Trivia Contestant
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And I feel like it's very representative of the season the Bulls had. So those are three surprise teams. Very exciting. I don't know how me and Andrew managed to not pick any of those three teams. Very bad job. We did. And shout out to the listener again who made us the surprise team website, which you can go look at at tinyurl.com backslash surprise teams.
Now, one more thing, Andrew, before we get to our guest this week, back right around the All-Star game. We picked a few names who we thought might make a post-All-Star break leap. And I wanted to do a first and second team all post-All-Star break leaps. It's a mouthful. So my second team, Shane Sharp, one of my picks. Zachary Richachet, Steph Castle, Aaron Neesmith, and Cade Cunningham.
That's my second team. Okay, first team, I'm going to go in a little bit more depth. First, we got Quentin Grimes, which was also one of my picks. He had maybe the funniest pre to post splits. 11-4-2 pre, 23-5-5 post all-star break. What? What's really funny, though, is if you look at net rating, like how the team played when he was on the court, pre-All-Star break, minus 0.6.
Post-All-Star break, minus 14.6 because he was playing on the Sixers, of course. Wow. Now, his true shooting percentage basically was unchanged. This was just a guy, which actually is very impressive because he got a lot more usage and he was still able to maintain his efficiency. Quentin Grimes might just be a good player. So it'll be very interesting to see what he gets this summer.
Second name, Denny Obdio. We talk about him a lot. Pre-All-Star break, 15-6-3. Post-All-Star break, 23-10-5. His net rating swing, minus 5.2 to plus 5.8. He was huge. And then some names that I just wasn't thinking of. We're going to get to an obvious name, but some names I wasn't thinking of. Tyrese Halliburton. Now, if you just look at the counting stats, it doesn't seem that significant.
18-4-9 to 21-4-11. But his true shooting went from 59% to 68% post-All-Star break. And the net rating swing went to plus 1.2 to plus 12.7%. He was obviously a big part of the Pacers being one of the better second half teams in the league. Another name I wasn't really thinking about, Paulo Banqueiro. Pre-All-Star break, 23-7-5. Post-All-Star break, 29-8-5. His true shooting jumped from 51% to 58%.
And in case you're wondering... Average true shooting this year was around 57 and a half. So Paulo post-All-Star break got his true shooting, his efficiency above average. And his net rating swing went from minus 6.7 to plus 4.6. And then the last name, the one you're expecting, also an insane jump. Josh Giddey, 12-7-6. to 21, 11, and 9. Similarly, his true shooting, 54% to 62%.
And his net rating swing, minus 6.5 to plus 9.9. So once again, our first team, Josh Giddey, Paul Bencaro, Tyrese Halbern, Denny Avdia, and Quentin Grimes. So congrats to all those guys.
Yeah, that makes sense. And I think we are both worried in the same way for Bulls fans. So the other nine seed Sacramento Kings, their season only ended on Wednesday. They already have fired their GM. Well, mutually agreed part ways with GM Monty McNair hired a new GM, Scott Perry. Now, subsequent reporting has come out from Sam Amick that McNair didn't want to fire Mike Brown.
He also may have not been too keen on adding DeRozan or Zach Levine. What were your thoughts on the events of the last few days in Sacramento?
The guy can write and he can podcast. I was wondering because, you know, Damanis Sabonis, he was asked about what this team needs in his X interview. He said he was the biggest thing is this team needs a point guard. He was very direct about that. Are there any real, because they've kind of boxed themselves in a little bit by taking on this Levine contract.
Are there any realistic point guard targets that you can think of that might be a good fit for this team?
I love that idea, especially, I mean, he played all 82 games for the Spurs. So you feel, you're feeling good going into it. It's not like you feel like, oh my gosh, this guy's, I mean, he is very old, but he just proved to us that he can still do it.
So on the flip side, ignoring Boston Orlando, because I'm assuming you feel pretty confident about that series. Are any of these? Yes, exactly. Are any of these other series like you feel just locked in, like you feel like it's a particularly good matchup for one of these teams?
Well, Dan, it's now time for an intermission. An intermission. We're going to ask you some more questions, but we're taking a short break to play a game, sort of. It's a championship draft. OK, so we like to do this every week during the playoffs just to kind of get a read on how we're feeling about all these teams.
So I'm going to show you what is now appearing on the screen for Dan is a beautiful Excel spreadsheet that I made with all the teams. And just in case you're out there wondering, yes, those are all the accurate team colors. I did pull them from the Internet. They're all correct.
I hear pull out on folks. It's incredible. That's right. So the way this is going to work, we're only going to do three rounds. We're only going to pick nine teams total. And the goal for this is to genuinely pick the teams that you think have the best chance to win the title. OK, so it is a snake draft, though. So if you're in the one spot, you draft one and then you have to wait a while.
If you're in the three spot, you get three and four. So, Dan, because you're a guest, I'm going to let you choose which spot would you like to draft from? You know what? I'll take the hot corner. I'll take the third. Okay. Andrew, where would you like to draft from? First or second? I'll take second. All right. Great. So you guys want me to go first?
Well, I had a feeling this would happen, and I'm already locked in, and it is the Boston Celtics. Okay. Yes, I am a Thunder fan, but... I think the West is obviously much harder than the East. And if I'm just going based on what team I think is most likely to make the finals, I feel like I'm going to go with Boston. Obviously, Cleveland's a great team. They're a great team.
But I think if even if it got to the point where it was Boston OKC in the finals, I still think I would lean Boston just because they've done it before, because they're going into this playoffs healthy. That makes me feel good about them. So I'm starting off with Boston, which means, Andrew, I have a pretty good idea of who you're going to pick second.
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