Buckets 2026 Playoff Preview!
Buckets with Amir Blumenfeld
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4.9 • 910 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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We are back in the Zoom room to discuss the regular season, the post season, and EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN: the play-in season.
We also recapped how our Over-Under teams did. Spoiler alert: REALLY WELL.
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| 0:00.0 | Wow, an entire season here and gone. What a time to be alive. But we made it to another play-in tournament week. Let's discuss it with Billy Scafuri. |
| 0:14.0 | You're getting bucky-buckie. What is 82 games really in an NBA season? It was a blink. It was a blink. |
| 0:22.6 | People hold us, they're giving us too much responsibility to have check-in weekly. |
| 0:27.1 | We take 82 games and then we check in again before the season starts and as the season ends. |
| 0:32.0 | Because as things are happening, it's like, oh, we should do a podcast about it. |
| 0:35.1 | And then by the time we would record it, it's like, that's three days old now. Unless you're really on top of it, you might as well not do anything. And we are famously busy guys. Yes, you and I are super busy texting about basketball all day. Nine to five, turning into a five to nine, turning into a.m. to nine, and it's just enough |
| 0:55.8 | is enough. Yeah. For us to talk about it and text about it, it's asking a lot. But here we are. Yeah. I guess in the future, we can just add people to our text chain, and then we don't even have to do a podcast. I love the idea. That's real easy on me. Yes, exactly. they could just be part of the pre-production so we don't have to actually talk to talk it to a |
| 1:12.2 | microphone we can just keep chatting with our fans that's not That's real easy on me. Yes, exactly. They could just be part of the pre-production so we don't have to actually talk into a microphone. |
| 1:12.7 | We can just keep chatting with our fans. That's not a bad idea. I feel like that's, and I'm not a part of one of them, but is that what Discord is? Yeah, Discord for sure. Slack, I feel like has that capability. I wouldn't want to be in a group chat with 3,000 people, |
| 1:27.5 | but a message board or some sort of chat, |
| 1:30.6 | I don't want to be in a group chat with 3,000 people, but a message |
| 1:28.5 | board or some sort of chat, I don't know, if any of you cool slash nerdy youngsters know what the |
| 1:35.6 | hell would be best or ideal or possible for this idea, let us know. We're looking at you, John |
| 1:40.4 | Iyer. We're looking at you. John Iyer. Speaking of John Iyer, okay, let's just get right into it. The over unders. That was our last episode that we did. It was, you know, we draft our team of overunders. Who will do best events against the spread. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And this year, I mean, there's no other way to say it. We just dominated. |
| 2:06.7 | We wired a wire, destroyed our sweet, sweet friends. |
| 2:07.3 | Yeah. |
| 2:11.2 | So when Amir says we, he's not talking about the royal we, the seven of us in competition. |
| 2:13.5 | He's talking about he and I. |
| 2:14.9 | And more specifically you. |
| 2:21.0 | Yeah, you finished first with 40 games above Vegas expectations. Holy smokes. |
| 2:27.9 | Yeah, feeling good. I famously do no research before we go into it. Everyone else listens to the Zach Lowe's of the world and tells us like, you know, this team's going to be terrible or not. |
| 2:31.7 | Yeah. I'm pure vibes. Pure vibes. And I believe this is the sixth year in a row that I've either come in first place, |
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