2: Doubling Down (w/Adam Lustick!)
Buckets with Amir Blumenfeld
Headgum
4.9 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, NBA Superfan and friend Adam Lustick joins us to discuss why Dwight Howard isn't funny, why Klay Thompson is better than Steph Curry, and the coolest jersey number.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a HeadGum Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Bucket episode 2. |
| 0:08.0 | Close your eyes and imagine for a second. |
| 0:10.0 | Tip off. A new game begins. |
| 0:12.0 | The home team scores a quick two and the away team answers |
| 0:15.2 | with back-to-back layups and a four-two lead. It may not seem like much, but one team has just |
| 0:20.0 | doubled up their opponent. Can they keep it up for a quarter? |
| 0:23.6 | Can they double their foe for a half? |
| 0:25.7 | What about an entire game? |
| 0:27.9 | As a fan of box scores, I like the extremes. |
| 0:30.4 | Give me a 20-0 run. |
| 0:31.6 | Give me a 38-12-quarter. Give me a 20-0 run. Give me a 38 to 12 quarter. |
| 0:33.0 | Give me a team up 78 to 33 at half. |
| 0:36.0 | It's possible. I'm sending those screen grabs to a friend. |
| 0:39.0 | But then I got to thinking, |
| 0:41.0 | as Buckets doubles today from a one-epid- podcast to a two- have I? It seems insane to imagine a 145 to 72 final score, but let's put it another way. |
| 0:57.0 | As long as three pointers and free throws are even, a team just has to score two field goals for their opponents one. |
| 1:03.3 | Seems difficult but certainly not impossible, right? |
| 1:06.7 | To basketball reference, I go. |
| 1:08.8 | Assuming the losing team scores at least 50, |
| 1:11.2 | let's search score index for every game in the Shocklock era, that's |
| 1:14.6 | 1955 until today, where margin of victory is 50 or greater. |
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