.

457
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Speaker 6: So the first thing we had to do with we

458
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Speaker 6: got to load up and stop him from getting into

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Speaker 6: the paint. I don't care if we're giving up shots

460
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Speaker 6: on the weak side. We're gonna help off Dwayne Wade.

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Speaker 6: We understand he's great, but he doesn't really want to

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Speaker 6: shoot from three. We might even give up a couple

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Speaker 6: of threes to make sure that Lebron doesn't go superhero

464
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Speaker 6: mode in the lane that was number one. We're going underscreens.

465
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Speaker 6: But we did it differently. And here's where guys mess

466
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Speaker 6: up with Lebron.

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Speaker 8: James.

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Speaker 6: They give him space because, like I said, especially early on,

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Speaker 6: because he doesn't shoot it as well from three as

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Speaker 6: like a step Curry. So they back up. That's the

471
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Speaker 6: worst thing you can do because he takes up the space.

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Speaker 6: So Rick wanted Sean Marrion, Shawn Stevenson, Jason Kidd pick

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Speaker 6: him up full court as much as possible. I want

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Speaker 6: you even in the half court. I want you to

475
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Speaker 6: be into him. And then when Tyson on myself call

476
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Speaker 6: out scream, we want you to recognize where the screen

477
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Speaker 6: is coming from and meet him on the other side.

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Speaker 6: We'll give up as many jumpers as possible, and if

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Speaker 6: you get beat, don't worry you have weak side head.

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Speaker 6: We'll even give up some of those jumpers. But everything

481
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Speaker 6: was pressure Lebron and don't let him get into the lane.

482
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Speaker 6: Where people mess up guarding Lebron is they back up

483
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Speaker 6: off of them and they let him see everything. So

484
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Speaker 6: now he sees the whole floor and he can attack, you,

485
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Speaker 6: get downhill, dunk on you, create free throws or even

486
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Speaker 6: when he misses, three guys had to try to block

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Speaker 6: his shot. So now the week's side rebound is open,

488
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Speaker 6: and we just did We just did things slightly differently at.

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Speaker 3: That point, So it was it was obviously a big

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Speaker 3: three from them, but you were more concerned. The game

491
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Speaker 3: planning was around Lebron and then Dwayne and Bosh were

492
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Speaker 3: like secondary defensive strategy.

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Speaker 6: We really didn't have a game plan for those guys. Wow,

494
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Speaker 6: And that's no disrespect. That's we were like, yo, like

495
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Speaker 6: that's the guy. We got to stop that. If we

496
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Speaker 6: don't stop that guy, the rest of this stuff doesn't matter.

497
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Speaker 6: Like Chris Bosh, obviously, hey man, we don't want him

498
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Speaker 6: shooting easy jumpers. We don't want him get hi left.

499
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Speaker 6: But there was there was no second and third tier

500
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Speaker 6: coverages for Chris Bosh like we had for Lebron And

501
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Speaker 6: with Dwayne Wade, it was more play him straight up,

502
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Speaker 6: don't take his pump fake. You know, he was great

503
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 6: in the mid range and you were a pump and

504
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 6: get guys up in the air. But for the most part,

505
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 6: we were like, hey, we feel like if we switched

506
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 6: Sean Marion onto him that we liked that matchup.

507
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Speaker 3: Well, Wade didn't mind that matchup much either. In fact,

508
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Speaker 3: Wade led the Heat to a Game one win with

509
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Speaker 3: twenty two points, ten rebounds, and six assists.

510
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Speaker 13: Here's a kid around of the yard to the right,

511
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 13: had it stripped by Bibby up the head left side

512
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Speaker 13: for James touch pass way down the lane.

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Speaker 1: Later in with a foul ox Stevenson, where he continued

514
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Speaker 1: their assault. The MAVs fought hard, but once again Miami

515
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Speaker 1: learned to close love of the rid.

516
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Speaker 22: It takes those it down for the Dagger in Game one,

517
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Speaker 22: dominant performance from Minami Heat.

518
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Speaker 1: One to oh in the best of seven for Miami.

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Speaker 3: The series shifted in Game two, not because of a

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00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 3: strategy or injury. It turned because of a celebration. It

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Speaker 3: was the ex Zach type of sports mythology fans want

522
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 3: to believe all the time, but Heywood insists this was

523
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Speaker 3: one hundred percent real. Wade had just hit a three

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Speaker 3: pointer that put the Heat up eighty eight to seventy

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Speaker 3: three with just seven minutes and fourteen seconds left in

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Speaker 3: the game.

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Speaker 22: Lebron straight down the middle inside Chalmers, don't wait for three?

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Speaker 5: Got it?

529
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 8: Wait?

530
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Speaker 1: Pop down down.

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Speaker 13: I was like, he'd have closed this game up, but Miami,

532
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 13: they're largest late.

533
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 3: Of the night fifteen Wade always want to savor the moment,

534
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 3: left his hand in the air for a few extra

535
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Speaker 3: moments in front of the MAVs bench, and with Wade

536
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Speaker 3: on his way back to his bench for a time out,

537
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 3: James walked backward in front of him before eventually shadow

538
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Speaker 3: boxing with the superstar teammate. It apparently set the Mavericks ablaze.

539
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 3: Here's Heywood, Lebron James comes in front of him.

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Speaker 6: They do the little rap video punch thing and all that.

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Speaker 6: I remember it like it was yesterday in the back

542
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Speaker 6: watching it, and I'm livid, like I had strained my hip.

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Speaker 6: And then it was like from that point on, Dirk

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Speaker 6: and Jason Terry went on demon time and it was

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Speaker 6: they Miami didn't score again. I don't think, or if

546
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 6: they did, it was like some free throws. I don't

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Speaker 6: think they had another bucket for the rest of the game,

548
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Speaker 6: and we end up coming back. If we don't win

549
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Speaker 6: that game, we probably don't win that series.

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Speaker 3: The Heat managed exactly five points after that, a pair

551
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 3: of Lebron free throws and a Mario Chalmers three pointer

552
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Speaker 3: that actually tied the game at ninety three, all with

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Speaker 3: twenty four seconds left. Then, with just three seconds remaining,

554
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Speaker 3: Novitsky completed the comeback with the drive past Bosch for

555
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 3: a layup. Wade missed a three that would have won it,

556
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Speaker 3: and the Mavericks cracked the Heat armor.

557
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 23: The wet street spit inside the Repsky the easy layup

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00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 23: and end with three point six left.

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Speaker 1: Wait Cull Lebron, Jay st wait wait for the way,

560
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Speaker 1: No dallass Miami and went ninety five ninety three.

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Speaker 22: Bill remember June second in the Dallas Mavericks franchise Forever?

562
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: What a comeback?

563
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 20: Give up?

564
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: Never give up, I never give went light up there.

565
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Speaker 3: Jason Terry recalled the huddle just before the Mavericks began

566
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Speaker 3: their comeback.

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Speaker 25: We looked at each each guy in the huddle. To

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Speaker 25: a man, me specifically looked at Dirk and said, there's

569
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Speaker 25: no way we're going out like this. It's too much

570
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 25: time left in his game. And for us to go out,

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Speaker 25: you know, in a blowout ty fashion, with them dunking

572
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Speaker 25: on us, shooting threes on us, it would have really

573
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 25: been disheartening.

574
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 3: Not enough to keep the momentum.

575
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Speaker 14: Though.

576
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Speaker 3: The Heat won Game three in Dallas by two points

577
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 3: behind another strong performance from Wade, But there was another

578
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 3: element coming into play. By Game four, Lebron hadn't been

579
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Speaker 3: his dominant self at all in this series. All the

580
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 3: game planning from the Mavericks appeared to be getting in

581
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 3: his head. His point totals dropped from twenty four to

582
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 3: twenty to seventeen in the first three games to this point,

583
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 3: with the Heat leading in the series. It was more

584
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 3: of an interesting note than a sign of panic. Wade

585
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 3: seemed well on his way to a second Finals MVP.

586
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 3: If the series kept trending in this direction, Lebron would

587
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 3: almost certainly be labeled the Scottie Pippen of the pair.

588
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 3: Hardly an insult, but certainly not the sidekick moniker James

589
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 3: was hoping to take on. Then Game four happened, and

590
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 3: Heat fans would have loved a Scottie Pippen type game

591
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 3: from Lebron.

592
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 12: In that one.

593
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Speaker 11: They got far less James. This is go freethrows. He's

594
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 11: struggling from le Field. This is a couple of free

595
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 11: throws too. Of eight tromble Field two four for the

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Speaker 11: free throw on.

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00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 3: Carlile made some adjustments that flummox Lebron mid series. In

598
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Speaker 3: Game four, he started Jj Barrea, a five foot ten

599
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 3: point guard, and brought to Shaun Stevenson off the bench.

600
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 3: It was a move designed to boost the Mavericks offense,

601
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 3: with Carlisle figuring Berea can defend Miami's starting point guard

602
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 3: Mike Bibbie without much concern, and while it didn't have

603
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 3: quite the effect on the offense in Game four that

604
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 3: Carlile had hoped. The coach's other adjustment made that a point.

605
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 3: Carlile went to a zone defense that in twenty eleven

606
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 3: was still quite rare in the NBA. It was Lebron's

607
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 3: kryptonite insomuch that his sudden weakness was inexplicable.

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00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: James fires away short.

609
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 3: Brian Windhorst had seen a version of this just a

610
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 3: year earlier. Lebron's last in Cleveland, in a Game five

611
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 3: with the series tied, James put up just fifteen points

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00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 3: on three or fourteen shoot in forty two minutes at

613
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 3: home against the Celtics, and the Calves lost by thirty two.

614
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 3: One game later, he was pulling his jersey off on

615
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 3: his way out of the city.

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Speaker 5: So to have that happen and back to back years,

617
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,760
Speaker 5: you know, in with at the highest stakes against teams

618
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 5: that his team was better than to be honest, and

619
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 5: for him to do that two years in a row,

620
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 5: I wondered, because in my view, a lot of people

621
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 5: felt that Lebron quit on the Calves and that's why

622
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 5: he played poorly in that series. He didn't play poorly

623
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 5: in that series. He played poorly in that one game.

624
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 5: And I never believed he quit. I believe that the

625
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 5: pressure got to him, and I think the pressure got

626
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 5: to him in Dallas. And so after two years of

627
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 5: seeing that happen and back to back times, and this

628
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 5: is a guy who always raised his level. He never

629
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 5: before in his career could you ever say his team

630
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 5: lost because of him. You know, they made the finals

631
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 5: in two thousand and seven. In two thousand and eight,

632
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 5: he played one of the classic games of that decade

633
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 5: in Game seven when they got eliminated against the Celtics

634
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 5: eventual champion Celtics. He and Paul Pierce both went over

635
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 5: forty points in Game seven. In two thousand and nine,

636
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 5: when they lost in the Eastern Conference Finals to the Magic,

637
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 5: Lebron had one of the greatest series in history by

638
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 5: a player on a losing team. It was comparable to

639
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 5: Jerry West at the Lakers in nineteen sixty nine when

640
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 5: Jerry West won the MVP as a losing team. That's

641
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 5: how comparable that series was. Dominated So never before I

642
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 5: ever could I ever look at Lebron and say you

643
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 5: were the reason your team didn't win. And that happened

644
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 5: in twenty ten and twenty eleven at the highest level,

645
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 5: and so It made me wonder if something within him

646
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 5: had been broken and whether or not he was going

647
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 5: to be able to get to the highest level.

648
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,919
Speaker 3: The signature failure from James was when he couldn't successfully

649
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 3: post up Berea, who was nearly a foot shorter and

650
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 3: probably eighty pounds lighter. James managed only eight points in

651
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,720
Speaker 3: an NBA Finals game in which he played forty six minutes.

652
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 3: It's commonly considered his worst game as a professional. Chalmers

653
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 3: believed college would have helped Lebron.

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00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 7: No seriously, now this is my personal opinion. I don't

655
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 7: know if this is how he felt everything. I felt

656
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 7: like he was a little confused. And what I mean

657
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 7: by that is like when you go to college, you

658
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 7: get to see every type of defense you want through.

659
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 7: Pretty much when you get to the NBA is man

660
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 7: up guard. Your man will help you this way or

661
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 7: will help you that way. It's not a lot of

662
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 7: zones to play. So when Dallas perfectly formed that zone

663
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Speaker 7: to slow down Lebron, I don't think. I don't think

664
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Speaker 7: we had the mindset to really help him, you know,

665
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Speaker 7: get to the spots he needed to to make him

666
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Speaker 7: more successful, to make ourselves successful as a team. I

667
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,399
Speaker 7: think we just kind of forced things, and the more

668
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 7: we forced them, it played into their hands instead of

669
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Speaker 7: spacing it. So I just don't think That's when I

670
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 7: go back to saying IQ, I just don't think we

671
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 7: had the total IQ to be ready for what everything

672
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 7: that Dallas threw at us. It was just thinks he

673
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 7: wasn't comfortab like he's used to being getting the ball,

674
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 7: being on top, being able to drive, see what's in

675
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 7: front of him, see how to attack.

676
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Speaker 10: And when you got little J. J.

677
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 7: Berrera, you know, swimming around, you can't really just put

678
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 7: the ball down freely. You gotta always be aware of looks.

679
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 7: So I just don't think he was comfortable in the positions.

680
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Speaker 12: That he was.

681
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Speaker 3: Adding to that sense of lost opportunity was the condition

682
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 3: of Dallas's lone star Dirk Noovisky was suffering through a

683
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 3: sinus infection and who knows what else. That night. It

684
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 3: was evident throughout as he had his worst game of

685
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 3: the series, shooting just six of nineteen from the field.

686
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Speaker 13: We've confirmed that Dirk Nooviski is playing to night's basketball

687
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 13: game with a fever, perhaps as high as one hundred

688
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Speaker 13: and one or one hundred and two.

689
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Speaker 24: Degrees.

690
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 20: Levinsky has been brilliant here in the finals, but he

691
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 20: desperately needs some help.

692
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 3: But that zone defense and Lebron's subsequent disappearing act kept

693
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Speaker 3: the Mavericks in the game. The Heat went scoreless for

694
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 3: more than five minutes in the fourth quarter, and Dirk

695
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 3: managed to fight through any discomfort and score ten of

696
00:37:58,719 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 3: his twenty one in the period.

697
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Speaker 1: And there it is in the hands of a visky

698
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: who's got about a hundred two fever.

699
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 3: Lebron meanwhile, managed only one shot attempt in the fourth quarter.

700
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 3: He missed it and had two turnovers.

701
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 4: Wait he gets it back up top to teams, James

702
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 4: Stakes drives.

703
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: Pull up Tupper, won't go Miller the offensive rebound.

704
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,760
Speaker 3: As if it wasn't bad enough to try to explain

705
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 3: why the league's best player was apparently shrinking Under the

706
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 3: brightest of lights, James and Wade fanned the flames with

707
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 3: an attempt at humor that fell horribly flat. In between

708
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 3: Games four and five, cameras were surrounding the pair as

709
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 3: they appeared to mock Novitsky's acknowledgment of his illness.

710
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Speaker 15: Oh did all hit me?

711
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Speaker 8: Called thin' gonna say? Hey, just web man that weather's

712
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 8: ray hard to go from eighty five degree, whether man

713
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,720
Speaker 8: go to mountain, that's switch.

714
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Speaker 3: It might have been an attempt from Wade to take

715
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 3: the attention away from Lebron and his dwindling numbers. It backfired.

716
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 3: Here's heywood.

717
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 6: It just that's one of those things that it just

718
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 6: gives you a little bit more buzz when you run

719
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 6: around the court, because they were disrespecting all League, and

720
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 6: Dirk already felt a certain way because of what happened

721
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 6: in the finals when he lost to Miami the first time,

722
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 6: and people were saying that, you know, like there's rumors

723
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,399
Speaker 6: that Dwayne Wade and said Dirk would never be a leader.

724
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 6: So Dirk already it wasn't like he had a beef

725
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 6: with Dwayne Wade, but he was already looking at Dwayne

726
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 6: Wade's sideways. And so then him and Lebron out there

727
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 6: laughing at the fact that he's sick. So Dirk's looking

728
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 6: at it funny, the locker room's looking at it funny,

729
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 6: and so and that was the first time in our

730
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 6: eyes we were like, yo, these guys really think they're

731
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 6: better than us. Like they they think it's they think

732
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 6: it's playtime. They think they just gonna flip a switch

733
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 6: and beat us, and so that it just became like

734
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 6: a rallying cry. It's just one of those things that

735
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 6: when everybody went out there on the court, it was like, Yo,

736
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 6: if we come out here and just play hard to

737
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 6: the best billies, we can punch these guys in the mouth.

738
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Speaker 6: And once we punch them in the mouth, do not

739
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 6: let your foot up off the gas. And like just

740
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 6: the mentality, like Jason Terry was literally sitting there talking

741
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 6: about Lebron can't guard me, and he really and he

742
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 6: didn't mean that. Like one on one he's like, man,

743
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 6: I'm about to run hi ragged. He don't want to

744
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 6: run around these screens, and at that point he didn't.

745
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 6: To this day, Braun hates guarding guys that run around

746
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 6: in screens, Like Jason Terry, hit, I'm gonna running ragged.

747
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 6: Get any shout out of want Ain't none he could

748
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 6: do about it. He up here, and he's like he's

749
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 6: up here laughing at dirt. I want to see him laughing.

750
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 6: Come check me. Like that was the mentality. These were

751
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 6: conversations that were actually had.

752
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 3: The Mavericks scored eighty six points or less in three

753
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 3: of the games at this point, and somehow the series

754
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 3: was still tied at to a piece, and now Dallas

755
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 3: had added motivation. Noviitsky was feeling better in Game five,

756
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,959
Speaker 3: and the Mavericks offense re energized, managing to pull away

757
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter to take the game and the

758
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 3: series lead.

759
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: Got it and the.

760
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 13: Mavericks are one went away from an NBA championship.

761
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: What a performance from the veteran Dallas Babriicks.

762
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 3: The finals format at the time was still two three

763
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 3: to two, which meant Game six and seven would be

764
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 3: back in Miami. Carlisle wasn't the coach of the Mavericks

765
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Speaker 3: when they lost to Miami in the two thousand and

766
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 3: six finals, but he did borrow a move from then

767
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 3: Heat head coach Pat Riley. But knowing that if you

768
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 3: don't win a night, you have a second chance.

769
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Speaker 8: Not even thinking about it, you know, I packed one suit,

770
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 8: one shirt, and one tie.

771
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,439
Speaker 3: When the Heat were headed back to Dallas after taking

772
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 3: a three to two series lead, he told his team

773
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Speaker 3: to pack one suit and one tie because they wouldn't

774
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 3: need a second game to win the title. It worked then,

775
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 3: as Miami won that sixth game and the championship. So

776
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,720
Speaker 3: Carlisle put his own twist on it. Here's Heywood.

777
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 6: Well maybe that's where they felt it from, but we

778
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 6: didn't know that. So all we knew was and if

779
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 6: you go back and look, everybody had one suit, but

780
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 6: everybody in black, whether it was a black button up,

781
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 6: a black polo, a black jacket, everybody was wearing black.

782
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 6: There was in our mind, there was no Game seven.

783
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 6: It's game six. We're winning the game, and then we're

784
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 6: getting out of here, getting ready for our parade, and

785
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 6: oh yeah, let's let's we're all black because it's funeral music.

786
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 6: Time you get down towards the end of that game,

787
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 6: it's probably like anywhere from three to five minutes left.

788
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 6: I looked down there, and the heat down like ten,

789
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 6: still enough time to possibly come back. It's probably like

790
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 6: three minutes left. And I looked over there and the

791
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,919
Speaker 6: only person in the huddle speaking or showing any type

792
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 6: of heart was Mario Chalmers.

793
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 8: Like you can tell, like bron was.

794
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 6: Thinking about what he's gonna sayt the press conference. Dwayne

795
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,240
Speaker 6: Wade's over here, Like I looked though, and I remember

796
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 6: I'm tapping Toshoun Steepens.

797
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 3: I'm like, yo, dog, look at look at the huddle.

798
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 6: I said, they're done.

799
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:54,439
Speaker 1: Do They're done?

800
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 6: That was when I knew the series was over. There

801
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 6: was no camaraderie, there was no cohesion, there was no

802
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 6: raw ross beats. That was when I knew they were done.

803
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,959
Speaker 6: Three minutes left to play Game six, it was over.

804
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 3: The Heat didn't have a response left in them. Novitzky

805
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 3: and the Mavericks celebrated their first championship in franchise history

806
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 3: on Miami's floor with a Game six win.

807
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 18: Novitsky pucks it up, puts it in, makes it up

808
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 18: time one game and only fitting Dirk Nevinsky sealing the deal,

809
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 18: elevating his status sunks the NBA's greats.

810
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 13: The Mavericks had scaled the NBA playoff mountain, had had played.

811
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: That their flag. They are the NBA champions for two thousand.

812
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 3: Tag twenty eleven, Bosh was in tears again, falling to

813
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 3: his knees in the hallway leading to the heat locker room.

814
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 3: An entire season of extremes ended in stunning fashion, and

815
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 3: the examination of just how that happened was well underway.

816
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,919
Speaker 3: All eyes were fixed firmly on Lebron James. The Heat

817
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 3: didn't withstand all the hatred from everyone outside of Miami

818
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 3: all season long, just so James could fail them when

819
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 3: they needed him most. The ending to his first season

820
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 3: with the Heat couldn't have gotten much worse for Lebron,

821
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 3: and then it did. If his performance in the finals

822
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 3: wasn't enough ammunition for an entire off season of mockery,

823
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 3: his performance on the postgame podium would prove just as bad.

824
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 3: In a series where Lebron James had never looked more human,

825
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 3: he managed to appear less relatable than ever with an

826
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 3: answer to one question, and it would set the tone

827
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 3: for a dark, lonely extended off season.

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Speaker 26: Does it bother you that so many people are happy

829
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 26: to see you fail? Absolutely not, because at the end

830
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 26: of the day, all the people that was rooting on

831
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Speaker 26: me to fail, No, at the end of day, they

832
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 26: gotta wake up tomorrow. I had the same life they

833
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 26: had before they woke up today. You know, they got

834
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 26: the same personal problems that they had today, you know,

835
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 26: And I'm gonna continue to live the way I want

836
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 26: to live and continue to do the things that I

837
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 26: want to do with me and my family and be

838
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 26: happy with that. So you know, they can get it

839
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 26: a few days or a few months, or whatever the

840
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 26: case may be on being happy about not only myself

841
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 26: but the Miami heating and not accomplishing their goal. But

842
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 26: you know, they got to get back to the real

843
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 26: world at some point.

844
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 3: Coming up next on four years of the Heat.

845
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 14: When Lebron and Savannah got into the house, he was

846
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 14: looking over the balcony on the second floor.

847
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 3: And jumped over the balcony into the pool bellout.

848
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 21: He got in the lab, and he came back and

849
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 21: completely different basketball player, which was crazy because you already

850
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 21: thought he had reached the pinnacle who he could be

851
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 21: and what he could be.

852
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 3: I looked around and I hadn't felt like this edge

853
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:51,720
Speaker 3: ever in the NBA.

854
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 21: You know.

855
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 3: It reminded me of my days a duke, like, oh

856
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 3: but this.

857
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 6: This, you're right then we're winning this.

858
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 21: I understand Lebron and Dwayne is great, but don't disrespect

859
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 21: the work that I put in. Don't disrespect my craft,

860
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 21: don't disrespect who I am. And I felt like that

861
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 21: was disrespectful.

862
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 22: I don't believe that there is ever in my lifetime

863
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 22: covering sports in this market a more pressurized game than

864
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 22: that one that Lebron James played.

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00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 3: In Game six in Boston. We knew what was on

866
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 3: the line, right, but the look, the look on you know,

867
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 3: Lebron's face. I got this, I got this. Four Years

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