Star Integration, Harden-Nets, Jazz + Protecting Teams from Being Dumb
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🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In this week's Nerder, Dave DuFour, Mo Dakhil and Seth Partnow talk about star integration and James Harden and the Nets. Also, Mike Conley and Utah last year vs this year. Then, should the league protect teams from themselves, contract lengths and Stepien rules.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show, Monday through Friday. |
| 0:04.5 | On the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:10.3 | Coming up on today's show, we talk about integrating new stars, the Utah Jazz |
| 0:14.7 | surprising start, although I'm not all that surprised. |
| 0:18.0 | And if the league should be protecting teams from their own stupidity. |
| 0:24.4 | This is Nerdrishy Rote with your host Dave Dufour. |
| 0:28.0 | With Moe DeKille. |
| 0:29.2 | Are you ready to be entertained? |
| 0:31.0 | And Seth Part Now. |
| 0:36.3 | Hello and welcome to the Athletic NBA show. This is Nerdrder She Wrote. You know that because it's Friday. I'm Dave. I got Mo and Seth here and we have a lot to talk about. So I want to jump right in. |
| 0:47.0 | Fellas, I'm pretty sure we all watched the first Kyrie, James Hardin, Kevin Durant game. |
| 0:56.2 | And, I mean, I think we all know this just isn't going to work. |
| 1:00.0 | It's not going to work. |
| 1:01.2 | No way it's going to work. |
| 1:02.2 | We saw this one game and they lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers. |
| 1:05.0 | It is definitely a failure and they should just pack it in. |
| 1:09.4 | Mo, tell me I'm wrong. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, you're wrong. It's that simple. I mean, you and you and you're being, |
| 1:16.5 | you know, sarcastic with your whole thing and stuff. You, you're just being Dave before the host right now. |
| 1:23.7 | It's one game. This is something that takes time. |
| 1:27.8 | It's never easy to integrate any major piece mid-season. |
| 1:33.7 | Now let's just look at the dynamics of this season. |
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