Welcome to the Ringer NBA show. I'm Chris Vernon joining me today is my buddy Gary Parris. He's an asshole columnist for CBS sports dot com. Gary.

What's up with it?

All right, so the over under I'm going to I'm going to start you off with an over under. LeBron James has the ball at the top of the key. He gets a switch on to Kelly O'Linnick.

That play happens 100 times. LeBron James scores over under 84 times.

I'm going to go over with the way he's playing now, man. Like I can remember columns being written in recent years and certainly tweets everywhere every day.

Talking about we've seen the we've seen the best of LeBron James like he's he's still awesome but like clearly on the decline and you look up he's 32 years old and he's having a postseason unlike any postseason he's ever had.

I mean, it's it's remarkable a guy with the amount of my old he has on his body and just like his body in general has never broken down doesn't seem to be on the decline at all.

And while I think we all agree the lawyers are still the favorite. I it's going to be hard kicking against that guy with the way he's operating right now.

Well, in that moment last night was like totally symbolic of that game. Like we just can't get any good games out of this like you see them. He's like dribbling but it's just so disrespectful right it's it's almost like Babe Ruth like point.

It's like Babe Ruth like pointing to the like it's a left field is going to hit one out right it's like he's just dribbling around like he's in a playground.

And then poor Kelly Olinic he has no chance like literally no chance and frankly nobody on the on the Celtics had any chance of stopping him last night.

Well, well, then in the others are the previous series like he's standing at the three point line like spinning the ball around like it's like all it's like he's playing with children.

He's playing with the best basketball players in the world guys who make 20 million dollars and 25 million dollars and it looks like he's playing with children.

It looks like when I you know we have a little moving around sort of plastic basketball goal in my home because I have a three year old and it looks like me playing against my three year old like whenever I want to do it like you know I let him have fun and get his shot talk.

But if I want to block you my can with every single time if I want to go around me my can every single time it looks like LeBron is playing with people that don't you know that aren't equipped to be playing with it's like many many years ago when junior colleges were much more relevant as it relates to to elite level prospects every once in a while you you see a legitimate NBA guy like somebody who was going to be picked in the NBA.

Drafts who was still in junior college and he was in junior college for strictly academic reasons and you go to watch these guys the one who comes to mind for me is Clint L. Woods and I went to whatever Mississippi junior college he was at the time to watch him to get this guy who's going to be a top 25 in the NBA draft and he's in junior college and it's like oh my guy.

Like it's so clear he doesn't the rest of these guys don't belong on the same court with him that's a little bit what it looks like little LeBron that like you're watching except the other guys do belong on the same court with that they're NBA players but he's he's operating on a different level right now.

Okay, it's about pay doubles advocate on the whole this is going to be a sweep they're going to destroy him.

A Brad Stevens we both have a tremendous amount of respect for him as a coach so he will inevitably make some kind of adjustments. I don't know what kind of adjustment he can make on the brun necessarily except to make him see two guys all the time and certainly try to not let Kelly O'Linnick get switched on to him for five straight layups that would be helpful.

But they were 12 of 38 from three it was kind of rockets ask in the sense that you know in the next game if they go chuck up 43s I could see Boston being competitive with them in some of these games.

I don't know how many games they could win but I'm not ready to just decide that this one is completely over and a worthless series. What about you.

Yeah now same thing I mean and like it's a short memories like we know we watch these massive blowouts and we go oh wow what is this team going to do with that team you know Houston in game one against the spur I think of the great example and then like you know guess who's still playing and who is there and so listen if there were any secrets to guarding Lebron like seems like we have figured that out maybe around 2006 2007 you know it's it's 2017 like they aren't any secrets about him he is what he is unlike anything we've ever seen.

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