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wearing it appears to be like Saint-style helmet and then that guy in the middle Hank said was him. Yeah as the football player But yeah, I love grit week. I love being on the road. Do you know why he said it was him? He said because he's holding it is left hand. That's what he said He's holding the he's holding the big mallet in his left hand. That's what you're also holding a hammer in your left hand big

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Yeah, I'm ready to roll love being on the road with the boys and we have an awesome interview with coach Bela check coming up But before that game seven the Cleveland Cavaliers advanced. We're actually recording this while of the fourth quarters going on So let me check the score real quick. Yeah, we're a lot to a little for a long time It was they're down 30 it was it was uh, yeah, what's the current score? 108, 70, 110, 80. So congrats to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Congrats to Dan Gilbert, who did an all-time owner move, shipping 25 busloads of fans. Instead of the George Soros playbook. It's pretty nice. Yeah, he's stuffing the ballot. And it was, I mean, the Cavs like they just were so much better in this game. The series Friday night thought thought the calves were going to close out at home. Beball Paul had different, different ideas. He was incredible. But this was, we've found the antidote for big game James James Harden, game sevens. It's just simply have Evan Moby, uh, Donovan Mitchell, Sam Merrill and Jared Allen all play out of their mind. The Mitchell played awesome in the first half. He was controlling the offense when he was getting to the rim. Sam Merrill seven for nine from three. He was either scoring five from seven, hitting somebody for a dunk. Uh, it was just, it was, it was dominant from the gaffer. This series, is it fair when we call the series a mid off?

So I was talking, I was actually hanging out, we're talking about it earlier. I think we just need to come to grips and we haven't seen the next play in what feels like forever. Yeah. I think it's okay to just say that in the NBA right now, and the next might throw this theory off because they might just be better than what we kind of expected. A lot of teams are just okay,

and that means they can all beat each other,

and then there's okay see in San Antonio. Yeah. That's kind of what it feels like where it's like both of these teams have flaws. Both these teams did okay things during, you know, the pisses out of very good regular season. But at the end of the day, they both they they like, if you just keep playing the series forever,

they'll just keep exchanging wins back and forth. And the pistons just don't have enough offense. So we knew that kind of going in to buy his Harris. That's got to feel good, Max, bad, bad. That's another win for the sixers. Still waiting for him to make a bucket tonight. Still waiting for him to make a bucket. He had a stretch there in the playoffs You had like 20 points. Yeah, it looked okay a bunch of games in a row and then it just is falling off a cliff

But yeah, it's, I mean, the calves, we were, we were having this discussion last week when we were asking memes who he wants to play and he wanted to play the calves. He wanted to play the calves. He wanted to play the calves. the calves and my counterpoint was the calves. Well, I think the next are going to win. The calves do still have players that are very good. And the pistons have Cade Cunningham and then some guys that can chip in, but maybe not a consistent basis. Whereas the calves have, I mean, like, don't even Mitchell can go off. James Harden can go off and then Moby and Jared Allen can be very good. So Max Truce, dog. I think this is the progression of the pistons along the way is like, what were they two years ago? I said it the other day.

They won like... and be very good. So Max Truce, dog. I think this is the progression of the pistons

along the way is like, what were they two years ago?

I said it the other day, they won like 16 or 18 games. Oh, they were so bad years ago. So years ago. Yeah, so just two years ago, they were just dogs shit. They were really, really bad. And then last year, they made the progression against the mid. This year, the natural progression from that is, let's take the regular season super

seriously.

Let's win all the games that we can get a high seed, then they get to the playoffs and

it's like, oh yeah yeah when you play against better teams the flaws are more easily exploited. So then going into next year you would think that they would continue to adjust the roster and then maybe be a more serious playoff threat. Next need more scoring. Yeah this might be it's a step in the I don't I don't know if

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