Dan Woike

Right.

Like every day we're older every day.

We're, we're a little bit closer to the finish line.

Um,

It's just like, it's just harder to not think about it.

And it's harder to think, harder to ignore sort of the costs of like what I view to be a pretty noble pursuit.

I think getting everything out of a game, you know, that you've poured your entire life into is a noble pursuit.

I think it is a noble pursuit to see, to push your body to limits that have never been reached before.

Because in addition to being incredibly hard working, he has been like touched by the gods physically.

Like, right.

Like this guy is like just an incredible,

incredible athlete like an all-time athlete right and so he like sort of owes it to those gifts to try and get everything out of it right none of these things are bad or they're wrong um they're also inherently stunting for the other people around and um they're what like I think is like a real

a real contrast in that with this current Lakers team, the very obvious needs it has, right?

And their inability probably to solve them.

Those things are all related.

So maybe that's the story.

What do you see?

So I think it's two things.

I think, and I want to come back to this, but I want to answer the second part of it first.

But remind me, I take some issue with the word consistency there because 85 minutes with your starting lineup