thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back to another episode. We are done with game one. I don't know why I said it like

that. Like the series was over or something. We we made it through game one in the west, game one in the east, they did not disappoint.

We've got, we've got, we've got to figure out what we're going to talk about today because we've got some bigger fish to fry, but I do think we have to we have to stop and sort of go back and

just discuss the glory of these two opening games I'm to let you decide where you want to start because

last night we had the Jimmy Butler experience back in Boston. Who could have seen that coming?

No one could have foretold a Jimmy Butler game one and then

we had the I mean maybe the best three quarters of offense I've ever seen a basketball player play

from from Nicola Okeich and offense I've ever seen a basketball player play from

from Nicoli Okich and then the Lakers were like,

we have Ruy Hachamura, we're gonna try him.

And they made like seven threes and almost won the game is is glorious Cody how are you doing what do you want to talk about?

Well you come out and you say we have some fish to fry or something like that and we don't know what we're going to talk about like you said said, like this is a fish concert. Like we're coming out here. No sheet music prepared. This time to just jam out for a few minutes and see what happens. Fish the band, Phil Lesh, PHI S-H. Yeah, that's exactly it. Like Red Rocks type of concert. We're going live today.

Let's start with that Heat Celtics game. Ben, I want to ask a question that I've seen, there's like two camps right now there's the like

Jimmy Butler is a complete and total genius Eric Spolstra might be the greatest coach

in any sport that's ever existed but then there's some people that are like but also the heat aren't missing from three and that explains like everything that's going on

What's going on like with this game with their success is it like is there something going on that's magical and

mystical between Jimmy Butler and Eric Spolstra or is it just completely

explained by their three-point explosion?

Cody I'm gonna read you a tweet from Bucks Film Room on Twitter. Okay? It's from

Bucks Film Room. They do a lot of breakdowns for the Bucks. You may be familiar with

them. The five stages of losing to the Miami Heat in the playoffs. Stage one is denial.

They can't keep playing like this. Stage two is disbelief. How do they keep playing like this? How do they keep making all these shots? Stage 3 is anger, right? We get to the anger stage of the five stages of losing to the heat. There is no way that the heat should be playing like this.

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