thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back to another episode and we're on the eve of the 2024 season.

So before we get into all of the happenings with new players and the new teams and previewing the NBA season.

We'll do that next week, Cody.

We'll take some time, we'll take a few minutes

and just lay out the landscape of the league. But before we did that, there is one item of

business we never got to over the summer that we have to finish. Last year we looked

at the greatest outside shooters in the three-point era.

We could go back farther, but further, we could go back further.

But further, yeah.

Yeah, farther, farther is distance, yeah, yeah. Farther's distance, yes, degree.

Yes, I'm glad we covered that on the show.

That was very important.

But we could have gone back further,

but we run out of data.

We don't have a three point line that helps us kind of try to calibrate

what we're seeing with our eyes or measuring from the free throw line.

And in this case today, Cody, we have even even less data but we do have some ways to

estimate and support what we see on tape and we are going to talk about the

players who are the best rim finishers in

n v a history so we have this outside concept that we've hit and I've just been

wanting to come back and talk about the high real estate you, the other high real estate part of the court in today's game.

Let's call it inside five feet. Conceptually, I'll blur the line just a touch if you're running down the lane and you know do a 360 lay up and scoop it from five and a half feet or something like that but a lot of dunks a lot of power a lot of speed a lot of vertical explosion,

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