Welcome to the Athletic MBA Show Monday through on the Athletic Podcast Network.

This is Nerdashi Rope with your host Dave Dufour, with Mo DeKeele, and Seth Partnow.

Hello and welcome to the Athletic MBA Show. It's Friday. I'm Dave Dufour, and that means it's

Nerdashi Rope joining me as they do each and every week. Mo DeKeele and Seth Partnow, I'm

flying through this intro guys for a reason because so much stuff is happening. We're in the

midst of the playoffs. We get a second round starting this weekend. We get the first round,

potentially going to game sevens. We're going to have crazy game sixes tonight, Friday night,

we're recording this Friday morning, and we got to jump right in guys. We have too much to get through.

The first thing I want to talk about are these good teams playing with their food. You know,

when I was growing up, I was told not to play with my food because it would get cold. And in

basketball, when you play with your food, your team gets cold, and a couple teams got caught so far

in this playoffs, guys. It doesn't just get cold. Your food fights back.

And it's like, you know, at some point it's like, you mess around too much and like, wait,

am I the food? But I think the overall point is you've got to be able to hand to advance to

for runs of playoffs. You've got to be able to handle prosperity well.

If when the team is there to beat, and you got to beat them, whether it's, you put yourself in

danger, weird stuff happening, you put yourself at risk of an injury when you have to play an extra

game, you just got to get it done. Yeah, I mean, we're going to talk about them, but there's

several examples of just playing with your food across the board. And really the concept of it

is just like, you're putting yourself at risk every time you do it as everything that sets it.

And it might be just a game. It might be just, it could be as big as just the whole series

in that opportunity and those things. And things can shift very quickly in the playoffs as we've

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