The NBA Defense Episode: Evaluating who the best defenders are in the league

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

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

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sam is joined by Jon Krawczynski and Danny Leroux to break down NBA defensive standouts. On Wednesday, Krawczynski and Josh Robbins published their anonymous coaches poll of who should make the All-NBA defensive team. What did the coaches look for in their conversations with Jon? What were the trends? Did anything surprise them about how the coaches voted? Then, I chat with Danny Leroux, and we chat about what we look for when evaluating defenders as public facing analysts. How do we contextualize scheme? How do we look at effort defensively throughout the regular season? Who are some of the best defenders, and what are some of the differences we'd have with the coaches from taking a league-wide view? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the most wonderful time.
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0:21.4	Conditions apply.
0:22.6	Seven night minimum staying outbound only from selected airports from six people.
0:25.8	At all protected.
0:28.7	On the beach.
0:41.6	Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.
0:42.0	I'm yours.
0:43.1	Sam Vesini.
0:46.1	We're presented by CLNS Media today on the show.
0:51.4	John Krasinski is here for the first part of this episode, and Danny Leroux is here for the second part.
1:00.0	The topic today is NBA defense, particularly who are the best defenders in the NBA. John Krasinski over at the Athletic, along with our colleague Josh Robbins, published a
1:06.9	coach's poll.
1:08.0	They pulled 23 coaches across the NBA regarding who they would choose to be on
1:14.1	the all defense teams and who would be their pick for defensive player of the year in the league.
1:22.4	I'm going to talk through that story with him, and then later on, Danny Leroux and I are going to talk just from our perspective
1:30.1	as analysts who we think some of the best defenders are.
1:33.6	And is there something that ends up getting lost in the shuffle from the coach's perspective
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