This is a HeadGum podcast.

Welcome to Buckets episode 4.

It's mid-September. Tis the season, the pre-season,

the game-free season, not the game three season.

The calm before the storm, the odd before the norm, when three game slates turn to six, seven, eight for a brief few weeks like KG shrieks that anything is possible.

Potential energy right now couldn't be greater.

Like a ball at the top of a stop and pop or a tear drop for a millisecond were frozen in time

before any dimes have been recorded no shots blocked

no chase downs pin to no backboard and for now your team is tied with golden state before love turns to

hating and we spend days debating which player is

sub-tweeting, reheating old rivalries that we kind of know and forgot about all at once.

Who is Jamal Murray Madad again?

The Pacers did it last year and the heat the year before.

Who's to say your squad isn't the one that pleasantly surprises and rises

pundits eyebrows with smising exercises that rumors of your team's

demise has been greatly exaggerate rises.

And if those misfits should get chin splints or in-team fighting causes role player

his-fits and trade machines scuttle-but, will worry not. The Tankathon maker, not the center in Milwaukee,

but the one who rows like Rocky causing Philly to finally jockey

for playoff position once again gives your losing plan a 10.

Tune out the nonsense and trust the process and set your sights on Williamson.

And if you should find yourself rooting for a team that's stuck in the middle of these two poles,

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