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On this episode of the E-check, let's talk about the play-ins and the playoffs.

I've got a couple of guests to help us break down Tuesday night's game. First up is the Warriors versus the Kings 9 versus 10 Western Conference playing game Tuesday night.

We got Will Zimmerley, aka Will Z stats, Will Z stats of the Sacramento King's fame on here.

He is here to help us understand what the hell happened in Sacramento this year

and whether there's still any hope left to save the season.

Then it's Anthony Irwin Time.

My producer and host of the Laker Lounge is here to make sense of the seven versus eight

Pelicans in the Lakers game.

And then what the Lakers do next when they run into the Buzzsaw,

aka the Denver Nuggets.

We've waited all year for this, so let's not waste any more time, Anthony.

Drop that motherfucker.

It should be real. Yo, here it is. We finally did it. What's up, Will?

What's up, Trista? Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. Happy to be here.

Dude, like, I so respect what you do and i'm so glad we

finally made the time for those who don't know you you're the you're known in king circles as

the stat guy the one that breaks everything down in ways that we can understand not only what's

happening in the game

but also like who we should be going after as kings fans right like in terms of what these

players do well how they fit into the system um how did you get your start doing that um that's a good

question i used to just obviously grew up at kings. I watched all the games and a few years ago while I was watching, I just started to notice trends of things that they were doing. Like, oh, it seems like they're doing such and such, like taking a lot of corner threes and it's like, um, I think I can look at that. So I started to go online and look at the stats and it's like,

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