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Welcome to Hoops tonight here at The Volume. Happy Thursday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having a great end to your week. Got a jam-pack show for you guys tonight. We're going to be covering game two of the Eastern Conference Finals from the perspective of both teams. Jackson is back. So we're going to have a mailbag at the tail end of the show. So if you guys have any questions from anything in any of the series, drop him in the chat. We'll bring Jackson on and we're going to have a, I have some thoughts on this game, not a ton of thoughts based on a lot of similar storylines that we saw in game one. So we'll break down the game for, you know, 10, 15 minutes and then we'll do kind of a longer mailback today. So if you guys have any questions, anything you guys want to get into, drop them in the chat. We'll get to them at the tail into the show. You guys know the Joe before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel. So you don't miss any more of our videos. If you're already subscribed, like this video and sign up for post notifications. That helps us a lot. All right, let's talk some basketball. So I, I'm going to start by telling this particular story just because I think it is very relevant to what happened in tonight's game.

So I had a really cool experience this morning.

I got the opportunity to go on the Zach Lowe show, which anybody who's a basketball fan knows that Zach is literally the best in the business.

So it was an honor and a

privilege to get the opportunity. And as you can imagine for a guy like me who's been a big fan of

Zach as long as I've been and just someone who's looked up to him, I think he's an incredible

role model for not just people in our business, but also just like as a person. He's just a great dude if you've

learned anything about him. And like just getting to be on a show was just a really cool experience

for me. But obviously it was just this super fun like the hoops, talking hoops for an hour

session. That was just a blast. And we did a deep dive into the Western Conference finals, which again, if you guys haven't checked that out yet, you can find it on Netflix or on Spotify, wherever you get your podcast.

But at the tail of the show, we spent like 10, 15 minutes on Nick's Cavs.

We won't go too long just because we knew game two was tonight.

But in that conversation, we discussed a lot of that late game chess match.

And Zach, right at the very

end of the pot, like literally in the last 90 seconds before we called it a night. He goes,

he said something along the lines of like, I wonder if this Josh Hart thing is going to be like

the Isaiah Hartenstein thing where we talk about how in game one he's unplayable and then all of a sudden

he's just a monster in game two and we were way too quick to write him off and that turned

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