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#183: The parity in the West; Is Dame top-5 in offense?

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Thinking Basketball

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4.8965 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Are the Kings dangerous or pretenders? Are the Lakers a sleeper? We discuss the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the top-9 Western Conference teams, focusing on the Kings pace, the Lakers defense (and health) and more. Plus, where does Damian Lillard rank among the best offensive players in 2023? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

Speaking basketball podcast, my name is Ben.

0:07.0

Welcome back to yet another episode this is episode 183.

0:17.0

Can't believe we've done 183 podcasts and it feels like we've done about half of them since the all-star break this year.

0:27.4

I think we've probably done a couple, but it's been an incredible stretch of basketball. I feel like in these last few weeks the

0:36.8

Trade deadline shuffled the deck in such a way that was fantastic. The Lakers have a new team. The Sun's got Kevin Durant.

0:43.7

McHale Bridges is averaging 36 points a game in Brooklyn. The Knicks are

0:49.5

unbeatable because they had a Josh Hart apparently.'s all it took that's all it took

0:53.8

Cody for the Knicks to be unbeatable it's just bring in another sort of Tom

0:59.0

Tom Tobodian is that a word Tom Tobodian player who's like six six and runs around and defends and doesn't want to

1:06.5

ISO score and whatnot who am I forgetting the Celtics added Mike Muscala that feels the Celtics and the Bucks feel the same.

1:15.0

But they've been part of some great games.

1:17.5

The Mav's son's game was great the other day.

1:20.0

The, who knows what's going on with the grizzlies

1:23.6

basketball is back

1:26.1

it's bad note was gone but i think what's weird is i feel like every year in

1:30.4

march this is kind of like the hardcore doldrums of the year.

1:33.6

Yeah.

1:34.6

And I don't know about you, it hasn't slowed down and actually like picked up at this point.

1:37.3

So I'm interested to see if and when it's gonna taper off or if we're just gonna start the

1:41.4

playoffs like now.

1:43.0

No, this is crazy. This is absolutely crazy. The irony is we've got this play in, right,

1:49.2

in the, which really is coming into play in the Western Conference because if you look at the Western Conference standings right now,

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