Welcome to the Ringer NBA show I'm Chris Vernon and joining me today is the National NBA

Showdown for the Washington Post Tim Bontoms. Bontoms.

Hey, man, how's it going? I'm doing all right. I'm getting ready to go down to the deep

South, your neck of the woods. Before you're going to the deep South last night, you were

witness to the Kings and the and the Warriors and it looked like the Warriors might just

coast into the All-Star break. Dramed my green gets thrown out of the game and then they came

out in the second half and dropped the hammer. I guess they weren't done playing just

yet and had a 22 to 0 run, which is something you you don't normally see when you head to

the arena every night. Yeah, you know, like that game last night,

Vernon, it kind of was emblematic of their entire season where the first half they just

didn't really give a crap. Like they haven't given a crap most of the season. Despite the

fact that they're 46 or 9 or whatever their record is and and then they had, you know, about

10 minute bursts in the third quarter where they started to care and it went on like a

38 to 9 run overall and outscored it. Kings at 1.22 zip over, like you said, I think about

a five minute stretch, five and a half minute stretch and the game was over and they've

most of their games this year have been like that. Obviously, you know, when they played

the Thunder the other night, when they played the Thunder all three times actually, they

played the Clippers and they played the Lakers after they lost to them. When they put the

tabs, there's been a few games that they've really been up for. But I mean, a lot of the

time, they've just kind of coasted along and and cruised to one win after another, which,

you know, has surprised me a little bit and also also says that, you know, when they get

when they get to the playoffs, you know, and they have to get up for every game, you would

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