Pelicans, All-Defense Candidates, Suns, and Why Scoring is Down

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Zach and ESPN's Andrew Lopez discuss the red-hot Pelicans, Zion's play, Brandon Ingram's unheralded season, and how the Pelicans stack up against each of the West's elite. Then ESPN's Kevin Pelton joins to pick All-Defensive teams, talk Heat, Suns, Magic and Jamahl Mosley's extension, the recent decline in scoring and free throws, Victor Wembanyama, and much more. Pels are a mystery box and a sleeping giant (6:26) Zion's improved defense and rebounding (10:57) Herb Jones has a case for All-Defense and Most Improved (13:28) The Pelicans' shooting luck defensively (20:13) Not enough talk about Brandon Ingram (27:08) How the Pels match up against other Western Conference playoff teams (33:30) Pelton (40:15) Middle of the East (57:46) 2nd tier All-Defense guys (1:02:47) Thunder in line for the top seed in the West (1:09:14) Wembanyama's All-Defense case (1:15:27) Scoring is down since the All-Star break (1:30:20) Temperature check on the Suns (1:39:46) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now the Low Post.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Low Post podcast on a beautiful Tuesday morning.
0:08.0	We are coming down the stretch of the NBA regular season.
0:12.0	Thank the basketball gods.
0:14.0	It will be the playoffs soon.
0:16.0	The play-in soon.
0:17.0	Teams have 16, 17, 18 games left.
0:20.0	Everything is coming into shape.
0:22.0	The contenders over here, the pretenders over here.
0:25.5	And let me tell you, there are four teams in the entire stinking NBA that are in the top 10 in both offensive efficiency and defensive
0:36.1	efficiency the juggernauts the real contenders and there's some other real
0:39.7	contenders that are almost there and deserve real contender status but just for fun
0:43.8	humor me only four teams in the top ten the mighty Boston Celtics who
0:49.3	rebounded from a problematic loss to the Cavaliers and then just a
0:53.4	Nicoliocich does stuff to us and we don't really have recourse loss to the
0:57.6	Denver Nuggets they beat the sons they beat the Blazers there they're
1:00.4	on course again the mighty Celtics they're first and second offense and defense.
1:04.0	The Denver Nuggets have cracked the top 10 in defense. That should be a red alert Defcon
1:09.1	one level alert for the rest of the league because we know their offense will be fine.
1:13.6	The Thunder have been sitting top five in both categories all season long.
1:17.4	Just hey, everyone want to be skeptical of us because we're young and our center's skinny.
1:20.8	Okay, you go ahead, we're just going to keep on winning like lots of games and putting up awesome numbers.
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