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[Assistant] How many picks is in the first round? There was 31 in the first round.


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[Assistant] Well yeah, it must have been a Browns. The Browns must have taken the last.


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[Assistant] What would disappoint you? I think what would disappoint me is if we either, uhm, it would disappoint me if we traded back.


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[Assistant] I don't want to see them trade back. If they trade back, it's like a gentleman's punt on this year's draft.


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[Assistant] So I hope they don't do that to try to get more draft capital. No, because sometimes they do that.


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[Assistant] Where are you putting them at? It makes sense for Philly to go that heavy on the defensive front because rotations are so big now. You know, if guys have to take 50 snaps instead of 70 on the defensive side, they're just going to be more effective.


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[Assistant] Uh, but they got big. Brandi Graham too. Graham has gone as well. So they're drafting replacements for those guys. But at the same time, this year, they're going to have waves of defense, of fresh defensive legs.


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[Assistant] Bring them in. Let's go. I love what Philly did in the draft. Well, let's talk about your boy getting his bag. Uh, yeah, Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] Uh, signed his contract or agreed to a contract. Don't know that he signed it yet. Five year, $260 million, but only $185 million of that is guaranteed, which means Kyler Murray got more guaranteed dollars than Lamar Jackson, which stuns me, quite frankly.


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[Assistant] But here's, here's the, the guaranteed numbers. I think that Kyler Murray number is 189 on the guaranteed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know it's slightly different, but why would, why would the He's not 190. He got more than that. He got 189 was guaranteed was the chart that I looked at yesterday.


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[Assistant] One way or another, here's the game. He got 160 guaranteed. Okay. I saw yesterday that he had 189 million guaranteed but a bigger total number.


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[Assistant] But here's the thing, he said he wanted more guaranteed dollars than Deshaun Watson didn't get it.


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[Assistant] DeShaw Watson's contract is still the largest guaranteed contract in history.


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[Assistant] Which, can you ever think of a time in the NFL where that's happened? Because usually these contracts are bar setting, and then they get lost. I can't remember a time when a quarterback got a deal that broke the old bar, and that the big names that followed were lower.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Now it would be interesting to see if Joe Burrow can top what Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] Collusion, you have to show that there's some sort of organized, you know, attempt to suppress wages.


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[Assistant] We can't let the game go this way. This is, I know it might benefit one of the 32 teams, and that's what the Browns were into.


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[Assistant] But what they did could be irreparable harm to our league.


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[Assistant] So we have to avoid a second team in on that bandwagon because one, there's two, there's going to be a third and a fourth and that's going to be the new way. And that's how they cut them off.


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[Assistant] The only thing is if he doesn't give it to her as income, he can't write it off.


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[Assistant] And they got them at 22, the wide receiver out of Boston College. So now they've got book end wide receivers where last year they were thin in those ranks. So now they've got the run game.


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[Assistant] They've got the wide receivers, they've got their quarterback back, and they've got a defense that was hitting on all cylinders last year and really gave the Bengals a tough time in that playoff.


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[Assistant] Well, by the time he takes the field, he's going to be 21 months removed from his torn ACL. That's a lot.


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[Assistant] Sure. You should be. Now, you're also 21 months older. Yeaah. And we know how that works. Uh, you've got a reed you want to take care of and then we're going to talk calves.


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[Assistant] Cleveland's not about laying over. No. Getting steamrolled. No. That's what happened.


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[Assistant] This, no sweeping changes comment is obviously, uh, an indictment, or an endorsement rather, of JB. He's gonna be back. Whether fans think he should be or not, he's gonna be back. Uhm, I, I'm looking at Kobe. More than I'm looking at JB. And here's why. This is a flawed roster.


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[Assistant] The fans missed it initially, now we know, but the front office missed it, Brad.


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[Assistant] This team's three-point shooting was in the lower half of the league. It's a three-point shooting league. In the playoffs,


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[Assistant] Here's where the Cavs top three three point shooters ranked amongst individuals. Donovan Mitchell, highest, 20th.


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[Assistant] Go look at Boston. Go look at Golden State. These teams that are shooting and hitting threes are winning series and advancing. This is go back.


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[Assistant] If you would have told me the day that the Cavs signed or made the trade for Mitchell that the Knicks would beat the Cavs in the playoff.


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[Assistant] Well, did you see the Isaac Okoro quote about physical play?


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[Assistant] Why wasn't there an adjustment made to ramp up the physical play to meet the Knicks? He said- I got the exact quote you wanted. Yep, yea let me see it. He basically said- Exact quote right here. You can't do that.


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[Assistant] These quotes coming out of here. The lights were too bright. Oh, we're just not physical. You can't just manufacture physical and we're not a physical team. They wanted it more.


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[Assistant] Dude, I mean, he not an earth mover around here. There's gotta be more pride. Uhm, and I just didn't see it.


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[Assistant] Playoff tickets on the resale market were, were going. 26 bucks. You could have got in for 26. Nothing. We did, we had live reporters.


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[Assistant] At the Tower City. Tower City has pre-game, uh, I was embarrassed for Cleveland.


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[Assistant] It's the first time since I've been home where I could actually say, oh my God, I'm embarrassed of my city. They were giving away free tickets at the tower city, uh, pep rally at five o'clock. It's a couple hours before the game. There were like 30 people down there.


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[Assistant] And, and they were holding watch parties so you could, it was, you know, everybody could come down and stay down there for the game. Even later in our newscast and for the six o'clock show, we took a live shot there. There was hardly anybody there.


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[Assistant] And I had said, I told some folks in our newsroom, we talked about it on the air, I said, Katharine, it's over. It's ending tonight.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, we need em. Take em. I'll take a 39 year old abroad James here next year.


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[Assistant] I think the disappointing thing, Brad, is Cavs fans thought that we were finally living in the world of NBA relevance.


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[Assistant] And here's the worst part about it. Because of the years that LeBron gave the calves, we know what being relevant feels like.


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[Assistant] We also, because of the Lebron Les years, know what irrelevance feels like. And we thought, oh, we're back in the relevance.


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[Assistant] And we quickly got swatted back into the world of irrelevant.


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[Assistant] After a big win in game two, they came out and lost by 29-


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[Assistant] A lot of, Guardians are below 500. They're two and a half games out of first place and we're still in April. That's not good. Uhm, now I'm not going to panic because we're doing it without our number two horse.


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[Assistant] I don't know how long Mackenzie's gonna be out. I mean, for a sore shoulder, this is a long time.


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[Assistant] The word was it could be 60 days, which would take us all the way through May before we see him. Uhm, right there, that guy is the answer. Uhm, Logan Allen is the answer.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I was watching his debut. I got a little nervous in the sixth inning when he gave up three hits and I said don't let this kid go through the order a third time because they don't know what he looks like until now.


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[Assistant] I mean, they had some advanced minor league scouting that, you know, they knew that, you know, he's got a really good curve ball and he could pinpoint his pitches pretty well. But I was worried what would happen had the lineup got to see him a third time. And fortunately, Tito came and got him after the third hit in the sixth inning. He's very good. So was Logan Allen.


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[Assistant] So once again, the Guardians have two of the most talked about rookie pitchers in Major League Baseball.


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[Assistant] This is who they are. This is what they do. They've got some secret tree


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[Assistant] That's planted in good here. And pitchers just fall off of it. And anybody in sports will tell you one of the hardest positions to develop in football, baseball, basketball, all of sports, is quality pitching. And somehow, they've got the cheat code.


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[Assistant] And they've got this tree that guys are just falling off of one after another. Thank goodness for that.


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[Assistant] If I'm Savali and Pleszak, who by the way, were two guys that were falling off this tree just a couple of years ago.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and even Quantril, those guys haven't been, they've had flashes of being very good.


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[Assistant] But they haven't been consistent. Will Bybee and will Logan Allen be consistent? I don't know, but I think they're gonna get a chance to show it. And if I'm one of those three guys, and this is a good thing, if I'm one of those three guys and I know I'm fighting for my spot in the rotation, I'm stepping up my game.


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[Assistant] When I first saw him, I'd read so much about him, I, and I heard that he was smaller, but when I first, I,


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[Assistant] I was kinda taking aback at how small he looks in real life.


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[Assistant] He doesn't look intimidating. He's not this big guy. You know, he's not CC Sabathia or one of these big imposing pitchers. But when I watched him throw it in his bullpen session, I was like, this guy's got everything.


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[Assistant] He's got a great curve ball. He changes speeds very well. Uhm, he's got an electric fastball. He's got all of the stuff that you want to see in a young pitcher. And again, I just, I give so much credit to this organization.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure what they're going to do with the rotation of Boston. I haven't seen. He's not scheduled to pitch that schedule now. I don't know what they're going to do moving forward. I think it was a spot start.


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[Assistant] And we'll see where we go from there. But I think Savalli is on a short leash. I think Pleasac is on a short leash.


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[Assistant] I think probably, I don't know, I mean this is just me, what I would be thinking. If you've got guys that are, you know, putting up a lot of zeros, I want the league to prove to me that they're not that dude.


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[Assistant] And that can very well happen. You know, I mean guys come up in their debuts and they often time look spectacular for a lot of reasons. Number one, they have ten times the adrenaline coursing through their body than they've ever had at any point in their life.


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[Assistant] That plays a big factor. It can either make you a lot better or it can make you a lot worse. So far these guys haven't blinked at the stage. I wanna see more of this. Is this who they are?


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[Assistant] Look, it happens all the time. Guys come up and they win eight of their first nine. That could be one of these two guys. That could save the season. Not that the season's in peril, but I looked at the AL Central standings, and again, the AL Central is


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[Assistant] A joke! White socks are trash. The white socks are a third place and I think they're like,


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[Assistant] I mean, this, this is a, they're in fourth place, they're in fourth place. Uhm, this division,


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[Assistant] Is gonna come down to most likely the Guardians and the Twins.


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[Assistant] And here's the worst part about that. You can't rely on that. You don't have that in your arsenal at all. You just don't have it.


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[Assistant] I don't play fantasy baseball. I've got way too much going on in my life to mess with that, but I do every once in a while.


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[Assistant] They've gotta, I hope that it's not fool's gold. I hope that they can pull this off more than, more often than not. And it seems like the stuff is there for both of these guys to be able to do that.


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[Assistant] It's the top five wonky words analysts use to describe


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[Assistant] He's good. He used to work at ESPN. I worked with him at ESPN for a little while, and I just remember thinking the first time I worked with him, this guy's gonna be a star.


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[Assistant] Very unsuccessful stint. Very unsuccessful. Terrible stint. Yea. A lot easier than they make it seem.


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[Assistant] And his mind, if you asked him, give me the top ten prospects from the 82 draft, he'll rattle them all off and he'll tell you they're 40 times.


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[Assistant] This guy's like an encyclopedia. Sharp. Sharp yesterday. If that's all you do, that's all he cares about. Yeah, he is all about the draft. So he cares about all. I mean he is.


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[Assistant] Yesterday was his Christmas, and for the next 364 days he will immerse himself in


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[Assistant] Anything at all to talk about in his most recent college season.


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[Assistant] I know he was injured, but I just, I was very concerned about his lack of production when he did play. Uhm, how much carryover was there of the injury? He decided not to run it at the combine, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't know, that's just such a high bar when you look at the success that the OSU receivers have had. Now, yesterday during the draft coverage they said Brian Hartline likes these guys, likes Smith and Jigba. Better than all of them. Over all of them.


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[Assistant] I think he did too. You know, here's another thing too. Seattle took them and, uh, the reason I'd be concerned.


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[Assistant] Like, he's gonna be measured against those guys. Those guys are legitimate stars now in the NFL.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, if he comes in and he puts down anything less than a legitimate star type season, he's gonna be looked at as a bust. And that's a lot of pressure.


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[Assistant] Right? So let's just, and also let's hope that's a one off. Let's hope he's not injured.


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[Assistant] And you know what I don't want to happen next year? I don't want us to be sitting here next December saying, we knew we were weak at linebacker, what did we expect? We did that all year. I know, I don't want to do that again.


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[Assistant] They got a lot better. They got a lot better. By the way, last year they went out and got a linebacker via trade from the Bears that made their defense what their defense used to be.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you something, that man built a multi...


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[Assistant] Probably a billion dollar empire for as long as he was on, cause he was the number one syndicated show outside of Oprah for years. I got caught. He did it on the backs of poor people. Yea he did.


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[Assistant] But I was always stunned at this. I, I, I used to tell people he's exploiting people.


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[Assistant] And then somebody said, no one's putting a gun to any of those people's heads. They're all going on there telling those stories willingly. Like I'm talking about that, you know, today on the Springer show, he said his sister had sex with his best friend and then stole his husband, but I stole her. And you're like, you hear any stories you're like that.


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[Assistant] While we had understood the gravity and the sensitivity, I don't think it really hit any of us until we saw the tens of thousands of police there.


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[Assistant] He wanted to go and meet them and talk with them. So the police worked it out so that we could visit and they had a translator there.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna now direct this at Vice President Biden. You post-busting.


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[Assistant] Since I recorded myself making Deathgiver, it only makes sense that I record myself porting it across to the new game collection. So first of all, I played through this whole game, I won't do it again now.


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[Assistant] I just played through it just to get a feel for the game, what sort of problems there could be, what I need to edit, and so on. Let's quit this. That song is annoying.


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[Assistant] Firstly, widescreen. I need to add widescreen. So I go to the game settings and set it to 853 by 480.


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[Assistant] This is because normal monitors are 16 by 9, so if you get 480 divided by 9 and times by 16, you get 853.


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[Assistant] But it's a bit of a messy number. I'd much rather have full HD, but that's not really possible with this game. So instead let's go for half HD. So 1920 divided by 2, that's 960. And then the other one is 540, so... That's the resolution that this game is going to be. Yes.


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[Assistant] And for these screens all it means is that I just centralise everything, which I'll do in a bit, you don't want to see me do it all now. Main menu.


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[Assistant] He said wrongly. Hey, that's really good. I'm quite pleased with that. I'm gonna keep it like that.


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[Assistant] I'm sure there's more to it than that. Yeah, actually there was. The music, because it's midi file, you'd think that because it's 1 kilobyte it would load quickly, but if you check... You see that white bit? That white bit before it loads?


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[Assistant] into a much bigger format. It makes the file size go up, but I think it's worth it, because it also means it carries across frames. At the moment, every time you go onto a new level, the music reloads, which is really annoying. Yes, I've heard this song. Oh look, I'm listening to it again. And why not again?


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[Assistant] And there was one final thing I was going to do, which is the shooting. The shooting's fine. Turn off the music. There we go.


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[Assistant] At the moment you have 6 ammo, you fire, you have 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.


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[Assistant] What you need to do is press right mouse button and it reloads. It can happen halfway through a magazine as well. Like you can see there.


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[Assistant] So I'll make it automatically reload when it gets to 0. I don't think that'll change the gameplay too much, it just makes it easier for new people to get into. And wasn't there a bug where you could... How did I not pick up this?! I remember someone showing


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[Assistant] Because obviously I made the game in two hours, I was in a bit of a rush. One thing I did pick up on, because at the beginning of the last level, this happens.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you die instantly. Luckily I implemented a nice little thing that remembered which level you were on, so even though you return to the main level, it remembers, thanks to a global value.


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[Assistant] I might also add a reload counter, so you can see, like a bar loading up so you can see how long the reload will take, because otherwise it's a bit strange to press the right mouse button not to see any progress for a couple of seconds. It's just one of these small things that makes the game much more enjoyable to play, even though it doesn't change the gameplay at all.


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[Assistant] And that's all there is for Deathgiver. It's a very small project compared with some. For example, Sundown Shambles took me an entire day. It was nice to relive it, you know, to go back to a game that I made when... well, seven years ago now. I went back to it and saw so many bugs.


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[Assistant] Just to play test games, I'd argue almost half the game development time should be spent pretty much just playtesting the end result.


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[Assistant] And then once I've fixed all these things I'll add it to the, uhm, the collection. And you'll be able to play it. And that's what I have to do for each of the games. Have fun!


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[Assistant] It is my honor and privilege to announce that I will nominate Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.


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[Assistant] One of the reasons he's as good at his job as it is is because he can play his own hand of cards and he can also play his opponent's hand of cards. He knows exactly what they're trying to do.


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[Assistant] He'll be darned if he's gonna allow them to just get away with taking somebody out without paying a price for it later on down the road.


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[Assistant] The president at that point, and I think Don McGahn was part of those conversations to begin putting on a list that he would make public.


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[Assistant] And if there is something out there, some bombshell to drop, or some way to captivating media attention, then we could have problems.


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[Assistant] I was glued to the television like everybody else. I was as smitten by all the television theatrical drama that everybody else was.


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[Assistant] I had a fantastic weekend. I went to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championship football game. I went to Northwestern. That was my alma mater. It was the first time they'd ever played in the game, so I met up with a bunch of college buddies we went, unfortunately lost to Ohio State, but had a great time.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, but one thing that happened was, uh, got to Indianapolis, which was a great city to host this game. Everybody was very friendly. Great restaurants and bars. And one thing Indianapolis has right now is scooters you can rent. Motorized scooters you can rent.


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[Assistant] You download an app and you rent a scooter and you just ride it down the street and go where you're going next. And I pretty immediately after doing that, uh, fell off the scooter and hurt myself pretty badly.


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[Assistant] Making it all the worse was five minutes before I fell off my scooter, I sent an iPhone video to my wife of me on the scooter saying, and these were my exact words,


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[Assistant] I fell so hard off the scooter that people on the other side of the street went, Oh!


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[Assistant] I was definitely favoring one side of my body. It landed on my wrist. I hurt my wrist pretty bad, and that was difficult because when you go to a weekend like that where you keep running into people you went to college with, you constantly have to shake their hands.


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[Assistant] Uh, I met a lot of ex-football players who played at Northwestern when I was there. Uh, and even when I'm, my hand is fine, it's gonna get hurt a little bit by an ex-football player.


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[Assistant] We were in the hotel with the, uh, the families and the players, uh, of the game, and I met, at one point, I was about to go out, and this guy came over to me and said,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm the father of the tight end. Uh, will you say his name on the show? And I said, I will say his name on the show if he gets 100 yards receiving or scores a touchdown. And he said, how about 50 yards? And I said, fine.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because I had just shaken his hand and I was in so much pain I couldn't negotiate.


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[Assistant] Uh, but unfortunately, uh, his son did not get 50 yards of touchdown. He got 42 yards. Uh, so I regret to say that I will not be mentioning Bennett Skowronik's name on the show tonight. Because you did not.


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[Assistant] Meet those numbers. But, uh, it was fantastic. You had a great season. It was great watching you on Saturday night.


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[Assistant] Welcome to part 3 of the making of flammable Freddy. I'm still talking about day 2 of development, where apparently I did so much that I gathered enough content to talk about for 2 whole videos. This episode focuses on the addition of graphics and audio, and with a really weird segment at the end about old men with beards.


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[Assistant] So yea, all the stuff you see here is merely placeholder graphics. I don't think non-gamemaking people understand how LITTLE the graphics matter when you're working on a game. Maybe because all they see is the graphics,


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[Assistant] They think that making a game is all about just drawing and then animating the stuff you see on screen. I dunno. What I DO know is that, if I use placeholder graphics in the final game, I'll scare off a lot of people before they've even given the game a chance. They'll immediately judge the game on its visuals.


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[Assistant] So it's important that I improve the graphics. Which is a shame because I hate drawing stuff. I think I'm a better digital artist than my games may suggest. I just have absolutely zero interest in doing it. I see the graphics as being an unfortunate necessity in game development. It takes a long time,


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[Assistant] But I don't get anything out of it, personally. It isn't a case of good graphics will attract players to the game, it's more like, bad graphics will put players off trying it.


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[Assistant] Which I kind of understand in a way. If the maker of a game can't be bothered to make their game look pretty, then maybe they can't be bothered to make the game fun either. So why should I, as the player, be bothered to play it?


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[Assistant] So for my games, I aim for the bare minimum graphical quality that I think I can get away with, because I think my time is better spent elsewhere. And I'll tell you how little I think it matters. If I stick to placeholder graphics for long enough, I end up forgetting to ever change it because eventually my brain registers what it looks like as being how it SHOULD look.


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[Assistant] But I did like adding little burning animations for stuff like the trees, which is often the first thing I skimp on visually. I know it's stuff like this that a few of you will notice and appreciate, even though it adds nothing of value to the gameplay itself.


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[Assistant] Next is to add the fire effects and smoke particles. You'd think that this would be ESSENTIAL for a game about burning stuff, but if anything, I think it detracts from the gameplay by making it harder to see what's going on. Its only purpose is to inform players that things are on fire, which


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[Assistant] A simple highlight would do equally well, and with less visual clutter.


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[Assistant] You always want to be able to see the stuff you want to get to. I've had projects in the past where I've drawn everything way too big, so your view distance feels too short and the game becomes claustrophobic or even unplayable as a result.


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[Assistant] So I think that might have been why I made this game at just 720p in the first place, because if I design it with that in mind, and then eye-up it to 1080p, then I've got ample screen space to work with.


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[Assistant] Back in the day we had 5x4 and 4x3 aspect ratio monitors, but they've got increasingly wide and stretched as time has gone on. Great for first-person games, but not so much for top-down or world map experiences. As it is, I feel like the design of my virtual worlds is greatly dictated around the premise that you can see further either side of your character than you can up or down the screen.


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[Assistant] How big do the levels need to be, for 20 seconds of carnage? Do I want it to be possible to pull off a flawless run where you burn everything on the screen? Or do I want the levels to feel like they stretch out forever?


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[Assistant] I decided on a compromise between these two extremes, and pre-emptively added scrolling to this game, because I feel like for the levels in this game, I'll need more space.


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[Assistant] If you can help it, I believe a whole level should be visible on-screen at the same time. It helps the player to plan a strategy, it keeps them informed about how previous destruction is unfolding, and it's generally more elegant than to hide most of the play area off the sides of the screen.


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[Assistant] But obviously, flammable Freddy has scrolling, and I made the playspace ludicrously large so that it gives the illusion that the water stretches out in all directions forever.


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[Assistant] Working on Destruction Darius back in 2015 opened my ears to how GREAT a game can sound if you invest just a little bit of effort into the sound effects for it. I took the same approach to this game, downloading Creative Commons Zero sound effects from freesound.org and layering them on top of each other to create original, unique


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[Assistant] Hopefully, satisfying sounding sound effects to accompany this game's destruction. Here are a few examples.


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[Assistant] With this being a brand new concept for a game, I have very little experience of playing it. But you know who has even less? Everybody else! People are going to go into this game with zero knowledge of how to play it or even what the objectives are, so it's important that I make it as idiot-proof as I can.


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[Assistant] So a lot of this Day 2 was spent making the game more accessible. Having your score visible on-screen isn't good enough, so I implemented pop-up scores wherever and whenever points were gained.


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[Assistant] With hindsight, this feels like it's so obviously required. Yet when I was making it, I very nearly didn't do this. It even helps ME to understand the value of destruction when I see a field of burning bushes displaying a dozen 50 scores. It helps highlight that bridges give me a lot of points, and that the oil drums, as fun and useful as they may be, are not so important.


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[Assistant] I even had decisions to make when designing these numbers. I originally had them all colour-coded so that you could tell how big the scores were without having to read them. But which colours are best? Should the biggest numbers be in red? Or blue? Or something else?


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[Assistant] I decided on something better. I made them all the same colour, but varied the intensity of the colours depending on how high-scoring the points were. So 50 is virtually in monochrome, 100 is pale yellow, 200 is yellow and orange, and 400 practically GLOWS. And higher points are represented by a bigger font, which I think helps as well. It's very rewarding to get these popping up on screen.


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[Assistant] And again, I think greatly helps educate players on the scoring system, even if they have never even bothered to read the numbers. With hindsight, maybe I could have got away with adding pretty-looking diagonal shadows to this game, because I decided a shadow directly below your character to represent his position in the level wasn't good enough.


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[Assistant] Which should really aid people in landing difficult jumps between the islands.


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[Assistant] At a later point I went even further, visually representing the area around you that could ignite things, and even by adding health bars to EVERY SINGLE THING you could set fire to, because from playtesting, some people seemed to think that merely touching stuff was enough to set it alight. It was painful to watch them running about on fire, failing to ignite anything else.


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[Assistant] And then, later on in the project, I upscaled him for the bigger main menu image. It's obvious that it's upscaled, it's imperfect, but it is very much the sort of thing that people should be coming to expect from me by now. I don't know what it is about old men with beards, and bold


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[Assistant] It seems like every project I work on gravitates towards those two things. I don't know if it's some subconscious desire of mine, or if it's forewarning about my future self. Actually, I blame it all on Oblivion. Before Oblivion, if a game let me customise my character then I'd always make mine look as handsome and as strong as I could. In Morrowind, if I wasn't happy with how my character looked,


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[Assistant] I'd happily throw away hours of progress just to start it all over again. But Oblivion's character models were so butt-ugly that I got more joy just from making the stupidest and silliest-looking characters possible, and I've been doing so ever since. Once you don't mind controlling an unconventional-looking protagonist, I think you learn that they can become more endearing to you than a standard handsome prince could ever be.


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[Assistant] Or maybe it's like how you always relate most with characters of the same age, and who are going through the same experiences as yourself at that point. And maybe now I've reached that stage in life where everybody my age is starting to look old and haggard. Stay tuned for the next episode of… whatever this series has become.


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[Assistant] It was super dope. Jay came down in Canton and introduced me. See, Jay is really a modest guy. They started getting through his bio. I'm like, dang, you did all that?


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[Assistant] been inducted into the Hall of Fame, uh, if they're still living, has spoken at that luncheon. So it's, it's an honor to be able to just speak, um, you know, you know, speak when you've got so many great people.


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[Assistant] Uh, who's done so much. So it was, it was dope and it was super cool because I grew up in Canton. So, you know, I drove by that place all the time, you know, you know, hall of fame and something really big, really, really big in, in Canton. So I went up there. It's, it's up on the internet right now. You can check it out on UCSS, but, uh, thanks for the lunch and club for having me, uh, Jay for introducing me.


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[Assistant] And it was a great opportunity to be ambassador for the show. Uhm, and kind of spread exactly what UCS is all about and get people more involved with it. So.


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[Assistant] You know, Jay, I'll tell you what. I don't like to get to this, and I know the fans...


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[Assistant] Every time you get a team that's very likable, uhm, especially when you got guys that are good guys, they play well, they try to play the right way, it's very difficult when you criticize the way the roster is built. Uhm, but, you know, Jason is right. When he was talking about that executive, I tweeted and it got a lot of traction.


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[Assistant] I don't know if Jared Allen is a long-term...


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[Assistant] Fix for this team, because you gotta think about it like this.


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[Assistant] That's all he is. Like he's, he's more athletic. He's more defensively inclined. He can guard more positions.


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[Assistant] No, I'm, I'm, my contention is that roster and the way they are playing Jared Allen, Evan Mobley, and either Isaac or Corelza 3 is not tenable.


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[Assistant] Like that, they look like they're built like a 1987 roster, like two bigs, like Rick Mahor and Lambeer down low. You can't do that anymore. And so what you see is Jared Allen is underneath the basket and Evan Mobley is underneath the basket. And on top of it, the teams, New York is just like, okay, well,


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[Assistant] How's about we just double him everywhere? Anytime Garland gets it, we double him. Anytime Mitchell gets it, we're blitzin' him. And the rest of the guys can't do anything.


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[Assistant] We'll get you out of here. So is that, so is that, I don't think you can win a championship giving loyalty test. Like, yeaah, you want to be here, but if you like.


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[Assistant] I keep going back to it because I didn't think.


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[Assistant] I don't, New York is rugged. I know what they do.


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[Assistant] But it ain't even about just a, just a shooting. I mean, we look completely outclassed when it comes to hustle points.


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[Assistant] Loose balls, 50-50 balls, the emotion, I mean Jared Allen looks like somebody ran his dog over.


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[Assistant] Like he, his, it was a family of dogs that got ran over. They were all in the car and they got ran over. And not only, I looked it up. He had four rebounds. Do you know Brunson had more rebounds than him? Hartenstein had more rebounds than him.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, uh, Mitchell Robinson had more rebounds. Hart had more rebounds and OB Toppin.


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[Assistant] If you were an energy guy, and that's what you bring to the table.


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[Assistant] You cannot be looking like you saw a ghost the whole series. He just has. I'm confused.


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[Assistant] And so, it looks like from the way looking in, I look at the climate of things, so you don't have to draft capital.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you, I don't know, I think you got ca-cap flexibility like that. Uhm, you don't have the, the, uh, I would say the cache to just bring in all kind of great free agents. Like, they're just gonna come and show up in Cleveland. So my thing is, right now, we're on the precipice of getting gentlemen's, gentlemen's sweep.


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[Assistant] 4-1. And I do believe that counts because that means that you could've, you could've put up a last stand at home and you laid down at home, especially if they could be bad at home. That looks horrible. But you're set up to run it back with the whole squad.


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[Assistant] So you're going to run it back with JB and keep him there. You're going to run it back with the two bigs and hope Evan Moley gets better. You're going to still bring back Jetty and Dean and hope Dean Wade gets some sort of game over the summer.


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[Assistant] I just, I don't know if it's tenable for you to lose to the Knicks four games to one in the playoffs and then run it back with a roster that I don't think can make you compete at the highest level.


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[Assistant] You know what I respect the most? You know what I respect about LeBron? He did the same thing this year, out in LA.


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[Assistant] He said, look, he puts maximum pressure on you. See, teams that usually would punt


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[Assistant] They good at punting. You ever be like, man, you playing football and you be like, man, look, it's fourth and one, you playing defense, you like, I'm tired as hell. Thank goodness they punting. Because if they was going to run this, I was going to get blocked up front. Teams be punting.


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[Assistant] LeBron puts maximum pressure on you where there's no such thing as a plant. Every year, if it don't work, you better get back on the table and reshuffle.


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[Assistant] Now that's the problem that we had. Well, they came back from the dead. It just, and they wouldn't got, they wouldn't got a D'Angelo Russell. They wouldn't made moves at the deal to trade their line. Now look what they're doing. For, for the Cavaliers, you, you, you have to look at this series and say, okay, well, we got to rethink some things. If we not,


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[Assistant] So now you got this core and this roster and you felt really good about going into the playoffs. But what the playoffs do? The playoffs show you who you really are. The regular season stuff, that's cool. When the playoffs hit, you see the levels to it.


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[Assistant] So now as a Cavaliers fan, I'm questioning and I'm saying, okay, well, if now all of a sudden we don't even look like the four seed and we down at maybe six, seven.


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[Assistant] Does that mean that this is tenable? Can you go and, is this makeup something that you can actually win with against Eastern Conference teams at the top? Is that something you can do? I don't know anymore.


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[Assistant] And really quickly, I just want to add, cause McNuggets, you know, you play ball a little bit.


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[Assistant] I think it's a major problem, like, that the cast-


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[Assistant] That the Cavs can't just come down and dump the ball into a big man and let him work. Like when is the last time you-


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[Assistant] No, it's not. Well, listen, like if you ask in the bigs to go out there and rim run and do all this other stuff and they're getting hammered on the glass.


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[Assistant] At some point, why don't you make Hardenstein, why don't you make Robinson guard you? You can get a couple of up-and-unders, you can get something where they may foul you, instead of letting them be free running around blocking shots and doing all the energy stuff.


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[Assistant] Well, that's just what it is. I see Jimmy, that game Jimmy Butler showed me. My God.


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[Assistant] Yes. Over anybody else on the court. And in that game five, I thought game five was the most impressive because it was just basically Kyrie and LeBron, my turn, your turn at the highest level I've ever seen. Yeah. 40 a piece. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Let me ask y'all a question. Let me ask you, let me ask you a question. If you flip teams...


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[Assistant] And Tibbs was coaching the Cavs. And Bicker Staff was coaching the Knicks. Yeah, I said at the start.


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[Assistant] I think at this point, I threw it out to McNuggets and we got to get to Cavs, but I would, I would sit, uh, Jared Allen. I start mobility at the five. I put Danny Green in the lineup and go small with either a, a, a, a Nacora or LaVert, whatever one you want in there. And I go super small.


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[Assistant] Keep Garland at the point. So at least you got some sort of spacing. You may get killed on the boards, but guess what? You get killed on the boards anyway.


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[Assistant] Because guys aren't, you know, going for interceptions is, is risky. Like, you have to be close to the ball. You gotta be in phase. You gotta look back for the ball. You gotta play the ball. And technically people who usually do that, they either give up a lot of big plays.


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[Assistant] Or they get pass interference called on them. So now people is just like, look, we just want you to keep guys in front of you. We might keep you in off coverage. You don't even see bump and run coverage no more because of that thing, right?


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[Assistant] So it's hard to get picks. It's almost easier for a safety to get picks now than a corner because the safety sees the quarterback. Tip balls could happen and you could, he may get some picks, but it's a tough one. I'm gonna have to go with, I'm gonna go with, I'm gonna go with interceptions. I didn't even answer.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go with, I'm gonna go with Peaks because these tin sacks is stupid hard.


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[Assistant] As a D lineman, let them know how frustrating it is.


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[Assistant] To work, you hit one of your best moves. You've been setting it up for two, three series.


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[Assistant] And then all of a sudden you get, you, you, you about, uh, five milliseconds from getting home.


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[Assistant] And the quarterback gets rid of the ball. And you've been working your move. It's just like, it's so difficult to get there. And that has to be one of the most frustrating things in the world is the D-line.


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[Assistant] Faulty earpiece. You know, it touched me, trust me. For the first two, for the first two months, I was doing this the whole time.


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[Assistant] They don't have him. He is not here on this roster.


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[Assistant] I'll go back and forth about this all the time. Like, some days it's like, you say who the best defensive lineman ever.


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[Assistant] I say Lawrence Taylor some days, but then some days I go watch Reggie White and be like,


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[Assistant] I don't even know what Reggie White played. He played in at 315. That's a clean cheat. He was, he, and then I look at Aaron Donnell.


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[Assistant] And there has never been a better athlete to ever play three technique there, Donald. Like, so he, he has the speed, quickness and agility of an elite lineman, but his stature inside.


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[Assistant] And you couldn't do nothing. And he was one of the dudes that was coming up. Like, you know, Deacon Jones had the head slap, right? You know what I'm saying? Miles Garrett can bend really great. He has to bend. Dwight Freeney, he has to burst to get off.


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[Assistant] This is, this is a nasty little question. This is like, this is like the king of medium sauce. What's the difference between mild and medium? Not much.


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[Assistant] These dudes, I look at it like this, Aaron Rodgers.


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[Assistant] I do like their skill positions. Uhm, Garrett Wilson is nice. Sauce Gardner is nice. I mean, when the last time you get two guys back to back to win rookie of the year.


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[Assistant] Like on offensive defense, I mean, I can't even knock that, you know, Bruce Hall, they got, they got, they just got pieces and on the, and on the strength of it, they came in the first energy stadium or now Cleveland Brown Stadium and they beat y'all like in one of the most embarrassing fashions that we've seen. Like, you know, that game is just.


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[Assistant] It's just nastiness. Like, so for me, I wanna say, uhm, that the Jets is better.


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[Assistant] But nah, we not gonna go there. You know why? Because...


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[Assistant] Because there's still something left that Deshaun Watson, I told you what I needed. I need 4800. I need 4800.


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[Assistant] Upwards of 42-43 touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Listen, I feel like that's in the deck. That's somewhere in the chamber. I don't know how you get there. I feel like that's somewhere in the beginning. Hey, hey, Jimmy has some bleeding that don't he?


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[Assistant] I think that, I think that's the uh, periodical table name for uh, Fool's Goat.


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[Assistant] Listen, that's a steak dinner with asparagus. When they slide down and all of a sudden the back checks from inside out and they're like.


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[Assistant] Every single time. Now what you probably should do is hit a move and move him out the way and tackle the quarterback. But we fall for it every time because he's blocking us and the first thing you do is just run and put your face mask in him and put him in like the first row of the bleachers. That's a shame Zeke. Can we get that dirty?


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[Assistant] Hey, that's, listen, that, they, they don't, they don't come at all. It ain't one size fits all. Like sometimes you...


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[Assistant] Kevin Stefanski, don't you dare, don't you dare, I'm not playing with you.


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[Assistant] Like he can, because we're going to, we're going to try it. Listen, they will be outside of his office with signs and pickets and torches. Hell no, we won't go. They all out there.


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[Assistant] I mean, you can get hurt playing basketball. We told him we don't want that neither. I tell, listen, come on, we, uh, see my, this, this is not a joke. This is crazy.


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett flipped his car a thousand times.


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[Assistant] And was like dinged up. He was injured.


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[Assistant] This guy tore, he messed his toe up. He like, yeah, I'm just not gonna play no more. I'm like, bro, you too strong for your own good, bro. You just crazy, bro.


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[Assistant] What do you do in the off season? Do you just amateurize your money and be like, okay, I got this amount of money. I'm not about to go crazy. Or do you like, do some people just do that and go get jobs? How does it work?


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[Assistant] He won't sue us so we can put it on tag boards. So he owns it. Yeah, you got it. Boogie, I knew there was something special about you the first time we met.


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[Assistant] I didn't know you guys didn't know that. I did not know that about you. Hey, no, I was, you know, I'll be hustling. I'm going to find out. I'm like, listen, what you, what y'all got going on? Ah, you, that's the first thing you should have said when you came up. Forget all this cast talk. I know Rihanna. I know Rihanna. I saw her. Like I was close enough to smell her perfume. I know like what kind of, that's kind of creepy. Um, but let's, we're going to find this. What kind of commercial was it?


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[Assistant] That's fantastic. Because there's a dude, what's the comedian that used to play for the Bears, he was a defense alignment.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, what's his name? Uh, he's a comedian. He do, he do them skits.


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[Assistant] Haha, I know what you're talking about. So there's a guy who used to play for the Bears.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and he was a defensive lineman, so he started doing all of these skits on Instagram and YouTube.


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[Assistant] And he gets millions of hits because he'd be like, yeah, yeah, I'm about to go out here and I'm about to go out here and get me a sandwich. It's about to be a breeze. And a bunch of stuff just start happening. He was like, I just came for a sandwich. It's crazy. Check him out. I think it's haha something, but.


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[Assistant] Haha Davis, that's his name. Uhm, I was like man, so he definitely has, shout out to you bro.


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[Assistant] They automatically is on the board. They, just because, like, who they is. Like, you got Albert Bell. Like, when you talk about that team, right, Kenny Lofton, he should have already been up there. I'm, I'm, you know, he should have already been there. To me, Sandy Alomar, Vizquel, uh, Manny, Albert Bell,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm trying to think of anybody else that probably would get it, uhm, at that point.


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[Assistant] Other than that, those four, to me.


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[Assistant] Could you tell, so I look at it like this.


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[Assistant] Can you tell the history of the Cleveland Indians without mentioning Albert Bell?


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[Assistant] For that era, for that genera- to me, there was a generation of people who, when you say Cleveland Indians, you say Lofton.


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[Assistant] That's it. All of them. Like I can't have, like when I see Jim Tommy, I'm like, where the rest of the gang at? Because for us, that was the greatest baseball we've seen in our lives.


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[Assistant] When you talk about he, he was revolutionized the way people watch. You, you would watch him not only for how many stolen bases, for not only what he did with the bat.


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[Assistant] But his glove. Robbing home runs. Robbing. Manny Ramirez. We would say yo, Manny could hit home runs. He was the baby bull and he had a cannon. He would throw you off a right field standing.


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[Assistant] But if you look at it, Jason, when they went up against Atlanta Braves, to me,


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[Assistant] Because they lost to the Orioles. Like, I'm like, this is crazy. Like, out of nowhere.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, I look at the Dolans. The Dolans by the team, right?


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[Assistant] You have to think that they have to be, they have to feel a certain type of way. Like, hold on.


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[Assistant] You guys don't give us no benefit of the doubt. Like, it's almost like


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[Assistant] They wear the scarlet letter for the Jacobs dismantling the team, right? Like, you gotta think about it. There's people who, to this day, will not get over it. They're like, I can't believe they dismantled the best team I've ever seen. We lost player after player, year after year, and then it got to the Dolans and it was like, well hey, we didn't do that. That was Dick Jacobs and his crew.


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[Assistant] And then, Jacob's Field is known as, like, they had the best ballpark. Everybody said Jacob's Field. How was this small market team? They have this, this lineup that is as good as the Big Red Machine. They got everything you need. And then all of a sudden you get a new ownership group and it's like, uh, they can't afford these. We can't afford that.


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[Assistant] If you guys played, say for instance, Ohio State, would you win?


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[Assistant] Yeah, if your team right now played Ohio State, would you guys win, would that be a close game?


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[Assistant] Hey listen, brothers know, brothers know. For real, for real, that is a total white dude.


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[Assistant] You're peaking. You're peaking. Every chance. Let me look at your face.


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[Assistant] You might be cultured, I don't know what Bella Child means. Cause you got the Balenciagas on right now. Please don't give up the sauce, man!


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[Assistant] No, he's not part of the, we don't want no problems. Well, we don't have gangs in Ohio, so you're good.


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[Assistant] So everybody is really big on Jack in the Box. They're huge on Jack in the Box out there. I'm trying to figure out why. Because it's open.


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[Assistant] Oh wow. So here's what I'm going with.


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[Assistant] She says fake. I say, guess what, I say fake cause you got, you got drumstick emojis. Why you got drumstick emojis? And I'm an all flat guy, baby, I like flats. All flats well done, so that's fake.


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[Assistant] The worst case scenario for Kavanaugh and his defenders was what just transpired.


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[Assistant] Do they even, do they even have enough? I don't know if they got the infrastructure, the appetite, the funding to even get a stadium in Oakland.


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[Assistant] That's arrogance, bro. That's arrogance at the highest level. When you looked, when we looked at it and they asked him about this, I think at the owner's meetings.


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[Assistant] He said, no, uhm, does your investment in the Milwaukee Bucks


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[Assistant] In any way, shape or form prohibits you from, from continuing to contribute funds or to make sure that the Cleveland Browns have the most available funds to them to, to win at the highest level. He says, no, that's not going to happen. That's not a thing.


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[Assistant] It didn't, it came, comes out when we heard the number, we're like, whoa, that's a lot of money. It was upwards of three, four hundred million dollars. He said, ah, it wasn't really that bad.


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[Assistant] Our problem was this. We looked at it and said, okay, well, I could have just swore we was talking about all these renovations that we had, Jay. I thought we was, and I'll give you an example of this and how it works. If you are an individual and you are trying to get a house or you're trying to get a car or you're trying to make renovations, you don't make, you can't fight a war on two fronts.


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[Assistant] That, that's just, that's just, that, that, that's, that's military 101. You cannot fight a war on two fronts. Now you telling me, you trying to get a house, but then you want to renovate the backyard, but then you want to attach a room, and then you want to go get a new car.


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[Assistant] You can't keep asking him. You know what he also saw? The timing on this is very immaculate. I think Mayor Bibb saw that paycheck the commanders got.


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[Assistant] They gettin' billions. They gettin' three, four, five, six, seven times what they put in. Six is old.


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[Assistant] We've been, you're right, we've been, we've been tricked into believing and here's the biggest trick.


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[Assistant] So Mayor Bibb, I like the fact that he pulled out his, his trump card too and said, well, listen, Eric, you moved the team once, you can't do it again. And, and, and you know what? He's got the upper hand.


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[Assistant] They already had ideas that they wanted the stadium to be somewhere anyway. They were always willing to finance it.


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[Assistant] I got 80 for the Guardians. I got another 40 for the Cavs.


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[Assistant] If they did move, would they tear down the stadium?


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[Assistant] And, you know, I believe that he went back and, you know, he has, Mayor Bibb has a city council that he got to deal with. You got, he got people, it ain't just his word. He can go back and they say, look, we ain't got the votes for this. We just don't have it.


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[Assistant] Friends and family. I'll tell you what, Jay, I'm over at, uh, at the Halley Building downtown, right?


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[Assistant] And I've been, I've been working at that radio station 12 years. My car has been broken into in broad daylight. No kidding. Broad daylight. I chased a dude across the street. Chased him across, he broke, and all for what? Like some change? Yea, what are you getting? A change on my bride, replaced his window. So, so, when I look at it, now I'm spending 12, 13,


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[Assistant] And I don't even care about what the car is, I just don't want to replace the window. Right. I would rather just, you know, go across the street, get in my car and go home.


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[Assistant] You know, those Cleveland Clinic courts, uh, hey Dan, how did their financing work for those? Did you get any, anything over there? Like you just keep calling around Gilbert's like, what do you mean Jimmy's on the phone? We haven't talked to him in weeks. And by the way, you knew it was a plant.


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[Assistant] And, and by the way, I don't, uh, I don't be, I don't be at games like that anyway.


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[Assistant] Like, it's like, I think he was like, well, people get mad. It's almost like floating something out there to see what the temperature is on people. Well, that's exactly what they did. And it's like, okay, will they accept, uh, going to Columbus? No, they're not going to Canton. They're not doing none of that.


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[Assistant] So, okay, maybe they don't got a problem with it. They play it out in Cleveland Stadium or whatever the case may be. If they get good for a couple of years, they'll have some nostalgia while we, you know, we got good right at the end and if you strike lightning, you can go, you know, break ground or somewhere new and they'll still go to the game.


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[Assistant] People from, I mean, we used to, Richfield Coliseum, we drove up there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's the Cleveland Browns and it has them know that they can't do anything about that. No, they're hamstrung. They can't move. They can't move. So they do not move it in. So you just have to be bad for a little bit. They'll be mad for a couple years. All right. Yeah, they got to win some games.


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[Assistant] You was the guy. You won the NBA shootout. The three-point contest in 96. And I played with the bullets. And what a squad. George Mirasana Center.


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[Assistant] They had Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, also Rod Strickland was on that team. And I had, I had legs starting at three, small forward coming off screens. I just want to thank you. I went a lot of money in Live 97 because of the, uh, the boys.


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[Assistant] You know, you know, Tim, I will say that I didn't want to throw this in here. I just, I was looking up something and they did have a comp for you. Uh, his name was JJ Reddick and you know, I didn't know he made 146 million in his career.


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[Assistant] I will say this, dough legs. Uh, first of all, I didn't know. I tell Jay all the time. I said,


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[Assistant] I didn't know Donovan Mitchell was that good. I had no clue. Like he came here, and of course I watched basketball, of course I watched the games, and I'm thinking he might come and get us 25 and take a lot of shots. But man, he got here and I said, this dude.


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[Assistant] He's a monster. He's athletic. I didn't know his step back game was like that. He could, he could shoot off the move. He could get to the rack. We knew he could dunk on people and do all those kinds of things, but I didn't know he was the leader that he was because after game one, he pulled Daris Garland inside and said, don't wait on me.


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[Assistant] Get yours while you can. We'll figure the rest out. And I think, I think that, that projected them and propelled them to game two. And I don't know how they're going to do it in game three, but I think he'll be ready to go, go back home game three as well.


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[Assistant] You said something, you said something that was, was really key. Uhm, and this is, this is in playoffs in general, uhm, legs. It's like,


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[Assistant] It astonishes, astonishes me the way the teams play the pick and roll.


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[Assistant] There's so many different matchups, like the way Brooklyn is playing New York is, they're just completely just blitzing and beading and saying, hey look, you're not going to get the ball. Uh, yeah, Philly, excuse me, Philly, they're just completely just making him get the ball up. When you look at this series and the way they're covering the pick and roll,


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[Assistant] I think that uhm, I think that they were a little more physical on Brunson. And I thought also they were more physical on the offensive end of the court because they ran, it just seemed like they just kept running picks at them all game. And when you're getting run at and your legs are gone and you've got to work over those picks.


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[Assistant] It just seems like it slowed them down offensively a little bit. In general, in the playoffs, how big is the pick and roll when it comes to playoff basketball?


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[Assistant] I mean, are they, my question is, are they refreshing these, these seminars? Are they bringing people in telling them like, look, look, look, let me talk to y'all real quick. Just cause you see Fandu, Draft Kings, all that stuff, they not talking about y'all.


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[Assistant] You can't do that. Like that. Are they refreshing me?


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[Assistant] So, so you, do you, I'm not, are they not allowed to bet on any sport?


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[Assistant] I'm always looking for an angle. I'm like this. Well look, we can't participate in it, but here's what I would have as a lawyer. I'd ask him, I'd say, look.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know we can't really bet we don't do all the fantasy stuff, but what we really want is we would like to have a cut of all of that.


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[Assistant] Like as a player, we can't bet on it, but we are contributing to it. So.


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[Assistant] Yeah. But can you tell them as a player, if you're a player, say look, if I'm not gonna get nothing from fantasy football, yes man, I don't want to, you can't draft me.


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[Assistant] Yes, that is, that is, and I've never played fantasy football until the first time, like I was like, you know what? Let me get in one of these leagues. It was, it was, I wouldn't say so. Then you start watching eight games a week. Nine, ten games.


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[Assistant] And then you get to a point where you feel like if you didn't watch them, they didn't play well. I said, yo, you know what?


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[Assistant] So say for instance, like if I have the Browns, like, okay, so I want the Browns to win, but I got Nick Chubb. So that's even more. I want him to get the ball. But then if I'm playing, I've already drafted Deontay Johnson and I'm like, well, I'm going to start him this game because at least if they lose and Deontay Johnson catch a football, I at least have a silver lining.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think any competitor, any competitor, like if you play team sports, any competitor would bet on his team to lose.


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[Assistant] You eating them built bars, man. How much can you bitch right now, Anthony?


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[Assistant] Really? That's nice. For your neck? Yea, like, so yea, so I go to physical therapy three times a week, and what's really cool about these Align Health people is,


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[Assistant] They take these, uh, they take x-rays of your spine. And they'll, in red, they'll show you where your spine is.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's like having... It's weird. It's weird. It's like saying, it's like putting braces, like teeth braces on your back, right?


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[Assistant] So my neck is tilting forward, like my neck tilts forward, so they have to slowly but surely straighten it, so.


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[Assistant] I'm on, I go to physical therapy. I go in there. It's awesome because there's a lot of different people in there that have back pain and they're like, man, I hear you on the radio and I hear you and watch you and you say back pain. And uh, so I started doing this and I was like, well, me too. Yeah. Shout out to online health. It's crazy.


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[Assistant] That's what I thought too. Well maybe I'm wrong though.


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[Assistant] I shoot around in the garden. You just probably did. I thought I saw that.


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[Assistant] Football players should go, athletes should go to like, counselors. You should. It's traumatizing. Like that's trauma. It is. Like when they make you get up and go to morning workouts and you be so scared that you'd have missed morning workouts that you're a 41 year old man that you still reoccurring nightmares. I swear. That when you wake up like.


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[Assistant] You get on the baseline, in the gym, and you gotta get the towel right here, and you gotta slide it across the floor, bear crawling.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yup, this is what I had. Oh, okay, so close one. Cavs bring the fight, but niggas get to dub, big shots land, big shots land late.


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[Assistant] Nicks go up 2-1. I got, I said it the other day. People might be getting mad. It is what it is. I got the Knicks coming out. Uhm, I think it'll be a closer game, but I think the Knicks will play desperate. I think they'll hit a couple big shots late in the game. Uhm, that'll kinda, like, I think the Cavs will actually be up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think the Cavs will be up. So they're going to blow the lead then. Blow is kind of hard in the playoffs. I think they'll be up 3-4. That's kind of hard. Yeah.


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[Assistant] This is the thing, if you went into a, you know, me and Tyves got the same fetish, right? We just, we can't get over the shoes. Yeah. And we went to Jordan warehouse and O.G. said, you know what, Michael Jordan been watching y'all. He said, we gonna invite y'all up.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, to the Nike town, you know, so you gonna get any, any J's you want. The different, the only problem is you could only get 20 pair.


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[Assistant] I'll say all jokes aside, the reason why that people are apprehensive is because there's no book.


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[Assistant] On the Cavs. Like, we don't know. Every time we see the Cavs do something this, this, this postseason, it's the first time.


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[Assistant] The fact that they got Cleveland, that's disgusting. I don't know if that's pure or disgusting to drink somebody's tears.


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[Assistant] Because then, see, then if you come out and you...


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[Assistant] Really come out and you're on the road, your first game on the road, and you take care of business, despite all of the stuff you just said, that's one of the most oppressing feats in the world. Because you're a young team, you don't really have a track record, everything in the world says you should probably lose this game.


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[Assistant] Like that means JB got them up to play. There's really no reason.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's only, there's only a couple ways you come back from 3-3-1, and one of them is that you gotta get not only one 40 point game, but you need two. See the game, see the Cavs back then didn't win because they, you know, game seven, listen, you know, that game, that was what in game five.


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[Assistant] When LeBron and Kyrie had 40 apiece. Right.


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[Assistant] And by the way, if they do win this first series, then you switch. See, here's how it works, man. Every series is different. So in this series, if I say they was going, you know, I say they going, you know, it's going to go seven, it's tight. Now next series, it ain't going to be like that. Next series, I'm drinking a Kool-Aid. You know why I know, you know why I know that.


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[Assistant] Listen, that's the reason. Timbs also was in Minnesota.


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[Assistant] I hope you're right. He was there in game one. It's all about Garland. If Garland... It is about Garland. If Garland want to get 40, like the notes say. He'd get 40, they would.


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[Assistant] Yeah. What team, what team, what team are they trading with?


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[Assistant] Like, I've been trying to, listen. Sauce Gardner, DPO, yes. Rookie DPO. Luke's done a great job. He put that fist around Cincinnati. Now look man. Now he going to Wisconsin. Hey, hey, hey, listen, we ain't gonna talk about this.


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[Assistant] They went what, eight and three or something like that? I was not impressed with the Manning kid either. Listen, I was not impressed.


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[Assistant] He's oblivious to it. I can't. Listen, he's oblivious. This dude don't understand, like, eh, 96 times, percent of the time, Jay don't even be understanding. He be like, I don't know, where y'all at? I don't, just kidding. He don't see none of that. No. You don't see that?


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[Assistant] You gotta have it at the right temperature. And by the way, Gordon Ramsey gets rid of people on his famous, on his famous Beef Wellington. They got risotto, which is hard to cook.


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[Assistant] Beef Wellington is hard to cook. Scallops is hard to cook. You gotta cook all three of those in Kitchen Nightmares. And then if you can get those correct, you might get to go into the next. He really is.


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[Assistant] That's a lie. Mikey didn't say that. He said you can't, he should have said Tyrus cannot beat Giannis. You could have said that, but. And that would have won.


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[Assistant] If the Cavs play the Nets, you book it for the Cavs?


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[Assistant] You could just say one word, you'd be like Tyverse. Say the word Cheeks.


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[Assistant] More like the team that you saw in game two. I mean, I'm going by the full season body of work. Right. Very impressed with their team this year. Look, they can be a little bit streaky offensively, but they're an elite level defensive team.


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[Assistant] And they've got a profile now that they've added a guy that's built for this stage in this moment in Donovan Mitchell. So I think that.


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[Assistant] This is more like the team that you're gonna see going forward, which is on game two. But look, I said going in, this is a, this is a coin toss series. These two teams are pretty even and it was not gonna shock me if this thing goes the distance.


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[Assistant] Man, I think it's gonna be Darius Garland probably if I had to go option 1, 1A would be Mobley, but I think Darius Garland, because he has the ability


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[Assistant] That are going to be critical in this series because I think you're going to see more low scoring games. It's just the way these teams are built. I think it's the way their offenses operate. These are going to be low scoring games. So if you can get a 10 point burst.


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[Assistant] Out of a guy in a six minute stretch, it could be all the difference in winning a game. And that means Darius Garland, I think is the guy that you're going to look at because there's not a real answer for someone with his level, quickness, shooting range and ball handling ability at some point.


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[Assistant] He's gonna make himself felt on a given night. That might be enough to win that game. And in a game that's gonna be, a series that's gonna be tight night after night, that, that could be the difference.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that he's a guy that's got upside to be certainly better than that offensively to what he's shown in this series. I also think, look, there's something to be said about young players kind of going through this a little bit.


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[Assistant] Um, so I think that we're all sitting here waiting for that to happen because the talent is there. The versatility is there. I think it's just.


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[Assistant] This is gonna be a tough physical series. Each possession is going to be magnified.


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[Assistant] And that, that shrinks the game. And so the numbers might not be the same. It's more about picking the spots to have an impact, to be a tipping point for your team to win a game. And I think you're going to see that, but I do think at some point in this series, he'll have one of those 20 and tens and hit some important shots in the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] Hey listen, listen, this is the truth now. So I've been out of the league for 2000 and I've retired. So I've been doing this for 22, 23, 22, 23 years.


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[Assistant] You know, the, the LeBron Jordan question comes up all the time. Somebody will ask you about your favorite team. Somebody will say, hey man, I love the way you, you played, I love the way you shot the ball. Somebody will say, hey man, I love your analysis on ESPN. And then that last one is,


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[Assistant] I see what guys get paid. You know, it's, it's not even just the fact that guys are getting paid what they are. Like for instance, a Duncan Robinson that gets $80 million, right?


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[Assistant] It's not just that because look, the guy can really shoot the ball. It's the mentality of the offenses in the league. So there is no such thing as a bad shot, right? I could literally, if I played today, shoot the ball anytime I wanted from anywhere without any repercussion and that


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[Assistant] Is, I, I just wondered what that freedom would feel like mentally, that you could pull up on a one on two fast break and shoot a 28 footer and no one is blinking an eye. That is what I would like to know what that feels like for these guys. They get to take seven, eight, 10, 12, three pointers on a given night.


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[Assistant] One, there was only a few guys, two or three on your roster that were empowered to take the three point shot whenever they saw any daylight, right? Now, it's pretty much, you know, 12 out of 15 guys can shoot it when they want to. When I played, it was only two or three. But then, so I could shoot it when I wanted, it's just what,


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[Assistant] What our eyes perceived as a good shot were totally different. You know, when you ran the break and transition, you were trying to get something close. Going to the rim or a short mid-range jumper if you had a 301. Now,


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[Assistant] Those two wings immediately fan out to the corners of the wings to shoot a three. So it's what we perceive. Good shot, bad shot is what's changed. I never had a coach ever tell me I took a bad shot.


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[Assistant] It's just that no one thought that any of these shots, most of these shots that guys take now were good shots, so you didn't even contemplate it.


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[Assistant] He's a guy that you bring up his step back game. And what's interesting is until you get to see him every night and you're a fan of the team. Cause you know, when you, when he's playing in Utah, yeah, you're going to catch him a couple of times and maybe you watch him some in the playoff. When you're watching him every night, the thing that jumps out is his ability.


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[Assistant] To not only separate, but also elevate in like tight boxes with people in his, in his face separates him on his ability to get off a jump shot pretty much anytime he wants to. There are not a lot of guys in the league that can say that. Like guys have the handle and they've got the separation.


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[Assistant] But they don't have that last component, which is the spring off the floor to go up above guys that are longer than him and still get off quality looks. So when you add that with


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[Assistant] The fact that he just isn't phased by the moment or the pressure or the game or the situation.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you got a special player and I think he showed everybody in Cleveland what he's capable of. And now look, he's going to have moments. It's ultimately, it's going to be in his hands and there's going to be fourth quarter game defining aka series defining moments coming your way in the next 10 days. And he's going to have the ball in most of those.


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[Assistant] But now, you know, that trust starts to evaporate a little bit because you just can't ride someone too long because these games are so tight and it's so important how momentum can shift so quickly.


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[Assistant] It's, these are the big buttons that you gotta push as a head coach. Like some of them are on autopilot. Like you're gonna ride with Mitchell and Mobley and Garland. He's got no matter what they do, no matter what the shooting slump looks like, it doesn't matter. But then when you get to that secondary part of the rotation, now you might have five guys.


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[Assistant] And only three of them are going to get minutes on a given night. And that's what makes a coach's job so difficult. So, look, I think that they like his athletic ability, they like his activity, they like his energy. But man, it would sure help.


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[Assistant] For me, what's different about it is, and I think I'll ride this until my last day on the air, Madison Square Garden visually


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[Assistant] And the energy you're getting when you're watching on television is different than any other building in the league, maybe in professional sports.


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[Assistant] It just permeates right through the TV set and you feel that. It's gonna be wild. Look, they, this, this team has been built


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[Assistant] Over a period now of several years, right? And Brunson was the key piece. He solidified the point guard position and he's so far surpassed what anybody thought.


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[Assistant] He could be as a pro and they've now got an all-star caliber point guard every single night. So they now have this team, right? That's not just the team. They're thinking about, Hey, that's great. I was great. We got in or we got into the play in.


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[Assistant] They then want to go on and they believe that they can play with any of those top three who are considered the big boys in the Eastern Conference in the next round because their style of play dictates close games.


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[Assistant] So they think their moment is here. The city senses it. I was talking, did a radio interview there yesterday, and it's obvious how hype they are.


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[Assistant] Right, they, they now back in control of the series and the Knicks know that. So they're going to come out and they're going to try to hit them hard. There's going to be an adrenaline rush in the first half of this game, uhm, that Cleveland has to withstand. If they can keep it tight in the fourth quarter,


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[Assistant] All of the pressure then is felt in the left arms of Jalen Brunson, Julius Randall, and RJ Barrett. And that's what the Cavs have to do, just withstand that gut punch, stay in the game, stay within striking distance, six minutes to go, one possession game.


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[Assistant] Then that's when you have a propensity for the home teams in the cities I just mentioned to tighten up significantly.


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[Assistant] I see too many teams switch in a situation that isn't advantageous to them defensively. It makes no sense because the screen might be 30-35 feet from the basket.


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[Assistant] Unless you're Steph Curry, and even then, and Jamie Lillard, you're not really gonna pull that too often.


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[Assistant] So there's no need to be switching a ball screen at 35 feet from the basket when that guard is literally hand picking who he wants to play again. But I see teams do it over and over and over. It's an enormous part of the game. It's either ball screen or dribble handoff. I mean, that's.


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[Assistant] What you're going to see, virtually every possession in the NBA, you're going to see at least one ball screen or one dribble handoff. Most possessions you're going to see multiple. And I think because it's so prevalent.


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[Assistant] Teams have gotten away from multiple coverages because they think it's happening too often. We're going to confuse guys. So let's just go with this coverage, drop coverage, switch coverage, fight over the top and hedge. We're going to do that every time. And there's no real changes throughout the game.


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[Assistant] And that's why really, really good guards, when they start to get a feel for it, this is how it's going to be all night, you're in for a long night when guys get it going because they know it's not going to be a whole lot different coming their way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've known Mike a long time. In fact, Mike was an assistant coach just starting out cutting his teeth when I was in Washington.


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[Assistant] Uh, at the end of my time in Washington, so late nineties, uh, that's how long I've known Mike. He's just a smart guy. He's a great communicator. He has a great way of instilling confidence. He doesn't, he really works well with younger players.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so there's no revelation that he's smart and that he did a great job. I think what they have figured out there is


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[Assistant] He's right there because his work ethic, his tenacity, his toughness, you know, what he does in the weight room, what he does with his off season conditioning. These guys have all been able to see it up close and personal. It sets the tone for your entire franchise. So that was a big addition, but then it's these other pieces, all of them.


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[Assistant] Coming from other places, whether you're Harrison Barnes or Kevin Herder or Malik Monk, right, whoever you are,


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[Assistant] This has been now this incredible opportunity to reinvent yourself and pound the gavel about who you are as a player. So you got a bunch of guys with chips on their shoulders that didn't feel like maybe they were appreciated where they were before.


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[Assistant] And when you can galvanize a locker room with that kind of mentality, us against the world, everybody in here has got something to prove. Even Mike Brown, who was fired, you know, as a Lakers coach. Everybody's got something to prove, and you add the talent of a De'Aaron Fox and a Dimantra Sabonis, now you have this. And then one last component, I want to make sure this is important.


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[Assistant] You know, they took advantage of a huge, uh, a void this year in the West with guys being out.


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[Assistant] Next, everybody's talking to Westbrook about it. Next thing you know, he's coming down, he's picking up Rubio 94 feet. He committed 4,000 the first half of a game. He completely got himself, you know, wild between the ears. LeBron's not going to do that. He's too even killed. He's not going to come down to Dillon Brooks level, but what he will do


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[Assistant] You call a guy old that's still capable of being the best player every night? To me, that's actually complimenting him. Who wouldn't like to be the best at something when you're the oldest guy doing it? I think that's a compliment actually to LeBron James.


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[Assistant] So my game was a simple, Christmas-themed entry where you run about as Santa, delivering presents to all of the houses on the level without letting the evil snowmen touch you. They run straight at you but get blocked by stuff on the screen. And you can shoot them, using whichever weapon you've been equipped with for that particular level.


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[Assistant] I managed 3 stages in total, each getting faster and more difficult than the one before it. And in case you were wondering, the music used is from my dad's new album.


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[Assistant] It'll be released sometime in the new year, but right now I'm just trying to familiarise myself with the songs. And I've gotta say I've grown fond of this track simply by featuring it in this game. The rules of this competition were to make a game in half an hour and to upload a video of yourself doing it, presumably to prevent cheating.


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[Assistant] Half an hour game-making is unexplored territory for me. I've made games in 2 hours before, though I did the graphics in that time as well. Turns out that bit of it is a necessary but incredibly dull time-sync. And it's probably the bit that makes the biggest difference to how good the final game feels to play.


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[Assistant] I hope this competition isn't rated too heavily on the graphical assets, firstly because mine are rubbish, and secondly because it's got nothing to do with the half hour time element of the competition. I've been using FaceApp to age my face, making for an excellent, decrepit looking Santa. Which serves to decorate the screens, and also to add a touch of dankness to an otherwise fairly dull game file.


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[Assistant] I was also aware that, having had several weeks to make this game, other people would probably have done the half-hour coding session several times, meaning they could fine-tune their game, learn to avoid the problems associated with it, and generally to produce a much more polished half-hour game and recording than I could have done, having left it to the last minute and attempted it only once.


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[Assistant] So how do you ensure that you get a game done in half an hour? How do you pace yourself? And here's the secret. You don't. You start and are all like GOGOGOGO and you keep that up for half an hour.


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[Assistant] I've talked before about crunch time and its miraculous powers of productivity, and this competition is half an hour of that.


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[Assistant] I have extensive experience with the gamemaker, so I can do most things in it quite quickly. And I set out to have the bulk of the game done in 15 minutes so I could spend the remaining time testing and adding more, but unnecessary, content to it. At the beginning of the project you can see that I'm copying the graphics over from another game file, which is perfectly allowed, not breaking any rules there. But what was this file?


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[Assistant] Well this was where I drew the graphics, obviously, but also where I experimented with the gameplay I wanted my entry to have. I want to say that it wasn't a finished or even playable version of the game by any stretch of the imagination. It was just a place for me to test bits of the project that I thought I would have difficulties with.


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[Assistant] For instance, when Santa touches a house, it lights up. It would be more elegant just for it to change its animation when this happens. But I decided it was simpler to swap it out for a completely different model, so that I could move onto the next level once all the original house models had been destroyed. And so on.


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[Assistant] In game making there are many ways of doing the same thing, but this approach was the best for me because it was the fastest to implement and least likely to go wrong if I changed the number of houses or whatever else might happen later on in the project.


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[Assistant] And if I hadn't made a test file like this for the game, I would have forgotten stuff like the pop animation when a snowman dies. Because I don't think about that kind of stuff until I'm testing a game. And in a half hour project, by then it's too late to draw it from scratch. And also the menus. I needed a main menu, a game over screen and a game complete screen. I could have made and typed these up during the half hour game making session.