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Hello, welcome to Group Chat. This is the special edition, the Thanksgiving edition of Group Chat. We're doing a little potluck action. Big wise, Rob Mahoney, gentlemen. Thank you for joining me on this festive occasion.

The greatest holiday of the year in our, in our, in our, it's completely centered around food and comfort. I don't know what more you could possibly want.

So we would comfort family, you know, yeah, it's the best. I mean, I might argue that those are aspects of every holiday and what we have with Thanksgiving is just dinner.

Is it anything special in addition to that? I mean, Christmas is not about family. It's about, you know, commerce, tourism and price couging and $700 flights to New York.

Maybe I'm just talking about my own personal problems and that the problems of Christmas itself.

I just want to show up and eat or make my food and eat without the pressure of having to buy other people gifts. That's what I want.

Okay, that's fair. I love this. This egalitarian ball finds energy style of holiday tidings we have here.

So this is the potlock. We've done this once before a couple years ago, but the stick here is that everybody is bringing to the metaphorical table.

One team they want to discuss one player and then one take. Let's start with the team portion.

And let's start was with your man on the New York streets, just POV on the New York knicker boxers things have been a little dicey lately, but they did win last night. So where are you on everything? Where do you want to start with them?

I hate to be the bear of bad news guys after a five and one start. I'm basically convinced that the nicks are a playing team.

There's six in the conference right now. There's at least four teams behind them that I think are going to leapfrog them.

Sixers box, obviously, the hawks. And I think I'm missing one more in there.

What I think is going to leapfrog them, but like, you know, they're 10 and eight right now. They're about to play Brooklyn, the hawks.

They got a crazy schedule coming up. They're about to be something like 10 and 12.

You know, they're playing as well as they can, right? I think they updated upgraded their talent in the offseason.

They're a more well-rounded offensive unit this year, but the defensive magic has kind of run out.

There's 17th in the defensive efficiency right now. That's not going to cut it for a group that relies upon Julius Randall for consistent high end offense.

I just, I just see it as a play in team. I know nicks fans because I know a lot of them. We're expecting a lot more, especially after the way they came out the gate.

But I'm not seeing it for them. And, you know, much has been made about the starting lineup, just thinking up the joint in recent weeks.

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