How do I sound now?

It sound okay.

Did you ask Pop that question?

Let's do it.

Welcome to the Athletic NBA show.

One day through on the Athletic Podcast Network.

Okay, here we go.

And it is another edition of Hoops Adjacent on the Athletic NBA show.

David Aldrich here in D.C. in the Bay, Marcus Thompson.

And joining us, and she doesn't want to join us, but there's no more games for her team. Wait, I never said I, I never said I didn't want to join you. No, no, it just made you, you, you were planning to go to Boston, weren't you? I was. I was. I was. Go back to Boston for game six. Yes. And then, you know, next series. That's why I wouldn't want to join. Yes. That's what I mean. Weeks.

You had weeks of the spring was open because it was going to be a long run for the Brooklyn Nets. But it's not, Syracuse. It's not. Which is our benefit, right? Yes. It's good for us. Our pleasure. Sure. That's all that meant. It's a joy for me to be talking with both of you.

I mean, this is. Oh, I'm sure it is. It is. I wish we were talking about maybe some other things, but it's a joy speaking with both of you. Well, off the top, I'm curious how it felt there. I know it was a sweep, right?

I know it's like the talk of the town, but was it as intense as it looked on television?

It looked like a really good, like high-level series.

Maybe that was just Boston emanating from the TV. No, I think that's the thing that is, as time passes or as you look at things that gets overlooked was the competitive

nature of all these games like I did I mean I couldn't help but wake up this morning think like

man I wonder if Jason Tatum doesn't make that layup in game one does that like how I mean

or if Marcus shoot if Marcus Smart just shoots right like everybody expected them to do you there's small things. Or even you look at game two and the Nets had command of that one and then just couldn't really score in the form. But there were so many instances where you look at a sweep and you assume it's just an entire dominance over another. And it wasn't that. And it was high level.

It was highly intense.

It was there are so many things to take from it.

And Boston is a real deal.

Like for as much as I've had been talking about the nets and different things and obviously,

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