Welcome to the Big Suey, presented by Draft Kings.

Why are you listening to this show?

The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard podcast.

I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that.

In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.

I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.

That hasn't happened to you guys?

I've done it.

And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.

I mean, to the point of the Eastern Conference, we even saw a team that was in the NBA finals last year make a move that was kind of head scratching at the moment when the Pacers traded for Zubots. Like there's a lot of teams that have done something. But if you have the goal of getting a Yannis, right, then you have to do things that serve that goal, no? Yeah. So it's basically like a flow chart, right? You step over here and say, I want, Do you want the honest? If yes, you go this way. If no, you go this way. If your answer is yes and you start following down that path, you cannot then midway through and say, ooh, I like kind of one of those options down there. It's gone, it's done for the Pacers, which by the way, the other franchise in the NBA, that that's staunchly on the record, anti-tanking. We do not tank in Indiana. That's what they say. They were forced into this hand. What happened to them this year? A great hand, by the way, because now they're going to get the number one pick, Agent DeBanza, and then Halliburton's going to come back. It was a great move. Your competition keeps making good moves. It worked out for them. They took lemons and they made lemonade.

If Halliburton doesn't get hurt.

Hell, Hallibur can get hurt.

If Pascal Seacom and Nemhart and McConnell and Jackson and Neesmith all don't get hurt to start the year,

they're doing the same thing the heat are doing right now because that's how they do. Now, what ended up happening was those guys all started hurt. They started

awful. It set their course of their flow chart in a certain way. And then when a zoo bot

becomes available for multiple firsts, for them, they're saying, look, we're a team that when

we're healthy, we really like who we got. We are a center away. Which they were. But it is reasonable, I mean, to say that you can understand a team that made it to the NBA finals, made it deep in the NBA finals against a really good OKC team. It's understandable that they would stand Pat. It's almost like there was a team that went to the NBA finals. Talk to me about five years ago.

No, but five years ago, you were talking trash.

You were like, oh, these guys aren't that good. Yes, you were. Oh, five years ago about their prospects not being good enough. After they went to the finals. Yeah, I was right about that. The year after. Yeah. The year after. It was right about that. Okay, so Indiana is in the same situation.

They're in the same situation.

Right.

The only difference is their franchise player got irrevocably hurt in the finals, and then all of their starters got hurt to start the year. But in the season they were selling, they bought. I love that an argument started when I'm like, we don't have to argue about this team anymore. We don't. Like, because we can call the race.

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