Thinking basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to another episode, as we said last week at the end of last week. There's no Cody. Cody's disappeared for the week. But to replace Cody, I got a very, very special guest.

He is sort of the video go-to content creator, I think, for college right now.

He has, boy, been on multiple college coaching staffs, Nevada, New Mexico, Mississippi State.

Tell me if I'm forgetting one.

The one and only, Jordan Spurber, how you doing?

Thanks for having me, Ben.

Yeah, I feel like this is a collaboration of two worlds, the NBA YouTube world and the college basketball

YouTube world.

Well, I was thinking about it. We actually collaborated on a video. It was six years ago,

which is really weird that it's been six years. And I was like, wow, that was the last time

we've done anything technically official in the content space. So it's fun to actually record

one of our conversations about basketball. And I think that's the content space. So it's fun to actually record one of our conversations

about basketball. And I think that's the goal today. If Cody was here, I had a couple of things

I wanted to throw at him that were trends in the league. And I thought, why not just step back and

take a bigger picture look at trends in the league, trends in the sport. And I think you're going to be

able to provide what I've been interested in on these topics is the development track,

what's happening in college. Is it the same? Is it different? We've seen a lot of change in

professional basketball in the last decade, in the last five years, in the last

two years, in the last year, is it the same thing in college and, you know, at that level?

So I'm excited to hear what you have to say. We have not talked about any of this at all.

And I have a list of key trends that have taken place in the NBA in the last few years and

this season that I want to get to. Yeah, I think you hear people talk about like things trickle

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