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Hot start, Phil, hot start.

Welcome to Pick Six Central, myself and Big Ev on a Friday.

Off the heels of game one, a blowout from the Boston Celtics.

I think you made a nice little switch

where you're like, I'm talking myself into the Mavs. I'm talking myself into the Mavs. I want to see

the Mavs win this. I want to see the Mavs win this. And you're like, I just can't, I can't get there.

Now it's a long series. There's a lot of basketball to be played. But this was a one-sided game from the get-go.

Yeah, I had a, I've had it a few times in my life.

Like a few times a year where I have like a like a gambling epiphany.

And that was exactly what I had.

I literally, I was kind of almost having.

Like switch.

What does Dave call it?

Light switch.

Yeah, I had like the end of the show and then kind of in the afternoon, I was like,

I'm sitting there and I'm like, it sounds like you're going to win the series easily.

And I also, I did some, I kind of did some deeper research on like the impact of Porzingis. And the biggest thing that I found was just the like his ability to defend the rim and like alter shots was something that they

basically didn't have the entire playoffs once he was out and the mavs had been like so good around

the rim but playing but and granted they like say in the last series for example they were playing

gobert who people argue is like the best at that but i think it was the Porzingis, without Porzingis,

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