There are 29 at the half, with or without a D.

LeBron asserting his dominance in a dominating win over the Dubs.

And that's when I finally got up on my chair and went upstairs and left everybody downstairs and he was wondering, Why did I just leave?

That thing was over in the second quarter, like I'm not coming back down there.

Jay came over.

I'm upstairs now.

It did leave me down this path, okay?

Because as I'm watching Dennis Schroder and he played his tail off last night, Um, there's a difference when him and LeBron are on the court together.

But if it's just LeBron and Dennis Schroder and say, for some reason, 80 doesn't come back, it made me think about man.

Even if Kevin Durant doesn't come back for Brooklyn just with James Harden and Kyrie Irving, I think that's enough for them to win a championship.

I don't think that's the case for the Lakers.

Now you can say that's because the Lakers are in the West, the gauntlets a little bit different in the West, but I think with the way Kyrie and James Harden played together in the East with teams like Milwaukee.

Even if Philadelphia is playing really well with Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, I think that's enough for the Nets to come out of the East and potentially when the whole thing, even if they didn't have Kevin Durant see, I feel like the field is even all the way across the board.

Uh, if if, for some reason like you said a D is not back, I think the Lakers get they take a dip in the field, becomes somewhat, even neutral.

Yeah, I think I think when you think about it, the Clippers, I mean, obviously Paul George.

If he's healthy, he's cooking and quiet like poop.

The other night against Milwaukee, I mean, yeah, I mean, every now and then.

We all have a stinker here and there, but I think that they'll be pretty even with the Lakers, Utah, Denver, you know?

Then you start talking about Phoenix.

What is that gonna be?

Portland.

Um, but then when you get in the East for me, the two teams are still the two teams.

It's the Sixers in the Nets or the Net to the Sixers uh, you don't got Philly up there.

You don't got Milwaukee in there.

I mean, I'm sorry.

Milwaukee, Milwaukee in there.

I just don't trust you honest like that, though, man.

I mean, look, he shot, he shot.

I mean, he had a game game changing dunk the other day in that game against the Clippers, but still, the Clippers were playing a dude at the free throw line.

Yannis was at the three point line key.

I've never said it's so disrespectful.

I wonder what the equivalent would be as far as somebody guarding you as a wide receiver.

But Janice was at the three point line and dudes were playing him at the free throw line saying, Go ahead, go ahead.

If you want to beat us, go ahead and shoot it.

Well, what would be to that is people trying to get in your face and football and try to because they feel like you're not gonna run by them.

But then they wanted to get cooked, and then they, you know, because they misjudged the situation, right?

I mean, that's kind of how that goes.

But you think about and the reason I say I just don't like Yannis.

It's like one of the It's like food, right?

You could get a burger that you like.

You're like, Oh, man, I'm fired up for this burger.

You go and you get it and he like, woman I could have just with the McDonald's and been cool because that in the end, it didn't give you that satisfaction like you thought.

And I think that that is the way I look at Janice.

I'm fired up for it.

Then in the end, when the playoffs come, it's like, Man, what did you?

Because you know what it's going to be looking.

At least that's what is being right.

I mean, they did try to add Drew Holiday.

It was his first game back yesterday, even though he didn't play well, tracing covid tracing things of that sort.

I do think he gives him an extra dynamic down the stretch, but I don't think it's enough for more.

I think Milwaukee kind of reminds me the same team they were last year.

I think it will come down to Philadelphia and the Brooklyn Nets.

I just not having a dead man it he's such a game changer because That's LeBron James.

Peanut butter and jelly That's peanut butter and jelly.

Two point.

Oh, if LeBron and D.

Wade we're PBJ.

The first version, like this is the next iteration of that, and it makes the game easier for them all the way around.

But LeBron do what he was able to do in Cleveland at times without having a true to a running mate where Dennis is more of a to be instead of a 28 Can he can he put enough on his back?

Two.

Make up the difference for whatever a D left behind.

But I think that's what we had a chance to find out a little bit during that stretch when Dennis wasn't there and when a D wasn't there right like it was, LeBron is still machine.

LeBron can do things that are superhuman.

I figured what game they're about to play, and we're like, Hey, against the Utah Jazz without Dennis Schroder and a D.

I was like, Hey, man, look like I wouldn't put it past LeBron to go out for, like 40 and have a triple double potentially win this game.

I'm not saying that one game was an indictment of LeBron LeBron is still incredible, But I don't know if LeBron is the same LeBron he was 10 years ago.

That can put a toll team on his back.

The way he used to be able to do that.

He needs the extra pieces to help.

And I don't know if Dennis Schroder is that one person to get them over the hump to get out of the West.

But every since he's been back there, what are they, too?

So there are 21?

Oh, would throw them back in the lineup.

Beat Portland, beat Golden State.

I mean, the ports Golden State last night beat both jeans.

I mean, they're not juggernauts, but they at least took care of business, right?

Yeah, let's reset the situation.

So you're wondering what the sons are going to be.

That's interesting, because that's who the Lakers have next tomorrow, so we'll see if the Lakers can go to three.