The Athletic NBA Daily
Thunder Roll Rockets | Bucks tame Hawks | Schroder to the Warriors
15 Dec 2024
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder dominate the Houston Rockets in Las Vegas at the NBA Cup, the Bucks and Giannis take down the Hawks and Dennis Schroder is traded to the Warriors. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita and Es Baraheni are on location to discuss all this and more. Host: Dave DuFourWith: Es Baraheni and 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 December 15th, 2024. Coming up, we are at the NBA Cup, so we're going to talk about it. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. Good morning, Zena. Good night because it is 10 p.m. and we're sitting on the court. We just finished up Rockets Thunder. Our finals is set and we're going to get to the games in a minute.
But guys, I really I want to talk about the vibe here. I wasn't here last year. Our producer and co-host Andrew Schlecht was here, and he told me a lot about how it felt in the arena. It was weird, no fans for the teams, but how did you guys feel about this year? I know that some people were saying it was quiet on TV, but in here, it also was quiet.
yeah the reaction on social media definitely mirrored what we saw in person too because it was quiet some people talked about how it was like you mentioned a high school match right it felt like an AAU game sometimes it did give off summer league vibes which is fitting because we're in Vegas and that's the home of the summer league I think
It got better towards the end of that Rockets-Thunder game, and maybe we've kind of overcorrected here on the bad vibes, the quietness. It was actually pretty good. I thought the vibes were what you would expect for a game, by the way, that they had to organize in 48 hours. No one had any, yeah.
And none of these games have a close fan base either. It's not like an LA where it's an hour away. But then there's, you know, the fact that the first game started at 1.30. Yes. And if you know Vegas, most things don't get started until 12 a.m. Most of the people in here weren't planning to be awake. Correct. Exactly.
So I think that there was something to be said about the game, the first game being so early. And then I agree. By the time that you got to the 5.30 game, vibes were up a little bit. Things were a little bit louder. And I don't know much about acoustics. Maybe people listening to us do. But this is a hockey arena. It's not meant for basketball.
And from what I know about the crossover arenas, like the LA Kings, it's a different vibe. And even just the way they go up, the chairs go up in this arena, I feel like there's something to be said about it just being... A little bit quieter, maybe.
What's funny is you saying that has me right here spinning my head around, which I'm sure is great to watch on video. But there are actually acoustic treatments that are oddly shaped. So there's something going on. I don't know. But it also was quiet. The fans, you know, they're not fans necessarily of these teams. Although I did see a lot of Hawks gear and Bucks gear.
The chants were going, though. I don't want to discount the fact. We did get an OKC chant. We got OKC chants. We got some Hawks chants. There definitely was vibes. But if anything, you saw and heard fans going with the vibes of the game. I'm not here necessarily to cheer for a particular team, but I appreciate what's going on.
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