Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Toe,

My name is Ben. Welcome back to our summer series on the Pace and Space era. We're roughly

calling it the Pace and Space era since about 2014, the last decade or so a

basketball. We just keep digging ourselves in a deeper hole, Cody, just

making more and more people mad by trying to sort out who is the best in this category,

who is the best offensive player, etc.

And I have to say, out of all the podcasts we've done, maybe ever.

What is this like our 283rd episode or something?

I've lost track.

This I feel less prepared for this episode

than any episode I've ever done by far.

And yeah, part of it is the summer. part of it is like we're on the we're in the heart of the summer

we're about to wind down we may we may take a week off like it is it is the full chillest situation in terms of actually watching and talking about basketball.

But then also, I want, Cody, I want to start preparing for this and I'm like, I don't know how to prepare

for this, I've prepared my whole life for it, I don't know how to prepare for this I've prepared my whole life for it I don't know how to prepare for it in a

Discrete shortened restricted period of time because how do I go and study up all these little things on coaches which is what we're talking about today.

Yeah, I mean I'm 100% with you on that. I think I'm afraid at least from my perspective that I might

bias myself towards some coaches the

last couple of years just because that's fresh in my mind because it was so

tough to go back and be like all right here's some good coaches that I know were

great coaches in like 2016 2015 or so but like what would I have to do to go back

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