Well, one scribe, a frequent guest of this podcast, Mark Stein, said that this going in looked like the best second round ever on paper.

I agreed with them and it absolutely lived up to its billing.

We got to talk about that crazy Kawaii shot and the Raptors 9290 victory over the Sixers.

Another great game in Denver with CJ McCollum scoring 37 to lead Portland to an upset victory on the road.

And then we will preview the Western Conference Finals and make our picks in which one Danny Leroux experienced the glory of getting right a game seven victory on the road for the Blazers.

But first, we just have to talk about what Kawaii Leonard did in this game for the Raptors, including of course that ridiculous final shot.

Right. And I think this put into stark relief just how and why the trade that Masayu Jury had the guts to pull off in the off season happened.

Because a lot of these Kawaii Leonard shots, you know, he didn't have the greatest night from the field 16 of 39.

I mean, the 39 is absolutely astonishing there.

But I want to start with the fourth quarter.

So Kawaii Leonard, six of nine in the fourth quarter, but every single one of those attempts was a jump shot.

He was just taking these hard shots going into the last game of the going into the entire legs.

Most of them well contested, not all of them, but most of them well contested.

And he was just huge.

He was massive in this game, taking and making the shots that derosen and lower in prior years just couldn't really put together.

And so they were able to win this massive game, win this massive series and go to the conference final.

Yeah, Leonard started off just having to take it to the rim at 8 to 13 at the rim in the first three quarters, because he couldn't buy a jump shot.

He missed his first eight jumpers was only two of 12 on jumpers, got a two minute rest very briefly at the start of the fourth.

Toronto actually extended the lead by two during that period.

And then he came back, fresh as a daisy, five of five for mid range and one three pointer, including that incredible fading jump shot over Joel and Pete.

We're going to talk a lot more about the very end of this game, but just that shot, which we again at the privilege of doing live on the NBA cast.

It just the only shot of that type of significance that I can remember.

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