Justin Verrier

Maybe they're just like the type of team that is only like built for the playoffs, but they also didn't have the regular season success.

You know how like a veteran team that's had these moments like, oh, we'll just get to the playoffs.

We'll flip a switch.

They flip the switch, but it was never on during the regular season in order to get them even like a halfway decent seed.

And so, like, if they just show up again, this is at the very least going to be a long series, which is, like, it's so tough to square those things.

The biggest loser of the first round might have been like the Orlando Magic's travel agent because this very much looked like a Cancun situation a week ago.

And there they are.

It's wild.

Let's go to the next game on the Sunday docket.

We'll go through all the Sunday games.

Then we'll get to the Saturday ones on the back end.

Playoff Wemby has arrived.

And I mean, you can kind of tell in the big picture conversation about like, oh, who's the face of the NBA?

Like, who's the future?

Well, it's the guy that they put in primetime on Sunday night with the entire arena rocking and has all those awesome colored shirts going on there.

Like, what an incredible job by the PR team or the marketing team or whoever does that to just like really bring it.

Because Wemby has been trying to build an atmosphere all year to the point where he has his teammates bang that fucking drum at

You got to see Devin's sell at the end of like a really hard fought playoff game, like just having to go through the motions of doing that shit.

I thought this was very much an arrival moment, even though like you can say like, oh, let me add some some some hiccups here and there.

But why don't we start here?