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Speaker 1: You're at the volume. Happy Tuesday, everybody. Hope all of
Speaker 1: you guys are having an incredible week. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: I was just talking in the group chat with the
Speaker 1: guys that help make this show possible every day, and
Speaker 1: I was saying, you know, I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: pessimism surrounding this playoff run. Maybe some injuries, some people
Speaker 1: saying that it hasn't been super competitive. I think it's
Speaker 1: been awesome. The first round always has a couple of duds,
Speaker 1: and we've just had a bunch of unbelievable basketball games.
Speaker 1: The Knick Sixer series has given us a bunch of
Speaker 1: crazy competitive basketball games. Obviously that Nuggets. Obviously, that Nuggets
Speaker 1: Lakers game series gave us a bunch of crazy games.
Speaker 1: MAVs Clippers has given us craziness. Wolve's suns had some
Speaker 1: wild highlights. I think it's been an incredible first round
Speaker 1: and it continues trucking along with a little bit of
Speaker 1: balance in the universe, a little bit of balance in
Speaker 1: the basketball universe. As the Sixers lost game to an
Speaker 1: absolute shocking fashion and then they end up winning stealing
Speaker 1: Game five in even more shocking fashion. We're gonna break
Speaker 1: it down from the perspective of both teams, and then
Speaker 1: I have some brief thoughts on the chrisops Porzingis injury
Speaker 1: and what it means for the Boston Celtics. You guys
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hit a couple more mail bags throughout the
Speaker 1: rest of the playoffs. So, as I said at the
Speaker 1: start of the show, now we're even right. If that's
Speaker 1: the way you gotta look at it, right, there's no
Speaker 1: no one's getting the short end of the stick here.
Speaker 1: I thought that the Sixers out played the Knicks in
Speaker 1: Game two and did it their way, kind of out
Speaker 1: executing them in the half court, and then Jalen Brunston
Speaker 1: got a lucky bounce on a corner three, and then
Speaker 1: on the inbounds pass, Tyrese Maxi may or may not
Speaker 1: have gotten fouled. Nick Nurse may or may not have
Speaker 1: been denied a time out that he tried to call.
Speaker 1: But in the ensuing chaos, Dante DiVincenzo gets a wide
Speaker 1: open three at the top of the key and sinks it,
Speaker 1: and suddenly the Sixers are going home down to to Oh,
Speaker 1: here we are in game five. The dynamic of the
Speaker 1: series has shifted. Two games in a row. The Knicks
Speaker 1: have out played the Sixers. Is something we've talked about
Speaker 1: a lot on the show. They've kind of figured out
Speaker 1: how to contain and beat in particular tyres Maxey's the
Speaker 1: one guy matchup wise that they just haven't quite figured out.
Speaker 1: They don't really have the personnel for it, which we'll
Speaker 1: get to in a little bit, but they've outplayed the
Speaker 1: Sixers for the majority of the game. They're up six
Speaker 1: with what twenty eight seconds left, and you get an
Speaker 1: ogn Ando we missed free throw, and then you get
Speaker 1: Mitch Robinson leaving his feet and Foulin Tyrese Maxi he
Speaker 1: makes a crazy shot through contact on the left wing.
Speaker 1: You go down. Josh Hart misses a free throw and
Speaker 1: then a little brush ball screen right at half court
Speaker 1: as Tyrese Maxie rises up from what was that like
Speaker 1: thirty two feet off the dribble, Just an unbelievable shot
Speaker 1: to send it to Ot And what was even crazier
Speaker 1: is like in Ot, Jalen Brunson comes in and quick
Speaker 1: skt quick gets five points. He'd kind of had some
Speaker 1: success sneak layups, like a little quick left handed sneak
Speaker 1: layups on Embiid when he would kind of turn the
Speaker 1: corner a little bit, got another one, Hull hit a three.
Speaker 1: They're up five and Philly calls a timeout. Tyrese Maxey
Speaker 1: comes right out of the time out and hits a three,
Speaker 1: And I thought it was interesting because Mitchell Robinson was
Speaker 1: way far back on that specific play, and that's a
Speaker 1: that's a direct side effect of Mitchell Robinson having been
Speaker 1: too close in committing a foul on the a couple
Speaker 1: possessions earlier when Tyrese Maxey took a pull up three,
Speaker 1: and so you know, that three completely changed the dynamic
Speaker 1: of the game into what one, twelve, one ten at
Speaker 1: that point. So then the the Sixers end up going
Speaker 1: up a little bit and Jalen Brunson gets a four
Speaker 1: point play of his own. Joel Embiid, I didn't think
Speaker 1: they were gonna call it a flagrant. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was like and be clearly gave him the facebreak, but
Speaker 1: it was like disguised enough as a swipe at the basketball,
Speaker 1: and given the situation, I didn't think they were gonna
Speaker 1: call it. Brunson goes to the line, goes one for two.
Speaker 1: Another misfree throw. Missfree throws are gonna be the thing
Speaker 1: that the Knicks are kicking themselves about if they can't
Speaker 1: close out this series. The similar thing happened to Lakers
Speaker 1: last night. A bunch of missed free throws that were
Speaker 1: a critical down the stretch of that game. You gotta
Speaker 1: make your free throws. Little execution things end up making
Speaker 1: a big difference. But Brunton comes out of the flagrant
Speaker 1: foul and beats too far back on a ball screen
Speaker 1: and hits another three ties the game up, and Nick Nurse,
Speaker 1: someone that I don't think has done a particularly great
Speaker 1: job in this series, a couple of interesting notes from
Speaker 1: him down the stretch of this game. First of all,
Speaker 1: do you guys remember at the end of Game four
Speaker 1: how I talked about those are you guys who watched
Speaker 1: the film session. I talked about how they were really
Speaker 1: struggling to keep og In and Obi and Precious to Chewa
Speaker 1: off the glass. And part of the reason for that
Speaker 1: is they were going to this like two guard look
Speaker 1: with Kyle Loau on the floor, and Kyle Lowry wasn't
Speaker 1: really giving you much offensively or defensively, and it all
Speaker 1: of a sudden gives you this too small guard look,
Speaker 1: and that's just not a smart move against a team
Speaker 1: that's so good on the offensive glass as the Knicks are, right,
Speaker 1: and so one of the things I talked about in
Speaker 1: the show is I said, I wanted to see Nick
Speaker 1: Nurse go back to Nick Patoomb in that situation and
Speaker 1: basically play all your wings and go Maxi Embiid with Batoum,
Speaker 1: with Tobias Harris and with Kelly Eubray. That's what he
Speaker 1: did down the stretch of this game, and he was
Speaker 1: able to get more stops, more defensive rebounds. Again, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna live in a rock fight, yeah, Tyrese, Maxie's
Speaker 1: gonna have to take and make tough shots. Yeah, Joel
Speaker 1: Embid's gonna have to take and make tough shots. But
Speaker 1: that's kind of the dynamic of the game anyway, and
Speaker 1: it's not like you were getting, you know, Michael Porter
Speaker 1: Junior type of spot up possessions out of Kyle Lowry.
Speaker 1: So it was worth it to kind of make that adjustment.
Speaker 1: I thought that was really smart. And then once again,
Speaker 1: once Jalen Brunson got that four point play to tie
Speaker 1: the game, they run a backcut set. They just have
Speaker 1: Uber at the top of the key and they have
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid set a backscreen. You know, it's interesting in
Speaker 1: a situation like that, at the end of a game,
Speaker 1: all eyes are on your stars and it can be
Speaker 1: like like timely set calling like that can be something
Speaker 1: that can be something that you can pull every once
Speaker 1: in a while in a big moment. I remember when
Speaker 1: I was at ACU, it was most well coached team
Speaker 1: I played for. Shout out Jeff Ruder, He's doing an
Speaker 1: absolute amazing job at ACU. And we had a big
Speaker 1: Brazilian center. His name was Matteas, guy I used to
Speaker 1: play against in Juco and then we ended up being
Speaker 1: teammates when we were at ACU, and we had this
Speaker 1: play that we were we had. We had two all
Speaker 1: American guards, but one of them in particular to leave
Speaker 1: the best player I ever played with. He we would
Speaker 1: always run him off these actions along the baseline, and
Speaker 1: then what we would do is is we had this
Speaker 1: play I think, if I remember correctly called it. I
Speaker 1: think we called it thumbs up if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1: But basically what it was is it was we'd have
Speaker 1: Matteas on the block and we'd have to leave run
Speaker 1: through like he's running to run one of his typical
Speaker 1: kind of baseline cuts, but instead of cutting out, we
Speaker 1: just have him quick set of cross screen on Matteas's
Speaker 1: man and he would break wide open on the block.
Speaker 1: And we'd throw a quick swing pass in a post
Speaker 1: entry and he'd get an easy layup. And like, we
Speaker 1: didn't run it much. We usually ran it once a game,
Speaker 1: but we always saved it for a big moment when
Speaker 1: we knew we needed a basket. And it was nice
Speaker 1: because like it was like it was almost like a
Speaker 1: cheat code. It was like we knew if we ran
Speaker 1: this play we were gonna get a bucket like eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the time, and so we always saved it
Speaker 1: for a really big moment in the game when we
Speaker 1: needed one. And I thought that was super fascinating that
Speaker 1: Nick Nurse again, with how well Tyrese Maxey was playing
Speaker 1: with all the ball screens, you're running, with all the
Speaker 1: post ups, with Joel Embiid in a huge possession in
Speaker 1: a game in overtime with elimination on the line, you
Speaker 1: run a back cut for Kelly Ubra and it works.
Speaker 1: And if I remember correctly, it came out of a
Speaker 1: time out on the flagrant too, so like they had
Speaker 1: time to draw it up to know exactly what they
Speaker 1: were gonna do. After that Knick's possession, Kelly Ubra got
Speaker 1: wide open and immediately removed the momentum from the Brunts
Speaker 1: in four point play and then finally Embiid kind of
Speaker 1: figured out that Brunson drive to the basket and got
Speaker 1: a couple of stops. Late, they got a couple of
Speaker 1: big defensive rebounds and the Sixers escape. Now the series
Speaker 1: is three to two and we're headed back to Philly.
Speaker 1: Now here's the deal. You know, the beauty of the
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs is they tend to reveal who the better
Speaker 1: basketball team is, not necessarily the most talented team, but
Speaker 1: the better basketball team, right Like, and that factor is
Speaker 1: in all these different things talent, not just star talent,
Speaker 1: but also role player talent down the roster. Look at
Speaker 1: the difference in role players in the Denver Nuggets series
Speaker 1: and how big of a difference that made in that series.
Speaker 1: Is Michael Porter Junior just being unbelievable every single night,
Speaker 1: and how they can make a huge difference, Right, So,
Speaker 1: role player talent, you're looking at coaching, you're looking at
Speaker 1: basketball character, like what kind of toughness do your guys have? Execution?
Speaker 1: All those different details are what separated basketball team and
Speaker 1: over the course of a seven game series, generally speaking,
Speaker 1: the better basketball team is going to win. Now, the
Speaker 1: margins are small. As we've talked about, there's been so
Speaker 1: many games in this playoff run that have swung one
Speaker 1: way or the other on tiny margins. But that's kind
Speaker 1: of the purpose of the seven game series. You have
Speaker 1: to beat a team four times. And the reality is
Speaker 1: is the Knicks have only outplayed the Sixers in three
Speaker 1: games of this series. You know, Game two they got
Speaker 1: out played and stole the game. Game five they outplayed them,
Speaker 1: and the in Philly stole the game. So as far
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned, like, yeah, sucks, you were this close,
Speaker 1: Like this is literally what happened when Brunson made the U.
Speaker 1: I can't remember No Duce McBride. When Duce McBride made
Speaker 1: the little high post flash jump shot at the foul line,
Speaker 1: I was like ninety six to ninety twenty eight seconds left.
Speaker 1: It's showtime. Paul's waiting for me in the zoom call.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run back and get ready for the show.
Speaker 1: And I'm getting ready for the show and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, my phone's blown up and I look down
Speaker 1: and it's all the guys in our group chat like
Speaker 1: Tyre Smaxsy, Oh my god, Tyray, Smacksie, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I thought the game was over two. We all did, right,
Speaker 1: and like, honestly that that's kind of the craziness that
Speaker 1: can happen in the NBA playoffs. But again, you've outplayed
Speaker 1: them three times, you got lucky, and you almost had
Speaker 1: a chance to close it out with that bonus win
Speaker 1: in game two. Now we're headed back to Philly for
Speaker 1: Game six, and it's at this point. I think it's
Speaker 1: interesting DraftKings has the line at minus three ninety. I
Speaker 1: think that's based on the facts that the Knicks, the
Speaker 1: fact that the Knicks have outplayed the Sixers in each
Speaker 1: of the last two games, despite the result in this one,
Speaker 1: and so they just trust them to be able to
Speaker 1: get one of the next two. Game seven at home
Speaker 1: is always going to be a really difficult game to win,
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, these closeout games in general are tough.
Speaker 1: I was worried about the Sixers in the first half.
Speaker 1: They've had a tendency to really like kind of let
Speaker 1: go of the rope when things get bad. That was
Speaker 1: what happened in Game seven against Boston last year. If
Speaker 1: you guys remember, like things got a little ugly and
Speaker 1: they just let go of the rope right and shout
Speaker 1: out to Tyrese Maxey like forget about the stuff at
Speaker 1: the end of the game, like he was. He was
Speaker 1: just so many big plays over the course of the
Speaker 1: forty eight to keep things close. One last note on
Speaker 1: the on the Sixers front, I think both teams kind
Speaker 1: of have for the most part figured out what they
Speaker 1: need to do. The Sixers finally went to their bigger
Speaker 1: lineup today. I think that's what they need to do.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about a specific offensive adjustment for
Speaker 1: the Sixers here in a minute, But like the Knicks,
Speaker 1: like the actions they're running there, the lineups they're going with.
Speaker 1: It's very clear that Duce McBride and Mitchell Robinson are
Speaker 1: like your best defensive combo to handle the maxim B
Speaker 1: two man game. I think Go'll end up leaning a
Speaker 1: lot on that in Game six. Everything's kind of falling
Speaker 1: into place at this point. It's just about who's gonna
Speaker 1: make more plays on both ends of the floor. Maxi's
Speaker 1: clearly been the best offensive player for Philly in the
Speaker 1: entire series. That just goes without saying. Embiid is having
Speaker 1: a rough series. I think he had nine turnovers tonight.
Speaker 1: If I remember correctly, I'll pull up the box score.
Speaker 1: But like it just seemed every single time the Knicks
Speaker 1: brought any sort of pressure, Yeah, he had nine turnovers.
Speaker 1: Anytime the Knicks brought any sort of pressure. He just
Speaker 1: couldn't handle that physicality, not reading the floor really well.
Speaker 1: And there was a stretch there at the end of
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter basically up until Tyrese Maxi took over
Speaker 1: where they were just running embiid post ups every single time.
Speaker 1: And like, again he wasn't reading doubles well. There was
Speaker 1: one kickout to Maxi where he hit like a thirty
Speaker 1: footer on the left wing one pass away from a
Speaker 1: double team, but like that really won't a great look, right, So,
Speaker 1: like I just think you need to lean into Maxie
Speaker 1: and he's steady, diet to MAXI, have him bead working
Speaker 1: close out situations, have him worked from the top of
Speaker 1: the key with Mitchell Robinson or Isaiah Hartenstein or somebody
Speaker 1: from the weak side closing out at him rather than
Speaker 1: trying to post him up. It's just not working super
Speaker 1: well at this point. We'll dive into some film at
Speaker 1: some point in the next couple of days to kind
Speaker 1: of take a closer look at it, But I do
Speaker 1: think the Sixers need to run more through Maxi on
Speaker 1: offense down the stretch of these games. He's just better option,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, it's a better matchup. Like Mitchell Robinson
Speaker 1: has just done a better job guarding Embiid than anybody
Speaker 1: has done guarding Tyres Maxey. Tyros Maxi just has the
Speaker 1: best advantage in this series. And Tyres Maxey too, just
Speaker 1: like this dude's just a star. Forty six points, five rebounds,
Speaker 1: nine assists, only three turnovers, massive usage, thirty shot attempts,
Speaker 1: fifty two minutes, that kind of had a funky for
Speaker 1: the throw shooting game. Missed a couple big ones, but
Speaker 1: seven for twelve from the three point line. Just an
Speaker 1: unbelievable game from Tyres Maxi. No matter what, you know,
Speaker 1: I was prepared to come on this show before Tyras
Speaker 1: Maxy hit all those shots that sent it to ot.
Speaker 1: I was prepared to come on here and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: season's over. Sixers got their issues Embiid obviously, like regardless
Speaker 1: of what's going on health wise, Like, he's got to
Speaker 1: figure out how to be more effective in the slow
Speaker 1: down half court environments. Bla blah, blah blah, But Tyre
Speaker 1: s Maxy' is a star, Like that's your big takeaway
Speaker 1: no matter what happens down the stretch of the series.
Speaker 1: And again, like I mentioned, DraftKings seems to think that
Speaker 1: this is still going the next way in a rather
Speaker 1: convincing fashion, So like like if that ends that way,
Speaker 1: the big upside here is Tyree Maxy is just a
Speaker 1: freaking star man. I think I think he is absolutely
Speaker 1: capable of being the second best player on a championship team. Again,
Speaker 1: it's just an unbelievable combination of speed and shooting ability
Speaker 1: and just all the problems that that can cause. Like
Speaker 1: it just there is a play where Embiid was posting
Speaker 1: up on the left block and crunch time before Maxi's run,
Speaker 1: and I can't remember who it was, but I think
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson poked the ball away from him and like
Speaker 1: in the chaos, the ball just kind of like popped
Speaker 1: into Maxi's hands on the left wing. And in this
Speaker 1: in literally a split second, he dusted his man off
Speaker 1: the dribble, dropped it off the ubre under the basket
Speaker 1: for a layup, and it was it happened so fast.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is just a matchup advantage that
Speaker 1: the Knicks can't deal with. Like Maxi is the ultimate
Speaker 1: superpower for Philly in this series. It's just been so
Speaker 1: fun watching him. He had a rough postseason last year.
Speaker 1: He is passing the test with flying colors this year.
Speaker 1: All right, before we get out of here tonight, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to talk really quickly about the Porzingis injuries.
Speaker 1: So obviously just kind of a funky little hesitation triple threat,
Speaker 1: a driving move where he ends up pulling up with
Speaker 1: his calf muscle. It sounds like it's a solely strain
Speaker 1: and obviously like that's a concern because Boston it is
Speaker 1: gonna need Chriss Porzingis if they if they have a
Speaker 1: chance to win the championship this year. I think that
Speaker 1: whoever comes out of the Western Conference, whether it's Minnesota
Speaker 1: or Denver or one of the teams on the other
Speaker 1: side the bracket, it's it's gonna be a really, really
Speaker 1: tough game. Obviously you're gonna get a pretty tough matchup
Speaker 1: in the conference finals. But this is where the advantage
Speaker 1: of being a dominant team over the course, So the
Speaker 1: regular season comes to your it comes to your aid
Speaker 1: here because you're gonna face the winner of Cleveland Orlando
Speaker 1: in the next round, and Game five is still going
Speaker 1: on at the time of the show. I'll check the
Speaker 1: score really quick, but I believe wow, ninety seven, ninety
Speaker 1: six or two twenty five left, So that can go
Speaker 1: either way. But regardless of who comes out of that series,
Speaker 1: going into the next round, you're you're gonna be a
Speaker 1: substantial favorite even without Perzingis. So according to Cleaning the Glass,
Speaker 1: which by the way, filters out garbage time, the Celtics
Speaker 1: played four and fifty two possessions this year with Porzingis
Speaker 1: off the floor, and they were plus eleven net, So
Speaker 1: they were outscoring teams by eleven points per one hundred possessions.
Speaker 1: Like unbelievably good offensively, like just under one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five offensive rating. Defense obviously not as good without
Speaker 1: the rim protection, but honestly, throughout throughout the regular season,
Speaker 1: I thought Boston's perimeter defense kind of ebbed and flowed
Speaker 1: with effort throughout the year, and they can always just
Speaker 1: kind of step up their perimeter defense and in terms
Speaker 1: of intensity and do better job containing the ball to
Speaker 1: kind of limit some of the issues that you can
Speaker 1: have in rim protection without Christops. Porzingis also think they'll
Speaker 1: just do more switching without Horford, and particular, particularly if
Speaker 1: it does end up being Orlando, they run so many
Speaker 1: forward forward screens like Franz Palo two man game or
Speaker 1: like even just two man game with like Jalen Sugg
Speaker 1: setting a ghost screen or Gary Harris at a ghost
Speaker 1: screen or something like that, and all those actions are
Speaker 1: gonna be actions that Boston can switch. And with Porzingis
Speaker 1: on the floor, I think teams would look to target
Speaker 1: more in like drop coverage. But I think with al
Speaker 1: Harvard you can do more switching and that'll be something
Speaker 1: that they'll lean into. But the big thing is is
Speaker 1: you should be able to dispatch of Orlando or a
Speaker 1: Cleveland without incident without Porzingis. And so here we are.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, April thirtieth. You've got the rest of this
Speaker 1: week is still wrapping up the first round. Second round
Speaker 1: is going to start this weekend, and from there you
Speaker 1: got what two weeks before the conference finals, So you've
Speaker 1: got like a hefty seventeen to eighteen days at least
Speaker 1: until you're going to end up in that conference finals
Speaker 1: matchup with whoever comes out of that side of the bracket,
Speaker 1: and so he is going to have some time to
Speaker 1: rest up, and then you can play by here in
Speaker 1: the conference finals. Like I even think without Porzingis Boston
Speaker 1: can beat New York, Philly or Indiana. So I think
Speaker 1: that there's this is the reward for your success in
Speaker 1: the regular season. You get the easy playoff path. Also,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Eastern Conference is just substantially weaker than
Speaker 1: the West, and so Boston kind of found this little
Speaker 1: lane where they can get to the conference finals without
Speaker 1: facing a really high quality opponent. And so honestly, I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about the Porzingis injury at all. The only
Speaker 1: thing that worries me with Boston is just Minnesota and Denver.
Speaker 1: By virtue of the degree of difficulty of their run,
Speaker 1: they're just playing some Minnesota in particular, playing some really
Speaker 1: really good basketball. Those teams have clear hierarchies and clear
Speaker 1: like approach in the half court at the end of games,
Speaker 1: like is just like taking all the shots and being
Speaker 1: the guy that they're leaning on at the end of
Speaker 1: these games. Boston still even in this run, and they
Speaker 1: responded nicely to their Game two lost couple of big
Speaker 1: dominant wins on the road in Miami, but there's still
Speaker 1: it's a little it's equal opportunity. Tonight it's Jalen Brown.
Speaker 1: You know. Game two, it's Jalen Brown. Game three, it's
Speaker 1: it's a game four, it's Derek White, right, Like it's
Speaker 1: a different guy in every game that is going crazy.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of like the that's kind of like
Speaker 1: the the the interesting thing with Boston and so I
Speaker 1: wonder if they run into a team, particularly Minnesota, if
Speaker 1: Minnesota gets out of the West and they just lean
Speaker 1: into this crazy perimeter defense, are they going to have
Speaker 1: an order of operations that they can go to to
Speaker 1: consistently generate quality shots. It's going to be an interesting battle.
Speaker 1: And like again, I'm gonna be keeping my eye on
Speaker 1: Boston in the next round just in terms of their
Speaker 1: level of intensity and engagement on a game and game
Speaker 1: out basis, because they're gonna need to be sharp, because
Speaker 1: they're gonna go pretty low level, pretty low level, to
Speaker 1: a mediocre level to like one of the best teams
Speaker 1: in the league in pretty rapid order over the course
Speaker 1: of the next month, and they got to be up
Speaker 1: for the challenge but not worried about the Porzingis injury.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be able to come back and
Speaker 1: make an impact before the end of this postseason. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: that is all I have for tonight. As always that
Speaker 1: sincerely appreciate you guys for supporting the show. The plan
Speaker 1: as of right now, I would imagine tomorrow morning, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get you guys reactions to Cavs Magic as well
Speaker 1: as Pacers Bucks. If there's a eulogy involved there, we'll see,
Speaker 1: depending on if the Pacers can close the deal. And
Speaker 1: then I'm currently working on the Timberwolves Nuggets series preview,
Speaker 1: and when I have that up, and i'll have it
Speaker 1: up most likely before before the end of the week,
Speaker 1: i'll let you guys know. Actually no it I've confirmed.
Speaker 1: We scheduled Adamarus, who covers the Nuggets. He's coming on
Speaker 1: the show on Thursday. Were recording Thursday, but we're probably
Speaker 1: gonna run it on Friday, So Friday morning we'll have
Speaker 1: a series preview on Nuggets Wolves as well. I will
Speaker 1: see you guys tomorrow morning for a couple more game breakdowns.
Speaker 1: The volume