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So if you want to call it 420 every day, I guess we could call it 420 every day. You know what I mean? Well, what is the playoffs every day kind of is a holiday? Like if you're a basketball junkie, you know what I mean? If you s smoke on that or whatever. You smoke basketball the way people smoke weed on four twenty, bro. That's a bad analogy. But every day is like that. And it's the playoffs and we're in the full swing of things. And uh it's unfolding at a at a rapid pace. And I think that the best place to start is this Lakers Rocket series because a lot of people were counting out LeBron , even though KD didn't play. People were counting out LeBron, I think, on the DraftKings Sports book, the Rockets were minus 600 or something like that to win the series, or it was maybe plus 600 for the Lakers to win the series. Lakers were underdogs. They came out and they took game one. Uh is this the best legacy moment for LeBron, uh just playing with his son ? Um that's that's what he said. You know, I I I don't look at look at it that way because obviously it's not my son. I mean, I'm sure that'd be a great feeling, but it's better that like what if he wins this series without uh without Luca and Austin Reeves? What what what what does that do to this this greatest of all time conversation? Does it does it move the needle at all in Lebron's favor or does it keep it the same or is is Jordan always going to be the goat in most people's eyes no matter what Lebron does in this series ? I think that first round series never matter in the greatest of all times discussion. It's the last round that matters the most. And Jordan Jordan is more successful in the last round, but god damn, what LeBron's doing , the way that he smacked around those young players on the Rockets, Tari Eason, Woodshed , Jabari Smith Jr., psychological damage. He's too big . He's strong. That's a man playing against boys, is what it looked like in that first game. It did, and that's that's what it is. Most of the time when LeBron's on the floor, bro. It's just like he's just different. And and and y'all are lucky. The Rockets are really lucky that Bronn didn't come out there with a headband on. Because if Bronn wears a headband, it's like a switch. It's a different dude, bro. Braun, if you see this, do me a favor. Do do do old white boy from West Virginia a favor and wear a headband one game. God forbid y'all get to a game seven. Yeah, you gotta throw the headband on Shaw .. Yeah Dow Brown. Yeah. Yeah. He's playing different. Yeah. He he's uh he's elevated his game. And I don't know if it's does does JJ Reddick deserve any of the credit? Um, yeah, I'm gonna give J. J. Redick some of the credit because he had to obviously put a different game plan together without Luca and Austin Reeves. Obviously everything's gotta go through Braun now. And sure, yeah. I think JJ Reddick i is a smart individual that doesn't get enough credit as a coach . I don't know. I mean, I just think I know it's it's it's about the X's and the O's. I mean it's not about the X's and O's, it's the Jimmies and the Joes. But I think sometimes the coaches got to put your guys in the right position to succeed. And I think JJ does that sometimes . Yeah. Jordan, what do you think? Uh I think JJ definitely deserves credit, but like guys have to step up at the end of the day, like you said, like Luke Can ard, 27 points. Eight, I feel like everyone talks about Luke Connard, but Aiden with 19 points, 11 rebounds. Like that's what they want him to do all year. Like he has that stat line with the other two guys in in who knows where the Lakers could go. Rury fourteen, Marcus Smart 15. A guy stepped up. Marcus Smart played huge. Marcus Smart played good. He did a lot of things. Initiated a lot of offense too and I and you you mentioned Ayton too. I I I'm've always been a big fan of Ayton. I thought he was gonna be a lot better than he was. I just I don't know if he's been in the right situation, but there's no better situation to be in now than with LeBron James, right? And I think if he just if he just gives me gives him 10 and 10. He ain't gotta get to 19 and 10. This 10 and 10, they're a different team. Well I think it's like if he adds the defense, then they're a different team. Because there were times where JJ Reddick, you could see he would get frustrated and he would have a short leash he would be like Jackson Hayes get in there well you're not switching the right way so it's like if Ayton can give you like all the minutes if he can make the right switches on defense but that's why I think that JJ Redick is the perfect coach for him because he's gonna coach him hard and he's gonna be like get in the right fucking position or sit your ass on the bench. Like he's not gonna sugarcoat it, he's not gonna over-players coach it. But you're dead right about Marcus Smart. Marcus Smart was giving them the energy, going to the bucket, playing strong in the first half they were trying to like showtime out though. I was like LeBron can showtime. The rest like I don't need to see Marcus Smart showtime. And like they were trying to do like some fast break, crazy shit, throw the ball for ward, ye et passing it. Leave that shit to LeBron. Leave it to Jay Will, you know? Yeah, you know me. I'm always looking for that type shit. But yeah, in in those situations, if if you haven't did it all year long, bro, you need you you probably shouldn't start doing it now in play theoffs. Energy energy is different. You give more minutes. The two main guys are all right. Let's let's get it right. Energy real different. They were trying to do shit. Yeah, they were trying to do shit, but it's like just play, play your And the other thing about JJ and just I mean the way the Lakers are built, I mean they keep some white dudes out there. That Jake LaRavia is out there. You you already uh shouted out. Luke Kennard, if AR comes back, Luca comes back, we get some maxi kleber minutes off the bench. Like it's gonna look like the nineteen sixties Boston Celtics out there, and they still might have a chance. Not nineteen sixties white folks ain't the same as a uh yeah, it's di it's different. The competition ain't nineteen sixty white folks. It's two thousand twenty-six brush against nineteen sixty white folks. That that don't pan out too well in today's society. Wait, I wanna while we're on the white dude conversation, I wanna pivot to a different series right now because there is a white dude comparison that I want to talk about. The way I see it in the NBA, there 's two buckets of white dudes, and every white dude fits into one of these two categories. You're either a Tyler hero or a Grayson Allen. Like you name a white player, I can say he's either more of a Tyler hero or he's more of a Grayson Allen. He's more of like he's gonna talk that shit, maybe shave his head, get a little knots in the eyebrow, talk that shit, or he's gonna be this high effort type of player, this guy who's just gonna be fuck ing running around diving at your ankles like um like you know a lot of the Nova dudes, those are those are more of uh your Grayson Allen type of players, but Jay Williams, you might be more in the the Tyler Hero camp? But I think that we saw a player on the Denver Nuggets go from one side to the other in a couple of years. And I'm talking about Christian Brown. The fact that he now is coming out with the shaved head and the beard on, he might be a whole different type of player right now. When he first came out, he had the kind of like floppy hair, he was you know, playing the right way, charg ing around, now he's hitting threes in the corner and like pointing at the other team's bench, talking that shit. Have we ever seen a white dude transition in the way that we're watching Christian Brown transition right now Are you telling me that there's a third bucket now? No, I think he ja I think he jumped from one bucket to the other bucket. Oh, he did . I mean, am I valid in these the the two buckets ? Like like