Good morning and welcome back to Zach Jackson and friends. I am Zach Jackson. I'm here with all of my friends, which is none of them. We're flying solo here. It's Saturday morning. The weather is beautiful, as my friend Nate would say, spring has springed. The Browns are in rookie minicamp. The calves are back alive and the Zach Jackson and a friend podcast is back.

So I want to thank you guys deeply for helping this thing grow. And I want to ask you again to

continue to help it grow because I think there is more growth that can come. And frankly,

I think the calves succeeding and Shador Sanders mania taking over parts of Northeast Ohio can help that.

So thank you.

With that comes an apology that we haven't had one of these in a week.

You know, frankly, I had something go wrong at the house.

I had a day that I worked on a project that won't show up online for a couple of

months. And one day my attitude just sucked. I didn't want to do anything, let alone anything

extra. So that was probably tied to game two and what happened to the Cavs in a complete

epic meltdown.

But Friday night in Indy, the guys are back, the vibes are back, and the calves are back in the series.

So it was a dominant performance.

I am flying solo and I'm not going to act like I can really teach you something about basketball X's and O's and things like that.

I have covered the NBA playoffs before.

And I think what I've learned from that and what always sticks with me, even though that was mostly a long, long time ago, is that you have to be physical.

And you have to be mentally tough as well. And you know to quote my dad shit happens life's not fair other f words that i'll abstain from right now so you got to get

through it you got to make the place and i thought in game one um you know i thought the pacers

obviously made a ton of threes, but they were wide open

shots. I thought the Pacers were the better team that night. In game two, I watched every single

bounce of Game Two and never once in 47 minutes and 50 seconds did it occur to me that the

calves were going to lose that game because they shouldn't have and they weren't going to.

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