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Speaker 1: Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the Nodunks Podcast,

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Speaker 1: presented by Fan Duel. It's Monday, May eighteenth, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: I'm j Skeets here in the Classic Factory and alongside

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Speaker 1: me as always Task.

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Speaker 2: Mellis podcast listeners, this is for you.

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Speaker 1: Next to him, it's my top shot, hot boy, Trey Kirby,

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Speaker 1: Helao and over Yonder filling in for JD today. Oh look,

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Speaker 1: who's back.

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Speaker 3: It's Esta Kid.

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Speaker 2: I all do it?

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Speaker 3: What's up Fish? Great to see him, man, it's good

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Speaker 3: to see you, guys. That's been a minute.

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Speaker 1: JD and the family celebrating Jackson graduating today.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: So congrats to good kid graduating.

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Speaker 2: Jack Yeah, Jackson.

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Speaker 5: Now you're surprised the new Star Wars movie coming to

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Speaker 5: the theaters.

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Speaker 4: We can't keep Eschwa out of here.

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Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 4: Unbelieved?

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Speaker 3: Are you excited for the Little grogu? Esh excited?

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Speaker 2: Not particularly happy?

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Speaker 3: And New Star Wars is coming?

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Speaker 6: Sure, but this one right here could have just been

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Speaker 6: on Disney Plus.

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Speaker 1: Oh damn.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Everybody joining us here Monday on YouTube. If you're joining

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Speaker 1: podcast listeners, five star ratings and reviews. On today's show,

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Speaker 1: we're going to preview and predict the Western Conference Finals

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Speaker 1: between the Thunder and Spurs that tips tonight and Oh Canada,

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Speaker 1: Sga is once again the NBA's Most Valuable Player. But first,

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Speaker 1: the Cavaliers finally got over the hump. We got to

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Speaker 1: talk Game seven. After losing in back to back seasons

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Speaker 1: in this round in the semifinals, the core of Donovan Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: Evan Mobley, and Jared Allen have finally advanced to the

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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Finals in their fourth season together. All it

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Speaker 1: took was adding James Harden at the trade deadline and

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Speaker 1: some hot shooting from Sam Merrill in Game seven. So

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Speaker 1: the Knicks will host the Cavs in Game one of

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Speaker 1: the Conference finals Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden on ESPN.

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Speaker 1: We'll preview and predict that series on tomorrow Carless Pod,

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Speaker 1: But we're talking Game seven and task. Unfortunately, this was

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Speaker 1: another blowout. I said unfortunately because we had three pretty

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Speaker 1: crappy games this weekend when you go back to the

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Speaker 1: two game sixes and then Game seven in terms of

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Speaker 1: just blowouts here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what was this for Detroit that it doesn't get

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Speaker 2: any worse than that. At home game seven to lose

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Speaker 2: like that, I wish the PA announcer would have came

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Speaker 2: on with the Detroit basketball is not available tonight. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that did not look like Detroit basketball at all. I

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Speaker 2: know everyone on the broadcast was crediting Donovan Mitchell for

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Speaker 2: his assists to start the game, but a lot of

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Speaker 2: it was just bad point of attack defense or just

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Speaker 2: rotating and collapsing, and so the past was there for

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Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell. I know Donna Mitchell was feeling it, hitting

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Speaker 2: his first three from twenty seven feet and it felt

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Speaker 2: so good. I'll take one from thirty seven feet and

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Speaker 2: hit that one. He was on point. But you mentioned

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Speaker 2: James Harden being acquired this game because it was so bad.

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Speaker 2: You don't really look at James Harden's numbers because he

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Speaker 2: has had a classic bad game seven nine points over

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Speaker 2: six from three uh classic games seven stuff. But more

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Speaker 2: field goals than assists actually didn't matter. Turnovers, it didn't

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Speaker 2: matter two field goals won turnover. Harden didn't play bad,

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Speaker 2: he didn't play good. I'm not pointing this matter. An

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Speaker 2: absolute smoke show. And the Cavs they were aggressive from

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Speaker 2: the tip too. They were They're good. Yeah, and in

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Speaker 2: you arena game seven, you want your audience or your

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Speaker 2: couldn't be there, and you saw shots at the crowd,

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Speaker 2: just empty seats really early. Unfortunately in this game, they

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Speaker 2: were not ready. It was just surprising, surprising to see that,

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Speaker 2: surprising to see Kid's season, which was amazing, and like that.

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Speaker 2: You can look and point fingers at Jab bicker Step.

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Speaker 2: Maybe should have gone to Ron Holland or Javonte Green,

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Speaker 2: guys who have the add energy defensively, but it didn't matter.

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Speaker 2: It really didn't matter. Nobody name one Piston that had

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Speaker 2: He was literally their best player off the bench, I guess, so, yeah, yeah, totally.

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Speaker 4: I mean that's the problem.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Tobias Harris, Jalen Duran, Asar Thompson seventeen points total.

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Speaker 5: It ain't gonna work, especially when Kaid is having an

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Speaker 5: they played hard enough in the first half, just not

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Speaker 5: rope and it just turned into a dunk fest for

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Speaker 5: Jared Allen, the nerdy shack out there dunking everything and

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Speaker 5: then breaking away at the free throw line. I'm ready

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Speaker 5: to retire the lights are too bright meme for this guy.

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Speaker 5: He showed up in two game sevens, undefeated in game

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Speaker 1: I do like that he's now taking on the Knicks though,

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Speaker 3: So we'll see if MSG is maybe too breat.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I thought he was great.

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Speaker 5: I thought Mobley was awesome, and Donovan Mitchell was just

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Speaker 5: incomplete control the entire game. Clearly saw something in their

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Speaker 5: scout where he knows the big is going to come

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Speaker 5: the bigs, and this one was when the big comes over,

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Speaker 5: just drop it off to Moblei or to Alan sam

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Speaker 5: Merrill checks in starts hitting the whole bunch of threes,

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Speaker 5: and yeah, the Harden thing is pretty funny because what

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Speaker 5: an ultimate legacy series for this guy. If you think

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Speaker 5: and six when he was sloppy, Jim more turnovers than

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Speaker 4: He sucks.

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Speaker 5: If you think he's good, he carried him in games

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Speaker 5: thirty four and five, got them back in the series.

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Speaker 5: Then he finally wins a game seven. He's now over

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Speaker 5: five hundred and game sevens in his career, all because

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Speaker 5: of the teammates. Yeah, so whatever you thought of James Harden,

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Speaker 5: it's still true after this series, which I really like

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Speaker 5: that's true.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. The Cavs were just like

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Speaker 1: because you had Wad hitting one, you had Sam Merril

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Speaker 1: It was only the second time in their last nine

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Speaker 1: games Cleveland had won the first quarter. This wasn't something

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Speaker 1: So to get the lead and then to build on it.

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Speaker 3: And a big part was.

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Speaker 1: Like how many possessions were there where they had like

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Speaker 1: Game six to me, just the opposite of the teams.

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Speaker 1: Like we were talking about great rebounding from the jump

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Speaker 1: just getting all these other chances.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was odd just to see that Pistons fight

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Speaker 2: really late, they weren't there. That being said, you got

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Speaker 2: to give Sam merrill I thought a lot of credit.

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Speaker 2: His threes just weren't open because of the collapsing. He

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Speaker 2: hit shots. He was really really good. I keep thinking

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Speaker 2: about that question Trey asked earlier in the season, would

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Speaker 2: you rather have Aj Green in the Milwaukee Bucks or

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Speaker 2: Sam Merrill? And that was the big, the big question,

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Speaker 2: and I thought, I'm buying AJ Green's muscles, his rotation

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Speaker 2: way above his head. So I'm taking Aj Green. But

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Speaker 2: after this series, and after Sam Merrill taking a freaking

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Speaker 2: truck of Asar Thompson, I mean, that guy many times.

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Speaker 2: Sam Maurel stepped up and was able to be physical

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Speaker 2: in this series. Even missed Game two, and that was

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Speaker 2: the game that they obviously missed him. But he came

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Speaker 2: back and was really, really, really good in this.

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Speaker 1: And you've seen the stats, I mean, all postseason long.

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Speaker 1: Sam Merril is like the Bell Weather for this Cavaliers team.

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Speaker 1: The record is pretty dominant when he's been healthy and

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Speaker 1: when he plays, and it's been more of like an

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Speaker 3: But he was huge.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I definitely had in my notes at

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Speaker 1: Game seven on the road. Now, a lot of other

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Speaker 1: zero journovers, in the first you know, thirteen fourteen minutes

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Speaker 1: a game that was something because we again to go

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Speaker 1: back to Friday night's game game six, we were like,

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Speaker 1: is Donovan Mitchell ever gonna get an assist again? Like,

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Speaker 1: what's going on here? Like he's not setting guys up.

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Speaker 1: It's either you know, it's feast or famine with the scoring.

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Speaker 1: He was bad on Friday. He was awesome in this one.

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Speaker 1: And then when Detroit tried to make the run in

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Speaker 1: the third quarter, wasn't much of a run, but you know,

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Speaker 1: got it to within fifteen seventeen. I thought Mitchell buried

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Speaker 1: got us into early garbage time. Yeah, yeah, what else

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Speaker 1: what the Pistons are going to do in the off season.

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Speaker 5: This is a good series to look back on when

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Speaker 5: you're trying to remember. Why do we always say Game

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Speaker 5: five is pivotal because this series could have been tipping

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Speaker 5: the other way. Ye with the Pistons up by nine

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Speaker 5: Didn't score for the last three minutes of the game,

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Speaker 5: two games, and that's exactly what they needed because they

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Speaker 5: turtled it in Game six. But he came back for

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Speaker 5: Game seven and one. So you know, we say it

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Speaker 5: literally every time there's a Game five, this is a

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Speaker 5: pivotal Game five.

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Speaker 4: And that was a pivotal three minutes in this series.

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Speaker 2: Totally true. Like you alluded to earlier, skeets a very

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Speaker 2: different team from Game six to Game seven for the

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Speaker 5: It was probably the five best players on the Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, he'd never gotten too a Game seven in

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And obviously James Harden was not good in

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Speaker 5: Well, I think that even though he didn't play well offensively,

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Speaker 5: Like even though Harden didn't play great, he still played

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Tobias Harris. Did he hit a shot?

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Speaker 1: They were like stonewalling any sort of drive where they

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Speaker 3: Is this for them?

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Speaker 1: Ninety six Jesus, Yeah, Like that was some of the

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Speaker 5: It did feel like you could tell Caid wasn't himself

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Speaker 5: they just want every kid bucket to be one on five. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Just wasn't there though.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I saw Kelly Dwyer write about it

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Speaker 2: But yeah, in a game session where we do see

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Speaker 2: ugly low scoring games. That being said, you know, you

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Speaker 2: see what JB. Bicker Staff in game six and pointed

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Speaker 2: to Sasser and more Paul Reid and kri Slvert and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just more.

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Speaker 1: It was shocking to see the one of the best

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, get.

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Speaker 3: Sort of embarrassed here.

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Speaker 4: They got it up for sure.

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Speaker 5: If you're a Pistons fan waking up today, are you

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Speaker 1: I think overall, like, look, you're sad because no one

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Speaker 2: It was all Cleveland fans in that arena. You gotta

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Speaker 1: How many buses were there? I saw twenty and then

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Speaker 1: I saw twenty five. They were saying, what was it?

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Speaker 2: I got twenty five? Okay, I'm going with twenty five.

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Speaker 3: But zoom out, zoom out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this was a great season. You're the number

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Speaker 3: We we said it the deadline. That's all they're doing.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Kevin Herder really, Okay, they've decided to slow play.

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Speaker 1: they need more shooting. Yeah, I mean they have to

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Speaker 1: change this a little bit, but overall, come on, you

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Speaker 5: You're happy, but it is a missed opportunity because I

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Speaker 5: Sar Thompson would be the guy you would have to

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Speaker 5: look at. But he seems pretty locked in there. He's

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Speaker 5: he was very up and down. I thought in this series.

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Speaker 5: His defense is awesome, his mental game isn't always there

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Speaker 5: that's a question mark to answer as well, not to

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Speaker 1: I think, and two huge question marks with the Pistons

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Speaker 1: the safseason are Jillen Duran how much money did this

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Speaker 3: Act out on the stretch.

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Speaker 2: And they got a ton of capron to spend, So

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: This season definitely a little bit of a disappointment, not

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Speaker 2: got Kevin Herder, you're thinking, WHOA, this team could be

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Speaker 2: Herders starting those games right out dusted off seven Kevin Well,

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Speaker 2: listen if he was, he wasn't healthy these last two months.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't playing it. He wasn't part of the rotation

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Speaker 2: I mean, he didn't look like Kevin Heurder from five

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Speaker 4: But I get what do they do with Tobias?

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Speaker 2: It is a big, big question.

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Speaker 1: What do you think, Ash, Was this a like disappointing

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Speaker 1: now season for the Pistons or come on, this was overall?

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Speaker 1: This was great and it's a stepping stone.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think it's a good season for

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Speaker 6: you know, I'll just I just I forgot how bad

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Speaker 6: like they had the worst record ever for the Pistons,

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Speaker 6: Just what two seasons ago and here they are the

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Speaker 2: Success for them for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get into some other random notes from this

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Speaker 1: game seven blowout. Random The first one was the yeah

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Speaker 1: the buses, Dan Gilbert, hell of an owner moved there

438
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Speaker 1: sending I guess twenty five full buses of Cavaliers fans Detroit, and.

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Speaker 3: You could hear them.

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Speaker 4: They were loud.

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Speaker 3: They were quite loud.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think they were helped out by the

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Speaker 1: fact that their team was rolling and the Pistons crowd

444
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Speaker 1: was crickets.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, and they got uniform T shirts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, speaky Troit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the dark red, the burgundy. So yeah, they were

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Speaker 2: It felt like a Cleveland game at times, obviously because

449
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Speaker 2: Detroit stunk. Now, how far that's a lot of buses.

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Speaker 1: How far is the drive from Cleveland to New York.

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Speaker 1: Is this happening there? No way, right, that's too far.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's too far to send twenty five buses.

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Speaker 4: I feel like it's drivable. I don't know. I have

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Speaker 4: literally no idea, but tell me eight and a half hours.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the problem is it's the drive. There's not the issue.

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Speaker 3: It's the drive back, right, because you're like, you're gonna

457
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Speaker 3: play a night game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna back to the morning if.

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Speaker 3: You're driving back. I don't know what it is. Cleveland

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Speaker 3: to New York.

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Speaker 1: City is uh seven? Oh yeah, Okay, I basically just

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Speaker 1: did that to New Orleans. You know it's a drive.

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Speaker 1: How many BUCkies are between them? Okay, probably not happening,

464
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Speaker 1: is my point. But there'll be some Cavs fans maybe

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Speaker 1: flying over to New York. Actually, you would need Dan

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Speaker 1: Gilbert to pay for those tickets. If you've seen the

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Speaker 1: process for a game one there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Dan Gilbert was probably well, how much is gas

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Speaker 5: for all these buses?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Ridiculous, but anyway, pretty cool for an owner to do.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 4: Totally a lot of respect to him.

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Speaker 3: Yep, what else you got from this one?

475
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Speaker 5: All start at the very beginning. The pregame hype video

476
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Speaker 5: was awesome. Yeah, it was common talking about noise basically,

477
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Speaker 5: and it felt like we got moments that real sickos.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 5: They even put in Zaza Pachulia nothing easy in there.

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Speaker 5: They had Kevin Durant stepping his toe on the line

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Speaker 5: against the Bucks, complete with the zoom in on his toe.

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Speaker 4: I thought that was pretty sweet.

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Speaker 1: Glad you brought up the game seven Zaza clip over

484
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Speaker 1: the verves bittersweet.

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Speaker 3: That was they got me hyped.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Zaza yelling at us nothing easy.

487
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Speaker 2: Plus that drone shot coming from the rafters.

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Speaker 1: That was nice Prime's last game of the season. Yeaid

489
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Speaker 1: goodbye last night because they do not have the conference.

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Speaker 2: Finals here, everybody's saying goodbye to Dirk. I didn't get

491
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Speaker 2: that by the Dirk specifically as opposed to the other guys.

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Speaker 2: The other guy is going to be around. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: There was there was just a lot of bye Dirk.

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Speaker 2: I mean they were they corrected themselves and they said,

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Speaker 2: I mean he's not going it. He'll be back, I guess,

496
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Speaker 2: but no, nothing specific about Blake Nash either way. We'll

497
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Speaker 2: get to more of that announcement by those guys on

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Speaker 2: Shay's MVP A little bit later that was that was

499
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Speaker 2: two good stuff. I do want to know, James Harden

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Speaker 2: does look funny to me, and this might just be

501
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Speaker 2: me pointing it out, but when he gets beat on

502
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Speaker 2: defense on defense, sometimes he looks like he's in ciment

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Speaker 2: at times, like Cati go buy him. He did go

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Speaker 2: buy him a couple times in this series, and it

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Speaker 2: looks like he's looking at the other side of the

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Speaker 2: floor like he's just not moving. It takes him a

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Speaker 2: while to get going and get back into rotation. So

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Speaker 2: that's it's hilarious to me. If you could do a

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Speaker 2: little montage of just James Harden, you're kind of looking

510
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Speaker 2: like Dylan Brooks looks at you know, during a national anthem,

511
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Speaker 2: just like locks in. It's pretty funny if you're in

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Speaker 2: my seat anyway.

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Speaker 1: James Harden was on some bullshit last night with some

514
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Speaker 1: griftin calls too.

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Speaker 3: He was doing his.

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Speaker 1: I loved when Duncan Robinson did a James Harden move

517
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Speaker 1: to James Harden in the corner. Three did some embellishing

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Speaker 1: on a on a three point shot and got the

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Speaker 1: free throw.

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Speaker 2: The guys were doing I mean, Mitchell was doing it

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Speaker 2: to that guy with the bugs bunny on his shirt.

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Speaker 2: I think I mean in the front sideline.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were talking shit to that guy. Yeah, there

524
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Speaker 3: was one or two guys that are there.

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Speaker 1: They're always there. I think even Jared Allen was saying

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Speaker 1: umpthing to them at one point.

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Speaker 2: Oh really yeah?

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Speaker 1: Uh did we have one of the quickest replay reviews

529
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Speaker 1: of all time when Duncan Robinson smacked suders quick? That

530
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: was so quick we didn't even we didn't even get

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Speaker 1: a shot of officials looking at monitors or talking to us,

532
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly. We saw the replay a couple

533
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Speaker 1: of times. Standvan's like, no, okay, yeah, it's a foul

534
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,160
Speaker 1: he hit them. Yep, it's not a flag.

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Speaker 2: Let's go. That was good.

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Speaker 3: It was very cool.

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Speaker 4: That was a quick one, So.

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Speaker 3: Thank you to that.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Nubeck had this tweet. NBA home blowouts are especially

540
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,680
Speaker 1: soul crushing because the DJ just keeps firing up instrumentals

541
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Speaker 1: from two thousand and five rap songs while your team misses.

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Speaker 1: It's eleventh consecutive three. A lot of truth to that man,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just always, I do always think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people pay good money for those seats.

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Speaker 3: Game seven, You're hyped.

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Speaker 1: You had all Sunday, all weekend really after the big game,

547
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Speaker 1: six win and just a sad trombone after you know

548
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: it is true, and it's.

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Speaker 5: Like a guy you gotta keep yelling Detroit. You got

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Speaker 5: to keep your bits up, even to the bitter end.

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Speaker 4: That's sad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the swag surfing here in Atlanta when

553
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,640
Speaker 1: they were down forty. This is good.

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Speaker 3: You gotta do it, you gotta do it.

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Speaker 1: I like stan Van Gundy calling Ben Wallace looking like

556
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Speaker 1: a college professor and that wasn't good, and the Eagle said, yeah,

557
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: he's like a professor of rebounds in the defense and

558
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Speaker 1: something that very funny.

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Speaker 3: And that's about it. It's all I got from this one.

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Speaker 5: The only other thing I had was Caid had a

561
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Speaker 5: really funny turnover when like Jared Allen fell down and

562
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Speaker 5: then Kate threw a past to Jared Allen on the ground.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what happened there? It doesn't look like it was deflected.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think so. Every kid passed that one

565
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 2: didn't look like it was deflected. That the one that

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Speaker 2: you mentioned at the beginning of the game, where he

567
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Speaker 2: tried to throw a left hooky Tobya his hair is

568
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Speaker 2: like fifty feet I had to keep going back and

569
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Speaker 2: was that Evan Mobley who poked it forty feet away

570
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Speaker 2: because his touch wasn't on. And then he passed that

571
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Speaker 2: one literally to Jared Allen sitting on the floor. The

572
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Speaker 2: turnover was committed because he passed it to a guy

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Speaker 2: on the floor.

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Speaker 1: Kate wasn't right, no, I mean that's how we got

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Speaker 1: to a blowout situation. Kate was bad, not a good

576
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: kid game. And then nobody else of course helping, I

577
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Speaker 1: mean Jayllen Duran back to nothing. Beef stew was brutal

578
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Speaker 1: and Paul read the magic ran out, you know, like

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Speaker 1: we like Tobias can't hit a shot. Duncan Robinson was

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Speaker 1: okay like you said, but otherwise it was it was

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Speaker 1: pretty bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, but good season overall. We'll see what

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Speaker 3: they do.

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Speaker 1: They have big decisions here as they now have shown

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Speaker 1: that they are one of the better teams obviously in

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Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference. Now you got to obviously get kid

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Speaker 1: some help scoring wise, and got to figure out how

588
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Speaker 1: much is too much for Jaillen Duran after what we

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Speaker 1: just saw. He's an important piece. He was great all

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Speaker 1: regular season. But I don't know that guy. You can't

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Speaker 1: go like you're not going max on him. There's no

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Speaker 1: possible way you are. That's how you get yourself in

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Speaker 1: trouble as a franchise.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, it takes some in the PLAYSFS takes

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Speaker 2: some multiple quarters to get going. And they tried to

596
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Speaker 2: go to him in the first quarter after the time out,

597
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 2: Jamie Bickersaf goes to him. He missed, but then he

598
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Speaker 2: was able to get it going and getting a miss

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00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 2: and put back and then you know they forced the

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Speaker 2: cass to call a timeout, but it didn't last long.

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Speaker 2: So that is a it's a fair question, especially with

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Speaker 2: a guy who's going to get an All NBA award.

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Speaker 2: I as soon make a team, yeah, I think so. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: All right, well let's hear your thoughts everybody in the

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Speaker 1: stream team on the Cavalier's dominant Game seven win, and

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Speaker 1: again we will preview and predict the Eastern Conference Finals

607
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Speaker 1: on tomorrow's podcast. We're gonna take quick break, then we'll

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Speaker 1: talk SGA and look at the West series.

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Speaker 4: I heard pre show that we only have twelve to

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Speaker 4: twenty one games remaining.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right. It's either three sweeps or three game seven,

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Speaker 3: so twelve or twenty.

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Speaker 5: Check thirty or more points rebounds assists combined going over

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Speaker 2: Don't know about that one.

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Speaker 5: Bet at the glass Castle SGA forty points.

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Speaker 3: Rebounds assists Yeah, probably.

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Speaker 4: Wemby forty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the stare steps wow assists.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna saw.

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Speaker 1: I don't that's there's no way all four of those

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Speaker 1: hits over for sure.

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Speaker 4: That seems pretty tough.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's stepping you stepping up check Castle SGA, Wemby

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Speaker 5: thirty thirty five forty forty five.

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Speaker 5: Six ten bucks wins three hundred and thirty five.

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Speaker 3: I mean it pays, It definitely pays.

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Speaker 5: That'd be a high scoring game. It feels like, yeah,

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Speaker 5: a brickie game. I guess with just like heavy rebounding

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Speaker 5: numbers for the guys they all go over ten plus boards.

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Speaker 5: won a second consecutive MVP award. The NBA announced this

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Speaker 5: last night, well Shaan's announced it first. Pissed Off Everybody Crime.

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Speaker 1: The now two time MVP finished with eighty three first

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Speaker 1: place votes compared to ten for Jokic and five for

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Speaker 1: when Binyama. Kate Cunningham did get two first place votes,

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Speaker 1: but Shay runs away with this in the end, tasks

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Speaker 1: going back to back like he's Steve Nash.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, back in the day, and Steve Nash announced it.

658
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Speaker 3: It was cool.

659
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 2: He was the guy who got to announce it because

660
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 2: he has been his mentor, so that was very cool.

661
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 2: It was also cool to hear Blake Griffin call out shots.

662
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 3: Nerds.

663
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: What are we doing?

664
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Speaker 5: Man?

665
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 2: Like it's Sunday Shan's go to Brench Brunh Nerd calls

666
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 2: him a nerd. That's pretty it's funny. Yeah, that's funny.

667
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 4: He's I think he's actually the next Charles Barkley.

668
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 5: Wow, he's outspoken, but he's also willing to take it

669
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 5: and it's very self deprecating, but yeah, Shaye deserves it.

670
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 5: I thought it was funny. His little moment with Steve

671
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 5: Nash and Dirk. Dirk's asks him like, ten to fifteen

672
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 5: years from now, you're looking back at these two MVPs,

673
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 5: what do you what.

674
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Speaker 4: Are you thinking about him?

675
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 5: He's like, probably that I used to be really nice

676
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 5: and now I'm washed up, and Nash is like, that's

677
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 5: exactly what it's like, still advising him very bad as

678
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 5: her wins.

679
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: So a couple things about this. SGA's raw scoring actually

680
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: went down this season from thirty two point seven points

681
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: for game to thirty one point one, but he scored

682
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: those points far more efficiently, which is pretty amazing fifty

683
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: five percent from the floor thirty nine percent from three

684
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: eighty eight percent at the line, So flirting with a

685
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: flirting with a fifty five forty ninety line there. Sam

686
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: Quinn of CBS Sports noted that the only other player

687
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: to ever achieve those shooting percentages on more than two

688
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty total shots was Kevin Durant, and Kevin

689
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,239
Speaker 1: Durant did it in forty seven games in twenty two

690
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: to twenty three.

691
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 3: So Sga did it in sixty.

692
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: Eight games and still managed to finish his season with

693
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: fewer total turnovers and almost twice as many assists to

694
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: that KD season. So just mad efficiency here from this guy.

695
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: He's the seventh player over the last forty years to

696
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: win multiple NBA MVP awards by his twenty eighth birthday

697
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: does not turn twenty eight until July.

698
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Speaker 3: Sga Lebron had.

699
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Speaker 1: Three MVPs by twenty eight, and then it's Sga, Yokich,

700
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Speaker 1: Giannis Curry, Duncan and Jordan.

701
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 3: Having the two up to that age.

702
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: Pretty incredible, just unbelievable season. His sustained success is sensational.

703
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: I didn't mean that to be a tong He sustained

704
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: success is simply sensational. Four straight season that SGA finished

705
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: in the top five in MVP voting and just scoring

706
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: thirty points per game over four consecutive seasons. This is

707
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: Jordan Jordan esque man, it is, And look if he

708
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: can do it, if you can pull off another title

709
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: and finals MVP, then he is getting into.

710
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 3: Very rarefied air.

711
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: Were you shocked at all that he ran away with

712
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: like eighty three of the first place votes? Did you

713
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: think you'd be a little closer?

714
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 5: Not really, No, Now, he was always leading in the

715
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 5: bottom times straw polls, and you know, we do podcasts

716
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 5: every day, people do talk shows every day, so you

717
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 5: got to talk about something. So it makes it seem

718
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 5: like a guy like Wemby could be closing on him

719
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 5: during the last third of the season, like Jokic is

720
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 5: closing on him when he's putting up these monster lines

721
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 5: as well. But then once you actually settle down and

722
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 5: take a look at stuff, you're like, this guy averaged

723
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 5: thirty three games shooting fifty five percent on the best

724
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Speaker 5: team in the league.

725
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 4: Makes sense that he would be the MVP.

726
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the biggest surprise from all of voting

727
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 2: was that Wemby didn't surpass Jokic for second. I was

728
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 2: a little surprised by that, just considering Jokic is finished

729
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 2: to the season. I mean they won twelve in a

730
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 2: row in the season, but still he wasn't himself.

731
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 3: Even the last Monster numbers were earlier in the season.

732
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, after the injury, it was not himself.

733
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: And then Wemby came on late and they had a

734
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: dominant record when Wemby was playing. So yeah, Sga gets

735
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: a second and the street continues here for an international

736
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: guy winning MVP. That what are we up to now?

737
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: It's a long time running. Now, who was the last

738
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: American player to win it? Harden A r probably because

739
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: embiid obviously in there. Jokicch you're honest. Yeah, that's g Yeah,

740
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: I think.

741
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 2: That is right.

742
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: So here's where we're at as we spin this into

743
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: our thunder Spurs series preview.

744
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 4: Hold on one last thing.

745
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 5: It's good to be just a random dude on the thunder.

746
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 5: Did you see everything that Jay Yale just Alexander gave

747
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 5: these guys.

748
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: We've got trench coats, we got watches, custom golf bags.

749
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I think they got iPhone seventeen's as well.

750
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 5: It was the gift basket, which is a hilarious inclusion.

751
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 5: But imagine being a guy like Brendan Carlson who's been

752
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 5: like a two way player for the Thunder the last

753
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 5: two years. He's making like probably made like five hundred

754
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 5: thousand dollars at an NBA career, but he's got a

755
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 5: Rolex and an Autumar PJ as well.

756
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 4: He didn't have to pay for ye hangs out and

757
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 4: gets a cool stuff.

758
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 2: Shadon pull a Tom Dundan of the Portland Trailblazers and

759
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 2: say two way guys don't get all the guests. He

760
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 2: was part of that video where Chet put on a

761
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 2: trench coat that was literally like to his butt.

762
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, order of another one Chet's getting too.

763
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 2: He said it wasn't even close to a jacket. I thought,

764
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 2: was that a joke or maybe Chet doesn't like trench coats?

765
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 2: Did it? Was it? It was it sewn?

766
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 4: Was I mean he would be a hard guy to

767
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 4: buy a jacket.

768
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 2: That was pretty fun.

769
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess he is getting two of the birdbaryed

770
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: trench coats. The looks hilarious where Shason is obviously his

771
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: blazer and his Jean getting the award and everybody else

772
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: in trench coats yeap looking like inspector gadget.

773
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 5: Inspector gadgets, but then also just like wearing whatever underneath,

774
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 5: like Jada was wearing pajama pants.

775
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, okakay, but he looked excited to go get his

776
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 2: golf peg. That says Williams on it. For a second,

777
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 2: I had a brain fork because I saw three Williams

778
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 2: golf bags.

779
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 3: Forgot Kenrich, Yeah, forgot?

780
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 2: Okay, there's a couple of jay Lynn j dub who's

781
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 2: the other one? Uh? But yeah, I wonder who plays

782
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,760
Speaker 2: golf on that team. Who's the best golfer on the Thunder?

783
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 2: What they to me seem like a team that doesn't

784
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 2: golf ur they're so young.

785
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 4: Yeah white, Yeah, yeah, so he's probably you think.

786
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm definitely thinking Carlson does that too. Okay, but

787
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: yeah they Criss Crusoe played. Okay, who cares about their

788
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 2: golf crews?

789
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into uh thunder Spurs preview here the

790
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: most anticipated matchup of the twenty six NBA Playoffs. We

791
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: got it, It's arrived. The reigning champion Thunder will go

792
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,720
Speaker 1: up against the upstart Spurs in the Western Conference Finals

793
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: best of seven series tips tonight. It's gonna mark the

794
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 1: first matchup between two sixty win teams since the Bulls

795
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: and Jazz met in the ninety eight finals.

796
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 3: Remember that the Thunder are a perfect.

797
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 1: Eight to no through two rounds. They're the favorites to

798
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: win this series at minus two to sixty on FanDuel.

799
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: But the Spurs had okc's number throughout the regular season.

800
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: They took four or five games from about mid December

801
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: to early February. So can Wemby and the Spurs pull

802
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: off the upset here? And I think I heard zach

803
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: Lo say the Spurs have like a thirty seven and

804
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: three record over their last forty games in which Wemby

805
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: played fifteen minutes or more. So they are just obviously

806
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: next to unbeatable over the last half the season when

807
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,240
Speaker 1: Wemby's been out there playing in a decent amount of minutes.

808
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 2: So look, this is awesome.

809
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 3: It is as if you don't have a dog in

810
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 3: this race.

811
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 2: You do.

812
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: If you don't care if the Thunder, you know, repeat,

813
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: or the Spurs obviously get to the finals, you're just

814
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: a basketball fan.

815
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 3: This is amazing. We got this.

816
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: We were hoping for it, we thought we'd get it,

817
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: and now we do. So one thing to watch in

818
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: the number one versus number two seed in the Western Conference.

819
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,760
Speaker 2: Finals, well, okay see, just trying to get Victor wembin

820
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 2: Yama moving around as much as possible is what I'm watching,

821
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 2: because that is the whole goal. Get Wemby away from

822
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 2: the paint, have to go for three point shooters, but

823
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 2: also just the cutters, all the speed that OKAYC is

824
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 2: going to have, and the depth that they have ten

825
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 2: guys on their roster playing ten plus minutes so far

826
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,760
Speaker 2: in the postseason. And now you get a Jaylen Williams

827
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 2: back who's going to start. A j Mitchell guy who

828
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 2: averaged nineteen points per game can just come off the bench.

829
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: And so that factor of just trying to get Wemby

830
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 2: as tired as possible with a team that is extremely

831
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 2: well rested, okay see having a week off, because you

832
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 2: look at the numbers in those four four wins that

833
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 2: are four and one against okay see, Wemby didn't block

834
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 2: a lot of shots. He only blocked six blocks in

835
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 2: those five games that he played. Night played some fewer minutes,

836
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 2: but still he was scoring. The point is just to

837
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 2: get Wemby moving as much as possible, because that is

838
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 2: the goal. Against the San Antonio Spurts. You have to

839
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 2: to tire him out offensively as well, because is okaysee

840
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 2: is ready for this. They have been prepared. They had

841
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 2: they yes, they had two playoff rounds, but they also

842
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 2: got a week off in between each. They're waiting for

843
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 2: this conference finals. They planned the whole thing, and so

844
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 2: I think the whole plan is wem Yama getting guessed

845
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 2: if they can.

846
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: And in a lot of those regular season matchups, Wemby

847
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: would play against or he'd be put on the Carusos

848
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: of the world, the Dorts of the world, so he

849
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: could just roam and it was like, we will see

850
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: if you can beat us from distance. We have the

851
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: one game where Caruso was like two for twelve from

852
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: deep to twelve.

853
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 3: Three point a tempts. Big part of these wide open

854
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 3: he's got to take them. You got to shoot him.

855
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: But I'm with you, I mean, I look, well, we

856
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: see wembyond chet I hope. So I think there'll be

857
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: some matchups. But I don't know why the Spurs would

858
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: go away with what was working in the regular season,

859
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: putting Wemby on one of those non shooters so he

860
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: can just roam everywhere, eyes everywhere, everybody else, be aggressive

861
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: on the perimeter, all our young athletic guards, and he'll

862
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: be back there obviously as the insurance factor, So I

863
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: think we'll see more of that too. But I get

864
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: your take on what they got to do to Wemby

865
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: to tire him out, and will Wemby's minutes here finally

866
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: increase in the postseason?

867
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they haven't had him need to play

868
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 5: a whole bunch of minutes. That's gonna be exciting for me.

869
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 5: The big thing to watch here is best player in

870
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 5: the world status is up for grabs in this series,

871
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 5: because at first I'm thinking, Wow, Chet versus Wemby, what

872
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 5: a cool matchup of rivals. Guess what, Wemby's passed him Like,

873
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 5: It's not even a question between these two guys anymore,

874
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 5: with how good Wemby has become on the defensive end,

875
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 5: combined with his offensive skills as well. So you got

876
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 5: to look at the next logical rival for Wemby, and

877
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 5: it is SGA two time MVP, best team in the League,

878
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 5: defending champion awesome player. He would be the best player

879
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 5: in the world right now. But Wemby is right on

880
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 5: his heels. You can make an argument that he was

881
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 5: the best player in the league the last third of

882
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 5: the season. Maybe has been the player in the league

883
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 5: when he's been on the court in the playoffs as well.

884
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 5: I think whoever wins this series going into next year,

885
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 5: we're saying that guy's the MVP favorite and he's the

886
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 5: number one player in the world, And I think either

887
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 5: team could literally take this, like I can give him.

888
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 5: The Spurs a huge chance in this because they have Wemby.

889
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.

890
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: One thing I'm watching is can the Spurs survive okay

891
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: C's physicality, because you know this team likes to claw, grab,

892
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: hold the whole concept of they're not going to be

893
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: able to call everything. We can be physical. We have

894
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: a million guys that we can just keep rotating into.

895
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: We'll never tire that way. Okay, see leads the playoffs

896
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: with nearly twenty three points per game off turnovers. So

897
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: the Spurs, like any matchup when we talk about the thunder,

898
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 1: the other team in order to win four to seven

899
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: has to take care of the basketball. Cannot be sloppy

900
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 1: with it, cannot give up those easy fast break transition

901
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: points to the thunder where suddenly they just rip off

902
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: the twelve ozho fourteen oh run and your suddenly you're

903
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 1: in a daze and calling a timeout, like what the

904
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: hell happened? We just turned the ball over three times

905
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 1: and it's you know, Wallace and Crusoe and Dorton, Sga

906
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: and j dub and all them screaming the other way.

907
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: So that's huge, all that ball pressure, hold on protect

908
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: that rock, and I think they can, Like I think

909
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: the Spurs, even though these guys are young, they play

910
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: with a physicality to them as well in Castle and

911
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: Harper and Fox, So I mean, like, look, it's different.

912
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: You know, Minnesota had one, let's say, good perimeter defender

913
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: and Jada McDaniels because Ant was definitely limited. I didn't

914
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 1: wasn't really impressed what he got brought defensively in that

915
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: last series. But okay See has four or five six

916
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: guys case Walla. So I'm excited to see because the

917
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,479
Speaker 1: Spurs guard play is a big reason why they're here

918
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: and like ahead of developmental sort of progress.

919
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 2: Here and why they beat okay See four out of

920
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 2: five games. Even though they weren't turning over the thunder

921
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 2: a ton, they were running a ton. And the fast breaks,

922
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 2: whether it was off makes or misses from Okay see

923
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 2: a free throws, they had one guy bring up the

924
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 2: ball as fast as possible, one of their guards, whether

925
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 2: it's Castle, whether it was Harper, or whether it was Fox.

926
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 2: And they would pick their matchups and say we can

927
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 2: go right hard, right at them, and that's why they won.

928
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 2: They won because of the guard play. You look at

929
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,919
Speaker 2: Wemby's stats throughout those four games, and in the five

930
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 2: games they played many average twenty points per game this

931
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 2: season versus Okac minus won quiet game whereas he was

932
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 2: even quieter. So that's those are the numbers. We talked

933
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 2: that fan duel line, like he's not gonna score a ton.

934
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 2: I don't think. I think it's those other guys that

935
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 2: you have to rely on because they match the turnover

936
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 2: scoring from Okac with just running the heck out of it.

937
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 2: And we shall see. We shall see what Check can

938
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 2: do versus Wemby. This is a big series for Check

939
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 2: in that regard because Wemby has owned him to some degree.

940
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 2: But Chet is having his best playoffs of his career,

941
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:57,240
Speaker 2: and this is been He's been so good on offense,

942
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: so there's a lot on his shoulders that he's right.

943
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's ready to go up against Wemby, even

944
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 2: though they won't be matched up. You're gonna get Wemby

945
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 2: to guard Hertenstein to start, you know, just to be

946
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 2: able to roam and not have to go out to

947
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 2: a three point shooter. But Chet's got a lot to

948
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 2: play for.

949
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 5: How Cassel is I think hugely important in this series

950
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 5: as well. He's kind of been foul happy, I think

951
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 5: during the postseason so far has filed out one game

952
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 5: of each of the first two series that the Spurs played.

953
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 5: He's been in foul trouble a bunch of other times

954
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 5: just because he plays so aggressively and play so physically.

955
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 5: They need him to help try and wear down Shake

956
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 5: Gilders Alexander. They need him to be efficient on the

957
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,240
Speaker 5: offensive end as well. It wouldn't be surprising to see

958
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 5: the Spur or the Thunder do something similar to what

959
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 5: the every team does, where it's like, okay, Castle, we're

960
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 5: gonna give you wide open jumpers. Like how many jumpers

961
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 5: did he have against the Timberwolves in Game six, he

962
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 5: was not gonna go down right away. That was huge,

963
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 5: but you got to do it against this Thunder team

964
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 5: because to beat the Thunder you got to make threes.

965
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 5: So they need him to keep his head and to

966
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 5: be able to play at play off level while being

967
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 5: able to stay on the court as well.

968
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: How do you think San Antonio plays Sga. Do you

969
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: think we'll see what the Lakers did and just a

970
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: bunch of double teams on him like the Spurs did

971
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: to Anthony Edwards where they sort of trap and then

972
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: recover because they're so athletic out there and you got

973
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: Wemby behind you.

974
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 3: Is that the game plan? Do that again with SGA

975
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 3: just in the ant roll.

976
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 4: Probably not right away, but eventually they'll get to that,

977
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 4: I imagine.

978
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:26,280
Speaker 3: Yeah.

979
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they do start one on one, but

980
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 2: they'll pick their spots with their doubles. Yeah, yeah, not

981
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 2: many of them.

982
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to X factors here in the

983
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: Thunder Spurs matchup. Start with you, Trey, who's a big

984
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: X factor.

985
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,240
Speaker 5: I think Julian Champenny's gonna be big in this series.

986
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 5: Only went seven for twenty five from three against the

987
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 5: Thunder in the regular season but he's shooting forty five

988
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,479
Speaker 5: percent from three in the playoffs. I think he could

989
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 5: be a potential Jalen Williams defender, and that's like a matchup.

990
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 4: I'm a little concerned for the.

991
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 5: Spurs four because they don't have a great, sizeable wing

992
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 5: like Jalen Williams. And he says he's very healthy coming

993
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 5: into this one because they got so much time off,

994
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 5: Like it feels like the Thunder played basketball for a

995
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,720
Speaker 5: week and then just chill for ten days. Play basketball

996
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 5: for a week and then we can relax for ten

997
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 5: days and everybody put on a trench coat and have

998
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 5: a good time. But uh, I do think Jalen Williams

999
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 5: can be a tough matchup for the Spurs. Maybe Carter

1000
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 5: Bryant will have to play on him, but I think

1001
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 5: Champenny Vecell to a lesser extent will be the same.

1002
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 5: But yeah, I do think that Champenny is gonna have

1003
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,919
Speaker 5: to make open threes because it feels like the ball

1004
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 5: will probably find him a lot. I think if he

1005
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 5: shoots from the corners, he's probably one hundred percent, and

1006
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 5: above the break, it's like thirty percent. I don't know

1007
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 5: if that's true, but That's what it feels like in

1008
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 5: my heart.

1009
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like when it comes to it, Jalen

1010
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 2: Williams like he'll be fine coming back from a long

1011
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 2: time out because he had to do it multiple times

1012
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 2: this season, and I think he got better each time

1013
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 2: he had to return because the last one he did

1014
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 2: really really well. So to me, the X factor are

1015
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 2: X factors on OKAC side all those guys off the bench,

1016
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 2: because you know they're going to bring so many of them.

1017
00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 2: So Caruso, can you just bump and grind Wembach to

1018
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 2: wear him down here every single possession, give him a

1019
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 2: litle knock, give him a little push to see if

1020
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 2: Wemby can be hurt. Or aj Mitchell, can you come

1021
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 2: and just drop some points like you need to when

1022
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 2: Jalen Williams sits or whoever Cason Willis, can he hit

1023
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 2: some shots? He missed sixteen of his twenty one threes

1024
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 2: versus Okay this season. Jalen Williams, I wonder if the

1025
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 2: jay will can get played off the floor a little bit.

1026
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 2: I doubt it, but you know they have size spurs

1027
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 2: do with Luke Cornett over Jayleen Williams. Jenle Willims was

1028
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,720
Speaker 2: fine in their series this year. But those guys plus

1029
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 2: the Jared McCain, Like, if those guys can all chip in,

1030
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 2: that's what okay, So he does so so well. So

1031
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 2: it's it's the collective for me, the.

1032
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,399
Speaker 1: Thunder seem to be looking in the mirror here when

1033
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 1: it comes to roster depth and athleticism because the Spurs

1034
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 1: can match him a lot of these guys, And I'm excited.

1035
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: I even think we're gonna have weird X factors in

1036
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: this series, like maybe even potentially like ken Rich Williams

1037
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: or Harrison Barnes, Like there's gonna be a player to

1038
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: here from one of these coaches where they're going to

1039
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: like the tenth or eleventh guy in some cases just

1040
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: to see what they got. But my big X factor,

1041
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: you guys already brought him up. But Chet Holmgren. I

1042
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: think Chet Holgren has to play well for the Thunder

1043
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 1: to beat the Spurs here four to seven games. They

1044
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: ignored him in the regular season matchup. Wemby just ignored him.

1045
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: The team ignored him, and Chet did not hit threes.

1046
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: He hit two three pointers in four games. And he also,

1047
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: you know, to quote a pretty cool podcast. I know

1048
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,240
Speaker 1: he wiped his ass. Wemby did inside he got crushed

1049
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 1: by this guy. So Hogren averaged ten and a half

1050
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 1: points per game on thirty nine percent shooting versus the Spurs.

1051
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: His body language was bad, his confidence did look a

1052
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: little shook. Wemby was in his head or whatever. He's

1053
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: been great in the postseason though, but he was playing

1054
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: a Sun's team that had no centers and then you

1055
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: know they're playing the Lakers team there and that was

1056
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: fairly easy too.

1057
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is different.

1058
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,320
Speaker 1: I hope he's up for the challenge here, and again

1059
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 1: I hope we get a couple fun little one on

1060
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: one matchups between the two seven foot but I think

1061
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:05,240
Speaker 1: Chuck's huge in this in addition to shooters on the Spurs,

1062
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: Aj Mitchell and like, I just can't wait to see,

1063
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: like which random guy does have a huge quarter here,

1064
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: because there's like Isaiah Joe who's sort of like he

1065
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: could you could tell me he doesn't play at all

1066
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: in the series, or dag Naelt's like, well, don't see

1067
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: what he can give us, Yeah, and then he's like, oh,

1068
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: he splashes three threes and it's like, oh, here we go.

1069
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think that's the same with McCain.

1070
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 5: It's like he didn't play at all for then in

1071
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 5: the Sun series because Jalen Williams was healthy. So you know,

1072
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 5: Mitchell will go to the bench, he'll take the Jared

1073
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 5: McCain minutes. But McCain was awesome in their last series

1074
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 5: against the Timberwolves.

1075
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 4: I would want.

1076
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 5: Him or uh, who did they even play the Lakers?

1077
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 5: I guess Yeah, I would want him on the court,

1078
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 5: but he might not be. But he's also the kind

1079
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 5: of guy that he could not play for two games.

1080
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 5: You'd throw him in for twelve minutes in the second quarter.

1081
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 5: He goes four for four, five three. You know, so

1082
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 5: I think the Spurs like have to win the bench minutes. Yeah,

1083
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 5: kind of like that means Keldon Johnson to me is

1084
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 5: a hugely important player as well. He's been very up

1085
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 5: and down, mostly down. Yeah, very inconsistent. Just seems like

1086
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 5: maybe his game doesn't translate perfectly, but sometimes it can.

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00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, Carter Bryan, I think is going to play in

1088
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: this series again to the rook I mean obviously just

1089
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,839
Speaker 1: for pure athleticism alone, but you like, don't turn it over, kid,

1090
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: you know, pressure on him here in these bigger games.

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00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 3: But he's gonna play.

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00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 2: There's a guy named Aaron Wiggins who might play.

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00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what I mean.

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00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,399
Speaker 1: It'll be fascinating to see who they dust off here

1095
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: in this series because of matchups are what they see.

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00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: You're opening on the floor. Yeah, what they can give

1097
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:34,839
Speaker 1: them beyond bo series for you guys, I think I'll

1098
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: draw the line there, like, look, no, Kelly, Kelly, I.

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00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:40,240
Speaker 4: Don't think we're seeing those socks.

1100
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 5: I don't want to see what he brings out.

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00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 3: He's conference final socks.

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00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 2: I think he will change it up. Yeah, oh wow, Yeah,

1103
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 2: because we've got the ankle list. Then we had those

1104
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 2: ugly black things he was wearing. What were those things?

1105
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 2: I mean, they're like a hole down.

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00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 4: Cut his socks.

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00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they were shorter.

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00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 2: It looked like they look they were afraid. Yeah yeah, yuck, yuck.

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00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 2: He's gonna wear actual socks if there's a blow, yeah.

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00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: I think to me, to me, the Spurs are playing

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00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:13,280
Speaker 1: nine guys, but maybe ten because I do think Harrison Barnes,

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00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: I do think he's gonna play because I played well

1113
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: against okaysee in the regular scene too, so I think

1114
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: he'll that'll be their ten guys.

1115
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 3: And then it sounds like you're.

1116
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 2: Taking the Spurs. Baby. The depth is just really really important.

1117
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 2: As much as maybe the casual fan doesn't care about that,

1118
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 2: it is really important. I think. Okay, so he does

1119
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 2: have the depth advantage here, but Harry Bow, Harrison Barnes

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00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 2: might come hit a mid range shot, might hit a

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00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 2: three point shot, might set up a lob for Devin

1122
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 2: Bussell like he did in the last round. Yes, he

1123
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 2: will be important, but does the age matter when it

1124
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 2: comes to the young guys? Forget Harry bo, but a

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00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 2: Carter Bryan or Dylan Harper probably not, Probably doesn't matter

1126
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 2: that guy versus Mitchell. That's cool.

1127
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: Let's hear your prediction for this Western Conference final series

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00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: that everybody wanted.

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00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 2: I'm going with the depth of this Oklahoma City Thunder.

1130
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 2: I think Aj Mitchell does match Dylan Harper off the bench,

1131
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 2: and I think that's really really important because of how

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00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 2: many guys they have behind Aj Mitchell. I'm taking the

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00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 2: Thunder in six.

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00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 3: Okay, TK, Are you going Spurs or Sticks?

1135
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 5: Is honestly to me like the smart pick the wise

1136
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 5: man's pick.

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00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 4: So I'll take the Spurs in six.

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00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.

1139
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,399
Speaker 4: They got Wenby. Hey, look, nobody else has.

1140
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 1: I think you are right, it's going to be fun

1141
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: to see this best player in the world sort of

1142
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 1: battle here. Not that they're on each other, but SGA

1143
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: is the two time reigning MVP. Yeah, they are the

1144
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 1: defending champs, and he's been while he was awesome in

1145
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: the first round against the Suns, quieted in the second round,

1146
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: but making all the right plays, and it's like, okay, yeah,

1147
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: we'll play.

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00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 3: We'll play obviously with an advantage because you're putting two

1149
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 3: on me. That's okay.

1150
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,800
Speaker 1: And aj Mitchell obviously blossom into sort of that second scorer.

1151
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: But I think, like I don't know, SGA seems to

1152
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: he needs to probably get back to the thirty point

1153
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 1: per game sort of level here in this series, having

1154
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: some big monster scoring games, I think. And then there's Webby. Yeah,

1155
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:04,720
Speaker 1: the Wemby factor is awesome. Does it do his minutes

1156
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: go up? What type of stat lines are we looking at?

1157
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:08,879
Speaker 1: Does he embarrass and own shed again here?

1158
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 4: You know?

1159
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 3: Is his three ball falling?

1160
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: There's that part of the equation. Does Caruso or dork

1161
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: get get under his skin and frustrate him? Is he

1162
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: throwing another bow? For all we know? It's a it's fun.

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00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 1: I'm going thunder, But I'll go thunder and seven. I mean,

1164
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: we asked for this all season long. They've already played.

1165
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: They already played a five game series which Spurs did

1166
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: win four five THEA A. J. Mitchell didn't play in

1167
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: a lot of those games and he should be big

1168
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: off the bench. But I'll go thunder and seven. Home

1169
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: court advantage, tough place to play, the experience. Yeah, I

1170
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: feel like this one's a lot of people picking Thunder,

1171
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: A lot of people pick and Spurs.

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00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,280
Speaker 4: Fifty seven percent of the stream team.

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00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 3: Is choosing the Thunders.

1174
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:48,840
Speaker 4: Okay, see the Spurs.

1175
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, Okay, I love it.

1176
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 2: I love it does feel like a coin flip in

1177
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 2: a weird way. Even though these two teams are great,

1178
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 2: it wouldn't be surprising to see the Spurs win.

1179
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 5: Yeah that it doesn't feel like a coin flip to me.

1180
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,399
Speaker 5: I think Okay, see is kind of clearly the better team,

1181
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 5: the more experienced team, the deeper team, but they don't

1182
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 5: have Wemby, so they do have a great chance and

1183
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 5: it wouldn't be shocking to see the Spurs actually take this.

1184
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:14,479
Speaker 4: And that's going to be competitive for sure.

1185
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 1: Let's hear your predictions in the stream, team, or if

1186
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 1: you're watching this a little bit later, probably clip this out.

1187
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: Let's hear it. Who do you got winning this series?

1188
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 1: How many games? Who's an X Factor? Things to watch for?

1189
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 3: All that good stuff?

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00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: Lit bit a little Bit of the Night sponsored by

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Speaker 1: David for his two and a half year old daughter, Amelia.

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Speaker 1: David wrote in Amelia is too young to watch her

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Speaker 1: listen to you guys, but I was just so proud

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Speaker 1: of her this week for pooping in the toilet for

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Speaker 1: the first time ever. I wanted to share it with everyone.

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Speaker 3: I know you just did.

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Speaker 1: I doubt I will ever be as pleased to see

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Speaker 1: a turd in a porcelain bowl again.

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Speaker 3: Okay, a little too much, David, That's okay.

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Speaker 1: Not only that she went three more times in the

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Speaker 1: same afternoon, all dead center of the bowl.

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Speaker 3: Okay, now way too.

1203
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Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, Breen poops here four afternoon poops. Maybe she's

1204
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Speaker 1: trying to join the tweet of the week Army, Oh

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Speaker 1: good say if you're back, David, thanks as always for

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Speaker 1: the daily classics.

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Speaker 3: Listening to you guys.

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Speaker 1: Banter always puts a smile on my face and helps

1209
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Speaker 1: balance out the stress from potty training. So David coming

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Speaker 1: through with the woe Boy sponsor, I think he had

1211
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Speaker 1: to run that by his wife or his partner. No, hey,

1212
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking of sponsoring Amelia's potty training on a basketball podcast.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Plus, it's about stat line. So he gives us

1214
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Speaker 2: the stats of one plus three poops right in the middle,

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Speaker 2: the approximation of where it went, and we got a

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Speaker 2: poop emoji and an email had to include.

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's great work. Well I'll tell you who wasn't

1218
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: poop last night.

1219
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:48,399
Speaker 3: Evan Mobley. That's your woe boy.

1220
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Speaker 1: Scored twenty one points to go with twelve boards in

1221
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: the game, seven wins, seven to ten from the field,

1222
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: six assists, who steals two blocks?

1223
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 3: This guy. In order for the Calves to beat the Knicks,

1224
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:01,399
Speaker 3: he's got to play like he did.

1225
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 2: In game seven.

1226
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, that to me is when Wow Mobley is jumping

1227
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 1: off the screen, playing with force, contributing on both ends,

1228
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: you just you know he's there and he is making

1229
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: an impact, and it is you know, overall, he got

1230
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: better and better as that series went on against Pistons,

1231
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: and I think he's got to maintain that level for

1232
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 1: them to beat the Knicks, who are the favorites in

1233
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Finals.

1234
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,319
Speaker 4: But good game from him, very good game for him.

1235
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,479
Speaker 2: Lill he missed some free throws, but that's okay.

1236
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 1: Well that was the best defense the Pistons had last

1237
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: night at the free throw line. Man, I think stan

1238
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: Van said that night they were clanking things. Twenty eight

1239
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: for forty four could have been massacre. Yeah, no, it

1240
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: should have been like a forty point victory. All right,

1241
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,879
Speaker 1: we'll call it there. Esh, forgot to ask you when

1242
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:45,799
Speaker 1: we were doing it, my bad. Uh, who do you

1243
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 1: have in in Spurs thunder?

1244
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 6: Uh?

1245
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 2: I'm taking the Spurs?

1246
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 3: Okay? Seven?

1247
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 4: Seven?

1248
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:53,919
Speaker 5: Whoa wow?

1249
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 3: Haven't had any repeat winners in a while. That is

1250
00:54:58,280 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 3: the NBA parody era.

1251
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,879
Speaker 2: And like saying they got winby man, and I'm just.

1252
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 1: Do you think does everybody here think this is our

1253
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: actual NBA finals?

1254
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 2: Yes?

1255
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 6: Whoever, whoever wins, this is winning the championship. Sure, like

1256
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 6: the Knicks and Calves, like, I don't think they have

1257
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 6: a chance against.

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00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: Either, okay, tests yeah, yeah, yes, they will be the

1259
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 1: heavy favorites coming out of this.

1260
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 2: Well there already are they already? Are? I mean both

1261
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 2: teams from the East Way down in the odds to win.

1262
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 3: The whole thing.

1263
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair enough.

1264
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:33,879
Speaker 4: Can make it interesting, Oh yeah, I mean.

1265
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 2: It's got to be. It's got to be the Knicks.

1266
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:37,280
Speaker 3: It's gotta be the Knicks.

1267
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,360
Speaker 1: Well, the only thing the Knicks or Caves need to

1268
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: hope happens here is like these two teams just destroy

1269
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: each other in a seven game series. There's an injury

1270
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: or two to both sides, whatever, a depleted team, maybe

1271
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: for one of them to pull it off in the finals.

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00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: But I'm getting ahead of myself. We will talk Calves

1273
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: Knicks tomorrow. We'll preview that and make our predictions. So

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Speaker 2: the Chattanooga lookout for quick camera switches with the new

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00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 2: man operating the board over there, Trey had a quick look.

1282
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 2: If you started our show with us on YouTube, you

1283
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Speaker 2: had to you had to look over because Ash got him.

1284
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Speaker 2: Ash got him with the switch.

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Speaker 1: Should go to Trey solo for a second, because let's

1286
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Speaker 1: get a good look at this new hat.

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Speaker 3: This guy's rocking here.

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Speaker 4: Look at that.

1289
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:33,800
Speaker 3: What is this the Chattanooga Lookout?

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Speaker 5: Is this a Chattanooga Lookouts road cap? He invented the

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00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 5: eyes of Moji. They came out with this in nineteen

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Speaker 5: ninety three. It was like thirty years before Emoji's.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's pretty cool. Yeah, I mean it's a cool cap.

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Speaker 5: It's a great I like like, if you read a

1295
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 5: sports illustrated for kids back in the day, you knew

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Speaker 5: about the Chattanooga Lookouts and the Carolina Mudcats.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, is that what another one was? Sounds right?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? It has like a catfish.

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Speaker 5: On THEIRS Durham Bulls. But nowadays everybody's got a wild logo.

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Speaker 5: In minor league baseball, you don't have normal teams anymore.

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00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 5: They were playing the Pensacle of Blue Wahoos. Apparently it's

1302
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 5: a kind of fish because this is the Miami Marlins

1303
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 5: farm system, and all their teams are like the Giant

1304
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 5: carp at, the Blue Wahoos, the Big Bass Boys.

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00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 4: Things like this. But yeah, I like to have a hat.

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00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 2: It's got eyes on it. It's nice.

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00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:27,919
Speaker 4: Hot man thanks.

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00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 3: How is Nuga?

1309
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 4: I love Chattanooga. I'm I'm a fan.

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00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 5: If I can go for two nights every three years,

1311
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 5: that's a perfect cadence for me.

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00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 2: I love.

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00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 4: I thought you're gonna say every three months, but I've been.

1314
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 2: There that long.

1315
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 5: But every time I go, the aquarium pulls me back

1316
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 5: tast I thought I was going to the children's museum.

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00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 2: Nope.

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00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 4: Next thing I know, I'm touching sturgeons at the aquarium.

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00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 4: That is beautiful, ugly prehistoric fish.

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00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 2: Get to touch them, though, yeah.

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00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 5: Get to touch and they haven't changed since the days

1322
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 5: of the dinosaurs, and I'm thinking maybe they should because.

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00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, gross, there's a new dinosaur just dropped. Did you

1324
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 3: see that?

1325
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 4: Another one?

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00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 2: Yeah?

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00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 3: I know what you know.

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00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: I was rolling my Chattanooga lookout eyes, get out of here,

1329
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 1: big dino.

1330
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 3: Just making up new dinos all the time.

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00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 5: Don't get me started on the axel lottle. Where did

1332
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 5: this thing come from? And now everybody knows what the

1333
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 5: axe a lottle is. They're selling axe lottle hats at

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00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 5: the aquarium.

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00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:28,959
Speaker 3: This is see, this is what I'm saying. So I'm saying,

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00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 3: they're just making it, that's all. They're doing all right.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you guys tomorrow and brace today people,