Welcome to the Ringer NBA show. I'm Chris Vernon, joining me. He does every Tuesday from TheRinger.com is Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Bomer, aka Kevin O'Conflict, aka Kevin Coachella. I hoped. But the NBA playoffs began and I understand you were not able to go to Coachella.

I wish Chris granted it was an unbelievable weekend. It would have been nice to go to Coachella, but have work obligations watching the wonderful NBA playoffs and it was outstanding. Wasn't it?

It was outstanding. We have a ton of storylines, not the least of which was last evening, which saw one of the big series tied up. Everybody was talking about the 76ers for 48 straight hours. And there were the Miami Heat and Twain Wade nodding that series up crazy.

And it was like, I mean, this was like a time machine, right? This was Dwayne Wade, the best player on the floor last night and he then up. It looked like it was going to get a look. I mean, I watched in this game.

It looked like it might get a little dicey there in the fourth quarter. And then he comes up with like two or three big plays in a row and obviously a dagger shot there at the end. That was.

I mean, this is this is what we love about the NBA playoffs, right? The moment in which Dwayne Wade, you know, turns a clock back a decade.

It was a lot like two years ago, Chris, when Wade out of nowhere after struggling the end of the regular season started jacking up threes in the Charlotte series and turned the clock back then.

It's impressive to see him doing it now and it's even better that it's back in Miami. And you've got the whole Dwayne Wade being back in shape.

You know, I read Haley O'Shaunesys right up on last night's game. And one of the things that was interesting in there was there has been much made of the whole body fat, right?

That he is in a better a much better shape now in Miami than he was in Cleveland. And part of that is not just hey Dwayne Wade decided he needed to get in better shape.

It is mandatory when you play for the heat. And I believe the number was 9% that you get I didn't I knew that they were stringent upon being in elite level shape.

I did not realize they are tested for body fat twice a week. Did you know that it's crazy. It's crazy. No, I mean, I do wonder kind of I mean, obviously that seems a little bit extreme.

But I do wonder obviously I covered David Fisdale and he brought a lot of those thoughts like all of the like he brought all the heat stuff.

And like they are like you know, if you like went and played in Philly, you didn't get cheese steaks on the plane after you left Philadelphia.

You got salmon and rice. That's what you got much to the chagrin of Zach Randolph and the rest of the team.

Yeah, you get me hungry. Is this house of carbs? No, but like you ate this kind of stuff where you you were to eat clean and you got tested for body fat all the time.

And you wanted to be the team that was in the best shape. And I do kind of wonder why more teams don't subscribe to that.

But there was doing wait. I guess the big question is regarding last night, you know that inevitably teams are going to make adjustments for a second game, which of course Miami did.

And the team that loses, especially if they lose by a wide margin are going to make the most extreme adjustments. And then the other teams going to have to deal with them in the next game.

That being said, is this a you know, no pun intended a flash in the pan or do you think this is sustainable being that Dwayne Wade can be like maybe not the best guy, but that we could see enough of these weighed performances that this could be an upset.

I don't even think it's about Wade as much as the Miami defense to be honest with you. I think the adjustments they made against Ben Simmons are really interesting because all season long and in game one, they had their primary defender, whoever it was, whether it was James Johnson, Josh Richardson or Justice Winslow, whoever they threw a Ben Simmons, they had the player sag off, right?

Whereas last night in game two, they had him pressure Simmons and I think it really slowed down Philadelphia's offense. They were very stagnant. Miami racked up the flexions last night. They had only eight steals, but the Philadelphia 76ers weren't in their same offensive rhythm partially because of that pressure on Ben Simmons.

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