PTFO - Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

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Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It is a far-fetched innovation floated by American hoops heads for years: the four-point shot. But as our far-flung correspondent Rafe Bartholomew reports, there is a real-life pilot program afoot — half a world away, in a galaxy-brained league with a half-century's worth of swag: the Philippine Basketball Association. And it's working. We meet the new king of long distance; watch film with a Filipino coaching legend; and then heat-check this cultural exchange with the NBA's preeminent philosopher of the four-pointer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out.
0:02.0	I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.8	Dancing against Ahan Nisi, Romeo, goes to JT, launches a four.
0:12.3	Why not, Geron?
0:14.0	Why not?
0:16.4	Right after this ad.
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0:22.6	Race the rudder, raise the sails, raise the sails, raise the sails!
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1:04.4	What does your dad think of your expertise in Philippine basketball?
1:08.9	I think he's used to it now. He was pretty surprised. He came over early, end of 2006,
1:14.2	so after I've been there for a year.
1:16.1	And he got a huge kick out of it
1:18.1	because he just was like,
1:18.9	what is going on here?
1:20.1	Well, he played ball.
1:21.2	Yeah.
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