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I'm your host, Adam Mottes solo today. Matt Moore still on vacation.

Should be back. I think he'll be back for our Friday show doing the live show. I think he'll be in on that one. I'm not sure.

But if not, you can catch me solo over on the locker room app, taking your questions and just kind of walking through this.

It's been a long week. You know, Yokic MVP and then the first two games of this Phoenix series.

And, you know, the games in particular against Phoenix have been pretty frustrating and,

you know, not wholly surprising. You know, coming into this season, you knew that Phoenix was the

better team. They finished out that Lakers series in remarkable fashion. I mean, with LeBron James

Healthy and only Anthony Davis missing from their lineup, they absolutely blew out the Lakers

and Denver in a similar boat missing their second best player with Jamal Murray. And they have,

just like the Lakers did, look like they are completely outclassed and like they are a significantly

worst team.

So I'm going to break down game two.

And I'll tell you up front, this is going to be a notebook pod.

It's a little bit shorter on notebook stuff because there's only so many things you can analyze.

Phoenix has had great success through two games doing similar things.

And Denver has not yet forced them to sort of change, change up.

Like Chris Paul, there's a reason he has been so comfortable and so efficient right now running it. It's because Denver, they've tried

a couple different things, but they haven't affected what Phoenix has done. And so we're going to talk

about that. So this will be a notebook episode sharing detailed notes. And then in the final

segment, I'll talk about things I think Denver needs to do

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