Dave DuFour and Zena Keita react to the Paolo Banchero injury news and the Suns' incredible 3rd quarter against the Clippers. Then, Kelly Iko, Rockets beat writer at The Athletic joins to discuss the Rockets' win over the Mavs. Then, Dave and Zena breakdown Victor Wembanyama's 5x5 performance against the Jazz.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena KeitaExecutive Producer: Andrew Schlecht Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 1st, 2024. Coming up, Paolo Bancaro is going to be out for a little while. The Bucs are just getting sad at this point. And Kelly Eco comes by to talk about the Rockets after their victory over the Mavs. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. Welcome back to the show, everybody. Bad news to launch us off on our journey today.
We got some news out of Orlando. Paolo Bancaro has suffered a torn right oblique. He's going to be out indefinitely and be reevaluated in four to six weeks. He's had a great start to the season, Zena. This is a huge change. blow to the magic in their quest to get back to the playoffs. I mean, right now you have to start wondering, you know, he's 29 points a game, nine rebounds, five assists.
He just had that 50 point game the other night. We got to start thinking, wow, who's going to pick up the slack for him while he's out? This is not exactly the deepest team in the East.
Yeah, Paolo Bencaro is really at the core of everything that the Magic do offensively. Not only is he a shot maker in his own right, being able to get dribble drives into the basket and find a shot outside. He also is a playmaker for his team, averaging almost six assists.
It's going to be really interesting to see if Franz Wagner can finally have like an all-star campaign and make up for all of the usage that Paolo Bencaro has. Apollo's averaging about a 30% usage rate and Jalen Suggs and Franz Wagner are both under 30%. This is their opportunity to step up, start making some big shots, stop, start taking and filling the gap essentially that Ben Carroll's leaving.
Yeah. And you know, they gotta be happy with the way that Suggs has started out because hopefully his offensive production helps him weather the storm a little storm a little bit. Um, the Grizzlies just slapped the buck silly, uh, one 22 99. And, um, The Bucs had no way to stop John Morant from getting to the paint in this game. He had a triple-double.
Zena, we've been talking about the Bucs' defense, and we'll get to that in a minute. I want to talk about the Grizzlies because they've had a weird start to the season. They've lost a few games. I mean, I understand the Brooklyn Nets look like a juggernaut right now with the way that they've been playing.
But John Morant only needed 29 minutes in this game because they just looked so good out there against the Bucs.
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