#81: Role player problems & LA narratives

Thinking Basketball

Sports

4.9 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Reactions to the first round of the NBA playoffs, re-handicapping NBA title odds, and a discussion around a new trend where role players are being played out of the rotation in certain playoff matchups and what that means for non star players or someone like Russell Westbrook. Get 20% at chroniclebooks.com and 10% of at hawthorne.com with the promo code THINKINGBASKETBALL. Also support at patreon.com/thinkingbasketball. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-basketball/support

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Okay, Red, nice and energize for me. Take one.
0:03.0	Hey, people! Did you know that when you buy a pack of M&M's, you could be in with a chance to win an
0:08.4	epic Marvel adventure at Disneyland Paris for you and your crew? The race is on to be a hero. Sorry guys I got to run.
0:17.2	Uh, Red, where are you going?
0:18.5	Didn't you hear what I just said? The race is on to be a hero.
0:23.0	Okay, I guess that's a wrap.
0:25.0	M&M's for all fun kind.
0:28.0	Terms and conditions apply, see M&M's website for more details. My name is Ben and today we are in the thick of the playoffs.
0:44.6	First round, basically over, second round,
0:48.5	going to kick off today as of recording this
0:51.4	on Saturday.
0:52.4	What is the date?
0:53.3	I don't even know days anymore.
0:54.4	Saturday, June 5th, the box and the nets.
0:58.8	Ooh, that's the one I've been waiting for.
1:01.2	And we are still as of right now waiting for game
1:04.6	game seven between the clippers and the maves. We'll talk about the clippers and the maves
1:08.9	and that series in a little bit but let's start with just where I am after the first round
1:16.5	because to me one of the big takeaways that I haven't seen discussed and for obvious reasons because they're
1:24.4	they're low on the narrative list. I don't know why they're low on the
1:28.4	narrative list but they're low on the narrative list because they have a small
1:32.0	market and they have foreign players and things
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Thinking Basketball, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Thinking Basketball and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.