We are loaded today. We get the first round of the draft in the books Book of McFarlane from Vegas. We got Matt Ryan. Now the

started quarterback of the culture to get some story time with him as well and I'm going to talk about the NBA playoffs. Some of those series wrapping up last night and life advice.

The OGs of my NBA podcasting history will remember that we actually used to do the Gorean chance for some of the top performers at times. People seem to like it. It's been a while.

But I thought it was. It was needed. It was needed after history being made. And Chris Paul's perfect game six against the Pelicans. Let's run through it. The Suns move on.

Lucky Pelicans team. Very tough. That's not really the story here though. Chris Paul 14 to 14 from the floor. 33 points. Ad assist five rebounds. The most playoff points without missing a shot. Most playoff

goals without missing a shot. And he absolutely carried this team. If you think of his. He had 19 points on the fourth quarter of game.

One and in game three. And he was needed last night because look the Suns were down 10 at the half to the Pelicans. You're like, this is actually going to go back to game six. We knew the booker was back. He clearly was a little limited. Hit that huge shot late to the left side.

Eight was terrific. But still there's always this moment with eight and where I just worry about him a little bit with the basketball on his hands. He needs to be strong with it.

But Chris Paul once again showed why I have defended him as much as I have. Now if you look back at his recent history and some of these closeout games. Let's take a look at the last three closeouts.

Game six against the Clippers 41. Eight assists for rebounds. He was seven to eight on threes was zero turnovers. And that's when Pat Beverly shoved him. Game four against Denver. That's there is a little bit easier. And that's sweep. Suns and four guy.

37 points. Three boards. Seven assists. He didn't actually take a three. And that was because they were just abusing Roak.

Yo kitchen some of the mid range stuff. All right. So in these closeout games now going back to last night and then the Denver series. He's shooting 77%.

The regular season he and booker actually closed clutch times and regular season games at 57% each. They're both right at 57%.

So what does this mean? Well, it doesn't mean like anybody goes because what's my favorite thing to say.

Our least favorite thing to do is to change our mind. I don't think at this point if you were anti Chris Paul you watch last night and you said, oh, you know what I get it now.

Because you know what's going to happen is that there's another game for right around the corner, whether it was game four in this series where he just didn't make many shots.

Game four in the finals last year or I remember watching this going what is wrong. And then we found out later he had surgery, but it just didn't make any sense that campaign was being given the basketball back to close out some major possessions.

And then you had round one against the Lakers, we heard a shoulder where he was in the single digits for five of the six games against the Lakers who were also hurt.

So as I throw all that stuff at you and Paul has the game that he does last night and we spend a lot of time on who's top five and who's top to I love doing it to all right.

So I'm not I'm not criticizing the exercise of going through this and going who's top 10 who don't think there are 10 guys who can do a Chris Paul did last night.

They're just aren't there aren't so are there better players. Sure are there more skilled guys. Yes, 37 years old soon to be is where do Miller keeps running us.

I get it. But you know sometimes in a basketball sense we need these playoff moments to remind us of going all right. I know this guy can do in the regular season in certain players that I argue for and user stats and certain players that have great stats that I still argue against.

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