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The Lowe Post

All-NBA Candidates, Why Scoring has Dipped, and the 65-Game Rule

The Lowe Post

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4.77.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Zach and ESPN's Bobby Marks run through their preliminary list of candidates for All-NBA. Then the NBA's Head of Basketball Operations Joe Dumars and the Senior VP of Referee Training and Development Monty McCutchen join to discuss why scoring has dipped since the All-Star Break, ideas to help defenders, and the unintended consequences of the 65-game rule for awards. Bucks still trying to figure it out (15:48) Brunson is going to make an All-NBA team and state of the Knicks (29:05) Rounding out All-NBA candidates (35:32) Sixers in disarray without Embiid (48:58) Dumars and McCutchen (1:01:27) On scoring being down since the All-Star break (1:04:23) Ideas to help defenders (1:14:45) On how the 65-game rule is working (1:29:43) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And now the Low Post.

0:04.0

Welcome to the Low Post podcast on a Friday morning.

0:08.0

It's beautiful on the East Coast.

0:09.0

The NBA regular season is churning to a close.

0:13.0

Bobby Marks is here to talk all NBA with us and Bobby.

0:16.0

I think it's fitting that on kind of a blah night, Thursday night is usually such a great night for NBA games.

0:22.0

Not so much last night.

0:23.6

The marquee game was Celtic's sons, a dispiriting blowout

0:29.2

for Phoenix, who has all their big three back and kind of needs to get their asses in gear because they're seventh right now and I keep saying this I know they've kind of fallen off the national radar because everyone's like well we just got to wait and see, wait and see what the team

0:43.2

looks like with the Big Three Healthy. Like, that's cool. This team has as much at stake in this single

0:50.1

particular season as pretty much any team in the NBA. They traded everything to build this team.

0:55.1

They tore down a finals team which is fine, whatever that was their decision to build this team. They

0:59.8

torched the second apron and they have nothing left to trade and there's seventh and last night

1:04.8

seventh playing seventh Kevin Durant's 35 years old this is like kind of a crisis that no

1:11.0

one is really talking about as a crisis and last night they just kind of looked a little

1:16.7

outclassed and outsized on the road against Boston. I know they beat Denver last week or a couple of

1:23.0

that was a great win without Booker for the sons. They just don't have a lot of

1:26.9

great wins and and also Bobby to sort of lead into all NBA

1:34.0

kind of an interesting battle between two of the guys for,

1:38.0

we're all NBA and I don't have a ballot this year.

1:41.0

And boy, this is like wild to have no positions you just do

1:43.6

whatever you want put players wherever you want I know Bill Simmons just

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