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One more little tick in the prison cell.

So sad.

What's sad we're counting down that.

Remember we were counting on the days until Maddo's basketball would start again?

Now here we are.

Got 18 Mavericks games left.

And we'll talk about every single one of them.

We'll have them here for you.

If you're here right now, shout out to you.

Shout out to you.

I'm interested in hearing your opinion about this because I was talking with someone else.

It might just be that the Mavs are this bad. But across the league, I'm feeling just this overwhelming sense of like, yeah, I'm pretty ready for the playoffs now. Like, I don't really know how locked in I am to this March. I think we always hit this in March. I think always March. And then, like, the end of April, we're like, all right, it's coming. Like, I think we always hit it. Because remember March, remember last year we're talking about March basketball as being so crazy. Today we'll talk about the we'll talk about the game. We'll talk about Cooper Black's Ricky Whistle. We'll talk about Daniel Gafford. We'll talk about all that. But yeah, like I think we always hit this in March at some point because we're just like, man, can we just sim to the playoffs? Like we know all these teams. We know how good they are. Who's going to surprise us? It's like the one story that we have right now is the Hornets. And like two years ago, that story was the Mavericks. And so obviously we were all locked into March basketball because we were like, this is awesome. The Mavs are on its role, best record in the NBA. But I just think this happens every year where we hit this point. And we're like,

all right, we think let's just sim to the end. We know who's good. We know who's not. Like,

who's going to change our minds over the next month. I feel like it's even like weirder this year

because it's like we kind of know, there's not like an awards race really like their MVP is

locked up basically as a lot up for who shea i guess so i

guess if he's i guess if he's he's minus 320 on fando yokech plus 600 kade plus he could miss the games

but it doesn't look like he's going to miss the games right the only way he wouldn't win if

is if he this is the game defense a player of the year same thing windy misses the game do look like he's going to miss the games. Right. The only way he wouldn't win is if he misses the game.

Defensive player of the year, same thing.

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