2022 NBA Draft: How do the playoffs impact evaluations? Also, Celtics! Post-Combine hype! Mailbag!

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Matt Pennie joins the show to discuss a number of different things. First, we start with the Celtics-Heat series for 15 minutes, breaking down that series, the Al Horford renaissance, and more. Then, we move to a discussion of how the NBA playoffs impact NBA Draft evaluations. Should we be considering all of this given how quickly the game changes? How far forward should you be looking? And how does this impact certain prospects like Jalen Duren, Mark Williams, and the top prospects in the 2022 NBA Draft? Then, we go to post-combine takes, and the narratives that seem to be forming. Finally, we close with a long mailbag where we answer an awful lot of great questions from our incredible listeners Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.
0:07.6	I'm your host Sam Vassini.
0:08.8	We are presented by The Athletic today on the show.
0:12.7	It's Matthew Penny in the building.
0:15.0	We're going to talk about the Boston Celtics Miami Heat Series that is near and dear to his heart as a Boston sports fan.
0:21.9	We're going to talk a little bit about the way that the playoffs can impact the 2022 NBA
0:28.9	draft, different trends, different things the teams are looking for in terms of team building
0:33.4	and whether or not you should consider that in your draft strategy as an NBA team.
0:39.6	Finally, we're going to talk a little bit about some post-NBA draft combine narratives that
0:44.6	seem to be forming.
0:46.0	And then finally, mailbag.
0:48.3	I've sent out the mailbag question, siren, already.
0:51.3	I'm hoping that we get some good ones from the beautiful, lovely fans of the
0:55.5	Game Theory podcast. Thank you guys so much. Every time I send that out, I'm just so stunned with
1:01.3	the amount of people that send questions. Like, it's crazy. It's stunning after, because I drive
1:05.6	home from here. It's about, I don't know, five minutes. And then I look at my phone. I'm like, 20 plus, what are these? And I just like, keep,
1:11.0	keep scrolling.
1:11.9	And there's,
1:12.6	it's always some really good ones.
1:13.5	There's always some pretty ridiculous ones.
1:15.5	And then some we answer here.
1:17.0	We can't get all of them,
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