Well the Milwaukee box loss is the podcasting and writing world's game Seth Partnow back

Among the living after a couple of years with the Milwaukee box. Sorry, Ben. I'm doing really well. Thanks for having me back

It's it's an honor just to be nominated

Well, but who says that you're not winning though?

Well, you know, it's it's all politics man

But it's an honor just to be nominated just I'm I'm on stage with the you know the finest actors in the world

So you know, it's it's really I'm not mad. You're mad

All right, man. Let's let's get started here

We we got a lot of stuff that I wanted to ask you about you've been writing about you know

Really two three times a week it just again

It's great to have you back because a lot of what you're doing is really pushing the frontiers of our understanding

about NBA basketball and

The thing that you've been talking about a lot this year, which is something that I've been struggling a lot with as well

It is you had a great term for it in your piece you called it heliocentrism

Basically that a lot of these teams now are so focused on one guy James Harden

Luca Dongett trea Younger are probably the most obvious examples LeBron as well as really the only playmaker

For a lot of this year with the Lakers with Rondo out and so you came up with a metric to quantify this

What is it called again true usage as I?

I originally called it when I first came up with it

Several years ago for nylon calculus. I called it true usage

I've started calling it total usage now because true usage sounds kind of dickish and that like I have the answer

It's you know, so it's you know, it's I think total usage is probably

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