Rob Mahoney

But if that's the class step and LeBron and Shaq and Wemby, I mean, it's, it's pretty special stuff.

But I think the LeBron part of that is he kind of opened up.

I mean, people were attacking mismatches since, I mean, anything resembling modern basketball, that's been part of the game.

But his ability to manipulate as a big playmaker, the smallest defenders on the floor and bring them into space and attack them, I think did change the spacing and the geometry of basketball in a lot of ways.

Kind of the inverted pick and roll through LeBron became such a weapon.

Everyone had to adjust to how to guard it.

We need a whole taxonomy of these things.

I think nopes are worth tracking.

I would love to get hell no's of like guy drives and you don't even have to contest it because you know he's going to smoke the layup so bad.

Maybe there's a version of this for the shooter who you can just turn around.

How are those different?

You know that a nope and a hell no is different.

No, I think the hell nah is a little more, I don't even think you can make this just because I'm here.

And I'm not even going to contest it, but hell nah.

Yeah.

There would need to be some qualifiers just because some teams run their offense that way, right?

You're using the post as a trigger for other action.

And so it's technically a paint touch, but Draymond Green was never intending to shoot anyway.

So how do you filter that stuff out I think would be a complicating factor.

Yeah, I think if there is going to be a time for that to turn over, I mean, the optimism around Wemby is so high.