Philly Lovefest With Chris Ryan. Plus, Who’s Better or Worse Than We Thought with Mo Dakhil.

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Chris Ryan joins Zach to start the show and revel in the good vibes around this 76ers team (1:51), talking about their young backcourt and what their new nickname should be! Then Mo Dakhil hops on to talk about who’s better or worse than we thought (22:31): The Bulls? The Bucks (44:55)? The Magic (50:24)? The Warriors (57:58)? Come for Noah Clowney’s gross highlight, and stay for Zach’s Oscar the Grouch costume! Host: Zach Lowe Guests: Chris Ryan and Mo Dakhil Producers: Mike Wargon, Jesse Aron, and Jonathan Frias Social: Keith Fujimoto The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available This episode is sponsored by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Try Claude for free today at Claude.ai/LOWE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:19.1	food for all of us. Jamesbris. I mean Sainsbury. 18 plus nectar app required. Unlock up to 10 your nectar prices weekly, available in supermarkets online and in locals with smart shop. TNCs apply. Coming up on the Zach Lowe show, we're more than a week into the NBA season. Who's better than we thought? Who's worse than we thought? Moatikil is here.
0:56.7	We're going to draft teams in those two categories and some teams that are on notice. On notice for good reason? On notice for bad reason. Do the Chicago Bulls come up? You're damn right they do. Cue up the Alan Parsons Project. Baby, the Bulls are 4 and O. And we start off, boy, oh boy. I said it was over for the Sixers in the Joyland Beat era.
0:56.7	Couldn't possibly get it. And we start off, boy, oh boy, I said it was over for the Sixers in the Joel Embed era.
0:58.7	Couldn't possibly contend.
1:00.1	Windows closed.
1:02.4	Have to move on to the Maxie Edgecombe era.
1:05.3	What if the Maxie and Edgecombe era is already here?
1:07.4	And Jared McCain hasn't even played yet. And Paul George hasn't even played yet.
1:09.1	Chris Ryan, our own Chris Ryan,
1:11.2	is here to revel in the good vibes and make fun of me and pretty much everybody else for
1:16.9	being too low on the Sixers and talk about how actually does Joel NBee, look, does this,
1:20.9	does this work? Is this team like a threat to make real noise? Maybe it is. And we'll talk
1:26.9	injuries, other stuff, lots of stuff to talk about in the NBA, all coming
1:31.5	up on the Zach Lowe show.
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