#192: 2023 Playoff Preview
Thinking Basketball
Thinking Basketball
4.8 • 965 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 92 minutes
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The Athletic's Dave DuFour stops by again for our annual mega playoff preview episode, where canvas the entire NBA, talking Warriors-Kings, the wide open West, a possible Suns-Nuggets series looming, what will change this year tactically in the postseason, and whether Milwaukee or Boston is a looming favorite. Plus, will the offensive boom continue? Sign up at SBC for $300 of with promo code “Thinking Basketball.” Follow Dave @DaveDuFourNBA. 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 it is is |
| 0:15.0 | that time of year we have finally made it through the 7, 132 game |
| 0:21.0 | season that it spanned many months many moons it took a long time but |
| 0:30.0 | Dave Dufor is here to continue the tradition the one and only we just have to preview it now we got a new season |
| 0:37.6 | It is the post season the season after the season. It's playoff preview time Dave how you doing? |
| 0:44.1 | Fantastic I'm happy to be here. You know I use this podcast to mark important moments in life |
| 0:51.6 | the beginning of a season the end of a season. So another year, Ben, we're older now. Yeah, I'm good man. |
| 0:59.2 | You ready to do this? Yeah, I thought we were going to make fun of HBO or Max. I don't know. We'll do that later. I don't know what's going on. Overfill pod. It's just just Max now. Did you that's what's... Did you go through the preview pod for the regular season that we did? |
| 1:15.0 | I went, I listened to a little of it at some point in the middle of the year. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, why, why, why, what do you think? I feel like I didn't do of the year. Yeah, why? |
| 1:22.8 | Why? |
| 1:23.8 | I feel like I didn't do well this year. |
| 1:25.5 | No, no. |
| 1:26.8 | It was a weird year. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.2 | It's okay. I tried to steer you back. |
| 1:31.1 | That's what I remember. I said, Dave, come over here into this boat. |
| 1:34.7 | Come into this ship with me. It's all right. Well, honestly, the injury stuff this year was a little bit |
| 1:41.8 | weird. The overwhelming mediocrity was kind of weird. |
| 1:47.5 | Well, we talked about that in the preview, how hard it was to handle the parody, not just fans but I think for analysts because you're used to these |
| 1:56.1 | clear lines of demarcation where a team has a plus eight point differential and when they're healthy they have a |
| 2:02.0 | plus ten point differential and a team that's just not |
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