#243: Top 25 under 25 draft (2024)

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Who are the best young players in the league right now? We draft the top players who are in their age 24 (or younger) season according to basketball-reference, if the playoffs were to start today. What happens when Ben forgets to follow his board and forces Cody to do a re-draft? What do we make of players struggling to start the season? Where should the microwave scorers go? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben and today we are waiting back into the waters of excitement.
0:17.0	There's no way around it. Last year we tried something nuts.
0:21.0	We tried a draft show of the top 25 players under the age of 25 and
0:27.8	the show was wild it was crazy it was controversial it got everyone even angrier than usual although Cody I feel like this this year people
0:37.7	They're already they're already kind of on edge there we all we're already getting a lot of controversy. Like I did not think there would be controversy
0:45.4	that Joelle Embed is good at basketball this year. So I can only imagine what's going to come
0:50.7	of this episode where we draft the top 25 players under 25.
0:58.1	How are you feeling emotionally for this exercise that doesn't upset anyone?
1:02.3	Well, I can already smell the torches burning in the distance, like the pitchforks are being sharpened.
1:08.0	It's not too late to go back. We could change the episode right now.
1:11.0	The tough thing about this episode is like I feel like there are so
1:15.2	many players that I could take in any number of orders but the issue is that some
1:19.4	people are going to take the orders like really seriously. Yes, you're gonna be like wait a second you took so
1:24.7	and so 16th instead of 13th 13th yeah do you even watch my team like that's the kind of
1:30.5	reaction we're gonna get and I don't know I don't know if I'm ready for that but
1:35.5	come at me everyone I want your smoke today because I'm about to give it with all these guys
1:40.8	so if you're a new listener, normally when we do like serious lists, I don't like a list, I don't like
1:48.4	two, three, four. We talk about the ranges a player has and we talk about sort of the low end and the high end and
1:55.1	the idea of uncertainty and what we're trying to pinpoint in a player and we will
1:59.2	talk about strengths and weaknesses as we go through these players. We will talk about the context of these
2:04.4	players, but the crazy thing about this by doing a draft is, as Cody just said, we don't really have the time to say,
2:12.1	here's 82 games in the playoffs here's three years of
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