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NBA Daily Mailbag | Morning Shoot Around

The Athletic NBA Daily

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4.12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Schlecht, Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni answer questions from Discord, Twitter and Bluesky.


Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/gJWsUXHQ7t


Host: Andrew Schlecht

With: Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni

Producer: Andrew Schlecht


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0:00.0

Welcome to the morning shootaround here on the athletic NBA Daily.

0:13.1

We're live on YouTube.

0:15.8

If you want to join us, we're typically live around 1 o'clock central standard time and would love to

0:23.4

nobody lives central time, Andrew. What are you talking about? There's a lot of people who live

0:27.2

central time. Statistically though, we use Eastern time because most people live there. Sure,

0:32.7

but people understand. People understand time zones. I don't know if people understand

0:36.4

that. Let's see, Chicago, Denver, Minnesota. Denver's Mountain time. Mountain time. Oh, no.

0:43.7

Mountain time. Yeah. Anyways, who cares? But not even that big of a city.

0:47.2

Listen, we're live. We're live right now. Okay. All right. We are going to do a mailbag today.

0:51.9

So we appreciate questions from Twitter, from Blue Sky.

0:58.3

And from where I'm going to start is our Discord.

1:01.7

So we do have an Athletic MBA Daily Discord.

1:04.4

You can find the link in the show notes of the podcast.

1:09.5

And we would love to have you join us on our Discord. So also, if you happen

1:15.1

to be in the chat right now, you can ask questions in the chat and we'll answer questions

1:20.9

from there too. We'll try to answer as many as we can today. Okay, this one comes from H. Folar Thorin. I don't know if that's how you say what you wrote,

1:33.1

but that's how I'm saying it. Okay, he actually, he actually has three questions.

1:36.7

Oh. What is your current favorite advance analytics stat? What is an example of it working? What is an

1:43.1

example of it not working like

1:44.9

epm or p er s what's your go to right now p er sucks in my opinion in your face john hollinger

1:54.0

well hang on hang on wait a second if i let me defend my guy john hollinger here

1:59.8

historically p r is fine well Well, wait, no, no, no. Historically, catch all stats are all bad. No, no, I mean, I mean comparing to NBA history. I, yes, yeah. Right. But I'm saying all catch all stats are bad, period. And this is not coming for me. This is if you ask Seth Part now,

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