Giannis Antetokounmpo headlines our “All Weekend Team” that Dave DuFour, Zena Keita and Es Baraheni outline as the first block of the show. In part 2, the breakfast club hits the news discussing Zion and Embiid not returning, Fred Van Vleet’s tirade, and more. Then the crew wraps up the show telling you which NBA Cup games matter the most this week, as they make their weekly picks.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita, Es BaraheniExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moody Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 25th, 2024. Coming up, we take a look at the best of the weekend. We pass the panic baton over to the Pacers and we take a look at the upcoming week in NBA Cup action because it's heating up. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. Good morning, Zena. Huge weekend in the NBA. It feels like, again, every single night something's happening.
We had the big NBA Cup games on Friday night. We're going to get to that later on in the show. The Warriors have moved on to the elimination round. They're the first team to do so. The Raptors already been eliminated. Is that right, S?
They have moved on to a round themselves. Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, well, you know, the weekends, guys, there's so many games. And, you know, one of the easy ways to catch up, we're going to make our all weekend team, which is basically just the best of the weekend, the folks that stood out. And I think that we got to start with the Bucs because we've been worried about the Bucs since basically the season started.
Even before, if you're me, we've been calling them old. And the one guy that we said was kind of not old and actually doing his job, Giannis. He took it up a notch over the weekend. And the Bucs have now won four in a row. Like, we're no longer as worried. I still think that there's glaring issues with this team. But there have been some positive signs, guys.
And, S, look, they get the big NBA Cup win the other night. You know, they knocked down the Pacers and literally throw the panic baton right to them. So, I mean, the Bucs, Giannis had a great weekend.
Yeah, of course he did. And Giannis has been having a great season. I think a lot of the Bucs' worries and woes and concerns were everything outside of Giannis Antetokounmpo. And so now that he is performing and the team around him is performing better, you're seeing them take care of their competition. And so in an Eastern Conference where...
You know, you're looking at the Sixers who are struggling. You're looking at some other teams that are really trying to find their identity, young teams. You have to be able to take care of business. And the Bucs are a team that now is handling what they need to to get into that area of the Eastern Conference that they're supposed to be.
But the thing is, though, Zena, look, they're beating up the punching bags, and that's a step in the right direction. What happens when they get into the meat of this schedule coming up, you know, and they've got to play some really good teams? Like, are they going to have enough in the tank to do it?
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