Ladies and gentlemen, I'm back, you're back, we are back, I'm back from my little excursion in the Rocky Mountains,

climbing some 13ers, 13,000 feet little mountain peaks out there, crazy that they still got snow all the way up in there.

But it was a fun time. It was an outstanding time. Thought real clearly, got all that done. But we got a game two to talk about today.

We got an NBA game two to talk about today that I am very interested in because the Clippers got to split these two.

And look, yes, Phoenix is definitely the favorites in this series, right? Quai Leonard, there hasn't

been an official update on his knee. It seems like maybe gamesmanship. It's just an odd situation.

Seems very doubtful that he's going to

return and be in his full self this series. Now you have to worry about Marcus Morris, the Clippers.

Although he's off the injury report, Marcus Morris tweaked his knee, has not played

significant running back-to-back games. In the last game, he had to check out and not play

most of the second half. And with Marcus Morris out in that game, the Clippers said to go to more

traditional lineups, more traditional lines, meaning traditional centers and not small ball. They couldn't

afford to have Nicholas Batum or Paul George out the five. It just didn't work as well for having

certain shooters on the court. It meant when they tried that small ball lineup, or Rondo on the court,

that didn't work out too well. So you saw more Zubach.

You saw more to Marcus Cousins, who in 13 and a half minutes of play was solid for about one and a half of them and then brutal for about the other 10 as he was minus 12 in this game.

And as he had five personal foul, just a walking foul. No mobility. Not the same boogie cousins

that you're used to. This is a totally different guy after those injuries so they're not going to be able to go small ball when or if marcus morris is limited in this game but he's off the injury report

so i'm thinking that it's not that significant of an injury so right now i'm projecting marcus

morris in for 32 minutes which might seem low still trying to give something to the fact that

he hasn't closed out three of the last four games and there's something going on with this knee of his. But ladies and gentlemen, fellows, fellows, that's a big piece of

news in terms of the injuries that happened in that first game. Let's start to talk about the rotations

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