#38: Analyzing trades | Who fits where and what do teams need?

Thinking Basketball

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4.9 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Breaking down a number of proposed trades involving marquee players like Chris Paul, Ben Simmons, Jrue Holiday and more, with an emphasis on how these players fit on contending teams and what those top teams need to get over the hump. Also, is heliocentrism good for basketball? Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball and get a FREE week trial at the Athletic at http://www.theathletic.com/thinkingbasketballpod --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-basketball/support

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0:00.0	Thinking Basketball podcast, my name is Ben.
0:07.0	Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.
0:09.7	Welcome back.
0:10.7	Today, the trade season is upon us. You know, last July we had all of those fireworks,
0:18.4	signings, free agency, more player movement than ever before and then in just about the second week of July
0:26.6	Russell Westbrook and Chris Paul were traded for each other that was the last trade in the NBA
0:35.5	as of recording this here near the end of December.
0:40.6	Couple days before Christmas.
0:43.6	We have gone a long time without feeding the geese, the trade population.
0:50.6	They need to get their trade.
0:52.7	So that's what this show is all about today.
0:54.8	It's all about, now the December 15th has passed,
0:57.7	that lifts a moratorium on a lot of players' trade options. And so trade season is here we're expecting some trades
1:06.3	before the deadline in February how many whether there will be a blockbuster I
1:11.0	have no idea that's not the point of today's podcast. The point of today's
1:15.3	podcast is to go through and look at the fit. People have asked me this for months, can you do a show talking about the prospective
1:25.7	fit of some of these guys on different teams?
1:29.4	And that honestly is one of my favorite things about analyzing the sport. I've said this before if you follow
1:33.9	my work you know I wish they could swap players every few months. They could run 50 games
1:39.8	and then switch it up but that's not exactly practical for the league.
1:44.6	Unless everybody moved to just, everyone moved to LA.
1:47.5	No, don't move to LA, moved to New York.
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