#153: It's Rudy's Fault, the winless 76ers, and early season experimentation

Thinking Basketball

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4.9 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Rudy Gobert has changed teams, but he's still being blamed for Minnesota's losses 5 days into the new season. Should we be worried about the 0-3 76ers? Plus, we discuss the value of early season experimentation for teams and players. With Cody Houdek @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back to the season opener, the season debut,
0:15.5	the season premiere of, I was gonna say
0:20.0	the Thinking Basketball Podcast, but that's really,
0:21.7	I mean, we're really just talking about the
0:22.9	NBA season today for the first time that's what's exciting. Cody it's it's been a long
0:28.6	short off season we're back in 2023 Last year we had the 75th anniversary season in the NBA and this year it's the 77th anniversary season.
0:39.0	So I'm just saying time is a flat circle.
0:42.0	How many seasons of thinking basketball do you think this is?
0:45.0	Like when did you actually start?
0:46.0	Is this like season five for you now?
0:49.0	2018-19 was the first season.
0:51.0	So this is the fifth season of the thinking
0:54.5	basketball podcast. That makes no sense to me. We're just going to ignore that and
0:58.4	move right into talking about the league. Who have you been watching? Who's
1:01.6	exciting? Who's on your mind?
1:03.2	Oh my goodness, Ben. Number one team that I just love to watch right now, Ben I can't get enough of the
1:08.7	Orlando Magic. Oh my God, are they your favorite team? I mean the bucks exists so no but you know if we take out the bucks like
1:18.2	Everything about them is just is just wonderful like I don't do any draft stuff so just like the Bank Hero experience is just so exciting
1:25.3	The huge weird lineups is so exciting Franz Wagner is so exciting look I don't know where to start
1:30.5	We could make this entire episode about the Orlando Magic and we still wouldn't touch on everything that I want to talk about with them.
1:36.0	I became the Vince McMahon meme the other day watching the magic. If you're not familiar with this it's a meme where you get more and more
1:43.8	excited about something as it builds so Vince McMahon's face gets more and more
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