Ep. 45: The Greek Freak, Tanking Strategies, and CBA Changes With Kevin O'Connor
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🗓️ 22 November 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ringer NBA show. I'm Chris Vernon and joining me today and every Tuesday |
| 0:14.9 | from now on is the ringer's Kevin O'Connor. What's up Kevin? Chris, what's going on man? |
| 0:20.5 | So last night around the league, I think the thing that stood out the most was this crazy |
| 0:26.0 | game by the Greek freak ends up with as you chronicled on the ringer today, the fourth player |
| 0:32.3 | since 1984 to have at least 20 points, tennisists, 10 rebounds, five steals, three blocks. I mean, |
| 0:40.3 | this is and the other three were Jordan, Hakeem and Andre Carolinko. By the way, there's a great |
| 0:46.0 | bar bet for tonight, right? No one will ever get Carolinko. But he is seriously absurd right |
| 0:53.2 | now, Kevin. Yeah, man. I mean, he's the reason why they won the game. He played all 12 minutes in the fourth |
| 0:59.0 | quarter, really played well on both ends of the floor. I think over the course of the game, the |
| 1:04.3 | bucks were a plus 14 when he was in the game and pretty much when anybody else that was in |
| 1:08.8 | they were either minus or even, I mean, dude, it's just a beast. I mean, he does it on both ends of |
| 1:13.9 | the floor. Really, his only issue right now is the jump shot, especially in the half court. But |
| 1:19.2 | everything else in the fourth season of his career, I would say he's far ahead of what I think |
| 1:24.8 | anybody could have expected when he was drafted. And you mentioned the article today. I was looking |
| 1:31.1 | back at at what John Hamm and their general manager said about him when he was originally drafted, |
| 1:36.5 | just because I was curious. I mean, what were the initial expectations? I just wanted to reread that. |
| 1:42.0 | He pretty much said what we're seeing today. They talked about how he's such a good player at |
| 1:47.5 | in transition. So fast for his size, I talked about his passing ability. And Hamm and said if he |
| 1:53.2 | hits, this could be special. And we're really seeing that right now. He's having a career year so far. |
| 1:58.8 | I remember how absurd it was during the draft, right? Like we didn't really know anything about him. |
| 2:03.7 | And then of course they do the whole fran for Shilla thing, fran knows everybody that plays anywhere, |
| 2:09.2 | even in the most ridiculous gyms. They showed this like, they showed this video. He's playing in |
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