Welcome to Jurassic Park.

Welcome to another bonus edition of the No Dunks podcast.

We got the whole gang here today.

Plus one.

He is the lead Raptors writer for the Athletic in Toronto.

He also co-hosts, a Raptor's specific podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Eric Crean. Eric,

thanks for joining us. Oh, man. Blake is going to be all over me now that you snuck lead

writer. I know it's in my bio, but like we have a longstanding semi--joking not really joking feud over over that

title that I sort of gave myself well you both do great work honestly yeah Blake

is the man yeah he's great well our first question Eric it's not even really a

question at all it's more of a demand give me some raptor news yeah give me some Raptor news. We just had to get that in there.

It's a classic throwback for us. Well, I think we got to start with Norm, right? Were you guys at the game yesterday? A lot of us were down at the fortress watching Norm catch fire there in the fourth. What's going on with him? What's gotten into him? Norm last 15 games his shooting splits are, I believe, 57, 4886.

He's currently started 17 of his 32 games, but if they stay at full health, he's going to creep below that 50% starting mark.

I asked him if he wanted to make a case to participate in the three-point competition.

He declined.

Norm will, to make the campaign.

I think he would probably gladly take part, but he's not going to make the case.

He's very diplomatic in these situations.

You know, a few of you guys are Raptors fans.

I think you've probably

taken the roller coaster with Norm over the year. This is easily the most sustained,

you know, consistent basketball he's played and really at a unreasonable level. Like,

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