#233: Most Improved Player predictions
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🗓️ 17 November 2023
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Who is taking a leap? Which players look like the most improved? We discuss our candidates for the Most Improved Player award, and debate whether the Rockets can make the playoffs based on their strong start. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:00.0 | Speaking basketball podcast, my name is Ben. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back to another episode and today is going to be very fun because on the Thinking Basketball YouTube channel to start the year, we have just jumped right in to these exciting rookies. What a rookie class! |
| 0:25.8 | A SARS Thompson, the greatest basketball player of all time. |
| 0:28.8 | Cheat Holmgren, Victor Wembembanyama, and many more. |
| 0:33.9 | And Cody, one thing I'm just loving about this year, |
| 0:37.0 | there's a lot of fun things happening in this season. |
| 0:38.9 | The NBA Cup is heating up. |
| 0:40.3 | Tomorrow's Friday, there's another set of games, |
| 0:42.3 | teams are gonna to get eliminated |
| 0:43.8 | but you get that early season excitement with young players making a leap taking a jump and |
| 0:49.9 | so I've gotten the rookies out of my system and now my gaze is turning a little bit |
| 0:55.4 | toward those second year players, those third year players, those random fifth year players |
| 1:00.5 | who all of a sudden are putting it all together. |
| 1:03.0 | I want to talk about guys who are potentially going to be most improved player candidates this year. |
| 1:11.6 | A couple episodes ago we did our ballots for, |
| 1:14.8 | what did we do? |
| 1:15.4 | Do we do defensive player the year? |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, we started with defense, yeah. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, defense, and we're gonna come back and try another one. |
| 1:20.0 | I don't know how many more we're gonna do, |
| 1:22.0 | but I liked the framing exercise as a way to talk about |
| 1:26.2 | some of these players and certainly this episode was also inspired by a player on my ballot where |
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