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It is October 16th, and I am here at the United Center in Chicago with Britt after the

Wolves, Bulls game out here.

And we're just saying before, we haven't done a show in a while.

So I do want to talk about some specifics from this game, but also just, yeah, more broadly,

we talked a lot like in that week right before training camp, but you've been out of town for a bit.

So, yeah, let's talk about this game. But let's also talk about some of the, this is really like the last real game of preseason. If there's such thing, it's a real. They're playing Philly tomorrow night and, you know, Finch is not going to play. He played Rudy 30 minutes tonight. Randall and Aunt were in the high 20s. he's not going to turn around and play them in, you know, a week before the season starts, heavy minutes at all. They're probably going to sit most of them, if not, you know. So, yeah, this was, there's still a lot of questions, crazily enough, I think, about this team. But let's start there then. Okay.

I mean, I think that they have a lot of strengths and weaknesses that they acknowledge.

They want to lean into their strengths and buttress their weaknesses, of course.

But Finch has said that they're really not built to be a fast break team, a fast-paced team.

I think what they really want to do realistically is utilize transition more and be more efficient,

and it more takes.

They were worse than the NBA last year in terms of the percentage, the frequency in their

overall offense of when they invoked transition, 15.3% was the lowest in the NBA.

And their efficiency was in the middle.

If they can bump up the frequency to, you know, 11, 12,

which is kind of the NBA, you know, middle to some extent,

I mean, up to like high teens, low 20s,

and keep that percentage or bump up the efficiency.

That'll really help.

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