Playoffs: First Impressions with Amin Elhassan

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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ESPN's Amin Elhassan drops by to talk with Wos Lambre on the Clippers, Kawhi, rotations and perhaps having too much talent. Also Luka Doncic is the real deal, Jazz-Nuggets, Rudy vs Jokic, Celtics-76ers and finally why the Pelicans firing of Alvin Gentry was the wrong move. 0:00 - Clippers, too much talent? How the pieces fit. Lou Williams. 10:00 - Kawhi's playmaking / Best lineups 21:00 - Luka Doncic is for real 32:30 - Jazz-Nuggets 45:00 - Denver's Defense 48:30 - Alvin Gentry should not have been fired Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network.
0:09.0	Welcome ladies and gentlemen to Hoopes adjacent.
0:12.0	I'm Wazlan Bray. David has the week off. I'm sure he's
0:17.1	doing something pretty fun or relaxing and or both. But we got a special guest
0:21.4	today for the first time I believe ever on the Hoopes adjacent podcast
0:26.5	Nana no no no no no no second time. Oh is this the second time? Yeah. Oh, well. It's been a year and he's only been on once, Jade.
0:37.2	I'm sorry, my dad, that I don't remember that.
0:40.9	I remember because he complained when he came on for what took him took us so long to get him on.
0:45.6	Yeah. Okay, nice. All right, our returning guest to the Hoops adjacent podcast, Amin hasson of E-SPN man what's going on to me
0:56.2	Chillin chillin man just overdosing on basketball
1:00.0	I saw someone say that this Bucks Magic game which has happened right now while
1:04.8	we're recording should have been on Instagram live so there's that yeah yeah I
1:11.6	I mean unless you're moved by the basketball abilities of Vuchy Main or, you know,
1:19.0	Fournier, I don't know what gets you excited about watching anything about the magic now since Isaac is
1:25.0	there one young exciting play I guess you could say that about Foltz he's young and
1:28.7	exciting but yeah no miss me um bunch of brick jump shots and Vuchi man going to work one-on-one in isolation.
1:36.0	That's just, I'm just not here for that.
1:39.0	No, not, that doesn't ring your bell?
1:41.0	No, no, no, no, no, not for me.
1:44.1	And you know what, man, as an East Coast,
1:47.1	I always took it personally when people would talk about
1:50.8	how terrible the Eastern Conference is and God we need to just do a 1 through 16 and all of that and you know the
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