#239: Anthony Davis's weird “peak” & the end of Small Ball?

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Can you have an all-time peak without a big regular season? How important is a “single series” playoff peak? After Anthony Davis's dominant NBA Cup Final (In-season Tournament) for the Lakers over the Pacers, we discuss bully ball, defensive versatility, twin towers and the importance of size in today's NBA. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome
0:10.6	back to another episode and man we are coming off the first ever
0:17.8	NBA Cup it was I I loved it it was it was all everything I thought it would be it was fantastic.
0:25.0	LeBron James is now the youngest person ever to win the MVP of the NBA cup.
0:29.6	I read that somewhere this morning and got a chuckle.
0:33.4	A lot to break down there.
0:35.6	We'll talk about Anthony Davis and his final game performance
0:40.1	and see where we go from there.
0:42.3	Cody, how are you feeling?
0:44.0	Man, that honestly, like, I'm surprised there hasn't been a quote that's come out where
0:47.8	LeBron's like, ever since I came in the league, you know, it was 2005 and I just
0:52.0	dreamed of winning the NBA cup MVP like I've been thinking about this ever since I was a young NBA player I'm surprised that quote
0:58.7	Hasn't come out yet something that you just said that makes me really happy that I was starting to get annoyed by was they most like the NBA mostly refers to it as the in season tournament
1:08.0	It needs to be the NBA cup we need to pick one of the other right I'm of the in-season tournament. It needs to be called the NBA cup. That's the only thing though. Everything else, 10 out of 10, blew my expectations out of the water. That final game was incredible. The elimination games ruled. Ben, I was wrong. I was incredibly wrong about all of it and I loved every second of it and I genuinely can't wait to we can have this tournament every NBA season.
1:30.5	See is there anything better than being wrong and loving something?
1:34.7	It's just the, you're like, this movie's going to be terrible and then you go in and it's,
1:37.8	Barbie's your favorite movie ever.
1:41.4	I do think that movies genuinely turn out to be better when you go in with like low expectations like it's those kind of movies.
1:47.2	It's the movies where you walk in you're like this is going to change my life when you're like this it's not quite it.
1:52.1	Barbie I went in with high expectations and still blew it out of the water.
1:55.0	That's a different, it's a different congruent.
1:57.0	We're already getting vulnerable here to start the show.
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