Welcome to Down to Dunk. I'm your host, Andrew Schlect. We are part of the athletic

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So with me today is my good friend Alex Spears. Alex, what's up? Good morning. Good morning. The thunderloos

to the Blazers last night in dramatic fashion. They stormed back after being down big.

And then Dame had his own little storm at the end where it was honestly breathtaking to

watch him play like he did.

Dort played him perfectly.

Got right in his face. Had his hand right up there. Didn't matter.

It didn't matter. There's just some, there's some players, and we've seen lots of these guys at Oklahoma

City, that it just doesn't really matter what you do or how you defend them. They're just going to

get buckets. Yeah, it was cool. And after the game, I was watching

like the Blazers post game and they were interviewing Dame and asking them about what happened at the end. And he was like, yeah, we were in that timeout. And I was like telling the team, okay, we got to make one last push. But honestly, in my head, I was thinking like, I have to do this. it's time for me to take over right now.

And like, I don't know, he more than, I have to do this. It's time for me to take over right now.

And like, I don't know, he more than any other superstars,

just very open about talking about what he does in Kluftime.

I mean, he named it.

He named it Dame Time.

Like, and he's totally cool with referring to it as that.

You know, like I feel like some other players would kind of push it to the side,

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