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Speaker 1: You know, speaking of that time, you know something that

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Speaker 2: Time he was in the video. So it's just love.

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Speaker 2: And you know, you just brought the championship. You know,

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Speaker 2: those days were like so maya mental. It was so

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Speaker 1: We're still proud and nobody could take that away from

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Speaker 1: us because it's like it's it's in stone and history.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: That time Kaled was speaking of was actually four years

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Speaker 3: before Lebron and Boss joined Miami. When The Heat won

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Speaker 3: its first title in two thousand and six, it was

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Speaker 3: Miami establishing itself as one of the premier franchises, pairing

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Speaker 3: It was that title that even allowed Miami to be

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Speaker 3: one of the finalists to land Lebron in free agency.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to four years of Heat. I'm your host

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Speaker 3: Israel Gutierrez and this is episode five.

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Speaker 4: The Crown.

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Speaker 3: In twenty twelve, that winning experience was still fresh in

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Speaker 3: the memories of head coach Eric Spolstra and the two

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Speaker 3: players remaining from that six championship, Dwayne Wade and Eudonnas Haslam.

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Speaker 3: Combined that with the pain still felt by all the

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Speaker 3: Heat checked all the necessary boxes when it came to

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Speaker 3: The Oklahoma City Thunder couldn't say the same. They were

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Speaker 3: a young team led by Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and

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Speaker 3: James Harden, all of whom were twenty three or younger

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Speaker 3: and had won just one playoff series in their young

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Speaker 4: It was all a.

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Speaker 3: Stark contrast to what the Heat faced in the veteran

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Speaker 3: who'd already won a title as a coach in two

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Speaker 3: sixty four games he played that regular season. He learned

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Speaker 3: from his veteran teammates that series just how much experience

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Speaker 3: in these situations actually.

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Speaker 4: Helps a team.

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Speaker 3: It's not just something analysts say when they're trying to

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Speaker 5: You said, the said before that we played Boston older team,

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Speaker 5: has some of the greatest ato players ever. So you

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Speaker 5: know with them, you got to focus on all of

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Speaker 5: the little things, and the little things is going to

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Speaker 5: you do the little things right, it's going to help you.

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Speaker 5: With us going into the OKC series, we knew that

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Speaker 5: and we knew that they was young. And even though

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Speaker 5: And I remember in that series Shane Baddi a kme

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Speaker 5: cause were gonna have the two hardest matchups, Like, what

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Speaker 5: do you mean? He's like, You're gonna have Westbrook and

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Speaker 5: most of the time I have KD. He said, the

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Speaker 6: And I was like, how do you do that?

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Speaker 7: He was like, every time Westbrook get the ball, just

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Speaker 4: Go Westbrook season open.

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Speaker 8: That gets to the rabbit LA.

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Speaker 9: So then oh, want to Freddy play from Russell Westbrook.

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Speaker 5: So I'm sitting there going Westbrook like, oh you got it,

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Speaker 7: Our game plan after let both of them get off

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Speaker 4: So it was that playground style. I know, that's your shot,

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Speaker 2: It worked.

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Speaker 5: I mean it made me look bad some games because

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Speaker 3: What's wild about the idea of literally asking Russell Westbrook

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Speaker 3: the public narrative around the pair was exactly that they

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Speaker 4: Westbrook split slap pad, he puts it out of file.

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Speaker 3: The Heat strategy was a difficult concept to remain faithful

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Speaker 3: Only one other player, Serge Ibaka, even scored in double

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Speaker 10: Weg right, Durant splicing left pouts past Low, Collinson high

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Speaker 10: Dota Royal, I'll come from thirteen back to defeat, say Heat,

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Speaker 10: He'll take the one game to the lead.

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Speaker 3: Still, there was something about the initial game experience that

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Speaker 3: championships somehow felt closer than ever before. Shane Battier chose

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Speaker 3: He had a strong feeling he'd finally get it, despite

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Speaker 3: more tangible reasons for his belief as well, and it

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Speaker 4: Here's Battier.

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Speaker 6: We played really well, game won, and so we left

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Speaker 6: we came out and just you know, laid the hammer

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Speaker 6: I didn't have to guard anybody because Perk got one

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Speaker 6: And so I shot like fifty percent from the from

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Speaker 6: And so I got to look at that series. I'm like,

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Speaker 6: I don't know why they wouldn't go small play Kad

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Speaker 6: we're we're winning this. We're winning this.

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Speaker 3: The Heat did win Game two in Oklahoma City, despite

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Speaker 3: playing smaller than the thunder Bosh pulled in fifteen rebounds,

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Speaker 3: James scored thirty two, and Battier hit five of seven

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Speaker 4: The drive gets to the n kicks it up, Battier's open.

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Speaker 6: That's a three.

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Speaker 3: Battier, by the way, short changed himself with those shooting numbers.

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Speaker 3: He actually shot fifty eight percent from three in those

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Speaker 11: So hello short Ron, James kicks it up top batty,

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Speaker 11: He left wide open downs another.

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Speaker 3: By the time Game four arrived, with the Heat up

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Speaker 3: Only question marks left were first, just how much scoring

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Speaker 3: could the Heat with stand from Westbrook and still win?

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Speaker 3: And second would Lebron throw a wrench in the operation

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Speaker 3: by suffering from some untimely muscle cramps. James had experienced

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Speaker 3: severe cramping in games before, dating all the way back

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Speaker 3: He exited Game four with five minutes fifteen seconds remaining

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Speaker 3: He hit one three pointer and missed another before leaving

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Speaker 3: the game again for good with fifty five seconds left

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Speaker 11: Lebron is cramping up me he is down on the deck.

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Speaker 6: The timing could not be any worse.

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Speaker 3: But on the very next possession the game four, Hero

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Speaker 3: Chalmers drove for a layup to put Miami up four

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Speaker 8: The remp lay up and got it carry o Jummers

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Speaker 3: Chalmers scored twenty five points, matching his playoff career high,

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Speaker 7: I had two bad games before it.

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Speaker 5: Well, not two bad games, but I didn't have the

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Speaker 5: I was a little down on myself. So I remember

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Speaker 5: going to that shoot around. Coach Bo was on me.

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Speaker 5: Everybody was on me, like real, get your head up,

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Speaker 5: come on real, we need you. Tonight, gonna be all night, tonight,

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Speaker 5: are y'all gassing me up to tell me that y'all

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Speaker 7: Like that's all I need. You tell me that you

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Speaker 5: So now I remember after that, I took my nap

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Speaker 5: and d Wade had text me right before the game

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Speaker 7: I feel like it's gonna be a big one for you.

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Speaker 5: I was like, okay, So already in my mind, I'm

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Speaker 5: when I seen that, it was like, why is KD

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Speaker 5: Like this is the finals, Like you're supposed to be

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Speaker 5: I'm not the type of player where I can't score.

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Speaker 11: Oh my goodness, you are watching perfection, not to seventh.

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Speaker 3: Tray Miller was the player Eudonnis Haslam says connected the

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Speaker 4: The roar of the crowd.

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Speaker 15: There's that image of him, you know, jumping up and

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Speaker 2: That was cool.

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Speaker 15: And then the clock go zero and he doesn't storm

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Speaker 11: Let the coronation begin. Lebron James has helped Brown Miami

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Speaker 11: a champion of the basketball world. There'll be another barade

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Speaker 15: He's got the towel up, and he goes down and

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Speaker 2: Time is coming.

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Speaker 15: It was very cool in the moment that he recognized

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Speaker 7: But yes, the weight.

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Speaker 15: Had been lifted and then he became lebron three point

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Speaker 4: All right, that's why we trained each other twos ago.

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Speaker 4: Who's gonna be champions?

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Speaker 2: Man, It's been a long problem.

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Speaker 16: We're today.

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Speaker 3: James recovered from his lowest professional moment, failing against the

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Speaker 6: We did Jews last year's experience.

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Speaker 17: You know, you know, the heartbreak lost in the finals

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Speaker 17: that series. You know, it was the at the time,

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Speaker 3: Miami was at the time one of the ten franchises

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Speaker 4: To evolve as well.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't just about upgrading the roster from one year

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Speaker 9: Our team went through a lot together and all those

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Speaker 3: His biggest philosophical shift happened after that disappointing twenty eleven finals.

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Speaker 3: Even within that twenty eleven twelve season, however, Spolster was

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Speaker 2: I think one of the things that made them scary

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Speaker 2: a lot of coaches would have gotten upset or been

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Speaker 2: unnerved by that. Eric's able to block out all those things,

441
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Speaker 2: all those distractions, all those ego things just never mattered

442
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Speaker 2: to him. I mean, he just stayed focused on doing

443
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Speaker 2: the best job for that team. And I think, look,

444
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Speaker 2: you don't have to be around that for very long

445
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Speaker 2: as a player before you have great respect. And then

446
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Speaker 2: on top of it, it wouldn't take you very long

447
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Speaker 2: to figure out that he knows what he's talking about

448
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Speaker 2: basketball wise. I mean he can teach, he can coach,

449
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Speaker 2: he can game plan, he can xin like, this guy's

450
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Speaker 2: really really good. So you put those two things together,

451
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Speaker 2: his tactical ability and his lack of ego, there's a

452
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Speaker 2: third thing there is He's firm. I mean, you know,

453
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Speaker 2: like Eric's not gonna just back down. If guys like

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Speaker 2: I don't feel like and walk through today, well we're

455
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Speaker 2: gonna do walk through today, you know, regardless if they

456
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Speaker 2: think it's too long. It's he's just not like he's

457
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Speaker 2: going to decide what's right. I'm not saying he won't

458
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Speaker 2: listen to his players, but he's going to decide what's

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Speaker 2: right and he's going to stick to it. And you

460
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Speaker 2: know he's not afraid. I mean, he's he's got a

461
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Speaker 2: lot going for him. He was the perfect coach for

462
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Speaker 2: that group.

463
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Speaker 3: Sposture was at the very least an ideal coach for

464
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Speaker 3: Bosh during this journey. From the start of his time

465
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Speaker 3: with Miami, Bosh was regularly ridiculed. Even if insults were

466
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Speaker 3: aimed at Lebron, Bosh would often get hit with shrapnel.

467
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Speaker 3: Even Van Gundy had jokes he called Bosh Dwayne Wade's

468
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Speaker 3: lapdog after he chose Miami.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't really and I do regret the comment,

470
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Speaker 2: mainly because I've got unbelievable respect for Chris Boss. We

471
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Speaker 2: had played him his Toronto team in the playoffs and

472
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Speaker 2: you know, had a tough series with them because of

473
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Speaker 2: Chris Bosh so certainly knew how good he was, respected

474
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Speaker 2: his approach to the game and everything else. I think

475
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Speaker 2: at the time it was just a little bit of discuss,

476
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Speaker 2: I guess for these guys, you know, just he and

477
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Speaker 2: Lebron really like having to sort of hop on the

478
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Speaker 2: bandwagon because they couldn't get it done on their own,

479
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Speaker 2: you know. Is the way I looked at it in

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Speaker 2: retrospect looking back. You know, look all of us coaches, players, everybody.

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Speaker 2: You look for the best situation you can find. Now

482
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Speaker 2: we all do it in our jobs. I mean, if

483
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Speaker 2: tomorrow you could find a situation that was a lot

484
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Speaker 2: better for you and your job, you'd certainly want to

485
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Speaker 2: do that. We all do, and so to begrudge those

486
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Speaker 2: guys that really wasn't fair of me. But that's the

487
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Speaker 2: way I was looking at it time, Like I looked

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Speaker 2: at it as a weakness. I'll admit that's the way

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Speaker 2: I'm sitting in Orlando. I'm saying, well, Lebron couldn't read

490
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Speaker 2: us in Cleveland, and Chris couldn't beat us in Toronto,

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Speaker 2: So yeah, run on down to Miami and get some

492
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Speaker 2: you know, get some help from Dwayne, and now you

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Speaker 2: guys can be good.

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Speaker 3: Supposed to heard what was being said about Bosh. More importantly,

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Speaker 3: he knew what kinds of sacrifices Bosh had to make

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Speaker 3: to join this championship team, so supposed to reminded listeners

497
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Speaker 3: every chance he got that Bosh was the most important

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Speaker 3: piece on that team. It's hard to completely agree when

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Speaker 3: you know his teammate is the league MVP, but Spoke

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Speaker 3: often made his point. Battier certainly recognized Bosh's sacrifice despite

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Speaker 3: joining in Bosh's second year with the Heat.

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Speaker 6: You know, ceb probably had him to sacrifice the most,

503
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Speaker 6: the most touches, the most opportunity. Look in Toronto, he

504
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Speaker 6: was used to getting the ball, you know, twenty twenty

505
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Speaker 6: four times in the mid post, the low posts and

506
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Speaker 6: the high posts, and he could just sort of right

507
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Speaker 6: and wheel and deal. And they tried that, you know,

508
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Speaker 6: the first year the Big Three, and it just didn't

509
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Speaker 6: work just because the spacing was was poor and Lebron

510
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Speaker 6: and d weren't great three point shooters, so Cbe just

511
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Speaker 6: didn't have room to operate. And so he really had

512
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Speaker 6: to change his his his game come much more of

513
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Speaker 6: a pick and roller. But again, like he was a

514
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Speaker 6: power forward who didn't shoot threes that entire regular season.

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Speaker 6: You know, we started Joel, Anthony and CB at the

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Speaker 6: four or five, and so most people think about Chris

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Speaker 6: Bosh as this like stretchy, you know, first early adopter

518
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Speaker 6: as a small ball center, but he was still like

519
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Speaker 6: a traditional power forward. Throw the ball to him on

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Speaker 6: the blocks that let him go to work. You know,

521
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Speaker 6: he evolved into like the ultimate weapon in terms of

522
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Speaker 6: just being an unbelievable pick and roll defender. They probably

523
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Speaker 6: the best pick and roll defender in the league that

524
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Speaker 6: second and third year, and he was like the skeleton

525
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Speaker 6: key that unlocked really everything defensively for us, and you know,

526
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Speaker 6: offensively expanded his game. But he he sacrifice a lot.

527
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Speaker 6: So CB deserves a lot of credit for his humility

528
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Speaker 6: and his competitiveness to Winder in that.

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Speaker 3: Stretch after a championship, Bosch and company not only knew

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Speaker 3: what they had was good enough to win it all,

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Speaker 3: they also knew Bosch's continued evolution would help the Heat

532
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Speaker 3: adjust to a league that was becoming more reliant on

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Speaker 3: three point shooting. Ray Allen was a part of Celtic's

534
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Speaker 3: teams that lost to James Wade and Bosch in the

535
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Speaker 3: previous two postseasons. Before that, he was pivotal to the

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Speaker 3: Celtics winning the two thousand and eight championship in his

537
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Speaker 3: first season with that team. The idea of him joining

538
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Speaker 3: the Heat after having such an intense rivalry seemed unfathomable,

539
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Speaker 3: at least to those who cheered him on or played

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Speaker 3: with him in Boston. But Allen had already been involved

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Speaker 3: in trade discussions that season, and the team was leaning

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Speaker 3: toward building with the younger with John Rondo. Allen's other

543
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Speaker 3: options that offseason included the Clippers, Grizzlies, Timberwolves, and Heat

544
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Speaker 3: and the heated encounters against Myami didn't exactly have them

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Speaker 3: on top of his list.

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Speaker 16: Initially, I wasn't comfortable at all.

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Speaker 19: It was it was such a difficult position that I

548
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Speaker 19: was in, and we were in a position where, you know,

549
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Speaker 19: we were on decline in Boston and there's a point

550
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Speaker 19: in our negotiations where they seemed like they just fell apart.

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Speaker 19: I had visited Miami and I was on the way,

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Speaker 19: and that was even odd by the way coming down

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Speaker 19: to Miami and kind of walking into Sposed office and

554
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Speaker 19: kind of talking to them about this whole process, and

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Speaker 19: there was that simbolus of you know, there's a wolf

556
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Speaker 19: in the henhouse, you know when I walk in. And

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Speaker 19: I legitimately was doing my due diligence because from there,

558
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Speaker 19: from Miami, I was about to fly to LA because

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Speaker 19: the Clippers are also on the table as well, and

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Speaker 19: I really was, you know, interested in playing in LA

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Speaker 19: for the Clippers. I couldn't see myself as a Heat,

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Speaker 19: you know, playing for the Heat.

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Speaker 3: The Clippers, who Allan was quite interested in, signed another

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Speaker 3: shooting guard, Jamal Crawford, that offseason. The Grizzlies, Wolves, and

565
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Speaker 3: Heat were Alan's final options.

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Speaker 4: Memphis needed guard.

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Speaker 3: Help on a defensive minded team, and Minnesota was a

568
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Speaker 3: young team built around Kevin Love that was far away

569
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Speaker 3: from winning at the level Alan craved. In the end,

570
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Speaker 3: it was Alan's respect for Lebron James that tilted the

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Speaker 3: scales toward Miami. When he chose the Heat, it was

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Speaker 3: something of a shock to the rest of the NBA.

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Speaker 3: The Heat's championship crew just added another sure fire Hall

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Speaker 3: of Famer, and he provides the team with even more

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Speaker 3: deadly shooting around those three dangerous attackers. It was an

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Speaker 3: embarrassment of riches for a Heat team ready to make

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Speaker 3: a repeat run. And the chemistry was evident right from

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Speaker 3: the beginning, getting off to a twenty and six start,

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Speaker 3: including wins against the Celtics and the opener, a Christmas

580
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Speaker 3: Day Finals rematch against the Thunder and the Spurs, a

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Speaker 3: team Allen in the Heat didn't know would come to

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Speaker 3: be their biggest rival. The way Allen explains it, that

583
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Speaker 3: chemistry was no accident.

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Speaker 19: Well, chemistry is an interesting word because people think chemistry

585
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Speaker 19: like you walk into a situation and it's either there

586
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Speaker 19: or it's not. You know, people say, oh, just have

587
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Speaker 19: great chemistry with this person, Like chemistry is a choice.

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Speaker 19: It's not like you know these potions that we mix

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Speaker 19: into a beaker and then all of a sudden you

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Speaker 19: get this magical formula and allows everything to be great chemistry.

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Speaker 16: When you're on a basketball team.

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Speaker 19: You learn how to play under the rules, the circumstances,

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Speaker 19: the guidelines of that team, and you learn how to

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Speaker 19: respect the guys that are there, and you make yourself

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Speaker 19: a part of and you kind of motify yourself into

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Speaker 19: this existence of being what this team coach is And

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Speaker 19: then the people on the exterior did say, wow, they

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Speaker 19: got such a great chemistry. No, you worked for that,

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Speaker 19: Like I know, you know, going back to my Seattle days,

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Speaker 19: to Boston and in Miami, I know that I'm not

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Speaker 19: getting the nineteen to twenty shots I got in Seattle.

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Speaker 19: It diminished to Boston and in Miami. So if I

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Speaker 19: bring that mentality into Miami, like I'm supposed to play more,

604
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Speaker 19: I'm supposed to start, I'm supposed to do all these things,

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Speaker 19: then I'm setting myself up for failure.

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Speaker 3: By February of that season, the Heat had added another

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Speaker 3: key role player in Chris Birdman Anderson, a six '

608
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Speaker 3: eleventh center who'd provide much needed rebounding and rin protection.

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Speaker 3: To start February, the Heat lost the game in Indiana

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Speaker 3: to that Giant Pacers team that was becoming quite comfortable

611
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Speaker 3: facing Miami. It was one of the points in the

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Speaker 3: season when a team with championship hopes checks in on itself.

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Speaker 3: Former NBA player and coach Sam Mitchell thought the loss

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Speaker 3: was a warning sign for Miami and set much on

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Speaker 3: NBA TV.

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Speaker 20: But Miami, his guys still got those questions lingered out there.

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Speaker 20: Everybody keeps saying they can turn it all when they

618
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Speaker 20: want to, But I just don't agree with that. Great

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Speaker 20: teams don't do that.

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Speaker 2: They meet the challenge.

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Speaker 20: They send messages to teams and they let them know

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Speaker 20: that we're stand the dumb the team.

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Speaker 3: The heat response to that loss in Indiana started with

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Speaker 3: a bounce back win in Toronto two days later. Then

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Speaker 3: Miami swept a six game homestand including a win over

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Speaker 3: the Lakers, who had tried to make a super team

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Speaker 3: of their own, with Steve Nash and Dwight Howard joining

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Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles to match Miami's It was

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Speaker 3: no match.

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Speaker 6: I think Chalmers got a piece of it.

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Speaker 11: The reflection Jags to dabasket who rows it down and

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Speaker 11: Elitea's nine largest stuffy afternoons.

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Speaker 3: Then Miami won four more on a road trip, starting

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Speaker 3: with another defeat of vclall home and City and included

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Speaker 3: a win in Chicago where they held the Bulls to

636
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Speaker 3: sixty seven points and forced twenty six turnovers. It was

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Speaker 3: Miami's ninth win in a row, and Wade and Lebron

638
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Speaker 3: talked about a defense that was reaching playoff level intensity.

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Speaker 14: Through in the season, we wasn't playing the defense we

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Speaker 14: wanted to play, and I think we turned it up.

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Speaker 14: You know, understand it was as stake with this team,

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Speaker 14: and tonight, you know, this team picked us apart last

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Speaker 14: time we played over in the sense that they got

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Speaker 14: everything they wanted. Even though it was tougher them the

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Speaker 14: score and a half court, they still was able to

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Speaker 14: get the ball to the spots they wanted it would

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Speaker 14: enable them to get offensive rebounds. So tonight we wanted

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Speaker 14: to make sure that we pushed them out a little

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Speaker 14: bit more. We took a few more seconds off the

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Speaker 14: clock and just made a little harder.

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Speaker 17: We want to try to create turnovers a low let's

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Speaker 17: he gets some easy buckets and fast breakpoints. So there's

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Speaker 17: just another win on the long NBA season. But the

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Speaker 17: best thing about the win we got better.

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Speaker 3: Miami had survived a double overtime game against Sacramento for

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Speaker 3: the twelfth win and needed a game winning layup from

657
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 3: Lebron with three seconds left to get win number sixteen

658
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 3: against the Magic Look with Cheff.

659
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 2: Part to play kick club Jones with they what's shoven?

660
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Speaker 4: What fides?

661
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Speaker 16: I'm a drive?

662
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 10: Lesten let the heat league three seconds to play a

663
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Speaker 10: poll that her court keep ho miny ms many wins

664
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Speaker 10: have a winning Shixlin time to a sweet sixteen.

665
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Speaker 17: Uh seen avatory. The middle was a little bit open.

666
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 17: I went to my right to left cross sole was

667
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 17: able to get into the painting finish.

668
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Speaker 4: You guys were up twenty early in.

669
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Speaker 3: The third quarter, before less than a quarter that they

670
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 3: took the league.

671
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 6: What changed.

672
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 17: We didn't get stops in the third quarter.

673
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 7: We allowed him to gain confidence and they.

674
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 17: Started making shots.

675
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 16: We didn't get stops and it allowed him to.

676
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 17: Get back into the game.

677
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 3: At this game, the Cleveland game, the Kings game. What

678
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 3: is it about these non playoff teams?

679
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 16: At home.

680
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 4: That's been a challenge for you guys.

681
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 17: You know, it doesn't matter who we're going against, no

682
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 17: matter the record, we just want to win. Uh. You know,

683
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 17: we took a step back was in the third quarter,

684
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 17: but we picked it up in the fourth. Poll was

685
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 17: able to get one more st and also get another bucket.

686
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 3: When the Heat started a five game trip on March thirteenth,

687
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 3: the streak had reached nineteen straight. On that road trip,

688
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 3: the Heat won in Boston by overcoming a thirteen point

689
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 3: fourth quarter deficit to win by two, and it included

690
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 3: one of James's signature highlight plays. After forcing a Boston turnover,

691
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 3: Norris Cole lobbed a pass for Lebron, who crushed it

692
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 3: over a frantically defending Jason Terry, who was also called

693
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 3: for a foul. James hovered over Terry for just long

694
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,479
Speaker 3: enough to receive a technical, but it was probably worth

695
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 3: it for that tiny bit of revenge from the twenty

696
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 3: eleven finals.

697
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 8: Jason Terry, good defense way from behind, takes it away.

698
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,760
Speaker 4: Thomas Holland.

699
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 18: Whoa and a technical foul called on Miami with a taunt.

700
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,760
Speaker 3: Then two nights later in Cleveland, the Heat's deficit twenty

701
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 3: seven was actually longer than the streak at the time

702
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 3: twenty three, and that was in the third quarter in

703
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 3: the same building Lebron triumphantly returned home. In twenty ten.

704
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 3: Lebron and the Heat were about to end a historic

705
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 3: regular season run. At least it appeared as much to Battier.

706
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 6: I think that some of the guys said, Okay, it

707
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 6: was a great run, good run, good run. Okay, we

708
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 6: didn't have it tonight like you had, like every team

709
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 6: goes through this. We were like, we don't have tonight.

710
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 6: Next one, and it was sort of the bench mob

711
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,959
Speaker 6: that came through and we started gunning threes and started

712
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 6: hitting threes, and all of a sudden, the guys who

713
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 6: were like, oh, we can win this game.

714
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 3: The Heat were down seventy one forty eight with four

715
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 3: to twenty eight remaining in the third quarter. That's when

716
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 3: Battier and Chalmers took the Heat on their personal thirteen

717
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 3: to two run to bring the deficit to a manageable

718
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 3: twelve with one forty seven left in the period. That

719
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 3: was the cue for James to join the party in

720
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 3: his old stomping grounds, and at the nine to forty

721
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 3: mark of the fourth period, Lebron hit his third three

722
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 3: pointer in a ninety six second stretch that gave Miami

723
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 3: an eighty to seventy nine league.

724
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 12: Lebron pull up free. It's got and Miami that's tied

725
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 12: the game. That's seventy seven. Oh my, what're they? Thirty

726
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,280
Speaker 12: seven to ten run? Yes, you have to have heart

727
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 12: for a comeback like this. Oh my, there's another one. Yes,

728
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 12: three triples on the fourth quarter for Lebron, and like

729
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 12: he'd have an eighty, there's seventy nine league. Amazing, They'll

730
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 12: eat on a forty to twelve run Allen straight away triple.

731
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 3: Alan followed with a three of his own, and Miami

732
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 3: never trailed again. They'd need a pair of clutch James

733
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 3: free throws in the final seconds to hold off Cleveland

734
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 3: and win their twenty fourth straight game. The comeback win

735
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 3: was exhilarating. The streak itself, however, had become something of

736
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 3: a burden. According to Haslam, the NBA record was thirty

737
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 3: three straight wins, held by the seventy one seventy two

738
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 3: Los Angeles Lakers. The Heat were approaching that and approaching

739
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 3: best team ever conversations.

740
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 4: Here's Haslam all they wanted to talk about was the street.

741
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 21: It was no respect for our next opponent, Like there

742
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 21: was no respect for our next opponent, Like nobody cared

743
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 21: like it was just like they was just assumed we

744
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 21: were just going to walk in here and beat these people,

745
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 21: and people who don't understand you add gasoline to the

746
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 21: fire where we go in here and play these teams,

747
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 21: you know what I'm saying. So it stopped becoming about

748
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 21: the next opponent in the next game, and all it

749
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 21: came about was a streak.

750
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 3: Wins number twenty five and twenty six came in easy

751
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 3: fashion at home against the Pistons and Bobcats. When number

752
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 3: twenty seven came up the road in Orlando. It ended

753
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 3: in Chicago against the hated Bulls, with future Heat forwards

754
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,399
Speaker 3: lou All Dang and Jimmy Butler combining for forty five

755
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 3: points in the streak Buster Lebron, Spolstra, Wade, and Bosh

756
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 3: reflected on the historic streak.

757
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 17: So we had a moment, you know, you know, just

758
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 17: very fortunate and very humble and blessed to be a

759
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 17: part of this team and be a part of a

760
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 17: streak like that. You know, it's one of the it's

761
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 17: one of the best that you know, this league has

762
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 17: ever seen. So you know, we recognized that, you know,

763
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 17: and rightfully so.

764
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,919
Speaker 18: I had everybody come in put a hand on each other,

765
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 18: and for the first time I mentioned the streak in

766
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 18: front of the guys, and it was worthy of at

767
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 18: least stepping back for those few sharp moments that it

768
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 18: was a heck of experience for all of us to

769
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 18: have together.

770
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 14: Unbelievable streak that we was on, you know, but in

771
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 14: here it didn't feel like we was on this amazing street,

772
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 14: just like we were just playing basketball and we was

773
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 14: finding ways to win games, and it just what happened

774
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 14: to result into twenty something wins.

775
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 22: It's been a great run. It's been a great run.

776
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 22: We still have a lot of work to do. But

777
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 22: like we said before, that wasn't important to us. The

778
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 22: streak wasn't important to us. What's important to us is

779
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 22: to win a time.

780
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 17: You know, this is a special team, man, and you

781
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 17: know how we are on and off the floor. It's

782
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 17: gonna be hard to remember everything, but you know, aw

783
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 17: to meately, like you said, we want to win the

784
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 17: NBA Championship and along those a longer season, along those rides,

785
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 17: you know, you have moments throughout those rides where you

786
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 17: can reflect on, and this is one of them.

787
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,760
Speaker 3: Battier had done something similar before with the Houston Rockets,

788
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 3: even though it felt quite different. The Rockets win streak

789
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 3: in two thousand and eight ended after twenty two games.

790
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 6: That was way more unexplainable. You know, we're doing it

791
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 6: with like young men getting hurt and Kevin tumblou Is

792
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 6: fifty years old coming and giving stuff, so like it

793
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 6: was an amazing run and we're just you know, we

794
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 6: didn't even talk about it because we didn't know how

795
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 6: it was happening. Now this was much different, Like, this

796
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 6: is much more explainable. We had Hall of famers off

797
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 6: and on the line, we're defending champs, and we just

798
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 6: got into a zone. And when you're playing like that

799
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 6: as a team, like you don't really like analyze it

800
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 6: and say like, well, what are we doing better? You

801
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 6: just are excited to get to the gym. Everyone's happy,

802
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 6: you're joking around, and it was it was a long

803
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 6: time between losses. I mean, I look at the calendar

804
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 6: now there was the All Star breaking between that, and

805
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 6: so a lot of stuff happens were you know, you

806
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 6: could lose your bojo. But it was just one of

807
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:16,760
Speaker 6: those pure times when we were happy, we were together,

808
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 6: we were making shots, and I'm not gonna say it

809
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 6: was easy. It wasn't, but it just felt like, Okay, yeah,

810
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 6: we're we're gonna win every single night we stepped on

811
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 6: the floor.

812
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 3: The Heat had gone more than seven weeks from February

813
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 3: first to March twenty seventh between losses. They were fifty

814
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 3: six and fifteen when it ended, and would finish the

815
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 3: season with a Heat franchise record sixty six wins, six

816
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 3: more than any other team in the league and five

817
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 3: more than any other team in Heat history. Lebron would

818
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 3: win his fourth MVP award after a regular season that

819
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 3: was arguably the greatest of his career. He'd averaged just

820
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 3: under twenty seven points, with eight rebounds and more than

821
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 3: seven assists per game, but he shot a ridicut. He's

822
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 3: fifty six and a half percent from the field for

823
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 3: the season. Michael Jordan's most efficient shooting season was in

824
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety ninety one, when he shot just under fifty

825
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 3: four percent. James was toying with the game at times

826
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 3: this season, going one stretch of six games where he

827
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 3: scored thirty points or more on sixty percent.

828
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 4: Shooting or better.

829
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 3: That ridiculous shooting overshadowed what had been Wade's most efficient

830
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 3: season as well.

831
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,280
Speaker 4: Wade shot fifty two.

832
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 3: Percent from the field that season, a number he'd only

833
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 3: best once the very following year, when he'd shoot fifty

834
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 3: four and a half percent from the field. In his

835
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 3: fourth and final season next to Lebron in Miami, Bosch's

836
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 3: averages of just under seventeen points and seven rebounds were

837
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 3: his lowest since before he started making All Star Games

838
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 3: at age twenty one in Toronto, but his fifty three

839
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 3: percent shooting from the field would be his career best,

840
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 3: and his willingness to take a then career best seventy

841
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 3: four to three pointers would help open up the Heat offense.

842
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 3: The entire regular season was a magical run that saw

843
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 3: the Heat players make a hilariously memorable video to a

844
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 3: trendy song called Harlem Shake, where they all danced in

845
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 3: the locker room wearing varying random costumes, and the team

846
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 3: reached pass sports to send a powerful message. Following the

847
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 3: killing of Trayvon Martin, a seventeen year old black teenager

848
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 3: in Sanford, Florida. It was a season Allen was nervous

849
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 3: about beginning, but would have no regrets during.

850
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 19: The Harlem Shake was probably the highlight of that whole

851
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 19: experience because in spite of trying to be held to

852
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 19: the standard always, we were able to still be goofy,

853
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 19: you know, we're able to still just have fun and

854
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 19: let you know, like we love what we do. We

855
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,359
Speaker 19: enjoy being around each other, and we'll do something that

856
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 19: sometimes when we go on there and practice score to

857
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 19: where kind of dialed in like like that far, you know,

858
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 19: in case in point.

859
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 16: I remember when I got down to Miami.

860
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 19: I'm just messing around to guys and y'all got stuff

861
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 19: going on.

862
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 6: And Ud looks at me.

863
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 16: He goes, man, Ray, we did not know you were

864
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 16: like this. And I looked at me. I said, what

865
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:16,919
Speaker 16: are you talking about?

866
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 2: You?

867
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,919
Speaker 19: He's like, man, we just thought you just didn't say nothing.

868
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 19: Because that was my persona on the court, you know,

869
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 19: but off the court, you know, I like to I

870
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 19: used to be a practical joker.

871
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 3: When the Heat reached the playoffs in twenty thirteen, the

872
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 3: vibes were still strong. A drama free first round sweep

873
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,240
Speaker 3: of the pre Yannis Milwaukee Bucks kicked things off. After

874
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 3: a week of rest and Lebron being awarded his MVP trophy,

875
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Speaker 3: the Heat faced those pesky Chicago Bulls, who were still

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Speaker 3: without the injured Derrick Rose, but had broken the Heats

877
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Speaker 3: twenty seven game win streak and had just come off

878
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Speaker 3: a seven game series win against the Brooklyn Nets. Joe

879
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Speaker 3: Kim Noah had developed into an All Star by now

880
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Speaker 3: and was the heart and soul of these Bulls.

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Speaker 23: What I remember the most about that was in the

882
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 23: second time we played them in the playoffs, Derek was

883
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 23: hurt and Lebron got MVP and it was on the

884
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:12,240
Speaker 23: jumbo tron.

885
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Speaker 16: You just see all his highlights.

886
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 23: He's dunking at the rim like all crazy and I'm

887
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 23: looking at Nate and Nate Nate Robinson is looking up.

888
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Speaker 16: And I was like, I just go over there.

889
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,439
Speaker 23: And I was like, Nate, if I see you looking

890
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 23: up at that one more time, man, stop looking up.

891
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 16: I was like, don't even look at that.

892
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Speaker 23: So those are the memories that I'll remember, is just

893
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 23: going into there.

894
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Speaker 16: Going in there and just with that fighting spirit.

895
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Speaker 3: That spirit and maybe a week's worth of rust for

896
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Speaker 3: Miami was enough for Chicago to take game one of

897
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Speaker 3: the series behind a shocking ten to nothing run to

898
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 3: close the ninety three eighty six win. The Bulls were

899
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Speaker 3: once again injecting a bit of fear into Miami, but

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Speaker 3: it wouldn't last long, the fear or the series. The

901
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 3: Heat won the next game by thirty seven points and

902
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Speaker 3: the series in five games. The most memorable moment in

903
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 3: that series wasn't even a play on the floor. It

904
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Speaker 3: was when a fan named Philomena Tobias tossed the double

905
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Speaker 3: birds in the direction of Noah as he was leaving

906
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Speaker 3: the floor following an ejection.

907
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Speaker 4: The image, if you look.

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Speaker 3: It up, was Miami basketball fandom in a nutshell at

909
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 3: the time, Heat against the world, and in the next series,

910
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 3: the Pacers would temporarily rock that Heat world once again.

911
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 3: Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals would require a

912
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 3: Lebron James buzzer beating layup as a fouled out wide

913
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Speaker 3: watched from the bench.

914
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Speaker 2: How do you get to it at Jerse James on the.

915
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 3: Len over time, But the Pacers would complete the deal

916
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Speaker 3: in Game two, winning ninety seven ninety three in Miami,

917
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Speaker 3: and suddenly the Heat were one Lebron lay up away

918
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Speaker 3: from having been down two. Head coach Frank Vogel and

919
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 3: his Pacers were playing to his team's strength, which was

920
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 3: size and strong defense, to make life difficult for Miami

921
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 3: once again. The size of Indiana's big man Roy Hibbert

922
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 3: was what separated the Pacers from the rest of Miami's opponents,

923
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 3: and in this series, Lebron and Wade in particular were

924
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 3: working on their short floaters near the basket to solve

925
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 3: the Hibbert dilemma. This wasn't going to be the cruise

926
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Speaker 3: to the finals the rest of the league expected to watch.

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Speaker 4: Here's battier.

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Speaker 6: Well, Vogel did a great job of making adjustments. They

929
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Speaker 6: didn't know how to handle our small wall the first year.

930
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:50,879
Speaker 6: The second year they did a much better job and

931
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Speaker 6: sort of the downfall of our defense, and we were

932
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 6: such a high pressure, high intensity defense. It was predicated

933
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Speaker 6: on speed and like percision, and what Pacers did a

934
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 6: very good job at is was using our aggressiveness against

935
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Speaker 6: us and inviting the trap, getting off it and whipping

936
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 6: the ball around and just that was the weakness of

937
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 6: our defense, and so they did a much better job

938
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Speaker 6: of that. And then when you add in the physicality

939
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Speaker 6: and you know where Hibbert. That was his peak.

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Speaker 8: Man.

941
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Speaker 6: He was a big dude, and you know when he

942
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Speaker 6: would go off and just jump at the rim, there's

943
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Speaker 6: not much you could do if you pled Lebron and

944
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Speaker 6: d Wade, and so they just were presented a really

945
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 6: tricky matchup. They were more prepared against us this year,

946
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 6: and they were hungered. I mean, they were pissed off

947
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 6: from the year before, and they really felt that they

948
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 6: were better than us, and we thought we were better

949
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Speaker 6: than them. But like we knew they were a confident

950
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 6: bunch against this.

951
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 3: The Heat and Pacers alternated wins and losses until Miami

952
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 3: dominated a Game seven at home ninety nine seventy six

953
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Speaker 3: and earned a third straight trip to the NBA Finals.

954
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Speaker 18: Never take this for granted, going on this ride to

955
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Speaker 18: the next round and these next four, whatever it takes together.

956
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Speaker 3: Three Game seven may have been devoid of drama, but

957
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Speaker 3: Dwayne Wade said overcoming the adversity up to that point

958
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 3: helped them thrive in the series clincher.

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Speaker 14: I feel like we have individuals on our team they'll

960
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 14: respond very well when adversity hit. So, you know, I

961
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 14: kind of like it a little bit, you know, I

962
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 14: kind of like the way that our team is when

963
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 14: we get to those moments when our backs against the

964
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Speaker 14: wall as individuals, because we got winners, We got champions

965
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Speaker 14: in our locker room, and you know you don't become

966
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Speaker 14: a champion by luck.

967
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Speaker 3: Awaiting them in that last series of the year was

968
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Speaker 3: a team the Heat beat both times they played in

969
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Speaker 3: the regular season, the San Antonio Spurs.

970
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Speaker 4: The unassuming team.

971
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Speaker 3: From south central Texas had twice as many championships as

972
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Speaker 3: the Heat to this point, with all four of them

973
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Speaker 3: coming while head coach Greg Popovich and Tim Duncan led

974
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Speaker 3: the way, and while the Heat went through a postseason

975
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Speaker 3: defeating familiar teams with similar physical styles, the Spurs would

976
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 3: provide an entire highly different look offensively and a defensive

977
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 3: strategy that had already flummoxed to young Lebron James in

978
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Speaker 3: the two thousand and seven finals while he was a Cavalier.

979
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Speaker 3: It's the final series of the third season of this

980
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 3: now champion Heat team led by James, Wade and Bosh,

981
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Speaker 3: and it's possible they were about to face their greatest challengers.

982
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Speaker 4: Yet here's Ray Allen.

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Speaker 19: The problem is going into San Antonio, they're not gonna

984
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Speaker 19: let you ground and pound them. They're gonna be moving,

985
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Speaker 19: they're gonna be setting screens, and you look this way,

986
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Speaker 19: you look that way, and all of a sudden, the

987
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 19: guy's not there anymore. The offense is so much motion

988
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 19: they throw the ball ahead that you just never know

989
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 19: who is gonna score. And we have more of a

990
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Speaker 19: traditional way playing through three players.

991
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Speaker 16: Even though they played through three players.

992
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Speaker 19: Patty Mills was a killer out there, Danny Green was

993
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 19: a killer were out there. You know, guys that came

994
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 19: off the bench were just as productive as their starters,

995
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 19: and it made it much more difficult for us in

996
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Speaker 19: trying to guard those.

997
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Speaker 4: Guys on the next four years.

998
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Speaker 6: If he.

999
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Speaker 21: That's the doubt you get from San Antonio, because unlike

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Speaker 21: some teams, they're not gonna lose it.

1001
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to win it.

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Speaker 17: You know, with twenty plus seconds ago and us being

1003
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Speaker 17: down five, you know, the human nature doubts starts to

1004
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 17: creep into your mind.

1005
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 14: You see San Antonio fans popping in jerseys, you know,

1006
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 14: jumping up and down. It's a dark moment.

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Speaker 6: I was trying to will it in existence. That's the

1008
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Speaker 6: way to say. We were all trying to will that

1009
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Speaker 6: that feeling into existence. I don't know in our heart

1010
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 6: of hearts if be truly truly confident, but we were

1011
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 6: trying to fake it. That we've made it.

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Speaker 13: It's like, holy smokes, like this is surreal, Like we're

1013
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 13: about to win the NBA Championship in Game six. Did

1014
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 13: not see this coming, and then no one saw what

1015
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 13: coming what happened after that?

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Speaker 19: You know, all the shots I've hit my career, like

1017
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Speaker 19: this is the one that people will talk about the most,

1018
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Speaker 19: and this will be the one that you know at

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Speaker 19: this stage, at this level, where it changed the tide.

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Speaker 16: Of a lot of people's careers on both sides.

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Speaker 13: And then to get to that point where the trophy's

1022
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Speaker 13: twelve feet to your left, it's hard to put that

1023
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Speaker 13: into words, what that emotion was.

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