Welcome to the morning shootaround here on the Athletic NBA Daily's YouTube feed.

We've been doing this for a couple weeks now.

It's just a time for us to get together and chat in a more long-form way, engage with the chat, and just to hang out,

honestly. It's just a good hangout time here. Every single Wednesday, you can join us here on

YouTube live. We would love to chat with you. So with me, I'm Andrew Schlecht with me. I've

had Dave DeFore. Dave, how you feeling after last night? Good. You know, I thought we were going to have like,

I don't know, weird game two for Pacers' calves. And then, I mean, obviously the injury thing

really through a wrench in the night because, you know, you go into it thinking,

okay, well, the Pacers should just blow them out, right? The talent advantage was so clearly

on the Pacer's side. And then they come out so flat and it allows us to get just an absurd

finish. I mean, had the Pacers come out serious for the first half of that game

we don't get the epic conclusion so thanks to the pacers for coming out flat but finishing strong

i still can't believe it i still can't believe that happened i mean that's that's two nights in a row

like you have the aaron gordon shot yeah ac that happened right in front of my face and then you have that we had the nicks come back

the other day the nix was insane this has been um an extremely it well no lead is safe in the NBA

yeah but now it just seems like we have more guys

that uh that that step up yeah right like more clutch players right now um which is hard to argue

against that hard to argue against that man i can't remember a time where we had this many like

it feels like March Madness.

It kind of does.

That's the parody.

Yeah.

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