Shakeia Taylor
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Apr
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They already showed last year kind of the template that they're going to have in the postseason. I mean, they played Dallas neck and neck in a great series and Dallas made it to the finals. So I do think OKC is kind of built to have fewer questions when we get to the playoffs.
And, you know, if we stack up like best players in a playoff series, which I'm not a I'm not a huge fan of, not a huge fan of. I think I wrote the book going against that. But Shea last year came to the party and he's like, hello, I belong. Tough shots, like all kinds of defenses you want to throw at me. You're going to get a certain level for me.
And then I mean, the other guys in OKC, I just think. Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren are kind of built for playoff basketball. We'll see.
I don't know about inner circle. I really don't. I, there are a bunch of teams in the West and we can talk about them that I think are really good. Mavs, Grizzlies, Thunder.
But that's that's such a good call. Also depressing because I think people still don't realize how good Memphis is. Right. I think as of today, John Morant in the games he's played, they're like plus 15 per 100 when he's on the floor, which is the fifth highest net rating of any player in the league, regardless of minutes.
yeah when you have a guard who gets two feet in the paint every time as often as he does this is what i mean new york we're seeing it with the knicks and what jalen brunson is able to pull off there like if you get two feet in the paint consistently you just create good offense for them yeah yeah this next tier though is almost in a year like this where you have a lot of parity the league has continued to shift we've gone through this pace and space revolution i'm almost more fascinated by this sort of like next group of
where did we put them in the stadium they're not courtside but they're somewhere in the lower bowl they're walking around like dave dufour in a summer league event like just lurking in the lower bowl you never know when they're gonna come out right well you can spot that head from a mile away yeah so these are teams like dallas for obvious reasons um you know the pedigree the talent as we've talked about on our show i think like luke is built for the playoffs oh yeah um
And then you get teams, I think in the West, there's a couple question mark teams. Denver being the champ a couple years ago, kind of struggling, but it's always like the big question is always like Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr. Are they going to show up and look like all-stars? Are they going to get lost in the shuffle? What happens when they start clicking?
They have that home court advantage. They have that guy, you know, like Nikola Jokic.
What's going on? Like 35-13. You watch a game with him. he has like 32 points, 12 rebounds, seven assists. You're like, that wasn't that good of a game.
Yep. So there's, there's these interesting teams that are lurking. Um, I've never been super high on this iteration of Phoenix. I don't think they have enough. But even Phoenix, this far into the season, is kind of like, well, what if they clicked?
Can I throw a curveball back at you? Please. All right. I am lower on the Timberwolves because of their trade. Yeah, I actually think it's the place that Carl Anthony Towns went. That is another one of these teams. The Knicks have a crazy good offense right now. Right. Yep. What's going on with the defense? Is a Tom Thibodeau defense really going to go through the year and finish like 28th? Maybe.
I don't know. They're a weird team. They don't have depth, but maybe they need to get players back. Maybe they need to get some of their bigs back. maybe that's going to change things for them because they're playing like six guys like 38 minutes a night in November which is the most Tibbs thing of all time he was built for the NBA Cup so teams like New York um and I'll leave it.
I have to come back to Memphis. I just don't think people realize sort of how weird and wonky and destructive, destructive Memphis is, but they're probably to your point, you know, like a lesser, like a West version of Cleveland. When you get into the playoffs, maybe that depth and that transition pace. I mean, they, they have, they're so far ahead in transition offense that,
I would put them in this group as well. They might be on the lower end of it right now because, again, they're running like 11 deep in the regular season, which is super fun and it's awesome and wild. But how does that work in the playoffs? And I would want to see more, you know, if they if they when they're healthy.
when Draymond plays, when Curry plays, these guys have missed some games to your defense, Dave. They've missed some games recently. Like when they're healthy, if they all play and they finish the season in those healthy games at like a 56 to 60 win pace, I think there's enough craziness in basketball that you can get them in this conversation as well.
And I think that's part of what makes this so fun, because the last thing we haven't talked about yet is playoff coaching. And it's like, I trust Taylor Jenkins, but he doesn't have a ton of playoff coaching experience. Mark Dagnall. Mark Dagnall, I just think he's been fantastic as a coach. Joe Mazzulla, that team is so well coached. They're like a machine.
And you saw it through the playoffs and certainly in the finals. So maybe some of the differentiator with this group is like, how much coaching experience do you have? What kind of coaching chops do you have when you get into a playoff setting? But I just think, how many teams did we get in this lower bowl group of the arena? At least five, maybe six or seven.
Yeah, I think I think those are the fun team. And we haven't even mentioned what happens if if Paulo Banqueiro comes back. Right. And somehow that whole thing is still this good. Exactly.
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