The Double Double

In this episode, we cover the recent 7 game win streak of the Kings after firing Mike Brown, as well as the Cavs-Thunder matchup from a week ago. The Houston Rockets have managed to hold on to the 2 seed, and Amen Thompson has shown his incredible and niche value on this young squad. In Devner, Russell Westbrook is playing his best non-star basketball and the Nuggets have held a top 4 seed. Enjoy!

This year's NBA Cup has wrapped up last night with a strong Milwaukee Bucks victory over the Thunder 97-81. The semifinals and finals of this tournament were very fun games to watch, and the Bucks have turned their early story around and have gone 12-3 in their last 15 games. The Thunder have had an unbelievable defense to this point in the season, but there are some real questions surrounding their offense and what it looks like in the playoffs. We are a quarter way through the NBA Season, so we also wanted to highlight players and teams that have really impressed us this year, as well as players and teams that have really disappointed. Enjoy!

Nikola Jokic has somehow improved his level of play this year to something that truly does seem GOAT like, averaging 32/13/10 and dragging a sorry Nuggets team towards a playoff spot. If anyone else wins MVP this year it will be a shame, seed be damned. Evan Mobley has finally been empowered to score and create for teammates in all of the ways we wanted to see when he was drafted. He had 41 in the win over the Hornets, hitting 6 threes in that game. Mobley is the key to the Cavs being a team that can match up with the Celtics and genuinely contend for championships. Cooper Flagg discourse has been all over our internet feeds, and the conversation about whether or not this guy deserves the "generational" tag is everywhere. We wanted to give our definition of that term as well as our side of the conversation. Enjoy!

The moment of truth has arrived: The Houston Rockets are the 2 seed in the west and beat the Thunder! Houston has become a legitimate regular season force and their defensive identity is here to stay. Franz Wagner has been the sole talented offensive player for the Orlando Magic since Paolo's oblique injury, and he has done a fantastic job putting the team on his back and scoring beyond what many thought he was capable of. The Milwaukee Bucks had a very poor start to the season but Dame and Giannis seem to be figuring out how to play together better, and Dame is far more consistent on a night to night basis. Enjoy!

The 15-0 Cavs and the Celtics faced off in the first bout of this season's Double Double Bowl, and the Celtics won! Darius Garland had one of the worst games of his career and Jayson Tatum put up 33 pts to lead the Celtics to a very nice win. The rookies did not have a strong start to the season, but over the past 5-6 games we've seen great performances from Jared McCain and Dalton Knecht, two guys who absolutely could win ROTY this year. The sixers are doomed! They have 2 wins so far on the season and they do not seem to be working well together as a unit. Despite McCain's excellent play, Paul George can't be relied upon to score at volume and Embiid can't be relied upon to show up on time! Enjoy!

Jokic is putting together an MVP campaign through 10 games that is better than anything he has ever done before: Currently leading the league in Rebounds and Assists per game while averaging 30 pts on 55/56/84 splits. This is a top 15 basketball player of all time dragging a still poorly built team to a 7-3 record. Unbelievable. Zion is out for the remaining future and the future of the Pelicans is in disaster mode. KAT has been playing unbelievable offense for the Knicks, but his defense has been atrocious. The New York Knicks have a tough road ahead trying to figure out how to make this a competent defense. Enjoy!

The NBA Season has started off to a very entertaining start through one week so far. The Celtics and Cavs are both 4-0 to start the season, with the OKC Thunder right behind them at 3-0. The Milwaukee Bucks and Denver Nuggets are struggling mightily in their own ways and its hard to see either team fully digging themselves out of the holes their teams are filled with. The Pacers stink! Tyrese Haliburton is a fraud and Rick Carlisle deserves daily fines until he is willing to instill Jarace Walker into the rotation. Enjoy!

The NBA Season is almost here! In this episode, we break down our picks for each regular season award for the upcoming NBA Season, as well as choosing who we expect to go to the Finals and who will be the Champions. This is the first year in a while that we've had pretty different picks across the board for basically every award. Zach Edey is a rookie that has generated quite the controversy, and we find ourselves on very different ends of that discussion. Our finals prediction is Celtics vs Thunder, and we end this episode debating a bit about some of the players on each team and how they stack up to each other. Enjoy!

The Western Conference Breakdown is here! In this episode, we go from the 15 seed to the 1 seed and give you our predictions for where every team is going to be placed. This is a list that we agreed upon together, and our lists have some slight differences (I am much higher on the Houston Rockets). The West is stacked this year, and regular season seeding will come down to more than just 'Who has the best player on the floor'. Teams like The Clippers and Warriors rely very heavily on guys that have dealt with their fair share of injury concerns, and their seeding will probably reflect that. Enjoy!