Andrew Yang on the Nets (and some Knicks trivia) + The Old NBA Take Gauntlet
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🗓️ 19 June 2021
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers bring on the Old Take Gauntlet:
1)The Atlanta Hawks’ 2020 offseason was a mistake.
2)The Rockets were idiots to not take Ben Simmons in a deal for James Harden.
3)You can never trust Paul George in the playoffs.
4) The Jrue Holiday trade is a massive win for the Bucks.
5)Doc Rivers is a significant upgrade over Brett Brown.
6) The Sixers are the best evidence that tanking works.
7)The Jazz are a nice team, but they can’t win the title
In Part 2 former Presidential candidate and current New York City Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang joins to discuss his Nets fandom, who he thinks will make the finals, what he would do as NBA commissioner, and then we play a rousing match of Andrew vs. Andrew in Knicks trivia.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam, hosted by Andrew Schlicht with Alex Spears. |
| 0:09.1 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:10.8 | That's a man's jam! |
| 0:12.1 | I like that idea. |
| 0:13.0 | Live from Oklahoma. |
| 0:14.5 | Click, click. |
| 0:15.1 | With questions and participants from all around the world. |
| 0:18.1 | Anthony Edwards. |
| 0:19.2 | Put that on a poster. |
| 0:20.7 | Whether you're flipping your flapjacks, tending to your yard, or just sipping your coffee, get ready, sit back, relax. It's the Saturday Slamin' Jam. Back here's, I miss this shot. I'll walk away. I'm still a chump. Here's Andrew. Welcome to the Saturday Slamman Jam. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm your host Andrew Schlect. |
| 0:45.1 | Go to theathletic.com slash NBA show and get the athletic for $3.99 a month. |
| 0:48.6 | With me, as always, is my good friend Alex Spears. |
| 0:51.8 | And Alex, today we're going to resurrect some old takes. |
| 0:58.1 | We are indeed, Andrew. And this all started because I saw a tweet on June 16th from Kedin Peltin, VSPN. He tweeted, if your response to this year's playoffs is to be certain |
| 1:04.6 | of your opinions, I think you've missed the point, which I thought was a good way to summarize |
| 1:09.7 | what it's been like |
| 1:11.4 | watching these playoffs, because it feels like not just series to series, like game to game, |
| 1:17.3 | I am being challenged on my preconceived beliefs about teams, about players, about the future |
| 1:23.7 | of these teams. |
| 1:24.7 | And so I thought it'd be fun to take a look back at some of the takes we've |
| 1:29.1 | had on the current playoff teams and decide once and for all one of three options, Andrew. |
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