The Rule of Three(-Pointers) and Trade-Season Preview (Ep. 189)

The Ringer NBA Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Ringer’s Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor discuss the recent Jimmy Butler–led Minnesota Timberwolves surge (0:58), speculate about the Phoenix Suns’ future with Devin Booker at the helm (18:33), and debate the change in the role of 3-pointers (31:09). Then, they analyze how the San Antonio Spurs have managed to thrive in the absence of key players (37:31), wonder if DeMarcus Cousins should be shooting 3s (46:01), and evaluate the likelihoods of recent trade rumors (48:23). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:11.0	Welcome to the Ringer NBA Show. I'm Chris Varnay, joining me every Tuesday from TheRinger.com
0:16.8	Is Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Bomer, aka Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Connor, and Kevin O'Connor?
0:23.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:26.2	All right, so first things first. Did you watch the College Football and National Championship?
0:31.7	Yeah, I watched the second half. I didn't watch the first half. I was watching the Bachelor, sorry.
0:36.0	I watched NBA this morning, but National Championship and Bachelor last night.
0:39.8	I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you. That is a college football has very little relevance to
0:47.7	many in the Northeast, right? I mean, it's just not the thing. You didn't grow up around it.
0:51.9	Yeah, I would say that's fair. Well, anyway, congratulations to Alabama on their national title.
0:56.9	Let's get to the NBA. Last night, how appropriate you are, you must be living right because you
1:02.9	write about Jimmy Butler, and then the story of last evening is the Minnesota Temporal Wolves
1:08.9	Trashing the Cleveland Cavaliers. Let's get to Butler first, and obviously, first of all,
1:17.0	the trade in the off season was roundly criticized. When the trade was done, most people thought
1:26.8	that the Chicago Bulls got fleeced, that that's all you had to give up to get Jimmy Butler,
1:32.8	who's, by most accounts, one of the top 20 players in the NBA. In fairness, the trade does not
1:38.9	look nearly as bad now. But if the idea was he could have a massive impact on Minnesota and turn
1:47.1	them into a team, right? You're adding a great veteran to a team that already looked to be on the
1:53.2	rise. A lot of people thought they might take the step last year. That didn't happen. But this year,
1:58.0	they did add Jimmy Butler. They did add Todd Gibson. They added Jeff Teague. I mean, they added some
2:03.1	veterans to their young core and they have really taken a big leap forward. And a lot of it is,
2:11.2	or I would say, most of it is because of the addition of Jimmy Butler. You wrote about that great
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.