Nuggets Beatable? Concerned for the Clippers?
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🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Basketbuds
Dave DuFour, Jay King and Josh Huestis discuss the following topics on today's episode:
Nothing, Something or Everything
- Kyrie Irving hits a running lefty hook to beat the Nuggets, are the Mavs dangerous? Are the Nuggets beatable? Is the Kyrie shot, nothing, something or everything?
- The Clippers have lost 4 out of their last 5 games, with losses to Atlanta, New Orleans, Minnesota and Milwaukee.. Paul George said after the game, “Right now, I don’t think we have an identity” Is this nothing, something or everything?
- The Suns lose to the Giannis-less Bucks, in a game that Middleton described Dame as “Picking the Suns apart”… The Suns are 7-6 in their last 13 games.. is the recent play of the Suns, nothing, something or everything?
- Jalen Brunson has 2 consecutive 40 points games, against the Blazers and the Kings. The Knicks have won 5 of their last 7 games and are getting healthier by the week.. is this stretch from the Knicks something, nothing or everything?
Ignoring the favorites…
- You have to pick a team, other than Boston and Miami, to win the East this season… who are you going with?
- Pick a team, other than the Nuggets, to win the West.
- Pick a player, other than Rudy Gobert, to win DPOY
- Pick a player, other than Jokic, to win MVP…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Basket Buds edition of the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm Dave DeFore filling in for Zach Harper, so I guess I'll be rooting for the Miami Heat all show here with Josh Hussis and Jay King. What's up guys? Happy. Did you guys have a good St. Patrick's Day? I know Jay, you're, you say you're only half Irish. Yeah. He celebrates the poor. I just moved to South Boston. So I was over to the parade. |
| 0:38.0 | The parade was kind of in my neighborhood, walked over to that. |
| 0:41.3 | It was kind of a wild time. |
| 0:43.4 | I'd never been to the Boston St. Patrick State Parade before, believe it or not. |
| 0:48.4 | Well, safe non-aventures is playing. |
| 0:50.5 | But they were on the road and I wasn't with them. |
| 0:52.8 | So walked over, took in some music, took in some of the parade. |
| 0:57.4 | It was awesome. |
| 0:58.2 | It was craziness out there. |
| 1:01.0 | Did you guys catch the end of Warriors Lakers over the weekend? |
| 1:06.6 | I didn't catch it live. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.5 | Well, I'm certainly you didn't. I was going to say, I'm guessing you didn't catch it live, but, uh, yeah. Well, I'm certainly, you didn't going. |
| 1:12.6 | I was going to say, I'm guessing you didn't watch the final 22 minutes. |
| 1:17.3 | I didn't watch it live. |
| 1:18.3 | I had other stuff to do. |
| 1:20.3 | The last minute and 50 seconds of this game took 22 minutes to play out. |
| 1:25.4 | You had multiple reviews. |
| 1:26.8 | You had referee reviews. You had a |
| 1:29.6 | corner three taken away. I mean, the Warriors find like wind up winning this game. And it's a huge |
| 1:35.3 | game. It has massive implications to the play in for the single game elimination play in game. |
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