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It's one thing you can use to validate and justify something that you're watching.

But sometimes it will not match anything.

And I speak as a guy who obviously watches a lot of basketball, but also can see impact on a basketball court.

and what some guys do that might not show up on the box score, that ends up not counting on EPM or any of these advanced metrics.

So yeah, I don't think you can use any of them as like, hey, this is the one thing.

I know there's a lot of guys who also love the Darko graph.

You guys know the DPM Darko graph.

That's fun.

It's cool to look at.

But again, how much are you really...

It's just impact on their respective teams.

I do enjoy...

simple raw dog net rating and plus minus as a way to measure something throughout a season, you know, maybe night to night on a game basis, plus minus is a little bit harder and it's a little funky because of the lineups, but it's narrative though.

There are certain players that are asked to carry lineups, you know?

You know, as you mentioned with DeMar, like...

from 2019 to like 2022 Kyle was asked to carry a bunch of bench lineups so it'd be like Chris Boucher Rondé Hollis Jefferson whatever type of lineups and they would they would lose those lineups but they would just barely lose those lineups and that was a win as far as the Raptors were concerned so it was like it's tough to look at that type of data and make it be the

Oh, I actually have one.

A long time ago, or last year, I think, these little cottage cheese bowls really became popular.

And so I know Dave hates cottage cheese.

It's so bad.