#247: The top passers in the NBA
Thinking Basketball
Thinking Basketball
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
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What makes a great passer? What characteristics set the best apart from the rest? We discuss the different types of passers in the NBA, some archetypes of passers that aren't quite as valuable, and attempt to sort out the best passers in the in 2024 right now. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:00.0 | How you feeling good? |
| 0:02.0 | How you feeling good? |
| 0:04.0 | Thinking basketball podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | My name is Ben. |
| 0:11.0 | Today it is I don't know what to say about today I really don't I don't know what to say |
| 0:20.2 | about four years ago I started making what years at 2024 five years ago. I started making, what years it, 2024? Five years ago. Five years ago I started making a list of the best passers in the NBA. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm pretty sure we have not done a podcast on this and also I have planned three |
| 0:38.6 | videos in the last five years on the top passers in the NBA. I don't know if you know this Cody but five |
| 0:45.8 | years ago there were different players in the NBA. There were different |
| 0:48.9 | top passers. So the list, I used to update the list and then I stopped updating the list and we've been talking about stuff for a while |
| 0:57.3 | And we just said hey we have to do it. We have to finally discuss |
| 1:01.4 | Some of these passers what does it mean to be a great |
| 1:04.7 | passer what are the components what are the different stylistic tradeoffs that |
| 1:09.9 | you're going to get from passing at the elbow to pick and roll passing to more dynamic transition extra broken play passing. |
| 1:18.0 | What happens when you manipulate versus when you react and then this squishy little part of |
| 1:24.9 | passing which is like the windows that you open for yourself with your scoring |
| 1:28.6 | game and your ball handling and all this other stuff. So let's just do it. |
| 1:33.4 | Let's just jump right in. |
| 1:34.2 | You ready? |
| 1:35.2 | Off the top of your head, do you remember |
| 1:37.2 | any of those guys from five years ago |
| 1:39.0 | that is no longer on the list? |
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