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That's all you need from campaign is just give you one of these games in a playoff, and for him to do it on his first, he's ahead of schedule.
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You may have already burned. I don't know how many campaign games you have. He won a series.
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Yeah, no, Tobias Harris had his best playoff game ever.
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It's not easy to play in Philly, I guess. I don't know.
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Yeah, he had zero points.
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That's awesome. Desmond Bain with a minus 51. That's an insane plus minus.
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That's not what you're focused on.
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No, there's no way they let Philly win. I just hope they let us keep our pick.
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You just said, if this team is healthy, there's no way they lose. And then I said, you're not worried about the Thunder? And you said, absolutely not.
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We did go guy for guy. I would like to judge the guy for guy. It was closer than you thought.
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They're not in my conference. But the way this conversation started was you were like, there's no way this Celtics team is losing if they are healthy. That's a fact. I was like, you're not worried about anyone?
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And you said no. And I was like, you're not worried about the Thunder? And you said no. I'm not worried about anyone. So that is zero respect. It's an easy way to get killed.
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You said there is no way that this team loses.
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No team has done jack shit until they do jack shit. Last year, the Celtics did not do jack shit.
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But going to last year, the Celtics haven't done jack shit.
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Which is a lot easier to do than the Western Conference.
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But you talk about the Celtics like they're this five-time dynasty. They've won one finals.
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But do you know how hard it is to repeat? Yeah, I do. You're looking at this like it's a foregone conclusion. I'm just happy you're winning the NBA Finals. It's called confidence.
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I did. My whole NBA playoffs is anti-Selting. That is my NBA playoffs.
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I think your problem was with the AI.
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Yeah. Oh, no. Right? I've had some issues with the AI recently asking a question.
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No, I've seen nothing, but I've asked the AI, like the Google AI questions, and I've gone to other people telling them that that is the answer. Okay. And then being made looked a fool.
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So it was the AI that was wrong. The AI was wrong.
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Fuck that AI.
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I also looked it up. According to DraftKings, the Thunder have a better chance to win the West than the Celtics do to win the East.
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Just saying.
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You're Pug's boss.
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We could go to a field.
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Yeah, we've got to find a field with a fence.
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The circumference is 16 inches. Yes. For our podcast listeners.
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Yeah, actually, no, that'll work. That'll work. That'll work.
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Would you want me to pitch against the Cubs?
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I'll be there. I don't know about other Philly trash.
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Knee's feeling good, thanks. It's been almost a year, so it should be good after this long. But, yeah, I know we're excited to get started. It'd be fun to be back up on both legs for the playoffs again.
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Jalen Hurts plays way better in championships.
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Well, I mean, I don't necessarily have a new strategy, but what I have noticed is how many times people actually start coming your direction. Your radar is much better now when you realize that you could be taken out at any moment in time. Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, sitting in the second row, I could yell a little bit louder. So I'm not, they could, they couldn't really tell where it was coming from sometimes.
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Yeah, I think much, much, much of the credit goes to the guys. Just figuring it out over time, understanding what they had to do, sacrifices, roles, rotations, being ready to kind of change and adapt as the season was going along. The biggest thing was... was really our offense. Our offense was struggling out of the gate.
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We had a lot of turnovers, ball was sticky, spacing issues, the normal stuff. But you got to remember, we made that trade literally 48 hours before we opened up training camp. And Julius came into training camp still nursing the very last, you know, kind of remnants of a shoulder offseason shoulder surgery. So we really didn't have him for much of preseason training.
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Anyway, so it took us a while to kind of figure out, you know, how to best play with him and around him. And once we started to do that early to mid-December, you know, I could feel like the team getting better, the momentum building better. You know, maybe we wouldn't weren't always getting the results, but it just felt a lot more like the team that I knew we could become.
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Well, I mean, it was fun being on JJ's podcast, but I don't remember talking about much other than JJ.
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We might play up on the underdog story, but it won't involve me. I assure you that. One thing that in the NBA, nobody cares where you've come from. No one cares what you've done before. We all got here through different channels. All that matters is you know what the heck you're doing and, you know, you're fighting for your teammates and, you know, guys have confidence in that.
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Yeah, I mean, Rudy Gobert is just so impactful on both sides of the ball. I think, you know, Rudy – He's a very polarizing player in the league. But, you know, having been with him now for three years, like, his value cannot be overestimated. It's just so important.
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to everything that we do you know he brings it every single night you know and it it takes it takes a while for for guys to learn to play with Rudy where you can really maximize him and he can help you so he would certainly be up there I mean we have so many guys that are just so important to our success you got Mike Conley I mean he's just kind of humming away in the background all the time
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Just super steady when we need him to step up and do more, you know, more of scoring. He does it easy, seamlessly. Jaden McDaniels just kind of just took another big step forward for us this year. I think his growth and becoming a legitimate two way player has been very, very important. yeah, it's really hard to just single out one guy. We've had so many guys with great seasons.
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Nikhil Alexander-Walker has been in many ways our most consistent guy from day one this season. Both sides of the ball just really settled into his role. It's fun to watch him kind of become the player that he's become after some early struggles in the league, which is not unusual for a lot of guys who come in the league with a lot of expectation and and put a lot of pressure on themselves.
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It takes them a minute to figure it out, but since he's been with us, it's just been such a joy to watch, and he's been so important.
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Well, of course, it's, you know... if we had an exact Luka replica, we'd probably be a 70-win team. So nobody can go out and replicate these players in practice. But Joe is extremely intelligent. He's an unbelievable pick and roll player. You know, he understands like all the different coverages that
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a team will try to employ and he can understand how to try to manipulate that or take advantage of it. So, you know, it's, it's, it's what we've, you know, we're fortunate enough to have him in a lot of ways. His leadership has been great for us and our young players this year. He hasn't been on court as much as we thought when we did sign him, but that was before the trade happened.
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And we got Dante and we got a little deeper as a result, but all that being said, Joe has a, incredible amount of experience and he can bring that to our preparation.
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Yeah, I think we're going to leave Luka alone. Okay, all right.
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Well, I think, you know, yeah, there's certainly you're dialed in to another level of game plan preparation. I think sometimes in the league you play a game might be a back to back. You're playing on a quick turnaround. You have your base defense. You know what you're trying to do and you make the adjustments might be small. you know, might be nothing super radical.
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And I don't think you go into the playoffs being radical either, but you do have a week's worth of game planning preparation and you can go through a lot of different scenarios, whether it be plan B, plan C, you know, that kind of stuff. You become a lot more matchup focused, I would think. And also you just, you know, you try to take things away, right?
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Um, and you put a lot of time and energy and effort into that. So there are some pretty big differences. I would say that is one of the huge advantages of, you know, avoiding the plan is that you have a week to kind of maybe reinvent yourself along certain lines.
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Yeah, that's a great question. I think that strikes at the heart of what playoff coaching really is. Certainly, you've got to be ready to make adjustments, willing to make adjustments. But sometimes, you know, you've got to just do it better. And so that's a feel thing. It's kind of like you'll know it when you see it sometimes. And
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you there's a lot you know in the playoffs there's a lot of outside noise everybody's talking about you know game one and what's going to happen with game two and there's so many extremes and you know everyone thinks what's just happened is always what's going to happen again uh it's just not the case you know i think one thing that kind of stands out when you see a lot of the playoffs in the modern era is you'll see a lot of blowouts in the playoffs you never used to see blowouts in the playoffs 25 30 years ago unless it was a
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won eight series, you know. But, you know, now you'll see a team that's favored. They might get dumped by 20-plus points one night. You know, so I do think that, you know, there's, of course, a reaction, overreaction cycle that goes on here. And the last thing I'd say about adjustments is that you've got to be able to make them because – You've got to be able to execute them.
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You have to have it in your arsenal. The obvious thing might be to, let's say, switch everything or not switch something or go zone. You have to still be able to do it. Your personnel has to lend itself to be able to do these things. So it's not like you can just go out and do things that your personnel is not capable of delivering.
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or systematically you can't be that radical and change everything. Or you're not going to be very good at it either. So it's kind of a balancing act there.
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Yeah, that's the choice we make coming into a lot of these games, whether it be playoffs or regular season. It's really hard to stop star players. It's hard to take them out of the game completely. And if you do so, of course, you're leaving other things wide open. So you're daring other people to beat you. And some of that is – I think that goes to a different level in the playoffs.
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I think there's – you'll see a lot of that, just guys who are – quote unquote unguarded to, to, so we can, you know, uh, put more time and attention to the star player or take away something that team really is trying to do. Um, but we also have the benefit of like measuring efficiency.
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Now it's in game and we can, if you're going to give 30 points on 27 shots, you know, that generally that's a good, that's a win for the defense. Um, as long as you're not fouling at a high rate, too. So, you know, it takes a mental toughness.
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I have a great admiration for a lot of these players, like Jaden McDaniel's types, who gets that matchup every single night, you know, who's got to go out there and battle, and it doesn't look like he might win, you know. We played...
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Denver this year and you know of course Jokic had 61 on us one time the time before that he had 36 but you know in the 36 point game we felt we had done a really good job on him so and that was largely Rudy's matchup that night and we didn't do a lot of doubling and we didn't do a lot of gimmicky stuff so it was just him and Rudy and you know sometimes it's just about a war of attrition can you wear him down and hopefully they miss one of the shots at the end
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No, I haven't actually. We actually say let's get down big and race back and forth and it'll be exciting for everyone.
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Well, I would tell you this. We just lost a game to the Milwaukee Bucks where we were up 24 to start the fourth, and we lost in the fourth quarter. And that was far more excruciating than being down for three quarters and winning. So that's the league today, though. You know, these – Massive swings. I think that's what makes the league super exciting right now.
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Not just the style of play, the pace of play, the three-point shot. I love the fact that the league has let more defense come back in. I think that's also aided in a lot of these runs and these big swings. So, yeah, I think it starts with defense. Of course, you never want to be down.
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But it starts with your defense, and if you can play defense and get stops, you can turn any game around now with the pace of play and the three-point shooting.
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Uh, that's a good question. I would say we're probably better, uh, blobs. Okay. Okay.
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I love that.
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Yeah.
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well you know it's funny you say that because every year we do this you know we we have plays that we uh hold back uh for special situations and then maybe you never get to those special situations and they're really really good plays so you'll go the whole season and maybe never run it but one time so we've started rethinking some of that we figure like we might as well run this stuff just at any old time because if we feel it's good it's uh you know we might as well try it
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Have you seen the All-Star game? It's pretty easy to get a bucket. Yeah.
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Yeah, I think there's, of course, I believe in the long too. It's part of the game for sure. I think there's definitely a time and a place to use it. You know, when we talk about shot selection with our guys, we have built in kind of that shot in certain contexts. What I would say is that, like, you know, you got to make a lot of them to be really good.
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And with the number of threes that are shot in the league right now, it's just hard to keep pace sometimes if you're just going to live with the twos, which a lot of teams are willing to do defensively. So I always tell our guys, you know, when it comes to hard shots or whatever, like, You can make that shot. No one's denying that you can't. It might be at 45%, which is pretty good.
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It might be at 50%, which is great, but most likely it's in the low 40s. It's just really hard to make a living on that shot. You just got to be so, so good at it and such high volume just to counter what's going on at the other end of the floor more than anything else.
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I mean, it's more of a feel thing. It's a look thing. You can tell. Since I got here, which was in the midst of Ant's rookie year, You know, you could tell I remember his first 40 point game, which was against Phoenix shortly after the All-Star break. It was kind of an awakening for him.
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he has incredible confidence in himself and his ability to to to go out and do his thing always has even before he had figured out how to do it largely but once he started to kind of figure it out you know he's he's always had this incredible sense for the moment within a game of like knowing when to take over and it could be defensively too and then he gets on these mini runs and he could turn a quarter or turn a game around
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in a heartbeat and it's it's pretty cool to watch you you know kind of know when it's coming because you can feel it he makes a few momentum plays for himself or his teammates and uh that's one of the things i think you know he's learned a lot in those in these few early years he's you know he's way more thinking the game than he had early on um i do think
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One thing that I've always let him do is I've coached him hard. We've held him accountable, coached him hard, but we give him an incredible amount of freedom to figure it out. And I think that was the only way he was going to learn. You know, if he went into a super –
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know overly structured kind of patterned environment i'm not sure that that would have benefited him early on uh if he went into a system where there was a ton of like off-ball movement and cutting and reading and all that kind of stuff i'm not sure that would have benefited him early on like now he understands that but but just kind of giving him a big platform to to do his thing and what was most comfortable for him allowed these moments that you're talking about to come about
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Yeah, no doubt. Some of those don'ts to have a front row seat for, I think most of them have happened right in front of the bench too, which has been kind of cool.
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Yeah. In practice, he'll just take over part of practice. One thing we preached to him when he was early on was like, if you want to be the best player on a team, you got to you got to prove it to your teammates in practice. That's where if you can dominate a practice, you just take over.
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You know, he's not dunking on everybody in practice, but he'll, you know, when we go live and we're playing and the competitiveness is there in practice, you know, which is we don't often go live at NBA practice once we get out of preseason. But during preseason, he'll definitely have these days, you know, in a row where he's setting the tone and he's letting everybody know how good he is.
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No, that's kind of a losing battle. I'm not sure you're going to win that one. I think what's important for us this series is for us to stay super focused on the game, leave the officials alone. That's the coaches and the players included.
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Well, the word bozo got me thrown out of the game. What was the context? It was that offensive, but yeah.
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Oh, God. I was actually having a sidebar conversation with Bradley Beal, and the official kind of overheard it.
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Well, after he threw me out, I think I had a few more words for him. But, yeah. But that was kind of it, you know. But, you know, all these things, they all happen in context. And sometimes I always find after the fact, I always think, you know, what were you so angry about? How did it get to that point? You have these kind of reflective moments where you're a little ashamed of yourself. Yeah.
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NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, Timberwolves HC Chris Finch, Playoffs Are Here And We Have A Thunder Fan Refusing To Wear The Shirt
Yeah, I think we all reserve that right, and we've all done that. I'll probably use that less about the flow of the game, more about protecting the players so they don't get one or they don't get super frustrated or they know that somebody else is fighting the fight with them.
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NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, Timberwolves HC Chris Finch, Playoffs Are Here And We Have A Thunder Fan Refusing To Wear The Shirt
I'm trying to think back. It was cool, pretty cool. He and Mark Lloyd came in. They talked to us before practice one day. Just trying to think. That was way back in kind of the COVID, still the COVID period after. And so it was just kind of limited. People were around the team at that point in time anyway, but Yeah, they've been great.
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NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, Timberwolves HC Chris Finch, Playoffs Are Here And We Have A Thunder Fan Refusing To Wear The Shirt
You know, they've they've had a really positive impact on the energy of the team. One thing I really like about Alex is, you know, having played high level sports, you know, he understands what like a winning environment looks and feels like and. those cultures. But yeah, he's not a basketball guy, so he doesn't walk around pretending to know basketball, but he's super inquisitive.
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NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, Timberwolves HC Chris Finch, Playoffs Are Here And We Have A Thunder Fan Refusing To Wear The Shirt
He'll ask a lot of questions, ask a lot of really good questions, and he wants to be educated. Very, very appropriate. Mark's similar. Mark's the same. Mark's really, really smart. He loves the numbers. He's into analytics. He builds his own models on Whether, you know, trades or draft, you know, all that stuff.
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NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, Timberwolves HC Chris Finch, Playoffs Are Here And We Have A Thunder Fan Refusing To Wear The Shirt
But he's not questioning us about pick and roll coverages and substitutions and rotations and all that. So they've been really, really pleasure to have around and, you know, look forward to the future with them.
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NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, Timberwolves HC Chris Finch, Playoffs Are Here And We Have A Thunder Fan Refusing To Wear The Shirt
No, man. I think he's probably right. You know, it's... This is pretty easy. We just throw up any old person that we think so can do the job out there, and we just kind of go from there.
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NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, Timberwolves HC Chris Finch, Playoffs Are Here And We Have A Thunder Fan Refusing To Wear The Shirt
Yeah, I was disappointed that we didn't have those in the rotation this year. But, hey, if you want to hear a good one. So, Chris Finch, idiot. I'm sure it's out there. You just probably didn't look hard enough. When I was living in England, I lived in England for about 10 years, and that was at the height of The Office, the British version of The Office.
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NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, Timberwolves HC Chris Finch, Playoffs Are Here And We Have A Thunder Fan Refusing To Wear The Shirt
And one of the characters there, who was Todd Packer, like Todd Packer's equivalent, the outside sales guy, his name was Chris Finch. So that was some fun years because he was basically like the village idiot in that show. And so everybody kind of latched onto that and tried to rope my name into it.
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NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, Timberwolves HC Chris Finch, Playoffs Are Here And We Have A Thunder Fan Refusing To Wear The Shirt
Okay, appreciate it, guys. Thanks, man.
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NFL Draft With Daniel Jeremiah, Timberwolves HC Chris Finch, Playoffs Are Here And We Have A Thunder Fan Refusing To Wear The Shirt
Take three. Now. For what? You keep three. Okay, I'll keep three.