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Not Just a Shooter Podcast 1.1: Count Blockula’s Mortal Nemesis Comment Count

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SEGMENT ONE: EASTERN CONFERENCE

starts at 1:00

TORONTO-WASHINGTON: Toronto looks like a complete team. Not just DeRozan and Beal—Ibaka, Valanciunas, OG Anunoby, Delon Wright all playing important roles. Wizards still don’t have any functional depth behind the Wall-Beal-Porter core.

CLEVELAND-INDIANA: Unexpectedly interesting series after Pacers took game one in Cleveland. Oladipo has been great. LeBron absolutely went off in game two. Cavs defense still sucks. Openly wondering how far Bron can drag this group.

PHILADELPHIA-MIAMI: Most fun series thus far—competitive and chippy. Philly blowout in game one, vintage D-Wade performance knots it up, then Embiid’s return helps 76ers take lead. Ben Simmons is ridiculously good. Series might not end up as close as it’s felt—Heat win came in awful 76ers shooting game and now Embiid is back.

BOSTON-MILWAUKEE. Boston’s weird guys are fitting together nicely while Milwaukee can’t get cohesiveness out of a better team on paper. As it turns out, Brad Stevens may be a better coach than [check notes] Joe Prunty. Eric Bledsoe should probably know the name of the guy who’s roasting him.

BONUS: Alex gives Ace a pop quiz on obscure player nicknames listed on basketball-reference. Ace does poorly.

SEGMENT TWO: WESTERN CONFERENCE

starts at 34:35

HOUSTON-MINNESOTA: Wolves lost any hope of making this interesting with Jimmy Butler’s awful final shot in game one. Wither KAT? Minnesota had awfully weird shot distribution in game two. Alex nails a pop quiz on Wolves who attempted more shots than Butler in game two. Meanwhile, Houston cruising even though CP3 and Harden haven’t had good games at the same time.

OKLAHOMA CITY-UTAH: Ace hates OKC’s offense and doesn’t get NBA TV. Alex defends the contested shot-making of PG13 and Russ, also gives Donovan Mitchell his due despite the pain of being a Pistons fan. Melo is waaaaashed.

NEW ORLEANS-PORTLAND: On the verge of an unexpected NOLA sweep. Anthony Davis and Jrue Holiday have greatly outplayed Dame Lillard and CJ McCollum. Nicola Mirotic is probably not fun to watch for Bulls fans.

GOLDEN STATE-SAN ANTONIO: On the verge of an expected blowout. GSW simply too much for a Spurs team without Kawhi Leonard. Athleticism gap is huge. Klay Thompson is not fair. RIP Erin Popovich.

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MUSIC

  • “A Nickel and a Nail”—O.V. Wright
  • “Across 110th Street”

THE USUAL LINKS

I’m gonna guess this is a nickname Joel Embiid gave himself.

Comments

Hemlock Philosopher

April 20th, 2018 at 12:17 PM ^

Anyone who expected the Cavs to breeze through hasn't been paying attention. The Cavs are in trouble. Indiana won the season series 3-1 and Cleveland cannot guard any position well, but, most notably, the 2 - Victor Oladipo. The only way Cleveland wins this (outside of injury to Dipo) is if LeBron averages 40/10/10 and Korver/ Smith/ Love start playing better. Bron went off in G2 and they still only won by 3. Let the sweepstakes begin. 

Philly is 18-1 since the end of March. Most of that without "Count Blockula". They are the real deal and its not just Simmons and Embiid - Covington, Redick, Belinelli, Ilyasova and Saric are playing great too. I see them versus a very balanced and deep Toronto team for a trip to the finals. 

 

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gmoney41

April 20th, 2018 at 12:33 PM ^

As a pacers fan I agree with you 100%. I couldn’t believe how little credit Ace was giving to Indiana. A team that most thought wouldn’t even be In The playoffs after the Paul George trade. This is a young team, but if you have watched the pacers all season, they are a TEAM. A lot like us this season in the big ten. They play for each other and the biggest understated point is that Oladipo loves Indiana and gets the basketball culture. The fans in turn support him to the utmost extent. Besides Lebron, Indiana, top to bottom is a better team and judging the first 2 games, if Lebron has to go superhuman to beat us by 3, I like indiana’s chances. They need to get both at home, and if they do, they win the series. I worry about the refs in this series though and have a feeling the old LeFlop James might get some very generous calls over the next few. Don’t sleep on the Pacers

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