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You're listening to the downbeat on ninety
respecting Jason Kidd to call in in four

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or five minutes, Mike, he
wanted to tell you something that just happened

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to me and kat and the wanted
yeah, so weed. No, we

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went to the men's room together because
we had to, you know, relieve.

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Yeah, and there's two urinals and
we always you know, stand side

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by side. One of them had
a sign on it that said temporarily out

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of order. No, she had
to make an axe. Well, I

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had to get there first. I
got there first, so Katie had to

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go into one of the stalls to
to urinate, right, and then you're

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hearing the water and you're hearing his
water pressure and judge consciousness, so much

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judgment. But I thought it'd be
funny to put a sign in one of

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the toilet the commodes and dump like
a tray of brownies in it, and

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had a sign on it that said
permanently out of order, Like there's not

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a plumber on the face of the
planet that can fix this. I can

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carry himself giving this, which makes
makes me question, isn't temporarily just implied?

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Can't you just say out of order? I mean we get it.

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I mean, if it was permanently
out of order, you just have it

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removed. Yeah. Out of going
there? Who went longer? I think

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I went longer and longer. I
got there first. Yeah, what kind

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of head start you give him?
I got there during the halftime show though,

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So okay, full Sandy. Did
you aim for the side of the

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bowl so he couldn't judge your p
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really right in the middle, straight
shot. Ye, look at this

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young buck. Yeah, I drink
on the water man cheers, drink a

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lot of water? Hydrat or Didreton
high intensity? Golden row hopes hitting hitting

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the water? What were some of
the other names for Mavericks broadcasters based on

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chicken puns from the Chicken Explosion story, Mark foul A, Well, okay,

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that's great, that was very good. Thank you. Tex. You

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didn't really need to do anything to
Chuck Cooper Stein. What about Cluck?

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Because think about it, Coop is
already in That's the point. It was

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a two for one combo. I
did you didn't? I wouldn't have said.

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If I wouldn't have said what cluck, you would have said Cluck Cooper

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Stein. No matter what his last
name. My last name was Schworts.

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You still would have said cluck.
I did two for one. When I

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did a two for one, it
was poultry in motion. You've been sitting

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on there, and then he's been
sitting on that for because you know what

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else I've been sitting on. I
let it slide. I thought about it.

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I thought about it, but the
time had passed. We're kind of

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moving on. But Danny was doing
the story about the Kansas City murders,

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okay, and I had a foul
play line ready to go, but saved

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it because I didn't want to get
judged by all the people out there who

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don't like puns. Puns are fine. I like puns. Puns are good.

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Puns are a safe play. Dan
Campbell hates puns. Okay, makes

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a lot of bad decisions. He
hates puns are fine. It's a safe

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play now. I think puns have
made a comeback in recent years back alvins

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Well Local News has kept puns alive. Dad jokes, though, don't if

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use dad jokes and puns. They
do to do a lot of puns that

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you're more puns than dad jokes.
Maybe that's all they do, all right?

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Showtime, JJ right on time.
Look at that. We are UH

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ninety seven on the Freak. We're
the home of the Dallas Mavericks and also

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inside Sports Medicine with doctor TiO.
Sorry El and uh. We are these

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games and we're proud to do it. And it also gives us access to

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big name guests, and we have
one right now. It is time to

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talk to the head coach of the
Dallas Mavericks, mister Jason Kid. We

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got your coach my birth day brother. Oh you guys are birthday brothers March

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twenty third, Me and Jay Kid. He's in far better fitness than you.

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Okay, thanks, what's up coach? Coming off a nice victory just

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last night at the AAC one nine
over the Orlando Magic. I got to

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start with one fastball, Derek Lively. Is this nose broken? A good?

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Great question? I don't think so. He took a nice hit to

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the nose. He had to cut
shot big free throws for us. He

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was a big part of our success
last night coming back. So I'm going

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to go and say it's he has
a nice bump on his nose, but

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not broken. Okay, because I
saw him with the free throw line and

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it looked like there was that bump
that you mentioned, And I don't know

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how many how those bumps pop up
when it's not broken. But he's see

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a tough, tough kid man,
as he's proven to be all year.

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But he goes in with the Kleenex
up the nose and kind of gets the

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alley. You've dunk. That sort
of ice is the game. How how

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happy are we with the evolution of
young Derek Lively. We're very excited,

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just understanding at the beginning of the
season, just you know, the unknown

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nineteen year old kid play at Duke, just understanding that could he pick up

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things quickly? He's answered that question. Could he, you know, play

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with Luca and Kai. He's answered
that question. So he's been a big

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part of our success. And again
I think we're very fortunate to be able

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to get him in the draft.
He's a stud, no doubt. It

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was a great one, great third
quarter. And I saw you on the

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podium last night, and I don't
want to say a problem with the scene,

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but it's a roller coaster. Man. Some days you guys look like,

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you know, you should be title
contenders, and some days the defense

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just isn't there. How hard is
it, because you said last night the

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defense is determined by effort and energy, How hard is it to get a

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modern NBA player to maintain the level
of effort required to you know, to

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play great defense in the league,
which I do think this team is capable

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of. Well, I think it's
it's hard. I think for any professional

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athlete, it's hard to be consistent. And I think that's what we all

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fight for as coaches, as players, is to be consistent. It's there's

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a human element to to sport.
And right now, with the health of

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our team, you know, we've
been hit with a lot of injuries.

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We have guys that are playing a
lot more minutes that they normally would not

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be playing, and so we're stretching
guys and we're asking guys to do more

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until we can get healthy and so
uh but again also with age, we

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have we have player a few young
players, uh, you know, who

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are trying to learn what it takes
to be consistent. And and again,

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the more time they're going to be
on the floor, the better chances of

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of learning how to do that.
And right now, with the injuries,

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we've got a lot of young players
playing. Coach Kidd of the MAVs joining

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us here on a ninety seven to
one coach Is there a level of expectation

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going into a game like last night
when you're facing a team that statistically is

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the worst three three point shooting team
in the league and they come out and

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just light it up from beyond the
arc? Is there an amount of kind

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of surprise or shock that, oh, my gosh, how are these guys

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doing this? Now we have to
adjust, maybe face them up a little

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bit tighter beyond at the perimeter.
Is that kind of maybe what got you

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guys in a little bit of trouble
in the first half. Or Am I

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completely off base? No? I
think one. Orlando is a team that

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doesn't shoot the three well, but
for whatever reason, right now, we

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seem to pick a player and they're
shooting thirty something percent, and they seem

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to make them all when they shoot
them. And I think last night's game

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plan was to make them shoot threes. We were in the same situation in

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Orlando again. The game plan is
to make them, you know, shoot

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threes, and they made them in
Orlando in the first half, and we

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asked the guys to trust the game
plan came out in the second half and

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then again took control of it.
It's kind of the same thing that happened

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last night. We believed that the
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plan, and it did in the
second half. Well, we held a

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team to twelve points. They shot
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But there's a thing called not panicking, and I thought the group didn't panic.

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They made shots. We continued to
keep playing and eventually they came back

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to earth in that third quarter where
they didn't make those shots in the second

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half and we did. And so
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of puss in a position to win
that game. Maverick's head coach Jason Kidd

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joining us on the downbeat coach last
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MAVs karaoke cam, so and that
happened. Uh. You know, right

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after a big run, you can
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I don't know what you get more
credit for the big run in the

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second half. Would it be my
karaoke camp performance or your halftime adjustments and

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uh, and maybe any type of
halftime speech that you might have given the

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team. No, I think the
players are gonna say, you're karaoke?

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What was the reason why we went
on that big run? So you might

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have to do it again on Saturday. I'll be there. Uh mill,

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oh, yeah, I can handle
that. Saturday I was Milwaukee. I'm

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in Yeah, I'm curious about that. We were talking because Kevin did you

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know he was on the jumbo tron
last night representing the station. Have you

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had a situation where you're in the
team huddle, you got the whiteboard on,

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you know, on and trying to
draw up a play and you see

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one of your guys that's you know, rubber neck and around looking at the

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jumbo tron watching some feature that he's
part of, and you have to go,

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hey, lively head on the whiteboard. Does that ever happen to you?

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Uh? Yeah, it happens a
lot. You know, guys can

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lose, you know, their focus
if something's funny it's happening on a jumbo

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tron. You just make sure that
they understand what the play is or they'll

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ask as they get up, hey
what's the play? What am I supposed

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to do? So you know then
that they were paying attention to something on

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the jumble on the jump to tront
It just shows that they're no matter how

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old they are, they're all just
big kids. And if it's Hey,

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that's me, that's me on TV, that's awesome. All right, last

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thing from last night that I got
some fun stuff for you. But part

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of the job, obviously is quick
decisions that you do and don't make,

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and sometimes they work and don't work. Last night, two timeouts in the

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pocket, Tim had the ball,
we didn't call one, and Tim and

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Luca kind of in the heat of
battle obviously pretty fired up. Do you

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think is it something in hindsight you
think a timeout should have been called there?

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Yeah, you know, this is
the beauty of a game of basketball.

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I think we talked at some point
in Cyo or in high school or

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in college that when you know you
have timeouts, that you can burn one

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anytime that you're in trouble. Unfortunately
we didn't. We didn't do that last

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night. Again, at the highest
level, we are teaching the rules of

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the game, and unfortunately that happened
last night. But again no one panicked.

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We found a way to come back
from that mistake and won the game.

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But there's always teaching moments I've given
the guy, especially late in the

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game. You see players get fouled
Orlando, give them credit. They didn't

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foul. Timmy traveled, and so
yes, we could call the time out.

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Yes, the guy who had the
ball could have called the timeout,

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and so it didn't. So we'll
learn from that, and the next time

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we're in that situation, we'll take
a time out quick two parter to follow

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up on that. In that number
one, in that instance, whose responsibility

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is it ultimately to make the call
for the timeout? And number two since

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it even though it wasn't called,
you were probably pretty thankful to have the

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two considering the difficulty you were presented
by getting those inbound passes at the end

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of the game. Yeah, I
think to be able to you know,

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understand late game, you know you're
gonna get fouled, and so give Orlando

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credit. They didn't foul. Timmy
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is he ate the ball. He
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an easy basket, so they had
to take the ball out and then sometimes

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there is a difficulty of getting the
ball in. But I thought we did

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a good job of getting the ball
to our best free throw shooter and he

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had a rhythm, and that was
Luca, but understanding. You know,

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in Atlanta we had the same situation. We throw the ball into the stands

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late in the game, we missed
layups. You know, it happens,

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and so I think instead of being
a negative, we learn from it,

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and as the season goes on and
the game become a little bit more important,

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we'll be better in those situations.
Coach tell us about seventy three points,

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and if you've ever seen anyone who's
gifted offensively as young Luka Doncic,

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Yeah, when you talk about what
he did in Atlanta, a lot of

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us have never seen anything like that
or been a part of that. You

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know, when you talk about Kobe
or you know, players like MJ going

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for fifty to fifty five or sixty
three. To see it in person,

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to be a part of it,
it looked like shoot around. It was

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very you know, seamless and easy. There was no stress involved in what

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he was doing, and you could
see early on he was going to go

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and so for us it was a
matter of, you know, how can

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we get him rested, how can
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someone else to carry some of the
low But he clearly it was a bounce

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back game at a very very high
level. How much of that performance do

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you think was Luca hopefully or maybe
subconsciously silencing all the noise that happened that

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that came forth from the Phoenix game
and some of the negative reaction that he

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had by getting the fan thrown out, and how much of it was just

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all planets aligned in the right way. He was absolutely on and and it

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was just one of those crazy wild
nights that just adds to to the resume

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of this kid. Yeah, I
think any time he's questioned or you know,

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if there's something that is not positive, I think he's always responded in

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a positive way. I've said this
before and I'll say it. You know,

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for as long as I'm here,
you can't take this young man for

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granted. He's better than Derek.
He's in the in the in the atmosphere

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of MJ the best to ever do
it, Lebron on Kobe, and so

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just to appreciate what this young man
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something that Dallas has never seen.
And that said this, internally, he

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is he's better than Dirk. He
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And now it's you know, the
opportunity of getting the right people around him

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to ultimately win a championship. But
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He gets double team the most in
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teammates. He trusts his teammates,
and so again, to be able to

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have the opportunity to coach one of
the best players in the world is an

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honor. And right now we're just
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don't kill him. I mean,
we're playing him forty six minutes forty three

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minutes last night. We got to
get healthy, and we got to get

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you know, back to getting him
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strong going into the fourth course.
You just said two times that Luca is

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better than Dirk. Dirk won a
title and had been to two Do you

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feel comfortable saying that on a guy
that has not made the even made the

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finals yet? Yeah, MJ is
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didn't didn't make it into his thirties. This young man is twenty four

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and is breaking all the records that
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a winner and his ultimate goal is
to win a championship, and he will

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get there and not just you know, win one, but he will win

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multiple on when it's all said and
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put him in that position and also
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him achieve that goal. He's a
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up some teas because he gets worked
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me thinks, no one touched and
change anything about Luca. So I don't

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even think if he's not running hot, maybe it doesn't lead to these performances

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that are just breaking records every time
he takes the floor. I know you

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talk to him about that managing his
emotions, but is that even dangerous to

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even threaten to change anything about you
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I think, you know, I
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get the best of all of us, and you know, and I think

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sometimes we can channel our emotions to
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we're fatigued, we're trying to get
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into a confrontation. Sometimes he uses
the officials. But I think when Luca's

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playing his best is when you see
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seventy three points in Atlanta. He
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time he you know, and when
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best and he's happy and he's not
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When you talk about the officials,
and sometimes he does, you know,

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get into it with the officials.
He you know, he's one of

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the hardest players too, official because
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the time he does get hit.
It's kind of like Lebron and Shack.

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You know, when you have the
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officials to call a foul every every
time. And you look at last night,

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he shoots over twenty three throws and
so I think, you know,

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as he gets to understand the balance
of when calls are going to you know,

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help and when to just let things
go, I think that's again when

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he's going to get even better at
what he's doing. We talk about that

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all with Michael Parsons, like he
rushes the passer every time and a lot

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of Cowboys fans like it. He
never gets they never call holding. It's

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like, well, the rats aren't
going to call it every time because he's

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rushing the passer on almost every play. Last question before we let you go

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and get on with your day,
coach, how close are we to getting

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Kyrie back? That's a great question. Hopefully so. Uh. You know,

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we traveled to Minnesota this afternoon,
so we'll see where he stands with

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his help. But I think with
the rehab everything, he had a great

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workout last night, so hopefully it's
this week. All right. We appreciate

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the time this morning, and we'll
be at cheering you on obviously all of

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our games there on this station is
where the home of the MAVs. And

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if you ever need me for some
karaoke cam magic, you know, just

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let me know. Happy to make
it happen. We'll come Saturday if you're

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coming back Saturday. Yeah, that's
the plan you want to know. With

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with Kevin on karaoke, I'm gonna
keep this on. Who knew that's all

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it took. All right, coach, have a great day and good lucky

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Minnesota tomorrow night. I appreciate you
guys. Thanks all right, thanks coach

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Jason Kidd there he goes, Wow, I mean Dirk's, I mean Luke's

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better than Dirk. That's hot.
Said he doesn't think the nose is broken,

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despite being all bent up. Said, I looked at a picture of

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him at Duke and His. He
had a lovely nose from the side,

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a beautiful schnozz. Can you have
a nose that has a giant lump,

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not a lump even like a like
a rigid lump that he had dwelling Typically

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a nosebreak as sideways it goes,
makes your nose all crooked. I don't

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know. You guys hit him with
the fastballs. I came in with the

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karaoke, came the levity. It
is incredible. It was incredible. Man,

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We're good tomorrow. That is your
headline. Luca is better than dirt.

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He said it twice. It gave
him a chance to back back away

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from it because no championships, not
even an appearance in the finals. Not

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only does he go on to double
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it's all done, Luca will win
multiple championship. What the hell, Pi

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kay, you're getting that at the
ticket tomorrow morning. We'll be back at

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six am with so much more,
big stories, all of it. We

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gotta get us calling in at nine
ten again Big nine ten interview series this

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week, including back Door teen Mom
on Thursday. Mm hmmm, so coach

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Kate all of our credibility, No, it doesn't. Went into that red

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River by your house with the car
wash detergent say what we want. You

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know, we have guests on,
but now thank you to the Mask for

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scoring not only me, some karaoke
cam action and having Jason Kidd on the

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show. We really appreciate that.
Ben and Skin with Christina and Steve is

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