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#241: Who has the best defense in the league?

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Thinking Basketball

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Boston and Minnesota have the best records in the league, but who has a better playoff defense? We discuss the sustainability of the Timberwolves impressive defensive, along with the makeup of the other top defenses team in the league. Plus, Derrick White, Kirstaps Porzingis, and the incredible way the Celtics assembled their starting 5. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

You ready to do this?

0:02.0

Thinking basketball podcast, my name is Ben.

0:10.0

Welcome back to another show and today we are going to talk about Cody I think maybe our favorite subject these days.

0:19.0

We're going to get into defense. I want to know who the best defense is in the NBA. I've been thinking

0:27.2

about it. It's been bouncing around in my head and we need to do our thing where we get on the couch and we talk it out and we figure out what's going on.

0:37.0

But before that, before that, I want to do my favorite thing about this week or the league that I'm seeing lately.

0:45.0

I don't know, this is, I want to start like a new segment and call it my favorite thing,

0:48.0

but this is going horribly, so I'm just going to try it once and we'll figure it out from there.

0:53.0

There's a lot of players.

0:55.0

I was watching the Lakers Spurs game the other day.

0:59.0

Okay.

1:00.0

Anthony Davis sprains his ankle on like the first play of the game. I know it's a

1:05.3

rarity for Anthony Davis to roll an ankle. But here's the thing Cody. Here's the

1:09.4

thing that I'm loving. Anthony Davis did not leave that game. He played the whole game, hobbled. He hobbled around the court. The whole game, I don't know if there's been a leap in ankle science or the ankle research but he played the whole game then

1:25.8

the ankle stiffens up and it gets all tight and swollen and he sits out the

1:28.4

next game you might miss two games I don't know yep this is not the first time

1:31.8

I've seen this this This is happening everywhere.

1:33.4

Every game.

1:34.0

Devon Booker, remember in the Toronto game, busted up his ankle, came back, played the whole game,

1:37.7

then missed like the next two or three games.

1:39.7

This is a new thing. What's going on?

1:41.8

Oh, this is really, you really hit me with some hard

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