We're back. We're back. It's a deadcast. I'm Drew. That's Roth. We have a special basketball-knowing guest star today. It's Giddy Nathan. Hi, Giddy. Hey, hey, hey. Wow, it's Giddy. That's me.

Just the right level of fired up enthusiasm we love.

Ready to fucking dunk a ball off a trampoline.

Let's tamp that energy level down a bit.

Let's get it down to a manageable level.

Guinea is here because in Deadspin fashion, we preview the NBA playoffs as they're going on,

because we're too lazy to get to them before they begin.

Albert Bernico wrote a wonderful two-part preview that's posted on the site,

that I'm almost finished reading, and we'll get around to finish reading June?

I'll say June. Yeah, by the finals, you should be good. It's that classic Albert experience where you're not just enjoying the analysis, but you're enjoying, like, sort of the stage directions of him being like, well, you just wrote 1,200 words about the Pistons. How is this going to end? It's always really exciting just as sort sort of a meta narrative in the story.

Anyway, Giniy, you joined us at just the right time because last night the Golden State Warriors played game two against the LA Clippers in Oakland.

They lost that game.

They blew a 31-point lead in the second half.

They were outscored by the Clippers 85 to 58 in the second half. In the second half, and Roth, I can't believe Roth, you stayed up for the whole goddamn thing. It's me, the good smart boy, making the decisions that made me famous. Yeah, I'm going to like probably be napping for a lot of the back half of the deadcast. But Gitties, you're in good hands. Yeah, I took a little nasal decongestant this morning, which had had me hopped up for the next several hours. It was fun. I mean, I had made a deal with myself in terms of going to bed. And, like, just because it was so lopsided and shitty until most of the way through the third quarter. And then at some point, It was like 16 points and it was 14 points and like my wife is away on business.

And I was like, who's going was 14 points and like my wife is

away on business. And I was like, who's going to stop me from watching the, you know, whatever,

seeing how this ends. And then like, yeah, at some point it became clear. It just would have been

dumb to go to bed. Were you drunk? You know what? It's not about that. I was not incapacitated, but it was definitely the sort of thing where, you know, at some point you're like, well, if you're going to be awake, like I should put a fresher ice cube in this drink and then make sure that it doesn't get too warm and then, yeah, the next thing you know. Honestly, the reason I checked into the game, I was about to go to sleep and then I checked Slack and you were like musing about Patrick Beverly.

And I was like, is this sleep, and then I checked Slack, and you were, like, musing about Patrick Beverly,

and I was like, is this Roth just going off on a tangent, or is this an actual game? And it was like a three-point game at that point. So I'm really glad I saw that. Beverly was, yeah, it was definitely, I woke up this morning to see that was like 1.11 a.m., the classic time to get some thoughts off with your coworkers.

But Beverly's been so... up this morning to see that was like 1.11 a.m. The classic time to get some thoughts off with your co-workers. But

Beverly's been so

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