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The Ringer NBA Show

Cavs Can't Play D, the Raptors' Next Move, and Ball vs. Fox With Kevin O'Connor (Ep. 90)

The Ringer NBA Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Chris Vernon and Kevin O'Connor discuss the Cavs' putrid defensive effort against the Spurs (5:00), historically bad defenses to win titles (12:00), the Celtics taking over the 1-seed (21:00), Toronto's five-year plan (28:00), the 2011 Spurs' thought experiment (39:00), and De'Aaron Fox vs. Lonzo Ball (45:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.6

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0:05.8

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0:12.0

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0:13.2

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0:17.3

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0:21.7

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0:30.0

Welcome to the Ringer NBA Show.

0:36.7

I'm Chris Vernon, joining me is he does every Tuesday from theRinger.com is Kevin O'Connor.

0:41.6

Kevin!

0:42.6

What up, Chris?

0:44.1

Hey, man.

0:45.1

So, last night I'm going to settle in and I'm going to watch the marquee matchup in the

0:50.5

NBA between the Cavaliers and the San Antonio Spurs and what the hell was that?

0:58.0

Oh, boy.

1:00.1

Another marquee matchup that was supposed to be a great game, but no, not so much.

1:06.1

That looked like that that was surprising in many ways.

1:09.3

I thought this might be the game where the Cavaliers actually pick it up on the defensive

1:12.7

end of the floor and granted I guess you could say that they held the Spurs to 103.

1:17.8

They they're a mess on that end, Chris.

1:20.4

I feel like there's so many levels to their issues.

1:23.0

They have old guys that just aren't good defenders.

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