NBA Western Conference at the All-Star Break
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🗓️ 16 February 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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5R13- The NBA is at the All-Star break. Ethan and Chris cover the biggest questions in the Western Conference with about a third of the season left to play. Are the Golden State Warriors vulnerable? Are the Houston Rockets a real threat to beat the Warriors in the playoffs? Can Oklahoma City, Minnesota, or San Antonio ruin that Golden State-Houston matchup? Which team, other than the Lakers, at the bottom of the conference is best set up for a rebuild?
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| 0:54.4 | everything secure. Welcome to another edition of the Five Reasons podcast. My name is Chris |
| 1:07.9 | Whittingham, joined as always by Ethan Skolnick. And Ethan, we're entering |
| 1:12.0 | the All-Star break now. We are officially there after the Lakers and the Timberwolves play the last |
| 1:16.3 | game in the pre-All-Star break. And so we are now digging into what is left to be done in the |
| 1:23.3 | regular season. We cover the Eastern Conference on our Wednesday pod. You can check it out. And |
| 1:27.3 | Ethan, now let's dig into the Western Conference. And we must start with the defending |
| 1:32.2 | champion Golden State Warriors. And it's kind of odd what constitutes a crisis for them, but they're |
| 1:38.2 | six and four in their last 10 games. And so we must freak out. And starting with our five reasons, |
| 1:47.5 | the Western Conference will be interesting in the post-all-Star break era. |
| 1:52.5 | To you, is this anything to be long-term freaked out about or are they just bored? |
| 1:53.6 | I think they're just bored. |
| 1:55.5 | You know, you look at their roster right now. |
| 2:00.0 | We can talk about some of the differences on the bench compared to what they've had in previous years, although they're two primary guys |
| 2:01.9 | off the bench, and I Guadala and Livingston are the same. But I look at it and I just say they're |
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