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#162: What defensive stats actually tell us | Anthony Davis & New Orleans

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Thinking Basketball

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🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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We start with the Pelicans surprising defense and Anthony Davis's resurgence in Los Angeles, and segue into a bigger conversation about how to judge players defensively: What metrics are reliable, and which ones are misleading? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

Let's see.

0:01.0

See, thinking basketball podcast, my name is Ben.

0:07.0

Welcome back to another episode and today, Cody, right out of the gate, we have to start today.

0:19.2

We have to start today just with an apology. We have to start with an apology.

0:25.0

An apology. Oh an apology. An apology. Okay, let's hear this. Yeah.

0:28.5

Yeah. No, it's a somber tone for this for this show, but last week I one of my favorite players in the league Franz Wagner

0:37.6

I I did him wrong last week we did we remember this remember this conversation we're having

0:46.1

which conversation bad It was about Franz Wagner. Do you remember that one? Yeah, in our little 25 under 25 draft? Is that what you're talking about? Yeah, yeah, I went too far.

0:51.3

I went too far. I mean, I myself, looking at my notes after the show, you know, have Franz Wagner as more like a top 100 player in the league and our the draft we were just I was just so

1:06.6

embroiled in the draft which if you've never done one I absolutely never

1:11.6

recommend ever doing one in your life.

1:14.0

I will never be doing one again and and the moment I got I got swept up in the moment

1:21.0

and I need to issue an apology to or Florida the entire

1:26.2

state of Florida Orlando all seven magic fans we have to stick together we you know're going to get a lineup of five, six, ten players or taller,

1:37.1

Franz is going to have to be the point guard. So yeah, I went too far on France.

1:43.3

I got caught up in the moment.

1:44.4

Well, listen, the magicer, literally,

1:46.5

they have the worst record in the league right now, right?

1:48.2

It's not good, no.

1:49.0

So yeah, there's probably like four people

1:50.8

that were like mildly unhappy about it so ultimately like I think the

1:54.6

people accept the apology but no one really cares then no no it's not that it's not

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