#155: Who is actually good? Confused Power Rankings

Thinking Basketball

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4.9 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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We attempt to make sense of the first few weeks of the season by sorting teams into tiers based on what we've learned. This fails miserably, as Ben constantly changes where he places teams and ends up more confused by the league than before the season started. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	Speaking basketball podcast, my name is Ben. Welcome back to another episode and today Cody we have decided for some
0:17.6	sadistic reason. I'm realizing maybe this was a bad idea to talk about some NBA power rankings.
0:26.0	How are we feeling about the teams?
0:29.0	Not where they are necessarily today,
0:32.0	but now that we've got a few weeks under our belt the
0:34.7	trajectory of this season who are the contenders who are the pretenders who are the
0:39.1	pretenders who are the nets what's going on with them? How many teams are actually
0:44.9	tanking? Why are all the teams that were supposed to be tanking? Why are they
0:47.9	like six and two and at the top of the conference? Why is, why is the league wide offensive rating 114 points per 100
0:55.6	possessions which would shatter the all-time record for a season? Why is it already
1:00.6	there after two weeks despite most seasons historically starting slow offensively?
1:07.2	Are all the teams the same?
1:08.8	What's going on?
1:10.2	Cody, I'm going to need some therapeutic help from you to get through this today.
1:14.8	I'm excited to go through this because I'm looking at the teams and I'm like,
1:18.0	I don't remember having this much just ambiguity going on, especially like near the top,
1:23.7	not necessarily the very top,
1:25.4	but like three fur through 10 or something like that
1:28.8	is just, p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p plp,
1:30.4	we'll see what happens.
1:31.8	I have no idea what to make of it. I'm watching the games as the season is unfolding.
1:37.3	We're a couple weeks in now. And I thought, you know, we should have a show to try to make sense of this.
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