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Today, I'm joined by Tony East of the Lockton Pacers podcast,

talking about Victor O'Ladeepo's decision to sit out

the NBA restart in Orlando as well as news around the league. It's all coming up,

the biggest stories with the local experts on locked on the NBA, part of of locked on MBA. I am your Monday host Josh Lloyd

I'm also the host of the locked on fantasy basketball podcast and I am the lead

analyst at basketball monster.com and at Yahoo Sports Australia.

More news about players sitting out the NBA restart some infections in certain team

facilities that we're going to talk about as well and I'm going to bring in the host of

locked on Paces podcast Tony East to talk about that with me now.

Tony, welcome to the show of course over the last couple of days the news for the Indiana P and I guess their hopes of advancing in the playoffs took a little bit of a hit with the news that Victor Ola Depot won't be playing in the Orlando restart as he continues to rehab the quad injury and the knee problems that he has. the This is probably not accurate, but is there a chance that the paces who were playing pretty well before the Ola Depot return and then there was some thought that maybe he was forcing it or they were forcing it to get back into a rhythm to get him into a rhythm

and it was maybe making their play not quite at the same level it was before that this could

enable them to get back to some of that play they had beforehand without being forced to try and reintegrate all the deeper back into things or am I ever thinking it?

No, that makes a lot of sense because the thought with Vic playing in the bubble with all the extra time off is that he raises their ceiling a bunch because you get him more time to heal and you get him more time to look closer to the player we've seen the two years before he was an all-star level where he was not even close to this year.

So without him, their ceiling is limited and there was very minimal overlap with

Jeremy Lamb being out for the season in Vic, right?

So they have never not had both of those guys, but before Vic they really were I mean they were rolling they were 30 something and 19 and they played very well when he was out so the hope is and especially because you know

Brogna was out for the year but because the

absence they will get him back now so you know they'll have they'll still have a

go-to guy at lead guard they have all the rest of the guys playing outside of Lamb. Yeah, maybe they can recapture some of that.

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