Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

My name is Ben. Welcome back to another episode Cody we are on the brink of the

NBA finals both series are on the brink as recording this, the Celtics are up three to two in a series that I think

has been going on for five or six months and the Warriors are up 3-1 on the maps. How are you feeling right now?

Honestly, Ben, let's just start the finals now.

Let's just call it, let's just move on. I think we'll all be better after that.

That's how I'm feeling, especially with that heat Celtic series I agree with you I'm just like man can can we just end this now please please I've been I've been deep in scouting and video analysis if you haven't checked it out your

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Celtics have adapted their offense to that incredible heat ball-hocking pressure that in Miami's two wins, you know, no big deal, Cody, 19 steals in a game.

No big deal. So I've been in that mode, which is to say I have no idea what anyone else is saying about these conference finals for the last few days. I imagine some people must be asking, how are we playing every other day and will the players ever get rest?

Because the heat and the Celtics, especially like in the first quarter last night, they were, they look so exhausted. I was tired just watching them.

Have you heard anything about this? No, but I wanted I wanted to ask you about this because I don't

recall seeing two teams being this exhausted during the playoffs like you're watching it and like you said

like you're feeling tired like there's a couple of possessions like Jimmy Butler gets wide open and it's just like

it feels like he's like I guess I'll shoot this up now like you can feel the breath and I breathe with him and we're all just collectively breathing together. It's like I think we all just need to like take an extra day off everyone get away from basketball especially the heat get away from

basketball get away from a hoop far away from a hoop and figure out whatever's going on there.

Do you think Jimmy has the energy to shoot a jump shot like what do you what do you think is happening?

Because I've heard people talk about his knee obviously missed part of what was

that their win in game three, missed the second half with his knee.

So something is going on with his knee

that doesn't make him 100%.

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