Who replaces Alford at UCLA? NBA Draft Risers; Dennis Smith and Pat McCaw

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

This is a two-part year-end episode. In the first 40 minutes of the episode, Rob Dauster and I talk about UCLA and Steve Alford being fired. It's a realistic assessment of what he accomplished, didn't accomplish, where the job sits in the hierarchy of college jobs, and who are the realistic candidates to replace Alford as the UCLA head coach? Then, I spend an hour and 20 minutes with Cole Zwicker, where we jump around. First, a realistic assessment of where UCLA's prospects are from an NBA Draft perspective (hint: not good). Then, a discussion of the Patrick McCaw contract. Then, we discuss Dennis Smith Jr., and his role on the Dallas Mavericks. Why we're both a bit higher on Smith than most seem to be, and an interesting assessment of his trade value if the team decides to go that direction. Then, we have a theoretical discussion about big men in the NBA Draft. Finally, we talk about NBA Draft Risers for the last hour of the podcast. Who are the guys who have really helped themselves in the 2018 calendar year as it refers to the 2019 Draft? It includes Jarrett Culver, Ja Morant, Ty Jerome, Admiral Schofield, Grant Williams, Jaxson Hayes, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup. Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast from here.
0:42.2	Sam Vesini, we're presented by CLNSMedia.
0:44.8	Today on the show, it's a bit of a two-part episode.
0:47.9	The first part is going to be on UCLA firing Steve Alford last night, and some of the
0:53.9	replacements they might come up with here.
0:55.6	I thought this is an interesting topic that I can kind of actually provide a little bit of
0:59.7	detail and light on just because I live out here in L.A.
1:03.6	And have gotten to know some people involved with the program.
1:06.9	Second part of the podcast, be an NBA draft year-end look with Coles-wicker.
1:11.7	But first, I've got Rob Doster to talk UCLA.
1:13.9	Rob, how's it going, buddy?
1:15.3	You were up late last night on the East Coast.
1:17.2	Oh, yeah.
1:18.0	We had all heard the rumors about this probably coming down at some point over the weekend,
1:23.2	and they decided to do it at, what was it, 11 o'clock, your time, I think, is when it finally became, maybe not official, but when the first reputable source had the information saying that it was done, the decision was made, and Steve Alford is now the former UCLA head coach.
1:40.7	So I decided to go to sleep at about 1.35 and woke up this morning to to a
1:46.8	um an avalanche of notifications on my phone, which was, uh, you know, it's always good to see that at
1:53.2	8 o'clock in the morning when you wake up, Leary Eye and you look at your phone. It's like, you have 47
1:57.0	text messages. Oh, great. So yeah, it's kind of what happened with me, except I was awake whenever the whole thing
2:02.9	happened.
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