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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Tim Duncan, Old Big East, and Denzel Washington Stories With P.J. Carlesimo. Plus, ‘A Tale of Two Seasons’ and a New Internet-Based Segment

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the Washington Wizards' recent winning streak as well as the Lakers' recent struggles (1:30) before talking with longtime basketball coach and broadcaster P.J. Carlesimo about the "Old" Big East, his time at Seton Hall, deciding to leap to the NBA, working with coach Gregg Popovich on the Spurs, Tim Duncan stories, coaching Denzel Washington at Fordham University, and more (18:00). Then Ryen introduces a new internet-based segment (1:12:00) before answering some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:23:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On today's show, we'll take a look at a tale of two seasons for NBA franchises.

0:16.0

We're just going to talk to NBA.

0:18.5

PJ Carlisimil is also going to talk to NBA with us.

0:21.3

We get a little story time out of him, including one thing I'm not sure I want to share with

0:24.4

everybody yet because we are efforting towards it.

0:26.6

A little life advice and a new segment having to do with the internet.

0:30.6

This is something I want to do now as we're more than a third way in the NBA season with

0:35.1

a shorter season.

0:36.1

We're actually getting closer to halfway this point.

0:41.0

There are teams that are putting together runs that are opposite of what we've seen

0:45.2

from them in the past.

0:47.4

The Wizards, I would say, lead this right now.

0:50.1

If you did a tale of two seasons, let's look at who the Wizards are right now.

0:53.5

I'll admit in one of my deep college football NFL hotbed positions that when the Westbrook

1:01.6

deal happened, I was like, man, they'll have a chance.

1:05.7

I think they won't be a top four-seater and like that.

1:07.8

I thought they could make the playoffs.

1:09.7

I overestimated what I thought they could be ignoring some of the other problems.

1:15.5

Look, Thomas Bryan only played like five games for him this year anyway.

1:18.8

The fact now that there are a game and a half out of the play-in game when they were two

1:23.0

and eight and six and 17 at one point.

1:25.7

They're now 11 and 17.

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