Mo Dakhil

And it is really interesting in LA, watching sort of the fall of the Lakers and kind of the rise of the Clippers this season and the way the start of the season went.

and the way it's going now.

And you're kind of feeling Clipper fans, you know, all seven of them a bit more excited.

They're all on the wall, you know, and Laker fans feeling the consternation of how rough the team has looked.

It's been really impressive watching this team.

And you got to give Ty a ton of credit because he came out, I think it was the press conference right after they went 6-21.

And he was just like, no, we're going to stay the course.

He was focused.

I forget what he was saying.

The record needs to be the rest of the way.

But we got to be locked into playoff mode almost.

And now that they've kind of gone into that, you're seeing them rise up.

And it's interesting.

But I'll be curious, Zach, because you started this with, I will not fall for this again.

I'll be curious when we get to April, who will fall for this if this kind of continues with them.

OK, so let's.

I mean, the simple answer is they started caring about defense again, you know, and I think that's kind of the most important aspect of it.

You know, we're a long ways away from the sort of, uh,

the shirts that Jeff Van Gundy had, you know, I forgot about those, the, the, the preseason.

And they kind of just like forgot or didn't care about defense in that sense.