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Takeline

Bucks Take A Series Lead, Shohei Ohtani & Team USA

Takeline

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Basketball

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week on Takeline, Jason and Renee break down game 5 of the NBA Finals Bucks/Sun series (00:54) and predict who will be named Finals MVP. Later in the show they discuss the recent comments from Stephen A. Smith on Shohei Ohtani (21:44) and how the marketing of international athletes in America has changed. Plus, Jason and Renee debate whether or not they believe USA basketball can win gold at the Olympics (35:33). Finally, it’s a Takeline crew Take Survivor (50:24) with new addition, Intern Jeff! Don’t forget to smash the subscribe button at http://youtube.com/takelineshow for exclusive video clips and to watch ALL CAPS NBA. New episodes every Friday! For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/takeline.

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0:00.0

Why does anybody care what Shohei Otoni's marketing, you know, income is or or if they are

0:08.8

If this guy is hitting the ball like like a colossus, which he is

0:14.0

If he's doing the things that he's doing on the on the field

0:18.3

It's unclear to me why exactly that matters. Oh, Tony doesn't need to make sure that we can

0:23.8

Under like that we are easily digesting what he has to do

0:27.5

He's going out there and he's doing exactly what he's supposed to do. He's being baseball's most marketable star

0:32.1

He's knocking balls out the park left them right. He's a generational talent and we're just not used to that

0:38.2

Game 5 of the NBA Finals is in the books and Milwaukee has suddenly made what seems like a momentum change in this series against the Suns

1:00.8

Jason Phoenix started out hot taking a 16-point lead in the first quarter and then out of nowhere like a deer that ran across the highway

1:07.9

The bugs took control of the game and finished with a defensive showcase from Drew holiday

1:13.9

Which a lot of players in the league obviously know about Drew holidays capabilities

1:18.1

But now we're seeing it on the larger scale. How do we feel about this Jason? What are your thoughts of game five?

1:23.9

Well, this is why they got Drew holiday

1:27.6

This is why they splashed all the draft picks to get Drew holiday

1:32.4

This that game that you just saw it list of Drew has been erratic

1:37.4

I think you could say like over the postseason

1:40.7

Earlier games one and two. It's like where's the scoring? What are these some of these decisions that Drew is making

1:46.2

But he's always brought it defensively. He's just like a physical. He's incredibly strong

1:52.2

And he plays with force and I think the thing that we're seeing happen is

1:59.1

Even when he wasn't making shots earlier in the series when he when he'd

2:04.6

Get to the rim and eight and would be there and he'd miss and then the rest of his game wasn't coming together offensively

2:10.3

he's

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