#157: Whose record can't we trust?

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🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We look some teams with .500 records or worse that are actually playing better than record and the most notable team above .500 that really looks like their struggling. (Note: We forgot to mention the 6-7 Bulls who are playing better than their record.) Also, is Tyrese Haliburton the best player from the 2020 draft? And is Father Time finally catching up with LeBron James? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:01.0	Thank you basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to another episode of this show where today Cody there's so
0:18.7	many things going on in basketball and we were talking right before recording.
0:24.0	There's so many things going on in the NBA, not just crazy off-the-court stuff,
0:29.0	but on the court this season, a ton of exciting basketball, a ton of beautiful X's and O's and coaching and the shot quality
0:37.6	and the offensive efficiency is off the charts.
0:41.3	There's a lot happening that I want to, hopefully we can touch on some of it with
0:44.2	surprise teams today and things like that but there's so much happening that I
0:48.6	didn't even realize Kauai Leonard hasn't played basketball in like a he's played 42 minutes this year I genuinely did not realize he's only played 42 minutes
0:58.1	Yeah, he like the picture surfaced during the summer where it's like all right this dude queerly has been squatting in his in his off time here he played I think a game did he even play two games because I think it's been 10 straight games he's been sitting in two games he did play two games okay and the legend of
1:15.8	Kauai just continues where we can just be like the clippers are championship
1:19.6	favorites if they're healthy and here we are again.
1:23.8	You sound skeptical.
1:25.5	I'm beyond whatever is beyond skeptical.
1:28.3	Like that's right I'm out.
1:30.0	I'm just I'm out on them like at this point I just need to see it happen right I can't keep waiting for the playoffs and then have my heart broken year after year right I learn these things and it's it just hurts I want them to be really good I like watching watching Kaway Leonard, but I'm not, I'm still not.
1:45.0	Do you think this is the key to a great reputation? You just give the people a taste.
1:51.0	Just play a little bit. Play a little bit in 2017. Roll an ankle. Play a little
1:56.4	in 2019. Win a title. Play just a little bit more. And you know, as long as you're not playing you still have that ideal that
2:07.4	embodiment of a great is that the secret just don't play yeah I think it's like a
2:12.3	the Jonathan Isaac syndrome where like if you play and you're really good at something right but then you just like play in little spurts everyone just like keeps grasping on to like when you were at your peak like
2:22.7	everyone is just like 2019 quai when he's back to that but it's like that's now
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