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Happy New Year's Mailbag

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🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Dave DuFour, Mo Dakhil and Seth Partnow start off 2020 with a listener Mailbag.Topics: Net rating good or bad indicator?Luka and Carlisle offenseWhat if Rockets win the title?Damian Lilliard's OKC dagger a bad shot? Trade deadline hypotheticals


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0:00.0

Welcome to the back-to-back pod on the athletic podcast network.

0:08.3

This is Nerder She Wrote with your host Dave Dufour.

0:10.7

With Mo DeKille and Seth Partnack.

0:13.0

Are you ready to be entertained?

0:27.2

Hello and welcome to another episode of Nerders She Wrote, the first one of 2020.

0:28.6

Happy New Year, everybody.

0:34.1

I've got Mo DeKiel and Seth Partnow joining me, as always.

0:34.8

What's up, fellas?

0:36.3

What's up?

0:37.4

Happy New Year's, folks. New decade, Roaring 20s. Let's go. That's up, fellas? What's up? Happy New Year's, folks.

0:39.6

New decade, Roaring 20s.

0:34.5

Let's go. That's, you're a year early, Mo. I don't care. No, no, let's not. Let's not. We don't need to do all that. I don't care. I don't care this whole thing, math or whatever. It's the roaring 20s. Let's go. We'll stop ruining the fun day. Listen, hey, Larry Coon has decided that the decade doesn't start until 2021.

0:58.3

And, uh, you know, I got to go to my guy. Let me, let me put it to this way, Dave.

1:02.0

We were what, like 15 seconds into the podcast and you're already being anti-fund. Thanks.

1:06.7

Oh, God. Oh, gosh. Anyway, uh, speaking of fun, uh, we haven't done a mailbag before with this group.

1:15.8

And I thought it'd be a great time to do one.

1:18.4

Why not start the new year off with a New Year's mailbag?

1:22.4

And we got a lot of questions.

1:24.0

So I want to jump right in.

1:26.2

But I'm going to start with Seth first, because this is a question from me.

1:30.6

I saw you tweeted about how you don't really like net rating as an indicator.

1:35.8

I actually look at it all the time, and I say, I mean, this is a, you know, this net rating,

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