It's the Lockdown Podcast podcast. I am joined by Matt Moore friend of the show friend of

myself and and I'm I'm interested in where you're sitting right now.

We are now about halfway through the bubble around there,

so, you know, the bubble playoffs,

has this lived up to your expectation. you know, bubble playoffs.

Has this lived up to your expectations? Like, you know, everything about it, it's obviously super weird, but,

but all things considered, are you, are you okay with the basketball in the entire setting thus far?

Well first of all you asked me where am I sitting and Anthony I don't know if you know

this but there's a pandemic so I'm sitting in the same place I've been sitting for the last five months so just right off the bat haven't really left at all

You know it's been better than I thought I thought that it would be really messy I

thought it'd be really ugly and the second round has been really tough and

competitive and very defensive oriented and messy and marred by reviews and terrible

officiating every single night.

But the games have really been competitive and tough and the guys have brought a real competitive spirit.

And they channeled, I think a lot of their frustrations about not being able to contribute to the

protest for Black Lives Matter and against police brutality and they've channeled, I think a lot of that energy

and just being stuck in the hotel room and like they've channeled that into the game because that's all they have like they've been pretty transparent about there's not a lot to do.

And so like that's where they commit themselves and I think that's why everything feels like these are really competitive teams are just

fighting and clawing and you can't really kick anybody off the ladder.

All of the second round series have been really close and could have gone either way in just about every game except for game one and

Nuggets clippers. All of these games were winnable for one side of the other. So overall, you know, I think it's been much better

than I was expecting.

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