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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Ranking the Last 10 NBA No. 1 Picks, a Wemby Check-in With Sean Elliott, Plus the Future of Scouting Basketball With Mark Silver

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Russillo starts the show by revealing his takeaways from Denver-Miami before Ceruti comes on to rank the last ten NBA no. 1 overall picks (0:47). Then he’s joined by former Spur and Spurs TV analyst Sean Elliott to learn more about Victor Wembanyama’s mentality and NBA potential, as well as share some Tim Duncan stories (23:36). Next, Russillo is joined by Sportradar and Synergy Sports’ Mark Silver to learn more about player tracking and how this data can enhance scouting (56:23) Plus, Life Advice with Ceruti and Kyle (82:28)! Is it okay to wear a double-breasted suit to a job interview? Check us out on Youtube for exclusive clips, live streams, and more at https://www.youtube.com/@RyenRussilloPodcast The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out theringer.com/RG to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Sean Elliott and Mark Silver Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We get a lot of hoops for you. I'm going to recap just a minor note not even

0:14.0

official tales of the couch Denver's nice win in Miami. Miami did a great job I

0:18.6

thought we've got something that's really came up with redripped the top 10

0:22.4

picks based on some controversy internally

0:25.2

here.

0:26.2

We got Sean Elliot on the Wembley rookie season.

0:28.7

Who is this cat?

0:29.7

Some stories about him, how it relates to Duncan coming in as a rookie with Sean and David Robinson,

0:33.8

were there.

0:34.8

And we've got Mark Silver from Synergy, Sports Radar, the most valuable thing I have other

0:39.8

than a television to help me watch basketball better and life advice and another same game parlay.

0:46.9

Not a traditional open here, just a couple thoughts from last night and then Sir Rudy has something

0:52.4

that we want to go over. I actually really like this exercise. It is born from I think frustration with something a coworker said, but we're not going to like beat up on a dude that we like so let's just start with this Denver wins in Miami last night

1:07.1

They're definitely the one seat now in the west

1:09.7

I know it's it feels a little every couple weeks taking another snapshot of it but

1:14.0

Denver's just been on fire their NBA best ten and once since the all-star break

1:17.2

they had that win against Boston that we spent a lot of time on that I thought

1:20.5

I probably shouldn't have said insurmountable when we were doing the

1:24.0

one word association thing that Bill and I did on Sunday that I didn't know about ahead

1:28.0

of time and whenever you're in that spot you're kind of like I think I should say

1:36.7

because insurmountable feels like it's impossible and I just don't feel like that things in sports are necessarily impossible. I mean certainly there's a list of things

1:40.6

but in playoff games and all that kind of stuff. I'm like longer

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