Hello and welcome to group chat. I am Justin Varyer and joining me two perfect modern journalists.

We got Rob Mahoney.

We got Jay, Kyle, man.

Gentlemen, the Blazers are in the playoffs.

The playing is spectacular.

Everything is going right with the world.

I feel like your priorities are in that order.

It's Blazers first, amazing NBA basketball,

and maybe the greatest play in we've had to date second

for Justin Farrier. Yeah, that was a window to the soul for sure, not that you didn't mean to do

that. But I definitely think that was indicative of how you're feeling. You seem giddy. I don't know.

Yeah, I mean, the playing has been crackling. It's just been a... It's been good.

A really good time. I can't remember the last time this has been that exciting. I do think, like, the falloff of the regular season had people anticipating this more. But all four games, as we're recording this on Thursday, have been spectacular. Like, every single one went down to the wire. Yeah, competitive, down to the wire. And not just that, but I think a great mix of what we've always wanted from the play-in,

which is young ascendant teams and some of the veteran stalwarts all having their say at the same time.

It really is like everything we could hope for from this kind of like do-or-die sort of competition,

at least for the nine-tenths.

Yeah, freewheeling ascendants versus like raging against the dying of the light, like with the warriors last night. The unks were balling last night. When Al Horford made, how did, how many

do you make? I mean, I know he made three. I think it was eight. It was eight or nine consecutive

three-pointers to basically bust open the game.

I got lost in that sauce.

And I was at one point, well, I remember saying to myself at one point around half-time

of that game, I was like, Horford's going to have to do something.

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