Podcast 203: Dunking all over the Playoffs
2019-05-03Nate Smith and David Wood had a much needed reunion in the pod booth. There isn’t much going on as far as the Cavs are concerned, so they hopped around the league. They went into James Harden’s foul seeking Rockets and how their methods make them feel. They talked about the twiggy stature of this years draft class and their favorite players: De’Andre Hunter and Brandon Clarke. From there they hit on whether or not college players should be getting paid.
And, as if that last topic wasn’t hot enough for you, they tackled a real dividing question:
Who is the tallest player in the NBA who can’t Dunk. They might not know the real answer, but they know the heart and soul of the no-dunking team is Raymond Felton…..
Because if he could, there would be new rims left in the league.
Of course, there’s NBA playoff talk too.
Speaking of not dunking? Why is it that Kyle Lowry seems to be a no-show every year? Can the 76ers real do some damage? Will anyone challenge the Warriors in the West and their enjoyment of the Nuggets-Blazers serious? Why does Al Horford get so much love?
If you survive all of serious topics, you get to hear their Game of Thrones thoughts and why Ohio independent wrestling is really alright.
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Terrible play to end the 3rd OT, should have had a better shot with 8 seconds to work.
I hate 3 pointers to win games. Get an easier shot.
Portland has to win this. Denver has had five/six chances to win and choked them all.
McCollum with some great defense there!
Quadruple OT…jebus…
So sloppy by Den. They have had the ball up 2 with under 20 sec twice, and turned it over BOTH times.
Fun game, but a lot of slop late on. Mostly by Den.
Yeah, they’ve squandered some good opportunities.
The replay has changed the game. This call would NEVER have gone this way in the first 100 years of basketball.
Portland needs to trade their draft pick for TT!
Lillard!!!
WOW… out on Denver!!! Portland with a chance to tie/win!
Some great D by the Nuggets here in this OT.
It’s McCollum time.
4OT?
Odds are good
Man, Milsap has been good these playoffszz
He doesn’t have to deal with Tristan Thompson!
Bad foul there, Blazers…
McCollum is going video game!
Good game from Barton…
Jokic seemed to get mugged there.
Wow, CJ is going off…
Energy level would favor Portland at this point. Jokic looks totally gassed.
Triple OT?
Jokic may need an ambulance…
Triple OT…jebus…not Lillard’s night so far…
Portland will have a shot to win with 4 seconds…
You may have nailed it
This game is crazy!
CJ McCollum has been the catalyst
Tough shot CJ!!
Frickin awesome game!
I’m routing for Portland, but barely… because I love both of these teams.
This is a great series.
Wow! Lillard from 30!
He just needed to back up a little bit.
Ridiculous shot… great ball movement.
CJ looks fresh…
You called it MikeO!
Wow!
Jokic has to be spent…
Double OT!
God, this is nuts…Lillard was overrated a week ago, probably underrated now…he’s not been good tonight…
Millsap takes Hood to school
Ridic Jokic game…
Not Aminu’s night.
3J McCollum!!!!
CJ has been playing Lillard’s role tonight…
Nuggets attempt the “Laettner.”
OT…crazy…Lillard needs to be big…
Blazers miss, Nuggets will get an opportunity from full court…2-3 seconds left…then OT…
What the game deserves IMHO
Blazers up with 6 seconds to go…
Argh fat fingers sorry
Lillard’s first points 4th qtr, which is hard to believe…Blazers up 2 31 odd seconds left…
Wow…
I’ll see your wow and raise you another wow.
Crazy game…Lillard has become somewhat mortal after his ludicrous series against the Thunder…going down to the wire…
He looks tired….Murray does not.
If there’s hope for the Cavs (or for any team), it’s good to know that Jokic was picked in the second round. I hope our guys are in the film room now!
No 2nds this year. But Rockets pick is close.
Jokic. Draymond. IT. Manu. Brogdon. There is good talent late first/second. Just gotta poke around.
Don’t forget Butler was a 30th pick. Not 2nd round, but damn close. Korver was a late 2nd rounder…
End of the third. Enjoying some good b-ball from the Blazers and the Nuggets.
The Blazers are going to need a strong finish from Lillard…CJ lighting it up…
This is a fun game.
Btw, I truly loved Kyrie billing himself a ‘basketball genius’ the other day. No, dude…you are a guy sho is very skilled at getting tough buckets. You are closer to a hoops moron than a genius. I’ve said it before, but this guy is the most tiresome dude in the NBA, and that is, by god, saying something.
Rodney Hood’s brother still looking better than his brother ever looked for the Cavs…
Love seeing the Flat Earth Celtics lose! Go Bucks!
Oof, Bucks foul shooting has been pretty terrible…good thing it’s not a super tight game. They should be up by 15+…
Not many things more fun in the NBA this year than watching Giannis in the paint looking for a block…
Yep fun last few games.
Watching Kyrie ‘guarding’ Giannis one on one is gold…
Worth price of admission alone.
Connaughton gonna get paid soon.
He’s what I wish Stauskas was this past year.
I am enjoying this Boston beatdown immensely.
Bucks bench coming up huge… Hill and Connaughton >>> Hayward and Rozier
Hayward and Rozier mostly completely invisible…Rozier just stinks all the time unless he’s hot from three for some readon.
Reason*
Bledsoe and Hill defend Irving as well as anyone…
Man. Giannis lookin like Dr. J.
Closest comparison is ABA Doc. I agree. Doc had a 50/30 PO game for Virginia. Longtime Reds broadcaster Marty Brennaman (sp?) called it the most impressive performance he’s ever seen live.
If you add his ABA/NBA stats together, and project steals/blocks from his first year (when those were not kept), Doc is the only 30k/10k/5k/2k/2k player. PTS/RBS/AST/STL/BLK.
Giannis has a chance.
Giannis may foul out the Celtic starters all by himself.
George Hill lighting it up for Cleveland.
Force of habit. I meant the bucks.
Looking half his age right there! Good for him.
George Hill really good on both ends tonight…
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1124486899241029632
Jaylen Brown is such a douche…with all his mugging and staredowns after any dunk you’d think he was Michael Jordan rather than a guy likely to be part of a trade package…
Really nice half for Cannaughton…really like that dude as a role player…
LAKERS PROCEEDING TOWARDS MAKING TY LUE AN OFFER —-REALLY IMPRESSED WITH HIS -X/O ‘S KNOWLEDGE ——-SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I AM MISSING HERE ——–COME AND GET HIS X/O’S DEFENSIVE GURU ALSO !!!
Lue’s stuff can’t work without Longo’s schemes. If the Lakers are hiring Lue they are smart enough to understand this…
Maybe they could hire Kidd as a an associate head coach like Lue was. I think that would work so smoothly.
I really think that’d be a good idea.
Lastly, I can’t remember Mike Brown ever making defensive adjustments in the playoffs. The 2009 p and r scheme drove me nuts against Orlando. They did the same thing every time even though they didn’t have the personnel to do it. Or at least they shouldn’t have been doing it with Z. Brown was awful at adjustments in the playoffs.
I don’t think Matthew Dellavadova has ever dunked in a game. I have no memory of it.
Here is basically proof that he can just barely dunk in practice. And I mean barely. Like he probably misses that dunk most of the time which basically means he can’t dunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PasvxG0ppI
Also Kevin love can barely dunk for a big guy. He needs a long runway and momentum.
Boils down to the NCAA is corrupt and in no way does tuition wavers equate anywhere near the amount of money the schools and NCAA rakes in. That is bs. Limit the amount of revenue the ncaa or colleges can make off these kids or pay them a fair wage. Completely unfair for most of the guys destined for a draft. The idea of the NCAA being amateur athletics is literally a straight lie. The amount of money they rake in precludes that. Also most of the high school kids aren’t ready for the euro league. Step up in competition… Read more »
The high schooler draft with a G league year idea is really interesting. Im really not sure how I feel about it, but it is definitely interesting. There are the problems of if teams would be willing to draft a player a year before they could really use them and that it would probably require that the teams get to control those rookies for a year longer than usual drafts. It would definitely make declaring for the draft after high school a complicated decision. As far as benefits, it would likely immediate create a surge of public interest in the… Read more »
I think you have four years guaranteed with a year player option which I believe would place them as free agents the same age freshmen coming out now. As to salaries, I guess I was thinking higher tier g league salaries. 200-300gs a year. And now that I think about it, it should count against the cap and take up a roster spot. To give college some chance of competing you could stipulate that coming out early gives any team that drafts you the option to send you to g league on that salary for that first year obviously, but… Read more »
Pros for teams. Developing high school players year round with a professional program without needing to limit their dev time for school. Possibly better scouting. Ability to develop them cheaply for a second year for basically the cost of a minimum player in the 15th roster spot. Also teams cannot have second year players that they used in g league for playoffs that year. Cons. The players take up a roster spot and have a small cap hit that first year. Same for the second year if they send them to g league. And if they second time in g… Read more »
And if they spend time in g league the second year they are not eligible for playoff rosters. Obviously they are also not eligible at all for the playoffs at all that first year even if they turn 19 before then.
I think that system as implemented in some way similar to what I describe above would present real choices for both players and teams. Each has its pros and cons. College also now has its pros and cons besides tuition wavers in that if you go for a year you are guaranteed the full rookie scale for your entire first contract, which you are not guaranteed for that second year as a high schooler. Also maybe as an addendum, maybe you increase rookie scale contracts based on age. A guy who is 22 and above gets paid 6 million as… Read more »
A lot of interesting points of clarification. I would add that teams should get a secomd team option year on those players. Otherwise it could end up having teams spend 4 years of time, money, and roster space to train and develop a young player but now that player enters restricted free agency (and later unrestricted free agency) one year earlier and younger than any college player could. Since these players would likely be the best of the best, without the extra team option year it would lead to more franchise star level players leaving the teams that drafted and… Read more »
That short roster could end up leading to terrible regular season performance and this more incentive to tank with several high school players eating up their roster spots, giving them excuses to field a half baked team and then magically surge when they get all their roster spots back.
I maybe should have clarified I meant 4 years plus a fifth year option, which essentially equates to the current 3 years with a fourth year option. Also I said player option. I meant team option. As to the two way, I get that, but part of the roster spot is the trade off for drafting a guy out of high school. I feel like there should be some incentive to not necessarily draft out of high school. Otherwise I think every team would go that route with elite high school prospects if they skipped college. I suppose you could… Read more »
The could always use the old hardship waivers from before two way contacts. In any event, I still think using up a two way contract is at least a notable cost (despite how they are new and teams aren’t entirely used to the benefits yet). The teams also still have the downside of using a draft pick on a player that is forcibly in limbo for a year that is delayed from contributing even if the player shows immense promise. Perhaps as an added protection these players could be under a “no trade” protection until after completing their first year… Read more »
…above the high school level. And I think it is important that it would temporarily protect these younger just turned adult kids from the harsher aspects of life in the NBA. Without that protection it could end up MORE likely for the 18 year olds to be traded once or several times before even getting a chance to settle in a prove themselves at an NBA level. I also still maintain the two way roster spot is a valid penalty. Those spots are often used as like unofficial 3rd and 4th round draft picks. Teams can use them now as… Read more »
Yeah. Honestly I think we should send a proposal to the NBA and player’s union, lol.
We’ve obviously got it all figured out.