How Scary Are the New-Look Warriors With Anthony Slater, Plus G League to the Lakers With Mac McClung

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Ryen opens with a new edition of NBA Playoff Story Rankings, including whether he might be all the way back in on the Warriors, disappointing Jokic criticism, the mess that was the Jazz in Game 2, and more (0:43). Next, he chats with The Athletic’s Anthony Slater about the emergence of Jordan Poole and the Warriors’ new death lineup (17:13). Then, G League and Lakers guard Mac McClung stops by to talk about his journey to the NBA and being one of the first Instagram dunkers (41:08). Finally, he closes it out with some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:00:53). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Anthony Slater and Mac McClung Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	fun podcast for you today to our NBA playoff power rankings.
0:14.4	Some observations last night will carry over the weekend as well, but we have Anthony
0:18.7	Slater on the Warriors of 2-0 on the Denver.
0:21.7	Nuggets and what is a real expectation for team that's looks terrific in the first
0:26.4	year, but this is going to be fun to Mac McClung, the rookie of the year in the G-League,
0:30.4	South Bay Lake or neighbor, his journey, high school dunking sensation on Instagram to somebody
0:36.8	trying to find a way to make it in the NBA.
0:39.8	That'll be a lot of fun and life advice at the end.
0:43.2	We have a new addition of the playoff power rankings.
0:45.4	Here's a little PSA.
0:47.2	These are just power rankings that they used to make up to use as a vehicle to get into
0:50.2	talking about different NBA topics and sort of other stuff.
0:53.2	The rankings aren't actually real.
0:54.2	Also, if you're upset that you feel like something is lower than it should be or higher
0:57.0	than it should be, probably go outside a little bit more.
1:02.2	Step in the Warriors.
1:03.2	Take the top spot.
1:04.6	This is really impressive two games in and we'll get to why Denver actually is just a brutal
1:09.2	matchup for Denver, the Skullton State team that are set that way.
1:14.1	But as I said, we had this mysterious open where after the Warriors get it rolling, Drain
1:20.7	Mons coming back, Clay's looking a bit more like himself.
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