#248: No. 1 options on really bad offenses

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🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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There can be a razor's edge for young players putting up big stats on bad teams. We discuss these polarizing players, whether they're miscast as primary options, the inconvenient truth about shooting efficiency, and why we're lower – for this season, at least – on players like Cade Cunningham and Paolo Banchero because of it. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.
0:07.0	Welcome to another episode. At some point in the recent past Cody and I had a
0:15.9	conversation that we want to bring to you today about young players and players that have a lot of primacy and high usage and offensive load
0:26.7	and they put up big stats, but those players before
0:31.6	have a history of being complicated and sometimes being overrated by their big stats.
0:38.7	And so that's a conversation that we recorded the other day.
0:42.4	We want to bring that to you but it is
0:44.1	a kody it's a little uncomfortable it's a delicate subject I had a lot going
0:49.8	on that day I listened back to it I just didn't feel like I personally handled it with the delicacy that it needed.
0:57.0	So I wanted to introduce that topic and sort of couch it in the I think in the appropriate way we got into the conversation talking about Kate Cunningham and
1:13.3	I think what's lost in the conversation we recorded because Cody and I talked about this a ton
1:17.8	before actually recording that conversation is we both think these guys are pretty good players right now and I think if you
1:27.3	listen to some of our past stuff we think they might be very good players
1:31.2	somewhere in that range.
1:32.8	So just keep this in mind that we're not talking about players
1:36.1	who are the 230 second best player in the league.
1:40.0	The conversation is really inspired by Is Kate Cunningham an all-star right now.
1:44.9	Is Palavancaro an all-star right now?
1:46.7	Are these top 25 top 30 players?
1:49.2	And there's a big difference, especially when you have a lot on your plate and you're carrying a ton, as these guys are in their
1:56.8	situations, between being like the 28th or 30th best player in the league and the 52nd best player in the league or the 67th best player in the league. We'll see where
2:07.1	they get when we do our sub all-star teams, but you know that goes back to when we
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