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#189: The importance of Motor & Misleading stats

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

What is “motor?” How important is it for players like Jarred Vanderbilt and Dennis Rodman? Can it be improved? Before we tackle those questions, we contextualizing a few “misleading” stats making the rounds, from defensive metrics to free throw differentials. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back to another episode and Cody when I was a kid they had these

0:18.4

tongue twisters right like about she she sells seashells down by the seashore and all these things and and that

0:26.8

one really trip me up but the one I could always do was was Peter Piper picking peppers because of all the peas, all the alliteration of the pea.

0:36.7

You know what I'm talking about? Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled, but can you do that?

0:41.1

The, I don't know the whole thing because I think there's like three lines to it.

0:44.3

That's the one that's like I should have it in front of me.

0:46.6

Peter Piper picked a pack of peck of peck of peck of peck of peck of peck

0:52.1

peck of peck of peck of peck of pecked yeah is there third line to it is another

0:57.0

if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers where's the pack of pickle

1:00.5

pebpper's Peter piper picked did I get through it did I do so I think the thing that

1:04.4

threw me off when I was a young and trying to do it is I thought it was pack and not peck like I didn't realize

1:09.2

peck was a unit of measurement you know all this let me try let me try one more time. Just for the one line,

1:14.8

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. All right, I feel good about that.

1:17.8

That was really good.

1:18.8

Yeah, I'm going to be honest.

1:19.8

Next time, maybe I'll do two lines.

1:21.0

When I was a kid, I just said a bunch of P words. I didn't I definitely did not stick to the to the pick or the pack

1:28.3

You just say anything when you go fast enough you say anything it's like singing it's like singing crossroads by bones

1:33.6

dug in harmony if you just go fast enough and just throw in you know you miss your

1:40.8

uncle or whatever I was thinking more like Pearl Jam, like if you just kind of like...

1:46.0

You mean like, yellow lead better? That doesn't have lyrics.

1:50.0

Yeah, like even though.

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