Welcome on to this special edition of Dunkdown.

I think this will be the ninth podcast I am recording this week,

but I had to have Zach Cremont, number one,

because I've always really enjoyed his work with the ringer and ESPN,

but also because Zach, you wrote about a subject near and dear to my heart,

maybe not quite the same level of cause celebrate for me as the off arm,

but probably number two at this moment in time,

falling up three to prevent a three-point shot.

I've noted this as a scourge upon the league for many years,

and you had a lot of really interesting stuff on that.

So, Zach, welcome on to the show.

Thanks so much for happening.

All right.

Well, let's get right into it here because I was fascinated by this article.

I've been complaining of just how.

I know that's actually the place to start is just when you discuss this tactic

around the league just purely from an aesthetic standpoint of whether it's good for basketball

what was the consensus there of like whether this is because you know you'll hear different things

sometimes with like hack and people are like oh yeah like know, you should be able to make free throws.

Like it should be part of the game.

What was the feeling on just this tactic in general and like whether it should be part of the game or not or what it's like to experience?

So I've been talking to coaches and I guess front office employees basically throughout the whole season about this

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