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And it went down exactly the way I said it would, It's not too late, Mace. Come on. Exactly. Brian and I are in our tuxedos. We're on the boat. We're playing B.C. How about them, Apple? I was feeling good. Yeah, feeling good. No, it's a great win. You haters, you Emily Hebel, Steve Mason, you non-believers, what's wrong? Come on.

Jump on the bandwagon.

Here's the thing.

If you told me no Durant, I'd have put money on the Lakers.

Their offense is so, as we saw, their offense is Kevin Durant.

It appeared to be no offensive game plan whatsoever. But if you think about it, logically, if, okay, if you take Kevin Durant off the rockets and you take Luca Donchich and Austin Reeves off the Lakers, the rockets are still the better team. Yeah, but we were, we were picking with Durant in there. With Durant, I think it's a heavy tilt. If Durant plays tomorrow night and most people expect him to play, who wins tomorrow night? I would imagine, uh, I would imagine the Rockets. What is wrong with you? Come on, man. It's, we, oh, are you kidding? We have Luke Kahnard.

Let me just point something out here.

We have DeAndre Aten, making eight out of ten shots. Come on, man.

But the Lagers can play much better than they did in game one. If I told you one team lost

the turnover battle, 20 to 13, the same team lost the rebounding battle, 44, 35, lost on the offensive boards, 21 to 3.

Wait, man, say that again.

Offensive rebounds were what?

21 to 3 and missed nine free throws.

I'd say that's the team that lost the game.

And instead, the rockets are terrible, like we talked about last week, terrible in the half court. And even worse with no Kevin Durant. Did you also notice? I know you were out to dinner. Yes. So I don't know how much of the game you actually saw. By the way, we ate at 445 so I could watch the game. It was a 4.45 dinner.

Well, that's earlier than early bird. That is like really old people dinner time. If you missed the first quarter, the Lakers could not miss. Yes. At one point. I was listening to you. At one point, they had made 12 of 14 shots. Yep. And they cooled off a little bit towards the end of the quarter, but I think they ended up shooting something like 78% the first quarter.

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