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Speaker 1: and basketball. So we did a show earlier this week,

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Speaker 1: if you guys remember, was after the Celtics went into

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Speaker 1: my championship favorite. And the reason why is I've already

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Speaker 1: seen the Boston Celtics dominated a regular season from January

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Speaker 1: were the best defense in the league and the best

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Speaker 1: offense in the league. They dominated everybody, and yet against

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Speaker 1: I still gave a slight edge to Boston. They got

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Speaker 1: Why did I pick Golden State to win the title

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Speaker 1: If Boston became a better execution team, better better at

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Speaker 1: I didn't care that Golden State got off to a

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Speaker 1: that's what this game was for Golden State, although on

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Speaker 1: Jordan Pool was by himself for a layup. That's a detail.

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Speaker 1: They gave up nineteen fast breakpoints which is the difference

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Speaker 1: Golden State was just sprinting back, communicating, getting matched up,

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Speaker 1: State dominated on the glass. That's about competing, crashing or

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Speaker 1: get over it. Because I think Golden State is gonna

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Speaker 1: himself of what he's capable of. In general, just kind

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Speaker 1: of zooming out on Boston. They need to improve in

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Speaker 1: ways that are really difficult to improve on during the

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Speaker 1: regular season. They don't need reps for the sake of reps.

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Speaker 1: They have a year's worth of really solid reps this

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Speaker 1: year where they've killed everybody. They need high pressure reps

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Speaker 1: against great teams in high stakes environments. Kicking the ship

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Speaker 1: out of everybody in the regular season is just not

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Speaker 1: going to help them there. They need to face their

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Speaker 1: ugly side, this ugly side of Boston, which is there

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Speaker 1: driving into help and shooting over the top of the

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Speaker 1: the details, that ugly side of them that shows up

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Speaker 1: in these big environments. They need to face that and

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Speaker 1: they need to beat it. And I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna get a chance to really face that again, aside

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Speaker 1: from a handful of you know, maybe a matchup against Milwaukee, there,

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Speaker 1: another matchup against Golden State in the regular season. They're

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Speaker 1: not really going to get a chance to prove that

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Speaker 1: until the conference finals against Milwaukee this year. So it's tough.

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Speaker 1: It's unfortunate because this was this was a great opportunity.

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Speaker 1: And again, like if you go into Golden State and

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Speaker 1: you're sharp in the details and you get back in

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Speaker 1: transition defense and you make all the right reads and

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Speaker 1: you just shoot poorly and they shoot better and you lose.

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Speaker 1: You go home and you're like, you know what they

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Speaker 1: got us tonight. But this that's gotta be a frustrating loss.

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Speaker 1: And I mean you could hear it a little bit

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Speaker 1: in Joe Maszula's postgame comments when he was talking about

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Speaker 1: testing their ability to make the right read, but like

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Speaker 1: it was exceptionally disappointing because it looked just like last year.

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Speaker 1: That looked like an extension of the NBA Finals. It

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Speaker 1: didn't look like a Boston team that had learned a lesson. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to rewatch this game a little bit,

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Speaker 1: especially once the once some of the data updates on

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Speaker 1: some of the tracking services that I use, and we'll

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Speaker 1: probably touch on this a little bit more later next week.

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Speaker 1: But that's all I have for tonight. We're gonna take

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow off, Monday off entirely, and then Tuesday night we'll

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Speaker 1: be going live again, I believe after the Warriors game

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Speaker 1: that night, and then we'll break down a bunch of

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Speaker 1: other games from Sunday and Monday as well as always.

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Speaker 1: I sincerely appreciate your guys support, and I'll see you

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday night. The volume