Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Law Murray

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2283 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

That's why we watch thousands of games every season, because even though we have an idea of how the thing might end, we want to see how. Right. We can look at a game between the Hornets and the Thunder and say the Thunder probably will win. But you want to see how the game turns out. I just saw the Hornets beat the damn Lakers just a week ago. How the hell did that happen?

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

And so that's what this story was about. The story was about saying, hey, look, there are things that teams do every game. Of course, it's one ball in four quarters. Five guys are playing on each team. But how those teams actually play and the consistency of them, we can say that you're not going to get a team that plays the same way all the time.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

And so that's what this story was about. The story was about saying, hey, look, there are things that teams do every game. Of course, it's one ball in four quarters. Five guys are playing on each team. But how those teams actually play and the consistency of them, we can say that you're not going to get a team that plays the same way all the time.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

And so that's what this story was about. The story was about saying, hey, look, there are things that teams do every game. Of course, it's one ball in four quarters. Five guys are playing on each team. But how those teams actually play and the consistency of them, we can say that you're not going to get a team that plays the same way all the time.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Even the teams that copycat because it's a copycat league. how they copycat is going to be a little different.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Even the teams that copycat because it's a copycat league. how they copycat is going to be a little different.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Even the teams that copycat because it's a copycat league. how they copycat is going to be a little different.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Well, I will say this. A lot of the data that made up this piece, especially in the tables, I didn't want to focus on who's good. I didn't want to focus on just... Obviously, you're going to lead. The NBA is led by the great players and the great teams, the champions of the past.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Well, I will say this. A lot of the data that made up this piece, especially in the tables, I didn't want to focus on who's good. I didn't want to focus on just... Obviously, you're going to lead. The NBA is led by the great players and the great teams, the champions of the past.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Well, I will say this. A lot of the data that made up this piece, especially in the tables, I didn't want to focus on who's good. I didn't want to focus on just... Obviously, you're going to lead. The NBA is led by the great players and the great teams, the champions of the past.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Those are the teams that get remembered and the teams that when you're putting teams together, you're saying, is there a blueprint? Is there something to say that there's a precedent for success as to why you're doing the way you're doing these things? Like pretty much everything that I wanted to show as far as data was not a ranking of they're great at this. They're terrible at this.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Those are the teams that get remembered and the teams that when you're putting teams together, you're saying, is there a blueprint? Is there something to say that there's a precedent for success as to why you're doing the way you're doing these things? Like pretty much everything that I wanted to show as far as data was not a ranking of they're great at this. They're terrible at this.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Those are the teams that get remembered and the teams that when you're putting teams together, you're saying, is there a blueprint? Is there something to say that there's a precedent for success as to why you're doing the way you're doing these things? Like pretty much everything that I wanted to show as far as data was not a ranking of they're great at this. They're terrible at this.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

It's a matter of just tendencies, you know?

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

It's a matter of just tendencies, you know?

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

It's a matter of just tendencies, you know?

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Yeah.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Yeah.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

Yeah.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Steph drops 56 | LeBron and Lakers keep rolling

A fast paced team can be really good offensively or a fast paced team can be the bulls or the wizards. All right. A slow paced team. We think of a slow paced team and we think that's a negative connotation. But honestly, there are a lot of teams that say we're going to slow it down and we're going to beat you.