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Justin Verrier

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6288 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

Yeah.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

Up until Sunday.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

The only win that they had was against the Orlando Magic, who just as like a side tangent here, holy shit, the Orlando Magic, somehow worse than any of these teams right now, just giving up, what was it, a 31 and nothing run against the Raptors?

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

Embarrassing.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

some of the worst basketball I've ever seen.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

And we have suffered through like the Bobcats days, like just absolutely being played right now.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

Unbelievable.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

But the Pacers won because they shot the lights out against the heat.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

And so like, congrats.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

Or I imagine if you're a Pacers fan, you're not celebrating this, right?

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

Yeah, if only to give them credit for actually going out and winning a game for once, for the first time in like two months.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

Jalen Slauson, by the way, totally played quarterback against Permian in like Friday Night Lights, right?

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

For sure.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

He definitely was like a low level prospect that ended up at like Texas Tech.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

That's right.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

But no, to Kyle's point, though, all of the main players have to play because the NBA is clearly putting the screws to a lot of these teams.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

And so a lot of the rosters, most of the time, look like the team that you're used to seeing.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

A mediocre team, but the team that we're used to, nonetheless.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

Yeah.

The Ringer NBA Show
Say One Nice Thing … About the East’s Tanktastic Bottom Five. Plus, UConn Shocks the World (Again)! | Group Chat

definitely took a turn in this Heat game.