Let's talk about some NBA playoff basketball all three playoff games from today

We will be talking about and let's begin with the series that my podcast partner John Holland Jorn Duncan called the least

interesting series

non-nets and magic division

It was not the least interesting series today this game was beautifully flawed

But featured some unbelievable exhibitions offensively. I couldn't have enjoyed it more

It was it was fascinating to watch this from our perspective because I

Vasilated between just delight and awe at some of the shot making and stuff that was going on and just

incredulity at what was facilitating some of that and I thought I think that the whole the whole thing all fits together and so

The incredible performance of Donovan Mitchell in this game

57 points 19 of 33 from the field 13 of 13 from the line also 6 of 15 from 3s is pretty damn good for him and

I he was he was awesome and

Take nothing away from him, but a part of the reason he was awesome

Except about eight seconds. Yeah, we'll get there. We'll get there

But a part of why he was so awesome was Denver running maybe the worst pick and roll defense

I can remember seeing on this kind of a stage well

And I don't know that it was necessarily

Scheme based as just more personnel base and

They we had talked in the preview about how what they were gonna do

They do this all the time is because of Nicole Yokech's weakness as a pick and roll defender

They bring him up to the level of the ball try to make the ball handler get off the ball

And then you try to scramble around behind the plane

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