J. Kyle Mann

You just can't do it.

Phoenix is turning the ball over now well over 20% of its possessions.

you're just going to be dead in the water so long as that's the case.

And I don't know how that changes.

That's kind of endemic to the matchup, to the offenses involved.

It's just a shitty situation to be in, it turns out, to play against the Thunder.

In light of that, I do want to shine a little bit of a spotlight on that Chet third quarter, which, good Lord, if there was any argument in this game that J-Dub wasn't the best player on the floor, it was like that glimpse of what we saw from Chet, in which he was...

Putting together every aspect of his game, the blocks were unreal.

In particular, the sprint back and transition to turn away Dylan Brooks and wall him up on a layup.

Devin Booker gets the rebound, then swat him away in turn.

And it was like, how many times do we see Chet pull off two and three consecutive amazing defensive plays on a single possession?

Just really special stuff from him.

It's true.

Also, Shea, we should note, so that was in his non-shooting hand, did not stop him from handling the ball with his left, finishing with his left, playing normally as Shea Gilgis-Alexander does, including putting up 37 on 25 shots.

Ho-hum, normal stuff, and yet amazing.

Rob, do you want to go first with yours?

I would love to.

For the sake of Ferrero, I would love to.

One thing that I think I know, I think we still somehow underrate the focus that comes with a LeBron James team.

when we were going through our playoff previews and breaking down, okay, what do the Lakers have in this incarnation without Lugo, without Austin Reeves?