Hey, what's up, everybody? Rich Eisen show basketball podcast. We are here on a Wednesday, June 15th on the eve of game six of the NBA finals in Boston, the Golden State Warriors lead three games to two after pulling it out Monday night and with the fellas, Adam TJ. What's up, guys?

What's going on? She, oh, what it do, baby? You know, I've calmed down. It's been two days since game five. I've calmed myself down a little bit and I'm just kind of ready for this season to be over.

I was thinking about this just a minute ago. Would you rather just not make the playoffs at all?

Then be this close just to watch your team give it away. Like what, what scenario would you rather be in as a player or a fan? I guess it's just a fan. Like, I mean, fans probably take this stuff way more harder than the players. We do, unless you're Jerry West, which seems like the fans are just, you know, kind of live and die game to game and stuff more than, then, you know, then actual members of the team or members of the organization. And I was just thinking about this a second ago, like,

what I'd rather had been, you know, what I'd rather be a pellet and that pellet is not even a good example, like a magic fan.

To just not even have a chance or what I'd rather feel like this, like so close, and I can see which way it's going, just knowing that it feels like Boston is given away the time.

What Brockman, this season is unexpected for your team. You didn't even expect to be here. So this is a win either way. I guess there's nothing about this.

There's nothing about this that should upset you because your team was in purgatory at the mid at the mid season mark. So, you know, but then Adam, you got to flip it like this.

They got it back on track to the point where look at who they beat to get to this point. So now you kind of have to, if I'm just playing devil's advocate, if you're a

Celtic fan, you delete that first half of the season, and you look at you've accomplished in this last third of the season and go, yeah, why shouldn't we be here?

Yeah, they've been the best team in the NBA since, I don't know, weight January and they beat, you know, a team that everyone thought was going to win the title.

I guess when the season started, a lot of us picked it.

Well, you beat two teams that everyone thought was going to win that way.

I was just talking about Brooklyn in terms of betting favorite really all year with Kyrie and Kevin Durant and Steve Nash and everybody.

And then, but our thing all year was like, look, Milwaukee, yeah, we were kind of high on the bucks all year on this show, you know, we love

Yannis. And so to get through that and seven games and then a team that went to the finals last year, Miami, and now to be so close, have the

advantage, you got home court. And, you know, like I said, game four felt like they just gave away at home and then even in game five, you know, they had a lead for a second, but I don't know.

I feel like you're giving up too fast, Brooklyn.

I do feel that way. I feel that I'm kind of I just, you know, the frustrations that kind of plagued the team in the beginning half of the season are kind of been coming out the last two games.

And so I guess a weird way it does feel like I'm kind of giving up as a fan, even though, you know, I'll still watch and root and I still think they can do it.

Obviously, they have it inside of them.

I don't know. Just the end of that game the other night. I got really frustrated. I didn't watch the end of it. I shut it off with about four minutes to go and

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