Welcome back to the Thinking Basketball podcast.

My name's Ben.

Cody, we are going to talk about some basketball today.

How you doing?

Oh, man.

I'm doing really well.

We have a couple of games to talk about.

I don't know if we ever do too many gamers.

But with our docket today, we got to the point where all of a sudden we have some playoff implications. We got some cool games to talk about. And I'm excited to dive into a couple of these. We're not doing gamers. We don't do gamers here. I'm not doing gamers. That's not happening. So we're scrapping it all. We're coming up with a new topic on the spot. There's no Odyssey trailer. So honestly, I have no other topics to bring up. Might as well end the pod now. Okay. Well, I have an apology. I have a correction to issue. I love starting the show by issuing corrections. Okay. It means I actually learned something in the last seven days or eight days. When did we last record? It's been a long time. Don't worry about it. Here's the correction. It's very important.

I watched some basketball games and I've decided LeBron James should just be an All-Star

this year. And the excessive perseverating over the strengths and weaknesses of these players

as they go into the playoffs.

I betrayed my own rubric from our sub-all-Star podcast a few weeks ago when I talked about

the Pascal Seacum nature of playoffs, playoff performances and all the things that happen

in the playoffs that are really important, right? Do you remember this?

Yeah, absolutely, definitely.

Yeah.

And we had, what do we have?

We had physical strength.

We had IQ.

We had communication.

We've got size, right?

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