Well, I felt a certain itch around this time of year, as our guest did as well.

We both messaged each other earlier this week, and we're like, yeah, we're going to do that pot again?

So we are.

Jared Dubin is here to talk about the league-wide trends.

This is now the third year in a row that we've done this.

He keeps up with things really well with his last night in basketball substack and also the double-druble podcast with Mo DeKiel.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing all right, man.

Thank you for having me.

How's it going with you?

Pretty good.

I'm finishing up a week in hawaii in

which i basically worked the entire time other than the evenings but uh and it's rained the

entire time so i didn't feel like i was missing out too much ate ate some good noodles and uh watched

a bunch of basketball so uh yeah things are going well for me. How are you feeling about the Miami Hurricanes chances? I got my Miami hat on right now. I'm feeling pretty good. I've been reading up on Texas A&M throughout this week. Seems like they're like a very similar team to Miami, except their quarterback is like a dual threat guy, and ours is more of a pocket

passer. But I'm excited, man. It's going to be really fun. I can't wait to watch the game tomorrow.

All right. Well, let's get into some of the trends that we are seeing lead wide, and I will give

you the honor to start us off. Yeah, this is one that I feel like we've talked about every year so

far, and it's because it's basically been my pet issue for going on like a decade now, but it's

pressure on the ball handler, bringing the ball up the court, and especially pressure this year

into the back court. This year, there are five teams picking up the average possession in the

back court. There were none last year. The average pickup point for opposing offenses is at 43.2

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