Thinking basketball podcast.

My name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode.

It is March.

We are careening toward April and the playoffs.

And I'm slightly sleep deprived today.

I have no idea what is going on in my technical settings are all off.

No one wants to hear this.

Cody, how you doing?

Good.

I mean, it's March, like you said.

We're down to the last, how many days are left now?

We're not quite two weeks away, probably like two and a half weeks to the play in playoffs type of stuff. I don't know about you, Ben, but I find this to be the, I think I said this last time and I was like, hey, this is kind of the time of the year where I start feeling like the season should be shorter. And there's one person in the comments that was like, I don't know, they were like,

hey, this is one of those things I look forward to so much every day.

Like, I feel almost like happy for you that you can step away from it.

Now, I got to say, I appreciate that level of sicko-dom that you're still like, yes,

the end of the year, March, this is the regular season I like to watch because I don't know about you, but I am certainly ready for the playoffs, like more than ever. Like, let's get this going, Ben,

let's just go. Well, my head's spinning in March. I don't know what, I don't know what to make

him anything. Like, take the Lakers. In the month of March, the Lakers were like, are they actually very, very good? Is their defense very good?

They had the best defense in the league for like an entire month block. And now we're still in

the month of March and the Lakers, are they falling apart? Is their defense falling apart?

Now, we talked about their defense a few episodes back, and we've done some content on it,

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