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Speaker 1: Ripped the knob off right now. Two minutes to go

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and the Minnesota Timberwolves, despite a

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City one twenty to one fourteen. Boy, A big

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Speaker 1: sequence of events a few moments ago where the Timberwlves

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Speaker 1: that pushes the lead back out to seven. One of

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Speaker 1: those demoralizing possessions defensively, You know you saw it unfolding.

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Speaker 1: As soon as that happened, you said, that's gotta kill them,

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Speaker 1: that's gotta kill them.

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Speaker 3: But like that, several sequences in a row the Timberwolves

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Speaker 3: where they're playing great defense, shot clock winding down, and

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Speaker 3: Is like wow, that is the worst. Because you committed

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Speaker 3: the playmaker's hands and it's just finding the right hothand

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Speaker 3: I mean Jalen Williams on the night thirteen to twenty four,

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Speaker 3: three point range. You got Gildas Alexander thirty five points,

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Speaker 3: throw merchant chants and everything that are certainly alive and

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Speaker 3: well but not existing here. But just great balance from

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Speaker 3: the rest of the Timberwolves to be keeping a game

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Speaker 3: because both Anthony Edwards and Julius Randall have some explaining

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Speaker 1: Right now, it's a five point lead for the Thunder.

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Speaker 1: It looked like it was gonna get cut to two,

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Speaker 1: That could have been disastrous for Oklahoma City, but Chet

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Speaker 1: There was a man in my house he had one arm.

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Speaker 3: This puts you into the Hey, the Hall of very

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Speaker 3: Good among current players. Right of what am I expecting

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Speaker 1: coming up in definitis again, it's gonna be a little

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Speaker 1: big story out of basketball today, Caitlyn Clark is hurt

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Speaker 1: now more than the reaction when this story first broke today,

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Speaker 1: People devastated for Caitlyn Clark, devastated for the league, devastated

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Speaker 1: Kitlyn Clark as well. This is a two week quad injury, right,

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Speaker 1: This is not where hey, hey, she's done for this

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Speaker 1: when he got hitting, like week two, right, somebody and

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Speaker 3: Oh no, it was hang on you.

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Speaker 1: Say he was holding on to to Tom Brady. It

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Speaker 1: was so whoever it was, was somebody that did it.

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Speaker 1: Brady is? This is the middle of Brady's run. Is

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Speaker 1: oh my god, we're losing him. It's the whole season.

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Speaker 1: But that was the reaction for Kaitlyn Clark today, what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen? What games is she missing? Like, we don't

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Speaker 1: when guys. But suddenly it's whoa Caaitlyn Clark? If anything,

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Speaker 1: that should tell you how that she's the biggest star

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Speaker 1: in sports right now, not the biggest star in the WNBA,

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Speaker 1: injury should tell you everything. We could talk about TV

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Speaker 1: playoff game. We could do that till till you're blue

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Speaker 1: in the face and Kaitlyn Clark is always gonna win.

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Speaker 1: But you want to see just the reaction on the

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Speaker 3: We had all the estimates of what she means to

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Speaker 3: play did she get hurt on? There? She is at

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Speaker 3: a time out and it looks like she's got, you know,

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Speaker 3: back to the quad injury she had in the preseason, Say.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, not related other leg.

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Speaker 3: You know, really as much of a deep dive as

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Speaker 3: It's only two weeks, right, right, Please only be two weeks.

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Speaker 3: But let's call it what it is, what stirs the

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Speaker 3: about the pantheon of women athletes right now, she's sitting alone.

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Speaker 3: Right even with all the individual sports and greatness that

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Speaker 3: we see across Olympic sports, across tennis and whatever else,

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Speaker 3: Caitlin Clark rules it all. So any injury that takes

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Speaker 3: her off of the playing field for any length of time,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't necessarily mean that that magnifying glass goes and

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Speaker 3: finds another star. Plenty of great athletes and stars across

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Speaker 3: the WNBA, oh yeah, make no mistake, absolutely, but they're

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Speaker 3: not the same. Come on, Angel Reese is gonna put

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Speaker 3: the league on her backs. Look, man, I saw the

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Speaker 3: give him credit for it, so I have to rediscover it.

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Speaker 3: But it was shooting percentage for Angel Reese is thirty

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Speaker 3: And then it had Jontay Porter, who was suspended forever

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Speaker 3: for fixing games, and he had a higher field goal percentage.

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Speaker 1: If you really want to have a conversation about Caitlyn

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Speaker 1: Clark and Asia Wilson. Right, there's Kate, Caitlyn Clark and

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Speaker 1: Angel We told you a year ago, and everybody else

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Speaker 1: Dennis Rodman, Right, She's Dennis Robin. She's a rebounder, and

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Speaker 1: and she's someone that has a lot of fame. She's

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Speaker 1: not nearly the player Caitlyn Clark is right. If you

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Speaker 1: want to have that conversation, that's really where it is.

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Speaker 1: But congrats everybody else that's coming around to this a

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Speaker 1: year before we did.

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Speaker 3: Natalie took it a year.

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Speaker 1: You still kind of got a Houston, Natasha Howard and

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Speaker 3: Right? They officially got to ten and the FISA Collier

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you hope it's only two weeks. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's in variation. John Fogerty should get back

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Speaker 1: M mmm, exit out about a Fresca exit swelling down

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Speaker 1: the Jason Smiths Or with Mike Carmon live from the

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio studios. So where are we right now

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Speaker 1: Thunder Sga is fouled in the backcourt. He will be

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Speaker 1: Thunder they're up three. Bet worst case for the for

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Speaker 1: are we talking about an incredible Minnesota Timberwolves comeback on

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Speaker 1: a night Anthony Edwards had disappeared for most of the game.

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Speaker 3: Or is it a.

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Speaker 1: Strangle hold for the Oklahoma City Thunder. It's coming up

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Speaker 1: next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven

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Speaker 3: friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, it is a final in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Our manager and boss, Scott Shapiro, high your ears.

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Speaker 1: The Thunder beat the Timberwolves one twenty eight to one

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Speaker 1: Shay Gildess Alexander go along with ten assists and nine rebounds.

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Speaker 3: We break down. Look, why did I tell you the

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Speaker 3: Thunder We're gonna win this series? Exactly what we've seen

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Speaker 3: The Tea Wolves need to get the rebound and score

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Speaker 3: what happened on the second free throw Edwards Banks shot

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Speaker 3: no good rebound kills us.

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Speaker 5: Alexander holds it, throws it down, the.

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Speaker 3: Court goes out with one tenth of a second remaining.

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Speaker 1: So there's Mike Breen on ESPN. The Thunder actually throw

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Speaker 3: And you're trying to throw it over chat Holmgren who's

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Speaker 3: This fan or whoever.

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Speaker 1: If that, if he doesn't catch it, that ball go

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Speaker 3: It's also the curiosity though of how they settled on

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Speaker 3: Don't let the ball come to you.

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Speaker 1: That's another tenth of a second you could have got,

434
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Speaker 1: put your hands out, touched just touch the basketball, just

435
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:53,840
Speaker 1: touch it.

436
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Speaker 3: You would have done it more well because you also

437
00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:56,880
Speaker 3: had heartstead and look it back on what the hell

438
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Speaker 3: are we doing?

439
00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:57,639
Speaker 2: Right?

440
00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,399
Speaker 3: I don't know if he felt like he was being

441
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,440
Speaker 3: you know, this was a fan interference kind of situation

442
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,480
Speaker 3: like we've had in baseball so many times. But yeah,

443
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,399
Speaker 3: when they went back to review it again, curious as

444
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 3: how they settle on point three. But either way, the

445
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 3: attempt to get the ball back up towards the rim

446
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,160
Speaker 3: and have some sort of crazy ass Jokich Aaron Gordon

447
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,680
Speaker 3: finish fails. So now we've got a three to one

448
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,639
Speaker 3: lead for okay, so this fan gets the keys to

449
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:26,240
Speaker 3: the city.

450
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,400
Speaker 1: Though, right, well, I don't know, they didn't wait one.

451
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 1: They didn't win tough. Oh that is true. Yeah, yeah,

452
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,080
Speaker 1: you're right there. Well Annie, you got you throw out

453
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:35,200
Speaker 1: the first ball the Twins game.

454
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 3: Yeah you know, yeah, you get a mini statue next

455
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 3: to Mary Tyler Moore or something.

456
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,400
Speaker 1: And TJ clearly he could turn the world on by

457
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 1: catching that ball out of bounds.

458
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Speaker 6: You get to skip Anthony Edwards in line and the

459
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,400
Speaker 6: face of the league. That is true.

460
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 3: Oh man, you talk about taking a nothing day and

461
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,399
Speaker 3: suddenly make it all seem worthwhile. That happened, So again,

462
00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,520
Speaker 3: kudos whoever. And I'm trying to see who it was, like,

463
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,320
Speaker 3: I'm trying to find social media. If they haven't, you

464
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 3: know who it was.

465
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Speaker 1: That's minnisode about them all. Uh, it could have been

466
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 1: Tom Googliata. Maybe it was Googs trying to get that.

467
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,879
Speaker 1: You never know, dobber from from from coach Wow you

468
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,399
Speaker 1: in Minnesota and coach the Screaming Eagles Minnesota. Still, Sir

469
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,200
Speaker 1: Patrick Starr, Come on now.

470
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Speaker 3: It wasn't a he would have dropped it. Oh come on, too.

471
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: Soon for that, too soon for that. Come on, it's not.

472
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,920
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, probably, but it's still too soon. Still

473
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 1: too soon, still too soon. So three to one thunder

474
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 1: and this is the big take. Look, this is why

475
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 1: are we had three to one thunder? And it goes

476
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: back to why I picked the thunder from the beginning

477
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 1: of the playoffs, why I picked him in this route. Look,

478
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:40,960
Speaker 1: it's you and I in this You had the t

479
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 1: walls which made a huge run. Not many people picked

480
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 1: them to get this far. But when it came, when

481
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 1: it came from me said, Okay, when it comes down

482
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Speaker 1: to it, I have confidence that SGA, being the MVP

483
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Speaker 1: that he is just before the series, is gonna give

484
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Speaker 1: you consistently great superstar performances, right, because he is that

485
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 1: good points, ten assists, and nine rebound sign I mean,

486
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 1: the guy almost has a triple double with forty points. Right,

487
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: This is how good the guy is. When he's not

488
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: having a great game, he finds a way to affect

489
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,920
Speaker 1: the game still, mainly by getting to the free throw line.

490
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 1: What's happening in the free throw line? Thirty one thirty

491
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 1: eight in the first two wins, I think got blown

492
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 1: out in the last game. Obviously they lose by forty points,

493
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,120
Speaker 1: so he didn't have as many may only played twenty

494
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Speaker 1: eight minutes.

495
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Speaker 3: Oh, they were getting beat early. Yeah, it was the

496
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 3: usual offensive sets. They ended up shooting forty four to

497
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 3: three point shots in that game. Yeah.

498
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Speaker 1: The games that were the games that were there, that

499
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 1: were that were up in the air were after the

500
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Speaker 1: first half of Game one and tonight and SGA thirty one,

501
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: thirty eight and forty Right, those were just thirty one thirty, eight, fourteen,

502
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,880
Speaker 1: and forty Right. So in the games in which the

503
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 1: Thunder needed something right, it was Sga in the second

504
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 1: half of Game one who was terrific got to the

505
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Speaker 1: free throw line, and Tonight continued to make plays and

506
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Speaker 1: get to the free throw line, and he was every

507
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Speaker 1: bit the VP.

508
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,160
Speaker 3: Right. I knew he would be consistently great. The rebound

509
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 3: short of a triple.

510
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: Double Tonight Anthony Edwards had two shots in the first

511
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 1: half of the game. Yeah, And I told you the

512
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: Thunder because Anthony Edwards, as much as you want to

513
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Speaker 1: make him the face of the league, and they want

514
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: to make him great before he really is. And Edwards

515
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,120
Speaker 1: still gives you a couple of games a series which

516
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: he disappears, and you had Chris Finch call him out

517
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 1: after Game one against the Nuggets in the last series,

518
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: and Edwards just gave you the answer you did not

519
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,680
Speaker 1: want to hear. No, I thought I played really well.

520
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: I thought I played well. To fact, I thought I

521
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: played well. No, dude, you need to set the tone.

522
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 1: You need to come out and be the leader.

523
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 3: And Chris Finch saying that two weeks ago, it's still

524
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 3: true now because Edwards has had two games this series

525
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 3: in which the team needed more from him, needed him

526
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Speaker 3: to set the tone, needed him to come through big,

527
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,679
Speaker 3: and he is not right. He was really good in

528
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 3: game two and is really good in Game three, But

529
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 3: the games you need him for Game one, Game four,

530
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 3: eighteen and sixteen, I've out of thirteen from the floor

531
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 3: in both games. He takes thirteen shots from the floor,

532
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,439
Speaker 3: third most on the tea Wolves tonight third most, and

533
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 3: two shots in the first half. This is not hey,

534
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 3: He's being kept out of the game. He's being hounded defensively.

535
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 3: He's not able to get in the game. If that

536
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 3: was the case, the stats would be he'd be five

537
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 3: for twenty one, five for twenty five, eight for twenty five.

538
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 3: But when you're five for thirteen, I mean, come on, man,

539
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 3: you can't if you're the you're the best player on

540
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 3: the team, one of the big stars, leave, if you're

541
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 3: the face of the league. You don't take thirteen shots

542
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 3: in a in a Western Conference finals game when your

543
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 3: team needs you to be the leading scorer. They stayed

544
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 3: in it as long as they did tonight because the

545
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 3: bench played out of their shoes.

546
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: Right their bench came out, they had nine threes in

547
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Speaker 1: the first half of the game. It's wow, the Vincenzo

548
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: was terrific. This was they should have not been in

549
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,919
Speaker 1: this game. This is a game Oklahoma City should have

550
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Speaker 1: won going away, because again it was another soft game

551
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: for An Edwards. And it's not that Ann Edwards is

552
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: having terrible games, not like suddenly that but eighteen and three, sixteen,

553
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: six and four, that's a nice game. That's not a

554
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: superstar game. You and you win championships, your superstars have

555
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: to play great. There's no teams that won where you go. Boy,

556
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: Luckily so and so stepped up because their superstar was

557
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: terrible like this is and Edwards needing to set the tone,

558
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 1: needing to do more, and he didn't. And tonight's game

559
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 1: you come off a one forty three one oh one

560
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: drubbing in game three, you come out big in this game,

561
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma City says, okay, we're putting it away, right,

562
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: We're putting it away right. He didn't need him to

563
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: score fifty, just come out and be aggressive. He takes

564
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: two shots in the first half.

565
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:36,439
Speaker 3: Two shots.

566
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Speaker 1: Man, Edwards, everything I told you the beginning of the

567
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: series is coming true. So now it's two games out

568
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: of four and Edwards has been a no show. I said,

569
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: two games out of six, and that's that's gonna be now.

570
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: It could be now, it could be over in five

571
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: two of the games, half the games in the series,

572
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 1: he has shown up somewhat soft, not ready to take control,

573
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: and didn't try to take control.

574
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 3: But that's the thing. You have to be aggressive and

575
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 3: see if you're can get the calls, make the defense work,

576
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 3: maybe you can get one or more of these guys

577
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 3: into foul trouble. None of that existed, and the tag

578
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 3: team partner, you know, Julius Randall was a nineteen and

579
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 3: seven guy. During the regular season, he disappeared again, played

580
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 3: twenty eight minutes, relegated to an awful lot of bench time.

581
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 3: Once again, the bench for the Timberwolves was fantastic to

582
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 3: the point right, hit all ten of their free throws,

583
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 3: and you're looking at twelve out of twenty from three

584
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 3: point range. You looked at Devincenzo and Alexander Walker keeping

585
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 3: them in the game. But the passivity of your stars

586
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 3: is just mind boggling. Right, you got the opportunity on

587
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 3: your home court to even things up, and you come

588
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 3: out that flat, that pass if you look at the

589
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 3: shot chart. I mean, it's embarrassing. You get two of

590
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 3: six in the third quarter, two of four and the

591
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 3: fourth for Julius Randall seven shots the entire game. Seven.

592
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 3: This is the guy that's been one of your your

593
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 3: leaders throughout the season. And that doesn't mean that you

594
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 3: weren't banking on McDaniels and others to come up big,

595
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 3: but their bonus, right, You gotta at least have a

596
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 3: baseline in terms of shot attempts and aggressiveness to get

597
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,239
Speaker 3: yourself into a position to win. And the fact that

598
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 3: they were still at this level at the end of

599
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 3: this game is nothing short of remarkable, because you saw

600
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:28,479
Speaker 3: everybody on OKC that you were making you had expectations on.

601
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 3: They were huge, and they got bonus from Jalen Williams.

602
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 3: He goes for thirty four. He was unconscious tonight thirteen

603
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 3: to twenty four Homegron twenty one and seven. The big

604
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 3: block at the end, pinning the ball up against the rim.

605
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 3: You know, a margin of inches between a goaltend and

606
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 3: a clean block. Because they went back on the broadcast

607
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 3: and probably looked at that from every angle they could

608
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 3: possibly bring. I was waiting for that, you know, phantom

609
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 3: camera thing that Lebron keeps complaining about to show up

610
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 3: for that one as well. But all of it to say,

611
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards, this is the guy that was getting the push.

612
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 3: This was the next guy, and SGA is just well

613
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 3: he's pushed him off. I quite and distance himself quite

614
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,479
Speaker 3: a bit, because now you're left with more questions than

615
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 3: answers if you're a Timberwolves fan and a member of

616
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 3: that organization, because it looked like you were that close

617
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 3: and now you're giving away games because he's a no show.

618
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: It's really if you're a big superstar, if you're the

619
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: face of the league, you don't have this, well you

620
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: go down to dagon.

621
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Speaker 7: Right.

622
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 3: For all the criticism of James Hardin, at no point

623
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 3: did you ever look at him and say, oh, he's

624
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 3: got four shots, all right? Yeah, and anything it was

625
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 3: that elbow's gonna fly into the third deck because the

626
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 3: guy won't stop.

627
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: Just to give you a reminder, this is Chris Finch.

628
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: He could have said this tonight right after the game,

629
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: but he actually said this two weeks ago after Game

630
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: one when they lost to the Nuggets.

631
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 3: And it's still true tonight.

632
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 4: What is there to talk about I mean, they're the

633
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 4: leader of the team, and you got to come out

634
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 4: and set the tone. You know, in all ways that

635
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 4: that happens. And if it's if your SHOT's not going

636
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 4: like you, you still have to carry the energy, you know.

637
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 4: So I don't think there's if I got to talk

638
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 4: to guys about having the right energy coming into opening

639
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 4: around game, opening the second round game, then you know

640
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 4: we're not you know, we're not on the same page.

641
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 3: So that could he have said that tonight? Could he

642
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 3: said that after game one in the thunder just held

643
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 3: up his cell phone and started playing it. Yeah, I

644
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 3: said this a couple of weeks ago. Let me say

645
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 3: it any better. Hang on, it's on, so hang on,

646
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 3: let me see it. NBA sent tells got it. Hang on,

647
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 3: let me find it, let me find here. You go here,

648
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 3: I listen to it right there. Let's be right there.

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Speaker 1: Uh so again I told you, And Edward's not that guy.

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Speaker 1: A guy who is that guy is Martin Weiss. He's

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Speaker 1: got what's trending right now in the wide world of sports.

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Speaker 3: Shoot it right now.

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Speaker 5: I'm locked in body.

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Speaker 7: The eleventh inning, Miami and San Diego three to three,

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Speaker 7: A wild pitch. It Padres walk it off in the

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Speaker 7: bottom of the eleventh inning on a wild pitch to

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Speaker 7: beat the Marlins four to three.

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Speaker 6: Jake, Now for what we do here, prosperg we never

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Speaker 6: lead with the po Frosburgers, got Fred, you gonna have

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Speaker 6: a conversation with you about pop leading with the Padres

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Speaker 6: over the Dodgers.

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Speaker 7: See this is where Prosberg giventh and Frostburg take it away,

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Speaker 7: because in my last last hour, he gave me a

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Speaker 7: hell of an assist. As I turned the microphone onto

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Speaker 7: Carolina scored their second.

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Speaker 5: Goal to just now, you made me jump out of

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Speaker 5: my skin. I was like, no, that got that Watson.

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Speaker 3: They're on the field, they're celebrating. What out?

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Speaker 5: What's wrong?

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Speaker 7: I got one other game live in Major League Baseball

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Speaker 7: the Yankees.

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Speaker 5: I have a five to one lead over the Angels.

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Speaker 7: In the eighth inning Western Conference Finals, Game four.

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Speaker 5: Oklahoma City takes a.

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Speaker 7: Commanding three to one lead with a two point win

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Speaker 7: today one twenty eight to one, twenty six shake Gildis

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Speaker 7: Alexander with forty points on thirty shots.

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Speaker 5: He got fourteen free throws, but the fouls weren't really.

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Speaker 7: I mean, he was getting to the line but it

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Speaker 7: wasn't the same storyline as before. Really, with the story

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Speaker 7: of today's game, Jayden, when Williams and chet Holmgren combined

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Speaker 7: for fifty five apiece, Jalen Williams j double thirty four,

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Speaker 7: chet Holker with twenty one.

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Speaker 5: Even I can do that math.

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Speaker 7: Alex Caruso had ten off the bench for Oklahoma City,

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Speaker 7: and the bench was the story for Minnesota today because

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Speaker 7: as you heard the guys just talking about it, Anthony

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Speaker 7: Edwards a no show. Julius Randall even worse. Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 7: was five for thirteen with sixteen points, one for seven

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Speaker 7: from three. Julius Randall finished with five points on seven shots,

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Speaker 7: zero for three from three, and the only played twenty

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Speaker 7: eight minutes. The guys who kept Minnesota in this thing

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Speaker 7: and gave him really a shot to win the Kielle

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Speaker 7: Alexander Walker Letiman's going with twenty three, Jadon McDaniels had

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Speaker 7: twenty two, and Dante DiVincenzo had twenty one. Again kle Lee.

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Speaker 7: Of the four players who came off Minnesota's ben, she

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Speaker 7: had twenty three points out of Walk, Alexander Walker twenty one,

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Speaker 7: Devin Chanzeol Nazri had eleven and Terrence Shannon had nine.

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Speaker 7: That means almost ever actually not looking, every single player

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Speaker 7: played for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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Speaker 5: Outscored Julius Randall tonight, So that's fair.

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Speaker 3: There's ben shoe.

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Speaker 5: Tigers beat the Giants three to one. How you buyers

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Speaker 5: got ejected after it?

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Speaker 3: How many points were Troy Hudson tonight for the t Wolves.

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Speaker 7: You know, more than hey, more than Julius Randall, more

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Speaker 7: than Julius Randalls.

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Speaker 3: All right, all right? How many for Gary Trent and

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Speaker 3: Wally Zerbiak?

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Speaker 5: How many do they have?

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Speaker 4: This? Oh?

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Speaker 5: Wally?

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Speaker 3: How many for Derek Martin? How many for him tonight?

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Speaker 7: Orioles dig get? They got a home win. This is

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Speaker 7: only a ninth home win on the year for them.

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Speaker 7: So it's a momentous occasion of Baltimore five to two.

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Speaker 7: You know what, I'm buyers at the deadline per Jason

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Speaker 7: Lockock locking for Earlier today, Matt's beat the White Sox

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Speaker 7: two to one in the Jason Smith and Mike Harmon

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Speaker 7: ball and earlier today, Tony hit a first pitch leadoff

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Speaker 7: home run nineteen on the year to beat the Dodgers

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Speaker 7: beat the Guardians seven to two.

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Speaker 3: Back to you guys, Thanks a bunch, Mart appreciated My

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Speaker 3: friend Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, there's an NBA

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Speaker 3: star I need to apologize to because after what's going

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Speaker 3: on in the NBA playoffs, I think I cursed him.

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Speaker 3: I think it's my fault that this guy has been

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Speaker 3: so bad. That's next, Jason to Mike Fox.

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Speaker 6: Is it Jalen Bronson?

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Speaker 3: Stop?

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Mike Harmon knows the rules, and so

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Speaker 1: do I. We're gonna hear from Ann Edwards coming up

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Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Oh boy, meeting the media? Will

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Speaker 1: he take responsibility for a loss?

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Speaker 3: Oh boy? Wait, don't you hear him? How about best

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Speaker 3: seth rollins. I need to apologize to Julius Randall. You say, wait,

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Speaker 3: you're going to apologize Randall? I do.

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Speaker 4: I do.

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Speaker 3: Here's why because and really the thunder should give me

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Speaker 3: a ring if they went it winning the title. It's

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Speaker 3: my fault. It should be your fault.

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Speaker 1: Yes, because you know what did we say after Game

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Speaker 1: one right. Game one against the Oklahoma City Thunder, we said, look,

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Speaker 1: never stands the pulling guard, then you don't eat yellow snow. Yes, uh,

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Speaker 1: he keeps them in Game one, five threes in the

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Speaker 1: first half, and okay, all you could do twenty eight points,

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Speaker 1: eight rebounds, and what did we say? Hey, I feel

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Speaker 1: happy for the guy because being a one A guy

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00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: didn't really work. He didn't have the offensive game to

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Speaker 1: be a one A guy. He still took too many

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Speaker 1: shots and he couldn't take every time I had to

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Speaker 1: watch him, I'm gonna hold the ball to the end

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Speaker 1: of the shot clock.

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Speaker 3: No, dude, they're just gonna run another defender out. You're

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Speaker 3: gonna turn it over.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: It just wasn't the start him when he when he

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Speaker 1: reached the stardom in New York. Hey, he was on

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Speaker 1: a bad team in twenty twenty, but he was terrific. Okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe things got a little bit too difficult for him

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Speaker 1: as far as what to expect from Randall. He's a

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Speaker 1: really good player on a bad team. But now, okay,

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Speaker 1: you want to be a really good player and a

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Speaker 1: good team. And as you saw over the course of

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Speaker 1: the last year plus when he was with the Knicks,

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Speaker 1: his impact on the game lessened. He didn't seem quite happy.

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Speaker 1: But he goes to Minnesota. Takes him while to assimilate

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Speaker 1: and now you look at the smile on his face.

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Speaker 1: Now good he has played over the course of the

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Speaker 1: past forty to fifty games, Right, it takes you a

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Speaker 1: little bit to get used to a new team. Sure,

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Speaker 1: and here he is. Doesn't need to be the one

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Speaker 1: A guy, could be the two guy, and you know,

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Speaker 1: once in a while, can be the one A guy.

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Speaker 1: And really he brings that that sort of ability to

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Speaker 1: a team that where I can be the number two

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Speaker 1: guy on a night, one guy once in a while,

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Speaker 1: but really, if I'm that third guy that I can

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Speaker 1: that I can sort of, you know, move a little

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Speaker 1: bit and fluctuate with what you need on me. As

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Speaker 1: far as a dependability, that's what he does well because

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Speaker 1: he's solid across the stat sheet. Randall does a lot.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: This is why I'm apologize Julius Randall because he has

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Speaker 1: been absolutely terrible since I said that he has only

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Speaker 1: been one problem with him.

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Speaker 3: One problem with him. It's what's that one problem? He's stunk?

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Speaker 3: That's my only problem. Sounds about right.

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Speaker 1: Six points in Game two, five points on seven shots.

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Speaker 1: In Game four tonight five point seven. He has been

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Speaker 1: awful in two big games. He has absolutely just disappeared.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you laugh, just when I needed

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Speaker 3: emotion twenty eight, twenty four five. Right, it's my fault

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Speaker 3: because I said, so, hey, enjoying things here. Look at

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Speaker 3: Julius Randall away from the Knicks, you know, because he

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Speaker 3: had some time with the Knicks where all of a

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00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 3: sudden he would get sulling for a little while. It

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Speaker 3: would look like he wasn't happy. And why are you

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Speaker 3: not happy that they had to move on?

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Speaker 1: There was a Lakers too. Yeah, that's kind of what

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Speaker 1: it is, is Randall. But but this is the first year

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Speaker 1: and it should be your honeymoon period. Right with Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: he's played really well. You would think in the conference

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Speaker 1: finals the honeymoon period would be feeling and flowing. Now,

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Speaker 1: after I said the greatest basketball life is, he's had

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Speaker 1: two of the worst games at the absolute worst time.

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Speaker 1: He and and Edwards both like this is a game

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Speaker 1: where somebody needed to step up, and instead, like Julius

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Speaker 1: Randall and Edward just said no, we're just gonna watch

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Speaker 1: the game. Go buy in front of us, everybody else

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Speaker 1: to go buy. All they needed was an average game

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Speaker 1: from both of them, and they got nothing.

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Speaker 3: Right. Edwards passivity early, he finishes what sixteen five whatever,

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Speaker 3: it's a it's a mid stat line. But Randall is

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Speaker 3: a guy that averaged nineteen points a game for you.

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Speaker 3: He gives you five again, not aggressive, not trying to

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Speaker 3: get to the rack, a non factor there, and your

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Speaker 3: bench carried your asses today. They gave you every opportunity. Now,

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Speaker 3: the only thing Edwards did was why hitting that final

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Speaker 3: free throw? If you back the Timberwolves of the betting market,

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Speaker 3: you got your plus three or plus three and a half, sure, congratulations,

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Speaker 3: But beyond that, he gave you a whole lot of nothing.

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Speaker 3: And even that far, I don't throw in. Man, that's

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Speaker 3: the best heave you can get.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know Chet's pretty tall.

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Speaker 1: Chet's pretty tall, but still, I mean, look, I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: it's my fault.

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Speaker 3: It's my harmon, it's my fault. I think he heard you.

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Speaker 1: It's my fault. And he got satisfied. Things are great

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Speaker 1: that he the Knicks guy, forgave me.

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Speaker 3: A guy that was running me down all over it

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Speaker 3: say I need help pack, get me to Minnesota. He

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Speaker 3: forgave me and all was right with the word, and

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Speaker 3: then he relaxed in that that you got six points

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Speaker 3: in game two thirds your fault. Really it's it's amazing,

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Speaker 3: God's gonna hurt the no shows that he that you've

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Speaker 3: gotten from him and Ann Edwards. But but it's my

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Speaker 3: fault on Randall, not my fault for Edwards, but my

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Speaker 3: fault on Randall. So I'll take respond Edwards the way

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Speaker 3: in the world. If everybody's saying you're next, evidently wait,

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Speaker 3: don't we hear what NN Edwards has to say? Coming

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Speaker 3: up next, following the Tea Wolves loss of the thunder,

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Speaker 3: get ready Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio,