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Without any further ado, here is Run the Jules.

Welcome to the rights Ricky Sanchez podcast. I'm Spike Eskin, along with a guy who has the best after time out plays in the business.

Mike Lovett, hey Mike. Good morning, Spike. How you doing, buddy?

I'm all right. You know, we're in the we're in the look of it.

There are. Yeah. Before we talk about the specifics of the two games, which we'll talk about them both the Indiana game and the Oklahoma City game.

One word after these two games, the first two games are the hardest stretch of the season to describe how you feel about their performance in these two games.

One word. Not good at that. Not like a lot of words.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to I had my boss at a boss in Chicago named Mike Stern who like after two days of working with me and looking at my emails, he was like,

you can be verbose. And I was like, I don't know what that word means. He used too many words. Oh, so you, I believe you are verbose purposely verbose.

But what is the one word? I would say I'll give you two. I would say together. Yeah. That seems fair.

They that Indiana game, I think, was the best one of the season.

Tough team on the road. Sixers haven't been a good road team this year. And so that was a very clean 24 point win.

And the bench seemed to play pretty well in that game, which is, which is always helpful, especially because Indiana's benches are very good and most of the strength.

And then the O.K.C game, you know, I we can get into it. But I don't I wasn't I was frustrating, obviously, in the moment would have loved for them to win that game.

They should have. We can talk about why J.J. Reddick was in there covering the inbounder. That doesn't seem to make sense.

But they missed a bunch of foul shots. They didn't shoot as well as they should have.

And I thought the reps were kind of shitty. And Jimmy Butler was five of 18, which is not going to happen.

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