Alright, we are back, had a good all-star break, some good travel, and some bad travel,

as my attempt to drive back from Salt Lake City on Friday left me with my car in Reno and a flight

from Reno to Oakland. So, I'm gonna go get my car at the Reno Airport at some point, but

I need to get back because we were doing the strategy stream yesterday, and so now we are ready

for a 1560. It's been quite some time here, and we normally would be doing the East, but because

there are a lot of great West games, and also I saw one in person I really wanted to talk about

on Thursday. We're gonna go West this week, we'll get back to the East. And what I saw in person

that I don't really want to talk about, but we will talk about in Warriors Rockets. But let's start

with, I mean, to the part of the fun of the all-star break, because you get to see these teams

hopefully closer to assembled, and you actually ended up kind of stumbling into one of the

better games that we've seen in these last few days, and that's Oklahoma City against Utah.

I'll start with the stats on the Oklahoma City Thunder. They are 28 and 31 on the season,

5 and 7 since the last 15 and 60, plus one net rating, which is 12th in the league. I believe

there's something like 5th in the NBA since December 1st, which is striking. 15th in offense,

11th in defense. We've talked about that at times. Raptor and Elo actually a very big divergence.

More in terms of the seeding rather than the number of games, Raptor projects the Thunder will win

37 and Elo 40, and that has a huge difference in their play off odds. Raptor 8% Elo 43%.

Yeah, 8% seems too low with Raptor, given where all these other teams are. And I think you just

maybe they are not adequately accounting for possible variation when you're only three games out.

Yeah, there are a lot of teams, but those teams could kind of shake out it in just about any order.

But in any event, the Thunder had been playing extremely well. Their offense had been top 10 for

the last few weeks as well. And we talked about this with Charlie Rope from the NBA that the

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