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- Malcolm: How is this not out? Because it was a stretch where like Trey Young, Harden, none of them they was getting offensive foul calls for that. But now it's like it's just like I feel like like I feel like the way that the game is ref there, like the the the swing of the game is like a lot of the momentum and is heavily favored towards the offense, bro. ⁓ And the defense just has no like leverage, bro. Like you just have to take it, bro. It's crazy to me. But I will be pulling up to a bar, sports bar or something to to to to hate watch on O K C and watch watch Wimby and my my boys advance to the finals, man. ⁓ I I can't stand OK C. Yeah, bro. Yeah, bro. I I I I I cannot I cannot watch. I I I cannot watch another second of LKC basketball. I can't. Thomas: popping Like I need them I don't Malcolm: I want them gone forever. That's the thing. I want them gone forever. Mm-hmm. Thomas: ⁓ Malcolm: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thomas: Like if more because he would have won earlier. Malcolm: I mean, there there wouldn't like the fact I mean, he's already like held as a top two player ever. So everybody you either got him one or two, depending on who you talk to. If he wants that ⁓ seven final, I don't think there would be a dispute. There wouldn't even there wouldn't be a argument whatsoever. Like I mean, be even being considered the second greatest player of all time is still a an insane achievement in itself, but I think he won that and I mean it wouldn't even be no argument. It'd just be like, Okay, we know what the what the ranking is. We're just waiting for somebody to surpass him, but I don't know, bro. Wimby win this joint year three. I already see what type of timing he on, bruh. I already see what type of time he on, bro. Thomas: I feel so bad. Luca. feel bad for all them dudes. ⁓ Malcolm: ⁓ yeah yeah. I ain't gonna lie. Ant Ant bro and I ain't gonna lie. Ant either gonna have to get go go get Giannis or he gonna have to go to the east, bro. He has no shot in this west. I'm sorry, he has no shot in the West, bro. Randall and and and and and Obert, he that's not it, bruh. Thomas: I mean even Malcolm: Yeah. They have no they have no chance. Like dudes like him, Luca, like those those guys, they're just like they're s they are so good. But they just play in an era where it's just like a they're and I feel sorry for them type of dude because like when I think about like Braun and like the type of dudes he just kept out of the finals year over year, I think about dudes like DeMar DeRozan, like Paul George. Like like like like there are just dudes in every generation that just keep really, really, really good basketball players. Thomas: might never win an Like Malcolm: From being great basketball players because they just have no chance of getting accolades, of getting rings, because they are playing with literal demigods on the court, bro. And Wimby is that yeah. Thomas: T Mac. ⁓ V and LeBron had fortunately. Malcolm: Yeah. Mm-hmm. bro. It's just it's just dudes that will just never get like like same with MJ, like it's dudes, I mean Charles Barkley, I mean Stockton Malone, like it ⁓ Thomas: Yeah. That should be a sixties, last frame. Malcolm: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like the the difference is bro, like domination to me is just like you are so good that you just keep other people from like even having a chance, bro. Like going to the finals ten straight times, bro, you nobody even has a chance. Nobody else has a chance with you, bro. Like That's gonna be that's gonna be interesting. Yeah, but I'll I'll be seated for this eight watch, bro, for sure. For sure. Excited man.