Justin Verrier

And I'm just like, this guy is seven four.

He's literally one of the biggest players, not only in the league, but that we've seen play in the league.

And he's just doing things as if he had the mobility and athleticism of something like Steph.

And so I'm just like, he just, every single game, it's something I've never seen before.

And I have to imagine like, if we're talking about the big picture discussion about the league, about like, oh man, tanking, this is going wrong.

That is going wrong.

At the very least we have this.

And I wonder if, if like he is our shining beacon of hope of like, if people want to turn this thing around, like this might be the guy, if anything, it has to be the guy probably.

I want to get to that later because the France lineup, like who he's going to be playing with and like the types of player is actually pretty fascinating.

But Spurs on a completely other level, probably than any other team like the Thunder have played well, but the Spurs just seem like the team of destiny at this point as we're recording this.

Already on another win streak, 10 in a row.

The competition hasn't been great, and obviously it's March now into April basketball.

And so there are some caveats there, but man, I just can't remember a team that's picked up this sort of head of steam going into the playoffs because the Pacers are probably the obvious comp.

But as we talked about at length last year, there's a lot of holes to poke in there.

I don't think people perked up until they won not only one, but probably even two series in last season's postseason games.

Uh, this time it almost feels like we know what's coming.

Like the trailers have been out there and I'm getting to the point where it's like, how long can we ignore the fact that like this team seems to be special just right now?

I don't know how you're thinking overall in terms of, uh, just like the big picture title race, but like, are you can like, should we be talking about the Spurs being perhaps the favorite, not just like the spoiler?

Right.

And I guess the counter that like a true blue contender who's proven it would probably say is like, oh, let's see him stretch out into 10 additional minutes and then play in these rigorous playoff games like what, two days apart or whatever it is.