It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.

Before we get started today, I want to remind you that today's episode is brought to you by rockauto.com.

Amazing selection, reliably low prices, all the parts you car will ever need.

Welcome on to Hollinger and duncan great to have

you back here after another week of playoff action and john and i want to wrap it all up and then look

ahead to this next week so i i guess where we can start here is just take stock of where we are at this point and what

is most stood out to you over the last week of action here, John.

You know, I think it's been notable for the lack of surprises more than anything, right?

I mean, the biggest surprise is probably how dominant offense has been, which was the thing we didn't necessarily expect coming out of the long layoff.

But beyond that, the favorites still look like the favorites, right?

We haven't seen a lot to really challenge what our perceptions might have been coming into this.

So do you feel that way about the Bucks in particular?

I think a lot of people seem kind of down on the Bucks.

I'm not sure if I agree with that, but what are your thoughts?

No, I mean, they didn't play well in game one, obviously,

but then they did exactly what we would have expected the last four games of that series.

I think we'll get a lot more answers about what the Bucks are in this Miami series.

But certainly, if you had a prior that the Bucks were the number one or number two team in the league,

there was nothing that happened in the first round that would move you off of that prior, in my opinion.

Yeah, but by the same token, if you believe that they have some

vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited by better opponents in the future, I don't

know that what we've seen so far would have given you much more hope in what they're going to do

...