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You're just getting your car to start off your morning. I spent the first hour team off on the big 10 and why I believe all college football should be played.

And I'm sure we're going to be talking a lot about that all week, but also you got the NBA playoffs that are officially underway tonight.

Really this afternoon starting at around one Eastern time. They're going to be going all day. We've got 16 teams that are left. And if you watched over the weekend, the trailblazers fought their way in as the eight seed eliminating the Memphis Grizzlies.

John Morant had a heck of a game in defeat. There's a lot of reasons for optimism. If you're a Memphis Grizzly fan giving all the injuries that they had, but the trailblazers in the nine games that they have played in the bubble have

found a way to win seven of them and all nine of them feel like they have come down to the final couple of minutes. It's one of the craziest things I've seen.

And I think the trailblazers are going to give the Lakers a challenge, especially if we can continue to see Damien Lillard playing anywhere near the level that he has been playing so far.

But I thought to start off our two and we'll bring in Jason Whitlock and get his picks on this as well as his discussion about the big 10 and the pack 12 and all the college football craziness as well will continue that discussion.

But I thought maybe I'd go ahead and give you all my picks so we can keep this. We've got the bracket challenge that is out there at Fox Sports dot com. Do you know the exact the exact link.

Dub that I can give out for anybody who wants to fill out a bracket we didn't get to do the NCAA tournament so we are doing an NBA playoffs bracket challenge for people out there who are desperate for who have bracket envy basically.

We didn't get a chance for the first time in my life for the first time in your life to fill out an NCAA tournament bracket so we have built a bracket allowing you to play for cash and prizes and I'm not even sure all the different things you can win.

At Fox Sports dot com. Sorry Fox Sports Radio dot com backslash something I don't know what it is they'll put up the link for you at Fox Sports Radio the Twitter handle there but I filled one of these out a lot of you have as well you got to get your picks in before obviously the first game tips.

But I'm going to walk you through what I see happening who I see winning and where and how I see it emerging so I'm going to start off in the Eastern conference.

The Milwaukee bucks are obviously the biggest favorite and if you heard us talking last week one of the biggest questions has been out there is what's up with the honest the guy has not seemed like he's as usual happy warrior on the basketball court he seemed angry he seemed

and bittered he just seemed like a very different person maybe it's living in the bubble maybe it's maybe it's being away from his family I don't particularly know why it is I just know that it's definitely felt that way as you've watched him play but you were watching the bucks in a series against the local team that probably is ready to get back.

I think the Orlando magic are like man we've been in Orlando we've been in this bubble for a long time ready to be done here I think the bucks win that series in five so I've got the bucks winning in five games moving on to the next round in the Eastern conference.

The other team that is playing that they will then face Miami heat and the Indiana Pacers it's going to be an interesting series but I think the Pacers find a way to get it done there then the Pacers go up against the bucks and the bucks advance to the Eastern conference final so that is one corner of the bracket not a lot of excitement there not a lot of surprises I have got the bucks advancing against the Indiana Pacers now here's the challenge in general.

It's fun to fill out these brackets but what makes the NCAA tournament fun is in a one game setting anything can happen the worst team can win somebody can be hot from outside somebody else can miss seven or eight free throws next thing you know the team that you would have never anticipated anticipated finding a way to win does that's what makes the NCAA tournament so much fun to watch the buzzer beater truly matters and it's not a lot of fun.

Seven games series it's really hard for the best team not to win now you may have some situations where there's not much that separates the two teams and it comes down to a seven game and you know that anything can happen that's why game seven is the best thing that can happen in pro sports but the challenges who actually knows on a day to day basis how many of these series are actually going to go to seven especially early on in the NBA now the wildcard this year of course is

I would think inferior teams would be even more disadvantaged by the neutral site setting because the better team I believe is going to be way more likely to win by far than the the lesser team because the lesser team may be more likely to be impacted in a positive way by what happens from their crowd especially the lesser team if they are young I don't think the same sort of situation is not going to be a good one.

So I think the other thing is going to exist with all these games in a neutral site not to mention it takes away all the uncertainty of travel all the challenges associated with that I just think in general there's not going to be as much suspense the better teams are going to win more frequently without the crowd present without the home court advantage and I think it's also going to impact the officiating I think the officiating is going to be better than it ordinarily would because officials get regularly impacted in general.

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