Thinking Basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome to another show. Cody, how you doing?

This room is usually a lot colder than it is. Now I'm starting to wonder. Is the heat working better upstairs in my sauna than I thought it was? Or I don't really know. Maybe I have no idea. I'm just feeling a lot warmer than I usually do. I'm usually cold up here. I have my sweatshirt to throw it on, but there's going to be no sweatshirt. There's no sweatshirt. Never, never flustered. Okay. Unflappable, Ben. What are we talking about today? Basketball? Yeah, I think we're going to, I think there's some aspects of offense that perhaps

we'll get into, break down a couple of offensive guys and whatnot.

And I am really interested in, in this overall conversation, because I think something

that you and I really get interested in philosophically is just like,

what does it actually mean to be a great offensive player, right? And basketball is kind of this fluid sport where there's not one way to do something,

but it's like made up of all these like discrete, what do you want to say, plays where different

actions kind of happen.

And you can be successful in any number one of those kinds of ways.

And there's no real, like, platonic ideal for how to be, like, a really good NBA player.

And I think that's something that you and I, I think, interest us.

And hopefully we're going to be exploring that a little bit coming up here.

Well, you have a lot of ideas to get to today. I can tell from that was a very philosophical prelude. I was just going to start

us off with our Wemby watch, which is a defensive. It's starting to slip. Wemby's under 10 points

per 100 change in his team's defensive rating when he's on the court versus off the

court. The spurs are still only flirting with the best defense of all time when Wemby plays,

and they're about league average when he sits. It's about 9.3 point per 100 change right now

on defense when Victor Wemidiyama is on the court versus off the court. And he's just behind.

When we look at those beautiful multi-year

samples we talked about in our historical series over the summer. He's just behind the all-time

rim and short mid-range protection record holder to Kembe Matumbo in terms of points changed per

100. So that's our Wembe Watch for the week. Well, as I did last week as well, I would like to state that Rudy Gobert is approaching a 13 point per 100 per session swing for the Timberwolves.

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