Happy Cinco Tamayo, everyone.

Hopefully you're not too mad at us for waiting an extra day.

Because we had the day off today in terms of games,

we figured it had made more sense to get two games under our belt in each of the series

and to have a podcast that could actually marinate for more than a day

and still actually be worthwhile.

So how are you enjoying this second run so far?

It's been pretty good. I think we have

two great series being played on the one night and then we kind of exhale a little bit on the

other night and it's maybe not quite as competitive, although we'll see. I mean, we've seen so many

series turn when the venue shifts. So when these series get to Dallas and get to Philadelphia,

and especially if Embedde plays, they could go in a very different direction still.

I thought Dallas and Phoenix was going to be a really good series. And Phoenix has just

absolutely destroyed them so far. And the sun's being up to zero. I mean, I'm not just

like shocked by that. But just the way that they've done, and the sun's being up to zero. I mean, I'm not just like shocked by that,

but just the way that they've done it and the way that Dallas was able to actually really

shut down a Utah offense that ranked higher than Phoenix in the regular season and just

has no chance against this Phoenix team. What do you make of that? That second half last night,

the targeting Luca as he

ran out of gas, that was one of the most savage things I've ever seen. I mean, when Jay Crowder is

going right by him off the dribble. Yeah, they started with Jay Crowder and then they're like,

oh, well, actually, maybe we'll have Chris Paul do it now. Yeah, yeah. But the fact that,

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