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It is a pleasure to have you in the first round is great. This this really is I know sometimes you know everybody's saying this is the greatest and that is the greatest but

Boston Brooklyn that series is not gonna last long because the bottom of the east the middle of the Eastern Conference is pretty weak

Washington doesn't have much of a chance against Philadelphia. So but with Donovan Mitchell's hell

You know he was supposed to play and didn't play last night the number one seated jazz

Lost at home. That's a real series Denver Portland. That's a real series Dallas beats Clippers

That's a real series and the sons are just Devon Bookers to talented

Chris Paul's to talented that's good. There's gonna be some legs on that series. So out west

These are really good opening round playoff series and I'm not a huge fan of seven game first round playoff series

Steph and LeBron played last week got a huge rating because there's urgency it was just a plan game

So joytailers joining me, but I do think there's a couple of Eastern series which are gonna be you know

They can be over quite we know Boston without Jalen Brown

They're just they just don't match up with Brooklyn that that things over fast. We know that right?

Well, you just can't keep up with the scoring came I mean obviously defensively you'd like Jalen out there too

But you lose someone like Jalen Brown and you've got Kairi Katie and Harden on the other side

You just can't produce the amount of points, but there is and it is refreshing. You've got you know

It's funny Devon Booker was really good for Phoenix for years

But he needed somebody to kind of lead him into stuff and then he's got Chris Paul now and Chris Paul couldn't shoot in a second

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