Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode.

Cody, I was just enjoying myself based on your recommendation.

Some Orlando Magic Los Angeles Clippers from yesterday afternoon a

little matinee in downtown Los Angeles and man it's really fun to see Markle Foltz going out there and spinning and

twisting and floating and reversing and I think he had a career high 28 points yesterday just what a lovely

Comeback story in a season of basketball that has been I did his the basketball has been amazing as we've talked about there's been so many

compelling storylines up and down the league it's the most competition we've ever had

it's the most parity maybe we've had in 30 40 50 years it's been absolutely

incredible and all anybody can talk about is how horrible everything is out there

But Markel Foltz is a beacon of light

This is this is beautiful Ben. I didn't watch as much as the game was I would have liked. I watched like the third quarter, about half of the fourth quarter. I got stuck watching the end of Celtics Jazz last night when I sat down. It's like, oh, it's a good game. I should probably watch this one because it's kind of close. But the thing about Mark L. Faults, I love so much and it came to me when I like I like clip to play yesterday right thing Nicholas Petum gets it down by the basket. He cut, this is a point

guard, comes help side, gets up to the square and just inhales the shot, just swatch it, right?

Keeps it in in bounds great defensive play

then he kind of lopes down the court his body's kind of all over the place he gets hit

and he goes sprawling across the court and I'm like when I post this clip to my thinking basketball people, all I can say is like,

this block is spectacular. But it like defies just how cool Barkel Falls is, like in a league where like,

and I'm not, I'm'm not making an anti-efficiency

argument right I'm not trying to say Markle Folt is like an all-nba type player

but it's so cool to see just this unorthodox player that really doesn't fit into any kind of schema. He doesn't really have

like a clear skill set that's gonna like put him into any kind of award categories. But he's just

athletic. He plays with like a certain verb. I don't know if you see it but recently he like make its chest pass and like hold the chest pass like for an extra second. He's like holding the shot for him. It's's really strange but I'm like this is just a

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