Alright, this should be out before the actual All Star Rostres are known, but you know, that's never actually

Stopped us before anyway, but we are recording this before we know what those rosters are. Do you

Want to share a few words about your philosophy in selecting the team?

We're gonna do the starters of course as if we didn't know who they were already and then obviously the seven reserves as well

All Star games are always hard because you're trying to reconcile, you know performance in the present versus

Starpower and player quality more in the abstract and so yeah, that is that that was a little bit of a challenge for me and what I ended up doing

I did this more for the the non the non starters in in real life as opposed to the non starters in where I drew the lines in

In terms of where a three categories. So I had no brainers where it's basically to me

There's no reasonable argument against having this person among the 12 for the given conference

Then I had it probably in which is basically like there are isn't there aren't as many good arguments and then on the margin was just basically the toughest decisions

So I'll lay that out as we go through it. Yeah for starters

I'm gonna follow the rules that the league has set down two guards three front court players and

For the seven after that. I'm just gonna pick who I think the best seven are if there's some problem with the positions

I can address it

But I that usually isn't the case especially now since it's you don't have the requirement for centers

For example like you used to my philosophy is kind of a mix of a lot of these

There's the idea of the all-star game rewarding winning

I generally can look at that as a bit of a tiebreaker if only because I think it's a good four players to be rewarded for

Being on winning teams that there can be some individual

Alchids that go with that is good because you're getting players to try to play winning basketball instead of stats

It's less of a concern now that we actually have way better stats than we used to that can break down what your

Impact is on winning even if you don't necessarily play for that good of a team

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