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What's up and welcome to another Thursday edition of Lockton MBA.

I am Jackson Gatlin, coast of Lockton Rockets.

He is Matt Moore, senior MBA writer at the Action Network and co-host of Lockton Nuggets and we are here to bring you

locked on MBA Thursday where hopefully this is your first listen of the day

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dive into what I can only imagine is going to be a lot of overreactions on our behalf as far as preseason basketball is concerned?

It's preseason, get excited, oh my God, Jhelan Green's gonna be a Hall of Famer and Albert Shagoon's gonna be inducted with him and also the pelicans were terrible but now they're okay now.

It's it's pre-season Jackson it's it's amazing time for overreactions.

Just the roller coaster. It just goes up and down all throughout pre-season. It's a great time of year for

basketball fans. It is. So I actually want to talk to you about this. I wanted to get your sense of when you watch preseason basketball, what are the things that you look for and what are the things that you try to avoid getting impacted by because I always think that as you watch

basketball it's very easy for you to pick up things and notice things and then think they're

meaningful because you notice them but that's confirmation bias so I curious, when you watch a pre-season game,

if one chooses to do so, and I'm assuming if you're listening

to lockdown MBA, you're watching preseason

and God love you for it. What are the things that you actually look for when you're watching a preseason game?

So I think you kind of have to separate it into two factors here for me at least personally

is when you're watching preseason basketball, I think there's two very distinct categories.

You've got the teams that are kind of just

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