Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It is a far-fetched innovation floated by American hoops heads for years: the four-point shot. But as our far-flung correspondent Rafe Bartholomew reports, there is a real-life pilot program afoot — half a world away, in a galaxy-brained league with a half-century's worth of swag: the Philippine Basketball Association. And it's working. We meet the new king of long distance; watch film with a Filipino coaching legend; and then heat-check this cultural exchange with the NBA's preeminent philosopher of the four-pointer.
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| 0:32.1 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.4 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:39.1 | Dancing against Ahan Nisi, Romeo, goes to JT, launches a four. Why not, Geron? Why not? |
| 0:48.7 | Right after this ad. |
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| 0:55.0 | What does your dad think of your expertise in Philippine basketball? |
| 1:10.9 | I think he's used to it now. |
| 1:12.2 | He was pretty surprised. |
| 1:13.0 | He came over early end of 2006, so after I've been there for a year. |
| 1:18.4 | And he got a huge kick out of it because he just was like, what is going on here? |
| 1:22.3 | Well, he played ball. |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.1 | So like that part, I think he understood. |
| 1:25.6 | He loved that. |
| 1:26.6 | But I had just been on a telenovela after a terrible... |
| 1:31.0 | We have to explain the fact that you are, in fact, a soap... |
| 1:34.6 | You're a soap opera star, Rave. |
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