Red Hot Blazers, Rock Bottom Knicks, and the Tanking Rockets
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🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of the NBA, the Blazers hot start after the All Star Break and what is next, rock bottom Knicks, and then Alykhan Bijani joins to discuss the Houston Rockets and their rebuilding roster.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam, hosted by Andrew Schlicht with Alex Spears. |
| 0:09.1 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:10.8 | That's a man's jam! |
| 0:12.1 | I like that idea. |
| 0:13.0 | Live from Oklahoma. |
| 0:14.5 | Click, click. |
| 0:15.1 | With questions and participants from all around the world. |
| 0:18.1 | Anthony Edwards. |
| 0:19.2 | Put down on a poster. |
| 0:20.7 | Whether you're flipping your flapjacks, tending to your yard, or just sipping your coffee, get ready, sit back, relax. It's the Saturday Slamin' Jam. Back here's I missed this shot. I'll walk away. I'm still a chunk. Here's Andrew. Welcome to the Saturday Slamming Jam on a Friday. I'm your host, Andrew Schlecht. Welcome to the Saturday slamming jam. |
| 0:38.2 | On a Friday, I'm your host, Andrew Schlect. |
| 0:41.2 | Go to theethletic.com slash NBA show and get the athletic for $1 a month for six months. |
| 0:48.5 | This is the best time, guys. |
| 0:50.7 | Whatever kind of team that you're following, if you're following a playoff team, you're going to get great articles, you're following a lottery team, Sam Bacini just dropped a new mock draft. It's time. Athletic.com, theathletic.com slash NBA show. One dollar a month. It's just basically free. You won't even notice it. I won't even notice it coming out of your account for six months. So go do that. With me, as always, it's my good friend Alex Spears. |
| 1:16.1 | And Alex, tell me what happened in the NBA this week. Well, Andrew, it all started last Friday night |
| 1:23.0 | with a 134 to 122 Bulls win over the Minnesota Timberwolves, a game in which DeMardo Rosen |
| 1:29.9 | scored 35 points. Now, on its own, 35 points is nice. Well, you know what's even nicer? |
| 1:35.2 | Scoring 35 or more points while shooting 50% from the field for six consecutive games, |
| 1:40.2 | a stat you didn't even know existed or cared about before this week, but something that only Wilk Chamberlain and DeMar de Rosen have accomplished. |
| 1:47.8 | It seems certain now that DeRosen will be this year's, he's not going to win it, |
| 1:52.1 | but we got to talk about it, MVP. |
| 1:54.6 | On Saturday, the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Hornets, 125 to 118. |
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