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Coming up, the Cavs win streak is over.

The West playoffs is just a mess right now.

And we're going to make some March Madness picks.

Good morning, everybody. Good morning, guys.

Hope you had a good weekend. Morning. Yeah, it was great. Lots of basketball.

Did some skiing.

Selection Sunday kind of took over television for a few hours.

Yes, it did. Look, I was out there trying to, like, asked, trying to watch the Raptors and the Blazers, and I kept getting distracted. Clearly. Happy Marks, Matt. Listen, man. To Monik Mara, no. No. Yeah, no. Guys, let's talk about the weekend a little bit. We're going to use this as an opportunity to catch up ahead of the

playoffs. We're actually a month out. We're 28 days away from the play in on April 15th. So it's

good time to take a look at the playoff races. We all kind of know the East, the top three is

just locked right now. It's going to be the Cavs, the Celtics, and the Knicks in that order.

That's the order for the East at the top.

And the Cavs, they did just have their 16-game winning streak snapped by the Orlando.

Imagine we've been talking about them a lot as, you know, Orlando is struggling quite a bit since they lost Jaylen Suggs.

This is a pretty big win for them.

But for the Cavs, like, it's a little bit, this is a

loss that's similar to some of their other losses.

Orlando was very physical, kind of got them out of their game a little bit.

Yeah, when a team can just throw a ton of bodies at them physically with, especially

against their guards, they have a tougher time creating

dari scarlin tried his best in that fourth quarter with a bit of a run himself uh but they just

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