Small Sample Theater, Early Impressions, Zion, Raptors, Nuggets + Expansion
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🗓️ 2 January 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this New Year's edition of Nerder on the Athletic NBA Show, Dave DuFour, Seth Partnow and Mo Dakhil give their early impressions on the first week of the NBA season. Zion and the Pelicans. The Raptors offensive problems continue into this year, why? The Denver Nuggets' defense is a problem. Mavericks without Porzingis and Luka's three point shot. And finally the NBA is considering expansion again, is this a good decision?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic MBA show, Monday through Friday, on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:10.3 | This is Nerdish, you wrote, with your host Dave Dufour. |
| 0:18.6 | With Mo DeKille, |
| 0:19.8 | and Seth Part Now. Yeah. with your host Dave Dufour. With Moe Dekiel. Are you ready to be entertained? |
| 0:21.6 | And Seth Part Now. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to Nerders, she wrote, on the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:34.9 | Happy New Year, everybody. |
| 0:37.2 | We made it. I mean, we're recording this on |
| 0:40.0 | New Year's Eve, but you guys are hearing it on New Year's Day. Happy New Year. We made it out of 2020. |
| 0:47.4 | The year that felt like it was never going to end, we are now in our third NBA season of the year. |
| 0:53.6 | This is, it's turned into basketball. |
| 0:56.1 | I've got Mo. |
| 0:57.4 | I've got Seth, as always. |
| 0:58.8 | What's up, fellas? |
| 0:59.5 | Been a couple weeks. |
| 1:00.3 | What's up and happy New Year's folks? |
| 1:02.5 | 2021, we've made it. |
| 1:04.7 | Kind of. |
| 1:06.4 | Do we call this the apatura or the clausura? |
| 1:09.9 | I don't even know what those words meant. |
| 1:14.0 | All right. |
| 1:14.7 | Well, listen, we're starting out enthusiastically on this podcast and with good reason |
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