Hey, what's up? This is Ryan Rassillo from the Ringer podcast network and Spotify, the

plan for today. Logan Murdock is going to join us. We're going to talk some hoops with him.

I got the flag of three off the top of TV. You may have forgotten about who's been

terrific lately and then life advice at the very end, including construction and modeling.

So to my big, big time, uh, areas of expertise. So that's the plan for today.

Yeah, like we said, off the top Logan Murdock in a very short amount of time here with life advice.

Let's start with the flag or three.

It is towards the later part of January and do you know who your number two seed in the Western

conferences? Well, it's the Utah Jazz, a team that is now 10 and four, a half game behind the

Lakers. They're head of Portland in the division. They're head at Denver in the vision.

Again, no one cares. I still can't believe Oklahoma City was actually 500 earlier this

week with like one of the first point differentials in the league. But Utah's the story here.

They started four and four and since that time, they won six straight. They beat the Pelicans

last night. They beat the nuggets where they didn't even play that well in the game. They

turned the ball over. They missed a million free throws. They smashed the hawks postpone

against the wizards, destroyed the calves, beat the pistons by 10, beat the bucks by 13.

And they were just they were just straight up better than they here. The bucks we kind of

feel like we're over. We'll get to that in a little bit. But the bucks are still, you

know, really good record and all that kind of stuff. But Utah has won these six games by

about 15 points on average. Um, they this year are ninth in offense and sixth in defense

efficiency. Last year, they were ninth in offense, but they were 13 in defensive efficiency.

So they had a big drop off her team that prior to last year, kind of built their identity

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