Welcome to the back-to-back pod on the athletic podcast network.

This is Nerders, she wrote, with your host, Dave Dufour, with Mo DeKiel and Seth

partner.

Are you ready to be entertained?

This is the Sloan, I don't know.

The not Sloan for the unticketed Dave before.

The Gorilla, Sloan Gorilla podcast.

We're not actually inside the conference, anyone.

Don't get rid of Dave.

He didn't sneak in.

I mean, not yet.

Not yet.

I'm going to do the amino has some plan uh yeah

go go act like you're supposed to be there and uh and everything is fine the problem is you like

see the t-shirt well and i stand out too much yeah yeah once yeah once you've been ejected once like

they they've got a i'm new here is this the

podcast is this actually it is now uh welcome to the special edition nerder she wrote seth and

dave dufour we got amine el hasson and henry abbott of true who finally are you about to go

to a rock promo here yeah well i mean i've been talking to to Henry almost exactly a year about doing the show, and we just haven't been able to figure it out. Amin has done every other show. Yeah, I've never done this show. Never done. And Seth has never podcasted with anybody. So, like, when I said to Seth, this is funny, I was like, oh, I got Henry. Okay, cool. I got a mean. Oh, all right. Awesome. I could talk about the time I gave him buckets in the pickup game. Oh, I'd like to talk about that, too. All right. Henry was there. He saw it. There's some falsehoods. No. No. He did not give me buckets. I got confused. Did we win? Did I win? Were you guarding me? Henry gave me buckets. I will admit to that for one reason only. This is my first time playing with Henry. And I'm thinking this guy has written so much about fishing shot selection and with smart teams. Take the open shot. open shot if that means garden you you're open the whole game

i just is like he's he dribbles up and he pulls up for like 18 feet and i'm like he's not taking

that shot and that's all he did all he shot were like 17 18 foot jump shots all day long

and then and then this is the kicker. Point game, Mr. The guy who coined the phrase hero ball goes into the absolute most hero ball mode. Oh, it was, it was just, I was like, Jesus. No, no, no. This is, all is perfect for that. No, no, you're not understanding what was happening here. This was the most unusual of all basketballs, which was Amin said at the beginning of the game,

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