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You know, the NFL you know, just like games are games. They're all fun. I mean obviously the playoffs feel a little different but in the NBA you get two seasons. You kind of regular season.

And then you get to playoffs and I as a consumer, I'm just glued. I mean, you that's fourth quarter last night. Lakers Warriors is just unbelievable sports. Joy Taylor is joining me. God, that was good last night.

That game definitely lived up to the height. It did. I told you it was going to be close. I know I lost my bet. I didn't care. You know what? It was only a few hundred thousand dollars.

So I hear a lot of this this morning. Colin Warrior should have won. They played better. Not in a second half. Since when are legacies in the NBA framed on first halves.

Talk about Tom Brady's first halves in the Super Bowl. He's never throwing touchdown pass in the first quarter of any of them. All those great Michael Jordan highlights. Those are second half highlights.

Lakers were the better team in the second half. In fact, I was I'll take a different tack than everybody I've heard this morning. The Lakers should feel great about themselves. If I had told you before the game. LeBron had his worst half.

As a Laker. A. D. was terrible. Steph Curry was on fire. The Warriors hit 44% of their threes. Yeah, Lakers still one. You know what?

Warriors should have won. They didn't. The Lakers had no juice. They they had no juice. LeBron and A. D. were just not ready to play. Dennis Schroeder played as poorly as you can play.

And they won. Listen, man, in 2021 that game could have been over for a lot of teams. We saw Charlotte the other night. They bailed at half. They just bailed at half that game could have been over at half.

Stephs on fire. Steph was easily the best player on the floor last night. And in the NBA playoffs. Now you've seen this the last four or five years as it become more of a three point shooting league.

Team blowouts are everywhere. I mean in the fight in the 2016 NBA finals. Warriors and the calves six of the seven games were blowouts. That's what happens against the best teams.

I mean, think about this. You go back to those 2016 finals. Game two. I think the calves lost by 33 game three. They won by 30. That is the new NBA.

Because you get behind your plan against the great shooter like staff. You get kind of desperate. You got to catch up and you can't hit your threes. And a nine point deficit becomes 16 becomes 28 game over half.

I mean, think about this. If you're a Laker fan, Steph was amazing. Dream on green was a major headache for a D. I thought Andrew Wiggins played really, really well. Steve curves a great coach.

Warrior shot 44 44% on threes. And a Lakers won and LeBron played his worst first half. I in fact LeBron plays poorly so infrequently. I can't remember a half like that.

I mean, he had no legs. He had no juice too much Drake. They went out the night before. So in fact, I look at the Lakers last night. I'm like, oh, this is why they should be favor to win the championship.

They did things that other teams can't do. They were great late in the fourth quarter. The Clippers, aren't.

They played great defense late Brooklyn camp. They adjusted Charlotte didn't. They played poorly for long stretches and one.

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