We ring in Thanksgiving with a fun episode of Top5 5s with the @UpsideSwings own Bryce Hendricks and Stone Hansen. We compare 2020 redraft top 5s, likely 2021 First Team All Rookies, and 2022 big boards to comment on how rosters are changing throughout the league. Enjoy!
The ascendant @DraftPow rejoins on the heels of his debut at the Stepien to talk about his Dyson Daniels piece and Jean Montero. We compare textbook prospects with savants, and Pow unveils his soft 2022 board Letterbox style. Enjoy!
Richard Stayman (@mavsdraft) joins to burrow into his first NBA love and the only team currently starting five darts: the Orlando Magic. We analyze the games of Cole Anthony, Wendell Carter Jr, Mo Bamba, Franz Wagner, and Jalen Suggs. We dream on the roster, how their darts mesh with Fultz and Jon Isaac, overall philosophy, and more. Enjoy!
Mike Gribanov (@mikegrib8) cold opens on some prospects that have his attention: Kendall Brown, Walker Kessler, and Marcus Bagley. Hopefully, this will be a semi-recurring series. Lots of wing and big theory in this one. Enjoy!
THE DARTS ARE BACK. Sean Derenthal, the head of the Stepien (thestepien.com; @OdetoOden), joins to discuss the return of the best draft website in the business for another cycle, and then we embark on a 150 minute odyssey into the games of the Stepien's current top prospects: Paolo Banchero, AJ Griffin, Chet Holmgren, and Jabari Smith Jr. Is it as good as Dune? In the sense that it's the same runtime, yes. Yes it is. Enjoy!
With every NBA team having played exactly one game, I come back to say what I believe will stick throughout the rest of the year. Featuring the Celtics, Knicks, a unicorn rookie, and an ascendant play in team. Enjoy!
@DraftDeeper joins me in predicting a 2022 NBA champion, playoff seeds, rookie stars, Most Improved Player, and more. We kind of went nuts on this one. Follow Nate and his ever expanding scouting service at @DraftDeeper. Enjoy!
The hardest working man in season preview podcasting, Mark Schindler (@mschindlernba) joins to predict where all 30 teams will finish in defensive rating by the end of the year. Follow Mark and his site, @PremiumHoopsNBA. His patreon can be found at patreon.com/mschindler. Enjoy!
Regular season dart time! Sam Ferris (@draftdummies) (aka the Jordan Poole Whisperer) joins to compare predictive rankings of all 30 NBA regular season offenses. Follow him and both of the pods he hosts: Draft Dummies and the LockedOn NBA Draft podcast. One of the best in the business.
Jonathan Tjarks (@JonathanTjarks) from the Ringer stops by to talk about his upcoming piece on Evan Mobley, how the Cavs will impact his future and vice versa, and how his situation may eventually mirror those in Dallas, Golden State, and Philadelphia. Enjoy!
Lee Branscome (@WhichCarolina) drops in to carry me on an episode previewing two NBA teams built around electric, demanding young stars. We chat about how the Hornets and Mavs have chosen to build around their phenoms, the risks of doing so, and what to expect in the near future in a league with little patience. Enjoy!
Rohan Dang (@rohandang19) is the co-founder and vice president of data and analytics for Cerebro Sports. Cerebro is a quantitative scouting services that provides metrics to compare and evaluate players across all levels of competition all over the world. We talk about their process, and what their metrics have to say about the upcoming NBA season. Enjoy!
Atlanta Hawks analyst and Peachtree Hoops contributor Andrew Kelly (@andlankell)joins to talk about the Atlanta Hawks and Brooklyn Nets, two teams that belong in far more conversatinos regarding the upcoming regular season. Plus, I make an MVP pick that shouldn't be as rare as it seems to be. Enjoy!
Tyler Metcalf (@tmetcalf11) of canishoopus and Bulls Dynasty (@MVPaw) of ontapsportsnet join to preview two of the league's ascendant teams. Revolving around phenomenally talented offensive centers, supreme shooting guards, and relying heavily on young forwards to help bear the defensive load, the Bulls and Wolves are frequently thought of differently across the NBA landscape. We investigate why, and who projects to succeed better out of a very similar team structure. Enjoy!
I'm joined by The Strickland's Head of State, @_prezidente, as we go 720 on the New York Knicks. Thibs' Extraordinary Gentleman boast a very deep team with multiple paths to 2022 success: RJ Barrett's Leap into well rounded scorer, continued starpower from Julius Randle, nascent dominance from Mitch Robinson, and a cadre of modern supporting players and darts that are good enough to round out a championship team...with the right star. It's Thibo Time. Enjoy!
Jake Fischer, Bleacher Report's NBA reporter and author of Built to Lose: How the Tanking Era Changed the League Forever, returns to the podcast to provide a temperature check on Ben Simmons, Damian Lillard, and all points in between. Enjoy!
Fun conversation with your favorite follow's favorite follow, @DraftPow, about what warmed our hearts at the hottest league of the year. Enjoy!
Sam returns as we finish up our composite ranking of prospects from the last three drafts. Part 1 is Episode 65. Enjoy!
Everyone likes to rank players in the offseason. In this house, we rank darts. Welcome to the Inaugural Dart Rank. Taking the last three drafts (2019, 2020, 2021), we are going to try to rank until we drop. Joining me is Sam Ferris from @DraftDummies, one of the best draft podcasts and brands out there, and we go for it. Call it a mega-redraft, call it a future value projection, call it shameless content creation. We just had fun trying this impossible task. In this first part, we got through al...
Draft analyst and contributor to Crownhoops.com, @CTFazio24, joins to dive into his favorite team, 2022 NBA Title Contender Denver Nuggets. We talk about why Jamal Murray's injury will not cross them off, lineup theories, MPJ contract speculation, West matchups, and finish with their electric addition in the 2021 draft, Bones Hyland. Enjoy!
Back again from the landmark Tatum episode, my buddy Greg (sp?) joins as we discuss our love of summer league, the odd discourse around its usefulness, and then dive headlong into its first 24 hours. Jalen Green, Sengun/Mobley, Cade, Bouknight, Kai, Kuminga/Franz, and of course, TMIII. Join us in our willingness to be wrong. Summer League is unimpeachable.
5 teams who hit the mark (Bullseye! Darts! YEAH!) and 5 who didn't (Bull****, please for give me, I'm a sucker for hokey brand promotion) in Free Agency. Enjoy!
Evan Zamir (@thecity2) drops by to go in depth on the Warriors selections of Jonathan Kuminga and Moses Moody, and on the state of the organization in light of free agency. We talk philosophy behind selecting those players as well as James Wiseman, how the Warriors might be able to contend with (or without) them, what trades involving them might look like, and how the team projects to meet its championship goals in 2022. Plus, I issue a darta culpa on my Moses Moody evaluation. Evan is a fantast...
Darts for days and days. Enjoy!
It's draft week, which means it's time to go all in. Nate Grubel, of the excellent @DraftDeeper podcast, comes by as we lay it on the line for 3 prospects apiece, each outside of the very top of the draft. Who are we willing to stake our name on as being unqualified NBA successes? A very fun, positive episode. Enjoy!
The excellent Mike Gribanov (@mikegrib8) stops by to discuss a bunch of prospects likely to go top 10 in the draft (Cunningham, Mobley, Suggs, Barnes, Kuminga, Franz, Moody, more), his personal draft philosophy, what "Best Player Available" truly means, and who he feels is underrated heading into this week's draft. Tremendous stuff, as always. Enjoy!
Mark Schindler (@mschindlernba) of @PremiumHoops rejoins the Dart House to identify the 5 most interesting teams (shoutout Zach Lowe) heading into next week's draft. Which teams have the potential to change their fortunes or impact the draft the most? Where will the draft turn? And which teams are close to making a leap? We kick off the episode by sharing some thoughts on what just so happens to be a classic NBA Finals, and an instant classic game 5. Enjoy! 00:00 NBA Finals 19:45 NBA Draft...
A bonus episode from the Halftime App, I'm joined by @Cozylito, aka Buttermilk Jesus, to play some draft comparison trivia. Great insight from Buttermilk and a very fun time. Shoutout to @haydenmgray for his cameo at the end. Thank to all who came out!
Bryce Hendricks, @UpsideSwings co-host and all around great person, rejoins the podcast to rejoice in reviewing Roko Prkacin. Roko is a top 10 prospect on both of our boards (though not many others'), and so we tackle what makes the relentless, versatile Croatian forward unique, how he compares to other top 10 wing prospects, and why we think he will carve out success in the NBA. For Prkacin, apathy is a tragedy and boredom is a crime, and we do our best to avoid both. Enjoy!
I hit on the classic-in-the-making Finals and why I still believe it's going 7 games, and then dive into picks 25-50 on my Board. This is the deepest draft ever, and this range is why. Enjoy!
