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Speaker 1: I hope all of you guys are having a great

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Speaker 1: He might not be the as artistic as a Kevin

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Speaker 1: I don't think we'll ever see a player that can

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Speaker 1: And on this play, Lebron is running down the lane

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Speaker 1: wasn't like, oh he got out of the way. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't like, oh he got scared of the Lebron freight train.

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Speaker 1: If you watch Monte he panic chases out to the corner.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why is throughout Lebron's career he has

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Speaker 1: consistently made that play in the same way that when

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry runs off the screen, you might see two

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Speaker 1: a result, often in Lebron's career, coaches have decided like, ah,

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Speaker 1: I'd rather have Lebron take a fade away over someone

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Speaker 1: have these guys just continually burn us when we leave

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Speaker 1: him open to try to stop Lebron, because he burns

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Speaker 1: us every single time, you know, every I always talk

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Speaker 1: about how the game of basketball is a super complex

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Speaker 1: this is one of those great, the best examples of that.

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Speaker 1: The way that Lebron's passing has complimented his scoring and

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Speaker 1: vice versa is part of what has made him such

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Speaker 1: a versatile playoff weapon. That's what gives him more chess

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Speaker 1: a series. But we're gonna get into that a lot

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Speaker 1: more tomorrow. As always, I sincerely appreciate your guys to

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Speaker 1: support We've got trade deadline stuff coming up. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a jam packed week and a jam packed rest

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Speaker 1: of the season, and I cannot wait. I will see

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Speaker 1: you guys tomorrow. The Volume two