Ben Taylor

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4,322 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Thinking Basketball · #381: Thoughts on the Knicks title & the Spurs run · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

Your body needs to get stronger.

Your mind needs to get stronger.

You need to understand a million things so you can adapt on the fly.

And this Spurs team got really deep in the playoffs, A, without that from most of their roster, and that was a thing, and we can talk about that if you want.

It's not all fun, so I don't want to be too negative.

But, B, you saw the roster.

You're just like, well, we got Kelly Olenek –

So Bismack Biambo and who's the third one who I always forget?

Kelly Plumlee, right?

Mason Plumlee.

They have three centers just down there.

And I'm like, did they just get these guys as vets for like practice squad centers to help Wemby in practice throughout the year?

There's really no other consideration in roster building that you would normally get for a team trying to go deep into the playoffs.

Literally every other team trying to go deep in the playoffs constructs the roster in a way to help them.

And the Spurs themselves internally did not anticipate being anywhere near this situation.

And so there's some reasons why they got so far that I think are fascinating.

But I just want to get your reaction to that because it is a full-on experiment.

I don't think we've ever seen anything like it.

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I always recommend them.

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