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What is up, everybody, and welcome to the Locked On Nuggets podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Adam Matas. Matt has the day off, but I'm joined by my esteemed colleague.

He formerly of the Milwaukee Bucks, currently of the athletic, and also co-host of the

nerd. She Wrote Pod, one of the few pods I listen to almost every single week. And even most

important of all, my former boss at Nylon Calculus, Seth, part now. Seth, thanks for taking the

time out, man. The whole boss thing makes sound much more, hey, you want to write something? Cool.

I know. It was the old Wild West days of blogging. Right. And, you know, you were pretty good at

giving clean copies. So it was, as somebody, I don't really edit anybody's work anymore,

but for a long time, I would do that. You're right. Clean copy. That's like 90% of it, man.

Yeah, no, there was, you know, there were, there were, there were some people who, uh, who

were around at that time for, for as writers, they were very good data scientists uh the the best is you know the article

been working on this for a week it's 17000 words and you're like well i'm just going to assume

you checked your facts and dotted your eyes because there's no way i'm going to spend time reading that

one um but i got so set has you know i've wanted to have him on the show for a while and he's

been ducking me and I finally tagged him down.

I'm not kidding.

I finally got him down though and it's a perfect timing because he just wrote a piece on Michael

Porter that I thought was really interesting or I should say he had an anecdote or, you know,

a couple paragraphs on Michael Porter that really pointed to something interesting. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about rim protection and its

relationship to elite defense. I'm very excited for this. That's going to be very upset at my take.

Then we're going to talk about building around Yokch, but first I want to talk about Yokuch's MVP season.

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