#348: Floor-raising coaches & new offensive trends

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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We discuss the Rockets unique, league-leading offense this year, Doc Rivers floor-raising coaching around Giannis and the Bucks, and the trend toward optimizing shooters and ball-handlers who aren't stars. Plus Spoelstra's Heat and the challenge of ceiling-raising as a coach. Support atwww.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	Thinking basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to week three, Cody. Are we already in week three of the NBA season? Look, everybody's played about 10 games. Okay? And last night was one of the wildest nights that I can remember in a long time.
0:25.6	It's certainly the wildest night of the year, and it's one of the wildest nights of the last few years where Cody's like, did you see the Victor Wembe and Yama
0:34.6	a little comeback and the threes at the end of the game?
0:36.6	And it's like, that was nothing. Cody, the pistons were down five points with four seconds
0:42.2	left and won the game. I'm just looking at the scores now. This is honestly how it went before
0:49.0	the show. Ben's like, did you see the wildest night of the season yesterday? And I was like, I saw,
0:58.3	I saw Spurs Bulls. And he's like, no, that was like the least interesting of the things that happened.
0:59.6	So I'm woefully behind the stuff from yesterday.
1:02.5	So what was the most exciting of the finishes you saw yesterday?
1:06.2	I think off the top of my head, was the calves being down three in overtime.
1:13.6	It was already fun going into overtime, this back and forth wild game.
1:17.5	And then they had not one, not two, not three shots to win it in Miami or to tie it.
1:24.7	But Donovan Mitchell getting it off, coming from one side of the floor to get an
1:28.6	offensive rebound with three seconds left under the basket, run out to the corner and hit a fade away
1:34.2	three falling out of bounds with four tenths of a second left to tie it. Only for Eric Spolstra
1:39.4	to go with the lob with four tenths of a second left on the inbound's pass to get the
1:44.4	Andrew Wiggins dunk to beat the buzzer, that was probably the highlight of the night. Yeah, it was the whole night felt like that. It was crazy. Oh, that was, that's when you, you sent the message that was like Spolstra. Yes. After time out magic. Yes, Spolstra has done it again. At that point, I'm done watching basketball. What did you do last night?
2:01.3	I think everyone deserves to know what on earth you were doing,
2:04.5	missing the greatest night of basketball ever?
2:07.7	Well, I went to bed.
2:09.4	That's that.
2:11.0	I caught up on spurs and bowls.
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