So man, I can't wait to get started on this. This is our listener podcast topic bracket

and we've been tweeting about those. We picked 16 of the best topics. I think we had like close to 100 submissions in terms of

of topics. So, uh, Ben Dollar, Director of Basketball Research put those together. Then I curated them into a 16 team

bracket or 16 topic bracket and then we did the first run last week. This was the

quarter final, but one of those is going to be the four out of the 16 that we're going to do. And so this was selected.

It was a very difficult win for this topic in this quarter final defeated the topic of which players are over or underrated

by analytic by about a 10% margin. So I think those are closest match up so far in the poll. And so we're going to talk about here is

each team's best and worst decision over the last five years the dunkdown era. Basically we have done we have seen five off seasons and five

tread trade deadlines since this podcast started in April of 2015. So our four minutes we're going to do the east today. We'll do the west

at some point later this week most likely. So we'll take four minutes to talk about each team, Danny, out of each independently selected a best and worst decision.

So four minutes on the clock here at Mr. LaRue for the Atlanta Hawks. Oh, I guess what before I start that. Did you have any kind of criteria that you were using?

Yeah, I had a couple things that I considered. One is this is organizational. So in certain situations like hiring a GM or firing a GM or holding on could

matter. You know, so it's not just like that person. And then the other part was I tried to lean towards especially for best and worst decision

singular. I tried to focus on things that were I felt were incorrect at the time, not just things that sour because that you know, like there there are obviously examples of things that

happen with the best intention and then there were unforeseen consequences. And and also can be one sided versus the other. There will be one in particular here where you know, like it came up. And so that was

generally where I leaned in terms of you know, like and that was why I actually went back I enjoyed doing some digging on this though it did take some time. And I went

through some of my old regrades from like to because I have this voluminous you know from the prep we do for podcasts. And so I went through like regrades and grades and stuff and just kind of saw. Okay, well, this thing I hate it at the time I still hate it. So that's that's

stronger than you traded for player X and player X got hurt the day you like two days later. And so that didn't work out. Like and that's why for me worst decision versus didn't

work out is kind of the clarification. Yeah, for me, I tried to do a combination of the impact of the decision either positive or negative and how smart or how

dumb it was. And yeah, certainly you get bonus points when everyone knew at the time it wasn't a good decision. And then it also didn't work out. But I tried to focus on these things that

really changed the franchise. I mean over these last five off seasons. I mean, just going back and just seeing some of these players like I saw

a trend sector is going back to like a trade of Brian Roberts from the Miami to the blazer size. Well, and and also that almost all of these teams, I think there were four or five exceptions have changed their decision maker during this time period. So you

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