#309: Power ranking the top challengers

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

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Ben thinks his camera is flipped, there are 2 new teams in a “dangerous” tier to challenge the Inner Circle title contenders, and Cody and Ben have a big disagreement about a lurking lower seed. But first, the aesthetics of today's offenses and the Celtics. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball Sign up at CBAMastery.com with code thinkingbasketball for %10 off.

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0:00.0	Thinking basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to another episode. It is March. We are steamrolling
0:14.8	toward the end of this incredible NBA season. And Cody, we're going to talk about the best teams today.
0:22.4	We're going to talk about the shakers and movers. I guess this will maybe be our last
0:26.4	power rankings of the year. If we even get that much structure on this to get into the
0:32.0	power ranking element side of things, but you know, I was thinking of, I was thinking of something
0:36.0	this week that I
0:38.0	wanted to start the show with. The Celtics offense, Celtics offense. It's very interesting to me.
0:45.5	I think if you look at the top teams in the NBA right now, of which we will discuss today, there are
0:51.2	many. The Celtics offense to me might be the least
0:55.5	aesthetically pleasing and it might be the most sort of straightforward of the top offenses.
1:04.2	How about that? It's very surgical. It's very precise, right? They like to mismatch hunt and
1:09.3	things like that. And then I was thinking about this and I was like,
1:12.3	I was like, if you think about the top offenses in the league today, this is an offense that
1:16.8	surgically dissects its opponent based on where its weakness is with multiple point of attack
1:22.3	strengths. What they do is they like to isolate a lot inside the free throw line. They'll stick Jalen Brown in there, a little post-up game, a little mismatch bully ball.
1:31.2	If you switch on Christop's Porzingis, they go to him.
1:33.6	Drew Holliday will back dudes in when he's playing. get these beautiful game possessions where you get a, the defense reacts and they swing the ball
1:44.3	around and the Celtics go into their drive and kick, you know, clown car perpetual possessions,
1:48.8	five, six, seven passes and all that. And this is, this is, this is, in 2025, this is the most
1:53.9	vanilla least aesthetically pleasing of the top offenses. This would be the space age, most insane
1:59.0	offense ever if it came along like 10 or 20 years ago
2:02.4	like tactically switch hunting against you with all these different players that can do everything
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