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All right here with David Rammill We are here on a Tuesday recording

locked on NBA. I'm West Goldberg from Lock On Warriors. I'm here

with David from Lock to on Heat. We've got a cool show in store for you.

If you tuned in last week, David and I did our Eastern Conference wins over unders, decided that we really like Brooklyn and then we basically disagreed on almost everybody else, if I remember correctly.

But now we're gonna do the other conference,

the Western conference, and really excited about this

because honestly David, I don't really,

I'm kind of, I'm kind of, going through, you know, preparation for this episode.

I have no idea what to think of the Western Conference, like I have a pretty good idea of who I like at the top, but then I kind of think like the third place team to like the seventh place team could be in any kind of order.

And so what we're doing here, this is not championship odds. This is simply regular season win

totals over under's. We're going to go in alphabetical order. But your overall impression of just the Western Conference in general after this

off season? No, I think that's pretty spot on. I was just actually just tweeting this right now before we

started recording because I know some Phoenix people are kind of taking umbrage against why their sons are being

disrespected. I'm just like, look, there's more parity across the league than there has been a long time.

There's no overpowering juggernaut with the exception of maybe Brooklyn, but even then that doesn't feel quite secure because of their injury situation. But in the Western conference, that's kind of the same thing. And so why are we quote unquote disrespecting Phoenix?

Because I don't know that they can duplicate last year's success.

Maybe they'll be able to match the post season run they went on.

But as far as the regular season is concerned,

you're counting on a 37 year old point guard. You're counting on guys like De Andra Aiden and Michael Bridges and others to take a leap, but that's not necessarily a guarantee and then there are other teams that may have taken a hit here and there look at the

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