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Basketball Podcast.

My name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode. And I guess today's kind of a special episode for a number of reasons. First of all, it's the new year, so happy new year to everyone. Secondly, depending on what happens with our technological capabilities,

this may or may not be up on YouTube. We may have a simulcast. You may actually be able to see our faces well we podcast and then third back by

popular demand the the trusty sidekick from the Midwest I feel like you need like you need a creative nickname or something.

Cody Hodak, how you doing?

Good, I think, what I think of good sidekicks, I don't know if I'm quite to the Samwise-Gemigy level yet, but that's what I aspire towards. If I can get to that level, I think I have transcended my role as sidekick.

He's like the ultimate sidekick, right? He is, the Dremon Green of Lord of the

Rings characters. Oh, I see what you did there. Oh, yeah. Sorry, did I transition too quickly?

No, we call that a segue in the business. We were just talking about Drey Mon Green in our group, our Slack channel, everyone involved

with thinking basketball.

We had a spirited discussion about him this week.

Do you want to just jump right in and start with that?

Yeah, so I forgot which night it was.

It could have been Saturday night.

It could have been Sunday night, who have been Sunday night who knows but I popped in one

night and I was like are we sure that Dremon Green's offense is actually that impactful on a

positive level and that's kind of where we got carried away because my

my whole thing when you look at I think the LeBron metric basketball index is

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