Time for Zion to go? + Cade Cunningham MIP? | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 11 January 2025
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Slam N Jam
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA Basketball, Who will win the Most Improved Player, the insane Cavs/Thunder game, Mazzula quotes, best and worst catch and shoot players, Pistons success and more. Then they are joined by Will Guillory of the Athletic to discuss the New Orleans Pelicans and if it’s possible to turn the team around this season, what Zion’s return means, and what kind of player they would want in the draft. Then the boys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat, a trivia game where Andrew is pitted against a beat writer.
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: New Orleans Pelicans
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Jake Kleinberg
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:43.8 | Welcome to the Saturday slamming jam here on the athletic NBA daily. |
| 0:51.6 | On today's show, we're talking leftovers from Thunder Caves, talking some NBA stats and even some most improved. |
| 0:55.9 | And then Will Gillery of the Athletic joins to talk about the New Orleans and what's going on in New Orleans. |
| 0:59.6 | But first, Al, tell me about the top stories this week. |
| 1:04.6 | Andrew, our top story this week was the heavyweight matchups we got, all involving the West number one seed, the Oklahoma City |
| 1:12.0 | Thunder. The Thunder had a trio of games this week against the top three seeds in the east. |
| 1:17.4 | They picked up their two best wins of the season early in the week, beating the Knicks and |
| 1:21.1 | the Celtics at home. The final heavyweight bout, though, was one of the games of the season so |
| 1:26.1 | far. Thunder Cabs in Cleveland, |
| 1:28.5 | the game had 30 lead changes with both teams scoring over 120 points per possession on |
| 1:34.2 | offense per clean the glass. In the end, it was the Cavs who pulled away at the end, winning |
| 1:38.8 | the game 129 to 122, which ended the Thunder's 15 game winning streak. |
| 1:48.3 | Now for the Cavs, they extended their own winning streak to 11 and are now on a 12 game winning streak after beating the Raptors on the second night of a back-to-back. |
| 1:51.9 | The Cavs are 33 and 4. |
| 1:55.0 | How did the Atlanta Hawks beat them twice in a bro consecutive games. |
| 2:01.4 | How did that happen? |
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