Thinking basketball podcast.

My name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode.

Cody, we are, I can't believe this.

We're almost at the end of the playoffs.

It's kind of weird. I mean, there are technically,

you know, three or four, whatever calendar weeks left until we finish the finals. But we've

played most of the playoff games we're going to play. There will be four to seven finals

games left. And there are a couple games left in each conference finals right now because

as of recording this, we're on what? We always get lost with the games. We can't keep track of them.

We're on game four of the series, I think. The Pacers and Knicks are playing game four tonight.

And Thunder game five. Yep. They just played game four last night. Okay. Okay. So I mean,

I thought it would be a good time to check in.

And we've been batting some stuff around for these last couple weeks on these shows.

It has been an absolutely incredible playoffs, at least for me.

I know a lot of basketball fans are very upset about everything all the time.

But I've thought the basketball has been incredible during the playoffs. The games have been incredible.

We've got all these comebacks. So, you know, maybe it's time to discuss what we have learned

from the 2025 playoffs. Yeah, I got to say, like, especially last year, I think we were very excited

going to the playoffs. I think they started off. There were a couple really fun series, but then especially last year, I think we were very excited going to the playoffs.

I think they started off.

There were a couple really fun series, but then because of injuries, because of other stuff that was going on, it just feels like it fizzled out a little bit.

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