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What Does It Mean to Be on a Winning (Or Losing) Streak? | The Answer

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4.29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Chris is joined by The Athletic’s Tony Jones to discuss the success of the Utah Jazz, who currently sit at the top of the league standings (2:00). They look at the team’s offseason turnaround after getting bounced in the bubble, Jordan Clarkson’s success, and more. Later, Chris is joined by The Ringer’s Megan Schuster to discuss the pain of rooting for the worst team in the league, the Minnesota Timberwolves (33:30). Host: Chris Ryan Guest: Tony Jones and Megan Schuster Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Ringer NBA show. It's the answer. I am Chris Ryan. It is the best of times. It is the worst of times

0:14.8

Everybody thanks for listening to another episode of the answer. I'm Chris Ryan and this week just like I didn't college

0:19.9

I've discovered jazz

0:21.7

The Utah Jazz of 120 out of 21 games as of recording to play in the foot person out of Friday

0:26.9

And they have won a lot of those games by taking the opposing team out behind the woodshed

0:32.3

They have the third best offense the second best defense

0:35.3

They are gonna probably have two all stars without a Mitchell and Rugo bear and they will be playing for their coach

0:40.9

When Snyder was gonna be coaching the Western Conference all stars. So how did this happen?

0:45.7

What is what is going on? How is the how are the Utah Jazz coming out of losing to the nuggets in the bubble

0:52.1

Being at the center of so much controversy with the Rudy's that stuff in March with COVID anyway

0:57.0

Then go in the bubble and losing to the nuggets. I know nobody thought that this was gonna happen, right?

1:02.2

And I wanted to find out what it's like to follow a

1:07.5

Juggernaut. What's it? What is it like to follow a team like the jazz?

1:10.5

So I talked to Tony Jones from the athletic about

1:13.7

Covering the Utah Jazz this season

1:15.5

But then I also wanted to do the flip side of the equation

1:18.0

Which is the worst team the league and that's the Minnesota Timberwolves and they're not even bad

1:22.2

They're they're depressing. It's it's it's kind of like almost uncomfortable to watch

1:27.0

So I wanted to talk to my buddy Megan Schuster who I work with over at the ringer who is a Timberwolves fan about

1:33.9

Whether or not the Timberwolves are kind of drifting into Kirst town

1:38.5

Like whether this is starting to become almost mystical and how bad it is and what can be done to fix it

1:44.0

So let's get into my conversation with Tony Jones on this week's episode of the answer

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