Tuesday night edition of the pod, Kawaii Leonard returned tonight playing his first game of the

season. We'll talk about how he looked against Dallas, although they ended up losing in that game.

Fun overtime tilt between Minnesota and Philly and a really enjoyable game also in overtime

between the nicks and lakers. That one will spend some extensive time on. We're brought to you

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Let's begin with talking about what you saw from Kawaii Leonard in that game against Dallas,

Danny. First things first, it was just nice to see him on the court again that, you know, he is

was an MVP caliber player last year. You know, he was included in that conversation and had not played

since that spectacular first half against the Warriors in game one of the Western conference

finals. And then of course he sprained his ankle twice and then the Quad-10 apathy. He didn't look

like 100% Kawaii Leonard, you know, without I think that was in some ways the most apparent thing out

there. He was his jump shot looked good, but he wasn't moving like Kawaii Leonard and that didn't

particularly concern me though it was a reminder of probably where he was for a while before this.

If like if they were willing to let him play in, I don't know where you want to put this like 75,

60% or something like that in terms of his full mobility where he was before that, but it was still

nice to see him out there. Yeah, it was definitely did not look like him on either end. He got

winded to be sharing there's a time when defensively even, you know, as he's usually very active. He

has his hands on his knees in the third quarter. Did get up 12 shots in just 16 minutes at 13 points,

shot six of 12 from the field hit a three. We last saw him pretty early on in the third quarter

and then ever brought him back in in crunch time, which is a strategy that I actually kind of like

because you know at the end of games of particular guys are going to be going really hard him.

Leonard, this was kind of a view into what he's going to look like, you know, seven years from now.

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