Thinking Basketball Podcast, podcast, welcome back, my name is Ben. Today it's what many of you have been waiting for,

not basketball season to start, but for Dave Dufor

and I to continue our annual, biannual, annual, if we do it twice a year, what is it?

Is it semi-annual?

How does that work?

Yeah, I think that's semi-annual.

Semi-annual. Our annual our semi annual tradition of previewing seasons when they begin.

That means the regular season or the post season.

In this case it's some sort of mutated pandemic hybrid.

I don't know what's going on.

You know, we call these previews.

I prefer to think of them as one big conversation where we are wildly guessing about the thing

that's going to happen right after and that's it's it's just one conversation

that will continue as long as we do these.

Well, I like to think of them typically as sort of taking the pulse, a survey, if you

will, of the landscape of things to look at that we can we can have

knowledge about coming into the season but in this case it does we were

talking about this right before we started recording it does feel like guessing with I don't

know the bubble just ended and some teams haven't played since you know like 2015 it feels like and other teams just wrapped up this wild

post season that now we're in a different environment playing in these empty

arenas I don't know man I feel I'm flying blinder than ever heading into this season I've watched

basically no pre-season and so I'm just trying to get a lay of the land in terms of how these teams are built and manufactured and how they're going to fit.

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