15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
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What are the current standings of the NBA Western Conference teams?
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It started as 30 teams in 30 minutes, but we're going to do 15 teams in about 15 minutes. The West, we run through all of the teams, just some thoughts and numbers, and enjoy. Adnan Virk, we try to keep him in check a little bit more than last time on this one, but we're going to talk Oscars, Best Picture, Four Nations, other stuff, travel, and we've got life advice, a really long one again for you today.
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15 teams in 15 minutes. We may go over. Oklahoma City will go by seeding. Number 6 on offense this year, number 1 in defense. They're usually 3.5 to 4 points better than the number 2 team, Orlando. Last year, number 3 on offense, number 4 on defense, so the number's holding up. Okay, giddy playoff numbers against Dallas, plus-minus. He started at the beginning of the series, then was benched. He was a minus seven. The only starter with a negative in game one. Game two, he was a minus 20. Game three, he was a minus one. Game four, he was a plus six in 12 minutes. Game five, a minus three in 12 minutes. Game six, plus two in 11 minutes. By the way, They also gave up 69 points in the second half to Dallas in Game 6 when they were eliminated.
The reason I bring that up is that this team will not have those minutes. Somebody that the other team can completely ignore, and they tried to solve that with some spacing, but the spacing wasn't good enough. Chet, six games back. Last night against Brooklyn, the best he has looked in his return, 22-17, the massive Brooklyn comeback in this one. The at-the-rim defensive numbers, if you want to look at field goal and then the differential based on expected field goal, Chet arguably, with 250 minutes played as the qualifier here, arguably has the best stats in the entire NBA. So if you take it a step further, they're 47-11 now. Of the 11 losses, the worst loss of the season based on opponent is at San Antonio.
They've had two games that are... Like, hey, they got beat, which is funny enough that part of it would be the in-season tournament that doesn't technically count on any of this stuff. I mean, to think that you could be almost 60 games in the season and have one game that counts, be like, oh, that was a night we didn't really have it. That's ridiculous. So I can continue to talk about the third guy. Who's the third guy in the playoffs? What is Jalen Williams like in the playoffs? Maybe it's Chet. Maybe it's Dorton Caruso giving you spacing and incredible defense. Maybe it's Aaron Wiggins who's turned into one of my favorite role players in the league. He's on fire in February, 46% from three.
There are going to be some options, but we may not even know what they are like fully formed because Chet has just come back. And like I said, it may be years before we see the best version of what Chet is because of the physical part of it, but he was terrific last night. The shooting... The rim protection numbers, they're already there right now. Weird stat for them.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the current standings of the NBA Western Conference teams?
0:00–10:53
2
What is the state of the Oscars this year?
10:53–12:06
3
Why are people caring less about the Oscars?
12:06
4
What is the significance of the Four Nations Face-Off for Canada?
10:53–24:44
5
What life advice does Russillo give about being blacklisted from a team?
24:44–26:01
6
How do injuries affect NBA team performance?
26:01
7
What are the predictions for the NBA playoffs?
20:18–35:18
8
What are the key takeaways from the Golden State Warriors' recent performance?
35:18–1:43:12
Speakers
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