21st century peaks Ep 6 | Global impact and modern midrange isolation

Thinking Basketball

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Joel Embiid are all-time level scorers with a ton of midrange shots. We discuss their unique (and concerning?) geometric footprints on the entire team, the concept of influencing stats for the entire team, and then the conundrum of evaluating Anthony Davis. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	Thinking Basketball Podcast.
0:09.1	My name is Ben.
0:10.3	Welcome back to episode six of our 21st century greatest peak series.
0:16.5	Cody, you're looking at me like I didn't get that right.
0:18.3	I'm pretty sure it's episode six.
0:21.7	We are, I feel like we're just flying through these players and they just keep getting
0:25.9	better and better. And today we have a lot of ground to cover. So if you're new to the series,
0:32.8	we did honorable mentions. We talked about a bunch of stuff. We had quick, just really quick recap. We had number
0:38.9	25 Jason Kidd. We had number 24, Jason Tatum, 23, Dwight Howard, 22, Traymond Green, 21, Manu
0:46.9	Genoobli, 20, James Hardin. I can't remember the order I had last time. I have in my notes,
0:54.5	Luca 19th and Tracy McGrady 18th,
0:56.9	but I think we went in the other order.
0:58.5	Does that sound?
0:59.3	I was going to say I thought McGrady was behind Luca, but...
1:03.2	Yeah, I think I had this whole thing about accounting for health and injuries,
1:06.5	and I never know what to do with 2024 Luca Donchich hobbling around the court.
1:13.0	But that's where we left off.
1:14.2	We left off at number 18.
1:17.2	And today we're going to talk about number 17.
1:20.0	We're going to talk about number 16.
1:21.8	We might talk about number 15.
1:23.1	I want to start today.
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