Joel Lorenzi

I'm good.

How are you guys?

No, that's completely fair, especially because I think a lot of people anticipated whoever was going to come out of this series, I think it was widely considered.

That was kind of like the NBA Finals itself, right?

And it's more of a knock to the East.

And I think maybe that perspective changed a little bit just because the Knicks are rolling the way they are.

And they do seem to be prepared to bring a little better of a fight than,

than previously anticipated.

And they actually, like, once you get down a matchup, like, they've given the Spurs a little more trouble than they gave the Thunder over the, you know, course of this past year.

But, no, like, it did feel like a coordination, especially because Wimby, there's so much emotion rooted in, like, these matchups for Wimby.

Like, beyond, like, playing against Chet, clearly he had his eyes fixed on

the MVP and Shay and like all of this mattered.

It was so pressurized and it went seven.

Like I think a lot of people probably figured this was such an exhausting series, such a, such an inflection point for him.

Like it, it felt a lot like the way when I was covering the Thunder last year, when they finally got over the hump with Denver, like that was an inflection point for them.

And this was even bigger.

This was a different stage for,

This was against a better team.

This was against the defending champions.

It certainly felt like everything you're framing it to be.