#350: Slop Ball rules & Are the surprise teams for real?
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Thinking Basketball
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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We start with the increase in scoring (again), increase in fouls, and complete undercutting of defenses based on the way the game is being called right now. Then, are the Toronto Raptors, Phoenix Suns or Miami Heat actually good? Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:00.0 | Thinking Basketball Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | My name is Ben. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome back to yet another, it's a holiday episode. |
| 0:16.1 | Cody, it's a holiday episode. |
| 0:17.6 | Thanksgiving is rolling around. |
| 0:18.9 | We're getting into that time of season where, |
| 0:21.0 | is it very wintry where you are? Is it very cold and wintry? You know, we actually have a |
| 0:25.6 | our first winter storm warning starting at 6 p.m. Central time here. All of the rain that's been |
| 0:31.1 | happening all day is supposed to turn over overnight. We're going to get a few inches. So I'm |
| 0:34.9 | expecting to wake up to my nightmare, Ben, to my nightmare. |
| 0:39.9 | That means shoveling and blizzards and things like that. |
| 0:42.8 | I know it's ridiculous to live in Minnesota and be somebody that's so actively anti-snow, but I just, I love everything else. |
| 0:51.7 | I don't mind the cold. I actually actively light cold. |
| 1:11.6 | I love everything else about it, but the snow, that can go away. I can be done with snow. Is this what happened? I was watching the Raptors game last night, which is geographically not too far from your, you know, centralized region of big bodies of water that produce moisture in the middle of the country. and I don't know if you We're going to have to talk about this later in the show |
| 1:13.1 | The Raptors can't lose a basketball game big bodies of water that produce moisture in the middle of the country. And I don't know if you, we're going to have to talk about this later in the show. |
| 1:13.3 | The Raptors can't lose a basketball game. |
| 1:15.0 | They continue to win a basketball game. |
| 1:16.9 | And yet the audience, it was like watching Japanese figure skating. |
| 1:21.3 | It was extremely quiet. |
| 1:23.4 | I believe you could hear every single bench call from the fifth assistant in the third row. |
| 1:28.8 | I was like, you guys know you're winning like 11 games in a row. And according to you're saying it's the snow. I wonder if that's, I wonder if that's part of it. I can't really comment on the cultural like celebrating of live sports in Toronto, right? I don't know if it's anything different. I don't know if it's just a very hyper-midwestern niceness, |
| 1:45.1 | or if it's just the fact that's like, |
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