thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back to the craziest playoff night in NBA history in my opinion

and Cody I'm not saying there weren't some great triple headers in an afternoon one day years ago

certainly the NBA on NBC I can think of those 1995 playoffs with the Rockets

coming back against the Jazz and buzzer beaters and the Sonics are playing and the Lakers are playing and Marv Albert's calling games but last night I think last night was the first time it ever felt like March Madness,

where it was just, by the time we got to the end of the night,

I had completely forgotten that the Knicks advance to the semifinals

and apparently will be hosting game one in Madison Square Garden.

We we I've got multiple messages about you so let's just start the show with as much morning as you need to

have how are you doing today how are you feeling we're gonna be working

through some stuff today been I legitimately don't know how I feel right now like I

honestly just feel like in awe like I don't quite know what I watched like I

still remember perfectly last night the last possession where Grace and Allen dribbles out the clock and I was just standing with like I must have stood for like five minutes just like looking at the TV like that that's it that's that's the end of the game I I genuinely don't know Ben like I don't know how to process this like I I don't know what what specifically do you want me to talk about Ben there's so many entry points into this that I I can't even

handle it right now. Well I think it's I think it's time that we unpack your your

deep relationship with fandom and see how that's going and while you think about that I just want to make a point

about this last play. Grace and Alan's getting a lot of heat for you know not

shooting and euro stepping with no time left on the clock.

But in rewatching the play, something jumped out to me

from a deep basketball truism standpoint.

Chris Middleton caught it with a couple seconds left. Chris Middleton is a great

isolation score. He's the Bucks best tough shotmaker. He's made a number of big

shots in his career and he caught it and was doubled and he I'm pretty sure looked over to his

right and saw Grace and Alan and saw open teammates on the right side of the court and he said to himself I'm not passing to that guy

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