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#215: How much “luck” is there in basketball?

Thinking Basketball

Thinking Basketball

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4.8964 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

How much “luck” is involved in an NBA game or playoff series? Is it all about outside shooting? How big of a difference does streaky shooting make, and how should we talk about and think about this relative to “skill” or “quality?” We tackle that with some new data, but first, a few impressions of Summer League, and a white debate about whether the new NBA Cup is a good idea. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben and on today's show it's more off season action Cody so we can do whatever we want we even need to talk about basketball I mean I heard through the grapevine I heard a little rumor that you saw Barbie.

0:24.0

No, did you see Barbie yet?

0:26.0

Mission Impossible?

0:27.0

How many shows have you gone to this week?

0:30.0

Ben, if I had seen Barbie a week early, would I would have quit everything I would have made up my life's job

0:36.0

Just to tell about it. No it was mission impossible that I saw when you were growing up did you ever think that in the future you would be recording yourself talking

0:44.8

to all, you know, tons of people all over the world, seven or eight people all over the world,

0:51.9

and you would tell them that you're most

0:54.4

excited to see Barbie this week did you ever think that you would say that sentence

0:57.8

you know growing up using my brother's old hand-me-down toys like I was more of a G.I.

1:03.6

type of guy I never foresaw but I also never knew the brilliance of Greta Gerwig.

1:08.5

No one told me about Ryan Gosling's turn to comedy.

1:11.2

Margot Robbie's explosion is a top tiertier actress. I just wouldn't have known

1:15.3

those things as a youngster, but that's what happens when we mature Ben, we learn things about

1:19.8

the world and that's where we are today. How many times have you seen nice guys?

1:24.0

Uh, probably like once or twice.

1:27.0

I think I saw twice.

1:28.0

That's not enough.

1:29.0

Yeah.

1:30.0

I'm not much of a movie re-wacher.

1:31.0

It's like books, like there's so many that it's impossible to keep up with all of them that like I just don't go back and revisit things too many times.

1:38.0

Do you, do you revisit things? Oh, if it's rewatchable, I love it. I've seen back to the future like 90 times it's a it's a good watch yeah

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