Lakers x Heat Recap + Decode with Ben Taylor
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Thinking Basketball's Ben Taylor drops by to talk with Dave, Seth and Mo about G1 of the NBA Finals.
- Lakers small ball still vs Heat very small ball
- Switching recklessly vs Bron and AD
- Solomon Hill and Iguodala liability
- Rockets micro-ball lesson
- Luck Adjust: Lakers Shooting likely to regress
- Evaluating players by playoff performance
- Playoff Davis vs Regular Season Gobert
- Swiss Army knife players
- Rookies aren’t rookies anymore
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Steve Smith, and I'm a real hooper. What real hoopers do is they lead on and off to court. |
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| 0:21.5 | a real hooper. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show. One day through Friday. |
| 0:24.5 | On the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:30.4 | Coming up on today's show, Ben Taylor from thinking basketball drops in, |
| 0:34.5 | and we're going to talk about the NBA finals game one, |
| 0:38.7 | why he prefers to evaluate players using playoff data, and we're going to talk about the NBA finals game one, why he prefers to evaluate players using playoff data and we're going to get into heat culture. |
| 0:42.9 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:47.8 | This is Nerdish, you wrote, with your host Dave Dufour. |
| 0:51.3 | With Moe DeKille. |
| 0:52.6 | Are you ready to be entertained? |
| 0:54.4 | And Seth Part Now. |
| 1:00.7 | Hello and welcome to this week's episode of NERDISHE wrote on the Athletic NBA show. |
| 1:06.3 | I'm Dave D'EFourne, Seth Partnow, Mo D'Kil, both here. |
| 1:10.0 | But more importantly, our good buddy, Ben Taylor from thinking basketball, found time in his very busy schedule to come hang out. |
| 1:18.9 | Hi, Ben. |
| 1:19.9 | Hello, everyone. |
| 1:21.9 | Wow, that was a very like NPR-ish. |
| 1:24.4 | It really is, yeah. |
| 1:25.4 | That was, that was kind of. |
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