Thinking Basketball Podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to another show. We are live. I got the buttons working. Cody, they're telling me the buttons are where I was going to say quit the entire show if I couldn't get this thing to work live because last

week we did the whole show and there were no comments.

And by about minute 30, I just thought the people have abandoned us.

They've left us.

They don't want to hear us talk about bouncy ball anymore.

How you doing?

This is great.

I just had, like I pulled it up on YouTube because I was going to double check and see if it's

actually running. And then you were talking, but then you were also talking like a couple

seconds behind. And it was, it was all just really chaotic. And it was just like so much Ben

in my ears at one time. So I think I can verify that we're, we're live. But I'm not,

I'm not actually going to watch the live show as I record it. That's a little too much. No, that would be like when you call into the talk show and they leave the radio on

in the background and they, you hear themselves. Cody, we have to, we have to. We have to. We've

been putting it off for long enough. We have to talk about the Houston Rockets. They are very good.

They have a very good defense. We're going to talk about

defenses today because the other thing that's happened in the last couple weeks is we

lamented Palo Bancaro's oblique injury at the beginning of the year. And the magic, I think,

the last time I checked, have won 12 of 13 games. Have you seen them play? They have, I don't know,

maybe one of the better defenses we've seen in a long time right now. Where would you like to

begin? How would you like to tackle this? Because I do want to ask you some very pertinent questions

about these crazy defensive teams that are out there that don't seem to have great offenses,

what it means, how good

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