Shakeia Taylor
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Apr
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The Athletic NBA Daily · Warriors win without Curry + Can NBA referees improve? · 19 Mar 2025
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So so your eyes have to go up, down, back to the ball incredibly quickly because you have to have this sequence of events. in your mind with your eyes. So you can make the correct call, whether this person is touched, whether there's, you know, someone sticks a hand out or whatever. And now that I've heard that I start looking, you never realize how many hands are going toward the ball.
So you're watching who's got the ball. You're watching for possession. You're watching for who taps it. You're watching for the slightest alteration of the movement of the the ball and it happens in seconds.
That was great.
With the audience, Dave said, do you want to come do the podcast? I said, no, I cannot do the podcast.
And then he said, well, we're going to play a game. And I said, where do when do I come on? At what time should I come on to play this arbitrary game where we talk about basketball?
Wow. So I guess that's a good place to start, because one thing we do a lot on our show and whenever we have this conversation is we have what Cody likes to call my co-host. He likes to say the inner circle. Right. Right. Who is in the inner circle? And these are teams that we really think are strong title favorites.
that are going to emerge at the end of the year, high probability that if you took your inner circle and you ran the season 100 times, almost every time your inner circle is going to win a title. That's the idea. So for me right now, it's obviously Boston. You did not say Oklahoma City. I would put them... In the obvious category, I should have very, very deep in the circle. Yes, exactly.
And then I'm not even sure I'd put I don't know right now if I have a third team in there. I really don't.
Well, I think Cleveland's great. I think they're great. I think they're going to win a lot of games. I think they're going to be good in the playoffs. The question is, when we get down to the end of the year. You know, are they able to compete in a playoff series with a team like the Celtics in the Eastern Conference? I don't know if they're going to have another team.
We can talk about whether we think there's another team from the East and that like real inner circle spot. But I think Cleveland's very, very good. I'm just not quite sure yet. Mathematically, if they go in.
Well, let me just stay with Cleveland for a second. Are you guys comfortable with them on the same line as the Celtics and even a team like OKC?
Just below.
Yeah. But like I said, I think the offense is real. I think they're going to be very good. I think they're going to win a ton of games. I think they'll be fine against lower echelon opponents in the first, maybe second round of the playoffs. But I've had this thing for a long time, guys, where I say, are you a two round team in the postseason or are you a four round team?
Because it's one thing to be able to win two playoff series in the NBA playoffs, but But to win double that, to win two more series, both times you almost always have to beat another championship level team. That's a different gear to get to. And I think Cleveland's been good enough right now that in my head, I'm like, well, they're flirting with it. Right. They're close. But no, I'm not ready.
I'm not comfortable enough to put them there yet. What would it take to get them there for you?
Part of it would be continuing the run. I think, you know, teams over the course of history who have dominant regular seasons, even if they have a lesser level in the playoffs, are still fantastic. Like if you win 65 games, you're a contender. So that's part of it.
Another part of it for me, and I'm not sure we'll see it just because they're having so much success on the regular season, would be something like Ben sits at home at night and he goes, what's going to happen to Evan Mobley and Jared Allen when teams try to stretch them out in the postseason? We actually saw this in the first meeting with the Celtics, right?
We're just like, gosh, you got a five out team on one end that can kind of attack this double big thing. Cleveland's still built like an hourglass. They still have the two small guards. They put Garland into pick and roll constantly. And then on the other end, you have the bigs. And then on the flip side, the Celtics like to switch everything, which took away a lot of the guards.
Let me try to speak English. The Cavs guards. That's tough to say. The Cavs guards. took away a lot of their actions that they like to run that create advantages. So I think over the course of the year, if I could also see something that's like, oh, Evan Mobley is shooting threes as a small ball center, then something might click a little more for me.
No, no, but I want to know why do they? Well, I think OKC is structurally built for everything we're talking about in the playoffs strategically. They can play super small. They can play big. They can play with a stretch big. They can play with iHeart, who's a slightly different option. So you can go Jumbo and Bruiser, those kinds of lineups.
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