Thinking Basketball podcast, my name is Ben. We've made it. It's time. The NBA Cup is here. Championship week. I know you've waited your whole life for this.

The middle of December, the beginning of December, very, very important basketball.

No team has ever won the NBA Cup.

There's never been a winner of the in-season tournament.

We will now crown one for the very first time today. We are going to have some fun and make some bracket

predictions who does that in the NBA single elimination tournament coming up will'll get to our predictions at some point.

But before we do that, Cody, you have some things

that you want to discuss.

You have some things that are on your mind,

that are on your chest, are on your chest and we're just

gonna we're gonna go on the couch or lay on the floor whatever makes you cozy and

and comfortable and we're gonna talk about this 26-part thread that was on Twitter last week about Luke Adonchitch being

overrated, actually well before that thread.

And we'll talk about that thread a little bit maybe to get to some of these issues but well well before that thread

we have brought up and discussed over the years

this weird thing going on with Luca's on-off data where the MAVs don't actually look much better when he plays in the game

than when he goes to the bench and it's a very strange atypical footprint for someone who was

otherwise considered a bona fide superstar no debate about it all kinds of records

great passes scoring triple doubles you know the whole thing two years ago, the run to the conference

finals.

So are you ready to unload?

Are you ready to unload your thoughts?

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