 Welcome back to the morning after on sports grid. It's time now to welcome in our very special guest and latest newest member to the Fandall team, World Wide Wobb. You know him as Rob Perez. I know you were up late last night. Watch some of your show. So welcome into the early morning after. Yes. Late nights are an understatement in the NBA at least because the games end at like midnight and then you gotta react to them, then you gotta work, then you gotta prepare for the show before you know it. It's the morning after. Can't get any sleep around here, but I'm happy to get up for you guys. I was gonna say, yeah, no, that's the name of the show and that's exactly the vibe that we're getting. And I think the morning after today continues to be one of those really positive mornings for the NBA. The bubble has been bubble-icious for lack of a better word. Luca Dodchic's been incredible. Donovan Mitchell very understated with his performance yesterday, overshadowed by Luca. Of all the craziness we saw over the weekend, Rob, what really stood out to you? I think Luca's the obvious answer, but I wanna hear it from you. Well, yeah, so first of all, the energy that's in this bubble, if I could somehow like bottle it and replicate it for future NBA seasons, that's gonna be the NBA's biggest challenge here because the basketball itself, the X's and O's have been just unprecedentedly good for regular season, let alone what we've seen in the playoffs. The problem is you can't keep these players away from their family and friends for nine straight months. So we're gonna have to figure out a way to make this work in the normal regular season. The question here is, what has surprised me the most? I mean, we have to speak about Luca last night, not just because we're surprised by how good he is. We knew about his talent. We've seen him do the most ridiculous things that other players just can't seem to do. But last night, he took steps towards proving that he is one of the best leaders in the NBA already in year two. So he's surrounded by guys that have been around for five, six years, veterans that probably would want that last shot. They have a lot of good scores. They have a historically efficient offense in Dallas. But just 48 hours ago, before he hits that shot, he could barely even walk. And the fact that he's out there without his wingman in Kristaps Porzingis, who I like to refer to as number six on Dallas, he's not out there with him. And that's a whole nother story in itself, guys. We'll get there, I promise at some point. But Luca Donchic is out there putting the team on his back, just carrying them through every instance. And the fact that the team was able to rally around him, it almost surprised me that Luca Donchic has proved at this point in his career in year two, that he is able to get his teammates to buy in to that's the guy. Like LeBron James is the prototype example of it because he came straight out of high school, the Coveys of the world, the Kevin Garnets that have made the franchise theirs, but never this quickly, never this quickly. He could have easily just folded up the tent down 20, down 20 in the third quarter to the Clippers. This wasn't the Knicks. It was the Clippers that were down 22. He could have just said, I'm gonna keep my ankle fine, we'll go to game five. And he went back out there and he brought them back from the depths of hell. Super impressive, guys. What surprised me about your show last night was I thought you would open up with Luca. You went on a rant about Denver. What was it about Denver that got you so fired up? Okay, so my eyes are, I look like I just woke up because Denver is keeping me up all night. I have financial reasons for leading the show with Denver. Okay, Denver is the better team in the series of the third seed against the six. They are driving me insane. They're driving, I can't like, I'm gonna throw Tomahawk my television through the window at some point here, because they have the talent. Okay, they can put up the points. Jamal Murray is putting up 45, 50 points. Like it's a walk in the park for him, but they just refuse to take Nikola Jokic out of the pick and roll. The Utah Jazz are walking down the court with a sign around their neck that says, we are going to run a high pick and roll with Donovan Mitchell and Rudy O'Bear. Are you okay with this? And Denver says, okay, we know it's coming. Yeah, we're okay with it. And Jokic doesn't, all you have to do is just put the ball in the air and Rudy O'Bear is gonna dunk it. Then he starts backing off of him eight feet off. He's just shooting free throws. Oh, Donovan Mitchell did last night we shoot 50 points on free throws. Whether he was actually using free throws or just pulling up on the two point line. The fact that Mike Malone and this Denver team made it this far without recognizing something that is getting completely exploited, driving me absolutely wild and every Nuggets fan out there watching those games in these past couple of games, just hadn't not see what we're seeing. You don't even need to know basketball to see that this doesn't work. Can't stand it. I'm gonna stir the pot a little more with Denver because I think Jamal, but then we're gonna get into some funner topics that I know are gonna get you much happier. Jamal Murray, how is he only averaging 18 points per game? This guy should be a 24, 25, 26 point per game score. And the jazz offensive efficiency rating in this series it's like I'm looking at a number on like the price is right. It just keeps going up and up and up. And I don't think Utah is going to change what they're gonna do because it's really all they've got in their back pocket right now. And unless Denver adjust the series is gonna be over quick. Let's get into some more exciting stuff. Our Thunder series bet is alive and well. And I think it's because of our guy Lou Dort who has become emerged as the best on ball defender in the NBA. This guy was undrafted, Rob. What's your take on the rest of the series? Huge game today. Thunder catch it about three, three in the hook. I think they're a live dog if they got Dort on the floor guarding James Harden. Okay, let me save you before somebody clips this and puts this on the internet. I'm not gonna go as far and say that Lou Dort is the best on ball defender in the NBA. I'll give that honor to Kawhi Leonard. But let me agree with you and say that Lou Dort's presence makes a difference. What makes Lou Dort great is that he's able to guard James Harden without fouling. All of a screaming, pulling our hair out whether you bet against the Rockets or just watching the game in general. Why are you jumping with James Harden? He's gonna draw foul 99 times out of 100 if you expose yourself in midair. Now Lou Dort the way that he's built his foot speed, his quadriceps look like tree trunks and James Harden is a massive built human being, okay? Who has strength. That's the most underrated part of his game is his strength. Lou Dort is able to one, stay on the ground, stay in front of James Harden without fouling and just say if you're gonna make a 32 foot step back on me, go for it. Like you're gonna have to beat us doing just things that no human has done before you consistently over the course of a 48 minute game. Now in regards to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the series itself, big, big W game three keeps them in the series. They're the most clutch team in the league. So that means within five minutes if the score is within five points, Oklahoma City is the number one team. Now we're in a complete contrast of styles here because OKC likes to live in the mid-range. They wanna make tough twos while the Rockets are out there bombing 75 threes a game with the small ball analytics loving style of play that Darryl Murray has instituted. It's gonna come down to Steven Adams. I mean, the man has been a zombie, a walking corpse out there and he should be dominating. He's got a guy on him that's six, seven inches smaller. You should be out there putting up 2020 every single game. And if Steven Adams is not gonna put up 2020 and has to sit, that was the whole point of betting OKC in the first place. You can't beat the Rockets in the way that they play four out of seven times without one of your highest paid players performing at a level against a team in which there is no reason, no reason whatsoever that he shouldn't be at least getting 20 rebounds a game. And there's no other way to put it. He's the biggest, most dominant physical guy on the court. Prove it. Good day. The Lakers and Trailblazers are also tonight. And yeah, I know Jared says he agrees with you there. We didn't get to talk too much about this. So I wanna get your take on it. Lakers, Trailblazers tonight. Lakers were at minus seven and a half. Now they're at minus seven. So taking the hook off, who do you like in this matchup? Only about a couple minutes left. All right, well, thank you for the reminder because I like to just go off on tangents and rants here. So keeping me, our relationship is already growing to two shows in. That's a big number. We love it. I mean, I can't sit here and recommend that you lay seven points, but the Lakers have found the antidote to Damien Lillard. You're not gonna stop him, but you can contain him. And you drown these Blazers, big men in just size because you have Jamil McGee, Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Anthony Davis. They have hockey shifts, a big guy. You had Marquise Morris in there that you just can tire use of Nurkage out. He was so tired that the camera was panning on the fast break. It was just leaving use of Nurkage on the left side of the screen because he just got tired and wouldn't stop running. Then you got Hassan White side who's a monopoly chance card in terms of if he's gonna show up that night. But in this case, the monopoly chance card is 25% pass go, 75% go to jail. Okay, that's just what Hassan White side has been his entire career. You forced those guys to play together. You forced them into foul trouble and you forced Nurkage off the court either by fatigue or that said, foul trouble. And the Lakers finally figured out that if we just put enough pressure on them on the glass, it doesn't matter how many threes Damien Lillard makes because layups are easier than 32 foot three pointers. Yeah, no, the Nurkage thing, I noticed that too, the other Nairobi. He looked like he was just worn out. So I'll present this to you. We got about a minute left. I'll present this to you. You have to take one today, Lakers or Clippers. What's it gonna be? To win the series or to cover the spread? To win the to win it all, to go further. Which team goes further in the playoffs? Lakers or Clippers? Oh, yeah, I'm still on the Clippers. I know what happened last night. And this team is made for trench warfare. I mean, I'm going into the foxhole with four of those guys. Paul George has been a disappointment. What a luxury to have that you can go to Kawhi Leonard and Lou Williams if Paul George is having one of his three for 14 nights. They're saying his new nickname should be PG 13%. You know what, it's accurate. But when you have Lou Williams out there who's dropping 35, like it's absolutely nothing. And you have the best player, you have the finals MVP to go to. There's absolutely no reason, they're gonna win the series. They are made for playoff basketball and you simply can't score and beat Kawhi Leonard four out of seven times. You could beat them two or three possibly, but they just have all the makings of a championship contender. Clippers 19 and five, ATS off a loss. That's the trend we are targeting for tomorrow night. So I agree with you. I think the Clippers tomorrow night's the play. You know, it sure sounds easy. Doesn't it, Jared? Like when you sit here and we say- It sounds so easy, right? Yeah, we've convinced everyone at this point, but is Luca gonna be able to pull that off with the ankle? Is number six on Dallas? Is this knee okay? This is why it's a seven game series and it's not March Madness. There is no parity. The best team wins seven game series and that team is the Clippers. Well, we'll get into the KP stuff next year. That's the thing that always prevail in the NBA. We're all the wide wab, Rob Perez, catch him on late night with Wab on Fandle. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you again soon. Thanks guys. Good stuff.