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162 Michael Porter Jr. and Duncan Robinson. We've got a Denver Nuggets player and a Miami Heat player. We recorded last week on Thursday afternoon with Michael and our recording this

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Tuesday night now that the heat have defeated the Celtics and we have the finals matchup set. Pretty good.

Pretty good finals. What are you? You did a you did a a game seven recap on Monday night, which was pretty succinct in terms of sort of the initial thoughts.

Is anything changed in terms of you thinking about this over the last 24 hours about this matchup?

Nothing is changed for me. Look, there's a couple of a couple of wild cards to me in this series.

Number one Tyler hero makes a difference. Third leading score. I know he's been out since game one of the Milwaukee series, but he makes a difference.

We saw him in that 2020 run when they made the finals in the bubble have a number of big games closed closed out a couple games that they won during that run.

So if he's back and the reports as of today are targeting game three for return back in Miami, that could make a difference.

And one thing I said the other night and I went back and looked today at some late season statistics for the heat.

I feel like we're talking a lot about this fluke three point shooting. To me, it's more that their shooters have returned to their norms for their career.

And for a large chunk of the season, roughly 80% of the season, they didn't shoot the ball well over their last 18 games of the regular season.

They shot 38% from three top 10 in the league. They were a top 10 offense in the league. We know in a given matchup, Eric Spulstra will play around with defensive schemes and the zone, which I'll talk about in a second.

So I don't know that and I don't know that this is as big of a fluke as some people are making it out to be.

And I would also say this in terms of the heat advancing.

We had a bunch of charts and graphs and data all season and the year that kept coming up when we were talking about parody this season was 1984 1984 was also the coincidentally.

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