The Thunder-Spurs chess match! Knicks back in Finals
What caused Wemby to have such a poor Game 5? We discuss the incredible back and forth chess match, Oklahoma City’s latest adjustments and more in this classic series, plus New York makes NBA Finals and Ben stays at a Holiday Inn
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stinky basketball podcast my name is what? my name is who? my name is ben.
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Little white hoodies is insane to say about a coach for Okc 😂
Comment for the algo. But also, I appreciate a pod not spending the first 30-minutes crying about the refs.
Stinky basketball podcast, my name is Ben
My favorite pungent sports discussion video
Just watched the members video, great analysis and insight
I LOVE BASKETBALL I LOVE HEARING ABOUT BASKETBALL I LOVE HEARING ABOUT MY TWO FAVORITE fellas TALKING AND THINKING ABOUT BASKETBALL THEY THINK AND TALK AND I LOVE TO TUNE IN AND ENGAGE!!!
"Small eels". That's too funny, thanks for the pod!
"Who's your favorite non-doctor doctor?" is genuinely a really terrible question
No hate lol it was a hilarious segment
Hello Ben the absurdity of the referees is too outrageous to actually judge it basquetball-wise
I love the slats in Cody's Sauna!
I’m pretty sure the Knicks run a 10 man rotation with duece mitch shamet alvarado and clarkson
For my Knicks fans they start talking about em around 34:35
The doctor of thuganomics z my favorite
Brian Sutterer z awesome get him on the show!
I am with Cody on the depth thing. Personally I don't understand how an an NBA player can't make a 10 man rotation. Absolute garbage from the league.
Castle made all defense while Dort got some stragglers. Long live the thinkies!
I think players should b going to KD in their offseasons once he retires. He has got strength & conditioning down to a T.
"The knicks are just going to run 5 guys" is just a crazy statement.
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The Spurs screwed up not making a trade at the deadline because their picks are basically worthless since Wemby is a guaranteed playoff guy now and they only have two picks swaps in 2030 and 2031 and Atlantas pick this year.
The Spurs need actual wings since the Thunder are making Wemby start in strong side help defense and if Castle is on the ball then the weak side rim protectors are Vassell, Fox, Johnson, Harper or Champagnie.
There were a good number of low basketball IQ fouls by the spurs, but there may have been just as many soft calls on okc flops.
I constantly feel like I need to fact check the OKC commentary…
1. You spent basically the first half of the pod talking about how impressive it is that the spurs are competitive and how through the season everyone was like "Oh maybe they'll make the playoffs this year" and didn't even mention that they're playing an OKC thunder without Dub or Ajay. We don't have our second or third ball handler. We've ended up running JMac as our second ball handler after he wasn't in the rotation for the first two series or the last half of the season. The curve this Spurs team is getting graded on is insane.
2. Talking about the off season and getting iHart and "Small Markets aren't supposed to be able to go out and get these great deals on great players." The iHart deal was seen as an overpay until we won the title. Caruso was a steal, but his extension was seen as an overpay for an aging guard. There is a lot of revisionist history going on with a "how did the Thunder get so lucky" and ignoring that the consensus was that those moves were mediocre at best.
Saying the Knicks will run a 5 man rotation is insane I just subscribed and I will now unsub because not a single serious conversation is being had
The refs made sure Knicks get a ring before wemby get 10 in a row 😂
Ben is spot on with the reactions to this series. Literally after every game it's been like, "series is over. [team that won previous game] has figured them out"
This series is as bad as I've ever seen it.
Unfortunate you do not give the Knicks their flowers, but default to glazing the spurs and OKC to the levels you glazed the Celtics all season for naught.
this is supposed to be the nuanced/tuned in basketball podcast and they're talking about the knicks playing a 5 man rotation? lol
28:54 it's almost like all of the whinging about small market vs big market has been much ado about nothing! we've watched the knicks, bulls, wizards, nets, and clippers (pre-cp3) be largely irrelevant for literally decades, while the spurs, thunder, nuggets, pacers, etc. have been good whenever their literal billionaire owners have decided it was worth trying to field a good team
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12:13 The worst Basketball Fans you know, dramatized 🤣🤣🤣