Teams That Need a Makeover on Offense With Mo Dakhil. Plus, the Latest on Jonathan Kuminga.

The Zach Lowe Show

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Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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After a brief baseball check-in, Zach and Mo talk teams that may need to revamp their offenses (1:48), starting with the Magic and Knicks (19:40). What can the Lakers do with a full season of Luka Doncic (28:35)? Has the Heat’s offense gone cold (41:17)? Before moving on, Zach weighs in on the latest with Jonathan Kuminga (52:02), before going back with Mo to debate about who should start for the Blazers (1:04:43). Plus, a HIGHLIGHTS LEAGUE?!?, Giannis and Sengun’s war of words, a rant about monthly subscriptions, and much more! Host: Zach Lowe Guest: Mo Dakhil Producers: Jesse Aron, Victoria Valencia, and Steve Ceruti Get started today at HubSpot.com/AI Unfold more with the new Galaxy Z Fold7. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, coming up after this on the Zach Lowe show, we got Moza Kiel.
0:04.1	He used to work for the Spurs.
0:05.2	He used to work for the Clippers.
0:06.2	You could find them on every social media app talking about what happens in the game, the actual game, not the highlights, the game. We're going to talk about teams that need to revamp or rethink parts of their offense. We're not going to focus on teams that got new players, either trade-free agency, injury guys coming back,
0:22.2	because those teams obviously are going to look different.
0:23.9	We're going to talk on teams that got new players, either trade-free agency, injury guys coming back, because those teams obviously are going to look different. We're going to talk about teams look largely the same. And yet, for whatever reason, they've got to rethink aspects of their offers. We're going to get some big teams like the Lakers, the Knicks, the heat, some under the radar teams, the Blazers come up, maybe the Grizzlies, hawks for a little while.
0:38.9	Orlando, obviously, Orlando.
0:41.4	Orlando, if you can't break your 12-year streak of being 20th or worse in offensive efficiency this season,
0:47.9	might be time for stuffed a magic dragon to take a year off.
0:51.2	My God.
0:53.0	And we're going to get into all that. We're going to get into Alper and Shen Goun versus Janus' War of Words in Eurobasket because that's always fun. NBA season is coming up. We're taking a break from Kauai for at least an episode. We'll get back to that later in the week probably. That's all coming up. And more, we're going to get into like tons of teams come up coming up after
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1:37.1	Learn more at HubSpot.com. Welcome to the Zach Lowe's show.
1:50.6	It's September 15th.
1:51.8	We're about a month away from the start of the NBA season.
1:54.4	Holy smokes.
1:55.3	It's time to actually start thinking about these teams, these basketball teams.
1:58.3	There's new players everywhere.
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