Houston’s 2018 Almost-Champs and the NBA’s Advanced Stats Revolution (With Daryl Morey) | Book of Basketball 2.0

Book of Basketball 2.0

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🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Chapter 4c: After becoming the spiritual leader of the Advanced Metrics Revolution, Daryl Morey spends the 2010s building a contender around James Harden and Chris Paul, only to watch his title dreams vanish in a gut-wrenching series against the defending champion Warriors. What inefficiencies did Morey first exploit last decade in Boston and Houston? What was the thinking behind the Harden trade? What could the 2018 Rockets have done differently? And why did the NBA take so long to move into this modern era of basketball? Bill breaks it all down with Houston general manager Daryl Morey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Episode nine of the Book of Basketball podcast on the ringer podcast network is brought to you by state farm
0:05.6	Just like basketball the game life is unpredictable some players end up in the pyramid some don't talk to a state farm
0:11.9	Age and get a teammate who can help you navigate the unexpected you know is unexpected
0:18.4	Darryl Mori becoming an NBA general manager someday
0:21.4	I think the odds on that in 1999 would have been about I don't know
0:25.6	15,000 to one talk to a state farm agent today about combining your home and auto insurance and get a teammate who can help you navigate
0:33.2	The unexpected state farm
0:36.2	Meanwhile this NBA season mountain dew is all about the threes
0:40.4	The shot that's changing the game. Let's talk about who we think would make the top three
0:46.3	Best three point shooters in the last decade. I'm gonna go with Clay Thompson
0:52.2	Steph Curry and Steph Curry a second time because he's the greatest shooter I've ever seen in my life brought to you by Mountain Dew the official beverage
0:59.7	Of the NBA do
1:01.7	The do all right, so last week we did two podcasts about James Harden one was a pyramid podcast with me and Zach Lowe the other
1:09.3	Was a breakdown of the last three games of the Western finals James Harden's last three games in Oklahoma City
1:14.6	Joe House and I broke that down. This is the third part of the heart and pseudo trilogy
1:19.9	It is a conversation that I had with rockets GM Darrell Mori
1:23.8	We did this before the season
1:26.3	Before the whole Hong Kong controversy happened. So that's why it's not addressed in this interview
1:30.8	But I want to talk to Darrell about
1:33.2	his
1:34.6	Basically 15-year Odyssey of getting into professional basketball when the Celtics were bought by Wic Rose back in his group in
1:42.6	2003 all the way through
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