Welcome to the Ringer NBA show. It is a Tuesday and every Tuesday I'm joined by Kevin

O'Connor from theRinger.com. Hey Kevin! Yo Chris what's going on? Alright so last night

we had the massive Cavs Warriors game showdown number two. I think there was an expectation

that this would matter a lot more to the Warriors given what took place in the finals and

then obviously on Christmas Day and it seemed like it did matter a lot more to them last

night. That was a I don't know I could see the Warriors you know it mattering a lot

in them winning. I don't know if I saw a drug incoming though. Yeah I definitely didn't

see it going the way it did. I mean they just came out guns blazing the entire first half

and I can't get over the fact that they had 37 assists on 46 made baskets. That's just

ridiculous. It's not often you see a team assist on over 80% of their makes. In some

ways watching last night's game for the people who came into this NBA season thinking

oh it's over it's going to be the Warriors. They're going to win the title no matter what.

Last night's game they see that they're like yeah the Warriors are who we thought they

were. Do you think it matters? Do you think last night's game matters in the grand scheme?

No. No honestly not not really. Things change in the playoffs right minute distribution changes

we'd see we'd see different light ups in the playoffs. We'd see game to game adjustments.

Last night for example and Jonathan Charx wrote about this on the ringer how the Warriors

were aggressive in their switches. They put like Zaza, Petulia on LeBron James and it worked

because it forced LeBron into isolations. But in the playoffs in a potential final series

we'll see Cleveland make adjustments to that. In the next game they may attack that switch

a little bit differently depending on how the Warriors defend it and then the Warriors

will react to that and that's how the playoffs go. So does it matter for the regular season

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