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Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Lockdon NBA, the daily podcast covering everything you want to know about the association and on Wednesdays I'm your usual co-host Jake Madison, a of the Lockdon pelicans podcast.

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And I am the host of Lockdon Phoenix Sons.

My name is Brendan Clean.

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She's subbing in for John who is covering the Washington Wizards versus Boston Celtics game.

We'll get to that in the second segment of today's show and we are going to focus on the playing tournament.

So before we jump into this first game,

Charlotte Hornets versus Indiana Pacers,

which was not particularly fun, let's say,

with a final score of 144, 117.

Brendan, what was your feeling on the Knights games just anyway?

Did it feel kind of different because it was the playing tournament?

It definitely had higher stakes. I mean, I've been thinking about this a lot in terms of, I guess the only reference point I had was the MLB wild card and that situation. I mean football is always one game right so I was going into it feeling like it would have that that mood that that vibe I think it kind of lived up to that I mean we'll talk about Charlotte right here and and maybe not in their case but you saw I think some of the things I was expecting veterans you know well coached teams kind of rising up superstars will kind of willing their team to what they needed to do.

So in that way, I think it felt like a game seven

or like an MLB wild card game.

But yeah, not every team felt that way, I don't think. No, certainly the Charlotte Hornets didn't and this was the game that I thought felt most kind of like an NCAA tournament game like a March Madness game

where like you don't really know what's going to happen going into some of those I think where you have the Indiana Pacers who kind of limped into this game to a certain degree there were rumors of where they going to fire their head coach, Nate Bjorkin, at the end of the year.

Like, this was a team that I don't think we felt very confident in.

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