Jason

They probably take at least two days off.

The next game is probably on... If game two is on Monday, then they would probably be playing again on Thursday.

Thursday would literally be almost a full two weeks from now.

That's a long time for him to build his, to continue to ramp up.

So like if there's a version of this where Luca comes back two weeks from now for game three and against OKC, and even if they're down to, Oh, which I would expect them to be, you know, win game three at home, all of a sudden it's a very different type of series.

And that's just a possibility, a crack in the door that didn't exist in

before that.

I think that I, that I think is a realistic outcome for the Lakers now.

And like Marcus smart didn't play in that house ass kicking that they had in, in early April.

And he's such an important part of the mental toughness and identity of this team.

And they did compete much better versus OKC at home than they did in the two road games.

So being at home, having Marcus Smart available, having all your guys available, Luca or Austin and LeBron, two games to kind of get used to that OKC pressure.

Again, this series isn't over.

No team in NBA history has ever come back from down 3-0.

But there is a kind of a tiny little window of opportunity that I'm seeing there for the Lakers that I didn't see in the last couple of weeks.

On the Houston front,

I've been talking about this all season.

It's that collective IQ and execution.

It's a combination of it down the roster.

It starts with the head coach, but it extends to Alper and Shangoon, who defensively makes a dozen perplexing decisions every single game.