Welcome to the Athletic MBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network.

Coming up on today's show, we follow up asking our questions about stretch bigs

with asking if it's time to drop the drop in defensive coverage.

And we also talk about what happens when you rush the process.

This is Nerdish, she wrote, with your host Dave Dufour.

With Moe DeKille, are you ready to be entertained?

And Seth Part now.

Hello, and welcome to the Athletic NBA show. It's Friday. That means this is nerd. She wrote. That also means I'm Dave DeFore. I think anyone hosting this show, even if someone's filling in for me, has to say that they're Dave DeFore. I think that's in my contract. I'm here every week. It's Seth and Mo.

What's up, fellas?

Everybody doing well.

Doing well.

When I hosted the show that one week, you were off, I did not say I was Dave Duford, nor will I, if I have to do it in the future, Dave.

And Seth will just host it next time because Seth knows the deal.

Everybody's saying, well, I don't know if the polar vortex is hitting you out in California, but it's like 18 degrees here.

Nice beautiful and sunny out here in L.A.

I think we're going to get like a nice little 70 degree day here.

Yeah, yeah.

Should I think a picture of the sun for you guys?

How's that in Milwaukee?

Cold.

Yeah, pretty cold.

All right. So, Seth, you just wrote at the athletic in the analytical look around about drop coverage. And you asked the question, and I think it's an important one to ask, you know, especially given what we watched in last year's playoffs and how drop covers was treated in the bubble generally.

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