You are locked on the nbaa part of the locked on the nb a part of the locked on

podcast network.

It is locked on NBA David Lock along with Kevin Pelton,

E-S-Pn insider extraordinaire, and the man who puts out the great win-loss

projections for every NBA team in the middle of August and everyone debates it

his Shoney system with real plus minus added to it.

It's most famously got ridiculed by the New York Post and the Knicks have still never been good since you said they were

going to be bad so is true is there anything have you been if you had anything

similar to the New York post coming after you this year?

No, it hasn't been that bad this year.

I mean, and then last year with the Lakers being projected, you know, ninth in the west in the summer

version.

That definitely inspired a lot of response from Lakers' stands.

Yeah, but this year, quite I would say is controversial.

I guess Philadelphia being where they are on the east.

We'll get to that maybe a little bit.

But no players, no coaches have weighed in as yet.

All right, so here's what I want to do in our first segment today. We'll talk about the methodology, how the system's different than some others.

And then in the second segment we'll talk Western Conference and in the third segment

we'll talk Eastern Conference. So 538 does a little of this just to give a shout out to some people

who I think are working hard, BB Index does some kind of stuff like this or B-ball index I think it is.

There's some models that what separates what you're doing and why do you feel like

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