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#220: The best defenders of the last 15 years | Guards

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Thinking Basketball

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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In part 3 of our series, we look at the best guard defenders since 2008. What makes a small player a good defender? How valuable are they? How do they stack up with bigger defenders, and what's changed in the last 15 years? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

0:07.0

Welcome back to another show. Today it's part three of the best defenders of the last 15

0:18.7

years. I mean, I mean before we even get going just Cody how are you how are you holding up how are you feeling are you doing

0:27.3

man well I mean beyond this whole like basketball journey which we'll get to in a second I think we need to take a little bit of a detour

0:34.6

Ben because Ben I went off and I turned on my television to watch a new program you have a TV yeah I guess have a TV. I thought everything was just streamed on my computer here, but I wandered into my living room. I turned on my TV. And here, Ben, I'm like, you know what? This documentary about Will Chamberlain seems seems interesting so I'll turn it on

0:53.7

lo and behold there you are appearing multiple times in there yeah the documentary about

0:59.1

will Chamberlain well I'm glad you I'm glad you finally watched it yeah Yeah, I'm glad you were able.

1:03.2

Did you have any lingering impressions

1:06.0

from finally seeing it?

1:08.4

I really enjoyed it.

1:09.9

I don't know what my analysis is beyond that,

1:11.7

but I kind of liked how they really got,

1:14.2

you know, they got really into Wilts psychology a little bit.

1:17.3

I think some of the stuff,

1:18.4

especially in the last episode,

1:20.0

where they're kind of like pondering his whole like caring attitude and

1:24.7

then his impending death and it got really deep and and kind of dark in a thoughtful way

1:29.1

and that's what I was like oh this is this is a documentary so I really appreciated that it went to like a bunch of different places in Wilt's life that I'll be honest I just didn't know about.

1:39.0

Yeah, of course we had the discussion a couple episodes back if you want to check that out with the

1:43.7

directors of the documentary and if you haven't seen it it is available on

1:47.6

Paramount Plus with Showtime. Showtime documentary if you have Paramount Plus, you can stream that whenever you want.

1:55.6

I'm glad you mentioned that. I thought you were going to say that you finally like watched

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