Hawks top Bucks to extend longest winning streak in a decade

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On today's Show the Little Hawks have their longest winning streak since the 2014-15 season.

Yes, they've won nine games in a row, including a home one over Milwaukee on this Saturday

afternoon.

We're getting to how they did it and more coming up.

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to you live here for stay from Arena on a Saturday after the Hawks won over the Milwaukee

Bucks 122 to 99.

If you're scoring home, this is the ninth consecutive win for the Hawks.

They're now 10-1 since the off-star break, and it's their first nine game winning streak

since the 2014-15 season, so that's more than a decade now.

That's a long time.

A little bit of an extra added fun, and this one is the draft implications with Milwaukee

taking a loss directly from Atlanta in this game.

That's a small positive, but look, the big picture is the Hawks are just been playing very,

very well and winning and winning and winning and taking care of business along the way.

In this spot, no John the Commingia for the Hawks, but I think they also did return and

played well for Atlanta.

No yon is for the Bucks, which definitely sort of dampened some of the buzz in the building.

I'm sure there were some Bucks fans that were not necessarily thrilled with that, and

people that just like washing off the basketball, but it did make it easier for the Hawks

to get this victory, and they were actually double-digit favorites.

I tipped off a quarter of our friends at Fandall, which was probably the right thing.

The Hawks were the better team, playing at home, all that stuff.

It was close for most of the first half, up eight and a half time, and then they broke

it up in a little bit in the third quarter, and led by as many as 26 in the fourth before

the win this game, by 23 points in the end.

But the Hawks just played solid basketball.

They didn't have a spectacular shooting game.

They didn't have one player go absolutely nuts, although McCollum tried with seven threes.

The Hawks just wore the better team, and they took care of business, and that's been

a theme recently.

If you're new to the podcast, I've been covering this entire streak, and please subscribe

to the podcast, and we will do what we can to give you the big picture and the details

and all that stuff on this pod doing all your long, really.

But in the meantime, the Hawks just keep stacking wins, and it's easier, seven done, I will

say.

And that's been a take away that I've had in Washington, how this has been covered in

some respects.

Like, yes, the schedule has been favorable.

That's undeniable, but it is not easy to win this many games in a row against any professional

basketball team, and the Hawks have done that over the last couple of weeks.

As far as how this game unfolded, the Hawks are really good defensively again.

I want to begin on that, and I'll probably repeat myself a little bit from Thursday's

game, where the Hawks won over the nets.

And that's okay though.

It's kind of applicable in the same frame.

By my count, the Hawks gave up 99 points on 99 possessions in this game.

So exactly a point for possession.

That's obviously just fantastic defense, and Atlanta continues to have the number one

defensive rating in the entire NBA since the all start break.

While the sheer numbers of that are probably not sustainable given who they've been playing

against, that also does not mean it's all fake or a manufacturer.

The Hawks have been playing legitimately well on defense for a while, and look, they're

firmly in the top half of the league now in defensive rating, and you can't fake that.

I know, again, with somebody this week about this, yes, the Hawks have had a bad schedule

in the last couple of weeks.

But they also had the one of the three hardest schedules in the entire league for the break,

and it all counts.

Like, this is the current prob season, and I know a lot of people, it's like, what has

happened recently is all that matters, but if you zoom out, they've played a normal schedule

this season, and they've been able to defend at a pretty high level.

I gave a stat on the last podcast, but if you kind of remove the Asa Newell at center

minutes, this is a top 10 defense, and they're playing like it.

That's been the case for a while, and that's a credit to the players, it's a credit to

the staff.

Obviously, they stand out, it's like Dyson and the Keele, but even the supporting pieces,

the Congress played good defense this year, for the most part, et cetera, et cetera.

That's been a very positive thing, and I thought Dyson and the Keele just blew Milwaukee

up, honestly, in this game, on the perimeter, and it's nice to have that pairing kind of

wrecking shop in front of you, but still, the Hawks played well on defense.

The most important shot of all reason we're well in this game, but the telling stat in

this game on defense is this, the Hawks forced 23 turnovers, and they only allowed five

offensive rebounds.

If you can have that kind of ratio, you are going to be in great shape, and it helps

those turnovers, by the way, 23 of them led to 30 points directly at the top five mark

of the season for the Hawks and points off turnovers on defense, turning into offense,

and they also held Milwaukee down only 18-foot throw attempts in this game that helps

the overall picture.

But much like the next game, it was not as if the shooting was really the reason for this

win on offense or defense.

It was even more stark against Brooklyn, but in this game, Hawks had 19 more shooting

possessions in the box.

And I know every time I do this on the podcast, somebody rolls their eyes, and I understand

it.

But if you dominate the margins that way, it gives you a lot of leeway, and it's also

been a theme of the coaching staff.

I know it's Quinn's been talking about this a lot recently.

If you win on the margins, if you win the possession battle, you're going to have a lot higher

win probability.

It's just the reality, and the Hawks have really done that.

Part of the impressive thing about this winning streak is they're not shooting the ball

crazy.

Occasionally, a team will just get on a hot streak, shooting the basketball, and they'll

win games because of that.

And the Hawks have not had to have been shooting exactly how they'd shot all year long,

basically.

They're right in the middle of the league, league average, all that stuff, and that's

not why they're winning.

They're winning because they're playing, not just shooting, playing better basketball than

their opponents on the margins.

The big gap, compared to the net's game, is that the Hawks actually did shoot the ball

well on offense.

It was decently well.

After they were really bad shooting the ball against a bad net's team on Thursday.

In this game, you can see from the field for that Lanna, there were 37% of them

threes.

That's not crazy, outlier, great, but it was just pretty good.

14 threes for the team, including seven from a column by himself in this one, which is

obviously impressive individual feet.

And the Hawks scored more than 1.2 points per possession.

If you do that, you're also in great shape, as we saw in this game.

They did a good job on offense, though, with also working on the margins, only 13 turnovers

in this game.

23 and only commit 13, great place to be, I would say.

Only five of those 13 turnovers as well were live ball.

So live ball turnovers, which means steals the other team, are way more damaging than

non-live ball.

Only five live ball giveaways in the entire game.

Good spot there.

Also, they had 29 assists.

That's basically what the Hawks average the season.

That's a good number anyway.

They move the ball well.

And they have 15 offensive rebounds that led to 24 second chance points.

It's not new if you've been following the show in the last couple of weeks.

But the Hawks have over this last 10-11 game stretch, including the loss they had in

Miami earlier this run and post-all star break.

They've been, I don't want to say become, because it's a small size still, but they've been

a really good rebounding team on the whole in this run.

And pre-break, that wasn't the case at all.

The Hawks were in the bottom five of the league in rebounding before we all start break.

It was offensive rebounding.

It was basically just this is nil, and then defensive rebounding they were just, you

know, below average.

Not terrible, but below average.

Now they're crashing more second chance opportunities.

They're protecting the rim on defense, both when it comes to putbacks, initial shot attempts.

It's been across the board impressive for the Hawks, even when you adjust the competition.

Lastly, on the offense, they have three, three guys which went to points for more in this

game.

Jalen had triple double, McCollum had 30 points, and the Keele also had a good game.

They also have plenty of good balance as well.

They had four more guys.

There's seven players had at least eight points for the Hawks in this one, and I believe

another one in Mauritius had seven.

They were decently balanced in this game and good process of an offense.

I thought, and I showed this on the podcast after the game on Thursday, I thought the

Hawks were better process than results on Thursday.

Today, they weren't spectacular in offense, but they got good shots for the most part

in this game.

They happen to make more of them and that led to better numbers on the whole, but they

just like they're playing solid basketball.

Where's the sleep things?

I had someone ask me today, like, hey, are you pessimistic about the Hawks?

Because you're not, like, basically excited on the podcast.

No, it's not at all.

I've tried to give the appropriate balance and hopefully I'm succeeding of acknowledging

that this schedule has been really soft, and look, I called that in November and December.

I said, hey, guys, after the break, they have an opportunity to stack wins.

I kept saying that.

I'm sure it's at the point of annoyance.

And look, this is why they had an easy schedule.

But you cannot, you cannot, I mean, be very clear, you cannot win nine games in a row

in the NBA just because of the schedule.

It's not possible.

Yeah, the Hawks played some taking teams.

I get it.

Is it easier to win when they're playing bad teams?

Of course it is, but no, you don't, you don't just win nine games in a row in the NBA against

professionals without playing pretty good basketball, and that's what the Hawks are doing

right now.

Here's a good stat for you.

I'll give this hat tip to Wes Morton, who pointed this, uh, pointed this on Twitter

today as well.

The Hawks won these nine games by an average of 18.8 points per game.

And this is what I'll add in.

They did it without shooting some crazy percentage.

There's 30% from free.

They're not, it's not a fluke.

It's not.

They're doing it without the smoke, it's not smoke a mirrors.

So yes, they beat bad teams, yes, they've won nine games in a row and they've beaten the,

they beaten them solidly.

We'll use that a more, uh, more correct term.

Um, they beat them by 19 points per game.

You cannot fake that.

So does it mean that they're going to suddenly win every game of the season?

Probably not, but they have done it now.

And even if no matter what you kind of draw from, whether it's win probability or point

spreads or just, you know, I test, whatever you want to use, the probability of even if

you're a, let's just say the Hawks are a 10 point favorite, which they're not, even

if you are a 10 point favorite in every single game, over nine games, you're not likely to

win all the nine.

And the Hawks have done that.

The Hawks have held serve.

They've won games at home.

And, uh, while I'm sure there will be some eye rolling, I know there, I know there

is because I get to people in my matches all the time.

It's fine.

But I can say in that locker room in this front office, they're feeling good.

They're playing well.

The vibes are really good.

I was just down there like those guys are excited and they should be.

They're winning and winning and winning and winning.

And that is never something to take advantage of or sorry, take for granted as well as

say about how this goes down because there's only 82 game to season each one of them

matters.

And if you're trying to be in the middle of the playoff race with the Hawks or in winning

like this, look, uh, I already have his stat once, but I'll say it again.

I forecasted that they win a lot of games in this stretch.

If you ask me, the winning streak, how many games will the Hawks win in the next nine?

I wouldn't have said nine.

I can tell you that right now.

Well, that I've been possible sure, but they had to go out and win these basketball

games.

So I'll stop running about this now, but I don't want to hand wave.

I do love the context.

It's important to me that I give the whole picture for better, for worse.

I don't do the pom-pom thing on this podcast on purpose, but it's also important for me

to point out that it's not easy to win nine games in a row.

It's just not.

And that's a real accomplishment.

And it's their longest winning streak since I was covering the team now, but I'm a lot

older now than it was then.

It's been 11 years.

This has happened.

And that's not something you can just hand wave in my opinion.

So there you go on that.

Okay.

In a second, I'll dive back into how this game unfolded, both the strengths, weaknesses,

game flow, pickups, all that fun stuff.

And then later on in the podcast, a player evaluation look and a peek at the standings

as the Hawks are in a much better spot now than they have been during the course of

the season for the most part.

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And today we'll be diving back in to how this game unfolded and the hawks actually led

for almost the entire game.

Not quite almost.

Not quite the entire thing I should say, but almost the entire way.

They actually led this game nine to two at the outset.

The box had a couple of lab alternatives in the game.

The key likes that our walker was tremendous in the first half, eight points right away.

And Milwaukee did have an 11-0 run in the first quarter that was their biggest run

on the entire game.

It took the lead briefly.

They made three threes in a row defensively.

The hawks were a little bit sluggish.

It's one of those things with an early tip off NBA players are not necessarily conditioned

to start a basketball game at three hawking the afternoon.

Somebody can do it.

Obviously, it's not like that nobody does it well, but it's a little bit more, I would

say, variance on these afternoon games because not guys are not necessarily in their normal

routines.

And the hawks had kind of a slow start along the way there.

They did five positions in a really empty and offense, and it was a little bit ugly

at times early in this one to the rotation.

One note, I mentioned earlier briefly, but that Kaminga missed this game for the hawks.

I actually asked Quinn about it pregame because they changed his official listing to the

knee.

Actually, quote unquote, injury management, but Quinn does not enjoy being asked about

injuries.

I posted the response on social media if you wanted to see that, but didn't give me

much of an answer.

He did say it was kind of fluid.

When you have a player coming back from an injury and he's been out for a while, which

is, that's me saying this now, they hope to have him soon.

No one said this to me directly, but I read the injury management listing as kind of a

planned absence from for Kaminga.

I'm not reporting that, but it's that's what kind of felt like to me.

Let's see if he plays on Monday.

He didn't look great on Thursday, you know, he wasn't awful, but just didn't look like

as springy and as free as he was previously.

So that's been a long-term issue.

Obviously, he came back and played great for those three games with the hawks, but he

missed a much time before that, both in gold state and Atlanta.

So they have incentive to keep it careful with him, and we'll see if he plays in a big

game on Monday against Orlando elsewhere in this game.

Researcher admits it was the first two subs as they've had been for a while, then it

was Mogue as the back of power forward for Jalen, and then Jock Landale as the backup

center.

They did use Corey Kispert as the 10th guy in, and he played 15 minutes in this game as

well, but nobody else got in other than garbage time when they played Dennis Wallace Coloco

and Caleb Houston to end the game.

Europe won the end of the first quarter, kind of sluggish at the outset.

They did open second quarter with McCollum, Landale and Kispert playing together.

If you're new to the pod, or if you missed shows recently, that trio in my opinion just

does not work, both in logical, like, you know, practical aspects and in the results.

They entered this game with a negative 8.9 net rating with those three playing together,

which is already quite bad, but also when you remember, the hawks have been winning every

game for a while.

That's even harder to go have that kind of bad number with those three guys on the court.

It was better today to be fair, but if you're move players that are no longer on the roster

when it comes to, you know, beat Krati, Luke, Kinar or even Treyong, take all those guys

off the roster and just say, hey, three man lineups, 100 minutes or more, which is the

worst one?

It's that one.

It is McCollum, Landale and Kispert.

So I wouldn't do that much if at all, and they did it today, didn't bite them, but

when I was not that, and the bucks were definitely trying to pick on Kispert and McCollum in

actions defensively.

I know they hold up, okay, to be honest with you, but it's going to be an area to look

at more often.

Later on in the first half, the 15-6 run, I should say, to go up by 10 for the first

time.

It might have been bigger actually.

Joe got fouled pretty obviously on a fast break that wasn't called.

But I would say they always started to swarm Milwaukee's guards, Dyson and Nikiyo just like

absolutely torch guys at times in the first half, and they're up by 8.5 times, despite

not shooting super well from three, but they were defensively great.

And then Nikiyo, I thought individually, was excellent in that first half.

The bucks came out of the locker room.

I'll sit next to Eric name of the athletic, and we were laughing about this.

They turned them over four times in their first five possessions of a second half, but

also when we scored four points, they were able to lead it all.

Dyson had a great possession where he got a steal on defense, and then actually had

two straight offensive rebounds, despite being a guard, just kind of willing himself around

to get the extra possessions.

And then the column got super hot hit three, three is in 90 seconds to get the Hawks 14 point

lead.

By the way, that went into a timeout and then Milwaukee came out of a timeout and committed

a five second inbound violation in the back court.

That just doesn't happen very often.

They were kind of out of sorts.

Doc Rivers was losing his mind right in front of us.

They did have a late run that the Hawks a 13 to 5 run late in the third about by 20 before

a banked in three by old pal Pete Nance.

That kind of gave them a little bit of a lifeline.

The Hawks had six threes in the quarter, and they were playing well.

Quinn did have a very bad challenge early in the fourth.

Nakeel, a call for offensive foul that was, you know, one of those calls that I could

have gone without being called, but it was called, and you're never going to challenge.

It was just a terrible challenge.

I don't know if it was emotional or if he was just trying to back up Nakeel or whatever.

Hawks were up by a lot, so he didn't bite them, but that was not a good challenge at

all by anybody involved on that side.

They didn't quite run away.

The Bucks were within 13 with like six and a half minutes to go so that the Hawks were

definitely in control, but it wasn't over like mid fourth quarter.

And then it was after a 12 to one run by the Hawks over about three minutes to end the

game.

Go up by 24 with four minutes to go.

The Bucks went into a timeout pull everybody out as most teams would.

Of course, the Hawks did not because Quinn doesn't ever seem to pull guys fast enough.

I will say in Quinn's defense, the only remaining drama at the end of the game was whether

Jalen actually had a trouble double or not.

He needed a rebound at some point, and he did stay in the game, got a rebound, and then

as soon as that for that, they set the guys to the table.

So I might have just been to get Jalen one more chance at a rebound.

Whatever happens to happen there.

I'm glad nobody got hurt.

I do have a long standing, not you know, beef's too strong, but like disagreement with

Quinn about that.

He tested lead guys in a little bit too long in my opinion, but anyway, that's that.

And it was cruise control to the finish with some garbage time along the way.

A quick standings check before we move on to the individual player stuff.

In a second, the Hawks are still tied with Philly right now for eighth place because Philly

also won today.

They almost blew lead.

They were actually up by a lot against Brooklyn and ended up winning.

With that said, Charlotte lost today, which is a good result.

The Hawks were already ahead of them, but that's a positive result for the Hawks.

And Orlando plays Miami tonight.

So as I'm recording this podcast, I can't be gone yet, so I don't know the result of

it.

Maybe you will when you're listening.

But either Miami or Orlando has to lose tonight.

So at the end of today, so as of Sunday morning, basically, the Hawks would be

one and a half games behind both Toronto and either Miami or Orlando.

So there'll be one and a half games out of the six seed in the East.

Not bad, obviously.

So we'll see how that goes in the future.

Obviously, a big time showdown on Monday against Orlando that could decide a lot of things,

tie breakers, et cetera.

But overall, a good day, even if it would have been nice if Brooklyn Philly somehow, a

good day so far for the Hawks was Charlotte losing.

And more crucially, the Hawks winning and the Bucks taking a loss that helps them in the

draft process as well.

Okay.

And a second, I'll dive into how this game unfolded from a player evaluation standpoint and then

look ahead briefly to Monday's game and more.

It's all coming up in just one moment.

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Prior to the individual player stuff from this game, not quite as sharply as it was

or this week, the starters still are rolling for the Hawks and the benches just been okay

at times.

Gabe Vincent put 11 minutes off the bench for the Hawks and his game at three points, had

an assist, hit one, three.

Just didn't do a time.

It was rock solid, backup, Garry kind of stuff.

For Gabe, Mogabe played 13 minutes, did not score but had two steals, two rebounds, did

general Mogabe things, played some garbage time, but I think he was just pure way of the

backup power forward without coming available in this game.

I did not play any center.

I thought they might do that a little bit after he played some center on Thursday, but

Landau was better today, which definitely was part of this.

Also just for the record, nobody else.

All the garbage time guys, Dennis, Wallace, Coloco and Houston, not much to add on them.

Speaking of Jock Landau, 17 minutes, ten points, six rebounds for Jock, plus nine in

the game.

He had two very rough games in a row on Tuesday and Thursday that led to Mogabe playing

some center, but Landau bounced back today, looked like his normal old self, frisky offensively,

rebound of the ball really well, et cetera, and a good backup center minutes from him.

And then Risha Shea played 20 minutes off the bench, seven points, six rebounds, two assists,

did turn it over three times, not a great offensive game by Zach Barney for any means,

but I thought he was pretty good defensively, very active.

I think he's been really good on the glass in recent days, so not a game to write home

about, but certainly a little bit better than the offensive numbers probably indicate for

Risha Shea.

Two, the starters.

The quiet game came from a conglue who had five fouls in 27 minutes, four points, four

rebounds, four assists, and a steal for Niekab.

I thought he was really good defensively on the glass, especially like a coin extra shot

of this outpost game, and it's on the film if you watch it.

He had a great box out game.

I didn't have a lot of rebounds individually, but like was clearing the way for Jalen,

clearing the way for others to rebound.

I thought he was a rock solid, despite missing all four of his threes and kind of just

being underutilized on offense for the most part.

Dyson Daniels comes back after a one game, absits with a toe injury, eight points, seven

rebounds, four assists, three steals, and one turnover for Dyson.

I'll give this stat now because I missed it on Tuesday.

Dyson, in the previous seven games, had a stat line that no one in the history of the

NBA has ever had in a seven games fan.

He had 81 points, 54 rebounds, 50 assists, 18 steals, and four turnovers.

That's the biggest thing, four turnovers.

Again, the first player says they started tracking turnovers to have at least that many

points, three bounce assists, and steals while that few turnovers in seven games.

Today, he basically added to that.

He didn't have a huge scoring game, only took eight shots, but rebounds were there as

always, four assists, three steals, one turnover, just like Dyson being Dyson and played

a great defensive game as well.

I thought Nick Hill, his inner walker was really, really good.

He won't get the same pub, probably as McCollum and Jalen for just raw point reasons, but

he had 20 points, three steals, three rebounds, and played great defensively, especially

the first time I've been to give him a ton of energy, was 4-7 on 2-7 from 3, it was

efficient, was productive.

He was really good Thursday, he was really good tonight, he's been playing great basketball,

and really always season along, pretty cute.

McCollum had 30 points in 27 minutes.

He got really hot in the second half, seven threes in the game, only three of them on

2s, but obviously when you make seven threes, you're okay.

Three rebounds, two assists, a steal, two turnovers, four CJ.

I don't think he was absolutely incredible, when you make seven threes, obviously you're

providing a ton of value, almost plus 17 to the game.

Then Jalen, 23 points, 12 assists, 10 rebounds, he was 8 of 15 on 2s, 2-5 from 3, only

three turnovers.

Jalen, it's funny, he hands up a triple double, I thought the first time he was kind of

a step slow, he seemed frustrated too, nothing bad, just little things, not quite catching

them all cleanly, or handling the ball as cleanly as you wanted to, I say all that, and

he still managed to do the thing and put up stats and play well, and as he has been

a lot of the season, he sort of asserted himself more as the second half went along, and that

was encouraging to see, because he was, I say this all the time, but it goes to say how

good Jalen is, that he could just be pretty good and have a triple double and be dominant.

I also recommend, as a piece that Jake Fisher, my good friend, over at the Stein Line, wrote

today about the Hawks, because he was in town last week, it talks a lot about Jalen.

I know I said this on the podcast a lot over the deadline portion of the season, but

Jake flat out reported that, as I said on the show many, many times, the Hawks were never

considering trading Jalen for anything, including honest, that was out there then, I said

it on this podcast, but I'll just say it again, I got written to again today, that made

a lot of sense, they believe in him as a star player, as like their guy moving forward,

he showed it today, he's been awesome this season, and on the way to at least all NBA consideration

over the next month or so.

Okay, that's a game, the Hawks played, again, well in this game, they didn't play like

their AA plus, plus, plus, plus game, but they played well and they won decisively, which

is really all that matters in the end.

From here, the Hawks do host the Orlando Magic on Monday in the final home game, for a while,

they had, they played 10 of the last 11, sorry, 10 of 11, so I'm not in the last 10,

let me tell you 11 at home, as a reminder, this is also supposed to be Magic City night,

not anymore, but they're still doing some stuff around that, but a chance for a tenth

straight win. I will also say, barring big injury report stuff, it also might be their most

difficult matchup that they've had in a few weeks, so it's a big one to circle, you know,

the only other contender for tough matchup would have been maybe the road game in Milwaukee,

where the Hawks were actually 1.00 dogs to tip off, but regardless, a much more difficult test

on paper, even at home, is Orlando compared to, you know, this box team without Yannis,

or Brooklyn, or Dallas, or whatever, this is a bigger test for sure, and I think one of the

Hawks can pass. I think the Hawks are certainly as good as Orlando, they're playing at home,

all that stuff, and I mentioned this once before, but I'm recording this podcast before Orlando

plays by Amy tonight, but I say that if the Magic win tonight, they'll be on a 7-game winning streak

of their own, so there's a chance that this is a 9-game streak versus a 7-game streak on a

Monday, on a Peacock game nationally, formerly a Magic City promotion, a lot of buzz, I would say,

it's still what had buzz no matter what, because avoid the Hawks from playing, and their longest

active winning streak in the entire league, but if Orlando's also on a winning streak,

that would even heighten things even more, and it's a divisional game, too. Like,

the Hawks are actually 2-0, you guys are Orlando this year, so they actually have the inside track,

a tiebreaker advantage, but they have two more games remaining, so they've got to win at least one

of those to secure the tiebreaker, and given how closely bunched the entire East is right now,

tiebreakers are very helpful, especially because the Hawks already lose one to a Charlotte,

and it lose one to Toronto, so you want to be at least get some of those going in your favor,

and a chance to go ahead and do that on Monday. I may have a show between now and then,

I'm not entirely sure yet, I won't commit to that, but it certainly could happen,

regardless though, we'll lock it in at the very latest to have a show after the game,

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