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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up.

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Speaker 3: Straight Fire Fan? It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Friday,

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Speaker 3: August the ninth, and I should just start the podcast

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Speaker 3: by chanting you say, you say. I'm recording this Thursday afternoon,

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Speaker 3: and I have to catch a flight to San Jose

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Speaker 3: to watch Nikosa in action on Thursday night in the

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Speaker 3: Legua's Cup. So I'm recording this before that match. And

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Speaker 3: I just watched one of the most thrilling Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 3: just say it was the most thrilling USA men's basketball

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Speaker 3: match I've ever seen. And I know that game against Spain,

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Speaker 3: the Kobe twenty eighteen against Spain in the final was

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Speaker 3: like nipatucking good, but this was different. The US was

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Speaker 3: getting buried by Serbia, down fifteen in the first half,

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Speaker 3: down fifteen in the second half. I think they were

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Speaker 3: down thirteen to start the fourth quarter, and I'm watching

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Speaker 3: with the fam and I say to the family, listen,

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Speaker 3: we got to get within five to start the fourth

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Speaker 3: or we're not gonna have a chance. And we got

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Speaker 3: it like to six, and then they quickly scored, bing bing,

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Speaker 3: bing kept scoring, and all of a sudden, next thing

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Speaker 3: you know, down thirteen and I'm saying it's over.

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Speaker 2: We're done.

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Speaker 3: Like we had a good run, but I don't see

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Speaker 3: them coming back. Steve Kerr been having one of the

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Speaker 3: worst games I've ever seen him. Coach goodness graciously, he

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Speaker 3: was awful and down the stretch, Kerr wisened up and

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Speaker 3: went with take a guest, take a guess, winning veteran mentality. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I love Anthony Edwards as much as a neck guy.

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Speaker 3: He had a brutal thirteen minute effort against Serbia.

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Speaker 2: I mean he tried.

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Speaker 3: He basically missed his two threes white I'm talking wide

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Speaker 3: open in corner threes.

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Speaker 2: Both of them were He.

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Speaker 3: Had a couple of bad turnoversicked up a couple of fouls,

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Speaker 3: and essentially was like killing them. And Jason Tatum's not playing.

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Speaker 3: I'm ranting. I'm like, we gotta get Tatum in the game.

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Speaker 3: He can score, he can play at both ends. Drew Holliday,

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Speaker 3: a great defender, was just getting cooked alive by Jokich

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Speaker 3: in the pick and roll. The US was just not

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Speaker 3: playing smart basketball. And I told you this on the

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Speaker 3: pod yesterday. I told you, guys, Serbia is dangerous. I

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Speaker 3: gave out the bets Serbia getting the points. I think

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Speaker 3: it closed at fourteen and a half, so three full

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Speaker 3: point move off the seventeen and a half point favorite

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Speaker 3: that the US was, And it was very clear early

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Speaker 3: Serbia got hot from three and Jokich was doing Yokic things.

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Speaker 3: He entered with seventeen eleven and five, did miss all

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Speaker 3: six of his threes, But Yokis played thirty eight minutes

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Speaker 3: and he was gassed in the fourth and the fourth

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Speaker 3: quarter winning time when Serbia had a big lead. This

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Speaker 3: is what happened. The USA went to winning veteran mentality

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Speaker 3: Lebron James, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Devin Booker. The five

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Speaker 3: guys who played, I think almost exclusively the fourth were

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Speaker 3: guys who are champions. Now I know there's champions on

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Speaker 3: the bench. You know, Anthony Davis has won a chip,

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Speaker 3: Jason Tatum, who didn't play, has a title.

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Speaker 2: And why was Joel Embid in there?

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Speaker 3: He'd struggle. Joel Embid finally had a good game. He

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Speaker 3: had nineteen points. Now he did have a couple like

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Speaker 3: what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Turnovers?

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Speaker 3: But ultimately this came down to Steph Curry just getting

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Speaker 3: volcanic from three, the Curry eruption you've been waiting for.

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Speaker 3: And I'm recording this without Rob g and I know

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Speaker 3: if you were here, he would be like, all right,

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Speaker 3: I'll take the l for saying cur should bench Curry

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Speaker 3: and listen. It was it was a legitimate conversation. Curry

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Speaker 3: had struggled that much. I think it was more like,

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Speaker 3: if he's having a one for nine game, what do

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Speaker 3: you do in the fourth with Curry? You know, with Kerr,

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Speaker 3: bench's guy. But it didn't get to that. Curry went

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Speaker 3: off early, scored the I think their first fourteen points

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Speaker 3: had thirty six and eight boards, by the way, which

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Speaker 3: was nice. Hit nine threes so close late. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he hit the free throws. Steph Curry just it was

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Speaker 3: the kind of game where you ended it and you're like,

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Speaker 3: I need I need more Steph Curry in my life. Hey,

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Speaker 3: Adam Silver, can we make sure either the Warriors are

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Speaker 3: good again or Curry gets on a good team so

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Speaker 3: we could see him in late May and June in

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Speaker 3: the playoff. We need Steph Curry in the playoffs. It

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Speaker 3: was scintillating watching him shoot because once he starts cooking

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Speaker 3: and in the first quarter, like he hits a couple

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Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, here we go, here we go.

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Speaker 3: And then he's got all of a sudden eleven points

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Speaker 3: and they find him in the corner in front of

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Speaker 3: the USA bench. He puts up the shot, turns around

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Speaker 3: to the bench, and that's the moment where you just are.

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Speaker 4: Like, oh boy, we got a curry game. It turned

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Speaker 4: around splish, splitsh splash. Obviously, just an awesome game. The

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Speaker 4: energy for the US during that comeback was incredible. Watching

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Speaker 4: with the FAMI, we were freaking out. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 4: going bonkers. I'm like, we can't lose to Serbia.

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Speaker 2: Come on, we can't.

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Speaker 3: They're good, obviously they have they have NBA players. Butgdanovich,

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Speaker 3: who I like, maybe three years ago joked I called

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Speaker 3: him the Serbian plumber.

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Speaker 4: Bro.

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Speaker 2: He ain't.

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Speaker 3: That guy was giving buckets to everybody. He kept them

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Speaker 3: in the game. He was outstanding, talking trash to Carmelo

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Speaker 3: Anthony courtside and then staring him down like, but bogdanovit's

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Speaker 3: got some swag.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you.

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Speaker 3: Bogdanovitch looked to me like he was auditioning for a

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Speaker 3: role on a major contender, and he's like, yeah, listen,

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Speaker 3: I can score with the best of them, and maybe

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Speaker 3: this was one of those. Hey, this is like Evan

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Speaker 3: fourty a and we'll get to the France game in

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Speaker 3: a minute. But I can do this too. And you

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Speaker 3: know Bogdan Bogdanovic. I hope I'm saying his name right. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he is currently on the Atlanta Hawks. He's only he

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Speaker 3: turns thirty two here in a minute. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how the Hawks can't try to unload him.

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Speaker 3: His value, his stock is at an all time high.

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Speaker 3: That guy, man, he was he was awesome. But I

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Speaker 3: decided to dig into some of the numbers and they're

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Speaker 3: still trickling out. The game again, just ended like fifteen

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Speaker 3: minutes ago, but you could tell that Serbia was wearing down.

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Speaker 2: One thing.

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Speaker 3: I was yelling at my TV. I'm like, Steve Kerr,

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Speaker 3: what are we not doing pressuring Serbia? They don't have

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Speaker 3: depth a guard. They're good, they have a lot of

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Speaker 3: bit We should be picking up full court with Drew Holliday,

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Speaker 3: Derek White, Devin Booker, full court press.

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Speaker 2: What are we doing?

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Speaker 3: And then in the third quarter you started to see

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Speaker 3: Jokic after the ball would go through the hoop. He

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Speaker 3: would like bounce it. The clock would keep running, and

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Speaker 3: you know, the US just milk clock and the US

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Speaker 3: is just like doing nothing about it.

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Speaker 3: Finally, in the fourth quarter, late Kevin Durant starts picking

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Speaker 3: up full court and he creates a turnover on Bogdanovitch.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, you could have We could have had three

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Speaker 3: of those easily. We have amazing defensive pressure. We weren't

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Speaker 3: doing it. I was upset with Kurz rotation, lack of

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Speaker 3: defensive pressure. And what killed me was this whole defense

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Speaker 3: on Jokic. They ran the same place seventy five times.

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Speaker 3: I swear Jokic up high and you have the guard

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Speaker 3: running around. We want to put embid in action and

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Speaker 3: guess what if we're shooting threes and they were hitting

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Speaker 3: fifteen of thirty nine from three.

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Speaker 2: Everybody was splashing.

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Speaker 3: And then once the US started to finally adjust a

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Speaker 3: little on the pick and roll and switched differently, they

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Speaker 3: started pounding it into Yokic and Yokich just would back

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Speaker 3: down Drew Holiday and the US would double team Jokis,

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Speaker 3: which is stupid because he's one of the great passers

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Speaker 3: we've ever seen in the sport. And he again eleven assists.

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Speaker 3: He's finding the three point shooters who are now open

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Speaker 3: because of the US rotations. It was just a nightmare.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, Kerr, what the hell are you doing? And

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Speaker 3: so finally he scrapped the Drew Holiday thing went with

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Speaker 3: Kevin Durant. So now, guess what when you're setting the

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Speaker 3: pick and roll with Jokic, guess who's switching on to

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Speaker 3: Nicola Kevin Durant six eleven seven feet tall, as opposed

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Speaker 3: to Drew Holiday, who Drew Holiday as an elite guard,

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Speaker 3: we know, awesome defender, Like, it's just different when Yokic

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Speaker 3: can't easily muscle and get a shot off over Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 3: So finally, a good move lair late by Kerr, and

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Speaker 3: I did look this up. I told I told you

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Speaker 3: Serbia was wearing down. In the fourth quarter, Serbia zero

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Speaker 3: for nine on threes, they only made one shot outside

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Speaker 3: the paint. The US turned up the pressure. Lebron, who

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Speaker 3: I don't even know if I've mentioned Lebron at this point,

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Speaker 3: Lebron a triple double, sixteen, twelve and ten, just a

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Speaker 3: vintage Lebron game. And I'll say this, he got into

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Speaker 3: it with Bogdanovitch because you know, Lebron's tight with Mellow,

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Speaker 3: and Bogdanovitch is chirping and doing the three shots to

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Speaker 3: then literally the next time down the floor, Lebron backs down,

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Speaker 3: Bogdanovitch fade away and won and then did the hit

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Speaker 3: him with the two small and you could you just

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Speaker 3: look at Lebron and you're like, oh my gosh, how

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Speaker 3: is this. This guy's in amazing shape, and he's got

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Speaker 3: like the gray beard, which even adds to the allure.

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Speaker 3: He just vintage Lebron, great passing, great boards, not a

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Speaker 3: lot of four shots. Didn't have to do everything like

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Speaker 3: he would with the Lakers, even though he played a

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Speaker 3: tournament high for him thirty two minutes. Curry played thirty

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Speaker 3: three and beat twenty seven KD twenty four and you know,

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Speaker 3: the bench, just the bench wasn't there. Ad struggled with

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Speaker 3: fouls against Yokic only played ten minutes. This was Curry

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Speaker 3: bringing them home. And this was Devin Booker hitting a

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Speaker 3: And this was Kevin Durant one of my favorite possessions.

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Speaker 3: Late in the game. I think the US was up

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Speaker 3: too and Kevin Durant gets the ball up top against

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Speaker 3: somebody who's not Bogdanovic or Jokic, and you can see

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Speaker 3: Carmelo like at the bottom of the screen saying get out,

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Speaker 3: get out. Kevin Durant says, get out. I want this

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Speaker 3: this mf iso and Durant does his series of moves

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Speaker 3: crossover hesy and then he just splashes the twenty footer effortless,

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Speaker 3: and it's like, that's just awesome.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: It was just freaking incredible, just an awesome victory for

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Speaker 3: the US.

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Speaker 2: It did look bleak.

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Speaker 3: You guys can't lie to me the you were nervous, okay,

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Speaker 3: US outscores Serbia in winning time thirty two to fifteen.

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Speaker 3: I gotta say the magic number for me with threes

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Speaker 3: is usually fifteen. If you hit fifteen threes, you're probably

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Speaker 3: gonna upset the US. Serbia fifteen of thirty nine from three.

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Speaker 3: They hit fifteen threes in the first three quarters. They

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Speaker 3: just ran out of gas. They're late. That's really all

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Speaker 3: this what they ran out of gas. US turn up

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Speaker 3: the d a little bit and just an incredible game.

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Speaker 3: I Or if for some reason you're like, I hate

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Speaker 3: the NBA, just watch this. I don't think anybody who

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Speaker 2: Serbia made fifteen threes. That's why it was close. Do

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Speaker 3: The US opens up as huge fourteen point favorites against France.

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Speaker 2: Those days this weekend.

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Speaker 3: But Nick Batoum is the guy to watch here. He's

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Speaker 3: The problem is France's guards are just really not very good.

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Speaker 3: Joel Embiid game. I mean, bam Adebayo didn't play much.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm on a ton of text chains with

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Speaker 3: I've got my soccer text chain, I got a couple

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Speaker 3: I just don't see how you can't find any minutes

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Speaker 3: You know you're gonna need Lebron in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 3: Lebron's like, I got, I got Yoker, Joker, yok and

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Speaker 3: And again, Kurr's been around the team. He knows them better.

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Speaker 3: I have Curr's gonna be eaten with NBA championships. Like

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Speaker 3: I like Booker a lot. But this was a physical game,

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Speaker 3: and he picked up some fouls where he just seemed

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Speaker 3: He takes on physical defenders, he could take guards, and

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Speaker 3: Joel Embiid one Tatum one on one will attack anybody,

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Speaker 3: But like again, when you get to cry, I just

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Speaker 3: Maybe there'll be some quarterback separations somewhere, but at once

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Speaker 3: We start to get into fantasy. I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 3: going to get exciting here in August. Everybody has safe weekend.

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Speaker 2: Talk to you Tuesday,