Hello and welcome to the Ringer NBA show Group Chat. My name is Chris Ryan. I was joined tonight by

Jason Konsepcio and Haley O'Shaughnessy. Justin Varian, Palo Gettie, we talked about Game 1 of the NBA

finals. Caves lost in a heartbreaking JR Smithy in fashion. We will talk about Game 1. On Sunday

night, we will have NBA show Heat Check, John Gonzalez, Kevin O'Connor from Oakland,

recording at some hotel room or dingy tunnel in Oracle. If Kevin can get out of Oracle this time,

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Thompson, we also had the ejection of JR Smith from the Milky Way Galaxy. One of microcosm for

this Cavalier season, LeBron James, career high, one of the great scoring nights in playoff

or finals history. And he is let down by a George Hill misdefreith for a win and a JR Smith

brain fart to lose. Jason, as a, I guess you did you, it's Andrew Cruz, did you, was it a minor

in J.A. orology or was it a minor in J.A. or a study? And I majored in the effects of

Sativa on game days. I think, you know, George Hill is like, oh, you guys remember that I misdefreith?

That's one of those things where it's like the Cavs are so close, it's right there. And this is

how series is get broken in half, right? I mean, emotionally, you can't play the Warriors that

much closer and then lose it like at that last second on those dunder headed plays and still be

like, let's just bring it back on Sunday. On the other hand, like the Cavs had every opportunity

in this over time. And I know we all, we predicted that this was going to happen, that it was all

going to fall apart after that. Right. At the same time, they probably could have done a little bit

better than what they did now down eight points. So is that a wrap for the Cavs?

Like, oh, they're in Golden State. They are in Golden State, but you don't get two chances to

kill them like that. Yeah, honestly, I don't, I've been like looking at the box for it. Usually,

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