The NBA All-Defense Draft; Play-in Thoughts, and Rookie of the Year Picks with Dave DuFour

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dave DuFour joins the show, and we run through a quick preview of the play-in games: Cleveland-Brooklyn, Minnesota-Clippers, Hawks-Hornets, Spurs-Pelicans. However, the meat of the show is a deep dive into All-Defense teams. We do that in the most fun way possible: we try to competitively draft All-Defense teams. We try to pick the best All-Defense team possible, and will send it to the listeners: who drafted the best All-Defense team, Dave or Sam? Then, we jump into some stray rookie thoughts, including Rookie of the Year and an explanation as to my pick in the Scottie Barnes versus Evan Mobley conundrum (as well as where Cade Cunningham fits into the mix). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.
0:08.1	I'm your host Sam Vassini.
0:09.1	We are presented by the athletic today on the show.
0:12.0	Dave Dufour is in the building.
0:14.8	Dave and I are going to be having a little fun podcast talking about defense in the NBA this year.
0:20.4	One of my favorite topics topic to
0:22.4	talk about one of Dave's favorite topics to talk about as well uh and we have a fun little
0:28.2	concept that we're going to try out here but first Dave how's it going man what's going great
0:33.5	I got a good tan man I was just at the beach and then went visited friends in the mountains,
0:38.9	did some hiking, you know, things are good. And by the way, NBA was awesome down to the wire.
0:47.6	This regular season was fantastic. I probably had more fun at work this year than any other season
0:53.2	because the games were awesome.
0:55.2	And then so many of these young teams kind of showed up like Cleveland and Memphis and Minnesota.
1:01.4	So it was great for me.
1:02.4	I mean, you know how much I love when young guys can really play.
1:05.9	Like it's just a different thing.
1:07.9	Well, and you know what?
1:08.8	I was talking about this with an NBA executive yesterday.
1:11.5	Up until the last three weeks of the season, basically, it felt like there were fewer teams
1:19.5	tanking than normal.
1:21.5	And going into next season, we were trying to identify, like, oh, what teams do we think
1:26.7	will be tanking next year? Or, like, not very to identify like, oh, what teams do we think we'll be tanking next year?
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