You are locked on the nb a lot of the nb a part of the locked on the nb a part of the

locked on podcast network NBA, part of the week. This is Lockdown NBA. I'm Anthony Irwin. I am not joined by Adam Morris. He is on an island. We were trying to figure out which island he's currently on. guest Ryan Morton who does social

for Phil the sword thinks he's on Yolich Island I think he's on

regular season matters island it well it doesn't really matter he's he's living life way better than I currently

am I'm sitting in this dingy studio trying to try to talk basketball with somebody who is going to spend the

majority of the podcast laughing at the pions who don't have

LeBron James on their team. Ryan, how you doing? I'm good. I appreciate the chance to Preen and yeah you know I have I have bones to pick

I can allow the allow the airing of grievances to begin I can imagine. Allow the airing of grievances to begin. I can imagine. So the way today's show is going to go, we're going to talk about whether, like if we should rethink the way that we analyze the regular season heading into the playoffs,

given the way the playoffs have played out to this point.

Then we're going to talk about the Caves and Celtic series specifically.

I'm sure Ryan has his thoughts on how that'll play out. And then I'm going to we're going to preview

Golden State Warriors in Houston Rockets, but through the prism of who Ryan would prefer to see and I'm sure we'll give

our thoughts on how that series will probably play out there as well. Make sure

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All right, we'll start here.

Heading into that Raptor's Cav cav series the consensus to me seemed like

all of the regular season data is pointing us in this direction and yet it's still the Toronto raptors in the playoffs and yet it's still the Toronto Raptors in the playoffs and yet it's still

the LeBron James calves in the playoffs and it is still LeBron James going

against the Toronto Raptors as you were watching it take place like did you just spend all of the games laughing at the people who overthought that that that form of the analysis

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