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Here we go. Don't you love the NBA playoffs? It's the herd wherever you may be. However you may be listening. Thanks for making us part of your day Nick right in one hour. We'll try to get him on.

We'll have to bring him on. Jay Mac is joining us. Well well well well well. Even the headlock. This morning. Lonnie Walker's thrilling fourth quarter gives the Lakers a three one seriously. Lonnie Walker really. That's what the series has been reduced to. Lonnie Walker your guy Lonnie Walker. Lonnie Walker going toe to toe with Steph Curry in the fourth quarter of a pivotal playoff game. We've never seen anything like it. Unbelievable theater last night.

Oh so good. The Lakers are essentially a team that can't shoot. They have a rookie defensive head coach. They flipped their roster at the trade deadline. LeBron now looks gassed and disappears for quarters. AD is great. Mostly although he has bad halves and undrafted Austin Reeves and Lonnie Walker.

Are lighting it up not exactly Jordan's bulls or Shacken Kobe's Lakers or burdened McHale or Magic and Kareem. Remember when our parents said just eat your vegetables and drink your milk. That's all it takes. You'll be big and strong.

In the NBA here's the version of that. Hit your free throws and play great defense. You don't have to shoot. You'll end up in the Western conference finals. Is that where we're headed? I mean I don't get it. LeBron looks tired. There's only one day's rest in between games. He and AD played more minutes than anybody. LeBron look gassed. He disappeared for stretches. Anthony Davis offensively looked tired. He was hiding. Steph never looks tired.

Although I think everybody at Golden State's tired of Jordan pool. The Lakers though are so good defensively that it masks their deficiencies and that defense which is a notch better than anything left including the Celtics. It keeps them close in really ugly offensive stretches and man do they have them. But they're so old school they're becoming vintage. They're like Polaroids and trucker hats and vinyl records. This doesn't make any sense. Bounce around the league guys.

In 2020 the Lakers weren't a great shooting team either but LeBron was much closer to his prime. He looks like a shot fighter for long stretches and in football eventually if you if you just run the football you'll be exposed. You have to be able to some point pass the ball very effectively from the pocket.

The Lakers get to the Western Conference finals and win a championship and they can't shoot and it's a shooter's era. Maybe Vegas now has them as the second best odds to win a championship again in 2020.

They were a better offensive team than this. They were better but they were also 2021 shooting team. But AD had a three and a half month four months sabbatical because of covid so he was in the best shape of his life and LeBron wasn't in his prime but was darn close to it and would give you three and a half quarters of great basketball.

If you get a couple great quarters out of LeBron now you know you take it. I don't know in the 1970s the NBA was pretty weak if you had one great player and a bunch of like guys you can win a championship right like Sonics Blazers lot of that stuff and then from that point forward in the 80s until today you need two great players sometimes a third like the heathals and then you get to the championship level doesn't mean you'll win it are the Lakers sold school that they are.

They have one great player AD who by the way is a little hit and miss offensively LeBron way out of his prime and just a bunch of guys because right now they have one star and that star is AD and he is dominant on both ends of the floor but only one end of the floor every night and that's the defensive end.

The game itself was fantastic it was an all-timer and all-time classic Lonnie Walker going toe to toe with Steph and LeBron talked about it after.

We just a resilient bunch they hit us with haymakers out the haymaker out the haymaker trying to get us to fall we just stayed in the fight we just stayed in the fight you know it's a 48 minute game or if it's a 12 round boxing match and we stayed in there for 12 rounds.

It was a little bit more than a half a year ago.

Let's talk about Steph Curry.

Steph Curry last night was absolutely great. I can remember back in 1993 sitting on a couch in Las Vegas with a friend 1993.

And the sign of greatness is when you have a bunch of really good or great players in a game and Michael Jordan was so much better than everybody else in 93 the finals.

And then a couple of days ago, Barkley was sensational 27 and a half points 13 rebounds sensational.

Yet the gap between him and Michael Jordan was the grand canyon. That's how great Jordan was.

As good as everybody else was on the floor last night, Steph felt like a thousand times better most of the night.

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