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Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks

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Speaker 1: Podcast presented by FanDuel Saturday May twenty third, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: This is the weekend shift. I'm j E. Skeets acting

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Speaker 1: as a player coach here today in the yard. So

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Speaker 1: please bear with me as I tried a one man band,

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Speaker 1: a classic for you. Shout out to everybody joining me

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Speaker 1: live on YouTube. Appreciate that. Hit the like button, subscribe,

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Speaker 1: and hello to all of our podcast listeners as well.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully everybody can see me and hear me, and we're

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Speaker 1: crystal clear. It is a rainy, gloomy day here in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: I was going nuts right before I went live because

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Speaker 1: I could hear outside of my office here the dripping

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Speaker 1: of water in the eavestroughs gutters as you Americans like

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Speaker 1: to call them, on the house, dropping down the pipe

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Speaker 1: and then hitting the bottom of it. And it was

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Speaker 1: like making me go nuts. I don't think it's coming

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Speaker 1: through on the mic. That's just me, that's just my OCD.

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Speaker 1: But we're okay, we're fine. We'll power through this again. Hello, hello, hello, uh.

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Speaker 1: I'm here to share some thoughts on game three. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk quickly about the all defensive teams, them snubbing my

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Speaker 1: boy Scottie Barnes for the first team. And we'll do

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Speaker 1: a quick look ahead to tonight's Game three, maybe in Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: as the Cavs try and get their first victory. But

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Speaker 1: let's get into it. Game three, Shake Gildos Alexander twenty

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Speaker 1: six points, twelve assists as okay, see climbed out of

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Speaker 1: an early hole, a deep hole minutes into the game,

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Speaker 1: and they beat the Spurs one twenty three, one o eight.

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Speaker 1: On Friday night, they take the two to one lead

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Speaker 1: in the Western Conference Finals. Let's do it like this.

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Speaker 1: I think I have six or seven takeaways from this game.

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Speaker 1: The first one is the spurs hot start. Let's start

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Speaker 1: with the good for San Antonio. They had a fifteen

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Speaker 1: to oh lead in Game three, which they're telling us

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Speaker 1: was like one of the longest runs to open a

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Speaker 1: game in the Conference finals that we've ever seen since

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Speaker 1: the play by play data. So that's cool. What a start.

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Speaker 1: Darren Fox opened it up by zippin' by lou dort

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Speaker 1: a left hand layup. He looked solid there to start.

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Speaker 1: You're like, okay, that's a great sign. Then when min

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Speaker 1: Yama followed it up with crossing up Isaiah Hartenstein out

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Speaker 1: at the three point line, banged home the three. You

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Speaker 1: had Reggie going nuts early in this one. Wait a

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Speaker 1: minute now. Then Castle grabbed an offensive rebound off of

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Speaker 1: Julian Champenni miss in the corner. He drew the foul,

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Speaker 1: he hit free throws, and then Devin Masel grabbed a

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Speaker 1: defensive board brought it up the floor. There was miscommunication

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Speaker 1: by OKC on defense, so Vessel just stepped into a

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Speaker 1: three up top bang that home. In semi transition, spurs

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Speaker 1: up ten oh time out. Mark wants a timeout because

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Speaker 1: what a start. And that place was going nuts there

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Speaker 1: with the again the color coded t shirts, the Fiesta

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Speaker 1: t shirts, and they had another t FO and san

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Speaker 1: Antonio is going berserk. What a great start. You're thinking, Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go. It continued after the time out. If

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Speaker 1: we're being honest too, I mean, the defense was a

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Speaker 1: lead as well, big blocks and obviously getting stops. But

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Speaker 1: then you had a fast break layup off another turnover,

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Speaker 1: and then you had Castle out a huge block and

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Speaker 1: then another Devin for cel three and just like that,

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Speaker 1: it's fifteen to zero and it's like, holy crap, okayc

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Speaker 1: He's just been punched in the mouth. But they've been here,

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Speaker 1: done that. And to quote the great Marcus Thompson, the

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Speaker 1: third I love this line that I saw him right

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Speaker 1: on the times this morning, he said, quote after san

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Speaker 1: Antonio jumped out to a fifteen to oh lead, Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: City walked them down slowly, like the killer in an

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Speaker 1: eighties horror film. Slow and methodically just walked back into

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Speaker 1: this game and then killed them at the end or

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Speaker 1: throughout the game. I mean at moments where it's sort

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Speaker 1: of like, Okay, there's something here, but they always had

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Speaker 1: an answer, and usually it was the bench. And that

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Speaker 1: is the second point, you know, probably most people's first

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Speaker 1: takeaway from Game three of the Western Conference Finals, But

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Speaker 1: I wanted to show some love to that hot Spurs

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Speaker 1: start that just had the place ready to explode. But

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Speaker 1: the bench, instrumental for Okasee and coming back their starters

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Speaker 1: only scored forty seven points. I mean, Louke Dort, he's

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Speaker 1: done sort of nothing offensively in this series. AJ Mitchell

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Speaker 1: sort of leaving in the injuries that are still playing

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Speaker 1: a part in this series. And you know, that's two

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Speaker 1: guys starting because there's no j Dubb that are again

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Speaker 1: going to be a problem. Not for okay, see, because

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Speaker 1: their reserves outscored the Spurs reserves seventy six to twenty

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Speaker 1: three in Game three, seventy six to twenty three. I

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Speaker 1: had to repeat that, that's a massive differential. Four guys

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Speaker 1: were awesome off the bench. Jared McCain scored a playoff

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Speaker 1: career high twenty four points. He had sixteen in the

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Speaker 1: second half. He had, you know, in a quarter that

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Speaker 1: took forever. He had big buckets there in the third.

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Speaker 1: Just the great balance he has right now of hitting threes,

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Speaker 1: of course being set up by sgaight a lot of

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Speaker 1: make plays hit the little jumpers like this is something

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Speaker 1: especially without Jadub that the thunder last year, big chunks

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Speaker 1: of this year they lacked. It was like sga was

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Speaker 1: the main creator again without Jadub there, so for them

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Speaker 1: to get this guy, oh my god, what an addition.

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Speaker 1: Darryl Moray. I mean, the joke going around last night

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Speaker 1: was like Daryl Moray was just high when he traded

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Speaker 1: Jared McCain. He wasn't selling high. He just happened to

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Speaker 1: be super high. And he's like, yeah, that sounds a

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Speaker 1: good deal. How many picks? Okay, So awesome game from him.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Williams the other one, the big one. He scored

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Speaker 1: fourteen of his playoff career high eighteen in the first half.

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Speaker 1: He had five boards, so he was awesome. He had

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Speaker 1: the big four point play that sort of felt like

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Speaker 1: it iced the game a little bit. Cason Wallace the

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Speaker 1: most Cason Wallace stat line of all time. This is

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Speaker 1: the Cason Wallace stat line. Okay, it's all about it's

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Speaker 1: about ten or eleven points. He had eleven last night.

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Speaker 1: It's about four or five rebounds he had five. It's

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Speaker 1: about four or five assists. He had four, and it's

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Speaker 1: usually three steals. That is the Cason Wallace line. So

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Speaker 1: he was awesome. And then Caruso, Oh yeah, this guy

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Speaker 1: continues to be, I don't know, probably the third best

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Speaker 1: fifteen points, a few rebounds, obviously a couple of defensive

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Speaker 1: metrics there, two steals, one block, soup. He was great too.

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Speaker 1: He's shooting like Steph Curry, like numbers from three in

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Speaker 1: a series so far, So that's good. Elmer Fudd is cooking. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And so for the series after last night, the Thunders

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Speaker 1: bench has outscored the Spurs reserves one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: three two sixty four d nod d dah. Doing the

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Speaker 1: math real quick, that's damn near tripling them up through

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Speaker 1: three games. One hundred and eighty three points. Is that right?

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Speaker 1: That sounds even higher than I think. That's crazy if

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Speaker 1: sounds insane. One hundred and eighty three points in three

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Speaker 1: games from the bench, Holy moly, Well, I guess they

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Speaker 1: had seventy six last night, so unbelievable. So that's the

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Speaker 1: second takeaway. Third takeaway, I'll stick with okayse here, But

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Speaker 1: what the thunder excuse me? What the Spurs maybe need

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Speaker 1: to do or maybe they'll switch up? And that is,

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Speaker 1: should the Spurs change their defensive strategy on Shae because

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Speaker 1: they obviously the game plan as it's been here now

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Speaker 1: through three games is as much as possible, force the

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Speaker 1: ball out of his hands, pressure him, throw random doubles

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Speaker 1: at him, stay heavy in the gaps. As he talked about, basically,

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Speaker 1: make anybody else beat us if you can. They are

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Speaker 1: as I just went through, everybody else is beating them.

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Speaker 1: So and Sga as he's gotten more and more comfortable

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Speaker 1: with the coverage and where help's coming from and where

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Speaker 1: guys are moving on his team, you know, he's just

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Speaker 1: racking up these assists. This is a second game in

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Speaker 1: the series had twelve assists. That's a playoff career high.

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Speaker 1: He had twelve assists in Game seven of the finals

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Speaker 1: last year and now twice in this series twelve assists.

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Speaker 1: Only had two turnovers too, So through three games, SGAs

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Speaker 1: thirty three assists and seven turnovers. He is just like

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Speaker 1: like a surgeon right now. He is you know, obviously

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Speaker 1: picks his spots of when to score, when to attack.

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Speaker 1: Didn't miss one of those with his quick free throw attempts.

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Speaker 1: But you gotta wonder, like, I know it sounds silly,

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Speaker 1: back to staying home on some of these other guys

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Speaker 1: and like try and just hope SGA has one of

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Speaker 1: these bad games where he's like just obviously taking it

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Speaker 1: the way he's seeing everything right now, that's a possibility

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Speaker 1: Sean Sweeney will try. But overall, you know, my one

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Speaker 1: way SGA and the Thunder have played, is like last

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Speaker 1: year they won the title and SG was like, ah,

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Speaker 1: we weren't that great. I could play better. He definitely

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Speaker 1: said that. He said I myself could have played better

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Speaker 1: seven game series at times looked beatable. Obviously we're trailing

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Speaker 1: just like they were in this series. But the point

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Speaker 1: of hitting a whole other level here, So scary of course,

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the league and for the Spurst

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Speaker 1: Fance fourth takeaway Thunder are doing a good job of limiting.

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Speaker 1: Let's say that Web and Yama. He had twenty six

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Speaker 1: So this has gone down and maintained or leveled out

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Speaker 1: here from two to three with only ten points, he

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Speaker 1: So okay, what's going on here? The first part is, well,

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Speaker 1: what change from game one to game two was how

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Speaker 1: they played him? Bully ball, Hartenstein, big guy, even Jawill

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Speaker 1: bumping them, hitting them and tiring him is the other part.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's one part of the equation. I'll come

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Speaker 1: back to the tired part, but I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: doing Mitch Johnson and the Spurs wemby any favors here

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Speaker 1: by not scheming enough offense. I don't think to get

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Speaker 1: them the ball closer to the basket. In game three,

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Speaker 1: think of how many how many oops did he have?

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Speaker 1: Maybe one, maybe two, but like very few rim rolls, duckins.

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Speaker 1: Just like he's just getting pushed more and more out.

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Speaker 1: There's like very little mismatches that they're getting or switching

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Speaker 1: and the number four Celtics, they placed one player apiece

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Speaker 1: on the first team. Gobert's Wolves finished eighth in defensive rating.

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Speaker 1: The biggest surprise though, is White over Scotty Barnes on

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Speaker 1: the first team. It's surprising because well, one, Scottie Barnes

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Speaker 1: is a better defender right now than Derek White or

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Speaker 1: was this season, and we definitely saw it in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But the other part is in the actual defensive Player

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Speaker 1: of the Year voting, Scotty two Hotty finished fifth, White

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Speaker 1: finished sixth. Yet in all defensive team voting, they flip flopped.

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Speaker 1: White got fifty eight first team votes, thirty second team

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Speaker 1: votes one hundred and forty six total points. Barnes got

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Speaker 1: forty two first team votes and forty six second team

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Speaker 1: votes for one hundred and thirty total points. What up

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Speaker 1: with that? I mean, they got this wrong. Let's just

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Speaker 1: be honest. I think Scottie Burnes was probably the third,

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Speaker 1: at the very least fourth best defensive player in the league.

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Speaker 1: I think probably closer to the third. For him to

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Speaker 1: be bounced from the first team, that sucks. Now. All

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Speaker 1: that said, God damn, I don't know what the hell

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Speaker 1: was going on with this camera. That said I infamously,

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Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. I know Trey Kirby always

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Speaker 1: gets upset with me. I do always say, in the

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Speaker 1: grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter to your

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Speaker 1: NBA legacy or Hall of Fame credentials or whatever whether

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Speaker 1: you were like a first or second team All Defensive guy.

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Speaker 1: And I've extended that to even say in all NBA selections,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it really matters, Like it's gonna just

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Speaker 1: say you were an All NBA guy blah blah this

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Speaker 1: many years. Right, we don't really there's not a lot

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Speaker 1: of deep diving into like, yeah, he made seven All

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Speaker 1: NBA teams, but he only made one All NBA first team.

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Speaker 1: We just don't do it. I'm not saying it's right.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying we don't do it. So the key

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Speaker 1: number is totality, the number of how many All NBA selections,

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Speaker 1: be it first, second, or thirteen, same thing with all defenses.

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Speaker 1: My point here, so as much as a Raptors fan,

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Speaker 1: I think it's stupid that Barnes wasn't on the first

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Speaker 1: team All Defensive team. It's okay, it's a selection that

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Speaker 1: he's going to add a bunch of these two is

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Speaker 1: hopefully Hall of Fame career down the line. So it

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Speaker 1: is what it is, but it's wrong. I think most

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Speaker 1: people would agree with that too. Having Scottie off is weird.

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Speaker 1: Other snubs like actually not on the teams. I know

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Speaker 1: Amen Thompson and Stefan Cassel were close, they just missed

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Speaker 1: the cut. I think you can make a case that

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Speaker 1: either of them you could take over maybe at Dyson

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Speaker 1: Daniels this year, but they were just short in total

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Speaker 1: in total votes. Others just other surprises that I want

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Speaker 1: to make note of Evan Mobley. He won Defensive Player

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Speaker 1: of the Year last year, right in twenty four to

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Speaker 1: twenty five? Do I have that right? Do I have

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Speaker 1: my years right? He got thirteen second place votes, so

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Speaker 1: like pretty wild when you think of that drop off

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Speaker 1: just in terms of the respect from the voters. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he deserved to be on it. I

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Speaker 1: just think, Wow, that's glaring. I wonder how many times

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Speaker 1: that's happened, especially with a big because it's like defenses,

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Speaker 1: like of all the awards, like it's reputation base. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's a big part of why Derek White is probably

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Speaker 1: on the first team. It's it is it's just more

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Speaker 1: ingrained as a reputational thing. You're a good defender. You

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Speaker 1: were a good defender, You've remained a good defender. So Mobley,

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Speaker 1: hell of a drop off. And then Jada McDaniels. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he got three votes, and we've just named a bunch

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Speaker 1: of great defenders. So it's tough, like you're gonna run

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Speaker 1: out of spots. Maybe we need an all defensive third team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if like it is half the game here,

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Speaker 1: why not we show so a little bit more love

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Speaker 1: to defense. So whatever, he just got three votes. I

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Speaker 1: thought that was just an interesting note. That's all for you.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to woboy a little bit of the night.

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Speaker 1: Look at this not filling the whole screen. Who cares?

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Speaker 1: Who Boy? Not sponsored by anyone today, not on the weekends.

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, Shay Gilders Alexander scored a game high

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Speaker 1: twenty six points. He gets WOA boy Lily six to

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Speaker 1: seventeen from the field boo, but Sank called twelve of

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Speaker 1: his free throw attempts. Yay dished out twelve assists, two boards,

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Speaker 1: one blocked shot in thirty six minutes. You could have

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Speaker 1: made a case it for Jared McCain. I guess even

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Speaker 1: Big Jay Will, who was pretty damn good. Those guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean I really should just gave woe boy to

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Speaker 1: the bench, will bench to Okay, see everybody coming through.

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Speaker 1: That played off the pine for Oka. See we'll call

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Speaker 1: it there. Nicks Cavs Tonight, Game three, eight o'clock ABC.

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Speaker 1: As I said, this is the season on the line

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Speaker 1: for Cleveland. Come on Mobiley, come on Mitchell, come on Harden,

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Speaker 1: come on Alan, give us a series here. I know

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Speaker 1: Knicks fans aren't gonna care. They don't want that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: come on in camera? Why not? Completely random? Just as

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Speaker 1: soon as I started stroking my beard, the camera decided,

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Speaker 1: let's get a nice tight shot of that. Yeah, good work.

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Speaker 1: Is an AI camera running in the yard now? Probably? Um,

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Speaker 1: I hope for Cleveland to show something here. I'm with Trey.

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Speaker 1: There needs to be like an outlier performance like a Strews,

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Speaker 1: a Shrewder Sam Merrill would be great if he could

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Speaker 1: hit a three. Maybe it is just a big Mitchell

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00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: or Harding game. There's gotta be something because the Knicks,

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Speaker 1: like the thunder. They have this thing called the team

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Speaker 1: where man, everybody's clicking, and like the confidence just builds

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Speaker 1: and builds from game to game. So gonna be tough,

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Speaker 1: but I still have some faith that Cleveland can maybe

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Speaker 1: get one here in that the cat can get won

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland, I hope. So let me tell you a

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Speaker 1: quick look at any of your notes. Somebody said, interesting

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Speaker 1: that Wallace over Dort for all defensive selection. It's a

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Speaker 1: good point like Dort is more has been more known

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Speaker 1: as their wing guy. That is true. You know, caseon

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Speaker 1: Wallas is a dog on that end. People are saying

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Speaker 1: the Celtics have lobbyists. Yes, sure, a lot of Scottie robbed,

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Speaker 1: a lot of Scottie rob talk here going back, Honk says, yeah,

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Speaker 1: weak flagrant, I'm with you. I mean, in the end,

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Speaker 1: it's like, obviously, of course I had no real impact

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Speaker 1: on the game. Rests trying to just like nip it

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Speaker 1: in the butt. You see the clip of who was it?

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Speaker 1: It was Isaiah Joe on the thunder bench when all

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Speaker 1: the little scuffle went down. He did like a like

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Speaker 1: a pretend, like a little fake out, like he was

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Speaker 1: gonna run onto the court and get suspended, spooked his

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Speaker 1: assistant coach, like all the guys ready to hold them back.

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Speaker 1: He just pretended he was gonna go left. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: a quick thirty thirty five minute no dunks Saturday podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we got a close one tonight, really entertaining game.

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