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Oddball w/ Amin Elhassan & Izzy Gutierrez

Ranking Western Conference Teams by How Good They Are And How Much We Enjoy Them

Oddball w/ Amin Elhassan & Izzy Gutierrez

Meadowlark Media

Basketball, Comedy, Sports

2.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Izzy and Amin are charting every Western Conference NBA team by two key factors: How good they are, and how fun they are. Yes Steph Curry can still electrify an arena, but do the rest of the Warriors bring him down? Do the bad vibes around Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert outweigh Anthony Edwards' permanent charm? How do we evaluate the Mavericks and Pelicans if Luka Doncic and Zion Williamson are never on the court? And what makes the Thunder the NBA's equivalent of vegetables? All those answers and more on today's episode of Oddball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Avaz, Mates, and welcome to the ship that be named Oddball.

0:14.0

My name be Amin Alhassen, that be Izzy Gutierrez.

0:18.0

We've got a special show for you today.

0:22.3

A couple of weeks ago, I don't know if I can do that voice for the interview.

0:26.6

Just there's the intro, and that's about it.

0:30.2

A couple of weeks ago, we ranked teams according to tiers in both conferences.

0:36.6

And Izzy, you could check that out on

0:39.8

youtube if you like but izzie the feedback we got was less than positive really right

0:45.1

number one i guess we couldn't keep teams inbound so yeah there it is like we had a bunch

0:50.7

of teams stradding the line number two the graphic kind of had zero pizzazz.

0:54.8

Yeah, I won't lie.

0:55.6

It looked kind of like the terror alert chart on Stan Smith's Fridge and American Dad.

1:00.1

And we forgot to account for the most important metric of all.

1:03.5

How much enjoyment that we personally derived from watching these teams play.

1:08.0

So our crack production crew, not to be confused with our production crew on crack,

1:12.5

made a few new and improved adjustments to the graphics so we can use to judge teams. See,

1:18.6

now.

1:19.1

We went vice colors, I see. There it goes. And it's a gradient, right? It's not necessarily

1:25.2

hard and fast lines or like, are you on this side of line

1:27.9

or that side of line? It's an X axis for how good the team is and a Y axis for how fun the team is.

1:34.6

And as you see, you go to the bottom left, you get a bad, not fun team. You go to the top right,

1:41.3

you get a fun good team and everything all in the middle. So Izzy,

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