Ah, ah, ah, good morning and welcome, episode 9, 6, 2, of down, 2, dunk.

You can find us on the athletic and anywhere else you subscribe to your podcast go to www.theathletic.com

backslashdown to dunk to get the athletic for 399 a month. I am Luke! Join this morning by Andrew.

So I gotta say I'm just fired up to be here today. It's pretty cool, pretty damn cool.

Slime through. Taylor. Gosh, I can't wait for spring to come. I was just reminiscing about the

beautiful herb garden I had when I was growing up. Man, good times. Baby, come back.

Slime through. And J. That's J. So it's time like T-H-Y-M-E.

Slime. Yeah, Thymies. Yeah. That was a reach a little bit, but not a reach. Not your best.

Yeah, it didn't land super hard. I feel like maybe you guys didn't come with the energy that was

needed to it. You know, Luke's yelling at the beginning was maybe his worst. Here's the problem is

that he had to catch his breath in the middle of it. Here's the problem is that it's not, I'm

still getting used to the new thing and I forget it normally. I have to do it twice. And so it caught

me off-guards. I have to start yelling so quickly after that. I like noise. I'm giving you signals.

I know, but I forget. What's hard is last week you came with your best intro. Maybe a ball time.

You know, it's just, I gotta be better. You know, I gotta bring that energy every week and I

didn't. And I'll be better. I'll learn my lesson. But Andrew doesn't remind you before he plays

it the first time and I didn't have to remind you every week for like 10 weeks. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, of course, with 99 and 11, 12th in the Western Conference. Not bad enough.

They beat the Houston Rockets, 1487 on Wednesday night, which was just a strange time of

basketball watching. They currently sit at bottom 10 in both offensive and defensive ratings still.

I guess they're not bottom 10 and defensive rating according to basketball reference. They're

12th worst. Oh, God, that's getting better, isn't it? It's gotten a little better. Oh, no,

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