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All right, so we've got both
the Lakers and Clippers playing tonight. The

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salta Adam Austlin joins us brought you
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plenty of the money browser. Why
do you say it with a little cheesy

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smile on your face. You wouldn't
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it. I thought, there,
you gonna take that. I got that.

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Well, that face looked even stupider
than it really did because I did

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not name. Okay, let's start
with the Lakers, and to me,

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there are two overriding issues here.
The first one is what everybody knows,

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Anthony Davis. The second one is
Frank Vogel and whatever rotations he's going to

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use or try to adjust. Does
this all come down to the way ad

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place tonight? Well, he said
so himself. If I play like this,

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we're not going to win a game
this series, let alone win four.

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So he understood it. He took
it. The accountability for not playing

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well in that game one I don't
think is just about Anthony Davis though,

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because even though he only had thirteen
points on five of a sixteen shooting,

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Lebron took just thirteen shots. And
I know he didn't play heavy minutes.

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He didn't get to forty minutes because
he's still coming back from that ankle injury.

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But he's got to be more aggressive
than that. Somehow, some way,

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he's got to generate more points than
that. But yes, Anthony Davis

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has to be better and Frank Vogel
in those rotations. It is curious that

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he hasn't played Marcusol much at all
lately. And I do think there was

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some promise to Andre Drummond that he
would be their starter if he came to

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Los Angeles. I can't think of
any other reason why you wouldn't play your

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second best center behind Anthony Davis when
he actually wants to play the five in

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Marcusol. Marcusol is a better floor
space or obviously he can shoot from the

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outside. He's a better defender.
Even though he doesn't have the athleticism of

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Andre Drummond of Montrese Harold, he
has better instincts out there. Even though

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he's lost a step or two or
three, he's still a big body.

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He still knows where he has to
be defensively, and he's a really good

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pastor on offense. He doesn't hurt
you. He's a plus out there.

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And Andre Drummond just helps clog up
the paint. And I'm not sure why

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the Lakers have waited this long to
go to their best lineups, and maybe

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they'll wait even longer depending on what
happens tonight. They should be optimizing lineups

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better and they haven't been doing that. And I feel like at some point,

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if they lost night and they go
down two zero, I think there's

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gonna be big changes. But I
would not be surprised if Marcusol gets some

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run tonight, at least a few
minutes out there. Two things, First

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of all, how much do you
think the fact that the Lakers beat the

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Sun's earlier in the season quite handily
and that they probably underestimated DeAndre Eighton in

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that first game number one? And
then how much do you also chuck up

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Game one sons? I mean,
Lakers didn't play well, it's that's that's

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a given. We know that.
But the Sun's game, first game,

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first playoff game, eleven years,
crowding the stadium, wild atmosphere, it

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was an uphill battle for the Lakers
no matter what. Yeah, the Suns

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were hyped, and as Lebron always
says, a Game one is a feel

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out type of game in a seven
game series. They lost Game one to

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Portland. Last year in the Bubble, they lost game one to the Houston

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Rockets. They had no problem after
that. But this Sun's team is better

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than both of those teams. It's
closer to where that Denver Nuggets team was

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in the Western Conference Finals. I
would say, depending on if Chris Paul

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is healthy. We don't know what's
going on with that right shoulder. I'm

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just guessing it's more than a contusion
a bruise for him to be dribbling the

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ball off of his leg like he
was fred back in high school on the

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basketball team. That was brutal,
the Bill Cartwright type of shot he took

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where he brought the ball all the
way back, that shooting form. I'm

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sorry. CB Three's got a beautiful
shot. It did not look like that

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after the shoulder injury. So a
lot comes down to that with him.

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But Devin Booker, I've been telling
you guys about this for a while now.

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I thought he had it in him, he had that it factor.

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He was gonna step up in the
postseason. Once he finally got there,

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and he did, he was the
best player on the floor at those thirty

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four points. That's the guy they
really have to shut off because he is

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someone who at his age I think
he's only twenty six now or twenty five.

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If there's an upset in this series, it would be Devin Booker taking

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his game to that next level and
like he did in Game one, but

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staying there consistently averaging thirty points per
game or near there in this series.

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That's what the Lakers should be concerned
about. Yeah, I would say this

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though, Adam, I get it
Devin Booker, for you know, we

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saw him emerged last year and he's
just continued that he's gonna get his I

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think he's one of those and will
be one of the all time great just

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scores of the basketball and in the
NBA. He's gonna get here. Chris

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Paul, if healthy, will get
his. I think you just much like

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we talked about with Steph Curry,
when you play him, he's gonna get

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his fifty sixty, but everybody else
can't do it. Andre Wiggins can't go

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for thirty. So in this situation, I think they're gonna get theirs.

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But but Bridges can't get twenty five
thirty and Aiden can't go off like he

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did before. I think you can't
concern yourself too much with that because I

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think Devin Booker's gonna score on anybody. Well, it's a fair point.

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I mean, DeAndre Aden getting twenty
one and sixteen boards, that's a problem.

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But the bigger issue there is he's
doing it basically off of offensive rebounds.

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He's not exactly going into the post
and backing guys down or anything like

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that. He's catching a lots in
that game. One. Oh, Fred,

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you're against Aiden. Oh, he
doesn't like him at all because of

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what Because you know what, I
think he's overhyped, and I think when

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he plays against somebody that can really
play, I think you see what he

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is. I saw him playing college, So the Lakers can't really play.

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Okay, No, Well you said
no, no, no, no,

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no, that's not fair. If
a d plays, that's going to be

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a different game. Okay, I'd
be a completely different game. Here's my

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guess. DeAndre Aiden somehow ends up
in foul trouble throughout the rest of the

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series, and that's a big turning
point in the Lakers favor. All right,

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let's go to the Clippers now.
So the issues tonight with the Clippers

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are are they going to be able
to close score at the end of the

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game, and what do you do
against Luca don Chiche. Does Kawhi Leonard

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playing well? They got to score
at the beginning of the Game two?

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They were just bad all around offensively. People can look at the last three

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minutes, but overall, they shot
twenty seven percent from three. They are

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the fourth best three point shooting team
of all time. They did something historic.

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They shot forty one point one percent
from the outside during the regular season

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and my biggest concern coming into the
playoffs is that that wouldn't continue now.

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Forty one percent. Yeah, that's
lofty expectations because teams are giving maximum effort

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all the time and rotating better on
the perimeter and the playoffs, but the

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Clippers still need to be good.
They still need to shoot about thirty eight

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percent as a team. Now.
Regarding Kawhi Leonard on Luca dont I think

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we see more of that, of
course, because Tlu actually alluded to that

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said, I think you'll get more
of that in Game two. But the

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problem is in the modern NBA,
with all these great shooters out there,

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guys are always an offensive philosophies that
are modernized and more sophisticated than they've ever

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been. They just hunt screens until
they get the right matchup. They will

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screen you and pick and roll you
to death until they get Kawhi Leonard off

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of Luka Doncicch and find somebody who's
a lesser defender out there, which is

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well a lot of guys because Kawhi
Leonard is that good, So it's not

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as easy as we'll just fight through
the screen. Great, while he's fighting

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through the screen, Luca dontech has
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outside. It doesn't work like that. That's why most teams have been switching

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now in the league, because if
you give guys an open shot on the

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perimeter while you're fighting through screens,
they're gonna knock it down. Here in

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twenty twenty one, the three point
shooting is off the charts. Look what

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happened in Milwaukee yesterday with the Bucks. They hit ten three pointers in the

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first quarter and that game was over
against the Miami Heat. You can take

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down a team that quickly because of
the three point shot. Because of the

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emphasis of it now. It has
changed the game and we're still seeing it

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even in the playoffs when the game
slows down a little bit. It is

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that difficult. And by the way, Luka Done, even when they got

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those matchups against a Viza Zubas and
he brought him out to the perimeter,

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you think they would be a big
mismatch. Zubos played him well, he

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had a hand up in his face, a seven footer with a hand up

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in his face, and Luca Donches
just put in those long floater three pointers

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because he's just otherworldly. He is
one of the best players when it comes

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to skill level I have ever seen. People have compared him to Larry Bird.

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His big coming out party happened last
year against the Clippers, and he's

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not slowing down. He is that
good. So the question is you gotta

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stop one or the other, Luca
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didn't do either in Game one,
the others got going and Luca Done had

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thirty one points. They have to
commit to either letting the others try to

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beat him or letting Luca don Che
try to beat him by himself. And

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last season that didn't always work.
Luca had forty two and a loss against

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the Clippers in the playoffs. He
had thirty eight and a loss against the

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Clippers in the playoffs. So I
think it really comes down to stopping those

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other guys from hitting those open shots. Yeah, yeah, no doubt.

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Sometimes you chalk it up as they
always say, good defense, but better

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offense, And a lot of times
Luca is better offense. It's just you

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know, Garden Dame Lillard, where
you got a guard, you know,

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half of the court. Maybe a
bad shot for most, but he knocks

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it down more than anybody else and
can't fault the defender. And also,

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to your point, just because kawhi'
oh Kawhi is gonna be on Luca,

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like you said, they will screen
until they get him off exactly, So

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it doesn't matter. Okay, you
can say that all you want, but

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that's not always how it up,
Adam. These two games Game two bigger

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for who Lakers or Clippers. Oooh, I'll say the Clippers because you go

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down O two at home at Staples
Center and then you got to go out

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on the road, and that means
you gotta win two games in Dallas to

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end up winning this series. Because
you've got to win four of the next

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five. That would be extremely difficult. I'm not saying impossible. The last

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team I remember doing that, though, losing both their first two games at

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home and still winning the series was
the Dallas Mavericks back in two thousand and

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five, so it's been quite a
while. It's not an easy thing to

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do, but the Lakers still have
pressure on them as well. I think

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both teams respond tonight. I think
both teams make the adjustments. I think

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Lebron and ad play much better.
I think Kawhi Leonard and Paul George get

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off to fast starts against the Dallas
Mavericks. They can't shoot much much worse

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from three, and it was still
its game with three minutes left. They

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were still in it. So it
tells you the margin of error for these

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teams that they were still both in
those games and they didn't play the even

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close to their best basketball. So
there is room to grow. There are

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adjustments to be made, but I
think both teams in Los Angeles tie series

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up at a type both series up
at one one game apiece. All Right,

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Maybe that's what I'm talking about,
all right, Adam, Thanks,

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