Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Thursday afternoon.

But in the morning with our guest today, the Machine, Kevin Pelton.

What's up, Machine?

Yeah, it's afternoon where you are, morning's still where I am.

Yeah, he's in Seattle.

We will be joined later on the podcast by our latest friend of the pod who's a clipper, which we've had a number

of clippers on this year, Pelton. But Evica Zubach will be joining us a little bit later and we'll be

talking to him. But first, more importantly, one of the key dates on the HOOP Collective calendar every year,

it's time for a large sample size theater, which means the playoffs are almost here, Kevin.

How many years have we done large sample size theater?

It's got to be day into pre-pandemic, don't you think?

For sure, yeah.

I mean, I think we probably started it when it was the origin of the Hoop Collective, which was like 2016-17.

So it's been a minute.

Anyway, this is where we take a look at some trends.

Early in the season, usually in November or December.

I think this year we did it in early December.

We look at small sample size theater, some things that are happening in the league.

And Pelton can, you know, speculate or whether

they're continuing or not. And so now that we've seen a full season of some things, we have

large sample sizes. So that's where we're going to start. And Pelton, I feel like for the last

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