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Before we dive in, I want
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includes your favorites at Waterburger, Mike, does that mean they're gonna be bringing

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chilly cheeseburgers up here at six thirty
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Get the app. People, It's
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should all get all the apps.
I know it sucks. And you're like,

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I don't want any more app.
I don't need anything else. But

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if you frequent the places, like
there's a place that I do frequent,

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I'll tell you it's a little place
by my house called Chipotle. You get

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the app I had. I still
don't have the app, and I'm like,

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what am I doing? There's points
I'm leaving on the table, and

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I'm waiting in the line, like
half of the DFW police force was in

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there. I waited by behind fifteen
people and there's people walking in, picking

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up, walking out, don't not
talking to anyone, and I'm like,

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what why am I doing this to
myself? Get the app You've probably eligible

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for, like a free birthday bowl
too, or a birthday burrito. Yeah,

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yeah, they remember those things.
You strike me as a Miles guy.

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We'll get your points. Miles,
I don't do it for yeah,

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get get your head right. It's
simple, very simple. MAVs Nuggets.

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Yesterday National TV two thirty was going
down and it was a hell of a

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game. How about you, guys? I was in double screen mode.

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How did you? How did you
intake? Daniel watched it on the TV.

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Oh, so you weren't freaking out
for the players? I know.

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I was all in on MAVs.
I had to, okay, So I

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tape delayed it as I record all
the MAVs games that are available to me

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on YouTube TV, so I was
able to blast through commercials. But boy,

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I was that the last you know, second half of that fourth quarter

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was just incredible, just insane.
And the thing I loved about that game

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is in a game, you know, in a sport where it's all about

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runs and it's not uncommon for a
team to get down fifteen points and they're

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still in it. That game was
so close the entire time until the MAVs

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created a little bit of separation and
you watched that evaporate. You know what,

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were they up by twelve fourteen?
At one time they started going and

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run the clock out mode the five
minutes left, up by ten with five

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minutes left, and everything turned into
well, let's just kind of make sure

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we eat twenty four seconds, and
I was like, that's not good.

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Or their strategy of let's just let
the ball sit at half court or on

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the in the back court until somebody
actually comes up to challenge me. That

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was fun. I don't know if
that rule I didn't either. I neither.

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I'm surprised more people aren't don't take
advantage of that. So the ten

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second thing doesn't start until you touch
it. Yeah, Now, I knew

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that the rolls to a stop,
it can just sit there, yes,

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eternity. I knew that the game
clock started, and I knew that the

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shot clock did not start until you
picked up the ball once it was inbounded.

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But I did not know that the
eight second rule wasn't in place.

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I had no idea, but yeah, you can just inbound or can just

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like roll the ball in and if
it comes to a stop in the back

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court, it can sit there for
twenty five minutes until the quarter runs out,

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until somebody comes up and and you
know, play. If Luca's doing

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the Tyron Smith, yeah, you
look like a flag football lineman kind of

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with his hands down and just getting
big. Yeah. Interesting making space at

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a GA pit concert. All right, right, I wonder if there's a

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you could get like a Rugby scrum
if you really want to kill time.

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Yeah, you know, you get
the inbounder and you get your your four

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guys and wait for the inbounder to
come in, and you just create lock

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arms and create this serta of impenetrable
kind of left and right. If you

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need to, should be slide,
should be slide. Somebody just kind of

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manning the ball in case amazing,
you get a minute that way easy.

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They're gonna foul you coming in.
Sure. You know how many times we

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talk about the Mavericks, you know, like, hey, if they shoot

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the ball, well then yeah they'll
probably win. If they don't, I

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mean, this was the rare game
where the MAVs did not shoot the three

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point or well at all, or
twenty six percent I think from three and

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that is nothing from PJ. Washington
another zero for four, and that was

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kind of a point of contention,
like, hey, dude, if you're

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open, shoot the three. We
have to make shooting. If you shooting

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looks Maxie had one of the rough
second halves you've seen now. He played

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decent defense, and that's kind of
why he's in the game at that point.

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It reminded me of two years ago
when Maxie could not make a shot

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in the second half of the year, and then in the Utah series in

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the playoffs he lit up and got
on fire, and I hope we're looking

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at that again because he isn't a
bad place offensively too. I've gotten to

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the point now where I think I've
finally been able to manage and lower my

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expectations. Anytime I see him or
Timmy in the game, I just yeah,

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it's it's hard to watch. It's
hard to watch MAXI with an offensive

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eye. Yeah, these days,
and it has been for a long time.

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But yeah, he's in there for
defense and Hardaway's in there to give

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relief and he if he gets that
one out of fifteen games where he's on

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fire. It's a joy to watch, but those stretches seem really far and

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few in between to get hot tim
hardaway. But dude, they did the

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same thing against Golden State, you
know where they shot like ass from three

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and they got all of their game
and from number one defense. Mavericks played

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great defense yesterday, offensive rebounding points
in the paint, dunks. I thought

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they handled the Joker as good as
any team can. And it's so awesome

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to have two I mean, you
call them bigs. When you put them

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up next to the Joker, they
look like bean poles. But still we

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have an interior presence now and it
seems to be kind of their go to.

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Yeah. Yeah, it was a
good trade season for the MAVs to

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make life better and it's to have
those big boys thrown them down all day

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and miss I mean, Luca got
mad at Lively on one of them.

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He's like, just don't just don't
get in there. But they have so

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much fun just getting the ball inside
real quick, both of them, Luke

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and Kyrie getting to those big boys
and throwing down. It's working and it's

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just like a little bit against everything
we've kind of said, like, well,

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they're gonna to do. These other
guys have got tonsul Outside of Lively,

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not any of these other guys had
a very good offensive game. Gafford

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was good in his limited minutes too, just kind of keeping things alive and

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things like that. None of those
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And it was Kyrie and Luca and
then is there enough to get through it?

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And it shows you, Okay,
maybe they can win in a multitude

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of ways. Let's go to they're
no longer one dimension, no, not

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at all. And let's go to
the end here. So it's one o

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five, one oh two. You've
squandered a ten point lead with five minutes

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left. And it happened real fast
the inbound play, for reasons I'll never

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understand, Luca was allowed to catch
the ball and then knocks down a three

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dead at the top of the key. I mean that was really five feet

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behind the three point line. That
was the big one because you're down three,

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and plus he got the shot off
quick enough to know then you wouldn't

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have to foul. You can just
play d even if they hit it,

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you're gonna have a few seconds.
But he lucas always, so he's got

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a damn internal clock in his head. That's just amazing to always know when

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two for ones on the table.
But yeah, he's like, screw it,

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top of the key, knock it
down and then you have the time

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even if they score. I couldn't
believe they let him catch the ball off

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of it inbound. Yeah, and
it was a bad pass by MAXI.

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He's loose behind Luca had to catch
it and then square up and then okay,

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he knocks it down and that's great. And I immediately after the game,

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before we get to what happens,
I immediately thought, we're gonna do

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this again, where we're like,
that's just like a huge play that might

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just get forgotten in the grand scheme
of things. Well, once again,

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just overshadow Luca's thirty seven point victory
because Mavericks is gonna stop. When Jamal

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Murray shoots the ball with five seconds
left, good open mid range. Look,

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I thought he was gonna make it, and I think we all did,

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probably from the previous three and he
was heating up. He's good.

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He misses the Mavericks to get the
board, take a time out with two

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point eight tickets, left the ball
the inbound to Kyrie takes it runs okay,

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dribble to the left and then from
the right elbow with Jokitch on him,

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a left handed sky hook out of
nowhere, perfection, MAVs win.

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Do you think the coach kids stood
up and yelled Irving? No, no,

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I see it's skyhook. It sounds
cleaner like it was like a left

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handed half push. I've never even
seen a shot like that. Okay,

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So get this. I read a
Mark Stein's old newsletter last night or today

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early this morning. In his career, Kyrie is okay, I write this

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down. Yeah. Irving entered Sunday's
play shooting thirty eight for eighty seven this

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season with his left hand. So
that's a lot of layups, Yeah,

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contested shots near the basket thirty eight
for eighty seven with his left hand.

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Do the quick math there. That's
close to one in three. Maybe it's

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a little a little better, a
little better. He had a great right

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in the lane, left handed finish. I mean he does that all the

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time, all the time. I
don't think it matters to him. As

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Skin said the other night, it
helps to be amphibious on the broadcast.

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He actually said I hate it,
and no one went back and said he's

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not a frog, Jeff, Wait, that's not a frog? Really?

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Yeah, they didn't say anything,
not a word. It helps to be

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amphibious, amphibious. Did he wait
for the laugh? There was a little

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bit of silence, and I kept
waiting for for follow l Or or Devin

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to say he hat a frog,
bro, But no, well he is,

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so he does not care. So
I guess left. He doesn't matter

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at all. But even the way
that he got that shot off, it's

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was abnormal and I'm I don't want
to sit here and say that he didn't

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practice that, but I don't know
how you practice that. You heard Richard

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Jefferson on the on the National broadcast
was like, make no mistake about it.

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He spends a lot of time working
on shots like that, and I

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was like, not that specific one. And because it was the seven foot

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joke itch in his face, it's
the only shot he had when he was

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trying to dribble towards daylight real fast, because when he caught it in the

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corner, he was kind of shut
down. I think it was Michael Porter

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who was there, who's tall,
and he was just trying to run and

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get in the paint and then realize
they got to get something up and it

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was just perfect. It was so
perfect in the game, Luca's reaction just

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laughing, laughed down and then Mark
Cuban runs on the floor. He's freaking

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out the whole team. I mean, that was just a beautiful and the

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MAVs, I think their website put
out a good like one minute and a

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montage at the end. All that
was just so perfect of all the angles.

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Let me ask you this, though, I don't want to be Debbie

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Downer, but I guess you can't
even apply it to Kyrie because he's a

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witch. Is that a bad shot? I mean it went in that we're

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all celebrating, but if he clangs
it, we're like, she's all right?

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What was that? It wasn't like
what you would think of. Is

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the shot you want to get off
with what two seconds left from the clock.

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Yeah, but it's Kyri. I
guess it's like, dude, you

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much like Luca. It's like,
whatever you do is the right, right

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and best option. I don't know, is it a good shot to do

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something that you don't look? He
doesn't practice that. He may practice left

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handed jumpers from the elbow and maybe
even skyhook, but it was the running,

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soaring left handed kind of a baby
hook push. He just kind of

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threw it in. It's a weird
floater. I don't even call it a

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floater, dude. It was a
hook shot. It's a freaking hook shot.

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I mean it was a hook shot
without the deep wind up. You

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know, it's kind of like if
you have to, like, if you

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have to write on paper what this
is. I mean, you know,

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it's if it's a hook shot,
a shove, like a shove, it's

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a shot. It's just it's just
a one hand that is. It's a

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one handed runner. It's a it's
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it's perfect and even like a unique
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you call him, but everything he
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celebration, he kind of does the
left hold up left. That's a left

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one. That's so good. Like
Luca, you could tell he's a kind

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of a nerd. Like he's what
he did the spas out against the Knicks,

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one of the worst celebrations ever.
Even yesterday, he goes up,

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He's like, what the like the
emotions are on the sleeve, and I

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don't think Kyrie's planning in his head
to make sure I maintained cool here,

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but his cool turned into that just
left and he was so happy. Ah.

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And the fact that we're having trouble
describing or not describing, but like

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naming whatever that shot was tells you
how unique it was. It was,

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Yeah, it was unconventional. But
to those guys that look, they have

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such a great feel for the ball, where the goal is, how much

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time is left, the spacing,
who's guarding them, where the other guys

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are, and they compute all this
stuff and they're incredibly deep IQ basketball brains

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in nanoseconds. So this is what
they do. This is just what they

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do. And when you're as good
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probably do practice that stuff a little
bit. How much wacky ass crap do

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we see on Instagram and TikTok of
stuff that Luca does, you know,

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in practices before games and shoot arounds
that you're like, when would you ever

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use that? All those guys are
jacking around doing stuff like that just to

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get a feel for what it feels
like. You know, Dad goes,

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just make your free throws. Yeah, you need to be out there shooting

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free throws. But dude, their
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You can put them in pretty much
any situation and they're going to figure out

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a way to score. And especially
Kyrie, I mean, he's just pure.

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I love him so much and I
can't believe here we are over a

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year into this experiment. Yeah,
and I love it because there's nothing bad

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you can say except that he gets
hurt sometimes. They figured out how to

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play together. You love this team
so much because there's rarely, if ever,

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a time we're not one or both
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at any point in the game.
All right, and if you're the Nugget,

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you're going with Jesus, who do
I cover here? Exactly? My

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little attention on Luca. Okay,
well, here's one of the greatest finishers

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of all time. And Kyrie,
I mean, the Mavericks have a chance

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to really do damage in the playoffs, even though they've had some ups and

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downs because of just that, because
of those guys being absolute stars and depth

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is just helps him makes it easier
for that. And in that play,

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it's not lost on Kyrie that Joker
knows that Kyrie's best best move to score

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is for to be able to go
around Joker and get a floater or a

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lay in. That's probably why Joker
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he was on him, but he
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if he was playing him tight,
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yeah, it's pick your poison many
and they're both on the court at the

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same time. Everything that Irving does, even wilder is that it's Ramadan and

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he is a Muslim, so he's
fasting, and devout Muslims do not drink

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water. I don't know if that
applies to an NBA star. I shouldn't,

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I think. I think even doctors
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he is fasting. Those that observe
Ramadan for nearly a whole month only eat

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after sundown and before sunrise, so
anytime that the sun is up, they

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do not eat. And I know
he does that. I don't know if

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he applies it to no water during
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But that makes even more interesting that
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And I know he was asked about
it in the in the postgame, speaking

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of that fast and how difficult or
not difficult? Is it? Play kind

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of just give us some light to
that situation. Yeah, Man, Ramadan

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is a special month, so it's
a special time, and yeah, it's

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just you try not to think about
the suffering too much and really focus on

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the journey with God and the path
that you're on and just stay focused on

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that and stay disciplined. Is a
difficult journey. And you know, to

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be able to play forty eight minutes
and not do it with having a drink

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or any food in my stomach is
nothing short of a miracle. So there's

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definitely a universal God out there that's
protecting me. And I got to give

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credit to Yeah, I mean it
says devout Muslims, which I would imagine

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Kyrie he said no drink. Knowing
him, he probably adheres to the more

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devout option. I don't know if
maybe a halftime IV counts as a drink.

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Okay, I don't know. Great
question. I'm not saying he got

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one, but sure there's got to
be some plan though you can't go out

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there and play that level. I
agree, how without some type of hydration.

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I see's used to it somehow,
but imagine mustachioed basketball coach in like

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nineteen eighty one having a player say, look, I'm not eating or drinking

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for a month. I'm sorry the
whole month of March when like the playoff

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push, you know. But it's
kind cool that a modern you know,

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you know, so he can eat
when the sun goes down. They yeah,

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yeah, I think you and you
do eat. I'm what I just

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read. Trust me, I'm not
acting like I know that when the yeah,

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between sundown and sun up, you
can eat, and that's where you

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have to get your sustenance for once
the sun comes up, no food and

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for people that are stagnant, I
think no water. Now he just said

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it, I don't know. Well, and let's ask skin or ask somebody

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and we can probably get that info. Is does Kyrie's you know, fasting

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during Ramadan include water during the day? But again, he just said forty

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eight minutes with no food or water. In me ridiculous, Like someone behind

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the scenes at least few years ago
is like, what, No, I

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don't care drink. You have to
drink water. This is important, this

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is your job. But if he's
truly not having water anyway, just another

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level of Kyrie his brain being stronger
than all of ours combined. Internet sleuth

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doubters are are doing after I have
done, after listening to that those comments,

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going back and just eyeballing the MAVs
bench on every every camera shot to

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see if he if he took a
sip full, that'd be wasted energy.

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Just let us have this one.
He's a legend. Bottom line, you

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got a pretty damn big important win
after a tough game, you know,

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losing without Luca. Kind of expected
that against Oklahoma City on the road,

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and then for them to come back
and beat the world champs, the number

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two team in your in your conference
in that fashion. That was pretty cool,

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man, because they definitely needed that. They are avoid it. If

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they keep this up, they're going
to avoid the place tomorrow. Wimby Action.

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