Welcome on to Hollinger and Duncan week. What is this? Five? I don't know.

We're like almost a quarter of the way through the season already somehow. And we're getting to the point where we're seeing some of the, what John is termed, maybe the most interesting part of a team season.

They kind of get things figured out in the first couple of weeks. Everyone is still

trying here in November. And in conjunction with that, John made a trip out west to check out some of

the West Coast teams and have some conversations, I'm sure. So, John, what were some of your

main impressions from your West Coast trip other than the Sacramento Coffee, of course.

Yeah, yes, the highlight of the trip without question. Yeah, it was interesting, you know,

watching the two L.A. teams because they're both playing without their A-1 star, right?

LeBron's out for the Lakers right now. Kauai's out for the

Clippers. Man, the Clippers look like they're in a lot better shape. I mean, comparatively, like,

when you go back, see them, you know, consecutive nights multiple times in a week and just the

kind of shape they're in. I mean, the Lakers, even though they won twice when I saw

them, both games were like basically make or miss league wins where they just shot lights out

from three, including Westbrook even in one of the games. And the Clippers just, they just looked

a little more all around solid. Like, Paul George has been really good.

Uh, they've been able to, uh, play small at times, but actually they play big a lot. They've gotten a

lot of good minutes out of Isaiah Hartenstein. I think he's been a really, uh, key find for them to get

that backup five slot field, especially with especially with Marcus Morris basically hasn't played.

I think that's a lingering concern, actually, what's going on with him because that need, like,

really started bothering him in the Phoenix series. And, you know, now, like, we just started here

and is already on the sideline. So you definitely have to worry about that. But yeah, he missed a bunch

of time with that need last year too, didn't he? Remember that you kind of wasn't really around for

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