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There's so much going on inside of this association.

Monday night turned out to be one of the craziest nights in recent memory. Geron Jackson had six steals in the first quarter. He had six steals in the first quarter. That is insane. That's not even going to make the podcast. That's how good the scoring. That's how good the performances were. It reminded me, we got to talk about something.

I've been meaning to talk about this.

There's a lot of people right now that are older than me.

To think that the NBA fucking sucks right now.

They think that it's worse than it's ever been.

And I am here to tell you, no, it is actually the opposite.

We are now living in the golden age, the renaissance of scoring.

It is become, and it's not because nobody plays defense either.

It is because the players themselves have turned themselves into cheat codes.

If you saw Joelle Embede any time this season,

you will know exactly what I'm talking about.

Old Head's like, yeah, nobody hustles, blah, blah, blah, nobody bangs. You don't even remember what it was like in the era of magic and bird, blah, blah, blah.

We don't care about that.

Look at Nicola Yolkich and Aunt Edwards and Lamello Ball and Donovan Mitchell and Kevin Durant and M.B and so, so many more.

Their footwork, their ability to get to the rim, their ability to have counters on their counters to score,

their abilities to just figure out a way to maneuver their body.

It is so much fun.

Look at what has happened in the last five days in the NBA.

Tatum went off for 38, 11, and 5.

Jalen Brunson went for 41, 8, and 8.

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