Learning to Survive in the NBA as a Former Top 10 Pick | The Answer

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Seerat and Kyle get together to share their invigorating experiences trying to follow the blistering 15-game NBA TV schedule on Monday evening. Then they introduce their multi-episode theme of adapting to change in the NBA by detailing the career of Dennis Smith Jr. as an example of a player whose particular skill set may have been developed for a basketball world that doesn't exist.(6:12) They closely examine his journeyman career through the league to his current home in Charlotte and speculate on what lies ahead for him on the team and beyond.(28:32) Finally, they discuss other players around the league who could learn from Dennis Smith Jr.'s story,(41:19) and debate if Luka Doncic's astronomical usage rate is a viable pathway to success for the Mavericks.(53:58) Hosts: Seerat Sohi and J. Kyle Mann Associate Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Ben Cruz and Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Kevin O'Connor.
0:02.0	AKA Kevin O'Bomber, AKA Kevin O'Connor, Kevon!
0:07.0	Wait a minute, you're not Chris Verna.
0:09.0	No Kevin, sadly I'm not as terubic or as raspy as Verna, but it is I, Jake Kyle Man and folks.
0:16.0	Basketball has been and continues to be so very good.
0:21.0	That's exactly why Kyle and I are hosting a brand new basketball show on a brand new podcast feed,
0:27.0	The Ringers NBA Draft Show.
0:29.0	We're gonna have you covered every week as we go in depth and deep dive in hopes of answering an ever important question in the NBA.
0:37.0	Who's got next?
0:38.0	Whether it's an international phenom like Victor Windbanyama, or the G-League Scoot Henderson,
0:44.0	or stars from Over Time Elite like Amy Thompson, as well as a full-blown swarm of talented prospects from the promising 2023 NBA Draft Class.
0:53.0	For sure, Kyle, and we're also gonna get into players from the college ranks because this is a loaded class for us to discuss prospects rising and falling.
1:02.0	And we're gonna revisit and redraft recent draft classes and get into how the league's evolution could help inform what's valuable in a prospect of the future.
1:10.0	This is a podcast for a fan of every team, whether you're losing and have high draft lottery odds or you're looking for sleepers later in the draft.
1:18.0	We're gonna be covering everything in the months to come, so please make sure you follow and subscribe to The Ringer NBA Draft Show.
1:25.0	And hit us with those five star ratings.
1:36.0	Hello, hello, welcome to the answer. Kyle, how's it going?
1:39.0	It's going great.
1:41.0	I'm recovering from a really late night of basketball last night. I don't know how your days are. Reminder kind of broken up where I have my daytime work hours, and then I have my nighttime sit with a laptop kind of thing and 15 games last night because of election day, which I applaud the NBA for doing that.
2:01.0	But a lot of games going I kind of had like a crazy screen thing going on. I wanted to ask you like, what kind of a are you like a multi screen person? Do you do you like even bother? I'm kind of a I'm kind of a tech production nerd. So I like to have like a couple screens going.
2:17.0	Or do you like commit to one game? How much do you divide your attention is what I'm asking basically?
2:22.0	I really personally enjoy the story of one game.
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