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And, yeah, I mean, Vassell is kind of quietly one of the โ when he's going, the Spurs are just โ
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They go to another level, I think.
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We haven't even seen Harper.
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We haven't even seen him tap into this stuff.
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I thought Fox picks his spots really well.
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You were talking about people outplaying each other.
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I was pretty fascinated that the Klingon-Cornet thing feels like a pretty... They're not always going head-to-head, but the fact that Cornet outproduced Klingon in this game I think is kind of a damning thing for Portland, too.
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At the heart of this, I think you were mentioning the driving game.
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I don't feel super good about it either because the numbers on that aren't great either.
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Driving right, they were .7 points per possession, and that's just kind of like โ a lot of the shots that they were getting were kind of settles from like 10 feet.
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You know, Denny kind of ran over a few times and got to the rim, but I thought Cornette did a pretty good job containing.
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It's just โ if that's going to be โ if that's โ
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Coming into the series, what I expected to be the problem, kind of the core problem that San Antonio would pose for Portland.
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I don't know.
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It seemed like they had a little more success moving Wimby somehow, getting him to pay attention to the first drive.
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But he's pretty clever about that, too.
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So I don't really know where they go from there.
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What were you going to say, Justin?
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Yeah, I think Scoot, this will sound like condescending, but I don't mean it this way.
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I mean, he means well in the team sense, I think in a way that like for comparison, like Shaden, Shaden is just like, I'm going to shovel through my own creation.