#129: Closing the season with a strong series (versus a weak one) | NBA Finals recap
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Thinking Basketball
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🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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We recap the key factors and players in the 2022 NBA Finals (Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Jayson Tatum) and compare a great individual series versus players who struggle to finish the season. Also, are we watching Curry's peak? With Cody Houdek @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:07.0 | basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to, I guess technically, the final episode of the 2022 season. |
| 0:17.2 | The finals are over the Warriors with their fourth title in eight years. |
| 0:22.0 | And just a quick programming note since I mentioned the end of the season. |
| 0:25.2 | We will have off-season content both on the YouTube channel and on this podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | We're not really sure yet what the content's going to entirely be and how |
| 0:36.2 | frequent it'll be. What we do know is it won't be the breakneck game to game pace we've had in the |
| 0:42.0 | finals. So we're kind of ready to wind down and |
| 0:45.3 | get into off season mode but but Cody before we do that of course we have some business |
| 0:51.2 | to take care of which is wrapping game six |
| 0:53.8 | wrapping this series wrapping the 75th anniversary season how are you doing and |
| 0:59.7 | what what what do you want to talk about today what are what are we going to think about when it comes to basketball on this episode? |
| 1:06.4 | Well, since the show is thinking basketball, I'm definitely going to be thinking about basketball |
| 1:10.6 | today. But that's a lot. You threw a lot out there like the way you |
| 1:13.7 | describe that that's like a three hour mega episode if we're gonna do any of those |
| 1:17.6 | but I feel relaxed I feel good I feel a lot less I don't know we need to really intensely break down games before the next one comes out. |
| 1:25.2 | So I'm in a good place right now, Ben. |
| 1:27.5 | Yeah, that's how I feel. |
| 1:29.0 | The tension of the season has been relieved. |
| 1:32.8 | I've been relaxing and lounging and sleeping on the couch and things like that. |
| 1:38.1 | Stuff that you do when there isn't a finals game to cover repeatedly. |
| 1:42.4 | So game six, I don't know how much time we're going to spend on |
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