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Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode. This is going to be an awesome show today, Cody.

And the reason I know it's going to be an awesome show is because you and I have just been

mainlining basketball for the last two weeks.

I mean, we had the inaugural day of the NBA Cup and I think I got you to move your excitement level from a five to a 5.5 for that all the games were close

it was like the closest night of games I saw some stat it was the closest night of

games in the NBA in years if you take all the average scores of all the games.

I don't remember anymore how many years it was, nine years.

I've lost track of time.

Are you struggling with the time change?

Do you know what time it is?

I thought we were recording earlier today

yeah I was gonna say you I was still like at school you're like you ready to go I'm like we're starting

it's time somewhere it's time to record yeah the thing is with time though like you're saying time. We have another hour.

The thing is with time though, like you're saying,

I don't know how I feel about how much time has passed in the season.

Because pardon me feels like we should be like 30 games into the season.

And then sometimes I'm thinking of like,

wait, didn't the season kick off like last week?

But yeah, to your point about, okay,

actually first of all, Ben,

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