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🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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What happens when players are the only stars on the court? In this episode, we attempt to sort out the best “lone stars” or heavy-lifters who can carry offenses by themselves when other capable offensive focal points head to the bench. 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. I am absolutely stoked about this one. If you're |
0:18.7 | watching on YouTube, we figured out how to get the camera working, but it's a little it's a little too intense. I'm like in HD |
0:27.3 | I feel like I'm on a movie set and more importantly the topic today the thing that I'm really excited about. Cody we are going to discuss |
0:37.5 | the best heliocentric players in the NBA right now. |
0:45.6 | If you don't know what heliocentrism is, |
0:47.3 | it's a term coined by the athletics, Seth Part now |
0:50.8 | to talk about the rise and sort of individual dominance of players doing everything. |
0:56.0 | Typically a guy doing a lot of scoring and a lot of playmaking with teammates spread around him on the court. |
1:03.0 | And the classical construction we see, |
1:05.0 | we've seen LeBron James play this style, |
1:07.0 | we've seen James Harden play this style, |
1:09.0 | Luca Danchetch and Trey Young do it today. |
1:11.0 | The classical construction is that you have that spread, pick, and roll |
1:15.0 | master who can go get his own or make all of the kick out passes and cutter passes and lay down |
1:21.1 | passes to all the shooters on the court. |
1:23.7 | But today, when we say the best heliocentric players, |
1:28.2 | we're really talking about the guys who are out there |
1:31.4 | as the lone star. |
1:32.8 | That's really what we're talking about. |
1:34.7 | So that's our definition we're working with. |
1:37.4 | The guys who are the only real big drivers of offense |
1:41.6 | while they're out on the court and we're going to try to figure out who's |
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