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The Dave Chang Show

Challenging the Status Quo in Cooking and in Basketball, With Kevin O’Connor | The Dave Chang Show (Ep. 40)

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.88.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The NBA has gone through a significant revolution in the past decade, prioritizing efficiency over tradition. The result? A wildly popular league that garners more attention than ever before. Dave sits down with Ringer basketball analyst Kevin O’Connor to compare embracing innovation in the NBA and in the culinary world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, Potter the Ring of Podcast.

0:14.0

Now we're presented by Major Doma Media.

0:15.6

Today's guest is the Ringers of Area Own, basketball expert, columnist, Kevin O'Connor.

0:21.3

So we got KOC on a couple months ago to talk shop about the change in the NBA and how

0:27.0

the three point shot and data and analytics have fundamentally altered NBA basketball

0:34.1

and basketball forever.

0:36.2

It's not the basketball I grew up learning to watch, which was a low post play and patch

0:40.9

are viewing and the Detroit pistons and even the Michael Jordan bowls.

0:45.5

What you see today is completely different.

0:47.8

There's no positions anymore.

0:49.3

The three point shot reign supreme and layups.

0:51.9

It's about maximum efficiency and numbers.

0:55.1

And once you understand data, it's hard to go back the other way and the pros and cons

0:59.3

of this new kind of basketball and how quickly something in our lifetime and a very short

1:03.8

period of time evolved.

1:05.7

And anytime I think you can look at a part of culture and see something change pretty

1:10.3

much overnight, even though that overnight probably took 15 years, I like to study it.

1:16.0

I want to better understand it not just because of basketball in my fandom and being a better

1:21.6

like sports fanatic.

1:23.0

I actually think that there are things you can apply to your own industry.

1:27.5

So I like to see how that might change in food and vice versa.

1:32.1

So if you're not a foodie, but you love sports, particularly basketball or if you don't

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