Early-Season Surprises with Chris Herring

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Zach talks to 538's Chris Herring about early-season surprises and trends: Golden State's struggles, what Spencer Dinwiddie's injury means for the Nets, the 3-0 Pacers, New Orleans, Milwaukee & more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now the low post.
0:04.2	Welcome to the low post podcast on a beautiful Monday afternoon on the East Coast where we are
0:10.5	one week into what promises to be maybe the craziest NBA season of all time, one of the craziest
0:16.4	NBA seasons of all time. And before we get into what has happened in that week, I just want to
0:20.9	remind everybody, particularly residents of Cleveland, in Orlando and a few other places.
0:25.9	Nice, seven years ago, the first version of the process, era Philadelphia 76ers filled with
0:32.9	beloved NBA characters began the season three and a in on this date or the equivalent of this date
0:40.0	in October 2013 on Monday. Boy, the internet was full of takes. How are the process sixers doing
0:47.2	this? What if they're better than we thought? Oh my God, Michael Carter, Williams to Spencer,
0:52.7	Spencer, Spencer, Huzz is spacing the floor for that is young. What if we were all wrong about
0:57.4	the process sixers? No, spoiler alert, we were not wrong. They were terrible. Last year,
1:02.6	last year, the Minnesota Timberwolves started to season three and oh amid much doubt. Kendrick Perkins
1:09.3	on TV said he was sleeping, not only sleeping on the Minnesota Timberwolves, he was sleeping with
1:13.8	the air conditioning on, windows open, having a great nap, and the wolves started three and oh.
1:19.1	And do you know what? Whoever runs their social media account did tweeted at Kendrick Perkins.
1:23.9	You still sleeping at us? Something like that. You still sleeping on us? Kendrick?
1:27.7	And Kendrick was like, yeah, I'm still sleeping on you. Still, yeah, three and oh, I don't care,
1:31.1	which was the appropriate response. Minnesota went on to be seven and four, and they doubled
1:36.3	down on social media. They tweeted when they were seven and four, the wolves are going to be bad
1:41.8	this season in that capital letter, lowercase alteration, alteration that I don't really understand
1:46.7	what that is or where it's from. And it had a it had a clip below it of Carl Towns making a
1:51.5	funny face like oh really? Really? The Timberwolves are going to be bad this season. We're seven and four.
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