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I'm flying solo today.

Actually, only for a little bit am I flying solo today.

First two segments are going to be a notebook pod where I go through the game against

the Lakers. It was a very interesting game, a lot of interesting details, and kind of share a little

bit more of a deep dive about what I took away. And then later in the show, Matt Moore's going to

hop on for the final segment. And he really wanted to talk, I think, a little bit about, you know,

Zeke Naji and some of the other, like, you know, more interesting things and just kind of have a little bit of a back and forth.

So we're going to do that in the final segment.

But to get started, though, if you're new to the show, notebook pod, I go in chronological

order, take detailed notes and kind of just, you know, kind of becomes more of a deep dive

on what happened in the game, and really an opportunity to talk about some

of the more broad things going on with the Nuggets.

So my first note in here is just that the Nuggets came out with a lot of focus.

And I know that sounds silly, and sometimes I think these things can be overstated pretty

easily, you know, by people how hard a team comes out or this or that.

But I think it's meaningful that Denver took

this game seriously. And they played this game with a level of focus and attention to detail

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