Slam N JamAndrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA Basketball, Who will win the Most Improved Player, the insane Cavs/Thunder game, Mazzula quotes, best and worst catch and shoot players, Pistons success and more. Then they are joined by Will Guillory of the Athletic to discuss the New Orleans Pelicans and if it’s possible to turn the team around this season, what Zion’s return means, and what kind of player they would want in the draft. Then the boys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat, a trivia game where Andrew is pitted against a beat writer.Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex SpeersWith: New Orleans PelicansExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio/Video Editor: Jake Kleinberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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welcome to the saturday slam and jam here on the athletic nba daily on today's show we're talking leftovers from thunder calves talking some nba stats and even some most improved and then will gillery of the athletic joins to talk about the new orleans pelicans and what's going on in new orleans but first al tell me about the top stories this week
Andrew, our top story this week was the heavyweight matchups we got, all involving the West's number one seed, the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Thunder had a trio of games this week against the top three seeds in the East. They picked up their two best wins of the season early in the week, beating the Knicks and the Celtics at home.
The final heavyweight bout, though, was one of the games of the season so far. Thunder Cavs in Cleveland. The game had 30 lead changes, with both teams scoring over 120 points per possession on offense per clean the glass. In the end, it was the Cavs who pulled away at the end, winning the game 129 to 122, which ended the Thunder's 15-game winning streak.
Now, for the Cavs, they extended their own winning streak to 11 and are now on a 12-game winning streak after beating the Raptors on the second night of a back-to-back. The Cavs are 33-4. How did the Atlanta Hawks beat them twice in a row, consecutive games?
How did that happen?
It just seems so weird. We're now down to only six other teams in NBA history that have won at least 33 of their first 37. Four of those six won the NBA championship, and one was the 2016 Warriors, who were up 3-1 in the finals. Wow. Next up for the Cavs is the Pacers, who have won four in a row in 10 of their last 13.
Tyrese Halliburton has been warming up over this four-game winning streak, averaging 25 points and 11 assists per game, while shooting 49% from three on almost eight attempts per game. The offense is back on track. They're top 10 again in cleaning glass, and they've crawled their way back up to the seventh spot in the East.
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