Thunder Preseason Superlatives
Down to Dunk OKC Thunder Podcast
The Athletic
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss opening night, and then hand out Preseason Superlatives:
1.Prospect with most potential:
2.Future Nick Collison:
3.Most overrated by fan base:
4.Most underrated by fan base:
5.Player contender fan bases put in the trade machine
6.Moses Brown Award - Young player that will most split the fan base
7.Bradley Beal Award - Player that the OKC fan base becomes most obsessed with trading for
8.Hami Award - Young rotation player most likely to be traded
9.Justin Jackson Award - Player most likely to hit a game-winner and not be on the team in a year
10.Svi Dunks Award - Player who suddenly reveals unknown skill this season
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Down to Dunk. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm your host, Andrew Schlack. |
| 0:13.9 | We're part of the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:18.4 | With me, as always, on Wednesdays. It's my good friend Alex Spears. Alex, |
| 0:24.0 | what's up? What's up, Andrew? It's game day. Dude, it's here. We get to see the Thunderplay |
| 0:32.2 | a real live game that matters that counts in the standings that counts toward the tanking all happening today. |
| 0:40.8 | How excited we get to watch Rudy Gobert against Center Unknown. |
| 0:50.3 | Don't you have to imagine that if they were ever, if they were ever debating whether to start Derek favors, if you were going to do it, you would have to do it tonight. I mean, you can't throw Roby out there against Rudy Gobert, right? I mean, I think you can. Yes. Actually, I guess you can because it's not like Gobert is punishing you on the offensive end. He's not punishing on the offensive end. |
| 1:11.6 | And I mean, they're going to be just undermanned in the middle no matter what happens. |
| 1:19.4 | But don't you want to honor Derek Favors revenge game, Andrew? |
| 1:24.0 | Don't you want to honor that? |
| 1:25.3 | I don't know. |
| 1:26.2 | I really just don't want to give them any chance. |
| 1:29.7 | This is what I want. |
| 1:32.7 | Not that Favors is going to completely shift the game. |
| 1:35.8 | Like, oh, the strategy that shifted the game was Derek Favre starting. |
| 1:41.6 | But, I mean, I don't know. |
| 1:42.8 | I can remember the first game of last season. |
| 1:45.6 | It was like the Thunder played well and won on a Shea game winning shot, you know. |
| 1:53.3 | You just don't know. |
| 1:54.1 | And we were like, well, that's not going to happen a lot. |
| 1:56.0 | That was cute. |
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