#65: Seth Partnow | Value vs. goodness, defensive versatility & 2-way players

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🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Former Bucks Director of Analytics and Athletic writer Seth Partnow joins to discuss his upcoming book, The Finals MVP, defensive versatility in the playoffs and more (including Rudy Gobert and Anthony Davis on defense and building around centers). Follow Seth on twitter @SethPartnow. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball. Check out the $1/month offer (through Oct. 9) of the Athletic at http://www.theathletic.com/thinkingbasketball --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-basketball/support

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0:00.0	thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben.
0:10.3	Welcome back to another episode today after numerous requests an
0:16.5	uncountably large number on the internet and on the twitters I have a guess
0:21.4	back. Seth Part Now, from the athletic, the one and only, Seth, people were tired of me talking to myself.
0:29.0	I was tired of me talking to myself, so thanks for coming on.
0:32.0	Sure, so, Uncounter quests means... to talk it to myself. So,
0:33.6	Uncounter requests means like two or three?
0:36.2	It was more than that, but.
0:37.5	Okay.
0:38.5	Well, thank you everyone.
0:40.4	It was slightly more than that.
0:41.6	Yeah.
0:42.0	Okay. So, but I think I'm trying to figure this out. Is this technically the first time you've been on this show? I can't even, I have no ability to remember back into the past anymore. I don't know because I feel like we've been on so many many including the one and only episode of a pod of quote my podcast back back in the days of
1:09.2	your is that in the Smithsonian that one episode?
1:13.0	I don't know. That was a good episode.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:16.0	We had a interesting conversation.
1:17.0	We did have a very interesting conversation and what people don't know about that is the technical difficulties we fought through. I think it
1:25.8	really brought us closer together. I think so. So you have a you made a big
1:31.8	announcement this week about a book that you're working on that's
1:37.1	coming out that I think a lot of people who are into, you know, basketball analysis, thinking of the game more deeply.
1:45.2	They're very excited about, can you talk just at a high level what we can look forward to
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