Hello and welcome to group chat. I am Justin Varyer and joining me, Rob Mahoney, Jay Kyle, man. We have your requisite

trade deadline slop on this podcast. We're going to talk about the most intriguing teams at the

trade deadline. We're going to talk two trades, two of them that happened over the weekend later

in this podcast episode. But we have NBA basketball to talk about, Rob, can you believe it?

I can believe it.

I don't like the way you portray our content, though.

You made it sound like we're filling up the trough for people.

And I like to think we aspire to something higher than that.

There's like some bits and pieces from like a high-end meal, perhaps. Okay. The scraps of a Michelin Star restaurant, I would say, but scraps are the glass. We're like the, we're like the bear. We've got the fine dining in the front and you can go there if you want. But we also got some slop out back if you want to come back here. We try to service all parties, you know? It's a real mullet vibe.

Fine dining in the front, slop out back, you know?

That's right.

Before we get into the conversation, a little switch up of the schedule.

This Thursday is the trade deadline.

And so we are going to record Thursday afternoon, about an hour after the deadline passes.

So no pod on Wednesday, pod on Thursday afternoon, about an hour after the deadline passes. So no pod on Wednesday, pod on Thursday afternoon. So don't fret, we'll be there for you, just a day later.

But to get to tonight's action, big old slate in the NBA.

We had targeted this game as a pretty marquee when it seemed

like the NBA did as well scheduling all these games on NBC and Peacock. It's a rare event when I

think half of a team's rotation plays these days. And so we still had something to look forward to

in this game. Unfortunately, the thunder in that third quarter just shot the lights out. And when Kaysen Wallace shoots like Kyle Corver, Rob, I think it's really tough to combat everything else they bring to the table. You make it sound as if he's not Kyle Korper. Not yet. No, I mean, look, for the last month, he certainly has not been. And it's been a weird up and down shooting season from Kaysen Wallace in general. But I feel like we have had a hundred versions of the like, oh, if the Thunder don't make their threes, their beatable conversation. And the unsaid part of that conversation is if they do make their threes, you're kind of fucking cooked, like almost every time. And this was that. Likeaysen Wallace, career high in threes. He ended up with

what, seven for the night. Amazing game for him as he's like picking off Peyton Watson in the back

court as he's playing exemplary defense. The Thunder just like wall to wall with great players, as we

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