Hey, yeah, I feel like Kobe in a fourth quarter.

This is the Daymore NBA podcast.

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It's April 22nd.

Game 3 of Wolves Nuggets is Thursday night.

And the plan for the episode today is to discuss five keys to the rest of this series.

And to do that, I have Kyle Taiji here with me.

The two of us, we haven't done a pod together since before this series began.

As soon as Jaden McDaniels said what he said about the lack of defenders in Denver,

I immediately thought like, can't wait

to do a podcast with Kyle. Yeah, you ready? Yeah, I just want to say, too, as a friend and as a

business partner, but also as an avid listener, I think this is 10 pods and 10 days for you about

Nuggets Timberwolves. So again, I'm sincere here before I start letting it rip and swearing a bunch. We appreciate all the work you do and we appreciate as a company, like all the people that support us and head to falling knife or check out Treasure Island or anything because I have been on the road. I know you took yesterday off a little bit, but we're back on the grind today. And this is the first time.

I want to throw this to you quick and then we can do our five things.

This is the first time you felt real life this season covering this team.

You know what I mean?

Like the cool thing, if I can do a quick 30 second bar on social media is that all season it's like infighting you know it's like

a civil war between like timberwolves twitter or it's like a family gathering we're all just

kind of bitching at one another but then you get to the playoffs and you kind of galvanize and it's like

you know like we all might dislike each other's takes and shit, but there are takes.

And you're not coming in our takes.

And like the Jaden thing kind of put a bow on it. But like Wolves Twitter, Wolf's Nation, whatever platform you're on, like, we're all back. And it felt, I mean, the juice, it was so nice to have an extra day between two and three, just to kind of let it marinate. but this is why you do a lackluster 82 game season is because right now, one, one, going home, we talk about how important the regular season is. And then this team just says, bleep it. We're just going to steal home court. And now they have it, right? Like this, I've, this is the happiest I've felt around this team. And it could go either way, right? I mean know if you saw this but the nuggets are still minus 280 to win this series like I think they've become like

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