Every year in the NBA, there's players that play better than you think, players that play worse than you think.

Leads to a lot of confusion. You don't know what to take away from that. And there's no time of the year where that is worse. Then March basketball, we are officially in the thick of the fakes part of the NBA season. Every day we'll look up and we'll see players who we should never expect to score a lot of points dropping 30. so that leads to the question. What do we take away from this? To get to that point, we're going to talk about the most confusing players in the NBA right now this season. I ask you guys in community post to give us your picks for who's confused you this season. And we're going to sit down, talk about it, and decide what we can take away from their strange season. Perfect. Okay. We're going to try to weed out what could be fake, what could be real, and what is just... Basically, who's fraudulent? Not even so who's fraudulent, because a lot of these are players who talk about a lot throughout the season, mostly like good players who have had weird years. It's really like what we can take away from them outside of the first reaction of slander or binging up, what we actually learned this year and what can be applied towards the playoffs and next year and so forth. So pretty much it's a recalibration. Gotcha. Pretty much. Yeah. For players that people don't quite know what to think about right now. All right. Let's do it. Talking about you, Zion Williamson. Talk about you. Zachary Shishay. We know.

So that being said, let's cue the intro music.

Talk about some confusing NBA players.

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Before we get into the main topic of this episode,

take a quick second to thank everybody in the comments that was commenting about how happy they were for us to get the new serious XM deal moving our show to a new network. Lots of love in the comments. Appreciate y'all. But also, there was one thing I'd like to mention that you guys commented a ton about, and it's our bad. I mentioned that nothing would change about the show. That's like 95% true. It's like 99% true, but there's one big change I should have highlighted that forgot to tell you guys about.

You got a dressed elephant in the show. It's like 95% true. It's like 99% true, but there's one big change. I should have highlighted that I forgot to tell you guys about. You got a dressed elephant in the room. It's a biggest hell right now. Yeah, there's no more video on Spotify. That got taken off. The video will exclusively be on YouTube now. And we didn't know it was going to happen at first, but it makes sense. It's not because anybody wants to. It's not because serious wants to people on the spotify comments were like boy god serious big serious coming in they hate video

if they could have the video on spotify they would it's a much more complicated thing that i

can explain to everybody i guess we can get into the weeds of how the audio business works

to me just a little bit yeah go ahead also our cats upstairs going crazy now i think she's mad about no video on Spotify. What? No video. What? I got to go on YouTube. Fuck! So basically, before we were with Sirius, we were hosting our podcast, the audio version, on a platform called Megaphone, which is owned by Spotify.

That's what Warner Bros. House of Highlights, you know, Bleach Report used. And that's, you know, directly Spotify own thing. So there was good integration for video. So I could upload the video there and it wasn't a problem, right? If you look across any podcast you guys watch that's on a big network like the athletic, NBC, Serious, eye heart, stuff like that.

And anybody that's on like a network network, you're usually not going to see video on Spotify.

And that's because the Spotify, not Spotify, the podcast audio, like monetization is mostly built through these things called DAI ads, dynamic ad inserts.

You ever listen to a podcast and like halfway through, you'll get those audio ads that aren't people. He them to school right now. I know. I know I am. I know there's some kid right now listening. He's like, nah, I don't care. Sell out. Don't matter. Yeah. You ever listen to a podcast and you'll hear ads that aren't from the people like it's not us talking. It'll be like a random person or something like. Yeah, a mattress ad that That's just like a commercial someone else talking. Those ads are called dynamic ads that change every month. So mattress firm will buy 30 days of that and then their stuff will come up and the company will sell a new company to come into that for the next 30 days so your catalog can constantly be refreshed. Huge part of monetization on audio. It's basically like YouTube, how they give you different ads every time you watch. Same type of thing, but it has to do more manually on

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