thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back to the preseason of the 2024 2025 NBA season and there's real basketball being played. I can't believe it and before we address anything

there's a very important announcement to start. This is the most important announcement,

arguably in the entire history of thinking thinking basketball I think the thinking

basketball podcasting basketball YouTube channel I think I wrote a book called

thinking basketball once I can't remember that far back in the past kody they

mocked us they laughed at us they said it could not be done

the coaches sent nasty grams saying why would I ever train a player to do this what

what would be the purpose? And on October 8th, 2024, the bearded one in Atlanta, Georgia,

Trey Young, was coming off a pick and roll, and like so many times before,

he jumped off one leg to throw a little lob pass to his screener rolling down the paint for a dunk and

Cody what did he do instead?

Hit a floater three then.

The floater three Cody it's here it's arrived it's a real thing.

We were so naive.

They said, when would we,

we spent 15 minutes trying to figure out

when would you use the floater 3?

And it was so obvious, it was right in front of us the whole time.

Anybody who throws jump passes from outside the three-point line can just

blend and fake their shot with the pass. And Troy Young's done that. I can't believe it.

I feel like that's one of a couple of moves that we've seen.

First of all, like I get it, I think like Jay Kyle Mann at this point is upset when people tag him on

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