#160: Developing on good vs. bad teams

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Is it better for young players to play on bad teams with lots of opportunity and experimentation, or good teams with less opportunity where different skills earn paying time? We also react to the Wolves defensive experiment with Karl-Anthony Towns out injured, along with Cody's theory of rim protection. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back to another episode. Cody I feel like we're rocking and
0:16.2	rolling right through the NBA season we have hit the one quarter poll
0:21.1	unofficially where teams have played about 20 or 21 games as of recording
0:27.6	this, and I'm feeling good because I feel like I have no idea what's going on in the NBA.
0:32.4	Well, it's the quarter mark, so now we have to do our top I have no idea what's going on in the NBA.
0:33.0	Well, it's the quarter mark, so now we have to do our top 10 MVPs.
0:35.8	I think it's like contractually obligated for anyone that is a podcast, so that's probably
0:40.0	what we should do today.
0:41.0	We would never, we would never come up with such a ridiculous cheap gimmick and sell the people
0:47.1	short we are doing our top 24 MVPs today there is no other way around it. The 24 most valuable players in the first 21 games of the season.
0:58.6	Now we're not going to, we're not going to do that. I don't know what, what are we going to talk about today? What's going on? What has happened lately that's interesting in the National
1:06.6	Basketball Association? Well I think what's really interesting is you know we were
1:10.2	trying to talking about the the Timberwolves for the last week or so and you had your
1:14.5	video come out and we're like oh we'll kind of talk about those who will extend on that and then
1:18.3	what in the last like what was it two days ago we get the report that Carl Anthony
1:22.3	Towns is out for four to six weeks.
1:25.3	Is that what I read? Four to six weeks?
1:27.0	It's one of those calf strains, got some tearing and the muscle and, you know,
1:32.4	that could sideline you for a month or two.
1:34.5	Yeah, my understanding of that.
1:37.2	We need Dave Dufor on today to give us the calf, the full calf report.
1:41.2	I think if Dave ever had like a TV spot on a big network it would just be called
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