Thinking Basketball Podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome to an emergency, an emergency thinking basketball

podcast. So many things are happening in the playoffs right now that I had to wrangle up

thinking basketball's own the legend

himself, Mike De La Rosa. He's going to come in a second. We're going to talk about a number of the

series. We're going to get into some of the X's and O's, the trends, the things everyone loves about

the playoffs, the ebbs and flows, the developments. If you normally listen on the weekend and you're

like, where is Cody? We still did.

We have that show.

That show is we did that on Tuesday earlier in the week.

Cody's going to be back on Tuesday.

If you haven't heard it, go check that out.

Hopefully everything we say is relevant and has aged very well in the last two and a half days of basketball.

It's not like playing a couple basketball games, swings and changes everything.

Of course, maybe it does. I don't know. It's been some wild and crazy developments.

Mike, how are you feeling? We finally wrangled you on a podcast during these, you know,

wonderful playoff times. I'm feeling good.

I think I'm still reeling from that LeBron performance last night, but... Oh, oh, God, yeah.

That felt very epic, and then the Lakers also felt like they ran out of gas at the end.

And maybe that's a good place to start because this is a series that we've

talked about in multiple episodes recently. We've done some content on it already. We have Los

Angeles like getting blown out in game one. They come back in game two. I thought they did a

better job in game two of getting into more of their stuff offensively versus just switch hunting.

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