 What's the word, y'all? We won a chaos in the play-in and we got that tonight. I do wanna say I'm filming this right after the game is done. Like Anthony Davis finished shooting LeBron or giving post game interview. So I'm letting you know that now because by the time this comes out, you might've got stories and stuff like that. This is right after the buzzer reaction to the play-in tonight. And when I talk about stories that might be out, I'm highly expecting to see a story when I wake up tomorrow morning that says Anthony Edwards played through a shoulder sprain or something like that. Because you did not know he had a hard fall early in this game and this was the most passive I have ever seen Anthony Edwards. I'm talking whether it was random game in October or the post, this was the most passive I have ever seen him. And we got that last play-in in the overtime, the one that kind of was the sealer where my colleague got the steal and it's basically a three-on-one fast break and Anthony Edwards got the ball in there down by two and he kicked it off to Torian Prince. Of course, I guess it's a good look, right? Torian Prince is a good three-point shooter and stuff. But I just feel like normal Anthony Edwards sees a one-on-one opportunity with him and little Dennis Schroeder and he's trying to go through him for easy lay but in this one he passed it off and it felt like a lot of this game he was off the ball, not even being a decoy because he wasn't moving. So I just, there's no way he wasn't playing through an injury and if he wasn't playing through an injury I'm just surprised at this performance because last year, you can't say it's the lights are too bright because last year he went into a playing game and dropped 30 and then he went into a playoff series and had a hell of a series. 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I think this game is gonna be remembered by it being the close game and the Dennis Schroeder shot and the eventual Anthony Davis foul. But it was very, oh man, this was some ugly, ugly basketball, bro. I made a tweet that it was genuinely some of the worst basketball I've watched in a while. And that's it. I've watched the Bulls 82 times this year, y'all. The last six minutes of the fourth quarter plus the overtime as well, the Timberwolves were as cold as anything can be. And we had fluidity, we had great passing, great cuts, great shot making over the first couple quarters for the Timberwolves and then that all went dead. This was like a defensive, two defensive juggernauts potentially going hand to hand. And I can't tell if it was just great defense or just the offense was awful. Yeah, on both hands, but specifically in the Timberwolves because they had this game. And they were under talented, they were the least talented team of the two, obviously, especially when Mr. Jayden McDaniels and Rudy Gaubert. But they had this game. My colleague gave them one of the best performances we got from my colleague in a minute. Carthage Townsend is early in the game, was dominant, one-legged fadeaways and stuff. But the real turning point in this game for me is when Carthage Townsend picked up that fifth foul where he was jostling with Anthony Davis so positioning for a rebound and he hooked them a little bit more than he should have and they got the fifth foul. And that was the thing we talked about on the podcast that was gonna be the determining factor in this one particular game is whether or not Carthage Townsend stay out of foul trouble. The answer was he could not. And then later down in the stretch, because he was playing with five fouls, it just felt like he couldn't have been as aggressive on the defensive glass and Atlantis of Anthony Davis buckets or Anthony Davis getting that great old lob pass from LeBron James coming down and Carthage Townsend can't do anything because too much contact is now foul. So him standing out of foul trouble would have been big, but it's Carthage Townsend. It's what he has done for the entirety of his career. And if you look at his number since he came back from this injury, I mean, he's been in really deep foul trouble. We're talking five fouls, a lot of those games and it happened again today. Chris Vince tried early in this one to do the, since we don't have a backup center, we gonna have Nathan Knight play that in last long. I mean, soon as Carthage Townsend came off the floor, the Lakers went on their run and bought the game back and then he had to come to the realization that if Carthage Townsend is not on the floor, we's gotta play small ball. And at least early in this one, Carthage Townsend, oh, not Carthage, that's Kyle. Anderson was everywhere. He's getting blocked. He said the shots. And then of course, all of that faded away as well. Gotta give a lot of credit to the next men on the Lakers. Dennis Schroeder with D'Angelo Russell not having any ice in his veins today and missing all of the shots. Dennis Schroeder came in clutch, obviously with the big old shot there, but more than that, I mean, he played some of the defense down stretch and he also hit some more shots down there, but it was a game that they should, it shouldn't have been as close as we were. They won it. Now they can look into being a 7C, going to get some Grizzies and getting that match up, because that's gonna be fun. Is Shannon Sharpe gonna pull up to a game? I hope so. You would have wanted it to be a little bit better than being gassed against this team that was missing J.D. McDaniels and Rudy Gobiere, but a win is a win and now they can look forward to the next series where it's not gonna get easier. I was telling my boy Mike, cause we were watching this together on his Twitch, that this was the easiest it was gonna get. You know, this is the easiest match that they could have got. So just because they in, don't think the, sigh relief, like you have to go do it now. The goal wasn't just to make the playoffs. I mean, eventually it was, right? You have to starting off as a 13C. You wanted to just get in there. Now you're in and now it's not like, all right, the season is won. You want to go get that next championship, right? That is the ultimate goal and it's only harder from here. You got the Memphis Grizzly. If you get through that, you got to go and get the Warriors or the Minnesota or the Sacramento Kings. It's late. And then you got to get the Denver Nuggets or the Suns or whatever. Like this is a very hard path. So this is the easiest and it's done. And I ain't gotta move on to the next one. And for the, for the Timberwolves, I mean, next game they will have Rudy Gaubert back. It didn't look like they really needed him on the defensive side today, which is, which is kind of eye-opening. Cause that's where his value lies. I mean, it doesn't really lie on the defensive, on the offensive side. I just thought that with no Rudy Gaubert, the game from Anthony Edwards was going to be a lot better. Again, I'm just expecting that's going to be some type of injury that get called down. Right on cue, Dane Moore tweeted, Chris Finch mentioned Anthony Edwards was dealing with cramping. So it was something, but if you just get a C minus performance from Ant, this is probably a win instead of, I mean, it was like a D minus game. I'm discredited into the defense. The defense was good, but like, that's not, you, they need the offense. When you go six minutes without scoring in the NBA game, you need offense. So I would say it was a D minus game for real. The first game today wasn't as interesting, wasn't as exciting because the Atlanta Hawks just ran away with a game that not really many people predicted the Atlanta Hawks were going to win. I had the Miami Heat personally, because it just felt like they've had Tray Young's number. I mean, you look at all the stats in the last 13 games when these teams went hand-to-hand, Tray Young was basically terrible for his standards, only comparing them to the normal version himself. He had been bad throughout the stretch of this. But you know what? I cannot look over the fact that Bam Adebayo was so, so very disappointed to me today. The defense was good. The defense of Bam is always going to be there. But boy, oh boy, I just, they needed more. I wanted more. As a guy that's been a fan of Bam for a long time and know what he can be on the offensive side. It's just, none of it was there today. He got outplayed by Klickapala, who ended with like four total points, I want to say. So he had killed on the glass and it just wasn't enough. Kyle Lowry had his best game as a heat. A heat? I do this all the time. He had his best game on the Miami Heat and it didn't matter. Jimmy Butler had a sticker. That was the guy. He's the guy. It's a one game elimination. Who do you want in your team? It's a short list of people. And you don't get to like number six or seven without mentioning the name Jimmy Butler. He didn't have his game. He wasn't on his game today. And this is what I meant when I made the video a little while ago talking about how four through whatever of the Miami Heat are some of the worst in basketball. You saw that on full display today where the Atlanta Hawks were able to rely, at least today. I don't know if it's gonna last in the series next round. Let's be real. The teams that are winning the play in out east is not making a lot of noise, right? By Donovitz, it's a debate. Anyeka, Kongu, Jalen Johnson. They had four players off their bench to give them double-digit points today. While the Miami Heat, Kyle Lowry give them 30. And that's it. They had two starters that didn't crack 10 and bam, just got over 10. So we talk about the lack of depth for the Miami Heat. That was on full display today. And you had the contrary for the Atlanta Hawks. And I was super impressed. For a team that had been wavering all season long being one game under 500, 500, or one game over, this was one of their best performing games. And that was with Dejante not having to go crazy. Or Trey Young, he had a good game, but this won like a supernova game for him. It felt like the others all came to play today. And that was something that was hit or miss for them all season long. Again, it feels a little bit different talking about the Easter Cards playing because whoever wins these two games and we see the Atlanta Hawks on the first one, they're probably gonna get steamrolled in the first round of the playoffs. We're talking about the Milwaukee Bucks in the Boston Celtics, two of the favorites to win the entire thing. So shout out to Atlanta for making it. I think a lot of the conversations were steered around the report from Kevin O'Connor. They even mentioned it on the broadcast that Kevin O'Connor came out this report about the Atlanta Hawks having a green light to potentially facilitate trades around Trey Young, yada, yada, yada. The heat dig on a low run was like 22 to four run or whatever, but it didn't feel sustainable. And it wasn't. It wasn't. Anyway, we'll see y'all tomorrow. We'll talk about Bull's Raptors for whatever reason. And then, okay, see, Pelicans. That's the one that we looking for.