Man, oh man, does it feel good to be back to be doing what we love watching basketball talking about real live basketball

Doing the NBA cast for four hours today. Of course, we're doing that live league pass game tomorrow

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But I don't sell promotion here. Let's talk about some basketball between the LA Clippers and the Lakers

And we'll get to Utah and New Orleans in our second segment. It's funny because there is this

If for me there's this natural inclination to avoid overreacting because it's just you know about the tropes that everybody gets into

But I do think that there were some real takeaways from this that not like how it changes the way I feel about it

A seven game series a couple months from now if these two teams for to wear off and yes

Sounds sign me up for that right now

But a couple of things that I think where I want to start is with LeBron James defensive intensity

I thought that especially laid in the game in those big moments

He really relished taking on those assignments and whether you know there was that play which am I agreed whether or not

It was always him doing everything he had a lot of effects out there. Yeah, absolutely

I think I would even expand that to the whole game

I thought he started off with pretty good defensive intensity

I mean they're not gonna beat this team unless he can bring some level of intensity against Kauai Leonard and Paul George

And he really did that now

Maybe that hurt his offense although he did deliver late in the last three four minutes as he did in their showdown in March

But yeah, I think that was really fantastic and you know

I would be hard press to find any times

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