Thursday night edition of the DuncTime basketball podcast end of the week apologies

We did not get to the Twitter NBA show today because direct TV took six hours to install my direct TV after an appointment window

Between eight and twelve became twelve thirty and then they took six hours. It was too late for us to do it

But we'll be doing Twitter NBA show tomorrow for what's actually some superior games sponsored today by our friends at wish

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We're gonna go over the two TNT games Portland Lakers and Golden State San Antonio and then get to a few mail-bag questions here at the end

Good evening Danny good evening and this ended up being two interesting games interesting for different reasons and

Do you want to do a little bit of news first not much because the other ones we can do in the context of the games themselves?

Yeah, I think we should

What we got here Tristan Thompson is gonna be out for a month with a calf strain that happened during last night's game

It was a weird circumstance because it didn't he was contesting a shot

I believe it was and then he was kind of it was trying to get back on it or he was after a basket and was on an inbound

And he just went down it looked off

They had to help him off for couldn't put a ton of weight on it and we've talked about Cleveland's defense being an issue

And we're gonna talk about it tomorrow on the Twitter NBA show, but without Tristan Thompson

It's so much harder yet is he's probably their best defensive player on a night-to-night basis

Maybe you could throw Jay Crowder in that mix to LeBron not there

Of course in the regular season from a defensive standpoint and Thompson Tom Havishar

I had a great point there. He of course is always very interested in these rust fatigue issues Thompson

You'll recall was an iron man for a long time and then it was dealing with a knee issue in camp

And now is gonna miss this time and you mentioned now

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