Welcome to the Fantasy NBA today podcast. It's the second day of Russia Shauna, but I think it still counts. We have like this we come together right Alex how are you man

yeah doing great happy new year to you and to your family and your listeners yeah I also

probably should have clarified that I was going to yell that at you because this show we're recording on the first day of but we'll air on the second day of. But it's night here, it counts.

Yeah, that's right. It's night where you are. It's not quite night where I'm at now but the great

Alex Rickling on the show at Rickling on Twitter if you want to go follow him and

this is of course part of our this is easily my favorite time a year because this is like the two weeks where I force myself

To make time to talk to other human beings on the pod and it's so nice and then the season starts. I'm just like I can't I can't schedule the how's the last like almost year been for you? I mean had a kid and

vengeful didn't totally lose track of the rest of life so you know doing great.

That's actually a colossal win and anybody that has youths in their home knows exactly what I mean and anybody that doesn't run for the hills.

No, you're hanging. That's good that you're hanging in there. You guys are getting a little bit of sleep. You were telling me before we, before I hit the record button and that will fluctuate. There's, there's like a kind of a sinusotal wave to the, will you get sleep thing because they go in and out of all sorts of stuff and I'm sure that people with kids older than me will say

yep that's pretty much what it is and then all of a sudden they go to bed at like three in the morning and it's a very different problem that you're having.

But let's talk about your industry mock team, which was actually kind of fun.

You had the ninth pick.

You ended up with a lot of guys that that I like a lot which I feel like that happens

annually. You got a couple guys in there where I'm gonna hit you with some questions on it, a couple

of hard balls, but there's actually, I'm going to have to probably deep, dig in deep here for my devil's advocate because I do like a lot of the players you have and there are guys that are on a bunch of my lists and so

Whatever mean things I say it's probably gonna be me just sort of pretending to be someone else just to like make you answer a question but if you're ready we can dive on in

sounds great delightful ninth pick you had Jason Tatum again I'm gonna have to sort of fake it to sound like I'm upset with this one.

He fell to you most likely because Halliburton went very early and Dame went pretty darn early. And then Luca and Janus always go a little earlier

than they should in Roto but that's sort of built in here.

I'm guessing you didn't think he would make it to you at nine and he barely did by the skin of your teeth.

He probably would have gone at this spot no matter who was drafting there, I'm thinking.

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