Stugatz

They're only NBA teams in name and uniform, but they're only out there to make sure to lose.

It's not an accomplishment to get into the basketball playoffs when that's... What are you shaking your head about, Jeremy?

The play-in rocks.

The play-in is the reason the Hornets have played hard at this point of the season.

No, the Hornets have tanked for nine years in a row.

And if they had been as bad as they were for the first two months of the season, they would have mailed it in and have a bunch of guys with fake surgeries also, just like the rest of these teams.

But because they had an opportunity to still get to the postseason, they were able to evolve over the course of the season.

It's going to be the

coolest test of the play and ever they might be a nine or a ten seed they might be despite being one of the best teams in basketball during the second half and this will give them an opportunity to get to the postseason i don't know how we could possibly perceive the play-in as a bad thing when that's a possibility charlotte is not looking at being like all right let's get this big three together and see what we can do with miller with the mellow ball and with conca nipple and see if we can make the plan this is like all right we're playing for year two of this year three of this year four of this let's see what we have here so we know what we have they think they're good yeah

Wait, but they would have thought they were bad.

Whoa, that sounded like a threat and a warning.

Put it on the poll, please.

Is Conn Knipple the greatest name presently in basketball?

And also put it on the poll, is Conn Knipple the greatest name ever in basketball?

Yeah, he is the favorite now, yeah.

Yeah, but you walked it back because Cooper Flagg had a 49-point game.

Didn't walk it back.

Said, instantly when I said it, I don't know, Dan.

I can have Mike Fuentes pull up because he was looking at it yesterday.

I can say, look, the take was, they're going to give it to Cooper Flagg because of politics.