Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Thanking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

Welcome back.

It's the final show of 2019 before we crest into a new decade, 2020.

The 20s, will they be roaring or not?

I mean, isn't even a new decade. Some people you know insist that the decades start on the ones

instead of the zeros. I don't know. I can't keep track of all these all these debates that take place.

Speaking of debates, one of the things

we will touch on today is the Christaps Porzingus concept

of him playing in the post. course Steve Jones and I talked about this

in a little more detail a few episodes back on this podcast but I also want to

get to some of the other Christmas games that took place and kind of take take stock if you will take some holiday stock

It's a grab bag today. Christmas stockings, days of Hanukkah, I don't know. I don't know the different holidays. But yeah, with the rockets and that James Harden game plan,

that the Warriors, I think the Spurs unveiled it as well,

recently in their matchup, Philadelphia and Milwaukee, what to make of that if anything obviously the Los Angeles teams are up there some some trade concepts and and a special guest segment on the physics of basketball's going out of bounds.

This one is intriguing to me.

I tried to get a physics expert to maybe shed some light on what the heck is going on there.

Obviously there's a controversy in a debate about how we officiate the basketball going out of bounds that play at the end of the game on Christmas.

So anticlimactic with LeBron losing the ball going to replay. It went off his fingertips last.

Ball goes the other way. So we will have a little bit on that as well.

So let's start with Christaps Porzingus, the post-up, the debate around the

post-up, and this stems from what Rick Carlisle said in the postgame press conference the other day.

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