#354: Reed's Rockets vs. Denver & Officiating Saga
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Thinking Basketball
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🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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We dive into the 3-game series between the Rockets and Nuggets, Reed Sheppard's X-Factor role, and the Jokic-Sengun matchup. First, a brief reaction to the latest YouTube video on officiating trending back offensive officiating and 25 under 25 thoughts. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:00.0 | No, now we're live. |
| 0:01.5 | Everyone can see you. |
| 0:07.3 | Thinking basketball podcast, my name is Ben. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome back to a holiday episode. |
| 0:13.6 | It is the holidays this week, Cody. |
| 0:16.5 | It's the end of the year. |
| 0:17.5 | Maybe next week at the end of the year, we'll do some sentimental year-end rounding up of the 2020-5 calendar year. It's always funny how the NBA |
| 0:27.4 | season straddles the actual year. But here we are. We have other things to take care of right |
| 0:34.1 | now. And before we jump in, we have some housekeeping to take care of before we |
| 0:39.1 | jump in. But I would like to know how you're doing, my friend. I'm doing well. I'm sure the listeners |
| 0:44.8 | will see and maybe here throughout the episode. I'm a little stuffy right now. There's been a bit of |
| 0:49.7 | Midwestern cold. There's flu, cold season. It's all just kind of been bouncing around and it finally caught me this week. So I apologize if at any point my voice gives out or I just generally look gross or at least more gross than usual. But yeah, we're here. We're going to make it work. We're going to talk some hoops. Flu game. Flu game incoming from Cody. Yes. If you pass out, I'll just keep going. |
| 1:11.6 | You're perfect. Yeah, I assume you'll bounce back. I think that's how it works in the Midwest. |
| 1:16.5 | So we actually haven't had a chance. I don't think I've had a chance to ask you this. |
| 1:21.6 | We haven't talked since our latest video came out on sort of the the state the philosophical state of officiating continuing |
| 1:31.5 | to lean more toward loving offenses and letting them do whatever they want and I I feel like |
| 1:38.9 | Frank Costanza in the episode of Seinfeld where he unburdens himself to Elaine. That's how I felt. |
| 1:46.7 | I needed to get this off my chest. I needed to get this out of me. And now it's now it's out in |
| 1:51.8 | the ether. It was probably the most painful video emotionally that I've had to make, |
| 1:57.8 | just having to watch all that nonsense and then having to see my beloved |
| 2:01.5 | NBA, you know, devolve into whatever is happening this season with some of the officiating. |
| 2:08.0 | But I think that I wanted to be crystal clear about that before I get your thoughts, if you have any. |
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