Daily Ding: Donovan Mitchell’s Cleveland debut, Rudy Gobert wolfs down some rebounds, Paulo Banchero’s poster, Jalen Brunson’s Knicks premiere
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
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Jared Weiss and Mark Schindler break down the new team and new league debuts across the NBA Wednesday night. Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert looked great in their new homes, while Paolo Banchero was a beast in his first NBA game.
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| 0:42.2 | Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding on the Athletic NBA Show. |
| 0:46.4 | Ding, ding! |
| 0:47.5 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:50.4 | I like that idea. |
| 0:55.3 | Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA NBA show. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm Jared Weiss. He's Mark Schindler. We have Daniel Lehman stepping in to produce this one. |
| 1:04.1 | And it is our first like full ding of the year, I guess. I know opening night was the night before. |
| 1:10.0 | But like I love the real opening night, which is when every single team in the league plays, because instead of getting these glorified franchises matching out, we get to see all the crappy teams that are still developing, all the rookies coming into the league, like so many new faces. But of all the new faces and new places we're looking to see, |
| 1:28.4 | there's none bigger than Donovan Mitchell. Yeah, the Cleveland Cavaliers did not end up scraping |
| 1:33.2 | out the win here, but Donovan was fantastic for the Cavs tonight and showed a lot of what |
| 1:38.0 | I think you wanted to see from him. They were getting, I believe they almost doubled up the |
| 1:43.6 | Raptors and points in the paint tonight. And Donovan was a huge part of that. Like, he was able to get anything he wanted with or without a screen. And that was leading to a lot of open shots. I mean, what I loved about Mitchell's game. And I mean, so, okay, Darius Garland, he got, he didn't just get p poking in the eye. He got like finger punch in the eye, |
| 2:01.3 | basically, like Gary Tread Jr. going for a steal. Look, look pretty inadverted. He missed most of this of this game. He only played 13 minutes. So we got to see a lot of Mitchell really running the show on his own. Well, I don't know if you want to count Shetty Osman in that too. But Don, even before |
| 1:57.9 | Garland went out, I really loved the way that him |
| 2:00.8 | and Garland went out, I really loved |
| 2:20.5 | the way that him and Garland were figuring out how to play off of each other, where Mitchell was |
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