Ep. 54: Houston Experiment, Potential Trades, and Harden vs. Westbrook

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🗓️ 3 January 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The Ringer's Chris Vernon and Kevin O'Connor discuss the Rockets' rise in the Western Conference (5:00), Eric Gordon's all-star candidacy (12:00), potential teams to challenge the Cavs and Warriors (19:00), superstar trade scenarios (26:00), the glut of good point guards (31:00), the MVP race between James Harden and Russell Westbrook (38:00), and coaches on the chopping block heading into 2017 (44:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer NBA podcast. I'm Chris Vernon and joining me as he does every Tuesday
0:16.1	and for the first time in 2017 Kevin O'Connor from the Ringer. What's up, Kev? Happy New
0:22.8	Year, Chris. Happy New Year. Did you get here? We have not spoken since prior to Christmas.
0:28.3	Did you get your soundproofing materials that you had asked for? No, I haven't gotten on that yet,
0:35.6	Chris. No. See enough though. Did you get anything for Christmas, Kevin? No, just like I said,
0:42.0	on that podcast, just a little thing. That's what matters. I know it was in Houston. That was fun.
0:46.1	You did go to Houston and you wrote an article which is up today at theringer.com. The Houston
0:51.5	experiment, the player coach GM Trio James Harden, Mike DeAntoni and Darryl Morey
0:57.6	seem made for one another and that's because they needed one another and then you took an inside
1:02.1	look at their start of the season. All right, so you go down to Houston and you're going to try to
1:07.6	find out what's with everything that has gone on with the rockets and this transformation that they
1:13.2	have taken on this year after they had made the West Finals then they had had that miserable
1:18.4	season last year and now it reinvented themselves into something that we have never seen before.
1:24.4	Biggest takeaways from just being there, being around them and listening to them talk about
1:30.0	this new look rockets. Yeah, so going down there, obviously you go kind of with a plan of what
1:37.2	I'm going to write about and obviously, obviously going to touch on the three point shooting,
1:42.7	the historic rate, their 10th thing threes at and their style of play which you mentioned is
1:47.6	really unique, but really my take away is just the chemistry this team has. I mean, the guys love
1:53.3	each other. They really get along just hearing the way Ryan Anderson talks about Eric Gordon,
1:58.8	the way Eric Gordon talks about Ryan Anderson, the way Dantoni just loves the way the guys click
2:04.5	together. He's had said something along the lines of like we have good guys, we have tough guys,
2:09.4	we have nice guys and all the guys get along. It's a really good mix which is kind of the opposite
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