Chapter 1: How did SGA break Wilt Chamberlain's 20-point streak record?
Coming up on the Zach Lowe Show after this, we got Rob Mahoney to talk about all the big games that happened tonight.
Spurs, Nuggets, Celtics, Thunder, no Tatum, but still, these are some heavyweight, heavyweight matchups. What did we see? What did we learn? What's going on? Bam, out of bio.
Had 83 points. I haven't talked about it yet. Was it gross? Was it ethical? Was it triumphant? Was it some combination of all those things Spoh said today? I apologize to absolutely no one.
Did we expect Eric Spolstra to apologize to anyone? We'll talk BAM.
Chapter 2: What were the implications of Bam Adebayo's 83-point night?
We'll talk Lakers. Just kind of keep winning. So do the Clippers, actually. But the Lakers, who, you know, keep winning without LeBron, too. How are they doing it? What's happening? Is Luka semi-inserting himself into the MVP conversation? I think Shea probably has that almost locked up. But the Lakers are outperforming, I think, the expectations a lot of us had for them midseason.
And then speaking of the Western Conference, John Krasinski is here to talk about the Wolves. Oh, the Wolves. Just when you think you have the Wolves nailed as a contender, stealth contender, they're getting it together. They get walloped three games in a row, look worse and worse and worse with each game. What's going on with the Minnesota Timberwolves? Where do they rank in the West?
Chapter 3: What recent trends are we seeing with the Lakers?
What's happening? We give a little love to the Clippers who thumped them the other night. So that's all things Wolves with John Krasinski, Rob Mahoney, all coming up on the Zach Lowe Show.
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Chapter 4: How are the Timberwolves performing in the current season?
Denver, San Antonio. Victor Wembanyama out. Aaron Gordon out. Oklahoma City, Boston came down to the wire. Came down to two Chet Holmgren free throws after an offensive rebound. But Shea Gilchrist-Alexander, 35 points on, I think, 18 shots. Another efficient game. Breaks Will Chamberlain's record for most consecutive games with 20 points or more. 127. It's a crazy record.
The Thunder sneak it out. Boston had no Tatum, no Derek White. The Thunder had no Jalen Williams, no Isaiah Hartenstein. Really, like, both of these games and just a lot about the NBA lately, the adaptability of these teams to remain so competitive – Without key guys in, like here's Ron Harper Jr.
Chapter 5: What challenges do the Timberwolves face in their playoff push?
who's going to make some threes. Hugo Gonzalez is going to get every single offensive rebound from the corners. Guys are going to score a little bit out of their comfort zone. But let's start with Oklahoma City. Denver beats San Antonio, so the Thunder pick up a game in the race for the number one seed.
Everyone around my poor Minnesota Timberwolves in the West won today, including Phoenix, who got, I think, 79 combined points from Jalen Green and Devin Booker. They just keep winning. And that race keeps heating up. But I don't know. Reflections on on the Thunder. I mean, we can't take too much from any of these games because of all the guys that are out.
But just reflections on shade, the consistency required to do this and anything you saw in this game tonight that was interesting to you.
Yeah, let's start with the Shea part. I mean, it's a history-making week in the NBA in a lot of ways, and this was an untouchable record until suddenly it wasn't. And I think I was left kind of thinking about what are the things that Shea does better at this point than anybody else in the world.
Chapter 6: How are the Eastern Conference teams shaping up this season?
I think we've gotten used to just saying, oh, he's the best one-on-one scorer, but within that... Obviously, the best mid-range shooter in the game right now, the best driver in the game right now, the best crunch time score increasingly is apparent. But he also has the best body control of anyone in the league, also has like the best change of pace of anybody in the league.
I think the ways in which he's becoming unimpeachable in all of those different respects. Yeah, they feed off of each other, but just like it's the portrait of an all-time player. like being drawn in real time and being able to see that in this kind of fashion with that sort of consistency. I mean, it's a fucking privilege. Let's just call it what it is.
Yeah. Minimal foul grifting tonight. Although Luca Garza, the mics caught him. Did you catch that? The hot, the mics under the basket. That's not basketball. I'm pretty sure it was him.
Chapter 7: What factors are contributing to the Heat's recent success?
I heard it and I rewound it and I, and I, He can't lip read because his head was turned a little bit away from the camera, but he was yelling something and the mic was there.
But anyway... This is a big week, Zach, for angry dudes yelling, that's not basketball. You know, really maybe the high watermark for that exact kind of dude.
A lot of anger percolating around the league. But, you know, I said after he tied Wilt's record, and again, like... another just three blocks tonight for Shea, just everywhere defensively. You know who was really everywhere defensively? Alex Caruso.
Every time he plays, and I'm not sure exactly what his – I know he had a hip injury, but his general schedule with the Thunder has been sort of like three-quarters time employee. But whenever he plays, it's like, oh, my God, this guy is just a freaking menace to society. But I said after that last game, I'm a Jokic true believer.
This is the first time where now I'm starting to say, has Shea passed him as just the best player? Forget MVP.
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Chapter 8: What does the future hold for the Timberwolves and their roster?
Is he just the best player in basketball now? Where do you stand on this?
I think I'm leaning, like, slightly towards Shea these days. And it's hard to say because, like, Jokic is clearly, like, laboring and working his way back from his own injury. Also, 31-20-13 tonight in San Antonio. Like, the Jokic-Murray... I mean, it... their dynamic is just one of my favorite things in modern basketball.
And so it's so hard to lean against that in any particular way, but Shea is like made a believer of me.
And, and I think you just have to acknowledge what he does to make the thunder exactly what they are, what he does to enable putting so much defensive personnel on the floor around him by virtue of his one-on-one creation, what he does to make them one of the lowest turnover teams in the league, what he does just like stylistically is,
that feels so singular relative to anything we've ever seen before. And I think that's part of why, not just who does he compare to now, who does he compare to in the past, I find myself thinking a lot about is what Shade does even something you can emulate?
If you're an 11-year-old basketball player right now who's training to be the best possible future pro you can be, can you even try to do this? Can you try to do the weird contortions that he does on every step back that seem to only work for him And if so, or if not, like, what does that even say about Shay? I'm not sure anymore.
Well, and we've seen the last two games, I mean, all season, but in high profile moments in the last two games, particularly the Denver game from two or three nights ago, whenever that was. The pull up step back three is just now like, oh, just another 40 percent plus three point weapon for Shea.
And it comes close to making him pretty unguardable because that's the shot teams are like, if you're going to do that before we can send our double, you're going to do that without a pick and roll. You're going to just do that. Then, you know, like we're loading up for your drive. We got all the help ready. And that's annoying to you. You're just going to take a step back three like, OK, OK.
Yeah, impressive win for, you know, everyone was undermanned. A couple other Thunder notes. Celtics did it. Denver did it. More and more teams are going to do it. It's not new. It's not novel. But it seems like a lot of teams are just going full on. We're putting our centers on Lou Dort or our centers on Alex Caruso. And we know the Thunder know how to counter that and all of that.
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