Early-Season Surprises: Steph Remains Electric, the Feel-Good Raptors, and the Elderly Clippers

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Verno and Jacoby recap the Monday night slate of NBA action before sharing six early surprises from the season so far. (00:00) Welcome to The Mismatch! (01:56) Jalen Duren fuels the Pistons' 10th straight win (05:00) Multiple Raptors step up to beat the Hornets for their eighth win in nine games (10:08) The Bulls hold off Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets (14:13) Giannis hurt in the Bucks' loss to the Cavs (16:53) Heat survive, as the Knicks can't complete a comeback (20:05) The Sixers rally behind Tyrese Maxey’s 39 points to beat the Clippers (23:31) The Wolves blow out the shorthanded Mavs (28:02) Early-season surprise no. 1: Historical perspective on Willie Green's firing (32:05) Early-season surprise no. 2: How bad the Clippers are (39:26) Early-season surprise no. 3: Steph Curry is still the most exciting player in the NBA at age 37 (43:56) Early-season surprise no. 4: Abundance of star player trade rumors (49:32) Early-season surprise no. 5: The Raptors have the second-best bench in the NBA (52:12) Early-season surprise no. 6: Total Thunder domination and draft assets The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! (323) 389-5091 Hosts: Chris Vernon and David Jacoby Producers: Jessie Lopez and Stefan Anderson Social: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Harry.
0:00.7	Hello mate.
0:01.5	Got any tips for the football?
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0:23.3	18 plus opt in and bet on any football marketing at odds of evens or greater no, cash out seven-day expiry terms and conditions apply at gamblerware.org. Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon and join me as he does every week from
0:46.1	the ringer.com is Dave Jacoby Jacoby. Verno, nothing will match last Monday's buzzer-beater
0:53.3	after buzzer beater after buzzer-beater.
0:55.1	But we had a good night in the association last night.
0:57.6	This was a great night.
0:59.3	So I had two TVs going.
1:01.2	One had the Monday night football game on because my family's Cowboys fans.
1:05.0	And then the other one, my son was in charge.
1:09.6	And so we're just flipping from game to game to get we did have a lot of good
1:13.2	games and a lot of good endings that were going on last night and so let's start with outside
1:19.4	of the Oklahoma City Thunder and their 14 and one record and we know how great they are who would
1:25.8	have guessed that we would be talking on Tuesday, November 18th about the two
1:30.0	hottest things cracking are the Detroit Pistons, the Pissons win again.
1:34.8	Pissus win again.
1:36.0	And the Toronto Raptors, my Toronto Raptors.
1:41.7	You're listening to the mismatchatch, presented by Bandwool.
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