This week you're in a slightly echoey room at Chateau D'Adamhfoto (blame idiot audio engineer Doc) for a live one on elite lineage, Rocket Russ, mostly ‘armless, kawaiting for Kawhi, the round mound of rebound, stat chasing, affording a rebuild, going big in LA, old people, cold world, Miami retirees, But The Warriors, Utah hipsters, regress to the meme, Ben’s to-do list, workplace relations, defend your suck, Starc awakenings, looting the counties, CWC postmortems, apologising for Ian Smith, awful people, getting over it, wronged underdogs, it’s New Zealand’s fault, #narrative, faded empire, the last USWNT World Cup win, the absolute state of Origin, punishing old heads, floor show included in the price of the ticket and slightly constipated French. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.