Hello, welcome to Hoop Collective podcast.

We talk about the MBA, which we're doing on Thursday afternoon, joining me from Seattle for our annual.

We're getting into the annual traditions.

And here we have first one coming up here.

The annual tradition of small sample size theater

is the machine Kevin Pelton. Thanks for having me. Always love talking small sample size

theater, one of my favorite things. Yes, usually it's around Thanksgiving. I feel like maybe

once or twice. This is probably like year five or six. We sometimes have waited into December, but it felt right to me. Last year, yeah, it was December. I was kind of surprised to see that. Because I think of small sample size theater is kind of peeking about 10 games into the season. By the time you get 20 and maybe it's not small sample size anymore. So we're sort of right on the cusp of that right now. All right. So we're still in the acceptable range. Well, before Pelt and I take a look at some

trends and whether we think that they can last, there's a little bit of news that came out Thursday

afternoon from Yahoo, where Lamello Ball following a wretched loss by the Hornets on Wednesday night. They lost to the

one and 13 Pacers. And the Hornets are, I think, four and 11 right now. Lamello has missed six

games with an ankle injury, which has been unfortunately something that's been a recurring thing.

But anyway, Yahoo reported that

LeMello is now open to a trade away from the franchise, which is softer than a trade

demand, but obviously, I shouldn't say obviously, but I suspect that this story did not surprise

LeMello. So Pelton, LaMello Ball is, you know, he's having this, speaking of small samples, he's only played nine games, but he's having a very poor season.

His worst shooting season of his career.

He's still hoisting up a ton of threes.

He's never made fewer.

He's making under 30% of them.

His scoring is the lowest.

It's been in five years. His sister up,

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