Flipping Our NBA Predictions | Blazers Rebuild Begins
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🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Slam and Jam
Are we ready to move off of any of the following pre-season takes?
- Dallas as a team relying too heavily on a rookie center
- Pistons as a locked in bottom-3 team
- Raptors as a dysfunctional mess
- Grizzlies as a locked-in playoff team
- Wizards as a team full of capable veterans
Then in Part 2 Danny Marang of the Jacked Ramsay's podcast joins to discuss the Blazers, Scoot Henderson's debut, Anfernee Simons role on the team, Shaedon Sharp's development, and a rousing edition of Andrew vs. the Beat!
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| 0:28.6 | welcome to the slam and jam here on Friday on the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm your host, Andrew Schlect. |
| 0:45.3 | With me, as always, is my good friend Alex Spears. |
| 0:49.2 | Alex, tell me what happened in the NBA this week. |
| 0:53.3 | Well, Andrew, the NBA is back, and it all began on Tuesday in the NBA this week. Well, Andrew, the NBA is back and it all began on Tuesday in the mile high city where the Denver Nuggets received their championship rings and began their title defense with a 119 to 107 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. |
| 1:09.0 | Now, in the lead up to the game, the Lakers had made it know that they'd heard all the off-season noise from Denver |
| 1:13.8 | and couldn't wait to see the Nuggets again. Unfortunately for the Lakers, the Nuggets look a lot like the team that beat L.A. four straight times in last year's playoffs, with Nikola Yokic dropping a casual |
| 1:09.0 | 29, 13, and 11 in the victory. |
| 1:12.8 | On Wednesday, |
| 1:31.2 | NBA fans who had waited months to see the start of a new season were rewarded with more games |
| 1:36.3 | they could ever hope to watch or even follow. 12 games in total. In Brooklyn, we had a matchup of |
| 1:43.4 | two megawatt stars, Max Struz and Cam Thomas, who combined |
| 1:47.7 | for 63 points, including seven threes from Struz and 36 points from Thomas, which was a record |
| 1:54.8 | for most points by reserve in a season opener. In the end, however, it was the real star, |
| 2:00.7 | Donovan Mitchell, who scored 10 |
| 2:02.2 | of his 27 in the fourth quarter, including the go-ahead three to give the Cavs the 114 to |
| 2:07.8 | 113 win. In New York, it was a homecoming of sorts for Chris Stap's Porzingis, a homecoming |
| 2:14.2 | where your family booze you and starts F you chance when you walk in the door. |
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