This is Nerder, she wrote, with your host Dave Dufour.

Are you ready to be entertained?

And Seth Partnow.

Hello and welcome to the Athletic NBA show.

It's Wednesday.

I'm Dave Dufour here with Seth Part Now in Modickeel, so that means it's

Nerder. She wrote, Seth is getting himself prepared to go for a sound bath sitting

next to the pool on vacation day after his birthday. Happy birthday, Seth.

Happy birthday, Seth. What did you do for your birthday? Did crunch more numbers is it like what's the what's the analytics way of celebrating the birthday uh i had in and out for lunch and steak for dinner already winning and out for lunch with boba tea with boba tea in between this is one of the rare times we're all in

the same time zone yeah i know really i should have let me do the intro because i do it so well

when we're all we're all you've been fired from that yeah you've been you've been fired from

that whole idea of doing the intro even Even if you were hosting, we'd have

somebody else do the intro. Yeah, I'm going to pre-record next time I'm out just so you guys

don't have to deal with that. Guys, we're in the doldrums of the NBA season and especially when you

compare to how kind of wild and fun the men's and women's

NCAA tournaments have been it kind of stands out right now not that the NBA quality stinks

like actually we're still getting pretty good games but man it's some of these games rough. I'm pushing back on this being the doldrums, man. We had some great games just yesterday. Like, no, like this is, we've had some real great stuff and all this. I know it goes, it gets a little bit pushed behind because of the tournament, but still, like, we've had some really good games. Like, I'm not, I'm not ready to see it. The Wizards have won three games in a row. That's, we're at that point of this. I mean, it's going to happen, but like, you know, it's still like we've had really good games, man. I think we need to. Some of the marquee games have been good. Yeah, go ahead.

Well, I think we also need to make a distinction between, and this is, you know,

the games have been entertaining, but it's sort of we're at the,

we're at the marking time until the playoffs because,

and I think we're going to talk about this is like you know it's how much does

any one individual game matter at this point for larger stuff versus um you know other things

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