thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back back to the 2023 NBA season preview. As most of you know, it's a tradition

around these parts for the one and only Dave do four to come by. I mean, this is like all we do is we just like

preview stuff and Dave, I, before we catch up and you know, get into things, I got to say after going back and listening to last year's show, I just wanted to retire right there. I think we should have, we should have like, Kostanza, we should have just left and been like, this is the last

preview show, we're never previewing anything anymore, that's the last taste.

This year we're like going to spend the next hour doing a preview show and a week later people are going to be like what what basketball were those guys watching

Were we that good? It was it was a great show. Yeah.

We nailed it.

I mean, listen, I know it was a great show, but

nailing it doesn't make it a great show to me.

Well, that's true.

I shouldn't say those two things are separate.

Maybe the show is terrible, but we actually we had the basketball

dialed in on the show. So I want to ask you something before we get started. We always like to talk about, you know, things outside basketball before we got started. We always like to talk about you know things outside

basketball before we get going. We had a famous game of Thrones episode recap

once before we started. Remember that? Yeah so I think it was last year you asked me about an upcoming movie that I was

excited to see. Do you remember this? You said think of a think of a movie that's

coming out that you're excited to time and I said ladies and gentlemen I said top gun maverick and you

you gave me a hard time about top gun

Dave have you seen top Gun Maverick? No. No. No, I'm not.

You're just going deeper. You're just digging yourself deeper. I really like the first top gun and you know I say this is someone who is

ridden a motorcycle next to a flight line next to a plane as it was going to take

off and it's very cool.

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